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Thanks for the tip on the Future Floor Polish, Orlando... I'll stick to using it for a bit of an effect but not as the adhesive.

Also, I forgot to snap this pic this morning, so did so just now really quick... not usable for the AdeptiCon army, but I'm planning to run 2 Exocrines instead of 2 Mawlocs sometimes so these will be completed after the event

I remember those. Awesome.

I don't remember them, but the look is a pretty good fit for my army so I'm happy they exist

Very curious how you'll paint the bigger creatures!

I'd go for an oozing snail type scheme,

a hard shell that includes the gun & sheild, then a oozing foot with plenty of slime

 RiTides wrote:
I don't remember them, but the look is a pretty good fit for my army so I'm happy they exist

Stupid looking things.

ahem. I've got one or two of them somewhere myself.

This was an unseasonably warm weekend, which allowed me to go outside and prime everything . I will be painting the army in two "waves", in full assembly line mode.

Wave 1:


Wave 2:


The steps I need to complete for Wave 1, and a projected shcedule, are below. Each day's task includes doing half in the evening and half the following morning (i.e. 75 gaunts at a time):

Sunday - Prime, Airbrush green basecoat (done)
Monday - Paint bone
Tuesday - Paint orange
Wednesday - Paint purple
Thursday - Wash
Friday - Drybrush skin step 1
Saturday - Drybrush skin step 2
Sunday - Highlight bone
Monday - Drybrush bone on head
Tuesday - Drybrush (very lightly) mauve
Wednesday - Drybrush orange 1, highlight orange 2
Thursday - Highlight purple, paint bases black
Friday - Glue rocks to base with PVA
Saturday - Drybrush and wash rocks
Sunday - Apply snow and seal

If I can do the above, I'd have the gaunts painted in exactly 2 weeks, leaving me 3 solid weeks for the big bugs... wish me luck!

Finally, here is a quick shot of the paints I'm using (more for myself than anything) and of the basecoated gaunts.




I do need to still figure out what colors to paint the details on the other heads (i.e. what is orange and what is purple). I think the tentacles must be purple (i.e. they can't be orange like the horns) which means the eyes, I think, need to be orange... or what about black??? I will try to quickly test this tomorrow evening before painting the orange.

75 at a time? Ye gods man.

The colour scheme you've gone for is great, really suits the gribblies. Seeing these get some colour is getting me excited/anxious about the KS shipping now

Step 2: Pinstripe is done on half of the grubs. Some of these steps I will likely combine so that I have to cycle through the whole lot less, and some will take a bit longer than others. This step is taking longer than painting the orange and purple will, I believe, because it's a much larger area.



After painting the rest of the pinstripes, I need to just double check that I know which features should be purple and which should be orange on the various head variants, so will likely check that late tonight or early tomorrow morning, then move on to painting the purple and orange.

Assembly line, go! Such an ambitious schedule, best of luck powering through it all And props for taking advantage of the break in winter's grip, I did the same, busting out the ol' primer can

- Salvage

Keep at it RiTides, you'll get there!

Go! Go! Go!

That ammount of work would literally blow my mind..... kudos for gettin on with it! Great stuff!

And to think, I'm trying to paint up TEN models to get in some pick-up/demo INFINITY gaming at Adepticon - and it is stressing me out!

GO RiTIDES GO!

Thanks for all the encouraging posts, guys . They are a real boost!! Finishing up the pinstripes tonight and early tomorrow morning, then it's on to the interesting stuff. Amazing how boring a color can get as you paint it on 150 models I find myself craving the orange and purple now. It's the carrot I'm holding in front of my nose to finish the bone color tonight.

Don't worry my friend... you'll get there, no problem! It's not like if you blow it you'll completely ruin a once-a-year, very expensive event for 3 other guys or something....

Oh wait... let me re-phrase that...

I'm arriving a bit late to this party. But I have to say, I love the Wyrm theme. This is shaping up to be a wonderfully distinctive army.

Another of whom I am also providing an army for, I know! That's okay, the deadline actually really helps me

*goes back to painting this accursed bone color


Edit: Ninja'ed, thanks tinfoil!

Okay, step 3 is complete, painting the base coat of orange:



Next step is to paint the purple, then wash, today and tomorrow!

However, I have a little bit of a dilemma... last night before tackling the orange, I had a rather frustrating session of trying to make sure I knew how to paint each grub's face. The eyes are giving me the most trouble... I decided purple would just be the best, but I need feedback on this, as I'll be starting them tonight.

