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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.)

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

A photo of four Warhammer 40,000 miniatures. They're all regular human troops with big armour and various guns, but the stock male heads have been replaced with third-party female ones from a company called Statuesque Miniatures. The skin colour is very dark but with really nice subtle shading, and the one I called out with the goggles has them pulled up on her forehead. The goggles have a really nice shade going from very dark green down to a lighter green so it looks like they're some sort of futuristic night vision or something.

It took far too long, but the first four Scions of my converted all-women Kill Team squad are done! Absolutely stoked with how well they came out, in particular the faces as well as the goggles on the one second from the left.

There was absolutely no drybrushing on these at all, but given how much time drybrushing saves and the fact that I've got another nine of these to paint, I'm definitely going back to drybrushing for the larger areas because I want to actually get the rest of these finished some time in the next five years. 😛

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Posted on 19 June 2022, 16:13

A photo of four miniatures from Warhammer 40,000, they're heavily-armoured human warriors wielding various guns, but the stock male heads have been replaced with a third-party set of female ones from a company called Statuesque Miniatures. The skin tones on all four are Black and they look wonderful.

Progress has been slow, but I finished the faces of the next four of my squad of Scions tonight and I am pretty damned happy with how good they look!

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Posted on 12 May 2022, 22:37

A photo of an Astra Militarum Scion from Warhammer 40,000, basically a regular human trooper except I've replaced the regular male head with a third-party female one that has a military cap on. She's got her mouth open like she's yelling, and is wielding a chainsword and laspistol. The base is all done and looks like snow and it's got a couple of little winter shrubs on it as well.

Okay I lied, I COULD be bothered breaking out the airbrush for one single miniature. She's all finished now! Next stop, the other thirteen members of the squad. 😅

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Posted on 11 April 2022, 21:29

I've finished off the test model for my new Scion squad, and I am absolutely STOKED at how well she came out, in particular her face and eyes! She's not FULLY finished yet, I still need to apply varnish and then put the snow sprinkles and winter bushes on the base (oops, and also paint the lens on the thing beside her head which I didn't notice I hadn't painted until I was looking at it just now), but I can't be bothered pulling out the airbrush and setting it up and cleaning it out again for just one single miniature.

I'd signed up to Duncan Rhodes' Painting Academy a couple of months ago, the videos are fantastic and clear and extremely well-produced, and I used his technique and colours for the face in particular. It's all of £4/month and there's a ton of videos and more added weekly.

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Posted on 10 April 2022, 21:56

A photo of 13 miniatures, 12 in plain grey plastic and one light grey resin, all heavily armoured. They're all wielding various guns, one is waving a huge regimental standard above her head, and the leader is standing on a rock wearing a military cap with her cloak billowing out from behind her while she aims a plasma pistol. The heads of all the grey plastic ones are shiny pewter instead of being plastic and are mostly wearing berets, and they're all clearly female.

There we go, the entire all-women squad of Scions is finished! Super-happy with my conversions here, next stop is to do a full zenithal base coat with the airbrush (full black undercoat followed by white sprayed from the just top 45 degrees or so of the miniature so it's highlighted where light would naturally fall).

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Posted on 1 April 2022, 9:20

A photo of three miniatures in plain grey plastic, all heavily armoured. One has a chunky telephone handset and is yelling into it (she's the comms woman), one is holding a giant flag that is the regimental standard, and the third has a medkit bag in one hand and a pistol in the other. The heads of all three are shiny pewter instead of being plastic and are wearing berets, and they're all clearly female.

Woo, the first three members of my all-women Astra Militarum Scions squad are assembled!

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Posted on 28 March 2022, 21:56

A photo of three heavily armoured warriors in full green armour. They're all grotesque, the left is holding an axe and a mace and has a grinning and fleshy demon face on his right shoulder pad, and he has a long purple tongue and fly eyes. The middle has a screaming daemon face on his knee pad and three tentacles bursting out from his left side. The last has a huge mouth in his abdomen with a long purple tongue coming out of it, and some sort of tentacle coming out from the left eye of his helmet.

Finished the last three members of my Death Guard squad for Kill Team! I'm really happy with how these came out, I tried some new techniques (much less dry brushing and more building up in thin layers, particularly in the daemon faces in the armour), and I used my airbrush to varnish them rather than having to wait for the weather to cooperate to use the spray can.

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Posted on 27 March 2022, 20:22

Operation Dropper Bottles has begun!

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Posted on 17 March 2022, 22:34