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Bill and Ted stuff is coming along nicely, look forward to seeing them finished

Nice! I hadn’t heard there was a Bill and Ted game. Most triumphant!

You’ll have to give us a battle report when you get the then all painted up. Is there a phone booth? And a trash can with Wyld Stallyns painted on it?

Rufus and Lincoln are worth the price of admission. Have fun!

Guardling wrote:Bill and Ted stuff is coming along nicely, look forward to seeing them finished

Cheers Guardling, the rate of progress is astonishing me so far!

theCrowe wrote:Nice! I hadn’t heard there was a Bill and Ted game. Most triumphant!
You’ll have to give us a battle report when you get the then all painted up. Is there a phone booth? And a trash can with Wyld Stallyns painted on it?

I’ll definitely take a few in action shots when we get to play the game. Sadly there’s no phone booth model just a card piece, but now you’ve planted the seed I might need to print one!

youwashock wrote:Rufus and Lincoln are worth the price of admission. Have fun!

Yeah, they’re cool minis. Joan is my favourite so far, but her colours are a bit bland.

I made a it more progress on them the other day, throwing down some brown and blue Speed paints. Here’s some slightly better pics;



They’re rapidly closing on the finish line, with a couple needing their pale grey wash on things that’ll be white, most needing some Black Templar on black bits. The a couple of them need some metallics to finish them off. If I can get them done over the next few nights and varnished, then I’m hoping Mrs gobert will be up for a game.

Thanks for looking

Yeah, Ms. Of Arc is pretty cool, too. She could teach the Sororitas a thing or two about loosening up.

 youwashock wrote:
Yeah, Ms. Of Arc is pretty cool, too. She could teach the Sororitas a thing or two about loosening up.

She definitely could

A good bit of painting tonight got the whole Bill & Ted gang painted up. They’re nothing special, just a quick job using Contrast and Speed Paint for the most part. Still, I’m pretty happy how they turned out;
Wyld Stallynns Rule!

Bill S Preston esq

Ted Theodore Logan

Joanna

Elizabeth

The princesses

The Preston’s

The Logan’s

Rufus

Rufus and Wyld Stallynns

So crates

Lincoln

Mr the Kid

Ms of Arc

Charlemagne

Napoleon

Babe Ruth

Freud

Genghis

Mozart

And that’s all of them! 15 minis in about a week is testament to Speed Paint (and Contrast). Admittedly they’re not finished to high standard, but they’re passable and I’m chuffed given how little time they’ve taken me! I had heard that applying normal paints over the top of Speed Paint will reactivate them, and i can confirm that to be true. It gave me a bit of hassle on Teds socks and where I got some on their bases. I could’ve sealed it with varnish before doing those bits, but speed was the priority so I just suffered it. That aside I’m definitely going to use them again. The bone and skin ones are great, so they’ll definitely be employed elsewhere!

Anyway, it’s late, so to finish off the post here’s the whole gang;

Thanks for looking!

Righteous.

I think they look pretty solid. Certainly a good field test for the new paints. Hope you guys enjoy the game.

Woooaaahh, they are looking most righeous my dude. Enjoy the game!

Excellent!

That was fast Gobert

Dang, so much to catch up on! Love what you're working on now, B+T is classic stuff. So-crates looks good and I dig the keytaur (sp?).

Like to see the Blackstone Fortress torch still burning! Excited for the Zoat.

youwashock wrote:Righteous.

I think they look pretty solid. Certainly a good field test for the new paints. Hope you guys enjoy the game.

Thanks man, solid is a good word for them and I certainly fell like I exercised the Speed Paints!

Olthannon wrote:Woooaaahh, they are looking most righeous my dude. Enjoy the game!

Most excellent praise dude!

Guardling wrote:Excellent!

*air guitar

Not Online!!! wrote:That was fast Gobert

Speed Paint deserves the credit I reckon!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Dang, so much to catch up on! Love what you're working on now, B+T is classic stuff. So-crates looks good and I dig the keytaur (sp?).

Like to see the Blackstone Fortress torch still burning! Excited for the Zoat.

