[October] Paint thread 3: Rise of the Pigments

[Piestrio]

It's October!

Time for another painting thread.

What to post:

Your plans for the month.

Progress pics.

Finished pics.

Advice/suggestions for painting.

My plans:


So this month I'll be painting a couple of Heavy Weapon Squads for my IG. I'm currently staying in a hotel 100+ miles from my house so I'm assuming my progress will be limited this time around.

You?

[Sacrosanct]

In light of Bones II, I need to get to work

On the docket:

* mage dragonborn
* bullywog
* giant frogs
* roper

[TristramEvans]

I've got 80 Skaven to paint this month, 30 giant rats, and I want to finish Cthulhu. Also got a lot of art to do too, so we'll see how much free time I get. Was a slacker last month.

[Piestrio]

Yay! Got my heavy weapon squad assembled and primed. In bigger news I grabbed a case for my army, battlefoam, I'll post pics tonight.

[Piestrio]

What do you guys use for mini storage?

[TristramEvans]

Very nice.

Right now I just have two foam carriers that I keep in my IoB box. Doomwheel taped to the bottom of the building I did surrounded by tissue. May have to make my own foam carrier for it. As my army size is effectively doubling this month, I'm going to need to get a carrier of some sort, but I'll be on s pretty tight budget with Halloween then Xmas coming up, so looking for a cheaper alternative to the very nice, very pricy ones like the above.

[TristramEvans]

Just lots and lots of slaves these days:

[Blackhand]

Sorry I've been out of the loop, been meaning to get in on these threads.  I think they're a great idea and we should keep it going.

I'll be back with some pics of some German Grenadiers for Flames of War.  That's really all I'm painting this month, other than Bones...well maybe I can scam a few pics of these Dark Eldar...

[Sacrosanct]

So...slight change of plans on which ones I painted.  Here is what I did so far.  The Brass dragonborn and roper are metal, while the others are Bones.  The skeleton is about 6 inches tall, for scale.

I apologize for photo quality.  I really need to get a decent camera

[Piestrio]

Love the roper

I FINALLY finished my Heavy Weapons Squad. Still struggling with job induced transient living, apartment won't be ready until Nov. 1 so I doubt I'll get another squad done before then.

Pics in a bit.

[TristramEvans]

Finished Cthulhu. It's a shame I can't show you the amount of detail with these crappy pics. It was a month's work, and Im very proud of it.

[Piestrio]

Man I'm thinking about adding a couple sentinel walkers to my roster...

Mostly because they look cool but also because it spares me painting some infantry

[VectorSigma]

Hope to have some pics to add to this thread later this week; I'm stripping my hella-old (and badly-painted by a much younger me) Squats to repaint and use as a gang in our upcoming Necromunda-based campaign.

Anybody ever use the color primer from Army Painter?  It looks hella sexy.

[Piestrio]

Anybody ever use the color primer from Army Painter?  It looks hella sexy.

I haven't but lots of folk I know use and love it. Keep in mind that some of the shades are not exact but good enough for table work (the yellow in particular is off).

[Piestrio]