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Theophony wrote:While I like contrast paints and all the colors they come in, I find myself using them more for training my eyes. I’ve never been good at seeing shadow and light (drove my art teacher crazy), and seeing how the contrast works and leaves the variation is helping my painting....I think .

Maybe pitch that to GW or another company, the shadow training paint, it could be a gold mine

aku-chan wrote:Looking forward to seeing your Discworld Frostgrave crew all painted up.

amazingturtles wrote:Man, those discworld figures are so neat. I can't wait to see what you do with them!

DJJazzyJeff wrote:I echo the excitement over the Discworld minis.

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Hooray for Discworld! Those minis are so characterful (even if the Two-Flower one hasn't aged very well). They match the personality of each of the characters in a really masterful way. Sam Vimes is one of the best protagonists in the series, in my opinion, and his sculpt has really done him justice. That Ridcully mini is also really cool. If you check out their website, the way that they've sculpted existential dread onto Rincewind's face is just perfect.

Happy about the Discworld excitement, but alas they are a little way off, I need some sci-fi right now, but will return to them in due time. And you are right Don Qui Hotep, the Two-Flower sculpt is really bad, although that is one of the few characters where I don't like how Kidby drew him. Rincewind on the other hand is spot on and may also be a contender for apprentice or perhaps thug with his half-brick in a sock. Will definitely get Lady Sybil and once he's back in stock at my favorite online store Greebo, the two minis fit purrfectly into the warband.

In other news, my SM Heroes Series 2 display arrived and I was lucky and got the captain and the ancient in the box (at least I think it's lucky, front says captain is 1/20 und ancient 1/30). And it feels good to have sisters back on the tables. Not satisfied with the eyes I painted back at the start of the year and my try the method Duncan employs on the Obi-Wan mini with just wyldwood and a little Druchi Violet under the eyes.

Last but not least a very quick and dirty paintjob because those damn kids always jump back to the start or too early to the finish carrot, so I painted in the stones that were also the same green as the grassy hill.

Hooray for more Sisters. Nice pulls on the Terminator box. Looking forward to seeing those guys get painted.

Yeah, the sisters are looking great.

Lady sybil's one of my favorite characters, i hope that they did her justice

Nice luck snagging both the captain and the ancient in the box.

Not sure what the carrot tower thing is all about, but looking forward to see how you use it.

Love the green armor on the sisters

 monkeytroll wrote:
There's got to be a seated Conan out there somewhere right? Hasslefree maybe?

I don't know where Power Elephant got his seated Conan, or what the scale is, but if you're still looking for something you may want to PM him, or something.
He has a gallery image of one that is super cool looking and may fill out the throne pretty solidly.

Nice haul on the heroes there!

Fingers crossed that the painted road stops the kids cheating on their game! When they’re done it looks like it might make a good display piece with all of those base holes!

Excellent luck on the Series 2 Heroes. The Captain, Ancient and only 1 duplicate! I missed the Captain in my Series 1 box :’( hopefully they jump your painting queue like mine will be!

youwashock wrote:Hooray for more Sisters. Nice pulls on the Terminator box. Looking forward to seeing those guys get painted.

Thanks youwashock! Fells nice to be in the 41st millennium again.

amazingturtles wrote:Yeah, the sisters are looking great.

Lady sybil's one of my favorite characters, i hope that they did her justice

Thanks amazingturtles! Sibyl has a nice sculpt, but she's one of the characters Kidby doesn't draw often, I've yet to see a picture of her.

Theophony wrote:Nice luck snagging both the captain and the ancient in the box.

Not sure what the carrot tower thing is all about, but looking forward to see how you use it.

Love the green armor on the sisters

Thanks Theo! The carrot tower is a game I play with my children. And seeing as they always loose their way, I had to put a contrasting paint on it

DJJazzyJeff wrote:

 monkeytroll wrote:
There's got to be a seated Conan out there somewhere right? Hasslefree maybe?

I don't know where Power Elephant got his seated Conan, or what the scale is, but if you're still looking for something you may want to PM him, or something.
He has a gallery image of one that is super cool looking and may fill out the throne pretty solidly.

Thanks for the tip DJJazzyJeff! atm will put off putting someone on the throne and will await the return of the king

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Nice haul on the heroes there!

Thanks Don Qui Hotep, was very happy myself.

gobert wrote:Fingers crossed that the painted road stops the kids cheating on their game! When they’re done it looks like it might make a good display piece with all of those base holes!

