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Looks impressively gribbly!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Looks impressively gribbly!

As always thank you for commenting. I know for me personally, I don't actually engage with much social media, but sometimes there are "lurkers" that check in without saying much at times like me.

I know everyone is dealing with so much these days it is hard to find time for everything you would like to do. I was hoping after taking so much time off during the summer I could get more done when I did come back, but at least for right now things seem to mostly get more trying with an ongoing crisis, really more than one frankly, but that is why I appreciate just how nice and long this community has stuck around.

I actually did finish one more model before things started getting out of hand, and I am still looking forward to the next time I feel up to getting some painting done, but it might be a while even though I just got back to it.

Anyway, with all that having been said, here is the first character from the new Waste Knights expansion I have to share.
Beyond the Horizon is an expansion focusing on expanding the map of post apocalyptic Australia to the surrounding coast lands and add more scenarios, which is a great idea for this game.
The scenarios are super in depth, but weren't that many.

So this player character is some sort of aquatic mutant. I have always had trouble with blue skin. It can be hard to get things highlighted enough without being too light or dark, but I know I am too much of a perfectionist a lot of the time. Actually my big Pincer Demon started out in a blue color scheme, but it just wasn't working so I went back to my usual kind of flesh tone.
So she turned out fine in this case.

Nice work. She would make a great Doreen or Kehana character in 50 Fathoms. It's an RPG from the creator of Deadlands, set in a fantasy pirate-centric world. So, they have fish people.

Backtracking just a bit, the dino-riders from the previous page are awesome!

Some great stuff in here. I especially like the warp claws, cold one riders and decimators. Really like that green, and the satin(?) finish. Keep up the good work!

Hey guys, I am back once again. Let me just say it is great to return not just in general, but to see more nice comments to remind me that you also enjoy what I do here. I am proud of almost all my minis in some fashion or another, but it has taken a long time to get to this point.
Normally I don't get hung up on statistics, but I will admit it is nice to see my number of views has now crossed the threshold into 6 digits so that doesn't happen everyday.

 youwashock wrote:
Nice work. She would make a great Doreen or Kehana character in 50 Fathoms. It's an RPG from the creator of Deadlands, set in a fantasy pirate-centric world. So, they have fish people.

Backtracking just a bit, the dino-riders from the previous page are awesome!

That sounds really cool. I actually love traditional RPG's like D&D and others, but I doubt I will ever have the time to be a full on dungeon master myself. Pirate stuff is definitely one of my favorite settings though. I am really looking forward to a certain pirate video game called Flint: Treasure of Oblivion that is set to release very soon which kind of has similar gameplay.

Btw once I eventually go back to painting some more 40k, too many recent board games that haven't gotten any attention right now, I am looking forward to finishing off the rest of my Dino Riders. The raptors are still a bit tricky to get the right brightness and definition with such tiny scales, but the other 7 are all built and the riders are all slightly different from one another.

 PaddyMick wrote:
Some great stuff in here. I especially like the warp claws, cold one riders and decimators. Really like that green, and the satin(?) finish. Keep up the good work!

Hi PaddyMick, thanks a lot for letting me know your favorites. I also have more warp claws built and undercoated in the backlog, but I was quite pleased with how the decimator came out. I am really tempted to get a couple war dogs for him to hang out with, but I haven't even started my other Chaos Knight which is a much bigger project. Sometimes I like building stuff even more than painting since the progress goes way faster.
I try to use a mix of gloss (or satin like you said) and matte paints. I actually only own like 3 or 4 contrast paints since I think they look TOO wet, but this blue on her is one of those and I have always used inks for some things. It kind of depends on what the model is so I tend to use drier looking colors for furs and whatnot, as slimey as I can get for some of the grosser stuff, and a lot of in between.

Anyway I did manage to get back to painting a bit just the other day. I technically started my first demon for season 3 of Death May Die, but I am not sure where I am going with him yet so instead I switched back to this Final Girl character named Kate. She is for the episode where you fight the Thing creature at the artic research station so now I can get around to trying that one soon, and she was completed in just a couple sessions.

I just recently got a new camera on my phone so you might notice an increase in detail. Even though sometimes being super zoomed in can highlight small flaws, I like the results. I finally gave up on balancing paper as a backdrop so I just used one of board game boxes instead which sort of fits.
It's not exactly a fancy setup, but it works.

I intend to do more painting soon so all in all I wasn't gone that long I suppose, but I am trying to just go with the flow since I think a lot of painters understand how the more unfinished projects you have the more overwhelming it can get. Nevertheless, I will keep you all updated.

