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... I like that Lust Pink... it screams slaanesh to me

I like the ecchymose, as in ecchymosis (i think), as in blood leaking into a tissue and making a bruise-like thingy, and its purple.

I'm glad my VMA set has more earthy tones, this one has a lot of bright 40k ish colors like 7ish yellows and reds :p Thats good though, I've never had access to that much variety for a single color. I hear the metals aren't so good, but I've got a couple of VMA metals so that should help.


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Alright small update. Did some tinkering with my gathered bottle caps, did some gluing, and got four pieces undercoated.


Glued my raw materials together, the superglue doesn't hold them too well, had to spot-fix several of them with hot glue later on.


The four constructed pieces with a couple layers of black. They could use another blast of black, and then whatever I want to do... thinking grey. Even if they're metal, I'd expect them to be painted anyway.

Small progress, but something. Hopefully we get some more mild weather, or I get a somewhat productive weekend, I would like to paint the next batch of models.. but I've been too tired.

Till next time, happy hobbying!

Got them grey. Now I just need to add some shading, possibly some details, almost done.

Whats with that curiously light grey space marine in the back? Time will tell.


Next piece. Some kind of water treatment equipment maybe. Very much WIP, still got some tinkering.

Gotta get some actual painting done, but this stuff will do for now! I've got a pretty neat idea for using some more of my old computer bits, but more on that as I get the idea fleshed out, don't want to play it up and have it not pan out

Till later, happy hobbying!

Aaahh... here I was thinking I needed a break from work, *BAM*, progress report from GrimDork.

The barrels look good, after some paint I bet they'll look great! I'm burning with curiosity concerning that Space Marine tho

The water treatment / liquid storage / crazy laboratory setup looks pretty darn good! All done with some old plastic containers and straws? You are getting good at this!

But I have to do this: *WHIP CRACK* OI! YE GIT! Just because you had a painting frenzy doesn't mean you can sleep on the job! I haven't seen any miniature painting for too long!

Its Krylon spray can lids, and bendy straws. Little tape, not sure if I'm going to dress it or not... The whole thing is heading towards run down city look, so I may leave it as some kind of patching material.

But but... The barrels ARE painted! They're grey. They don't have to be fancy colors just cause its the future! They'll be getting some shading, possibly some rust or other wear. And the boards on the one piece will be getting a different color, maybe metal, like scavenged bits of sheet metal or something. I like the light grey :p

The marine will probably end up as a test case for enforcer color schemes, I had extra grey in the airbrush and didn't want to completely waste it.

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But but... The barrels ARE painted! They're grey. They don't have to be fancy colors just cause its the future! They'll be getting some shading, possibly some rust or other wear. And the boards on the one piece will be getting a different color, maybe metal, like scavenged bits of sheet metal or something. I like the light grey :p

Crappy excuses! I see no barrels on the "TODO OR DIE" image! Only miniatures! *WHIPCRACK* Now, get bak'ta work, ya lazy Git!

Just a friendly poke mate, that terrain is starting to look pretty good

Lol no worries. Friday should be mowing day, its usually easier, may have some energy left to paint small things. I'd just rather get something random done over nothing

Its far too easy to watch a show or bust out some armored core at this point, so I take small hobby victories where I can get them

Starting to run out of bits laying around for easy terrain projects though, so I may be stuck painting models soon Not sure, I had fun painting those marines for once, may even do the rangers next... Things would be in the bag for sure if I did that, zombies paint up much more quickly. Of course I need to make the last ten... but that shouldn't be too hard.

Alrighty, I'm going to earn myself a whipcrack, but no work on the TDOD list today. Gotta get up earlier than usual, and still tired from the relative hotitude of the outdoors.

Did try to shade the barrel stacks a bit, once for the whole piece, and another time or two in the crevasses. Not sure if I like spraying the black ink out of the airbrush or not.

The barrels were boring, so I thought my two types of marines could help liven them up.








