To continue Piestro's threads, this month I am finally tackling on Cthulhu. Here is the very first base prime coat. I haven't really seen a purple scheme yet.
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g141/rajzwaibel/cthulubase_zpsfb3baacd.jpg)
I actually used a purple base for mine (Squid ink), but worked up towards green.
Cthulhu got a bath!
Well, wash ;)
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g141/rajzwaibel/cthuluwash_zpsaff8b71b.jpg)
Okay plans for this month:
Imperial guard scout sentinel
Imperial Guard mortar team
At that point I'll have a 1,000 Pts of guard and might take a break. Some of the bones have caught my eye so I might spend a couple weeks painting those, we'll see :)
My plans for this month:
Unit of Plague Monks
Bonebreaker Conversion w/Warlord
Deathmaster Snikch
Just scored some Ral Partha Dragonlance minis off eBay.
Plans are adjusting...
Well, almost done. Just some touch up stuff left
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g141/rajzwaibel/cthuhlufin_zps81af8f69.jpg)
That was such a fun model to paint. Can't wait till I get my Chimera from the latest Bones Kickstarter.
In the meantime, I just got a Celestial Hurricanum!
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IF_tw1v-s6g/T3joafcUlfI/AAAAAAAAQtw/SIYY0b91Hzw/s1600/Empire%2BCelestial%2BHurricanum.JPG)
I'm going to be combining it with a Warplightning Cannon for some crazy Skaven goodness :D
Not a huge fan of the bones so far. The paint doesn't "stick". It's like painting glass and I feel like I'm glopping it on to get coverage.
I'm using citidel paints.
An I doing something wrong?
Quote from: Piestrio;705851Not a huge fan of the bones so far. The paint doesn't "stick". It's like painting glass and I feel like I'm glopping it on to get coverage.
I'm using citidel paints.
An I doing something wrong?
Are you priming them first?
Citadel might not be the best choice overall just because they are watered down enough to be useable out of the bottle on Warhammer minis, and Bones are water-resistant. I've had better luck with Vallejo paints.
I prime the smaller figures, but with Cthulhu I just did a series of about 8 progressively-thinner coats.
If you look at the first Cthulhu pic, you can see how it's not an even coat, and that's after I used Army Painter White. I find that to be the best primer. so it took two, but you can see from the final one that it turned out OK. At least I think so.
Here's the progress so far:
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb208/Piestrio/CAA3A2F8-D7D6-4CEA-9663-3D4C7CD80B6F-5256-0000034EA63B7CE1_zps1ea4363b.jpg)
Plans for Nov 2013:
Painting station
I haven't done much painting for a while. I think it's because setup is too cumbersome. So, my plan is to extract a teeny project from the bits box along with the tools needed to complete it and bundle it all together. Concordantly, I'm going to spurge on some quality supplies so I can do stuff FASTER.
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb208/Piestrio/C2DD09B9-48FA-4177-A14D-8270A086AC37-7454-0000048C9AEE4B89_zps73b2c17f.jpg)
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb208/Piestrio/CE577078-AA1E-490F-B286-8FFB6E10EAE8-245-0000000E0F4356ED_zps18363905.jpg)
Stripped and ready to go. Probably won't get to these guys this month as I need some more paint and that'll probably wait until next month.
nice. I have about half of those dragonlance minis
This is not painting and I apologize for that, but...
I picked up a Cmdr. Shadowsun from GW in finecast because that's all they make anymore. It was terrible.
(http://1d4chan.org/images/6/63/Bubbles.jpg)
...anyway...
I found an incomplete one on ebay - in metal - for $15 (negotiated). Bought it, tacked the head (which fortunately had no bubbles) from the finecast onto it. IDGAF about the drones, so, now I have a metal Shadowsun. I'll post up some pics or something when I get her assembled and painted. The one I bought had a terrible, terrible paintjob that I had to SG off first.
Breaking news: Finecast is DEAD
http://natfka.blogspot.ca/2013/11/finecast-is-dead-more-confirmations-on.html
Quote from: thedungeondelver;708713Breaking news: Finecast is DEAD
http://natfka.blogspot.ca/2013/11/finecast-is-dead-more-confirmations-on.html
Well, breaking Internet rumour at least, though not a surprising result of the "failcast" debacle.
