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The bloat drone conversion is fantastic! And a great colour scheme, too

 inmygravenimage wrote:
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.

Ya it certainly helps, but I appreciate how consistent it has been throughout. I think if I had a trademark style it might be bold colors as it has been remarked on a few times.

Maybe it is the bad lighting in my apartment, but I find that once something is sitting on the shelf it can be hard to pick out the details when everything is near black, especially since I use a black undercoat 99% of the time. I try to balance it out though, otherwise my evil army of doom and demons would start looking too cartoonish, but like so many things it's a fine line sometimes.

 Tek wrote:
The bloat drone conversion is fantastic! And a great colour scheme, too

Thanks a lot for saying so Tek. The idea for the wings is stolen from someone else's post I saw several years ago, but I think it works well too. I can't say how well the wings will hold up if it ever gets knocked or dropped though since gluing wings like that is a really irksome process getting them to stick.
The scheme took a while to come up with even though it is similar to most of my army, but the trick seemed to be leaving enough of the big front plate just a flat color so it didn't look too busy.

I am pleased to share this next piece with you guys since I had been working up the confidence to start it since I got it from the kickstarter sometime last year. My love for pirates seen previously with the bit of Dreadfleet I've shown will give you a hint of why.

Her name from the website is Catalina, and other than fact that I forgot to give her eyebrows before taking the pictures I think she came out about as good as I could have hoped for. It is a bit hard to detect, but I even gave her eyes a tiny tiny dot of white to try and give them a bit of a reflection.
There were like 5 other pirate ladies to choose from, both busts and 75mm full figures, but she was the only one I chose to try and not spend too much.
One of my friends said that she almost looks cell shaded, but that was kind of a happy accident.

I have one other bust in my collection from a different kickstarter if I ever get around to it, but for now I started working on a couple more Death Korps troops. As always we will see what I end up finishing next since I tend to bounce around.

She looks great buddy. I am still too scared to tackle a bust!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
She looks great buddy. I am still too scared to tackle a bust!

I'm glad you like her too. I'm surprised in all your various works there isn't a bust in there somewhere. I'm sure you would manage to do well whenever you do attempt one.

I finished another batch of my Death Korps a couple days ago so in total I am up to 4 now.
To fit in with them I also finished my commander for the whole Traitor Guard detachment, which is really just a slightly modified Tempestor Prime. It has been a long time since I have given a name to a character's base, but I should probably bestow one up on him. I am thinking maybe Silco after the villain of Arcane in season one.

I think the thunderhawk blue coat works well on him too, maybe not as good classic black, but I usually avoid trying to highlight black where possible. His breastplate was a bit too splotchy from the ink I put on though so I went back over it with some more dark silver after.
Also the other pair of troopers were missing the highlight on their hands in case they looked strangely dark.

I tried starting to paint a big tentacled Elder One for my new season of Cthulhu Death May Die, but I have to go back to the drawing board on that one. The example has this weird pattern where the tentacles keep changing color the closer to the ends you get, but it just looks weird so I think I may end up just making it all one color with highlights like a normal monster.
It might not be as mind-shatteringly bizarre, but it will hopefully still be creepy enough and help preserve my sanity a bit.

Cool stuff, love the bust of the pirate ;p

I like the blue, very prussian vibes.

 ghostmaker wrote:
Cool stuff, love the bust of the pirate ;p

Thanks ghostmaker, it's nice to hear she caught your eye.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I like the blue, very prussian vibes.

I remember you saying something similar when I completed my Death Korps test model, but thank you all the same. Someday I will finish the rest of the unit.

For now I decided to go back to a bit of my board games. So here is the first thing I completed from my new seasons of Cthulhu, specifically the scenario based on the story Dreams in the Witch House.
I had to go back and clean up the bit of shawl or whatever coming off her shoulder and a bit on her cap, but this is pretty much how she looks. To go alongside the witch is her familiar Brown Jenkins who is a pretty simple model, but at least now I can say that box hasn't gone untouched.

I also finished this creepy nurse from another episode of Final Girl that takes place in asylum.

Ooh very creepy indeed

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Ooh very creepy indeed

Thanks again. I may go back to touch up her clothing a bit eventually. I saw from someone else's paint job that part of her torn dress is actually a bra so it could add a bit more contrast.

I have been absent a while since I have been slacking when it comes to painting, but I have a few things I neglected to post, and I am happy to report I just now completed my first Elder One for the Fear of the Unknown so I will get some pics of him later.