The plasticard around the top is to cover the wording and give it a nice smooth surface. May have to do something though, its a bit rough in places. Got them glued in place and the straws glued in as well, although the straw on the right slipped out of position so the whole thing is a little cockeyed. Oh well, its most likely defunct machinery anyway!


And finally, some bases. I just need to add something to the top of the greenstuff base after it cures. Getting tired of not updating the TDOD page, but gotta get bases for them to be done

So we've got friday and the weekend incoming. I've a mind to paint either of my two prepped units if the opportunity presents itself.

Till then, happy hobbying!

You are lucky I'm too tired to even move, nevermind using the whip...

The barrels have a perfect hobby height Nicely done. The bases are looking mighty good, you really are doing your best to add variety. Keep it up!

I really need to get some more bases done ahead of time, but sometimes I don't feel so creative. What I *really* need to do is figure out how to change the current design/color to match deadzone, which has what looks like a lighter color of concrete and no tiled sidewalks... I could possibly use the tiled card for building interior flooring, though it would get expensive.

The barrels are at the 'good enough' stage, better to get more pieces done than perfect them now. I'll finish the pumps and space laser, then I really want tackle a much larger structure. I'll get it prepped and take a couple of shots before I go into too much detail. There's that small building, too, having trouble deciding how much card to use on it though.

For some reason, honestly inclined towards doing the rangers next. Labor day means 3-day weekend, so hopefully I get a couple of solid painting sessions. I estimate that it took 6-8 hours last Sunday to finish the Marines, so its possible to finish the rangers if I capitalize *every* baby nap. If I get any babysitting, even betterer!

Now... time to work, hopefully I can bank some energy for painting.


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For this last batch of models in my original corporation marine scheme (slightly modified with different/new versions of the original colors), I thought I would keep time and take more pictures of the individual stages. More for fun than to learn any lessons or show off anything special.



First layer of grey, thinned out and rebottled for easy airbrushing, I'll have to do this 2-3 times. I have the first two guys on layer 2 now, will take pictures as layers are complete.

I didn't time accurately, probably 30 minutes in so far. I'll stopwatch the rest just for fun

I have the next five bases ready to airbrush, and will be trying to make 5 more soon so these rangers can also get finished faster. Speaking of that, gonna go charge up compressor, though more painting will have to wait till someone is sleeping

Two layers down, now up to 40 minutes. I meant to be updating more of this at a time, but not getting long stretches to work

I've half a mind to find the nearest dick blick and get some proper brushes for once, we'll see though...

More later.

Aha! There you are, tackling the TODO list like a champ!

And with a 3-day weekend, this means lots of painting time between taking care of the child

Ayup! Also, wife is taking baby to the quasi-local state fair. I would go, but I just can't stand the heat and extra walking around when I'm out in it all day all week for work. I'm much more fun to be around in the spring and fall (winter too, why not)!

Put down another hour and seven minutes while the baby was napping. So I guess we're at an hour and 47 minutes, or 107 total minutes.



The image says it all, but to recap: I got the third (and final) layer of grey down and it was acceptably dark to go ahead with the black ink wash. Waiting for that to dry, I undercoated the next 5 bases. Waiting for those both to dry, I put down a coat of red on the boots (they're safe because they only border one thing and its an easy line to walk). I bought myself a little fixing time by putting red too far up one boot (technically, I think those things just under the knee are part of the boots, but I like them being white, and so they are). After that, I got the first full black ink wash down, which goes everywhere but places that will be red (it may work out there too, as a pre-shade, but I didn't want to experiment this late in the game). Then I got the bases basecoated, and went back for a second black wash on the armor. At this point, the armor will be getting another blackwash next, or I may possibly skip that step if its sufficiently dark, maybe a 50/50 with some water if its close.

Then is white, but the nice and thin airbrush paint, as well as having a big block of time coming up to work in peace, means I should get it done. And if the white is done, these guys are in the bag.

I may take a short break for some pictures outside today. Its hot out, oppressively so, but I may brave it for some better lighting.

