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Thank you very much JamesY, glad you like them.

Unit is looking very nice.

I always hate those WIP shots where I know I’ve put in a few hours between it and the last one, but when I upload them, I can’t tell from the last pic I snapped. Very disheartening. But you know the progress is there!

You're putting me to shame!

Looking very nice

Thank you very much Nev and Ynneadwraith. Yeah some WiP shots just don't do the progress any justice at all sadly. Ynneadwraith I ain't putting you to shame at all dude, you've got great stuff on your plog and I'm ever envious of your kitbash/conversion stuff.

Making good progress IF. Keep plugging away.

EDC

Looking good!

As somebody with something like three WiP units almost finished, I can relate that the feeling of working on a unit is nothing compared to actually finishing it!

Keep it up!

Thank you EDC, I fully intend to.

The shared pains of the hobby community are a sense of relief for me at times like these gummyofallbears.

I've been away for what feels like forever but I did manage to get some work done tonight on my DE. I'll spare the details and just leave them in spoiler for those that are curious as to why.



Haven't had the drive to paint much lately so just did a wash on my Wyches skin but I did get my Bloodbrides built as well as my second Rader. Nothing super exciting but I think the small conversion job I did for the bloodbrides looks alright so far and does a decent job of distinguishing them from normal wyches. Hope you guys like them.

The man is back, if not temporarily!

Im really sorry to here about your work, that must really suck. I can relate to an extent, although nothing so intense.

The bloodbrides are looking really nice, the little head swap sets them apart quite a bit, especially if you paint their heads something bright, maybe a bright gold or your trademarked pink.

~Mikey

Thanks gummy, I hope to be back to more regular updates but currently I just don't feel confident enough to promise that. There is a painting competition for the end of February a couple in a city 200km away from me I'm thinking of entering in. I may go for it in hopes that it'll help keep me motivated and give me a goal to work towards.

The plan for the bloodbrides is to either do their heads in either a copper colour or perhaps do the rosed silver like I've done on the shoulder pads of the wyches I've done already.

If you are looking for a short term motivations thing, this month’s unofficial painting challenge over in the P&M section is "Rouges and Scoundrels”. 1-5 minis from start to finish. I’m sure something you have on the bench could qualify. <Looks at the bloodbrides> If I can manage to do one mini a month, anyone can. And this month’s topic is a soft pitch across the plate for someone painting DE.

You ever thing of doing a year-end review? Sometimes a look back and can you move forward. At the very least, it gives you a benchmark to see where you are.

Sorry to hear about all the gak u've had to deal with I_F. Hope it all sorts out soon and you get your mojo back soon.

Jan

Bloodbrides are looking great, what are the heads from?

Hope things make a turn for the better in the new year.

Thank you for the kind words everyone, definitely helps keep my head up to have a vote of confidence from all of you.

@Nevelon: I entered into that comp Nev, it seems like fun so I'm actually pretty excited to produce an entry for it. I've never really considered doing a year-end review, to be honest I don't even know what I did in 2016 other than my DE, I may have to do some digging and see where my 2016 posts started and compile them.

@Januine: Thanks dude. Watched you paint up a storm last night and learned a lot of cool tricks, particularly that metal trick you showed up using the blue and brown washes. Learning new things has always kept me inspired and motivated in the past and I feel much more drive today than I have in a while.

@ChaoticMind: Thank you very much. The heads are from the dark elf witches set from fantasy. In the box there is an alternate build you can do called "the sisters of slaughter". I robbed those heads, carved off the DE head from it's collar with drug pump and mashed them together. Couple little spots I need to fill with liquid green stuff as they didn't seat perfectly together but it came out alright so far I think.

Sucks about your job man. One of the things a lot of people forget is that it's alright to feel pretty crappy and unmotivated after crap things happen in your life. Whenever it's happened to me I've always felt like I was lagging behind in some way, or standing still or something. Definitely helped me move forward quicker just giving myself a set time to mope around in

Glad to have you back though! The Bloodbrides look excellent a subtle conversion but one that looks absolutely perfect can't wait to see them painted

Thank you very much Ynnead. I clawing my way back and hopefully I can keep the momentum. If all goes well I plan to base the bloodbrides tomorrow and start base colours on some other models such as my Kabalites and Raider. Id also like to do the skin on my Wyches (time permitting) and in a perfect world I may even have my second unit of wyches done for tomorrow.