For now here is another small scenario specific Cthulhu demon, although I have no idea how he fits into the mythos.
His name is Hypnos, and apparently he is also a Greek God so he is pretty much just a well chiseled guy in a toga.

Next up are the Final Girl for that asylum episode along with a creepy hospital bed, and another girl that goes with the Terror From Above episode that is entirely based on the swarm of killer birds from The Birds.
The latter doesn't look that great, but I wasn't super concerned about her and as always the tiny girls can be a bit tricky.

I love the slightly cartoony style of the bed. All good across the board though

Wow, there's a huge variety of stuff on this blog. Lots of great conversions and paintjobs.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I love the slightly cartoony style of the bed. All good across the board though

I appreciate the compliments my friend. The bed was a really quick job for how well it came out. I have spent more time than I would have liked in the hospital so it wasn't really something I focused on.

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Wow, there's a huge variety of stuff on this blog. Lots of great conversions and paintjobs.

Thanks for the high praise and welcome. My conversions are pretty few and far between these days, but I do have some more little conversions like my poxwalkers and lots of bikers still to paint at some point.

I wanted to post this Cthulhu Elder One, who goes by the suitably incomprehensible name Tsathoggua, a few days ago, but try as I might it was a massive struggle to get some decent photos that I felt actually reflected how he looks in person.

When I look at him here he looks colorful enough while being somewhat muted, but the flash made him look he was in an almost supersaturated technicolor for some reason. Maybe that goes for all my photos since I got my new camera, but I never noticed it to such an extent. If I turn the flash off you can barely see anything for how dark it looks.
Anyway long story short, I kinda had to desaturate the pics just a tad to get them more normal looking because I just got sick of retaking them.

Your range of colours are superb. Disgusting, but superb.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Your range of colours are superb. Disgusting, but superb.

You're too kind my friend, but I quite enjoy the thought that I can still impress a veteran painter with so much accomplished work such as you. While I do have quite a few colors to work with, sometimes I find myself falling back on the same ones a lot. I actually kind of regret not going closer to the card art of that last Elder One which is less colorful and more grey, but I didn't want to go back and fiddle with it too much.

I have gotten a couple things done over the last couple weeks. First off is an addon for my Tainted Grail board game that is a campsite in 3 parts that expands as you upgrade it. Not a lot to be said about the model itself, but TG was actually my first experience playing a kickstarter game. It has a lot of RPG mechanics in a choose your own adventure while exploring a cursed Arthurian kind of landscape. I got somewhat far into it, but it has had a 2.0 rules update to it since then so it should be fun to give it a second try before I get into its stretch goal campaigns and the sequel, Tainted Grail: Kings of Ruin.

Secondly, and more impressively, I have for you another Elder One for Death May Die called Ithaqua, the Wind Walker.
He/She is very long and spindly with a sort of twisting in the wind kind of texture.

I also did a couple of minions for the previous Elder One, but they are nothing really to write home about since I didn't spend much time at all on them. They are shown as kind of an oily smoky blob so they are mostly just some dark contrast paint for that oily sheen.

My area is starting to go through the first round of summer weather already so my progress will probably slow down quite a bit after I finish up this last medium sized demon for my Cthulhu, but I counted that I have painted nearly 50 minis since I went back to it last Halloween so I feel that is decent enough to be satisfied with for a while.

In the meantime, I couldn't resist all the recent Emperors Children release's so I have been having fun assembling their combat patrol.

I had previously made some of my own Noise Marines from spare parts and some 3rd party sonic blasters & backpacks, but because I used super old legs and torsos the scale creep was too hard to ignore.
I was going to use those parts in conjunction with some of the new tormentor bodies to make a closer approximation, but in the end I just bit the bullet and bought a box of noise marines to have them look less out of place.
The noise marines must be popular because they were sold out on the gw storefront and just about every online FLGS I could find in my country.

Very cool, especially your very Mignola take on Ithaqua .

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Very cool, especially your very Mignola take on Ithaqua .

Thanks once again, and for sticking around this whole season's worth of painting. The heat wave here was followed with a week of cold so I am soaking it in for however long it lasts. Also that is an interesting way to describe my Ithaqua since I never really got into comics so it is all unknown to me. The closest I got was that I still have a soft spot for Todd Mcfarlane's Spawn.