Will be back shortly, if I get in the zone, I may not come back until these are finished! More likely I'll pop in when I'm taking a food break or something.

Till then, happy hobbying!


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Alrighty, going to mosey on downstairs and get to work!!


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10 minutes to finish the armor darkening, then about 20 to do the white. I'm not sure it looks as good as the white on some of the other marines, but I think its enough to get by. Dunno if its the different paint, or just me today. Maybe its nothing, too. So another hour and a half to finish the white? I should have time for that, if I have the will

Gonna break things up with some quick errands, but I expect to come back swinging!


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Never got back to it! Wife and baby got back earlier than anticipated, and errands ran over (of course). But between tomorrow and monday, I have high hopes of knocking this unit out... and getting all ten up on bases!

There the armor is black, I don't think I uploaded this one before now.

The first guy has his white done, but that's still it so far. I decided to finish the bases and finish the second half of gold squad. As an added bonus, the bases are made for the three zombie weapon teams as well. I still need to add some details to the new additions, but that won't take terribly long, even if I get some crazy ideas :p Anyway:


Gold section team b, get some!


Gold team assembled! Try to overlook the fairly noticeable difference in the red :p

Baby nap 1 is over, we're going to go run some errands. Hopefully, I'll get my sorry but to work on the white after she takes another nap. If I have to, I'll stay up a bit tonight after she's asleep and even though that usually backfires... models still get done


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Gah errands and baby have destroyed my energy today. Even after I get her to sleep, I'm not sure I'll get much done. Gotta put my hopes on tomorrow!

I did get the white done on a second ranger, and the second layer of red on all the boots, and the first layer of red on the first ranger. Add another hour total to the project. Or well, 65 minutes, more accurately. Some of that time was counted while I worked on the marines' bases, some of it not, but it doesn't really matter :p

I also got a little work done on my super secret project of doom (tm), but it still needs a lot of work before even the raw form is ready to be considered a WIP. Lets just say that, if I successfully complete this mini-project, my found items terrain collection will massively increase in size

Back tomorrow, or later tonight if I go into some kind of frenzy (very unlikely).

Till then, happy hobbying!!!

Gold Team looks damn nice, even with some red layers missing and it has been interesting to read how you have been timing your own work. It looks like an interesting exercise.

Well, I'm curious to see that "super secret project of doom (tm)"

Whew... That took longer than I would have liked Add another couple of hours to get the white done, as well as one layer of red everywhere. Also add in 5 more bases ready to paint, and two large bases detailed and now ready to paint as well.
I didn't keep especially close time, but I think its down to +/- 15 minutes.


Oooh, they almost look done. Of course, they tend to look bad until they're finished, just a quality of this scheme.


Aaahhh... Now I won't have to sit on painted models stuck on nails for a week or two like I did those poor marines.

So, at this point, even if I get nothing else done... I'm in a good place. I have bases for these guys, and the next six zombies. The hardest steps are done, just a little metal and the visors remain after the red (and bases).

With any luck, I'll get a bit further, if not finished.

Happy hobbying!


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Alrighty, throwing in the towel for tonight. At least until the girls are asleep! Red is done up til the last 50/50 blackwash, just need to do metal, visors, and that last little blackwash. Will probably do the bases and weapon team bases at the same time, that should make the zombies go even faster. Its really getting down to crunch time as far as needing those last 10 assembled, huh?

I thought I needed an allen wrench for the super secret project, but now it looks like brute force is more in order... more on that later.

Till then, happy hobbying!

White done, down to metal and blackwash for metal and reds. Don't know why, camera made the red look weird last night =/ I don't think I spent a whole 45 minutes on these, but add it to the count anyway.


Bases undercoated, will probably do the weapon team bases at the same time to get a head start on those.


Minitaire 84 piece paint set came in today.

I'm a little displeased by just getting them all thrown (neatly) into a box without any literature at all, and they're just kind of randomly in there. I'm going to have to make some kind of container/organizer for all of these. I may try a few out on the zombies, but I've gotta finish the rangers first so these are just going to sit around downstairs for a bit.