I am back sooner than expected.
With so many board games to get to, I was realizing how long it might be before I have a chance to go back to painting any 40k, and frankly sometimes 40k is easier to paint since my army color scheme is pretty established at this point.
Board games tend to take even longer because I have to figure out how I am going to do everything for the first time again and again.

Long story short, I managed to complete these 3 Traitor Guardsmen that I have had for so long I forget which box set I originally got them from, or ebay in this case.
They painted up remarkably smoothly, I even went back and touched up a couple things after taking the photos like adding some elysian green to lighten up all the grenades, and I improved the unit champion's skull mask by trying to add some very fine lines to simulate cracks or teeth.

Let me know what you think of how they look as a group, even though the rest of the unit is SUPER old, like 15 years so the paint looks a bit faded on them unsurprisingly.

I don't know exactly what I will move on to next, but I figured anyone looking in would appreciate some old school warhammer even though my board game stuff also has some admirers. I have a lot of other units picked out I may or may not get to soon, but that dread fleet ghost ship is still in the back of my mind crying out for some attention.

Agreed, they look snazzy, and it's nice to mix things up!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Agreed, they look snazzy, and it's nice to mix things up!

Glad to hear you like them too. I think this next one turned out even better.

I enjoyed working on the cultists/guard so much that I am keeping this 40k train rolling with a model I have been looking forward to for quite a while, not that there is a shortage of those.
He is the unit champion for my Khorne Jackhals. He kind of reminds me of Bane from Batman with his venom tubes.

His face didn't want to focus right in my new camera, maybe it was because of the helmet I don't know, but I like how the skin turned out especially. I also tried to give the venom tanks a bit of a bubbling liquid look to them, but they are very matte looking in these shots because I was once again going to put on the gloss to them I after my normal varnish.

It has been a long time since I have tried to do a large model so I actually just started giving the first paint to my other Chaos Knight I have had half built since he was first released to stores. I may be biting off more than I can chew, but I wanted to make sure I hadn't lost any of his pieces.

The first step is more or less done which is the custom cockpit driver which will only be partially visible, but I have to glue him in completely before finishing the rest of the build because otherwise there would be no way to get inside of him. He is of the Nurgle variety so he is very gooey and disgusting.
I will try to keep at it him and have more to post about it next time.

That looks great, and I wouldn't have expected purple shading like that to look so good.

Very grimdark and 'Khorny" if you will. I used the Jackhals as a base for some Blood Pact minis a while back, and the necks and heads were the most annoying parts, although I loved the running poses compared to a lot of more static guard poses. The reds and purples with the snow effect are smashing.

Firstly I just wanted to say that even though I appreciate everyone who regularly follows my stuff, it is awesome to see even more people stop by, the more the merrier.

 Cap'n Facebeard wrote:
That looks great, and I wouldn't have expected purple shading like that to look so good.

Thanks a bunch Cap'n Facebeard. The purple seems to be a popular choice for flesh. It is the same recipe I have used pretty much since the beginning of this army. At first it was supposed to be for demonic flesh, but I actually use it a lot of the time even for more or less normal humans.

 blockade23 wrote:
Very grimdark and 'Khorny" if you will. I used the Jackhals as a base for some Blood Pact minis a while back, and the necks and heads were the most annoying parts, although I loved the running poses compared to a lot of more static guard poses. The reds and purples with the snow effect are smashing.

Hi blockade23, I am glad you like him too. I always have trouble getting the right mix of shading and with the thickness of the highlights, but this one really came together quickly.
I have so many projects I have been bouncing between, but I am still tempted to work on more of these Jackhals. I actually replaced a lot of their heads because I really didn't like most of them.
I used a mix of demonette heads for the women and a few others for the guys so I think it will really improve the whole unit with more of a mad max feel if I ever manage to finish them.

Btw I also really have to work on my Genestealer cult bikers because I bought them for their mad Max aesthetic as well. The only change I have been slowly making to them is to attempt to give them dreads so they look like the bikers from Fury Road, but that is another really tricky thing to sculpt. They tend to come out too thick and make their heads look too big, but I think they will still look cool.

Anyway here are the last couple things I have managed to get done.
First here is the cockpit driver for my other Chaos Knight. It doesn't actually look that garishly colorful in person, but sometimes it is hard to get the flash on my camera to get the right amount of brightness. I might change the blue pipes to yellow to try and tone it down a bit.
Either way I am putting him aside for a while just because 1- he is going to take a super long time and 2- I want to add a bit of sculpting to Nurgle him up a bit, but my green stuff is super old and needs to be replaced.

