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I thought it was a matey bunch of loonies



Brian: Are you the Matey Bunch of Loonies?

Reg: Feth off!

Brian: What?

Reg: Matey Bunch of Loonies. We're the Loony Bunch of Mates! Matey Bunch of Loonies. Cawk.

Francis: Gakkers.

Brian: Can I... join your group?

Reg: No. Feth off.

there wasn´t enough monty python in this thread anyway for a long time:

Highest spanking woe-man in wome!

How shall we F**k off oh lord?

I'm Brian and so's my wife!

Another hard week of foot-sore work is almost over and a three day weekend beckons. I asked my doctor this week if its normal to feel faint after standing up for 6 hours in a 35 degree heat. He said yes.

We need air con!!! Its a sweat-shop in there...

But in good news I have nearly finished repainting this model here. Old World Jack.

I really like this sceme.. I think I need to try this on a guardsmen some time! I just love the the white armor against the olive green fatigues.. and red is always my favorite accent color! .. plus im a sucker for one eyed minis (being blind in one eye myself) really nice one weety!

Nice repaint Weety! I like the colours too - I've always likeed the green/white combo with a complementary accent colour (with sturdy Brit "u" ). I think I did an Eldar walker in a similar sheme back in the day... The freehand on the shoulders and wrist are nicely done too...

Covering stuff in rivets? The clue was in the name really, should have figured (especially now I noticed the image is a link - great gallery, I love the Nuka Cola machine)... l think I'd have the patience to do it (I paint each rivet on my Ork vehicles - take it from me, there are a lot on a Dakkajet!) but I don't have the modelling abilities to scratch build things... Kudos to those who do, I am mightily jealous!

"What's this, then? "Astartes eunt domus"? People called Astartes, they go, the house?"

I asked my doctor this week if its normal to feel faint after standing up for 6 hours in a 35 degree heat. He said yes.

if it wasn´t so sad i would snigger.... really what we have to do for a living...


on the other hand... the mini looks super cool and has that vibe of buck rogers and all the other late 80`s scifi dudes to perfection!!!!

Lol - you guys are giving me praise where it isn't due - thats the old paintjob! No shading on the armour, not a splash of dirt and there's no base! But I'm flattered that you didn't all say OMG thats crap what happened to your skills.

But I am sticking to olive green, white (ish) and red accents

A proper paintjob:

D'oh! Appreciation fail! But everything I said above, just imagine I wrote it here! The new look is much more gritty and grimdark...

Thats ok I will let you off.
Lets just look at those two again. Its the before and after shot! Scientific proof that some improvement has taken place.


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I think this miniature fell on its nose at some point - it looks a little flattened.

So first you re-painted it exactly the same as the first job, then re-re-painted it in a grim-dark version of the original? Yes? Yes? Yes? Oh. No.

The girl gone done good again

I'm glad you kept the same basic scheme, I felt that gave the first run of mercs and marines a very cool feel that I was really digging. Now with added grit, grime and filth it's even cooler.


The only people we hate more than the Welders are the fething Extraordinary League of Riveters

Yeah...

Splitters.

Splitters...

And the Extraordinary League of Extreme Riveters

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Splitters. Splitters...

And the League of Extraordinary Riveters.

Yeah. Splitters. Splitters...

What?

The League of Extraordinary Riveters. Splitters.

We're the League of Extraordinary Riveters!

Oh. I thought we were the League of Extreme Riveters.

Whatever happened to the Extreme Riveters, Vik?

He's over there.

Splitter!



Switching back to the mini in question - where did his pack come from? That's not the original is it?

No I chopped that backpack off a weird little kit of robot soldiers I found in a pound shop - mostly very inferior modelling but they had a few useful bits and might find a use for them at some point. will dig out some and take a pic sometime.

Your riveting homage to python amuses me. The riveteers will love it.

here are some of the other things getting repaints. And basic grey-scale progress on the inquisitor.

I figured my mercenaries needed a beastman and this beastman never really fitted in with the chaos beasts.

Yeah, I have a few weird robot thingy bits lying around, mainly made of some horible plastic, but handy for little bits like that pack.

Nice beastman, very cool, was he painted with the others previously? I don't recall him.

The chainsaw warriors look fantastic just in greyscale - they were some awesome sculpts

Looking forward to seeing the terminator fella and the chainsaw warriors get the Weety makeover treatment- is the 3rd one (with the chainsaw) going to be redone too? I miss my CW minis! Great figures...

I dunno why but the left hand dude on the 2nd pic down really reminds me of Davey Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean... Perhaps I'm just losing it in my old age... savvy?

Well hes got those same massive cheekbones.

