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Yeah it looks like hair now, my bad, I must have been out of it this morning. Skin tone does look like skin after a second look, just pale.

Nah. It was a crappy picture. Here's a slightly better one.



Obviously, the second guy is done. My lighting at home kind of sucks though. Too yellow. As a result, you can't see that I did in fact darken her skin tone and her hair. I've retouched the brown parts on her a bit and added some highlighting to the gray parts on the guy's armor (too lazy to add it to the girl's).

They look good, got a kind of bomb squad vibe going.

To me, they feel like they should be out fighting zombies, what with all of that armor and the flamethrowers. I've got some boxes of stuff coming, so I'm not sure when I'll be getting to the other two Naffatun. Hopefully soon though.

Tonight, I finally went back and repainted that Afterlife Republic Commando I'd shown a while back. I caved and went with pretty much the same colors as my Republic Grenadiers.



I lost some detail on account of having to strip his previous paintjob and I did a fairly bad job of it. Whenever I get around to the others, that shouldn't be much of an issue.

I also painted two other things today. I painted that Gear Krieg tank, but that needs a few more touches before its done. And, I painted the new Reaper figure, Tess McFadden. The name means nothing to anyone, I'm sure, but she's sculpted by Kev White of Hasslefree fame, so I had to get her. She's a nice, simple little figure.

Got a couple of guys to show off tonight. For some reason, I've had several Kickstarters and orders all arrive this week. Yesterday I got my White Dragon Marine Tactical Unit stuff (which is awesome!), and my Mantic Abyssals for KOW (though still no sign of DBX). Today saw the arrival of my VSF Prussians from Brigade Games, who were amazingly all stuffed into an extremely tiny box, my Clearhorizon order, and my Maelstrom's Edge game. So, my pile of shame grows ever larger. I probably could cut down on it faster if we were actually having warmer weather here. The cold weather seems to make my paint want to dry really slowly, so about all I can do is complete one or two figures a day, if even that.

Today though, I did actually complete (mostly) two figures. Since the Abyssals were the new hotness that arrived, last night I got to work on the Champion I'd ordered and one of the grunts. Well, the champion is all done, aside from some effects on his left arm and his basing. I have to say, my initial experiences with Mantic's metals from Deadzone were kind of "meh," but this guy was actually a very good casting. Details were all sharp, no miscasting, no mold lines even!



He came with an alternate right arm wielding a sword and an alternate head with different horns and a slightly dopey expression. I like the evil smirk this one had though.
I tried taking the photo in my hall since the light isn't yellow in there, but while the colors are more accurate, the trade off was that it also obliterated all of the shading details I put on him. His paintjob isn't so flat in person. I used washes and highlighting on him, it just doesn't show up in this pic.

The other figure I mostly finished up is my Fox Rogue from Oathsworn's Burrows and Badgers line. This guy was in the first Kickstarter and I'm only just now really getting to him. I still haven't even touched the freebies that came with him. At least I did manage to finish him before the second Kickstarter stuff arrived.



Only thing I have left to do on him is to seal him and add some flocking to his base. When the KS2 stuff arrives, I believe I ordered a necromancer bat and the bounty hunter set, which will give me an otter Landsnecht, a pug bounty hunter (I'd requested a pug from him in the first one, so awesome he made one), another fox, this time a brigand, and a beagle tracker. I don't recall if I got any others though. I know I'd wanted the tortoise legionary and the drunken ferret, but I don't recall if I actually got them or not.

You're a bloody painting machine, Barz! The Afterlife figure has come up really nicely in final form, and the fox-man looks very cool also.

Thanks Azazelx. My output would be much higher though if my paint would dry faster. My plan for tonight is to get some 15mm basing done and to paint up the Lower Abyssal I built. With luck I'll have another demon to post tonight along with some more 15mm troops.

Great stuff Barzam

I like the abyssal leader guy, starting to regret not coughing up cash for an army when the PM was still running. Good stuff.

The rest is great too

Both figures came out really nice.

At some point we ought to don an anthropomorphic battle of some sort. That would require me to paint up a lot more of my animal types, but I'm alright with that burden of responsibility!

Nice job on the abyssal - like the green fireball. It's a pretty cool model.

The fox rogue blows it out of the water though - awesomesauce.

Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad the fox turned out good. I was dithering about painting him for a long time.