Excellent luck on the Series 2 Heroes. The Captain, Ancient and only 1 duplicate! I missed the Captain in my Series 1 box :’( hopefully they jump your painting queue like mine will be!

I wouldn't call it cheating just overexcitement in the heat of the game Yeah, got real lucky with my box, the ancient actually was the last model I opened. And I don't know if at my age I should've been that excited, when I opened all those boxes, felt like being a kid again Hope you get the captain from other sources! Had hoped that the Barnes & Noble Space Marine Adventures expansion would also come to Germany like the core game, but no luck.

Finished the two sisters this week and started on heavy flamer sister and other sister superior is also waiting for paint. And slowly progressing with the priests, still two weeks left for the comp.

And got a game in with a friend, last week we were able to finish three WarCry games in the same time it took us to finish this one game of Kill Team Commanders, because he had never played Necrons before and I had forgotten all the differences with my space marine bolters Sniper did what he always did, look good and achieve nothing. I don't know, why I bring him anymore Won the game because a heroic 30k terminator charged the Overlord and killed him. Friend thought the Overlord also had Reanimation Protocol. He was wrong

Good to see the Discworld minis on the previous page, they are some fun little sculpts. Some are a bit off in my mind but that is always going to be an issue when bringing the written word to life in physical form when your mind has already decided what a character looks like. Agreed on the Tiffany Aching as well, great mini.

Excellent luck with the Terminator box, the Ancient and Captain are the best sculpts in the set to me.

Kill Team looks pretty. Worth the time we've not played in a while either: the aching slowness of 40k lingers with us also...

Looks like a cool game even if it took a while! The battlemat seems nice and thematic with a mix of Imperial and Necron in the design. The sisters look cool, but I’m really interested to see where you take the priests.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:Good to see the Discworld minis on the previous page, they are some fun little sculpts. Some are a bit off in my mind but that is always going to be an issue when bringing the written word to life in physical form when your mind has already decided what a character looks like. Agreed on the Tiffany Aching as well, great mini.

Excellent luck with the Terminator box, the Ancient and Captain are the best sculpts in the set to me.

Yeah, on the whole Kidby's designs are great, but some aren't what I pictured in my mind either. The Josh Kirby ones were really bad, if those were the basis for the miniatures, we'd be in big trouble

inmygravenimage wrote:Kill Team looks pretty. Worth the time we've not played in a while either: the aching slowness of 40k lingers with us also...

It would've probably been better, if we had our rules memorized, but it is fascinating how much faster WarCry plays.

gobert wrote:Looks like a cool game even if it took a while! The battlemat seems nice and thematic with a mix of Imperial and Necron in the design. The sisters look cool, but I’m really interested to see where you take the priests.

Battlemat was actually the WarCry one, was to lazy to put it away after the session the weekend before Priests are actually progressing, did the cloth, but now have to redo a lot of the leather and smaller details, that I got with the layer paint.

The purpley tone of his cloth makes me wonder if pastor jones is acting strangely ....Tyranids reference from 3rd edition . Man I’m getting old. They are looking great whether spreading the imperial truth....or some other truth.

We always love to see some purple robes! They fit right into the 41st millennium. I don't think I've seen quite that hue before, was that using Contrast? I like it a lot.

Theophony wrote:The purpley tone of his cloth makes me wonder if pastor jones is acting strangely ....Tyranids reference from 3rd edition . Man I’m getting old. They are looking great whether spreading the imperial truth....or some other truth.

Thanks Theo! Sadly as someone who wasn't very interested the first time around (late 90s/early 2000s) and dug a little into it the last 3-4 years, I don't get the reference, but I'm assuming there were men of the cloth spreading the good word of the Four-Armed-Emperor.

Don Qui Hotep wrote:We always love to see some purple robes! They fit right into the 41st millennium. I don't think I've seen quite that hue before, was that using Contrast? I like it a lot.

Thanks Don Qui Hotep! The robes are actually one of the few things not painted with contrast, the purple is just Screamer Pink, than wash of Nuln Oil and than a kind of drybrush with Pink Horror via a Medium Layer Brush.

And I got the motivation and time for a little push and finished both models. Had a minor shock after sealing them, because Stormshield decided it wanted to be a glossy finish today and not be its usual matte self. Luckily Lahmian Medium sorted that out. Tomorrow evening will be glamour shots.

They are coming along great.

