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A photo of a Tyranid Genestealer. It's an Alien-esque creature with a long tongue and four arms with huge claws on it. Its skin is dark red and it's got a black carapace and all four arms have hands with huge yellow claws on them. The base looks like muddy ground with small swampy-looking grasses on it.

A photo of a Space Marine Reiver painted in Space Wolves colours (primarily blue-grey with a yellow shoulder pad). He's heavily-armoured with a helmet that has a skull design on the front, and is aiming a pistol and wielding a huge combat knife in the other hand.

I've been doing a bit of experimentation with my miniature painting! First was finding a good colour scheme for my Tyranids and also using the "Muddy Ground" texture paint and little grass tufts I bought back in October (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/1855). The second has been "zenithal highlighting" where you base coat in black and then do a second prime with a lighter colour just from above, where the light would be hitting it. Very pleased with both!

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Posted on 12 January 2022, 20:00

A photo of four vampire miniatures, all heavily armoured. One is bald and is holding a huge mace vertically in front of him, the second has long black hair and he's wielding a sword and has one hand up in front of him as if he's doing a Darth Vader-style Force crush. The third is a very buxom lady in an armoured corset wielding two swords, with CRAZY long purple hair. The last is hunched over and looks like he's hissing, he's got a one-handed mace and big bat wings.

I finished the leader of The Crimson Court back in September (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/1839) but hadn't been feeling in the painting mood apart from that. I finally got around to finishing the rest of the warband now! (Though as is becoming a theme lately, I need to wait for it to be not hot or humid in order to get the varnish done so I can then put the blood effects on top of that).

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Posted on 7 January 2022, 13:37

A photo of seven miniatures, all are painted in a purple/green zombie flesh-type colour. One of them is standing on the back of someone in armour who's lying face down, and has torn his arm off and is busily gnawing on it, another's holding a severed head. There's also two bats in mid-flight who are dragging a headless torso along the ground. All seven ghouls' mouths, hands, and feet are all covered in what looks like fresh blood like they've just fed.

Oh man, this blood effect paint (called appropriately enough "Blood for the Blood God") is amazing/horrific.

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Posted on 3 January 2022, 14:31

A photo of seven miniatures, all are painted in a purply-green zombie flesh-type colour. One of them is standing on the back of someone in armour who's lying face down, and has torn his arm off and is busily gnawing on it, another's holding a severed head. There's also two bats in mid-flight who are dragging a headless torso along the ground.

For the first time since May of last year, I've actually fully completed a painting project! This is the Warhammer Underworlds warband The Grymwatch, they're a band of ghouls who are completely insane and think they're a noble band of knights but they're actually just, well, flesh-eating ghouls. (Technically they're not actually fully completed quite yet, I still need to varnish them and then apply blood effects, but that's going to have to wait until it's a) not above 25˚C and b) not humid).

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Posted on 2 January 2022, 23:21

A photo of five Space Marines in bare blue plastic. They're all equipped with chainswords and pistols, and are in various dynamic poses.

A photo of ten Necron warriors in bare grey plastic, along with three Scarab swarms. The Necrons are Terminator-looking metal machines with guns, but in very shambling zombie-like poses.

And that's the miniatures assembled! (It's getting a bit ridiculous how many unpainted or just undercoated miniatures I have right now).

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Posted on 30 December 2021, 20:55

A photo of the Grymwatch warband assembled, in sickly green plastic. Seven miniatures, six are zombies, one's holding an axe and pointing, the others are hunched over in various poses. There's also a pair of very large bats.

A photo of the Kainan's Reapers warband assembled, in bone-coloured plastic. Six miniatures, all skeletons. Four are warriors holding various weapons, one has a big staff and is weaing an elaborate headdress, and the last is a HUGE armoured fellow towering over the rest, holding a double-bladed scythe.

A photo of the Starblood Stalkers warband assembled, in torquoise-coloured plastic. Six miniatures, all lizards. One has a blowpipe, another has a spear raised above his head, the third is slinking along. Another is a chameleon with a blowpipe, the fifth has an elaborate staff and is holding a small ball up in triumph, and the last is a big heavily-armoured chonker.

A photo of the Khagra's Ravagers warband assembled, in dark grey plastic. Four miniatures, all human, though aligned with Chaos. Three are heavily-armoured, two of them with helmets on, the third without one (Khagra herself), and the last is a more spindly-looking wizard lady with horns growing out of her head and holding a staff in one hand and casting flame in the other.

That was a productive day, I got ALL the rest of the Warhammer Underworlds warbands assembled! We have the Grymwatch, Kainan's Reapers, the Starblood Stalkers, and Khagra's Ravagers. Of course, it remains to be seen how long it'll be before they're actually painted. 😛 (I should point out that this is more work I've done with my miniatures in the last two days than I'd previously done in the last seven months).

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Posted on 28 December 2021, 20:28

A photo of the Warhammer Underworlds warband "Rippa's Snarlfangs". It consists of three goblins with Mongolian-style hats riding on the back of big wolves. One has a big spear, another is aiming a bow and arrow, and the third is waving a sword around.

A photo of the Warhammer Underworlds warband "Da Kunnin' Krew". Two tall and slender but fairly heavily-armoured orks, one with a trident and whip and the other with a big snappy-claw thing on a pole. There's also three goblins, two heavily armoured and one wearing a leather helmet.

Ok, some exercise followed by a shower and dinner gave me a bit of a second wind. I had to call it at two warbands though, because it's started raining in the exact direction that comes into the back room, which means I need to have the door closed, which means WHEEEEEE GLUE FUMES.

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Posted on 27 December 2021, 21:53

A photo of four blue plastic miniatures. Three are heavily armoured warriors — one with a cloak and holding up a lamp, the second holding a huge two-handed warhammer like he's about to swing it, and the last with bow and arrow in mid-run — and the last is a bird taking flight from a tree.

That's Xandire's Truthseekers assembled (one of the two warbands in the Warhammer Underworlds: Harrowdeep box). Not sure I have the energy right now to undercoat them or assemble the other warband though.

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Posted on 27 December 2021, 16:03

A photo of the box of the Warhammer Underworlds warband "The Grymwatch", which are essentially zombies. Also a bunch of little different coloured tufts of grass that are designed to stick onto a miniature's base and add visual interest, and a tub of "muddy ground" brown texture paint, also for basing.

I'm excited to see what interesting things I can do with these little basing grass tufts and the "muddy ground" texture! Got a few ideas already, and definitely no lack of miniatures on which to use them. And I decided to pick up the Grymwatch having seen someone do a WAY cooler paint job with them than the standard one.

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Posted on 12 October 2021, 12:56

A photo of a vampire miniature. His skin is very pale blue like he's dead (which is he, because he's a vampire), he's wearing steel- and brass-coloured armour with a blood red cloak, he has a sword in one hand, and his other hand is held up in front of him in a sort of "We will crush them" pose. His front foot is resting on top of the broken-off head of a stone statue.

There we go, Prince Duvalle is all but done! I'm just waiting on a paint order that contains Games Workshop's "Blood for the Blood God" paint, which is a really rich glossy red paint for creating blood effects. Going to put some on his hand and down the side of his mouth so it looks like he's just fed.

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Posted on 23 September 2021, 22:31