Well, I promised more stuff today. Shock of shocks, I got no basing done. I did however finish that other Abyssal I built and I did finish a 15mm figure.

I'd built one of the plastic Lower Abyssal Warriors at the same time I started on their champion, just to see how they turned out. I'm pleased to say, the plastic Lower Abyssals are quite nice.



I believe that axe is actually a part of their command upgrade, so I suppose I'll have to do a command set and a regular set. My plan is, since I have four sprues of these guys, one set with be melee + command and the other will be ranged + command. Melee guys get to be red, ranged guys get to be blue. Here's how the Lower Abyssal compares to the champion.



You can sort of tell that I used two different shades of red for their skin tones, with the champion being darker. I wanted him to stand out, but not look out of place with the others. I figured maybe their skin gets darker as they age, so it makes sense for the champ to have darker skin.

The other figure I completed tonight was one of the figures from White Dragon Miniatures' Marine Tactical Unit Kickstarter. This particular unit is equipped with a Talos Powered Armor.



The detailing on him is really impressive. It may be hard to tell from my photos, but I would say he's almost as detailed as a full 28mm figure. I love the design, too. I hope that they eventually make a 28mm version of these guys. I'll be working on more from that Kickstarter in between other projects.

Here's just a little size comparison for him against a more average sized 15mm figure from Peter Pig and one of the more true 15mm sized guys from the Rangers' Project.



As you can see, the Talos leans more towards the true scale end of the spectrum. This is true for the rest of the line and the regular troops are proportioned more like the Rangers' Project guys than the Peter Pig ones.

For the MTU stuff, I have a squad of Talos units, 5 regular Marine fireteams, an Armadillo mobile shield/support 'bot, a Proteus Combat mecha with chaingun, and the almighty Fiddler combat mecha. I'm hoping I can get on to these units soon.

I was pretty impressed with the castings on those 15mm guys.

The powered armor turned out well. Hopefully those ammo belts weren't too much of an issue to glue on. They were tiny!

Out of curiosity, what color did you use for the lower abyssal's skin? I'm guessing a Vallejo one, but which color? I like it and was thinking of a similar scheme.

Abyssals look good. That pose armored guy is beefy compared to his 15mm peers.

I love that fox. I know some friends that would kill for one like yours Barzam for rpg purposes.

M.

highlord tamburlaine wrote:I was pretty impressed with the castings on those 15mm guys.

The powered armor turned out well. Hopefully those ammo belts weren't too much of an issue to glue on. They were tiny!

Out of curiosity, what color did you use for the lower abyssal's skin? I'm guessing a Vallejo one, but which color? I like it and was thinking of a similar scheme.

That specific paint is Vallejo Games Color Bloody Red. It's the same one I used on my Mechanicus. The ammo belts were no issue at all. They had little pegs on them, so they plugged right in.

GrimDork wrote:Abyssals look good. That pose armored guy is beefy compared to his 15mm peers.

I should hope so, he's supposed to be wearing Power Armor. Sadly, good looking power armor in 15mm isn't that common. Ground Zero Games makes quite a lot of styles, but they're kind of ugly, especially compared to the Talos.

Miguelsan wrote:I love that fox. I know some friends that would kill for one like yours Barzam for rpg purposes.

M.

Glad you like him. Your friend is going to have to wait, it seems. Oathsworn for some reason doesn't have any product on their site. They should try contacting Oathsworn though. Maybe they can get lucky and get in a late pledge on the second Burrows and Badgers Kickstarter? All of the figures from the first one were being offered in the second one as well, so there's a chance he could get one. Or, I suppose there's always Dark Sword Miniatures. They have plenty of anthropomorphic foxes, though they're a bit more cartoony looking.

I didn't get much actual painting done today. I wound up doing a lot of greenstuffing of bases and prepping a pile of Prussians. I did paint one of the basic marines from the White Dragon Kickstarter.



As you can see, I'm going to be keeping their colors very simple and not go in for a lot of extra detail. The regular troops seem to be wearing some form of light powered armor as well, so I don't mind them being fairly monochrome. I'd go nuts trying to paint in all of the small details though. For that extra bit of color, I'm going to color code the five fireteams. I'll be starting with Red Team.

I would've had these pics posted sooner (along with more work done), but I got laid out by a migraine. I don't get them often, but when I do, I'm done. They just take me out. I'll attempt to get more work done this weekend though and hopefully actually finish things.

