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Demon prince looks good, but yeah such minis always let you down when trying to focus with the camera

Today, we have the fruits of the 3d printer again. Not painted yet, but I am quite proud of it as I designed these walls myself from scratch in Blender:



Will have some more 3d printed goodness (painted this time) to show off soon

Ooh, very neat. Another reason to be horribly tempted by fdm printers

That looks extremely cool, nice work on the drain.

inmygravenimage wrote:Ooh, very neat. Another reason to be horribly tempted by fdm printers

Definitely better for this style of thing, aye. What's the biggest thing you've done on resin so far?

Olthannon wrote:That looks extremely cool, nice work on the drain.

Thanks! I am now working on the 3d model for the "exploded" version

Today we have 2 3d-printed Rapiers for my Heresy Imperial Fists.

The rapiers themselves are 100% printed, the crew are a mix of printed parts and bits from the bits box. Definitely came up against the limitations of FDM printing with the crew parts, had to have a few goes to get some of them acceptable.

Here's a Land Raider for my Nurgle Death Guard types.

All 3d-printed! Contrast paints don't work quite so well on these big models, but it's presentable enough and absolutely massive!

That old school LR looks great and wouldn't have guessed you used Contrast on this.

 Viterbi wrote:
That old school LR looks great and wouldn't have guessed you used Contrast on this.

Thanks Actually, the metals and rust weren't Contrast, everything else was, however.

Got some 30k Breachers to show off soon...

Really nice work on the old school Land Raider, the pleasantly whacky nature of the older tanks really suits a traitor force. I see what you mean about the contrast paints on the body. I've never tried them myself but I guess it makes sense that they work better on more detailed infantry? Luckily since that LR is 80% tanks it doesn't detract from how cool it looks!

Nice vibrant yellow on your IFs.

Looking forward to seeing the breachers.

 Olthannon wrote:
Really nice work on the old school Land Raider, the pleasantly whacky nature of the older tanks really suits a traitor force. I see what you mean about the contrast paints on the body. I've never tried them myself but I guess it makes sense that they work better on more detailed infantry? Luckily since that LR is 80% tanks it doesn't detract from how cool it looks!

Nice vibrant yellow on your IFs.

Looking forward to seeing the breachers.

Thanks! Yes, Contrast flows nicely into depressions, but large flat surfaces end up a bit streaky - Fine for Nurgle, I guess, but I wouldn't want to use them on any other Marine tank, I think, though there may well be a trick to it that I just don't know...

In a desperate attempt to justify to myself my intention to buy the new Heresy set on Saturday, I am trying to get all (or near as damnit) of my existing Heresy models painted...

So here are some Breachers, the first 5 of my second squad:

Lovely breachers, striping is excellent.

The Iron Warriors are here to object about hazard striping on Imperial Fist models! >;(

Joking aside the yellow armour looks nice.

inmygravenimage wrote:Lovely breachers, striping is excellent.

Thanks!

Boringstuff wrote:The Iron Warriors are here to object about hazard striping on Imperial Fist models! >;(

Joking aside the yellow armour looks nice.

Must be my inner Alpha Legion, stealing stuff from the other legions! Mostly it was because I have had about enough of painting yellow

In my drive to get all the remaining Heresy stuff done before another fat box of it arrives, I have finished:

1) A Rhino (3d-printed)



2) The 2nd half of the Breacher squad


Only 6 models left outstanding, so it could yet happen

I have no doubt the models that are outstanding will be, well, outstanding Printed rhino nails it, Breachers are great; excellent spot colours on the bases and love the sergeant's helm, too.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I have no doubt the models that are outstanding will be, well, outstanding Printed rhino nails it, Breachers are great; excellent spot colours on the bases and love the sergeant's helm, too.

Too kind, thanks!

Well, I have had some success, the Phalanx Warders are done:


That just leaves Fafnir Rann as an unpainted Horus Heresy model, but he's so detailed that it's put me off starting him, he's going back into the pile of shame for a bit


2022's score is now: 69

Nice work, really like the red and white on the squad leaders.