So I moved on to finally after all these years going back and fixing my old Beserker champion.
His old weapon was kind of a mess of spare parts and he used to be on a tiny base. He looks a lot better proportioned now with his giant cape. The one thing I fixed afterwards is his little hand was missing a highlight. It makes me think of that character from Scary Movie 2. "You have to grab my little hand! It's the strong one!"

The whole unit has capes that sculpted myself to make them more unique. I intend to move the rest of them to 32mm bases, but I haven't decided whether I will try to clip them off their old bases or just glue them on top and try and fill them in like I did with this guy.

Wow, that is a gruesome looking pilot already. I can't even imagine what you intend to add to make him look MORE nurgle-y.

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Wow, that is a gruesome looking pilot already. I can't even imagine what you intend to add to make him look MORE nurgle-y.

I'm glad you like where I am going with him, but just to clarify, the pilot is pretty much done other than that one change.
I was talking about sculpting on all the rest of the knight's outside. I usually do stuff like barnacles, boils, fungus, stuff that is not to hard to form.
This is part of the reason why I take so long to do my tanks. I still think they look kind of boring when they are just stock. The one exception is my Knight Astarius because he was so freaking expensive I didn't want to cover up any of that resin or spend even more time on him.

I just have a small update for you all today, but I am happy to say I finished the first mini from my new box of Death May Die.
He is from the graphic novel that comes with a few other things so I was happy to snag a copy.

Hi guys,
I have another Jackhal finished today to show you all.

As I said before I switched most of their heads since the original ones were pretty out of place looking to me. We will see how long it takes me to get the rest of the unit done.
Speaking of which I am also almost done rebasing the rest of my Beserkers on their new 32mm bases, and they already look better so I will repost them along with the champion once that part is done.

I am trying a new method for my basing since for the longest time it would seem fine until days or weeks later I would notice it was peeling up and separating at the edges which is infuriating when it keeps happening over and over.
Let me know if this has ever happened to you and any ideas on how to prevent it.
So I am seeing if taking pictures, varnishing, and then basing will make a difference. We will see, but that is why it is missing from the pictures.

I also assembled the rest of my Batman the Mini Game stuff last night. I don't have that many, but there is my Killer Croc, Harley Quinn w/ Hyenas, Heath Ledger Joker w/ goons, and the tiny little Mad Hatter himself sitting on his big comfy chair. I doubt they will get painted for a while, but I am getting better at using my new super glue.

He's cool, but super excited for BMG!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
He's cool, but super excited for BMG!

Thanks buddy, looking forward to spending another year showing off my work to you and all in 2025.
Like I said it might be a while before I get to the batman stuff since they are not undercoated. I don't do much spraying in the winter, but I did undercoat a lot of warhammer stuff before the snow started falling in preparation.

Merry Christmas everyone! I actually have multiple things to show off today since I have been multitasking between different projects so this seems like as good an occasion as any to unveil some of it.

First to start off with 40k here is a shot of my rebased beserkers, although there is at least one in the back that is completely blocked since I should have taken more time to get another angle.
They are super old so the capes don't seem as impressive as they did way back then, but I think the 32mm bases give them much better presence as they say.

I am also just putting the snow on my old squad of plague marines from the same time period so that is all my rebasing done and dusted, but I don't know if it is worth photographing them too.

Next I splurged and got a set of War Dogs to put alongside my Knights and Decimator so here is a WIP shot of the first one with a bit of paint on my knight. I got my new green stuff and I plan to magnetize the war dog arms to maximize my options.

Speaking of building, I was in the mood to dig into my Creature Caster backlog so the other day I finally built my possessed dragon, wings not attached yet, after over 6 years since that kickstarter originally arrived. If I ever get to paint him I was thinking a purple color scheme.
Let me know what you think of him since it is a unique design I don't know how many people have seen before.

And lastly, for some actual painting progress I just finished the first model from Season 2 of Death May Die, the one I have already had for years (each kickstarter is split into 2 season boxes so I have 1-4, and they actually just did another campaign for 5&6 which is insane).

Anyway he is called the Dimensional Shambler, and he is my favorite mini from the whole box since he is totally jacked, plus a different version of him was used as a boss in the Cthulhu videogame for ps4.
I quite like how he turned out. The art shows him as kind of an off grey color. I usually hate painting grey since it SO dull and doesn't really look that great so I started off with a dark purple base and used a death guard green as a mid tone.

I don't know if I will manage to finish anything else before the new year, but I will probably at least build something over the next few days.
Stay tuned!

Happy new year everyone!