I'm taking part in Azazelx's challenge to paint a unit every month from January to June. Since my pile of shame is so large, I had plenty to choose from. I've chosen to tackle my Spartan Games stuff though, in particular my Dystopian stuff. I have and Antarctic air fleet, naval fleet, and several blisters of ground units along with a box of Dystopian Legions Prussian troops. I figured I would go for the Prussians first since I know how I'm going to paint them. The box contained six figures, so that's the unit I have to complete before the end of the month. Once I'm done with them, I'll be moving onto some non-Prussian things. But, since I am working on them, I'm limiting myself to only working on Prussian models right now, which includes some non-Dystopian Legions Prussian soldiers and a Warjack.

So far, here's where I am with my Dystopian guys.



Aside from sealing and glossing their helmets, these guys are done.

I had also ordered some Steampunk Prussian infantry with rebreathers from Brigade Games and they're currently a side job. They're pretty small and surprisingly, they fit all six of them in a tiny little jewelry box. It looked like the type you'd have earrings in or something. So far, I've only really completed one of them, and that's the officer.



There's a few more touch up things I need to do with him. Namely, seal him, gloss his helmet and goggles, and add some moss to his base. That aside, he's done. Once I actually do that though, I'll post more photos of him.

Lastly, I mentioned a Warjack. Well, what good is doing Steampunk stuff if you aren't going to have some kind of steam powered doohickies? I decided what they needed was a robot, and Warmachine has the best looking steampunk robots. On Highlord Tamburlaine's suggestion, I chose a Mercenary Warjack for them. In this case, this is called a Talon, and he's a light type Warjack.



He's nearly done as well. Just need to finish working on his base, paint his shield, and then seal the paint. I decided to go with a paintjob that mimics the uniform of a Prussian soldier. I even have the red stripe on the sides of his legs (which it's hard to tell, but they're painted in the same gray as the soldiers' pants). Hell, I even went the extra mile on this one and painted the little gauges on his engine.

Once I'm done with these guys, I'll have a nice little skirmish force. I'd still like to add on a few units though. I'd like to get a couple of Jaegers so they can have some marksmen and I'd like a shooty Warjack to go with them as well. But, that's for a future purchase.

Nice work there. How long did they take, start to finish?

So many cool things, I really like the abyssal dudes and the fox man has loads of character.

The Prussians are also amazing. Great work.

EDC

Liking the Prussian Talon. Pretty cool idea and matches up with the foot soldiers nicely.

What is this challenge you speak of, painting a unit a month? Direct me to it so I can partake as well.

Of course, that would require purchasing a cohesive unit of something in the first place as opposed to my usual piecemeal style, but nevertheless...

JoshInJapan wrote:Nice work there. How long did they take, start to finish?

It's hard to say because I did these guys in bits over several days. Most likely, if I were to just sit down and do one, probably about 2-3 hours.

evildrcheese wrote:So many cool things, I really like the abyssal dudes and the fox man has loads of character.

The Prussians are also amazing. Great work.

EDC

Thanks a lot. It seems a lot of people like my fox guy. Seriously, more people should check out Oathsworn's Burrows and Badgers line. They should also bug him via email about availability since his webstore is totally empty.

highlord tamburlaine wrote:Liking the Prussian Talon. Pretty cool idea and matches up with the foot soldiers nicely.

What is this challenge you speak of, painting a unit a month? Direct me to it so I can partake as well.

Of course, that would require purchasing a cohesive unit of something in the first place as opposed to my usual piecemeal style, but nevertheless...

I sent you a PM with the link. I think you actually have plenty of options to choose from if you wanted to join in. Or, at least you did prior to your clearing stuff out on ebay. I think as long as you keep things even just within the same theme, it'd be fine. You could do like me and paint your Dystopian Wars armies.

Nice work Barz. I haven't even properly thought about what to do with my Abyssals yet, but yours have turned out nice so far.

The Prussians look great. Is the Brigade stuff 28mm? And is the Spartan Games stuff like 32 or 34mm? I like the Warjack as an add-on to the Prussians as well. I doubt I would have thought of that myself, but it works well.

And Highlord - join us!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/675692.page

You're actually pretty spot on with the scales there, Azazel. I'd say the Dystopian stuff is probably around 32mm or so. I know they don't advertise them as being 28mm anymore. It's a shame that they didn't actually make them 28mm. I love the looks of some of the units in the game.