Quote from: TristramEvans;708720Well, breaking Internet rumour at least, though not a surprising result of the "failcast" debacle.
Honestly I don't know that they can salvage minis with plastic. I've got the Space Hulk 3e set and the plastic minis in it are very nice, so perhaps they can.
One thing I think we can all be certain of is that the plastic will cost 10-20% more than it currently does. Look forward to paying $35 for a single LotR character figure.
(Or don't; I'm done buying GW products new)
I liked the plastic Skaven they did, but yeah, GW lost me as a customer this year as well, though I still grab some of thier products from secondary sources until Ive completed my Skaven army. After that thinking of giving Mantic the majority of my business. Didn't like thier elves initially (mostly the cone helmets, which turned me off of GWs elves initially as well), but thier Twilight Kin look pretty cool.
Had great success this weekend stripping some old space dwarves using 'Purple Power'. I haven't been this jazzed to paint in ages!
Looking forward to some games of Nuclear Renaissance (from Ramshackle Games) using my soon-to-be-painted gang of space-dwarf miners, including a couple of 4x4s and some construction mechs.
Okay I've had a hell of a time getting a routine down but I've got a few more thinks on my plate.
Someone at my FLGS is selling a bunch of IG so I got two squads of Karzkin storm troopers I'll probably run as veterans with carapace armor (because Stormtroopers are stupid expencive).
I also got a basilisk. All for basically 50% retail.
I found a metal Commander Shadowsun for $20 on eBay; bought her, stripped it, popped the head off and reused the plastic (excuse me, Finecast (http://1d4chan.org/wiki/File:Bubbles.jpg)) head from the one I bought directly from GW, so hopefully I can get that painted in an appreciable amount of time.
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb208/Piestrio/25FEF163-DABF-43BA-9D3F-660948D6DFFD-4357-00000304394A8DDC_zpsbd7c3205.jpg)
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb208/Piestrio/5F061B97-B6F4-468C-92E2-23573FABA76F-4357-0000030695C7D821_zps83fef2b9.jpg)
Very nice.
On the one hand, this month has been a bit of a bust for me. Started a job that was supposed to take a week and turned into 2, then 3, now 4, with tomorrow likely being the last day. House restoration, and Ive frankly come home far too exhausted for any kind of art. So my Maulerfiend sits accusingly on my desk next to a package of green stuff and some new brushes and I long to verminize him and let loose my Skaven Warlord/Fellblade/Bonebreaker combo.
OTOH, its been a rather fruitful month for purchases. I got the Celestial Hurricanum parts from Hoard of Bits to make my giant-rat-drawn Warpfire Cannon and Chaos Chariot pieces to to make a War-Litter mount, as well as a full unit of Plage Monks bits, all for under 50 bucks. I found Nezumi Samurai and Ashigaru Heads for my Eshin army on EBay for a pittance.
(http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/media/catalog/product/c/0/c00034.jpg)
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I got a new copy of WFB 3rd Edition plus about 50 issues of White Dwarf from the late 80s/early 90s, All 5 editions of WH40K, including Rogue Trader, the most recent codexes for Space Marines, Chaos Space Marines, Dark Eldar, Tyranids, and Chaos Daemons, as well as the newest FB army books for Ogre Kingdoms, Dark Elves, and Chaos Warriors, and a few other random books like Storm of Chaos, Lustroa, etc, all from a guy on Craigslist for 100 bucks (his wife was making him get rid of them, and his matriarchal oppression was my parasitical joy).
And I got a complete set of the Myeri Marsh Demons of Fimm MCCool from the Oldhammer Forums (these plus 1 box of Gnoblars will kick off my Pgre Kingdoms back-up army, while Ill be splitting my Skaven into themed Eshin and Pestilence armies). For anyone who hasn't seen these, they are gorgeous pewter Fimir-like creatures with a heavy Dark Crystal influence.
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Ooo..an ogre?
Quote from: TristramEvans;711839Ooo..an ogre?
Honey Buns the ogre.
Quote from: Sacrosanct;711880Honey Buns the ogre.
Hahahaha, yes :)
How should I prime the hard plastic Space Hulk minis from the 3e set? Note I'm not spraying them. I refuse to spray them. Spray = orange peel.