What Minis Are You Painting?

I don't have your skillz... there is a lot of small detail work there. Then lots of bases too. Ugh. I should sell it already.

It's not skill mate, it's laziness! Basecoat, drybrush, and pick the details.

Space Marine - $40 plus shipping =P

If shiping to the other side isn't kiling, would've taken that.

Hex Sinister wrote: Space Marine - $40 plus shipping =P

This one?

This one:
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4001/space-marine

Nothing but marines and some vehicles in it. Oh, some buildings. I need to dig it out and see if it's intact.

Here's some new stuff... Can't for the life of me figure out how to embed a Flickr picture here...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/54116966@N03/shares/197rR1

The Darkoath Chieftain was really fun to paint. I followed the TWG tutorial and it produced a good result. I finished it up and was going to leave the eyes undone but I went for it. I managed to accidentally put them in just right so he has a nasty disposition.

The Warpriest I went with a WD Paint Splatter, which is kind of nice because it's really more of a "get you going" guide than a full instruction. But I fumbled a couple of things; the lightning bolts look awful and I sort of screwed up the shading. I thought his skin and face turned out well.

Storm set guy was fun too- pretty easy, really, and simple techniques give a good look. Say what you will about "Sigmarines", like SMs they are well designed for even the most amateur painter. I want to do some more of these dudes.

Pink horror was lots of fun too, good colors and a great figure. Basic layering, and I played around with some simple gradients on the flames and feathers. I love these models.

Probably do the Ogroid tonight.

These look great!

Did you use gold on that stormcast knight? Looks crisp. I could never get gold looking that smoorh.

That is a new-ish Citadel gold called Retributor Armor. I love it. It's so freakin' smooth, it goes on like melted butter. And it's a base paint so the coverage is excellent. There is no "flake" in it at all, I guess they are using some kind of superfine metal to pigment it. It's much more metallic than other golds. There is a silver like this too, Stormhost Silver.

Nice stuff. As for flickr, I've found that neither the app nor the built-in iOS functionality will allow me to post directly to it from my phone. What a pain.

Here's my take on these stormcast dudes.

One looks really bad@$$.

The mask gives them a sort of Greek hero/demi-god vibe.

I feel 'meh' about an army of them. Definitely meh on some of the variants.

It's like a ninja...one is cool...but an army is lame.
Or like the green knight. One as a unique hero is awesome...an army would look silly.

Another reason why silver tower works for me. One champion stormcast knight. Perfect. I just wish he had a warhammer...

Oh, I saw a blog where someone did that large ogre thing with mainly washes/glazes. Super easy and looked incredible. I'll see if I can find it again.

That was fast....
agogonline.blogspot.com/2016/06/warhamme...-tower-painting.html

Looks like they just ran blue glaze over white primer.

So I bought some extra models for Silver Tower. The Dark Elf Sorceress so I've got two girl heroes for my daughters to play. It's disappointing there isn't a bigger selection, and that the Sorceress is mostly undressed, but I reckon I can get away with painting some trousers on her at least. And the Burning Chariot model which comes with three of the four exotic monster options: an exalted flamer, the herald of Tzeentch and two screamers. Plus three extra blue horror models for variety.

Most come without bases, which I expected. What I didn't expect was that the screamer tails are moulded into the underside of the chariot. I have no idea how I can realistically get them out without a ridiculous amount of work. You can see the problem here - the tails are in among all the tentacles mid-left of the picture:

hobby-games.com.ua/shop/published/public...es02_873x627_enl.jpg

Any ideas? Or anyone got any spare Screamer tails ?

Why not just leave the tails off? Or greenstuff small ones in their place? Tzeentch is the Lord of change....

For the sorceress, just paint clothes where there would be skin. Think of it as sort of like superhero tights in those areas.

For more female options...Get a mordheim sister of sigmar as a warpriest. A mordheim amazon for the chieftain. A wfb witch elf to use in the place of that male elf in silver tower. Basically just gender swaps leaving the stats the same.

Also...maybe the skink starpriest is female...

Mr. White wrote: For the sorceress, just paint clothes where there would be skin. Think of it as sort of like superhero tights in those areas.

Yeah, that was my plan. I might do flesh on the torso though, as its showing abdominal muscles so would have to be super tight. Can always experiment and see how it looks, everyone who posted samples online seems to have gone with maximum nakedness.

Mr. White wrote: For more female options...Get a mordheim sister of sigmar as a warpriest. A mordheim amazon for the chieftain. A wfb witch elf to use in the place of that male elf in silver tower. Basically just gender swaps leaving the stats the same.

It's a good idea, but I seriously think they'd still balk at the card art showing a male hero. It's amazing how important this stuff is to them, and it's something that, as a male gamer, I just never have to consider. They want to envisage themselves down there on the tabletop, playing the hero, and part of that is seeing and believing in a female avatar, ideally one that looks heroic and not like a sex doll. Such a basic thing and makes it so obvious why more girls aren't attracted into fantasy/sci-fi gaming. I wish more companies would take note.

As an aside, does anyone know the actual dimensions of the Silver Tower character cards? Was going to print out one for the sorceress but don't know what size to make it as the colour printer is at work and the cards are at home ...