I may try to sneak down to the painting station after the girls are asleep, I hate losing sleep, but I want those durn rangers finished!




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Meh. I went down to paint, but I guess today wore me out more than I had figured. Too tired to focus. Got metal done on one ranger, add 10 minutes I guess?

Spoilered are my initial thoughts on the paint I got today. Bear in mind that I'm somewhat out of it, and haven't had the chance to actually use any of it yet


More work down tomorrow, hopefully. Till then, happy hobbying!

Nice to see more progress done on those guys Almost time for a lot more zombies.

It was interesting to read your take on those paints. I hope shaking them like hell solves the problem, that's a lot of wasted paint if it doesn't. :(

I'm curious about those Ghost Tints. I'd be interested in reading your opinion on those once you have a test run.

Yeah, all I need is an hour, probably including the bases. Just gotta find it whist motivated!

I was a tad grumpy last night so the paints got picked on a little bit. But they really did settle somewhat. They're sealed though, I'm sure they'll all be fine save for possibly the metals as I just don't think airbrush metallics usually work out well.

The ghost tints are theoretically one of my favorite parts of the set. They're meant as glazes, I think, but I'm hoping they'll work like washes if you brush them on.

I'll try a couple of things out on the zombies most likely, so I should have a limited report soon

The biggest trouble I've got now is figuring out what to do during October/November while I bask in the glory of my finished minis and wait for deadzone

Well, if you don't have anything you particularly want to paint, you could use that time to go on a terrain building frenzy! Either that, or painting and modding the quick terrain you have into something better!

Terrain is a solid idea...but I'm gonna have so many pretty terrain tiles from deadzone.... its hard to justify doing a lot now.

I could do a lot of things... aside from cleaning my space and prepping which shouldn't take .orr than a week... I could:

Paint some more marines, like a tac squad and rhino or something...

Build and paint as many forge fathers as I can with the time I have...

I could crank out a boat load of bases for deadzone.. but I need to change them some (maybe) but I'm not sure how...

Co old get silly and make some legion of the damned just cause. they are pretty cool...

Could leave it open... just do whatever. Afraid without a goal that I may just drag my feet though...

Got a month to figure it out :p. Would be nice to get some paint down though...


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Wee! I just have to seal them, otherwise done. The picture is not so good, and the reds (and the blue a little bit) look funny, something weird about my phone's camera the last couple of days...

Used the plasma fluid minitaire ghost tint on the visors to blend them a little better. Works as expect, wash/glaze. The bottle itself gave me some trouble, more on that later... gotta sleep.

Looks like zombie time tomorrow plus!

No progress today, in addition to be exhausted, will be doing wedding anniversary stuff with wife for the rest of the evening.

However, I did put in an order for



and will be anxiously awaiting their arrival! They cost me $17.60, which isn't terrible for four models, not really. Especially since the models were closer to 8-9 something anyway. It was 11 pounds, 6 of it for shipping, but that is understandable... and where else am I gonna get them :p

Maybe I'll start zombies tonight, but I don't know where I'll find some energy, soooo exhausted.

Well, it seems you have plenty to keep your occupied for today Have fun with the wife, pamper her up and all those things you married couples do

And those 4 are a good idea for the special month of "do whatever you want"

Boom, sealed! And with a picture that doesn't have terrible reds! Score!

Next up...

Zombie hoards!

Thats right, 16 zombies and the TDOD is done! I'll work on updating the graphic sooner or later.

For right now... I'm gonna try and get in on the elder scrolls online beta one last time before they close it up for the night.


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Updated the TODO or Die! graphic, spoilered below.


And since I never put up a shot of gold team 2 finished and on their bases:

Boom goes the dy... actually I never got that one. BOOM anyway!

So, like I said, 16 zombies to go. I'll get them done in time, but will I get them done this month!?

Obviously, the Knight Sabers will be high on my list to get done with my potentially "free" two months before Deadzone arrives... but what else? I'm going to stick to models, as I'll have my fill of terrain and more once my shipment arrives.
I've had a look at my space marines, a few things come to mind...

