The I paint your model and borrow it for a while thread!

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**kb_lock**

SirDonlad wrote:
kb_lock wrote:
I'll take a few in September when you are shipping stuff back to me - they can fly back with the dog?

Also, SirDonlad, have you shipped those Devs yet?

Yup! It might've been quicker to put the parts in a bottle and throw it into the bristol channel by the sounds of things!

edit: fyi - Inspector #264 recived his carrion on the 31st.

Fyi, i have these little buggers in my possession now, will do them between jobs and get them back to you

**tomcat31**

dorantana wrote:
If anybody would be interested and wants to work on their airbrush skills I have 8 Drop pods that I want to get base colors on and yellow black safety makings on the fins. If you are up to the task then let me know.

I'll take the challenge if you want. Hazard stripes are one of my specialities. Lol.

**tomcat31**

maceria wrote:
This thread is excellent. My hats off to you all.

I'm a sub-par painter myself, but I do some interesting conversion work when the fancy/scotch strikes me.

I have numerous Tau, Ork, and IG models that have been resigned to being grey through lack of painting time. I also have some DA/SM.

The Tau and IG have a pretty specific themes I'm working with on each of them, but if someone wants work on them, that'd be awesome. There are a few XV8s, plenty of Firewarriors, all the drones you could ever want to paint, and a few metal Pathfhinders. The IG have a squad of converted Ratlings that are begging for a much better painter than I and won't really need to be painted like the rest of my army, being filthy abhuman critters. Plenty of Guardsmen, but they are currently headless. Also they will need glowing neck holes for when I put skulls in them.

There is also a Sentinel being overrun by Kroot that I will never be able to paint to do it justice, so I am not concerned about specific painting scheme (doesn't need to match my army). If someone is interested I can put "Epic Sentinel" to the front of my converting queue. It mostly just needs touch filing/sanding, a little bit of green stuff, and basing. Though the basing could easily be done after painting. If that sounds interesting let me know.

No freaking way. Lol. Here is one of my latest reneguard squad. Still wip but very similar.
The Orks are fair game. Want to paint a squad of Kanz, or a dozen boys or so? Maybe a trukk? Let me know. I would actually like if if they were a mix-match of themes, because you know, theys orks. Also, you know, I will never be able to paint all of these orks. Seriously, the Evil IG and Tau are already to much of a project.

The DA/SM models will eventually be used for a Fallen chapter of DA. I've got a pretty good handle on how I'm going to do most of them, black with a red nose stripe and other accents. BUT I will be doing some conversion work for a few of the higher ups, will post more when they are in the pipe. HOPEFULLY they will be perfect for some expert painter wanting to show off their chops.

Epic Sentinel seems to have been damaged in storage. Here are the Ratlings though. Sorry about the terrible pictures.

**maceria**

Very nice. I love that head.

**Januine**

Finally back from hols and I have a lovely little metal Bilbo waiting for me. Superb wee figure and when I saw 'wee' by feth I mean it. He's tiny!!! Will get onto him as soon as I can, may be a few weeks though as just back.

**Buttery Commissar**

Looking forward to being able to take part in painting after the 6th, if anyone would have me.

I'll get my act together and packet up my Mordies this week. I'm way overdue getting a tank out to a Dakka member as well, due to being poorly.

Would anyone like to have a go at the original Yarrick? I think he is an astoundingly detailed, funny model (and plays like a beast), but I somehow ended up with three. One will be going into a charity project army, so you can either have a go at that scheme or your own. But I absolutely need him back by December if you wish to help with the charity.

Edit: what a terrible photo. I'll try and up a clear one. His scarf is amazing.

**Buttery Commissar**

There we go (I hope). Click him and boggle at that weirdly skull encrusted claw.

I am always amazed by this little guy.

**Januine**

SirDonlad wrote:
I recon the carrion's yours Inspector264 - sounds like you'll appreciate it!

It looks to me like you and i have a very similar level of painting

Safe, send me an address via PM mr kb_lock!

Edit: holy , i think i wanna send bilbo to 'Januine'! absolutely no offense to Inspector264 but the first pic in januines profile was a chaos guy looking like a boss!

So yeah, PM me an address!

Bilbo arrived SirD and will be getting painted up soon

**SirDonlad**

Sweet! all the things arrived safely!

I've been wondering what i could put back into this thread/concept but my lack of painting skill make me shy away from offering to paint but i do love a good convesion or vehicle build - maybe i could make custom bits for peoples models here?

My only misgiving is that i love building the models and i assume we all do, so i feel like it's a dishonest gesture because - who in their right mind would want the build done for them?!? ...right?

**Buttery Commissar**

What about building terrain/scenic bases, Sir? If you had the footprint of the model drawn on a base, could you make something from that?

**SirDonlad**

Thats a pretty good idea - i build loads of terrain but can never be arsed to paint it.

gimmie a minuite - ill put up a pic of the buildings i'm constructing but balk at the thought of painting.

edit:

Spoiler:

left to right; generic building (one front entrance), imperial knight workshop (with sliding doors) and a ruined hab-block with the third floor as an enterable building.

**kb_lock**

SirDonlad wrote:
My only misgiving is that i love building the models and i assume we all do

You'd be wrong about that, some people absolutely hate it and commission people to build for them. Baffling to me as well.

Also, don't feel like you owe anything, you've contributed models - if we didn't want to paint them we wouldn't have offered. The whole point of this was to bring people with paint and no models together with people who've models and no paint. You've contributed in my opinion.

