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Yeah bones 2. I"m having fun speed painting the disposable ones though But yeah, if she exhibits a marked improvement and actually starts trying to use different colors on different parts of her victims... I will certainly sacrifice some to her continued learning

Those alkemy models or w/e they are would be a good place to look too.

 GrimDork wrote:
But yeah, if she exhibits a marked improvement and actually starts trying to use different colors on different parts of her victims... I will certainly sacrifice some to her continued learning

I'm dealing with the opposite issue. He likes bright (one might even say clashing) colors on the minis he paints. The Eldar rangers he painted last year remind me of the "Paint It Red" days of 40Kv2 or WHFBv4...

Some nice painted stuff don't understand why you not correct the bend stuff though.

You mean on the sword? I soaked it in boiling water and straightened it out, but it just went back.

And the other stuff, is it because it is PVC?

Are you talking about the Mars Attacks stuff or the Myth stuff? Those are both made of a harder plastic that for some reason doesn't want to straighten. I tried, and then gave up and just painted it.

I guess both, strange that it doesn't want to keep straight. if it is the harder stuff.

My son likes it when I share the minis he paints, so here is a squad of Ultramarine scouts:




He chose the color scheme, and did everything but the bases and transfers. I did almost no touchup work this time. I got the models in a trade long before I came to Japan, and they were heavily coated in detail-obscuring primer, so I figure these models were perfectly suited for him to practice on, since they wouldn't end up much worse than when they started.

I forget how old your son is, but those are fairly solid and should easily pass the 3-foot test for gaming Not bad color choice either.

You should come to Nagoya this coming weekend and bring your Deadzone/Mars attack stuff to play that would be a nice game to demo. Pity you live so far away (Iwate IIRC?)

M.

Tell son it won't be long before he is better at painting than dad!

Your son did a great job!

Great work by your son. It might be time to start roping him into basecoating for your armies. You'll get to paint stuff together, and he'll get valuable practice in doing all of the basics while you get to watch him do it (or TV, your call!)

Looks like he's getting the hang of both washes and drybrushing there, as well as a start on weathering of the powered armour plates. Great job, mate!

Thanks, everyone. My son was delighted to hear all your comments!

In addition to the skeletons I painted last week, I managed to crank out these Deep Ones from RAFM.







These were all super simple to paint: Gnarloc green with washes and drybrushing, and Kermit The Frog eyes. Their bases have me stumped. I'm thinking some kind of broken sidewalk/pavement with grass in the cracks to represent the dying town of Innsmouth, but I'm not sure how to do it. Ideas?

Also, I painted up these Corporation Troopers from the Projectandora box I picked up on clearance years ago:





My son has been bugging me to paint these ever since he discovered the box sitting on a shelf by my desk. Technically, these are his minis, in that he chose the colors and did as much basecoating as his five year-old attention span allowed. For nine of them, we went with shades of grey for the uniform, with Army Painter gunmetal for the guns and blast shields on their helmets and green visors, all brush-dipped in Payne's Grey. That stuff really is miraculous. I painted up that one green guy right after I first picked up the game, but lost steam almost as soon as he was finished. Watch this space for P veer-myn.

Lookin good, always like to see corporation marines.

Gotta love dip too.

They are nice models, and if I didn't have so many Alternative Armies conscript/levy minis I would consider picking up more of them.

Re: dipping. I have a bucket of Army Painter strong tone that I use for my Mantic goblins, but for everything else I make my own acrylic glazes with Liquitex artist colors and a generic Japanese version of this product. It thins with water and dries in an hour instead of overnight, and gets great results (IMO).

Huh, cool. Sounds like a thing to try. Especially for Reaper's bones material. That stuff reacts weirdly to.. a lot of things. Some of my dipped minis have stayed a bit tacky so maybe I'll look into that, thanks for pointing it out.

I like the stuff because I can mix up any color of glaze I need from the paints I have on hand. The only thing the glaze medium doesn't do is make the impenetrable armored shell that urethane varnish does, so you need some sort of varnish on top.

Yeah, though most dipping methods leave the models pretty shiny anyway so matte sealer over the top is pretty common, at least for me. Doing it in different tones than various shades of brown/almost black could be pretty useful too.

Those corporate wage-slaves have come up quite well. The grey uniforms suit them well. Deep ones look good, also. Any plans to use them for anything specific?

I got the Deep Ones decades ago, with no specific use of in mind. I pulled them out intending to do a Deadzone mod of cultists vs investigators. Full deep ones would be Plague Stage 2s, hybrids Stage 3, and the Father Dagon/Mother Hydra I should recieve someday would ld ge Stage1. Sonething like Pulp Alley that allows custom profiles might work better, though.

What a neat idea for making your own glazes! I'm going to have to pick some of that up and give it a try. Thanks!

In addition to the sohei, I put in some painting time with my son working on the veer-myn that come in the Projectandora box. here are the first six:



I went with a quick-and-dirty paintjob, browns+gunmetal, followed by a hame-made dark brown glaze, just to get them finished and ready to play with. It turns out that I rather like these models. and if I didn't enough unpainted minis for the next three generations of the ~InJapan family, I would pick up an army deal while they are still available in metal. As it is, the ten that come with the game will probably be enough.

My son found the P box on a shelf almost two years ago, but he really got interested in it about a month ago. Now that we have some of both factions painted, he really wants to "play" the game. Note the quotation marks-- what he actually wants to do is plonk the minis down on the tiles and then go "pew-pew" at each other until he wins. I suggested the training scenario in the rulebook, but he couldn't wrap his mind around an unwinnable scenario, so the actual game with actual rules will have to wait, I think.

Look dirty and ratty, nice work

In addition to the undead stuff I posted on my other P&M blog, I finished off this guy:





When I came to Japan back in 2002, I brought the core of a 40K Ork army to paint. I enjoyed painting and playing the army so much that it just grew and grew to a truly unmanageable size. Then I got sick of 40K and started working on other projects, leaving this guy half finished on my painting station. He's a pretty nifty model that deserves a better paint job than this, but I mostly just wanted to see it finished.

I've done that myself a number of times. Sometimes it really is more important to me to get some models painted than to paint them as well as I'd like.

It's a solid ork though so I think he'll be fine.

He looks like nice work to me, and you can always spend an afternoon touching up anything that you're not satisfied with. I know all about how satisfying it can be to finally finish stuff that's been on the shelf for a long time. Now onto the rest of the greenskins?

Thanks for the kind words. I really am glad to see him finished. That said, the only other greenskins I'll be painting will be the Orcs and goblins I got in the first KoW kickstarter. Even if I ever decide to play 40K again, I have more Orks than I will ever need or want to field.

I think the ork is looking pretty good!