Great work, you can never go run with sci-fi mini holding a shield and either gun or ccw

Olthannon wrote:Nice work, really like the red and white on the squad leaders.

Thanks!

Viterbi wrote:Great work, you can never go run with sci-fi mini holding a shield and either gun or ccw

Indeed - I had to forcibly stop myself from planning more shield guys for my newly-starting Alpha Legion.

On that note, here's a Rhino and the first 5 MkVI beakies!

Rhino is 3d-printed, came out quite nicely, just a few obvious bits on the side panels.

That Rhino print is excellent, from a few feet away on the tabletop I doubt many could tell that it was not a GW model.

The Mark VI marines came out great, really good take on the AL scheme. I really like the silver beaks on the helmets. Cannot wait to see what you add next to your sneaky lads.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:
That Rhino print is excellent, from a few feet away on the tabletop I doubt many could tell that it was not a GW model.

The Mark VI marines came out great, really good take on the AL scheme. I really like the silver beaks on the helmets. Cannot wait to see what you add next to your sneaky lads.

Cheers!

Sadly I am in another painting slump, but I am sure the mojo will be rekindled at some point and I will get back to it

First painting action for ages!

My mate is painting up Cursed City so we can play it, but said we had to paint our own character models.

So here's Glaurio ven Alten III in all his foppish glory:



All Contrasts, but with a bit of metallic on the armour. Basing to be done by the game's owner

All contrast? Even the green piping on the jacket? That seems counter-intuitive, given what little I know about how contrast paints are supposed to be used.

That's pretty damn snazzy. Good stuff.

Clearly I don't know how to use contrast paints properly because I've been testing with a yellow I bought but it doesn't seem to look good.


Nice work on your guy!

JoshInJapan wrote:All contrast? Even the green piping on the jacket? That seems counter-intuitive, given what little I know about how contrast paints are supposed to be used.

Yes, including the green. I find Contrast is fairly good even for thin areas like that, it's almost like steering the paint into the right areas with the brush rather than brush strokes, I think.

inmygravenimage wrote:That's pretty damn snazzy. Good stuff.

V kind, thanks, it felt good to paint again, so hoping it will herald a burst of productivity.

Olthannon wrote:Clearly I don't know how to use contrast paints properly because I've been testing with a yellow I bought but it doesn't seem to look good.


Nice work on your guy!

Cheers! They are a mixed bag in terms of quality I have found. This was over a "grey seer" spray undercoat, except for the armour which got a basecoat of a light metallic. I think they suit this sort of model much more than anything with large panels.

Getting the brushes out reminded me that I like painting

So I've finished off these 5 Alpha Legion marines:

Cor. Lovely and shiny. The red martisn bases really work and the other colours really pop too.

 Slinky wrote:
Getting the brushes out reminded me that I like painting

So I've finished off these 5 Alpha Legion marines:

Those guys are lovely. The contrast between the bases and the armor really makes the models pop, and the dust on their legs is a nice touch.

Glaurio looks great and suitably brave announcing with his clothing alone that he's coming down the street to hunt some monsters

Alpha Legion look great to, Contrast over metal (if indeed that's how you've done it) is always looking amazing.

Review of the year 2022

The previous years totals were:
2015: 81
2016: 102
2017: 152
2018: 77
2019: 155
2020: 109
2021: 304

This year, based again on my semi-random scoring system, I ended up with a score of 83. Once again, the demon CBA struck me down and I had long periods of inactivity. Pleased with the quality of what I have done, though.

Here's the breakdown:

LOTR
6 Dunlending archers
Rohan captain foot and mounted
Rohan mounted banner bearer
6 Riders of Rohan

Death Guard
Plagueburst Crawler
5 Terminators
7 Plague Marines
Daemon Prince
Land Raider

Horus Heresy
2 IF Tarantulas
2 IF Rapiers
10 IF Breachers
IF Rhino
6 ID Phalanx Warders
AL Rhino
10 AL Tactical marines

Cursed City
Glaurio ven Alten III