This week for you I have that other Death May Die demon I mentioned along with 3 accompanying polar bearish demons that together make up the Horror in the Museum scenario.
The big fly guy, Rhan-Tegoth, seems like he would fit in well with a lot of my Nurgle stuff, even though some parts of him came out pretty bright. I should have placed something next to him for scale, but he is about 3.5 inches tall to the tips of his wings so pretty beefy.
The bears are basically all one color so nothing that complicated, but I will say that I originally started with a brown base coat which made them look too dark and dirty so I went back over it with a solid coat of Hobrot Hide which helped quite a bit.

That just leaves The Color Out of Space and I would be finished with the stretch goal scenarios for season 3, but it is actually one of the biggest models in the box so I was going to leave it for now and switch back to a little bit of 40k before I hang up my brushes soon.

Well, clearly you have papa's blessing! Fur colour looks great too.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Well, clearly you have papa's blessing! Fur colour looks great too.

Thanks again, sorry for the late reply. I always try to have something new to show, and I hadn't had a chance to get down to business for quite a while. Looking forward to sharing more with you.

Happy Halloween everyone!
I have been trying to get back into the swing of painting after another long summer off, and I am happy to report that I have my first model of the season complete to show to you, and on my favorite holiday to boot.

It has been a long time since I have gone back to my Middle Earth armies. I picked up a pair of resin Hill Trolls just before the annual GW price hike since I couldn't resist their detailed sculpts. I wanted to also get the new Lord of Poxes before the increase, but not surprisingly everywhere here was severely understocked so it was sold out before I even knew of the release and has remained so for months.

Anyway I am pretty pleased with how this first one turned out, though I don't think he looks quite so blue in person. Hopefully his counterpart won't be too far behind. I have a desire to follow them up by attempting to paint my Witch King on Fell Beast, but that will be a challenging project so we will see how far I get on that.

In addition to the Hill Troll, I have improved upon a model that I had completed quite a while ago, but had been bugging me ever since I put on his giant wings. Some of you may recall this big demon, the Lord of Virulence from Creature Caster.

He did have a set of wings that came with the model, but they were a really ugly sculpt compared to the rest of him. So after going through my bits box I ended up putting the biggest wings I owned on him, hive tyrant wings I believe, but I could only get them to stay on in a super awkward position. They were way too close together and upright with a bad forward lean that in my opinion distracted from the whole focal point of the model.

So after a few days of green stuffing, it is hard to make layered stuff like this without screwing up what is drying around it, I had a pretty decent set of barnacles to take the place of the severed stumps. I like him a lot better now.

I am not planning on setting a blistering pace anytime in the near future, even by my standards, but there will be more to come at some point so please keep an eye out for me.

I love seeing how far your work has come. Colours really pop!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I love seeing how far your work has come. Colours really pop!

Aw I appreciate you saying so. You've been a fixture as long as I have been here so it has been quite the journey. With how long I have been painting hopefully I continue to improve, but conversely with how long some of my breaks are as long as my quality doesn't backslide too much I'm happy.

I'm back with the second hill troll along with a couple shots of the boys together and based.
I had a bit of trouble getting the right color mix on the underbelly as well as the tattered robes of the 2nd one. I originally used Mournfang and Deathclaw which looked fine on troll #1, but something about the way it was coming together made me darken them back down on #2 so hopefully they don't look too dissimilar.

I forgot to mention that my latest board game arrival over the summer was wave 2A of Middara. The 2nd half was itself split into halves so with any luck wave 2B, which is the actual conclusion of story, will manage to find me sometime next year. Not sure when I will get stuck back into that. I have been playing more of the Rogue Trader video game recently so I feel my 40k shelves calling out for some attention.

This week I have some 40k progress for you all.
I already sprained my reconstructed wrist falling down with the first real winter snow here, but despite that I have managed to get quite a bit of painting in.

First up is my first non-demon Slaanesh model, other than that one noise marine from a while back, the Lord Exultant. I had him half done during the summer so it feels good to complete him.

I should preface this post by restating that I have been dissatisfied lately with a lot of the pictures from my newer phone. Maybe it is the lighting, but I have been noticing how oversaturated the shots look whereas the models themselves actually look decent in person. This lord made the issue even more pronounced since he is even more colorful than a lot of my other stuff.
So I ended up taking some photos with my old phone from my workstation. This worked a lot better, but I do apologize for the massive clutter as there is nowhere to set up a backdrop or anything there.

I was originally going to make his cape blue or possibly a bluish white, but in the end I went for something more approaching the color scheme from the warhammer store page for him.

