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A photo of box of eight Vallejo metallic airbrush paints in various shades, plus a medium grey, blue grey, rust, and orange rust.

Woohoo, my airbrush paints arrived! Now to hopefully not fuck it up while I'm using them to paint my Kill Team terrain...

Posted on 26 September 2022, 13:11

A photo of all of the assembled grey plastic terrain from Kill Team: Into The Dark. It consists of a heap of interconnecting walls, all extremely detailed and steam punk-looking, with pipes and gothic-looking features and skulls. There's also extra bits like ammo boxes and little generators. The whole lot takes up almost the entire width of my painting table, which is 90cm wide.

IT IS DONE. (Miniature at the front for scale.) ::collapses in a heap::

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Posted on 17 September 2022, 21:20

A photo of my painting desk with a bunch of industrial-looking walls in grey plastic already assembled at the right, a sprue with more walls on it in the middle, and the assembly instruction booklet at the left. The desk is covered in the little bits of plastic I've chopped off the terrain to tidy it up.

Current status: Assembling the seemingly endless amounts of terrain from the new Kill Team box.

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Posted on 17 September 2022, 15:21

A photo of seventeen little pots of miniature paint, plus a roll of "Green Stuff" which is used for modelling and filling gaps in miniatures.

PAINTS FOR THE PAINT GOD! SHADES FOR THE SHADE THRONE! Games Workshop brought out a new selection of their "Contrast" line of paints in new colours and with new some formulations, very excited to start using them. They've really been a game-changer in terms of giving excellent results but also being really fast to paint. And you can make some sweet effects with them too, by thinning them out and painting them atop other colours, especially metallics.

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Posted on 18 July 2022, 13:17

A photo of the "Ferratonic Incinerator" terrain from Warhammer 40,000. It's a massive rusty-looking cylindrical furnace with a platform on top and a gantry that extends across to the right. There's all sorts of pipes and wires and controls all over the whole thing and it's borderline steampunk but also very industrial.

I decided to mix it up a bit and today completed one of the huge pieces of terrain that I got in the old Kill Team box back in 2019 (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/1097). Pretty pleased with how it came out, given I only started it last night! I think the trick is to ignore all the crazy fine detail and just do broad colours, and just pick out a few key details at the end.

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Posted on 9 July 2022, 23:29

A photo of six barricades that come up to about chest height on the miniature that's standing behind them. They're all segmented and gears and teethed tracks on the inside that makes it looks like they can be expanded or collapsed in width. They're all painted in brown and look like they're completely rusty.

That's the barricades done, and with that, all the small bits of the terrain! Next stop, the full size pieces.

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Posted on 7 July 2022, 22:13

A photo of an A3-sized piece panel of MDF wood with rounded corners and a textured graffiti-looking pattern on the front, with a large drybrush sitting on top of it (think almost a makeup brush, it's got big and soft bristles).

How's that for perfect timing, my texture pad and extra-large drybrush from Artis Opus just arrived, exactly when I'm about to start doing the larger Kill Team: Octarius terrain pieces!

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Posted on 7 July 2022, 11:43

Two pieces of terrain from the Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team: Octarius box. They're both walls but EXTREMELY ramshackle made from scrap, like corrugated metal and panels and part what looks like the door from a vehicle and so on. It's all totally worn and rusted-out.

Another piece of scrap wall in the same fashion as the first, this one has what looks like part of a big tank (the container not the vehicle) and rather incongruously has several coloured lights strung along the top of the wall.

Got the scrap walls finished too! I tried doing some lighting effects with the globes, with varying degrees of success. This was a little bit more work than the last terrain bits, but not by too much, and it was mostly mucking around trying to get the globes looking decent.

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Posted on 6 July 2022, 21:07

A photo of three of the terrain scrap/junk piles from the Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team: Octarius box that came out in July last year and has remained shamefully unpainted until now. They're all just a jumble of pipes and scraps of metal and fans and fuel tank and gears and such, and all are brown and worn and rusty-looking.

Well, they're not going to win any awards, but I reckon that's a pretty decent result for about two and a half hours work. A friend pointed out that I should really just drybrush my damn Kill Team: Octarius terrain and get it over with, and it turns out he's not wrong! I'm going to wait to do the really large pieces until my extra-large drybrush arrives though. (High Elf for scale.)

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Posted on 3 July 2022, 18:48

A photo of the four elven miniatures that make up The Shadeborn warband from Warhammer Underworlds: Nethermaze. They're all in very dynamic poses, all lithe and mid-leap. The painting is a black undercoat with white airbrushed from the top angles of the miniature so it really gives a sense of depth as all of the lower surfaces are darker, as they would be if they were lit up directly from above.

The five Skaven from Warhammer Underworlds: Nethermaze. Skaven are sneaky, tricksy ratmen, and these ones are in very dynamic poses as well and look like they're about to attack. The bases are sculpted to look like they're lurking in a sewer, and the painting has been done in the same way as the Shadeborn: black undercoat with white airbrushed from the top so it looks like they're being lit from above.

Well, I'm not remotely confident enough to do actual painting with my airbrush, but I reckon I've got the hang of this zenithal highlighting thing.

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Posted on 23 June 2022, 21:58