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Good job on the recent models, the knight in particular.

Have a good Christmas.

Merry Christmas Gir, looking forward to another year of inspirational work from you!

... no pressure...

Thanks for the Christmas wishes guys had a really relaxed time this year, I think its the first time i've not been stressed at something or another (usually work) for years.

I don't usually get hobby related stuff for Christmas but I have been holding stuff back over the last few months, so I kind of get a present to myself We don't have much money so it works quite well.

So my Christmas hall looks like this on the hobby front.



Most of this was acquired through Wayland Games Black Friday sale.

So we have a box of Purifiers for Relic Knights

Two starter sets and the rules for Dust Tactics.

The Dark Age rule book and the not quite the latest expansion book but it has all the factions I'm interested in so picked it up, and it was cheap Also picked up a few minis for the Kukulkani faction.

Lastly some minis from Dark Lands, I went in for their latest kickstarter but went with already existing minis to play it safe. Will pick up some more though, I have my eyes on some werewolfs and other things, such great minis.

I've assembled two so far along with some more Infinity miniatures and the Purifiers, here's a pic of the combined forces of Pano and the Shattered Sword vs a very large manticore Ungefelic with Carrowek his commander.



Lastly today I've finished some more minis for your viewing pleasure. Both from Relic Knights again the Swordsworn and Francis Malory





Isabeau Durand is nearly finished and will follow shortly, I'm back at work tomorrow but thats the only day next week so expect some more minis over the week, I'll also do my goals for next year as well.

Some more Relic Knights for you today this time the lovely Isabeau Durand (I just wish the model was ) She didn't turn out badly considering though.



I have finished another mini as well but its for a painting comp, sadly this means I cant show it to you until its been displayed on their forum first which wont be till next weak at some point.

Its all to do with one of my new year goals, more info will follow later

Hang on....you've already finished one of your models in connection with your new year goals.....isn't that cheating considering it's still this year?

Isabeau looks good - like the anime effect you pulled off with the eyes. But yeah, regards the actual model that arm looks very weird, wasn't quite sure what pose she was in for a second.

 monkeytroll wrote:
Hang on....you've already finished one of your models in connection with your new year goals.....isn't that cheating considering it's still this year?

MT, you have to submit your entries by the 4th of Jan, just getting a head start

 monkeytroll wrote:
Isabeau looks good - like the anime effect you pulled off with the eyes. But yeah, regards the actual model that arm looks very weird, wasn't quite sure what pose she was in for a second.

Yeah that arm is super weird its like she has two elbows and then a bendy forearm, there's some bad mold lines as well but you cant see them in the pic and her pony tails oh her body don't actually tie in with the bits that come from her head (separate part), its physically imposable to have both in the correct position. But at table level she looks good and I did well on her flesh tones, always one of my concerns painting skin.

This morning will mainly consist of making some more minis up, I seem to have a bit of a back log due to not having much hobby time over the last few months.

It's that time of year again when projects are planned and normally not fulfilled in my case

First things first an assembly shot shot from yesterday.

The Infinity Pan O minis are now all together, the sniper type guy on the far left who's been distracted by Annik from Dark Lands was a right pain to put together, I think he was the worst from the box set.



This is Annik such a very lovely young lady, I'm absolutely dreading painting her to be honest.



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Now we plan ahead for the year, there are many projects as always on my list and I like to list them all out so I've got some sort of idea of what I'm doing.

Non GW

Infinity - Paint starter set and play through the starter rules
Malifaux - Assemble and paint the three crews I have and try to play the game, just need to pick up the cards.
Relic Knights - Finish painting the Shattered Sword minis and then pic up some of the Black Diamond faction and the rules.
Dark Lands - Paint up my Ysians and pick up a second faction and rules when they come out.
Carnevale - Paint up the two forces I have and try playing the game
DUST - Paint the two starter sets I have and play.
Wolsung - Currently waiting for the new rulebook from their kickstarter before picking up any minis.
Warmachine - Finish painting the Cygnar minis I have and any others I pick up.
Dark Age - pick up two starter forces.

Freebooters Fate - Pick up the main rules and a few starter sets
Kings of War - Build 4 small armies Undead, Chaos Dwarf, Dark Elves and Dwarves or Humans. I've already started picking up bits for the undead army.

Other games that are threatening my wallet

Arena Rex - when the models go up for sale.
Dropzone Commander
Planetfall
Saga
Batman - When the rules come out in book format I might not be able to resist any longer
Wild West Exodus
Hordes - There's some nice minis coming out of PP at the moment and they are starting to use HIPS as well so things are looking promising
Wrath of Kings - Not out for general sale yet.

GW
Man O War - Skaven still in the same position as last year I've not seen any minis I need, Dark Elves just one unit left to get and I also just need one more unit for my Plague Fleet as well.

Sisters of Battle - Phase one is to get another Exorcist and some more melta girls but I've been putting them off for a long time. Phase two is to make some Immolators
Mantis Warriors - Just need a 5 man tac squad and a Sicaran
Dark Wolves - Not much left that I want for these, an Iron Priest on Thunderwolf and another Hyperios Missile launcher
World Eaters - A Predator and a Typhon
Death Guard - Some Obliterators and another unit of plasma Plagues
Eldar - not fully decided where I'm going with these yet.

If I start a new army its going to be Black Templars with Catachan allies.