Long time no see Don! I hope you enjoyed the catch up. Everyone’s gotta love a Keytar! The Blackstone Fortress journey still has a ways to go too

On Friday night Mrs gobert and I sat down and played Riff In Time over a few drinks. It took a while to get the mechanics figured out and to get in to the swing of what you’re supposed to do each turn. Even then there were a few details we didn’t figure out until about 3/4 of the way through the game. One of the mistakes we were doing made the game a bit easier so we beat the rifts and won the game, I forgot to take pics until we’d finished

It was pretty fun, and playing the soundtrack in the background helped with the immersion, as did the odd *air guitar. I’m sure we’ll play again, particularly as the cooperative nature of the game avoided any marital strife!

Yesterday was a painting day, youngest goberts bedroom got a fresh colour on the walls (2nd coat this morning ) and Neyam got finished.











I made her a bit brighter than Dirk Reinecke’s inspiration, as I think I started too bright. That said I like how her coat turned out, just Khorne Red with a wash of Agrax, then highlighted to Evil Sunz Scarlet through gradually adding it to the Khorne Red base.

That’s the Escalation minis finished, just the paint on the explorers to finish the set. Zoaty will be taking a backseat for a while as I’m away in Bonn with work next week and didn’t want to take her. Instead I’m bringing my stash of High Elves in the hope I can make some progress if we get some down time.

Thanks for looking

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Oh and I’ve also got the Blackstone Fortress warp gate dice tower ready for painting. The primer went on a bit thick in the warp bit and has cracked. Hopefully the paint fills the cracks

Most triumphant. Avec waterslide!

Hah, missed a bit of this, the Bill and Ted minis are great. Interested to see how the warp gate dice tower turns out as well, you always do cool things so I'm sure it will be awesome.

Too. Much. Progress. To. Compute.

That Bill and Ted game looks...Excellent *sigh*.

Really good job getting it all painted up. How are you finding speedpaint as a product?

Question Gobert, are the Army painter speed paints decent?
Do you have issues with the paint reactivating?

Asking for a project that is bound to start somewhere soonish and i am debating colours?

For speed painting the Bill & Ted turned out alright gobert.

Cheers,

CB

Yep, really nice work on that red coat of Neyam's! Riff in Time looks interesting, and it's playable with the missus you say? Hmm.. Might have to look into it!

That dice tower looks nasty with all those teeth. Like a sandworm or a kraken or something. Wouldn't want to put my fingers near it!

Neyam looks good. I suppose I will have to make the decision to convert her or leave her stock before painting. Hard call. It is a very nice mini. Dice gate is another great piece.

That dice tower is really cool! Great job on Neyam's cloak too, really smooth blending of highlights.

Amazing turnaround on the Bill & Ted game and the colors look great and very vibrant! Rouge Trader turned also out excellent, great color choices.

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Most triumphant. Avec waterslide!

Totally Non-heinous!

MegaDave wrote:Hah, missed a bit of this, the Bill and Ted minis are great. Interested to see how the warp gate dice tower turns out as well, you always do cool things so I'm sure it will be awesome.

They’re totally Bodacious! I’m really looking forward to doing the dice tower, it’s such a cool piece I hope I can do it justice.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:Too. Much. Progress. To. Compute.

That Bill and Ted game looks...Excellent *sigh*.

Really good job getting it all painted up. How are you finding speedpaint as a product?

I know, right!? I think I’m ahead of even you in the year to date count . Though I made things easy for myself with all the BSF terrain early in the year.

Not Online!!! wrote:Question Gobert, are the Army painter speed paints decent?
Do you have issues with the paint reactivating?

Asking for a project that is bound to start somewhere soonish and i am debating colours?

Yeah, they’re really good, they flow from the brush much nicer than contrast paints and don’t seem to suffer from as much pooling or tide marks. Overall I’m most impressed at the finish for how simple the paint job was. I enjoyed them much more than I do Contrast, for both finish and application.

Reactivation is real, even with normal paints, though metallics didn’t seem to activate them so much. If you start with the lighter colours first and make your way to darker colours then it’s not really noticeable. The bases I got some Speed Paint on took several coats of grey to get looking decent. Even then the Speed Paint still seemed to be mixing with the grey. That’s the only downside which would take away some of the speed, having to varnish before adding traditional highlights. If you’re not doing those, then there’s not really anything to complain about.

Captain Brown wrote:For speed painting the Bill & Ted turned out alright gobert.
Cheers,
CB

Righteous CB!

mcmattila wrote:Yep, really nice work on that red coat of Neyam's! Riff in Time looks interesting, and it's playable with the missus you say? Hmm.. Might have to look into it!

