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 ZergSmasher wrote:
Those pics just show how the 40k models have changed their looks over the years. Looks like your painting has definitely improved, although the old stuff does look pretty good!

Some of that stuff is newer sculpts that replaced older ones. RT to 3rd(ish) at my guess for the lot. At least on the age of the sculpts, no idea when Jan picked them up. But the Eldar heavy weapon team would not be out of place on a modern table, aesthetically.

I checked back on dates and everything is at least 14 years old. All th eldar stuff save the wraith Lord was pretty new at the time.

Nice. I love that beak face sorcerer dude is awesome.

EDC

 Januine wrote:
I checked back on dates and everything is at least 14 years old. All th eldar stuff save the wraith Lord was pretty new at the time.

My opinion of “old” and reality are often not in sync.

14 years wasn’t that long ago!

feels like it! Whole different time for me!

@EDC - love that socerer guy. I only brought 3 of those figs back to Korea back with me this time. The FireDragon exacrch, that socerer and a partially painted Hive Spyrer in a Yeld rig which I'll paint up soon


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The joys of 24 hour travel - utterly exhausted and then wake up 2 hours later ready to go! Let's have a coffee and catalogue all the stuff on my desk adn in my cabinet awaiting paint. I got a 'few'new bits n bobs when I was home and a few things were delivered for me while I was away but THAT IS IT.....until I clear what's been accumlating.......and this time I mean it!!!
So here's what's to be done and how far along some of them are. 'Boxed' means absolutely bugger all has done save maybe a little building.

On the bench:

V̶o̶x̶h̶a̶i̶l̶e̶r̶ ̶S̶e̶r̶v̶o̶ ̶S̶k̶u̶l̶l̶ ̶(̶T̶B̶B̶)̶ ̶ Done
Yeld Rig Hive Spyer (primed)
T̶a̶n̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶S̶n̶i̶p̶e̶r̶ ̶&̶ ̶D̶i̶o̶ ̶B̶a̶s̶e̶ ̶(̶h̶a̶i̶r̶,̶ ̶s̶k̶i̶n̶,̶ ̶h̶i̶g̶h̶l̶i̶g̶h̶t̶s̶,̶ ̶d̶i̶o̶ ̶p̶r̶i̶m̶e̶d̶)̶ ̶ Done
F̶e̶m̶a̶l̶e̶ ̶C̶o̶m̶m̶i̶s̶a̶r̶ ̶(̶h̶a̶i̶r̶ ̶&̶ ̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶i̶n̶g̶)̶ Done
I̶n̶f̶i̶n̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶C̶h̶i̶m̶e̶r̶a̶ ̶(̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶i̶n̶g̶)̶ Done
Harlie Shadowseer (boxed)
Harlie Troupers (2) (basecoated and shading)
V̶r̶o̶s̶h̶ ̶T̶a̶t̶t̶e̶r̶s̶o̶u̶l̶ ̶(̶f̶i̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶s̶,̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶e̶)̶ Done
B̶l̶o̶o̶d̶ ̶A̶n̶g̶e̶l̶ ̶S̶g̶t̶ ̶(̶f̶i̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶d̶e̶t̶a̶i̶l̶s̶,̶ ̶b̶a̶s̶e̶)̶ Done
Librarian Turmiel (highlights, detailing, base)
Kranon the Relentless (primed)
Gaunt's Ghosts (5) (boxed)
Ruststalkers (5) (primed)
Skit Rangers (10) (primed)
Tech Priest ( primed )
Inquistor (boxed)
Psyker (boxed)
Swordbearer (boxed)
Herald (boxed)

In The Cabinet:

The Nurse (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Ghast' (boxed)
Mortician's Guild 'Silence' (boxed)
Possesssed CSM (5) (boxed)
Thanatar Automata ( built, base built & primed )
CSM Sorcerer Lord (boxed)
Chaos Familiar (boxed)
Callidus Assassin (boxed)
Vindicare Assassin (boxed)
Eversor Assassin (boxed)
Culuxus Assassin (boxed)
Chaos Cultists with autoguns (10) boxed)
Space Hulk Terminators ( 11 ) (boxed)
Space Hulk Genestalers (18) (boxed)
Doors (20) (boxed)
Eldar Wave Serpent (boxed)

I'll be picking some stuff out of this list of undying shame each month for Az's thread and (hopefully) be able to find something appropriate as well for Para's comps. Plan is to get the entire backlog cleared by the end of June.........