My first post of 2025 is devoted to a bit more Final Girl season 2.
Other than the little power-loader I forgot to undercoat, this is everything needed for the Evolmorph scenario which is essentially an homage to the Alien movies.
So here is the full size alien, along with his larval and slightly less tiny versions, and the final girl who is obviously a stand in for Sigourney Weaver.

Hopefully the alien doesn't look to lizard like with his pale green skin. I put a gloss varnish on him after taking the photos to try and give a sticky sheen. The card art shows him as grey with a red carapace, but as I said before I tend to avoid painting grey.

I think my Sigourney turned out pretty good though.

Now it is back to the drawing board to try and decide what to work on next when time permits.

Ahoy-hoy everyone!

I am actually pretty pumped about this update so hopefully you get a kick out of it too.
I have mentioned at least a couple times that I wanted to work on my newly rediscovered copy of Dreadfleet, but most of all the Ghost Ship because it is my favorite out of the whole box.
So needless to say I wanted to paint it well enough to do it justice in my mind, and I think it came out well.

Its ethereal nature means it is quite monochromatic so it is really only about 5 colors, not including the water, but I love the model and how it is basically hollow.

The only thing that I went back to touchup was the little brazier on top since I forgot to add the yellowish green to match up with the same color on the underside.
Also I had to add a bit of green stuff putty around the middle mast since it didn't fit right, and I accidently shaved a bit too much away. This ended up with it too loose so hopefully it is sturdy enough now, and I don't think it is super noticeable.

I don't know when I will eventually work on the other ships, but I can rest a bit easier now knowing my favorite one is complete after all this time.

That's proper lush that is. Excellent Job.

Nice flying Dutchman.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
That's proper lush that is. Excellent Job.

 Tommygun1918 wrote:
Nice flying Dutchman.

Thank you kindly to both of you for the compliments. It is nice to hear I am not the only one somewhat chuffed about it.
Part of me wants to work on some of the other ships at some point, but we will see how things go.

I have a few things to show off today starting with a second character for my Waste Knights expansion.
His name is Mad Ash, and he is a cook, but it seems they mean of the narcotic variety rather than the culinary variety. Although I imagine he could use his flamethrower as a makeshift BBQ.
I am itching to try out a game so I can test him out as well as some of the new scenarios.

Next I did a bit of unplanned undercoating since that unpainted powerloader for Final Girl that was bugging me is now done. Also in the same batch was one of my new war dogs and a few other things so I now have the option of starting to paint that Batman stuff I mentioned before.

Lastly for now, I managed to finish a 3rd Jackhal, this one being one of the females I head swapped with a demonette.
I am still loving the dynamic poses this unit has. Please ignore the lack of basing again moving forward. Once the unit is closer to complete I will go back for a group shot.

I'd love to see a group shot of all your cultists and jackals! Together I'm sure they look awesome. Are you planning on building terrain to suit their bases or do you already have a set?

 blockade23 wrote:
I'd love to see a group shot of all your cultists and jackals! Together I'm sure they look awesome. Are you planning on building terrain to suit their bases or do you already have a set?

Nice to see you back blockade23, and thank you for the nice request. It is funny you should ask for a group shot because I had just taken one of my Jackhals last night now that the unit is half complete.

I don't really have a good spot for bigger photos, but here is the shelf where the Traitor Guardsmen section of my army resides. You might also be able to see beside them peeking out of the blackness are a unit of Death Korps, 2 Leman Russes I have had practically forever, a Sentinel, and my Bikers if I ever work up the courage to start them.
There are also a few more cultists not shown just because I haven't finished painting some alterations I made quite a while ago.
My plague zombies are in a different section alongside my poxwalkers also waiting for some attention.

As for terrain, I have no plans. I have never been good at constructing terrain, and it takes up a lot of space even if I wanted to buy some. I am more or less at max capacity as it is.

Next up are some close up shots of those last couple Jackhals. I pretty much never paint banners because I don't have much freehand experience so I kept the banner design pretty simple. Seeing how Jackhals are not really Nurgle-themed I took the symbol for my army that I sometimes put on shoulder pads and turned it sideways.
It could easily be mistaken for the Chaos Undivided symbol which is kind of intentional, but it is technically the letters W and L combined from my own alphabet of Chaos Runes.

As a bonus I finished another demon from Season 2 of my Death May Die. It is just a minor foe called a Tcho Tcho. Not sure how I feel about him or the fact that there are 4 more left, but he still looks better than he did grey.

The Jackhals have been pretty fun to paint so I am kind of tempted to keep going to finish off the unit, but I will probably move on for the time being.
As a side-note, I was actually super close to buying more models I don't need when I saw new Death Korps army box set, but then the news came out that new Emperor's Children are on the way and I am torn between them. Decisions, decisions...

