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Fair enough. Great stuff here quite like the Golem look for Stormcast but you definitely made the right call keeping the Chaos stuff!

Anytime! Being a lurker for so long, I finally realized that amazing work definitely deserves kudos. That sounds like a good pace; I will be waiting impatiently

Silver Tower really inspired my hobby mojo. First two finished minis since January! Only needs basing. I'm planning a Tzeentch-themed force for AoS and the core is two sets of Silver Tower.

Beautiful job here Mym, badass looking wee beasties.

Yeah, a beautiful job on those Pink Horrors. I know I just echoed what AOV typed, but those are literally the words that came to mind before I scrolled down and saw what he'd typed....

Really nice work Mym - esp like the greenish flame and fingers - beautifully executed

Thanks a lot you guys! The pink horrors are my first models that I tried to do zenithal highlighting on with the airbrush, in fact my first airbrushed models period. It didn't have the effect I want (not nearly enough contrast) to so I had to do most the highlights by hand in the end. Still happy with the result though!

Then I watched a tutorial on airbrushing blue horrors and realized you have to go out HARD with a very dark color and then hit it zenithal with a very light one. So I did these blue guys. Base coat Kantor Blue, zenithal Baharroth Blue, zenithal pure white, then an all-over glaze of guilliman blue, and lastly a much more sparingly applied zenithal pure white. That's all I did on the skin, then I painted all the detail. All in all I finished them in three days, which is my speed painting record by a country mile. Quite happy with them as well, I reckon it's pretty good tabletop. Creds to the YouTube tutorial for giving me the basic process for the skin. Don't have good lighting for photos unfortunately but I salvaged it reasonably using the iPhone photo manipulation stuff.

Lovely job Mym! Love the fire!

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Lovely job Mym! Love the fire!

Thanks, the green is actually Vallejo fluorescent green, I have the pink, blue and green and they're extremely vibrant and fit demons perfectly. Then just some spots of zenithal pure white and a glaze of waywatcher green. The pink horrors are basecoated in the pink although the highlights are done with normal paints.

 Mymearan wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Lovely job Mym! Love the fire!

Thanks, the green is actually Vallejo fluorescent green, I have the pink, blue and green and they're extremely vibrant and fit demons perfectly.

Good to know

Very nice Mym. I rattlecan zenithal some of mine and yeah - needs to have a very very strong contrast to work well with the successive glazes. Woirks great though. Blue horrors are looking damn fine. Nice job on the mystic fire too

Awesome work on the Horrors.

EDC

Really digging all the green magic:

Next model finished for Silver Tower, not 100% finished but only missing basing and some shading/highlighting on the cloak.



Took this picture with my new photo booth! Around $30 for the lights, then a box and some baking paper. Not as easy as I thought taking photos with it, but the results are great once you edit them a bit. Photo taken using an iPhone which is why it's not super sharp, the digital zoom obviously leaves something to be desired. Will use my digital camera next time.

That looks great Mym lovely job!

Thanks AoV

Lovely work on the Silver Tower stuff so far, am into the Stormcasts myself at the moment so the Knight Questor is especially inspirational. The light box seems like an effective, simple and cost effective way to take pictures. More ST progress please Mym.

Thanks Thrax, your stuff is quite lovely as well and I follow your plog. I will certainly post more ST stuff but I'm in the middle of a five week vacation (all away from home) and so haven't been able to make any progress for a while.

