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A photo of a Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine, a big heavily-armoured warrior holding a big gun, that's been undercoated in black and has a zenithal highlight of white done from the angles on the top so it looks like the light is shining on him from above. The gradient is smoooooth.

We were over at a friend's place today and he has an airbrush. I had a play around with it, and that's it, I'm getting one. Look at the damned smoothness of this zenithal highlighting!

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Posted on 12 February 2022, 19:00

A photo of my painting table with paints all at the back, a miniature in a little holder in the middle, a wet palette at the right, and two jars of water for rinsing the brushes in at the left. There's also a glass of rum and a piece of dark chocolate at the left.

Friday night status: a rum Old Fashioned, some dark chocolate, and painting. 👌🏻

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Posted on 11 February 2022, 19:47

A photo of a bulky-looking robot suit, almost anime-style I guess, with a huge gun on one arm. (Yes, they _are_ called Stealthsuits despite being the least stealthy-looking things you could think of!) It's painted in a sandy desert kind of colour with black accents, and the base is also a sandy desert with a tuft of a bright red alien grass on it.

Over two years since I put my Tau Stealthsuits together (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/1639), and I've FINALLY decided on a paint scheme and actually painted one of them, haha.

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Posted on 5 February 2022, 18:29

A photo of five Space Marines, heavily-armoured warriors all wielding pistols and chainswords. They're painted a blue/grey colour, one shoulder pad is a rich yellow and the other is a dark red. The sergeant in the middle has no helmet on and I was able to paint his pupils, and for the other four with helmets on, their eye slits go from red on the outside to yellow on the inside. They're on snowy bases and the bases have little wintery grass tufts on them.

The decal-softening stuff arrived yesterday, and today it was low enough humidity and temperature that I could varnish them, so now my Space Wolves are all done! 🎉

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Posted on 3 February 2022, 13:02

A photo of five Space Marines, all wielding pistols and chainswords. They're painted a blue/grey colour, one shoulder pad is a rich yellow and the other is a dark red. The sergeant in the middle has no helmet on and I was able to paint his pupils, and for the other four with helmets on, their eye slits go from red on the outside to yellow on the inside.

Well, I need to wait until I can get some of this special decal-softening stuff so I can apply the Space Wolves logo to their shoulder pads before I varnish them and put the little wintery grassy tufts on the bases, but I'm so happy with how these Space Marines came out! I did full zenithal highlighting, and the sergeant's face isn't drybrushed, I actually painted the highlights on by hand. 😁 And check out his pupils, and the other Marines' eyes!

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Posted on 29 January 2022, 21:50

A photo of three tubs of texture paint (snow, snow sprinkles, and "Sandy Desert"), and a little packet of light green/brown grass tufts that look like they've got snow on the top of them.

I've been having lots of fun expanding my repertoire of bases for my miniatures, so I bought some more of those texture paints, and some wintery grass tufts!

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Posted on 25 January 2022, 11:08

A photo of three miniatures, each of which consists of a swarm of seven little robotic scarab-looking things. Their carapace is a dark bronze colour, and in the middle of their backs is a hemisphere that I've painted such that it looks like it's a dark green gem reflecting the light.

I got the three Necron Scarab swarms done today, and I am fucking STOKED at how well the gems on their backs came out! They look like they're actually glass!

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Posted on 23 January 2022, 22:55

A photo of ten Necron Warriors from Warhammer 40,000. They're robotic and look very Terminator-esque, and are painted in a dark bronze and dark silver. They're all carrying guns, and are in poses very reminiscent of shambling zombies. The bases are done as cracked red earth like it's been extremely dry, and there's one to two little light brown grass tufts on each base as well.

BAM, that's the Necron Warriors from Fireteam fully done! That crackle paint on the bases is so freaking cool, and I love the little dry shrubs as well. I've still got the three Scarab swarms to paint, but they'll be far faster to do. Then after that, five Space Marines, and that'll be the whole Fireteam box completely finished. 🎉

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Posted on 22 January 2022, 23:17

A photo of fourteen of the REALLY old mid-90s hexagonal-shaped paint pots from Games Workshop in various colours, along with three inks from the slightly newer screwtop type, and one from the slightly newer again round pop-top type.

I have a group chat going with three other friends that paint miniatures and we were talking about our really old Citadel paint pots. I went out the back to check mine, and ALL of these are still good. A number of them would date back to 1995 when I first got into Warhammer 40,000. 😮 I wonder how long they'd last once I opened them up again though...

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Posted on 16 January 2022, 21:58

A photo of a Necron Warrior from Warhammer 40,000. It's a skeletal metal robot-looking thing, but resembling a zombie in that it's looks like it's shambling, and the head is very Terminator-esque and looks like a skull. Its eyes are green and it's wielding a long alien-looking rifle. The base of the miniature is a rich red colour like the Australian outback and all cracked like the earth is insanely dry.

Got my first Necron done! I kept it pretty simple since I have another nine of them to paint. Check out that base, it's this special paint called Martian Ironearth from Games Workshop that cracks as it dries!

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Posted on 14 January 2022, 18:11