I guess I will repaint the guy with the chainsaw - bit I was fairly pleased with my first paintjob so I'm not sure. Here he is again



I'm enthusiasitic for painting the chap at the top on the right in the jumpsuit - he looks like he should be their pilot - hes got the right sort of helmet and those things on his cheast could be his old service ribbons


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Oh and heres beasty with his old paintjob monkeytroll

I vote for keeping Chainsaw Mickey the way that he is. I really like his stripes, star, and that yellow chainsaw with the kill marks.

Maybe you could just change his hair and gloves so that they don't look so much like his pants?

Your riveting homage to python amuses me. The riveteers will love it.

QFT!!!

and weety... that is so....female of you... setting us out to fall in this huge trap of yours...posting the pic and then revealing it is still the old paintjob... tstststs...

of course now we have to say the new paintjob is way better... tho i gotta say i still lokied the stronger colors too... but where the new version wins all over is the characterful face...the mug is way better portrayed in its mimik...and i like the faded look of the overall...


what scheme have you chosen for the inq? he looks very classy ...will be major fun to see how you progress with that one...

Well I never intended any confusion Mr Dom, honest. And thanks for mentioning his face - I took special care over his big scar.

No ideas yet for the inquisitor. Lots of colours on the details but with a muted tone for the main armour plates is probably the plan.

JB that is a fantastic idea - I will just tone him down a bit with some extra washes and re-dye his hair dirty blond. It would be a damned shame to strip that free-hand work. He will live again!

well then i open up the inq discussion... what about white as the main color? too dull?

It might be too dull - I had the idea to paint him a sort of lilac grey colour but I'm not too sure. Someone find us a dulux colour chart and we can choose the exact shade!

Oh dear its my last 8 hour shift till the three day weekend (lots of painting will take place I hope) and I can't stand up without swaying from side to side - but I can't complain to the boss because he is doing 9 days straight 12 hour shifts and thus has his own problems (I think he might be about to go on a murderous rampage). So when I feel bad I just look at him and thank my lack of ambition that I'm not the manager.

I think we may have been infiltrated by the CIA and they are testing their new torture methods on us. They are going to organize guantanamo bay into a gigantic poundstretcher and make everyone stand up all day until they spill the beans.

Actually the inmates at Gitmo have it a whole lot easier than you. They get to sit in air conditioning and watch TV shows and movies.

Their current favorite is the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/08/2940229_fresh-prince-replaces-harry-potter.html

Barstards!! I demand I be arrested and detained without charge immediately and indefinitely.

But I get enough fresh prince as it is - they are always repeating it to the point where the sight of will smith sends me into a catatonic state. But they never repeat Cheers! Its not fair damn them.

Its the weekend - Hooray!

Presenting Kylla Condotti, ex imperial pilot turned mercenary. I will have to make the mercs a spaceship for him to fly.. With obligatory before and after pics.

Thats the name GW give him in the catalogue but I might call him "crazy" Ivan Oblastov, most daring pilot in the Lambada Spur. Dishonerably discharged from the navy for his massive Krak habit, Ivan needed creds and a ready supplier - he found both when he joined the mercenary warband (need a name for them soon).

Grimy

Like the visor, green wash over yellow?

Green over yellow - yep that's the recipe. You know my tricks now. Looking forward to seeing you paint something again sometime!

Got a squads worth of these now - I will post a group pic ina mo.

I'm braising beef in wine. Succulent.

I suspect the cookie terrain piece is the only thing that's going to see any love from me for a while, need to crack down with some heavy studying

You can't tempt me with your meat and your alcohol

Merc squads, on the other hand....

Here's the squad and their pilot - I've gotta throw together some kind of ramshackle assault shuttle for them. I think their story is that they travel the galaxy seeking employment - or just places to rob.


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I don't know if that pic is zoomable so here is one linked to the gallery so you can all zoom and even vote mabyes.

Squad shot looks great, a dirty bunch of reprobates if ever I saw some.

And yes, you definitely need to get them some space transport - more vehicle love from weety, the crowds demand it.

I never did finish the genestealer limo. Its on my shelf of shame waiting for another day. So yes - A friggin space ship that's what they need - I mean they have to have one - commercial transports wouldn't take this lot aboard and they can't just work over the one planet forever. Mercenaries in the modern marketplace need to make themselves flexible.

I was going to double check that that was the repainted scheme after my last faux pas, but you only bleedin went and put a side by side at the bottom... Loads better than the original paint job - your faces are getting better with every model - much more expressive... And the green wash over yellow is something I've employed a few times on instrument panels etc, very effective...

If there's any meat/booze combo spare I'm always temptable! Especially now - just got in after a trip out on the velocipede & I'm famished! 20 miles I did! 20!