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The squigs and stalagmite look great, such characterful minis to boot! How does the stalagmite move about though?

Great work. Especially like the flying squig.

The flying squig is definitely my favorite. I think i need one of them. Who wouldn't want a squig like that as a buddy?

No love for the fumin' shroom? He's great!

 youwashock wrote:
No love for the fumin' shroom? He's great!

The shroom is looking cool, but I gotta go with the rest, you can't beat a flying squig

@Maharg: Excited to see how you'll tackle the big guy!

Thanks for the comments everyone

Has it really been over 3 weeks since I last posted here, not quite sure where the time has gone. I have got a little done in that time, starting with Mollog


and with his mob
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The only other finished model was this orc for the drunken master challenge on the painting and modelling page. 2hrs to drink some booze and paint a model Challenge open until the end of the month if you're feeling thirsty this weekend




Other than that, the zoat has been started (borrowing Arakasi's lava base method with a slight change, drybrushing the black on to let some red come through to make the top look like it's still warm. Did some trials with tinting the martian Ironearth to make it brighter but didn't use it in the end. Forgot to take photos of the trials so will have to put them in the next post)

I've built a Stormraven and started painting and also built a few retinue members for my still to be built inquisitor





Thanks for looking

I thought that Zoat basing effect looked familiar!

I am absolutely in love with all of that post.

Shroom. Grape Giant. Old school BB orc. ZOAT! Robo-dino. Assassin gal. Crazy crusty gunslinger. It all rules.

That's a great update, Mollog's purpleishness looks perfect and I love the other stuff and from that bunch of course the T-REX WITH WEAPONS

I thought that Zoat basing effect looked familiar!

Yeah, your blog saved me a lot of experimenting, thanks! This month's challenge will be all my own work, promise!

I am absolutely in love with all of that post.

Shroom. Grape Giant. Old school BB orc. ZOAT! Robo-dino. Assassin gal. Crazy crusty gunslinger. It all rules.

That's a great update, Mollog's purpleishness looks perfect and I love the other stuff and from that bunch of course the T-REX WITH WEAPONS

Thanks both, glad you liked them

Got the zoat finished in time for last month's paiting challenge



No more work done on the inquisition or stormcast, got distracted by Spiteclaw's swarm. Nothing too exciting on the rats as I painted them to fit in with a skaven army I started (but of course never finished - the tails were too much for me) but quite pleased with how the bases turned out


Up next is a wood elf standard bearer for the June painting challenge and some ghosts, WIP below

Big fan of how the Zoat turned out. Hope he gets all the votes he deserves.

Maharg,

Yes, very nice classic model painted up well.

Cheers,

CB

Zoat McZoatface is looking the business! Can’t wait to get my hands on the new one! The rats turned out well too!

Ratsassins are looking great, Zoat is nicely painted and interesting to see in contrast to the new model with all the futuristic gubbins. Excited for the standard bearer, flags are fun (or so I've heard on TV).

In a rare occurrence for me, the models to be photographed shelf was starting to overflow so an update must be well overdue.

First though, a model that wasn't on the shelf, my wood elf standard bearer completed in time for June's painting challenge. I was pleased with the elf itself but less so with the banner. The main problem, I think, is the colour choice for the banner design - went with the same green elsewhere on the model to tie it all together but a pale brownish green doesn't stand out from the pale yellow/brown background. I wasn't in the mood to redo it so it'll have to do



I've finally finished the stormcast I started 4 months ago, glad to finally get these off the painting desk



The main reason for the overflowing photo shelf is that the contrast paints have seen heavy use to add nighthaunt and a couple of tyranids
Thorns of the Briar Queen


Glavewraith Stalkers


Reapers


Dreadblde Harrows and Banshee


Ravener and spore mine



Currently at the head of the painting queue are more stormcast (hopefully won't take another 4 months as I think one or more will be my painting challenge entry for this month), contrast nids and a new addition for my Admech

Thats a lot of purple.

That Ravener is a beast.

A LOT of glorious, glorious purple. The ghosts are awesome, as are the SC. Are the ghosts straight Shyish, Magos, and Volpus contrast?

That’s a good haul of finished minis, those stormcast look great in gold and purple, but I might be biased! The dark purple on the ghosties looks great, that contrast works well on them.

I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but that's some purty purple. The Welf is good but he's kind of overwhelmed here!

It is a lot of purple, but it’s smooth purple .

There is nothing wrong with purple

As a purple lover, your purple is amazing. Which paints are you using for it?

Purple ghosts are great, really nice to see the differing shades of purple to differentiate textures. And excited to see how the Dunerider will look.

Thanks for the comments everyone. I do seem to have a bit of a purple obsession at the moment, not really intentional, just the way it's turned out. It happened before with green (green necrons to match the glowing rods, orks then dark angels) so Theo's comment is particularly apt.
Youwashock, contrast used on the ghosts are mainly Black templar and shyish purple with contrast medium with a little pink here and there, all over grey seer base. Surprisingly little magos purple, so far its only been used on the Briar Queen's vine, though could have used it on the banshee's hair (that was initially done in watered down pink but it didn't fit so it was fixed by adding thinned shyish over the top. End result was pretty much magos purple). Robes are painted black/medium (3:2 mix) then lightly drybrushed with grey seer to pick out robe edges followed by shyish/medium (2:3) - gives an almost black robe with purple highlights. Wood is pure shyish, then everything else in shyish/medium - lighter robes are 1:2, metals are 1:3 over Ironbreaker and skin/bones are 1:5.

Gwyn, purple on Stormcast is 1:1 Screamer Pink/Phoenician purple, shaded with Druchii Violet. Robes are highlighted mixing in Zandri Dust to the base colour in several stages. Shoulder pads edge highlighted mixing in Emperors Children then Fulgrim Pink

I got some more nids finished this week

which takes me over 80 minis for the year so the year to date shelf is looking quite full


Not much progress on the Stormcast, just a start on some base colours. Only one weekend left for the painting challenge so I think a unit of them is out of the question, going to have to speed one up so I get something done. The next batch of tyranids are also on the painting bench


That's it for now, thanks for looking

Wow! You've got quite a variety. Liking the tyranids. I actually have some of my own painted in an inverted scheme to your blue-purple ones.

Solid body of work so far. The Deceiver conversion demands attention, doesn't he? He has it all. Color, stature and flair.

Nice horde of purple, it’s a great colour choice IMHO. 80 is a great number for the year so far, we’ll on track for triple figures now

Impressive tally for the year so far, that's for sure!

Great work on the Stormcasts, the purple and gold make for a very effective scheme! I also really enjoy those deserty bases.

Maharg,

Well done on the year to date production.

Cheers,

CB

PS: And there is a lot of purple...but there was a lot of grey when I was rolling out my Guard.

Nice overview of what you have done so far and one can never go wrong with purple!

Thanks for the comments everyone. The contrast has certainly helped with the pace and helps provide more variety - nids and ghosts help with the positive feeling of rapid progress and getting battle ready forces in a relatively quick (at least for me) time, everything else scratches that painting itch.
Things have slowed down the last couple of weeks with just a single model finished, this chap for the dakka painting challenge (voting now up for that one, I recommend taking a look in the painting and modelling page - there are some great models again this month)



For this month's challenge I'm going with Eldar of some sort. I might paint them all but that might be a little ambitious. Not sure who to do first, the archon is most in my comfort zone with lots of edge highlighting, though part of the point of the challenge is to, well, challenge myself so maybe the shadowseer should be first up?


thanks for looking