*True-scaling a space marine squad. Basically, follow what Alairos did with his chaos zerkers project, and splice in some other true scaling tutorials where necessary... If my enforcers arrive and they're head and shoulders taller than my corp marines, they'll be that much taller than space marines too. I just won't be able to look at the little guys the same way anymore. If I can make them taller... then *maybe* it won't be so bad!

*Make some Legion of the Damned. I hear they've got a points reduction incoming, and I've always fancied making a batch. Perhaps I could do the dynamic repositioning of the legs above while I work in the skeleton parts (cause I'm adding proper bones, and I'm too inept at greenstuff to sculpt them from scratch...)

*I thought about painting some more marines, but I just think the advent of my enforcers is going to destroy any love I have left for normal space marines, sadly or not.. I can't yet tell.

*I could assemble and paint some dwarfs too!

And I dunno, I may still order a couple of Infinity models, but I have so much coming it it seems foolish. We'll see!

Going to be a busy weekend, but I should be able to work on the zombies at least a bit, so I'll be sure to pop in and say hi with some progress!

BTW, ESO was pretty awesome for the roughly 30 minutes I was able to play the beta. There is an NDA and whatnot, but it felt so much more like skyrim than it did a wow clone. And that... is preety awesome.

Happy hobbying!

Well... I didn't get much painting done today. Had the baby all day while wife was off at work, and baby's naps were none too productive for me. I did come up with an easy-ratio almost identical match for bleached bone though. 3 parts minitaire ancient bone and one part mummy. Its still just a tad off from BB, but its so close I couldn't tell after awhile (maybe when it dries). I got one layer down by brush, probably going to take 3 or 4 since its thin (it does go straight into the airbrush if you're so inclined). Going to be more work than I had figured, I guess that's why my second batch ended up being airbrushed BB. May go that route this time, it was bugging me.

The rest of my ill-used time was spent working on the following mini:


He's been around for awhile, but he doesn't look like this any more!


A little "tall-scaling" and some more work in general.


An idea of how tall he is. I think he's pretty close for a first try.

With the coming of my enforcers from deadzone, I think my marines are going to be found depressingly short and wanting of height. This is my first attempt at rectifying that situation. Obviously, there is a lot of work left to do, need to fill in some gaps, smooth some things out, and finish the mechandrites or whatever you call the servo-tentacles. Think I'll post over in P&M looking for ideas for the right tendril, it needs a claw, but I don't have a good plan yet.

So obviously the marine is tall enough now, but how's the pose? I can't tell if he looks like he's slowly walking forward, or if there should be a rock under his foot. I don't care terribly if its a more passive/standing pose, just not sure what I've come up with here :p

With any luck, I'll get some more paint down tomorrow. I do think I'm going to have to clean and finish this guy up though. I've finally got a good selection of red and I'm not afraid to undercoat in white anymore, watch out! Its funny as, originally, I was going to paint all of the stock color characters (tech marines, librarians, chaplains, apothecaries, etc) in the regular SK chapter colors... but now I look forward to doing the red/blue/black/white etc.

Oh well, happy hobbying folks!

Since my poor little blog gets lonely if I don't update it at least every couple of days, here's where I am with the zombie weapon teams:


Not the best picture, really

Anyway, the cloth should be done, I caved and went with the airbrush. After touching up the dark brown for the armor (I didn't bother masking this time), I realized that it is much easier to get the brown looking right over a light undercoat, than it is to get the cloth (and flesh too) to look right over the dark brown. The last 10 zombies will probably be just a bit brighter, as I think I'll undercoat them in either white, or just a full blast of the ancient mummy bone mix. The first guy got his gun painted (they are going to look boring, but its all just metal bits) but I accidentally painted over the shield which I figure should be the same color as the armor. For the corporation regulars, its the same, but not so for the zombie troopers. A couple of coats and it will match the other two once they're painted (properly this time!).
The flesh is decayed (ing?) flesh from minitaire. I tried another but it was way too green (probably good for zombies, but I have 10 finished zombies that are decidedly not green, so y'know) and the jaundice one would be far too yellow (probably good for something down the road though!).