I am back again with a bit more 40k progress.

Here are the few other cultists I mentioned I was fixing up so they are not anything too crazy, but I'd say they are a noticeable improvement from before. I switched a couple heads, some arms, and repainted their pants and torsos a bit.
This brings my cultists back up to an even 20.

Since the cultists/ Jackhals have been going pretty well I also have the first of my Death Korps to show as well.
There are a couple touchups still needed, his right hand got smudged and his tube coming from the face came out too dark. I had it more grey, but it was a bit sloppy so it could use a 2nd attempt because the black looks a bit unfinished.
Also I put deathclaw brown highlight to his backpack to lighten it it up a bit.

I had originally used the same green color scheme from the rest of my cultists, but it didn't work well with the trench coat so I changed it to the more official looking bluish grey from the store website.
Although I considered getting more Death Korps, for now I am thinking of them as just being the stormtrooper type unit for my traitor guard.

I like the prussian blue take on dkok a lot!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I like the prussian blue take on dkok a lot!

I'm glad you like him too. I was pretty pleased with the results, although I'm not sure when I will continue working on the death korps.

I took a bit of a break from painting the last couple weeks.
I had previously finished another investigator for my Death May Die, this one is from the same graphic novel expansion as the cultist with the big tentacle, but I wanted to have a bit more than that to show.

The other thing I have for today is another addition to my Traitor Guardsmen, a Sentinel. I rarely work on my army's tanks because I never know what to do with all the big flat panels so this was a bit of a test for those bigger models.
I am still not entirely convinced it went well since the caliban green doesn't show well in pictures, but all in all it didn't go too badly I suppose. I was thinking of maybe put decals on the thigh armor plates, but we will see.

I got a couple more kits since my last update as well, sisters repentia (which I am still trying to find some decent head replacements for, but I thought they would fit in nicely with my Jackhals) and a field ordnance battery. I really should have waiting on the latter for the death korps one to come out separately, but I figured that might not be for quite a while and I caved.
If I could just get a couple of my Mad Max bikers and maybe a Leman Russ done at some point in the future my Guardsmen section of the army would be mostly finished.

As a side note, I also purchased and assembled a new small display case a couple days ago so my other ones won't be quite so overflowing so that is also nice.

I haven't exactly been painting at a steady pace the last couple weeks, but after several good sized sessions I managed to finish another mid-sized project that has been a long time coming.

This is one of two Foetid Bloat Drones I have had laying around for years. With the obvious addition of some Plague Drone wings to spice it up a bit, I think it blends in well with my Mortarion and all the winged Warp Talons I have in my army.
I snipped off a couple of the spikes from the one remaining jet engine so it doesn't look so much like it is going to hurt its own wings from flying quite as much.

I had to go back and redo the little tank on his back though as I initially decided to mix up its coloring as shown here, but in the end it looks much better in the same Caliban, Castellan, with a yellow green highlight as the other armor bits. I also forgot the wound on his fleshy side so it is now a dark red.

I also spent some time building my Spider Demon, Lady of Depravity, plus a Zombie Dragon from Creature Caster. The Spider Demon is so named because of some pincers coming out of her back, which they both have, but is basically just a giant Daemonette.
I hesitate to show them off since the Spider and Dragon are still in the earliest stages of painting and the LoD is excessively nsfw. She reminds me of what we used to call the boob worm, steed of Slaanesh, mixed with an Alien movie, except it actually has 10 pairs of breasts down its snake-like body whereas the old one only had a few I think.
Even Slaanesh itself might raise an eyebrow at it so I doubt I will get around to painting that one in particular anytime soon.

Love the bold colours. Filthy and lovely.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Love the bold colours. Filthy and lovely.

Thanks for the continued encouragement and support. My thread wouldn't be the same without you

I finished this guy a few days ago, a Tech Priest Dominus.
I figure even evil demon engines and chaos knights need a tune up from time to time, and he fits in with those scantily clad cyborg women I finished long ago from Wargame Exclusive.
I recently picked up a servitor to go with them from the same company and I have a squad of Skitarii Rangers to paint at some point so together they form a nice little contingent.

He is nothing that special color scheme wise, even that bit of freehand edging around his hood is commonly used, but he turned out pretty good imho. I was getting frustrated with how many attempts his blue plasma type gun it took.

We will see when and what I get up to next. Until then.

Lovely mix of colours again. Bold and sort of non grimdark but in a good way.

And yeah, the support is necessary- we all need the wee boost.