Well, I'm back to painting! I had five weeks vacation with the family, driving around the country and having a generally good time. Just got back on the 22nd of August and started a new job the day after... So I've been a bit busy to say the least over the next month I'll be focusing on painting up my AoS Tzeentch army for a tournament in October. Unfortunately it's all unpainted, so all I'm aiming for is a base coat with the basic colors blocked out just so I can attend the tournament. Which means I won't have any nice photos of finished minis in a while. So for the moment I'll just give you guys a snapshot of my painting desk at the moment:



That's not daunting at all, now is it

Long time no see! As predicted, my AoS army never got further than the basecoating stage before the tournament, which is why I haven't showed it off here. True to my inability to focus on any project for long, I got inspired to start my Imperial Fists a couple of weeks ago. So far they consist of a box of Betrayal at Calth and some tactical marines, although I've got an Imperial Knight, three squads of Deathwatch Veterans, one squad of Deathwatch Vanguards and one Deathwatch Venerable Dread as future allies. All unassambled. I decided to make a 30k force that can also be used in 40k, mainly because no one at my club actually plays 30k

So far I've assembled 30 bolter marines:



The bolters will be painted separately which is why they aren't glued on.

And I also did this:



A Calth Contemptor! Nearly every joint is altered from the derpy standard pose:



The head was cut out and placed looking sideways. The weapons were cut off their mounts and angled outwards. Normally you only get one Kheres Assault Cannon, so I stole one from my other Calth Contemptor (who will probably become a close combat guy). The legs were the trickiest part, but still easier than expected since I didn't alter the knees. I would've liked to to make the pose better but I couldn't be arsed to! After cutting off the legs, I drilled out 4.5mm holes in the legs and pelvis. I then used 4.0mm plastic rod as connectors, which allowed me to wiggle the rods around so I could mount the legs angled outwards. They are secured with green stuff in the (hollow) legs and pelvis, and super glue.

Here is the result:





I will probably add some additional detail to this guy as well.

Next I would like to assemble the Cataphractii Terminators, but I want two Storm Shields and one Assault Cannon, and I only have the Assault Cannon so we'll see about that.

Finished the first Kairic Acolyte (sans base) for my Tzeentch army! Tzaanuary cant come soon enough! My current goal is to keep focusing on AoS so my army is at least in a somewhat finished state for the Fantasia tournament in may, or failing that the one in October.

Nice work with the Acolyte buddy . He looks great!

Thanks AoV! Tried something new with these guys, airbrushed the skin in three steps with dark red and ruddy skin tones before going in with the brush. Really helped get those base shadows and highlights. Hope you guys can stand my glacial update pace I'm no azazelx or grimdork, that's for sure! On the plus side I get positively giddy the few times I actually do finish something.

That Acolyte looks amazing. Top work on the skin tones.

EDC

Thanks edc!

How are you enjoying the new tzeench models? Are they interesting to build?

Well guys, I haven't posted but I HAVE been doing stuff. Almost got 20 Pink Horrors polished off, and spent the entire weekend building and priming 9 Tzaangor Skyfires and...
This guy!





WOW what a model! Huge and amazingly detailed, but a dream to build like all newer GW kits. The wings have been airbrushed and will be shaded and highlighted by hand. The rest of the body will be airbrushed the same blue as the top of the wings, with cream belly and throat(s). Really loving painting this guy.

 lord marcus wrote:
How are you enjoying the new tzeench models? Are they interesting to build?

They are a ton of fun, almost too much detail though which will be a pain to paint :p the Tzaangors on discs aren't very poseable but the LoC has a ton of options and the Tzaangor on foot are true multi-pose.

Awesome stuff!
How did you decide which parts to use on your LoC? There's so many, I just can't decide!

Those wings are looking fantastic! Excellent work.

EDC

Joyboozer wrote:Awesome stuff!
How did you decide which parts to use on your LoC? There's so many, I just can't decide!

Thanks! Well... I wanted the single staff held in both hands, but realized it would make him harder to paint so I didn't do that. Then I wanted the outstretched hand but found the little anus-finger disgusting so used the sword instead. The rest are based on what looked cool, most are Kairos bits I think. Used the two heads because... two are better than one I can also use him as either a LoC or Kairos which is convenient. So that's my scientific process.

evildrcheese wrote:Those wings are looking fantastic! Excellent work.

EDC

Thanks edc!