And another shot of that techmarine (master of the forge on his good days?).

I still need a good idea for the servo arm, some kind of grabber or claw on the right tendril... Once the base idea is all blocked in, I'll fill out gaps with greenstuff and possibly some extra bits like pouches or an auspex. I think this is one model I will paint during my break, though with it being the 8th and still so many zombies, I may not have a full two months to work with, we'll see!

That's it for now, hopefully more work on the zombies tomorrow... there really isn't all that much to do before they're ready to dip, just gotta get on it.

Happy Hobbying!

Ahoy there! Sorry I have been letting so many juicy updates slipping by, but lately I haven't been commenting at all around here. *uff*, I have to rectify that ASAP!

First of all, it's nice to see so much juicy progress. Zombies being painted with plenty of time to spare, we can cautiously say the "TODO OR DIE" was a success. Not enough to open the champagne, good enough to store it in the fridge

Second, I massively approve of the chosen model. MOAR Space Marines are always nice, and that Master of the Forge kicks ass! I honestly wish I could give a good idea for that tendril, but the only thing I remember is the old Tomb Spyder claw, but I think it's far too big and heavy for that model.

Maybe a bit from these guys?

Yeah, I'll check the eBay if I have to. I saw a nice nob power claw tutorial here on dakka, but its too orky. My first plasticard pincher was kind of a miss so I'm hesitant to try again without agood blueprint.

Hoping for more ppaint on zombies later today.


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Oh ho! Mantic confirmed in deadzone update 110 that they will be shipping in november. I dunno if that means I'll be seeing my stuff in mid november, or still early december, but its good I'm ahead of schedule!

So, no actual progress, but I've got some new toys to show off! Thanks to Ground Zero Games, I have 4 shiny new BGC Knight Sabers!

I think I spent something like $17ish after shipping (which was slightly over half of it). Worth it, these are cool.
They are single piece white metal models, they have noticeable mold lines, but what doesn't? The package also included a little metal sprue and a little brass etch sheet. The metal bits are the backs for the two that have more complicated back parts, and the brass etch I think are meant for the details off the helmets.

Say...

Did those look small in the picture above?

Like... teeny tiny?

Well... Let's ask some of our friends to help out with some relative sizing!


Several different models, pretty much smaller than everything, barely topping the dwarf! I've got them standing on card to mitigate the difference in bases, btw.


Linna almost gets a pass, shes shorter than the marine but women often are shorter than men... however... she IS supposed to be in powered armor. Maybe it isn't as thick as space marine power armor, but she's still too small for sure.


I think it's going to take both Sylia and Nene to tackle that space marine, and they'd better get the whole gang together for Mr. Tall Scale Techmarine!

So yeah, these are obviously 25mm, possibly on the small side of 25mm. They may pass for infinity models, I hear those are fairly small. I have loose plans to use them in a Bakunin Sectorial army as a Riot Grrls link team. Too bad there weren't five knight sabers!
Also, I thought these were a tad off, perhaps interpreted instead of directly from the show. Then I googled it, they're actually from the 80's show. I know nothing of that show, however these are preeety close to the show I watched (think it was the 1998 one). Anyway, realizing they were from the earlier series explains the differences I noticed. They appear now to be faithful representations of the older show.

So now I gotta decide if I want to paint them in colors for the newer show, or try to match the older one. I think they're the same colors, just slight shifts in tone (nene has a little purple in the old one, new one she's all pink I believe) etc. Oh well, I've got 16 zombies to go before I have to worry about it!

Hopefully I sneak down to hobby cave and get a little work done after baby sleeps. We'll see.

Happy Hobbying!

... and I thought the Infinity figures were small ... best of luck once you decide to paint them but they really are going to look good as Infinity figures.

Now go and take care of those final 16 zombies