So that's the list done and ready to get stuff doneand ticked off.
When I arrived back in Korea some goodies were waiting for me

Firstly, my bases fro Fenris Games finally arrived after 6 weeks of waiting. These are for the Space Hulk termies as really don't like the 'bases' they come on. Cutting all the formed bases off is gonna be a gakfest to do but thank feth for Mr. Dremel Really nice bases - nothing too too fancy but perfect to fit in with the board pieces from the game.



Secondly and more excitingly (is that even a word?!!!) My 'Nurse' arrived from CMON - big ups to that crowd for some seriously fast delivery- about a week from order to delivery; US>Korea. The Nurse is my big Spring project to try and level up my painting. She's from Thirdman Studios and originally sculpted by (iirc) Aragon Marks.



She is stunning - beautiful sculpt and a gorgeous cast. There's a bit of flash to be sorted but that aside - tiny vents and gates so really easy to perp and zero warpage - the scythe is straight as an arrow. No hot water required there!!



I got sent the alt box. The painted version on the left is by Ben Komets and the version painted on the right is by Martin Grandbarbe. Not sure which I like more. I do prefer Ben's porcelin white mash but I love the pale unhealthy skin by Martin.

Anyways this is my big Spring paint as I said - adore the figure but my real focus here is going to be on 'skin'. Skin is something I havent done a huge amount of and someting I defintely need to work on. I'll be painting a few other figs (notably two from the Guildball morticians guild; Silence & Ghast) first to start getting some practive in for the tones and scheme I want for the nurse. I think for her I'm gonna go mostly with loaded brush and glazes for the skin and avoid washes and I want a much softer and faded look than hard hard contrasts but not 100% sure yet. Reading and watching lots of tutorials and articles first so I'm penciling her in for April//May for the paint. Really want to do her justice and get it right

That is one bizarre mini! Very freaky. Looking forward to you tackling it, though, always nice to see more than just 40k.

Any idea on what's up first from the list? (which really isn't as bad as you might think, considering the piles of unpainted stuff most of us have!)

Loved it from the first time I saw it. Sadly their KS failed to get funded but they had already done a limited release of the nurse so I was able to find one over at the CMON store.

First up (my feb target over on Az's thread) are basically the first 5 things on the list. First thing is to get partially painted and started figs done and off the bench and then on to the bigger stuff

That an interesting mini. Should be fun to paint though, lots of different aspects to it.

Don’t forget to prep a space marine to paint in March. Someone has to take Januine down a peg. Wait, which blog am I replying to? Damn.

Don’t forget that March is throwback Space Marine month! Paint a mini in the globbed on, my first marine, e-bay rescue style!

lol. For March am looking at doing either some SH termies or Kranon the Relentless from DV boxed set.

 Nevelon wrote:


Don’t forget to prep a space marine to paint in March. Someone has to take Januine down a peg. Wait, which blog am I replying to? Damn.

So what you're saying is that we should have a comp for everyone else, and then a separate thread where This-Blog-Jan tries to beat Other-Blog-Jan while going up against Different-Blog-Jan, because that way, at least someone, even if it's Jan, is going to beat him? Sounds fair, motion passed!

Settle... -_-

 Paradigm wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:


Don’t forget to prep a space marine to paint in March. Someone has to take Januine down a peg. Wait, which blog am I replying to? Damn.

So what you're saying is that we should have a comp for everyone else, and then a separate thread where This-Blog-Jan tries to beat Other-Blog-Jan while going up against Different-Blog-Jan, because that way, at least someone, even if it's Jan, is going to beat him? Sounds fair, motion passed!