I also need feedback on the order to paint the colors on the faces- I'm going to basecoat the purple tonight/tomorrow and then wash the whole model, so that's no issue. But what order to do things after washing? I'm going to spoiler this section out, but if you're interested in reading it and giving me some feedback, I would appreciate it!


Other progress, I received the Bastion! I didn't paint this, but I think for this event I'll just add some snow onto it and call it good to go. I tried putting various tentacles and things coming out of it but it just looks too cheesy if I do



Also, I received my Alpine mat from the Frontline Gaming kickstarter. It started off as a 6'x4', but I took it to FedEx Kinko's and they cut it for free! This is a 26" x 48" section (so just over 2' x 4') which I think we can cram our team onto for "display board mat" purposes. I neglected to check that the tube I cut down to store it in would fit in my suitcase before having it done, but it fits! Just barely



And that's it! Hoping to have an absolute paint-a-thon this weekend, starting with drybrushing the skin and head on Saturday, if I can power through the purple and the wash today and tomorrow.

Go with the second optin, because you can tidy up anywhere that the drybrushing overlaps onto while its still a solid colour and then highlight it up.

Just my thoughts. And that mat loos amazing, as does the bastion.

Kudos on getting so much done so fast

Very cool mat!

I might have an opinion for you on the painting but it'll have to wait until I get home to a full sized screen. Might be too late by then.

Very nice worm-nids

Second option makes sense to me, avoids the bone drybush spilling onto the purple and orange.

Thanks for the tips guys, I actually didn't even think of that alternate process until trying to type up this update... I think describing things helps me organize my thoughts

Gits, that won't be too late because I'll just be painting the purple base color tonight- the steps/order I was stumped on won't happen until after the wash (so likely happening on Saturday).

I was pretty stoked about receiving the the mat and tower, so I'm glad you guys like them

 RiTides wrote:
The order I tried painting last night:

1. Highlight purple and orange
2. Highlight bone color
3. Drybrush head

I did the this order, because I thought it would help clean up any mess around the orange and purple... but it also gets drybrush on top of the purple and orange . So, I'm thinking to do it in this order instead...

1. Drybrush head
2. Highlight purple and orange
3. Highlight bone color (to cover up any mess around purple eyes in particular)

Does that last order make sense, or should I consider something else entirely?

As a reminder, this is what I'm aiming for:

Finally have a chance to look at this...

So, if I have this right... you're proposed order allows you to
A) drybrush/highlight the head/bone, then
B) highlight the purple & orange, (in essence, allowing you to clean-up spill-over from the drybrushing), then
C) re-highlight the the head/bone... allowing you to clean up after the orange/purple highlighting???

I'm not sure I have the details right... as such, it seems a bit of wasted effort as your constantly cleaning up after yourself. Can you skip the drybrush stage and just quickly highlight the head/bone area? That would save you a step and the need to clean up. You could do that last, after the orange and purple... that way you'd really only have ONE clean-up step (i.e. the head/bone highlight) rather than two.

That's a good question, Gits... I actually just picked up some extra fine point sharpie paint pens at Michaels (in black, blue, red, green, and yellow... wasn't sure which would be best so I'm trying them all!). The plan is to try them out on the eyes of my test grubs and see if they make the eyes easier, as that's my real sticking point (and where the drybrush spillover was a real problem, causing me the angst above!). The stripes I can more easily avoid with the drybrush, it's the eyes that are tough to get right and that I felt were too sloppy.

I'm going to put down the base color of purple on the head stripes tonight / in the morning (I did the purple tentacles last night, but not the head stripes) possibly along with the dark purple in the center of the stripes, then do the wash on the whole models and drybrush the skin, which isn't near anything important... then evaluate where I'm at.

I do think the method I proposed is too many steps- but without the drybrush, my feeling was the heads were too dark. But maybe a selective highlight would actually yield better results, and both are not needed... I will think about it. At least my next three steps (which should be done by the end of my paint-a-thon tomorrow) are very clear! Purple stripes, possibly along with the dark purple center, then wash (as this helps blend in the edge of the purple stripe), then drybrush the skin (which has no spillover / cleanup issues).

How about a purple wash for the eyes after you do the head? it should pull away from the pupils leaving them a lighter color than the rest and the sockets would be dark (purple). And you're done... no muss, no fuss. Worth a shot anyway.

I was thinking the same thing Git.

Edit: Due to page rollover I copied this update over to the top of the next page