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The bloat drone conversion is fantastic! And a great colour scheme, too

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Lovely mix of colours again. Bold and sort of non grimdark but in a good way.

And yeah, the support is necessary- we all need the wee boost.

Ya it certainly helps, but I appreciate how consistent it has been throughout. I think if I had a trademark style it might be bold colors as it has been remarked on a few times.

Maybe it is the bad lighting in my apartment, but I find that once something is sitting on the shelf it can be hard to pick out the details when everything is near black, especially since I use a black undercoat 99% of the time. I try to balance it out though, otherwise my evil army of doom and demons would start looking too cartoonish, but like so many things it's a fine line sometimes.

 Tek wrote:
The bloat drone conversion is fantastic! And a great colour scheme, too

Thanks a lot for saying so Tek. The idea for the wings is stolen from someone else's post I saw several years ago, but I think it works well too. I can't say how well the wings will hold up if it ever gets knocked or dropped though since gluing wings like that is a really irksome process getting them to stick.
The scheme took a while to come up with even though it is similar to most of my army, but the trick seemed to be leaving enough of the big front plate just a flat color so it didn't look too busy.

I am pleased to share this next piece with you guys since I had been working up the confidence to start it since I got it from the kickstarter sometime last year. My love for pirates seen previously with the bit of Dreadfleet I've shown will give you a hint of why.

Her name from the website is Catalina, and other than fact that I forgot to give her eyebrows before taking the pictures I think she came out about as good as I could have hoped for. It is a bit hard to detect, but I even gave her eyes a tiny tiny dot of white to try and give them a bit of a reflection.
There were like 5 other pirate ladies to choose from, both busts and 75mm full figures, but she was the only one I chose to try and not spend too much.
One of my friends said that she almost looks cell shaded, but that was kind of a happy accident.

I have one other bust in my collection from a different kickstarter if I ever get around to it, but for now I started working on a couple more Death Korps troops. As always we will see what I end up finishing next since I tend to bounce around.

She looks great buddy. I am still too scared to tackle a bust!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
She looks great buddy. I am still too scared to tackle a bust!

I'm glad you like her too. I'm surprised in all your various works there isn't a bust in there somewhere. I'm sure you would manage to do well whenever you do attempt one.

I finished another batch of my Death Korps a couple days ago so in total I am up to 4 now.
To fit in with them I also finished my commander for the whole Traitor Guard detachment, which is really just a slightly modified Tempestor Prime. It has been a long time since I have given a name to a character's base, but I should probably bestow one up on him. I am thinking maybe Silco after the villain of Arcane in season one.

I think the thunderhawk blue coat works well on him too, maybe not as good classic black, but I usually avoid trying to highlight black where possible. His breastplate was a bit too splotchy from the ink I put on though so I went back over it with some more dark silver after.
Also the other pair of troopers were missing the highlight on their hands in case they looked strangely dark.

I tried starting to paint a big tentacled Elder One for my new season of Cthulhu Death May Die, but I have to go back to the drawing board on that one. The example has this weird pattern where the tentacles keep changing color the closer to the ends you get, but it just looks weird so I think I may end up just making it all one color with highlights like a normal monster.
It might not be as mind-shatteringly bizarre, but it will hopefully still be creepy enough and help preserve my sanity a bit.

Cool stuff, love the bust of the pirate ;p

I like the blue, very prussian vibes.

 ghostmaker wrote:
Cool stuff, love the bust of the pirate ;p

Thanks ghostmaker, it's nice to hear she caught your eye.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I like the blue, very prussian vibes.

I remember you saying something similar when I completed my Death Korps test model, but thank you all the same. Someday I will finish the rest of the unit.

For now I decided to go back to a bit of my board games. So here is the first thing I completed from my new seasons of Cthulhu, specifically the scenario based on the story Dreams in the Witch House.
I had to go back and clean up the bit of shawl or whatever coming off her shoulder and a bit on her cap, but this is pretty much how she looks. To go alongside the witch is her familiar Brown Jenkins who is a pretty simple model, but at least now I can say that box hasn't gone untouched.

I also finished this creepy nurse from another episode of Final Girl that takes place in asylum.

Ooh very creepy indeed

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Ooh very creepy indeed

Thanks again. I may go back to touch up her clothing a bit eventually. I saw from someone else's paint job that part of her torn dress is actually a bra so it could add a bit more contrast.

I have been absent a while since I have been slacking when it comes to painting, but I have a few things I neglected to post, and I am happy to report I just now completed my first Elder One for the Fear of the Unknown so I will get some pics of him later.

For now here is another small scenario specific Cthulhu demon, although I have no idea how he fits into the mythos.
His name is Hypnos, and apparently he is also a Greek God so he is pretty much just a well chiseled guy in a toga.

Next up are the Final Girl for that asylum episode along with a creepy hospital bed, and another girl that goes with the Terror From Above episode that is entirely based on the swarm of killer birds from The Birds.
The latter doesn't look that great, but I wasn't super concerned about her and as always the tiny girls can be a bit tricky.

I love the slightly cartoony style of the bed. All good across the board though

Wow, there's a huge variety of stuff on this blog. Lots of great conversions and paintjobs.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I love the slightly cartoony style of the bed. All good across the board though

I appreciate the compliments my friend. The bed was a really quick job for how well it came out. I have spent more time than I would have liked in the hospital so it wasn't really something I focused on.

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Wow, there's a huge variety of stuff on this blog. Lots of great conversions and paintjobs.

Thanks for the high praise and welcome. My conversions are pretty few and far between these days, but I do have some more little conversions like my poxwalkers and lots of bikers still to paint at some point.

I wanted to post this Cthulhu Elder One, who goes by the suitably incomprehensible name Tsathoggua, a few days ago, but try as I might it was a massive struggle to get some decent photos that I felt actually reflected how he looks in person.

When I look at him here he looks colorful enough while being somewhat muted, but the flash made him look he was in an almost supersaturated technicolor for some reason. Maybe that goes for all my photos since I got my new camera, but I never noticed it to such an extent. If I turn the flash off you can barely see anything for how dark it looks.
Anyway long story short, I kinda had to desaturate the pics just a tad to get them more normal looking because I just got sick of retaking them.

Your range of colours are superb. Disgusting, but superb.