I don’t know, that’s starting to sound either like some cheep sci-fi cross-time/alternate reality paradox plot, or some feel-good moralistic “The only true enemy is the one within us” thing. The sensible thing is for the rest of us to step up our game.

Honestly, I think Jan is going to have a hard time winning next month. There are a number of other good painters out there, and Space Marines is an area a lot of them work in. A lot depends, of course, on who enters.

But we will see. I’ve been wrong before.

Havent painted any SM stuff up in a while....think the last was those CSM Chosen from DV. They were fun. I dont paint a lot of SM so next month is gonna need some thinking out for me...hmmmm

That. Is. Cool. As. feth.

Great mini. Really bizarre and different.

EDC

Bit of afternoon paint. Made a start on the farmhouse vignette base for the Tanith sniper. Coming along. Quite happy with the interior plaster wall. Needs a little damp staining next I think

Looking good!

Nice start!

Just a few finishing touches and we're done. For Tanith!!!

Bloody awful photo - will try and get some proper photos done in the next few days. Anyhow - that's the chimera finished now save a final check over. Tricky tricky fig from start to finish but pretty happy how she turned out.

 Januine wrote:
Just a few finishing touches and we're done. For Tanith!!!

Fething magnificent.
You rolled so much into that little area, it's like a movie set piece.

(Yer gonna sign/date the base right? )

Will do

Really glad you like. It's one of my favourite episodes in the books so was a bit of a treat to try and make a base/vignette from it.

Gonna try and get some proper photos taking this evening and pop the up and then will box up the base and two figs to pop in the post tomoro

nice work on the legs dude! :-) gotta get some more shots so i can gush and oooh and ahhh over the whole thing

Cheers Nerdy. That photo is really gakky, wil try and get some decent ones today. She was an exercise in glazing for the most part

Allllllllrrrrighttty then!!! Spent the day fething about with camera and getting some proper photos done. Here's some of them (others are in other plogs)

The Gaunt's Ghost Vignette - Wee scene from the farmhouse siege on Aexe Cardinal. Love thinking, designing, building and making this from start to finsh so much. So much in fact that I'm planning on doing something similar for each of the Gaunt's Ghosts figs I have - For Tanith!!!!



For the same person was a special OOP lady commissar. They said they wnated her to have a naval look so I went with the dark grey/blue overcoat rather than the usual black one of the Commissariat



Next up is an Infinity fig - Chimera of the Nomads and a group of commandos with a ridiculous long german name. She was.......a bit of a challenge. Happy with how she turned out though.



And finally something of my own - finally got the first of the Space Hulk terminators finished. Sgt. Lorenzo. These guys are seriously gorgeous figs, but take a seriously long time to complete as they have sooooooo much detail. Ah well - defintely worth it




Great to start getting stuff checked off the backlog list!!! And so we're onto March. Lots to get done this month - check over on Az's blog to see this month's goals

Cracking stuff! Good to see Sarge Lorenzo off the desk and into the fray as well, definitely worth the time spent! All the BA from SH will be a treat to see when you get around to them.

If you want a challenge for the Ghosts dio, how about making each one a little vignette like that, but make them so they all fit together for one mega-display of the whole gang?

That wee vignette was for Buttery but he very VERY kindly gave me 5 of the other Ghosts. So I have Gaunt, Milo, Corbec, Dorden and the main madman himself - Larkin!! The plan is to make a wee vignette for each one showing a special or important point scene for the character from the books. I've pretty much settled on Lark's scene - when he was 'visited' by Saint Sabbat when he was in postion to take out a high ranking enemy commander. Really powerful and important scene. Quite sad as well. As for the other four......still undecided. If anyone has any ideas or favourite scenes for the above characters - suggest away please. It must be a scene that was really a focused important one for said character

Ooooh doggy! that BA Termie is gorgeous! :-)

Cheers Nerdy - Much as I dislike BA, I really enjoyed painting him. Love all the detail, 34(ish) gems though.......Sgt. BloodyBlingBling is what the wife has named him now - lol. Played around with all the golds alot trying out differnt things. 1 down and 11 more to go o.O'