To be honest I'm really struggling to spend money on 40k at the moment I can get so much more with usually better sculpting from all the excellent skirmish games that are around at the moment, it makes painting so much more interesting as well.

If anything goes out of control it will be Infinity as there's so many nice minis I want.

I also managed to do another goal which isn't mini related which was to upload all my music to Amazon's cloud service, its only taken me two years.... but I finished Christmas Eve with a count of 1764 albums, not bad

I also picked up Space Hulk Ascension for the PC the other day in the Steam sale and cant stop playing it, its a fantastic game. I really do recommend it if you like the board game.

That's me all set up for another year.

Well nearly I forgot to mention my main goal

Which is to try and place in the top three of a painting competition, any will do or get a best painted army award which might not happen if I don't start a new army...I've seen a few small painting comps around on forums so will be trying my luck.

How good are you at pinning?

There's nothing quite as effective as a completely armored lower body and a completely naked upper body.

That's a really impressive "to do" list there Gir. I look forward to sing your handwork on all of it!

Miss Dee wrote:How good are you at pinning?

Ok as long as its not small parts

Gitsplitta wrote:There's nothing quite as effective as a completely armored lower body and a completely naked upper body.

She must get hot while she's whirling her blade around lots.....I'm sure theres a reason

Gitsplitta wrote:That's a really impressive "to do" list there Gir. I look forward to sing your handwork on all of it!

Cheers Git's, it is a bit of a long list I'm sure I'll get at least one thing done from it

blast As my Icestorm Security officer needs pinning

I was actually ok glueing her together, she was the first one I did and her arms haven't fallen off yet lol

Thats handy mate

Have you tried scoring where the parts join, it helps make a stronger bond for the superglue. I did this on a few of the Pan O guys.

I will have a go when i get back

After talking to Miss Dee about the Infinity CSU Corporate Security Unit I decided that I would give her a go today.

I tried improving my skin tones this time by blending in a bit of red, which gives her a bit more of a human look.

Hope you like her.

Very nice Gir. Are those supposed to be black nylon stockings or is that a trick of the light?

Thanks Git's.

They are indeed black nylon stockings, they took me ages to get right.

I've always wanted to try that. Nice going mate... I'm impressed.

Cheers I think she's my best mini so far.

I'm sure you could do a gretchin in stockings

Oy... now there's an image!

Black and white scheme is not easy, and you did quite well it seems.
Making her a redhead is a nice idea, don't know if it's similar on the official painting, but it works well with the two main colors.

Nice work, Gir'. The tights work well. Skin looks good.

I might have upped the contrast between the inside and outside of the briefcase-gun a little more.

Gitsplitta wrote:Oy... now there's an image!

Minus wrote:Black and white scheme is not easy, and you did quite well it seems.
Making her a redhead is a nice idea, don't know if it's similar on the official painting, but it works well with the two main colors.

Thanks Minus, the official version is a red head as well.

Dr H wrote:Nice work, Gir'. The tights work well. Skin looks good.

I might have upped the contrast between the inside and outside of the briefcase-gun a little more.

Thanks Dr H. That brief case is a bit weird I couldn't really tell what was what, so I did a few bits metallic that don't really show in the pics and left it as that.

Wow fab image how did you do the nylons?

 Miss Dee wrote:
Wow fab image how did you do the nylons?

Cheers Miss Dee

I thought I mucked them up at first to be honest. I used GW Nuln wash and stippled it on with a small dry brush like I do with my beards and heads (which I got from NF09) but it was way too blotchy over such a large area, so I used a very very very watered down Vallejo Black and went over them totally which ended up with the end effect. If I tried it again I'd just use the watered down black as Nuln wash isn't as good as the old Badab black for certain things. Oh I did paint her legs fully first with highlights etc.

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Today I have something different, some muddy Eldar guardians which completes my first squad. I got fed up with them being in all my WIP shots for months on end so gave them a lick of paint.



Not sure whats next but I have my Infinity Nomads on the painting table all primed and ready to go

Hope you all had a good weekend.

I slacked bad on the painting front, I ended up playing Magic the Gathering online all day today, bad Giraffe

But I still have an update as there was a bit of action on Saturday which saw me complete the first of my Nomads, I don't actually know what he is as I haven't read the quick start rules yet but I think he's just a normal bod. He ended up a lot orangey than I wanted so I had to tone him down a bit.





I also started on the next guy he's very rough at the moment need to tidy the white lines up but you can see where I'm going with him, he's a proper red this time as well.

Was a bit strange doing white highlights straight on red but it kind of looks good in a strange way, thoughts would be appreciated.



I'm also playing round with some crackle to make ice bases, still in the early stages at the moment.



Lastly I mentioned that I entered a model into a painting competition on another forum, well it finished tonight and I came in third just lol

So thats my main goal done for the year it was third out of seven but who's counting......

I painted a Warjack for my Cygnar force for Warmachine.



That's me for the weekend lots of models to show but I haven't really done much

Excellent update my friend. Those are fine looking models. No idea how you can do those Infinity models... they're TINY!

Cheers Git's its quite odd I didnt notice until I went to paint the guardians and they looked massive lol

Just a small update today my painting output seems a bit slow at the moment not sure why.

It could be these Infinity mini's, they take me a weekend just to do one

This is the result of the one I finished that I started last weekend.

I really like how his metal armour came out, looks very snake like.

Infinity Nomad Mobile Brigada



I'll have the next one ready for next weekend she's nearly finished.