That dice tower looks nasty with all those teeth. Like a sandworm or a kraken or something. Wouldn't want to put my fingers near it!

Thanks mcmatilla, her cloak was pretty fun to paint. Riff in time was pretty good, and yes my missus seemed to enjoy herself, but she is a huge Bill & Ted fan so it was more likely to happen. And yes, it’s probably wise not to put your fingers near the warp gate!

youwashock wrote:Neyam looks good. I suppose I will have to make the decision to convert her or leave her stock before painting. Hard call. It is a very nice mini. Dice gate is another great piece.

If you do convert her, then do away with the gun that’s being reloaded as it broke off 3 or 4 times and 100% will if she is used in game.

Don Qui Hotep wrote:That dice tower is really cool! Great job on Neyam's cloak too, really smooth blending of highlights.

The whole TriHex Citadel stuff from Dragons Rest has been awesome, it’ll be keeping the Blackstone Fortress painting going for a while yet. Thanks for noticing The blending on Neyams cloak, I spent quite a while on that.

Viterbi wrote:Amazing turnaround on the Bill & Ted game and the colors look great and very vibrant! Rouge Trader turned also out excellent, great color choices.

Speed Paint has to take most of the turnaround credit for the Bill & Ted stuff, a new record for completely painting up a game for me! The colour choices weren’t my doing either ! that was plagiarised from
Dirk Reinecke’s plog

Thanks for all the comments guys, it helps keep me plugging away. This past week I’ve been in Germany with work and took some Elves with me to break the back of them, which I feel I have done, but there’s still a along way to go. Night 1 saw me paint the skin on the faces of the Spearmen and also paint their red boots, gloves and belts;



Day 2 saw me do the red on all of the Archers too, which was quite a slog!



Day 3 saw me start on the white areas, getting a base of Celestra Grey on the Spearmen and some of the Archers. This took quite a while as I needed to be neat (and I might’ve had a few beers with dinner )



The pics make it hard to see the details, so I’ll get some more when I unpack them and finish the Celestra Grey. It was good to make some progress on these guys, especially seeing as I started them early last year and Had aimed to finish them by now. I think I’ll divert to the dice tower now I’m home, but then switch back to these after that.

Thanks for looking!

Good to hear you are back safe. And woo-hoo for more classic Elves!

Oooooh High Elves! My favourite, looking forward to seeing more!

youwashock wrote:Good to hear you are back safe. And woo-hoo for more classic Elves!

Yeah, it’s weird travelling right now, but good to be getting back towards normal. It was good to get some progress on the Elves too.

Olthannon wrote:Oooooh High Elves! My favourite, looking forward to seeing more!

Indeed, I must be mad trying to hatch paint that many Elves at once though! Which reminds me, I need to get some more shields made for the spearmen as I’m about 5 short.

No progress, but I’m claiming internet fame after this!

Totally telling everyone I know you.

But seriously, that's cool. Congrats!

Nice to get a shout out like that Gobert!

Gobert has won the internet for today! Praise be to gobert. Excited for the elf progress.

youwashock wrote:Totally telling everyone I know you.

But seriously, that's cool. Congrats!

And well you should!

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:Nice to get a shout out like that Gobert!

Yeah, it was cool of them to do it, I guess using the box art as a backdrop helped too!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Gobert has won the internet for today! Praise be to gobert. Excited for the elf progress.

Hehe! Thanks, I’d like to thank my mother and father… seriously though, I was pretty chuffed when they asked, especially for such a quick paint job.

Anyways, back to reality and I’ve been feeling pretty rough the back end of this week, so haven’t had much hobby time motivation. With the return of F1 this weekend I’m back to being banished to the loft to watch it. As usual I cracked on with some painting too, which as I saw the result beforehand meant it got more attention than the qualifying . Instead of plodding on with the Elves I got stuck in to the Warp Gate. I got the metallics down, Leadbelcher Air is nice! Then a bit of Retributor before moving on to Emerald Green for the cables, a mix of grey and Zandri for the skulls and stones. I finished off with a liberal dose of Agrax all over.

I’ll do some highlights on it all before I move on to the Blackstone base and it’s OSL dry brushing. I’ll save the warp gate itself until the end, going for a green flame like glow where the recesses will be white and the peaks a darker green.

Thanks for looking!

Well deserved gobert

Also nice portal, the green looks fantastic!