Anyway, the Prussians are done, I've achieved my goal for January.



Now I just need to finish basing the Brigade Prussians.

While I was waiting for the sealants to dry yesterday, I went ahead and finally started working on an Afterlife figure I've had primed for months. I finally settled on a color scheme and actually painted her up pretty quick.



This is a female variant of the Spectre Operative for the Unity Council. I think these guys are supposed to be stealth infiltrators or something, but none of them have silencers for their guns, so I'm not entirely sure. Still, they look pretty cool. The stuff on her back might be a little hard to make out, but she's got some spare mags for the rifle and a barrel extension for the gun as well. The regular male versions have at least one guy with the extension attached and I believe there's some head choices that have the goggles opened. I love it when Joel puts all of these neat little details on his figures.

The finished Prussians look great! The gloss on their helmets looks good - a subtle but effective touch.

The afterlife model looks cool as well. The hexagons make her kind of look like an Infinity figure and kind of like she's wearing turtle armour, but cool nonetheless. Good to see a female not wearing boob plate as well.

Damn nice miniatures you get here! BTW, when you are going to paint some of those AdMech stuff? ( I just need some more inspration for my stygies )

Which ones? I wasn't planning on painting more Mechanicus rigjt now. But, I suppose I could mix things up a little bit.

 Barzam wrote:
Which ones? I wasn't planning on painting more Mechanicus rigjt now. But, I suppose I could mix things up a little bit.

I thoghI did see some boxes of kastellans and servitors earlier, did you paint them already? If so, I might skipped them... Damn.

Nope, haven't done them yet. I jave some Warjacks I'm starting right now, another Afterlife figure, and I'll be working on Dystopian Wars as well. I suppose I can work in the Kastelan onve I finish the'Jacks.

Well, I just have to enjoy looking those until you get to Kastellans...

These may not be Mechanicus, but they do have a robot! Now, I did say I'd had the other set of Prussians finished. I'm just slow posting them. As Highlord Tamburlaine can attest though, I most certainly had these finished before the end of the week.

My finished Steampunk Prussian army



Troops



Officer



And the Talon Warjack



Now I can start working on other stuff. I already finished working on my test piece for next month's part of Azazelx's challenge. I think I'm happy with it. We'll see how I feel about it once it's actually dried though. I'm also working on a Menoth Dervish Warjack right now. If I'm industrious on Sunday, I should be able to finish it.

Hey, progress! I got things painted today!

So, first thing's first, I got to work on a test scheme for my Covenant of Antarctica armies. Since I'll be doing my Skorpios Bombard unit for February's challenge, I figured I will cheat a bit and test my idea out on one of them.



I'm undecided about keeping the bases clear for the ground units. When Spartan sculpted their walkers, they filled in what should be empty spaces on them. So, the spaces between the legs are all filled in, and on a clear base, that fact just feel accentuated to me. So yeah, not sure about what I want to do with the bases yet. As for the scheme, I wanted to go with something camo, but not the white heavy scheme the studio used. So, I basically just did the same scheme without white. I think I'm happy with it though. Generally, I'll be applying the camo to the armor panels on the vehicles. On the Skorpios, there's not too many, so they'll actually be pretty easy to paint. But, larger units and the various ships I have will be more difficult.

I also painted a Menoth Dervish light warjack today.



I like the Dervish/Devout design. Out of all of the Warjacks, they look the most like mechanical knights. I just wish there was a bit more versatility in the sculpts. The Dervish is sculpted in a really awkward pose like he's going to do a slicing attack, but there's pretty much no movement in his legs. So, it just comes off looking really weird. The Devout, which shares the same general design is equally awkwardly posed. The devout is a spear/shield type Warjack, yet he's posed running rather than attacking or blocking as you would expect it to be. I think the Devout might also be the only Warjack posed running. I should also point out, I did alter the Dervish's pose a little. I reposed he right arm since stock, it's posed directly across its chest which was really in the way.

Something really weird about the Devout and Dervish sculpts though, despite the fact that both Warjacks use the same frame, neither figure shares a single part. It's really odd that they did that. Anyway, the Devout, which I've also reposed will be the next project.

While waiting for the Dervish to dry at various points, I also painted up a couple more 15mm Talos Power Armors.



These guys are armed with a grenade launcher and a machine gun. Apparently the first one I did was armed with a flamethrower. There's only one Talos left, and he's in line to get basecoats very soon.