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A photo of four of the six pieces of the "Primal Lair" terrain set. They're all set on what look like basalt columns (those hexagonal stone formations you see in places). One has a huge horned skull resting on it, another has a horned skull and also the backbone and several ribs of what was an ENORMOUS creature, the third has big yellow crystals coming out of the middle, and the last is a pool of sickly green liquid inside the stone columns.

Games Workshop's Contrast paints and my new big drybrushes certainly reduce the time it takes to do these terrain pieces for Warhammer Underworlds! (Miniature is there for scale).

Posted on 21 April 2021, 19:58

A photo of the back of the three partially-painted miniatures from the Ironsoul's Condemnors warband from Warhammer Underworlds. They're heavily armoured with gold armour, and have long flowing robes in dark navy blue. The raised edges of the robes are highlighted in a wonderfully smooth fashion up to a light blue, almost like they've been airbrushed.

I think I've got the hang of this drybrushing business now. 👌🏻

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Posted on 19 April 2021, 22:30

A photo of one of the old early 2000s Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine miniatures that's base-coated black but drybrushed in a gradient in blue-greys up to almost white in a lovely gradient.

I was having a bit of a struggle with my new drybrushes, you can't tell too much from my previous photos of Lady Harrow's Mournflight, but I couldn't get the drybrushing to come out properly all the time, it kept globbing and looking like crap. I decided to carefully watch Artis Opus' tutorial video and do some experimenting and, counterintuitively, it turns out I was actually taking TOO MUCH paint off the brush! Because the new brushes are so big and thick and soft compared to what I'm used to using (an EXTREMELY ratty old Games Workshop drybrush), you actually need to leave more paint on the brush and just really gently flick the end of the brush across the surface. Check out this gorgeous gradient I did tonight, I think I've got the hang of it now!

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Posted on 16 April 2021, 23:11

A photo of the four miniatures of Lady Harrow's Mournflight from Warhammer Underworlds. They're spirits and modelled to look like they're very ephemeral and wispy and flowing. The wispy bits are a sickly green colour with a smooth gradient into white at the edges and raised areas, they have deep purple corsets, and the bases look like a ruined graveyard.

There we go, the spooky ladies are finished!

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Posted on 14 April 2021, 23:44

Thoroughly enjoying my new fancy drybrushes!

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Posted on 10 April 2021, 23:42

A photo of two wooden boxes with fancy Artis Opus brushes in them. One is a set of four regular brushes, the other is set of four drybrushes.

YES! My first set of properly-fancy brushes. Very excited to take them for a spin.

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Posted on 6 April 2021, 13:42

A photo of the warband Morgwaeth's Blade-coven from Warhammer Underworlds. Five female aelf miniatures, the one in the middle is holding a spear with a goblet raised in triumph and has long pale blue hair. The two on either side of her have long pale pink hair and are both holding swords like they're about to use them. The one on the left's bottom half of body is a snake and she's holding a bow. The right one has a whip and is mid-leap over a broken statue. They're all not wearing much armour.

Oh man, I just did my first ever glaze for miniature painting (I thinned out Flesh Tearers Red with Contrast Medium in a 1:8 ratio), and hot damn am I a convert. Look at how rich that red looks now!

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Posted on 30 March 2021, 20:33

A photo of three fully painted "orruks" (Games Workshop speak for orks). They're all in battered-looking dark metal and bronze armour, the leader is pointing a sword and roaring, and the other two are mid-weapon swing. One mid-swing one is holding two metal clubs with spikes coming out of them, and the other's is the same club-looking things but joined together in a nunchuck-like fashion. Their bases are pale blue and white like snow.

And that's Morgok's Krushas done! Proper DSLR photos will be coming on Wednesday once it's not actively raining so I can varnish them.

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Posted on 21 March 2021, 14:49

Three round miniature bases, with really pale blue icy-looking areas and some chunks of rugged white rock/snow, with skulls and bones scattered about.

I know the bases of miniatures aren't the most exciting things, but I'm seriously stoked with how these came out and wanted to photograph them separately before the miniatures themselves are glued on. I immediately thought of snow and ice when I saw the bases, rather than dirt and rubble, and it's excellent to have something a bit different! (The feet are molded to the bases if you're wondering).

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Posted on 20 March 2021, 23:24

A photo of three partially painted "orruks" (Games Workshop speak for orks), the Morgok's Krushas warband from Warhammer Underworlds. They're all in battered-looking dark metal and bronze armour, the leader is pointing a sword and roaring, and the other two are mid-weapon swing. Two of the three have their green skin painted.

My creative refresh day was a success! I always forget how much slower it is painting with regular paints as opposed to the Contrast ones though... the brown metallic-looking bits are the same darker silver underneath, I started at 9am and it look me until about 2:45pm to finish doing just those silver bits. All the rest of the colours were done from then until I finished at 5:30pm! I'll finish them off over the weekend.

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Posted on 19 March 2021, 18:51