I mean, my ork project could be seen as a free commission that I've extorted from the community, the differentiator is the intent. I was never going to paint them, don't play the game (though I'll almost be obligated after this i guess) and i thought it'd be a cool little project. I will obviously end up "richer" at the end of the project, but in some way I hope that anyone who contributed to it will also feel pride and ownership of their part.

**Januine**

Have an exalt chap

**kb_lock**

GO FIND MY ORK WARBOSS AND GET BACK TO PAINTING JAUNINE!

**Januine**

Finished the intial metals on my tech priest dominus and built a castellax - does that count?!!!!!

**kb_lock**

The fact that you paint at about 100x my speed while doing about 100x my quality makes me really dislike you - couple this with the fact that you are genuinely a nice guy, and I really dislike myself for how much I dislike you.

So no, that doesn't count

**Buttery Commissar**

kb_lock wrote:
SirDonlad wrote:
My only misgiving is that i love building the models and i assume we all do

You'd be wrong about that, some people absolutely hate it and commission people to build for them. Baffling to me as well.

I tink the problem is that things I don't wan to build are not things I want to post around the world.

I don't want to build my HBD or 40K scenery, but mailing that safely and trusting it to the postal service, or other people would be a bit more than I'm up for.

As you know, I'm pretty overly optimistic, but I've got limits.

BTW you should now reply to me with "You should be painting." whenever I'm fething about on Dakka.

I'm so bad at deadlines.

**kb_lock**

I'm actually quite disappointed in you that you're posting here and not painting BC. So is this puppy:

**Januine**

kb_lock wrote:
The fact that you paint at about 100x my speed while doing about 100x my quality makes me really dislike you - couple this with the fact that you are genuinely a nice guy, and I really dislike myself for how much I dislike you.

So no, that doesn't count

Soon as he arrives KB - paint shall be laid down. Really hoping he does today

**kb_lock**

No worries mate, I'm just giving you a hard time because it's a Monday and if I have stress, so should everyone else.

Yours will probably be the first one to make it back to me anyway, even if it takes another week to get there.

**SirDonlad**

Anybody here good at painting wood effects and up for a small-scale challenge??

It's a chaos familiar from WH fantasy of old - looks like an artists mannequin but lugging a club over it's shoulder.
It's going to be my figurine for an upcoming D&D session which i play a mute, faceless little mannequin that has to write what it want's to say on a peice of slate with chalk and draws facial expressions on it's blank face when it want's to look like it's showing an expression.
I'm planning on having a picture of the mannequin with a white speech bubble next to it on a laminated sheet of A4 to communicate with the other players during the sessions.

Anyone up for the challenge?

**kb_lock**

Carnifex is getting the gloss coat tomorrow, then oil wash over the weekend

Trevor the dragon wolf got his wings ripped off and he's now chilling out in an iso bath to ease the 7 layers of christ knows what off him

Donlads Devs are getting cleaned on the train journeys to and from work, should get a priming over the weekend, hopefully with trev

And my ork dude is primed now, but my airbrush pooped itself and needs another soak in the tub with trev

Successful week by my standards!

**Matthew**

So this is where it all started...

**Buttery Commissar**

It's apathy. He's coated in apathy. Good luck getting that off.

Also what I can only assume is epoxy resin because I already bathed him in estasol in 2008. Possibly I gave up on that after stripping the very odd paint. He's had a rough life, Trevor. Started off with a kid who doused him in radiator primer.

**kb_lock**

Poor lil feller.

Well he's headed for brake fluid if this doesn't work. I've got my plan of attack for him now too, so it should be pretty easy. Ignoring the fact that i need to reattach his bum somehow

**Buttery Commissar**

He really is a mixture of turkey drumstick and angry mythical creature.
For the record, I don't dislike him, but the reaction in the house when I dug him out was "Oh jesus, that thing again?"
He was too big for me to take on when I bought him, and has moved home with me four times, I'm mostly astounded I kept every since piece.

I apologise for every thing about putting that back together.

**kb_lock**

I owe you a stack of favours, removing the guilt of trevor is the least i can do.

I'm going to drill cut clean and pin the wings, then paint them separately. I'll assemble the whole dog then green stuff all the fur joins, then basecoat and paint the fur.

I should then be able to decide to join the wings and gs them into place, or leave them off for you to do. Pretty sure I'll do it then just pack it like mad.

But yeah, looks easy enough in my mind

**Buttery Commissar**

Don't worry about it. I wouldn't volunteer if I didn't want to.
Besides, I'll just ask you to do a marine or something for the Thing in 2016.

Hey, if that wing survived its original trip over, I'm sure the joins are deep enough to hold the trip back.
I literally couldn't get it apart before I sent it. So awkward! [Embarrassed]

**kb_lock**

I've already snapped the wing off, just needed a bit of rage.

It's good too, now I can airbrush them completely separately, should make it much easier.

**kb_lock**

Progress!

Carnifex is gloss coated and will sit for a while before getting oil washed blue and black.

Donlads devs have had their knees painted and glossed before getting a pattern of some kind put on.

Trevor has had his bath in iso and joints cleaned a bit. The tail has been reassembled, requiring 3 different glues. The wings appear to have been attached not with apathy as suggested, but with pure, unadulterated hatred for everything. He's probably going to eat acetone before i try pinning the wings.