I also 99% finished a couple of plague marines, and I already have the next two basecoated, but as I have said before I rarely take the time to finish most batch painting.
I have since changed the fly looking shoulder pad's rim to a bone color. It was a different shade of green than the rest of the armor, but I thought it still blended in/clashed too much and I dotted their eyes yellow (plus a bit of green stuff I had to join the one shoulder with that is now done.

The armor recipe actually has 4 colors to it, but because I use the greenshade ink to darken it down and give a bit of sheen it tends to obscure that. It is the way I have done my death guard armor since way back when I started this army, and although it is not perfect I still prefer it to the more traditional recipe I tried for a while with my deathshroud bodyguard and biolugus putrifier (it was too lime green for my taste). Also I wanted consistency for the troop section at least.
The position of the nurgling is a bit awkward, but it was kinda the only way to fit them both on.

These next couple plague marines took a bit longer than expected since I put a bit too much ink on one and took a while to come back to it. A lot of my paints have once again thickened up all over again so it's a struggle sometimes, , but I think they turned out okay in the end.

The plasma gun in particular almost broke me since I painted him all in one piece and the angle was very tricky. I think this is the first one I have done blue which doesn't really line up with the neon green other ones, but there is already so much green with these guys.

I picked up some more red paint to replace my old ones so I may get back to my not-Bloodthirster from Creature Caster at some point. It would be nice to finish at least one bigger project over the winter. For now though, I was going to start my Noxious Blightbringer to go along with this unit.
Once I get it up to a full 7 I will get a group shot of them together and based.

Some really lovely colour work on display on this page. The purple undertones for the flesh on Hypnos are gorgeous. Really loving the striated look for the Death Guard too - it's giving equal parts infected wound and bloated/blighted watermelon, both good vibes for worshippers of Nurgle. Thankyou for sharing!

I really like your DG, it gives iridescent fly vibes!

 tzurk wrote:
Some really lovely colour work on display on this page. The purple undertones for the flesh on Hypnos are gorgeous. Really loving the striated look for the Death Guard too - it's giving equal parts infected wound and bloated/blighted watermelon, both good vibes for worshippers of Nurgle. Thankyou for sharing!

It is my pleasure to share my work with you guys, and it is even better to return to see your comments. A few people have remarked on the purple base coat for my flesh. I guess it was a good choice for a basis considering it is a pretty simple recipe. I would have never thought of calling it watermelon armor, but I suppose that is true so I am glad you like that design decision.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I really like your DG, it gives iridescent fly vibes!

I really appreciate your enthusiasm for my army. I know you're always down for some board game stuff too whenever I actually go back down that rabbit hole, but there is always something special about seeing more finished Chaos take hold on my shelves.

It is late as I post this, but I am pretty chuffed with how my Noxius Blightbringer turned out so I decided to post him right away. Of course like everything else he look better once he is based, but I still prefer getting my shots in before the varnishing.
Just before I started to work on him a brainwave struck me and I remembered I had a spare head I really wanted to use from my giant Glottkin model which is also crying out for some attention. I think a good headswap can really give a model a unique look for being such a simple conversion. I gave him a tiny extra highlight to his face with one more flesh tone than usual to make it stand out a bit more.
The last Plague Marine champion I finished had a horn on his backpack which sticks out to me as an eyesore since I did a pretty subpar job on it.
I tried to take my time and compensate for that with this hero model, and I think the massive horn holding the bell is the best part about this paintjob. I never quite know what colors to go with for my nurglings besides just more green so here is a pinkish one I guess.

It seems every time I tell myself I going to work on something big like that fell beast or not Bloodthirster, I change my mind by the time I finish my current project. Now I am considering some Age of Sigmar for once, namely my Harbinger of Decay that has been sitting undercoated for quite a while. Unfortunately I lost his little bar that goes across his horse's rump, should have glued it on to begin with.
He would look good to go along with my newest expenditure...

I have really tried to stop buying new models, but I have always wanted some version of Warhammer Quest to give me some GW I could actually play solo so when I heard Dark Water is Nurgle based I gave in and preordered it. At least I got it from a shop with the standard 15% discount so the price wouldn't be quite as obscene.
Should be exciting when that arrives in a couple weeks. I actually think the big demon final boss for it is one of the weakest models included in it, but the rest looks pretty cool. I wish the pestigors in it looked more like the new refresh for them that is on the way, but oh well.
From the early reviews I have watched it seems like Dark Water is lacking in things to do in between missions and is probably too stripped down and streamlined, but maybe an expansion or two might add something sometime in the future.

These are by far some of the best you've done. And I worship at papa's altar so may he bless and keep you!