In the old rules the Tyranids had, onewas called Jones is acting strangely. Basically one figure in the opposing army had been implanted like a facehugger from the Aliens movies and was a “plant” by the Tyranids. I forget if he attacked the rest of the squad or just caused some other disruption, but it was what I remembered .

Either way they look spiffy .

Always gotta keep an eye on ol' Jones...

It was pretty bad. The trooper in question would explode using a fairly large template, equivalent to the Barbed Strangler at the time, I believe.

Priests are looking good. Fit right in with the Sisters.

They do look good, but it’s making me wonder if your imperials are all actually cult members? The mark on the forehead of the bald chap is a bit suspicious with all this face-hugger talk!

 Viterbi wrote:


Thanks for the tip DJJazzyJeff! atm will put off putting someone on the throne and will await the return of the king

Sounds good, Viterbi. I was browsing and saw Conan, and thought I'd send it along.

Lots of great stuff in your blog.

Theophony wrote:They are coming along great.

In the old rules the Tyranids had, onewas called Jones is acting strangely. Basically one figure in the opposing army had been implanted like a facehugger from the Aliens movies and was a “plant” by the Tyranids. I forget if he attacked the rest of the squad or just caused some other disruption, but it was what I remembered .

Either way they look spiffy .

youwashock wrote:Always gotta keep an eye on ol' Jones...

It was pretty bad. The trooper in question would explode using a fairly large template, equivalent to the Barbed Strangler at the time, I believe.

Priests are looking good. Fit right in with the Sisters.

That sounds like fun rules until you get to the template I love it, but my priests are fiercely loyal and the one test model for my GSC Kill Team has not the same colors, it's another blue... and pink... I may talk to a commissar asap

gobert wrote:They do look good, but it’s making me wonder if your imperials are all actually cult members? The mark on the forehead of the bald chap is a bit suspicious with all this face-hugger talk!

Thanks gobert and I believe they are meant to be veins of righteous fury, but that's only what he is telling us, so who knows

DJJazzyJeff wrote:

 Viterbi wrote:


Thanks for the tip DJJazzyJeff! atm will put off putting someone on the throne and will await the return of the king

Sounds good, Viterbi. I was browsing and saw Conan, and thought I'd send it along.

Lots of great stuff in your blog.

Thanks again!

Slow progress, gonna finish those 5 intercessors tomorrow, they are nice and easy and than to tackle the next seven sisters. Have some free days until Wednesday and there should be some hobby time next to family time, to get the gals done.

It was indeed hilarious. For the Tyranid player. Sometimes I miss all the random tables of RT/2nd edition.

I got a case of the slows, too. Keep on sluggin'. Intercessors are looking good.

Nice work on the priests! Excited to see how the Sisters get painted up.

I love those old priest minis, you did a good job with them. Marines are looking fun, excited to see the finished paintjob.

Nice Priests Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

youwashock wrote:It was indeed hilarious. For the Tyranid player. Sometimes I miss all the random tables of RT/2nd edition.

I got a case of the slows, too. Keep on sluggin'. Intercessors are looking good.

Thanks youwashock and good luck on pushing forward yourself

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Nice work on the priests! Excited to see how the Sisters get painted up.

Thanks Don Qui Hotep! There are some finished ones a few pages back, but the current ones are slated for a little painting session tomorrow evening.

MegaDave wrote:I love those old priest minis, you did a good job with them. Marines are looking fun, excited to see the finished paintjob.

Thanks MegaDave! They are really nice sculpts, although i realised to late that I should've done something about the mold lines.

Captain Brown wrote:Nice Priests Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown!

And the squad is done, nothing fancy, but always good to have troop choices. Was pretty excited when I saw the new SM units yesterday, I fear that box will be bought on release. Just need to convince my friend, that he really, really, really wants to start a Necron army, if he likes his Kill Team of them so much

Dang, I haven't even looked at the new things, i'm too afraid too.

These guys look great! i like the contrasting shoulder pads

Good looking squad. Yeah. New Marines look pretty cool. For the most part. Curious what the future of the game holds.

Shiny And snazzy. Keep it up!

See the newcrons are what piqued my interest in the new box, though I was more hoping for Chaos Space Marines. The return of Chainswords is always welcome though! With the new site showing sisters, I was half thinking it might be a 3 army box. I’m digging the mixed colours on my he intercessors’ shoulder pads.

Yep, varied shoulder pads are great. Really makes the squad different.