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 Dysartes wrote:

 Ifalna wrote:
Kitten managed to destroy my makeshift lightbox by using it as a base to launch himself onto one of my other cats, so I have to craft a new one soon. Oh the shame. Should have updates tomorrow, back on track now with painting back to normal

Can't you deploy your lightcube?

Thats why I keep the door closed when im not in the painting room

Ork are looking wicked, can't wait to see them finished.

D

Just waiting for bases to dry and then inking the sand a little, edging them properly, and adding the odd tiny tuft of grass.





All their detailing is done bar the wires on the rocket launcher and the single tekeela bottle (which I will paint at the same time as the others).

These are tabletop standard so they have a limited amount of layers, but I tried to get lots of character into them with little patterns and fun details. No two are the same, but they all have the same colour scheme. It makes them match without making them too similar

Ack, no lightbox = terrible photos! Will be fixed for the final shots though I'm happy with the poncho's for sure, I think they could have gone really badly, especially considering the limited amount of layering for this standard, but painting on the patterns and dusting them a little really helped!

Those are great Iffy! Really special!

Very nice, no surprise though

"oly 'eck!!! Dem' boyz is killy!! Great work here!

Very Nice..

Are you painting your eyes red with a dot of white?

SL

 Ifalna wrote:
Just waiting for bases to dry and then inking the sand a little, edging them properly, and adding the odd tiny tuft of grass.

Grass? Have you thought of making little greenstuff cactus? Cacti? Cactuses? Little spiny desert plants?

 Nevelon wrote:

 Ifalna wrote:
Just waiting for bases to dry and then inking the sand a little, edging them properly, and adding the odd tiny tuft of grass.

Grass? Have you thought of making little greenstuff cactus? Cacti? Cactuses? Little spiny desert plants?

TUMBLEWEED!

TEQUILA!

ASAMME. lol

Your tabletop standard is still much better than most tabletop standards.

The Gringo Orks (Gringorks?) look awesome. I love the rusted patterns and the individualized sombreros.

(And I'm still trying to get my greenskins to look like yours--some day. I've also tried to white dot their eyes--I need a smaller brush.)

AHVE BEEN BUSY

I got the banditos all finished, and here they are -





Being tabletop standard so I had to hold back a bit on layering and just stick to blocky, fun colours that could give a nice final level of detail without rocketing out of their pricing standard. They took quite a while, it is a deceptively big unit and I am not the best at doing large units. I tend to spend a bit too much time on each model to make it unique. I think the owner did a pretty great job with the little poncho’s.

No two are the same, all follow the same colour scheme but have varied patterns, colour areas etc. Banditotastic.

I also have 5 character standard Space wolves who are now just waiting on their bases to dry so they can get final snow effect and cleanup. Gorgeous, gorgeous models. Looking forward to getting proper shots of each.

Here is a quick shot of one, note the totally unfinished base and lack of lightbox. SO PRO.



I am now onto some niddlies, some more Orks, and some very interesting non warhammer models. The kitten incident really set me back, but I am trying to catch up with my workload as best I can.

Orks look great - nice maracas I love how you've done the ponchos even though I'm not crazy about them.
Also, I hope you didn't shave the kitten to base that Space puppy.

lol Graven although he would fit in with the rest of Iffy's cats.

I bet they must be well jealous.

Man those orks turned out great! Really impressed with the way you handled the ponchos and sombreros.

Those orks are great. The different patterns using the same colours works brilliantly on the poncho-sombrero combo.

Love those orks - especially the details on the sombreros and the maracas.

That unit makes me wonder what the rest of the army looks like...something like the Olympic's Closing Ceremony with pointy and shooty things?

The details and textures on the panchos and hats are great!

Wow.... It really turned around from when I first saw them!!
I thought the GS work was a little too rough to save, but your paint jobs really make them work!!

Space Pups look good too!

Nice work! Your orks truly are some of my all time favorites!

inmygravenimage wrote:Orks look great - nice maracas I love how you've done the ponchos even though I'm not crazy about them.
Also, I hope you didn't shave the kitten to base that Space puppy.