@I_F - anytime man. Glad you found the stream useful Gonna be finishing up the enginseer on tomoro's stream . Doing a little something something with shading greys wth browns. Should be fun

Oooh that sounds awesome man, I'm looking forward to it, shading with colours different from the base colour is something I want to start doing more of.

Shading greys with browns? What is this witchcraft?

Small update for a decently productive day. I got my raider primed and ready for painting, the Bloodbrides are all based and ready to be primed. I did manage to get the skin done on my Wyches as well as some small details and touching up the black. It's all coming together nicely and I'm feeling pretty excited to be back on this project.

They're looking great dude Not sure what the difference with the shot is, but these guys look particularly grimdark which is very cool!

Such a great colour scheme

@I_F - sorry you missed the bit this evening with the brown shading. Happy how it turned out. I'll throw a photo up on my instgram in the morning. Gives a nice tone and depth to the otherwise quite plain grey. The power of glazing. Lol
DE are looking tight. Love that colour scheme

The Bloodbrides look great. Sorry to hear about the work situation.

CB

The wyches look ace.

I am excited to see what you do with the bloodbrides, and to see that you are picking this project back up

Thanks for all the kind words everyone. Definitely feeling the drive again and I'm feeling a lot better in general to boot, Not sure which is feeding which but I'm grateful for it.

In other news it turns out that when you sit down at a table with a paintbrush in hand your models tend to just... paint themselves? At least I'm pretty sure that's what happened. I'm fairly happy with he results, liking the armor plates much more than on my first batch of wyches. I also made a small change to how I paint the skin and I'm pretty happy with how that turned out too. I still have a long way to improve on painting flesh but I'm seeing progress... at least I think I am. So anyways here's the finished 9 wyches as they are, I'll take better photos in the booth once I get the 10th model done. I left the Hekatrix separate while painting for some reason that I'm sure made sense at the time. I included a close up of dubious value of one Wyches face to show how it came out, I think it's an improvement from my previous efforts.

Sorry to hear about the job situation. I hope things pick up soon.

On the bright side the Wyches look great!

EDC

Nothing like actually sitting down to pain to get painting done!

Nice looking wytches.

Very nice stuff as usual I_F.

The armor plates are definitely a lot better looking, and the skin looks awesome!.

If you're still having trouble with skin, for my Deldar skin I use a base of rakarth flesh, a wash of 2-1 seraphim sepia and druchii violet, and then highlight up again using rakarth flesh and Pallid Wych Flesh. Hope that helps a bit!

The Wyches look excellent I_F, like the new skin tone

It's great when you sit down and the paint just flows. Doesn't happen to me so often but it's nice when it does!

Thank you for all the kind words everyone. I'm Excited to have these done (apart from a lone Hekatrix) so I can move on to another model type. Kinda. I have to do 5 of my Bloodbrides for this months painting challenge so that'll happen first, unfortunately they're the same Wych bodies with just a head swap so I don't think they'll be too different from the Wyches I've done to date.

Thank you for the painting tips Gummy, I'm not normally a fan of mixing paints for custom colours cause I'm notorious for forgetting what paints I used and I never write anything down. I may try out your style all the same though cause it'll be a good learning experience and it's always good to try something new to broaden your horizons.

My raider is primed and for once I am actually excited to paint a vehicle (I normally hate painting vehicles, far preferring infantry) and since the hard work of figuring out a scheme was done on the first raider this one should go much quicker.

There's a painting comp next month the next town over and I think I'll enter into a couple categories there again this year. Last year I took silver in the FW category with my Wraithseer so I got a bit of motivation to see if I can come home with a medal again. The only FW models I have left now are some shadow spectres, and since the comp is single model I'm not holding my breath that one tiny infantry model will win me any placement. For the 40K category I think I'll paint my Wraithknight. So there's a rough idea of what to expect for the next little bit, hopefully it all goes according to plan and the execution on the WK comes out how I'm picturing it, it's by far the largest model I'll have ever painted and I'm quite nervous.

I'll be gone for the next couple days outta town. I hate to leave while I've got this great drive going but some things can't be helped. Looking forward to when I get back and can start on some new models. Thanks again everyone for following the project and being inspirational, I really appreciate it.