The bases are totally made of shaved Cloud. Luckily, he is self replenishing. I'm glad you like the ponchos, they are how I wanted them to look but I was unsure if I was going to be able to get a good finish while keeping them tabletop standard, I think it worked out. Also, it's always a good thing to work on basic freehand as often as possible My freehand has improved so much this year, it is crazy. I was terrified of trying it a year ago, really shows how quick things can change.

GiraffeX wrote:lol Graven although he would fit in with the rest of Iffy's cats.
I bet they must be well jealous.

Haha, not so much jealous as completely and utterly disgusted.

Gitsplitta wrote:Man those orks turned out great! Really impressed with the way you handled the ponchos and sombreros.

Cheers Gits The owner is happy with them too, so I am thrilled. There is one still to go, a big boy who is going to be character standard. I really, really, really, really, really want to paint him like one of the 3 amigos, but he does not have a smart enough suit.

So sad :(

monkeytroll wrote:Those orks are great. The different patterns using the same colours works brilliantly on the poncho-sombrero combo.

JB wrote:Love those orks - especially the details on the sombreros and the maracas.
That unit makes me wonder what the rest of the army looks like...something like the Olympic's Closing Ceremony with pointy and shooty things?

Rogue Wolves wrote:The details and textures on the panchos and hats are great!

Keeping the colour scheme really simple but varying it across a unit is something I do quite often with Orks, it lets them look like a ragtag group while also making them look like a unit, it works really well The sombreros were great, I can't wait to work on one thats character standard, so much detail!

The army is incredible from what I've seen. The owner has made a giant fiesta death wagon that really does look like a spiky pinata of pain, it is brrrriiiiliant.

Ramos Asura wrote:Wow.... It really turned around from when I first saw them!!
I thought the GS work was a little too rough to save, but your paint jobs really make them work!!
Space Pups look good too!

The gs work was a little rough, but I thought it wouldn't be a problem as the ponchos would be very rough naturally and by just drybryushing on some dust and dirt colours it would end up looking like sack cloth, which it kinda did! Really happy it worked out, the owner put a lot of love into these guys.

Commander Cain wrote:Nice work! Your orks truly are some of my all time favorites!

Oh wow, thanks dude! Glad you are liking them I had never painted an Ork untill Gits sent me the first batch of grots and it has really spiraled out of controll now hahaha, Orks everywhere!


Speaking of Gits, I spent yesterday working on some very simple nids for him. They are a little below my normal TT standard, but they are looking nice and coherant and that's a good thing.
I have 10 out of 30 (I think it was) done at this stage, I just need to alter the colour of their little fleshy bits and they are good to go. Should get more done today Nice simple little dudes.

And they look fantastic.... I'm just too dang lazy to paint dozens of termigants and since Thing 2 insists on fielding his Tervigon... a call to Iffy was required.

The hairless kitty is soooo cute I mean..... uhhhhh

Yeah, but the hairless *always* has that look. I think she objects to the sweater. Either that or impossibly cute little ball of fluff that has it's nails dug into it's backside...

Nawww Leeloo can look really sweet when she wants, that really is a " Get this thing away from me right now" look.

She dislikes Cloud, she just tolerates him for now, but is slowly warming up to him.

you should see Cecil and loki playing on my facebook and Cecil drinking from the bath

Personally I would have chosen a less neutral green for termagants. Is it to go with gits mantis warriors? But the painting is superb so who's complaining.

There is something indefinably adorable about a hairless cat wearing a sweater. If I could knit I would make them cat balaclavas.

that reminds me I have to do my Geansteelers

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
Personally I would have chosen a less neutral green for termagants. Is it to go with gits mantis warriors? But the painting is superb so who's complaining.

That's my fault weety, Iffy's just painting them along a scheme I developed for my son's Nids... which is borne out of apathy largely. She is doing a great job with them though, especially considering I asked her to dumb-down her excellent table-top standards.