Painting Miniatures

Haha, welcome to my world basing is so much fun, and there's so much to learn! I'm always in trouble when I walk into a hobby store and see all the fun little bits.

Here's something I'm working on. I did bit of basing with some cork, sand, and "texture-y bits" and I'm pretty happy that I've avoided the flat cork look. But it's missing something...It's looking a bit empty. Normally I'd stick on a bunch of fun things from Gamer Grass but I don't think foliage would work here. Up the goo? Use less goo? I'm tempted to fill in the whole bottom area with goo. Now I've said goo too many times.

Idk! Any ideas? It's my paint klub entry for the month so I really want to make it stand out.

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Yay or nay on the grass?

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A_Unicycle wrote:
Bubblefuzz wrote:

Some quality painting A_Unicycle, seems like you've fallen for this painting lark quite hard.

On the flip side of the super detailed GW minis of today I just finished a little challenge to paint a 30+ year old GW plastic mini from the 80's Blood Bowl 2nd edition box. Here you go pre and post paint...

Haha hook, line and sinker. I'm well into the hobby now, I'm loving it.

Love your mini! Bloodbowl fascinates me. Not interested in sports but the models are fantastic. Love your vibrant little guy! Nice work on the damaged shoulder pad and helmet! Have you played either of the recent videogame adaptations? I've been thinking of sinking my teeth into one of them.

Speaking of less detailed miniatures, I pulled out one of the Reaper Bones minis I ordered when I first started getting into this hobby. Definitely a different painting experience than Warhammer. A bit sloppier (both due to my inexperience with these minis and the less precise sculp), but a fun way to kill 2 hours.

Thanks. I've played some BB2 on PS4 and just a couple games on steam with Euro GWJ folk a while back. Good game. My son and I have got the 2016 base box to paint, he's half way through the orcs, my humans are still on the sprue

Good skelly! I painted a Reaper Goblin Ninja as a D&D gift not long back, I'll see if I can find a pic. I did like the nostalgia of painting a metal mini.

A_Unicycle wrote:

Nurgle Champ

Cool, I've not really dived into basing properly yet, a bit of baking soda/salt/cork bits is about as far as extravagant as I get up to this point, a tuft or two if am feeling fancy. That base you've put together looks good, nice slime, works with the grass I think.

My lad painted that Death Guard mini last year, 8 at the time. He's not into basing yet either, but I was impressed with his idea at the time to water down some green and wash the flames...

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Here's that Reaper metal mini painted recently - I don't play D&D myself but painted up and bought some matching dice for a friend, one of her characters being a Goblin Ninja type. Part of a summer santa gift exchange our local game group ran this year to cheer everyone up, what with us not being able to play games in person at the time.

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Fantastic paint job on the Lord of Contagion, especially so at the age of 8! And I absolutely love the goblin ninja, and your photography skills! Where are those dice from?

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Today a friend sheepishly asked me to help them get into the hobby (well, they asked my partner because they were to shy :lol:) We both bought a Wizkids DnD troll and I showed them the ropes.

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I had a bit of fun ripping off the weird rocky base pictured above and hobbying up my own snowy ruins. Bit of a quick base coat / wash / highlight but it was a fun day. They really enjoyed themselves and are coming back tomorrow to finish their model. I was a bit quicker than them due to having a few months experience, but there's still some stuff I want to tidy up; mostly the face, mouth, and feet.

All in all, about 2 hours of work.

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You guys are killing it. And killing me. I've been mulling getting back into painting figurines for several years now. Came within an ace of buying an army painting set and a few test subjects. Now my wife has suggested making one of our bedrooms an art room.

Hmmmm

Been slacking off, playing video games. I did however manage to mostly finish two pieces of terrain for Underworlds. Winter is coming and it's getting really hard to get good lighting for photos.

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I'm pretty happy how they came out, though I'm thinking the stones themselves might need something a little extra? I was thinking edge higlighting, but that's a lot of work. Drybrush just won't fit in most places. This just goes to reinforce the point that I really, really should think about what I'm going to do before gluing these things together.

A question, the moss on the terrain is just powdery green stuff (AK Moss Texture) over glue, it seems to rub off pretty easily, should I spray it over with something to keep it in place?

Coldstream doo eet. A local, very active Facebook group "Painting projects support group" has, I swear, several posts each week along the lines of "I haven't painted in 25 years and just started again, can't believe how fun it still is".

I agree with you on the stones. They need some depth via color layers. I also agree on the thinking before gluing. In the limited painting I've done, I've "boned" myself by gluing too early.

I can't help you on the moss stuff- I'm a noob.

I really like the bone color.

-BEP

I have a frost giant figure I got from one of the Bones kickstarters that has a cloak that came separately. I immediately glued it on since I wanted the whole mini together, but quickly realized that I can no longer paint the back of his armor or the inside of the cloak. He will probably have to stay unpainted now because of that.

A_Unicycle wrote:

Fantastic paint job on the Lord of Contagion, especially so at the age of 8! And I absolutely love the goblin ninja, and your photography skills! Where are those dice from?

I'll pass that on to the boy, cheers

I can't take credit for the Gobbo photo, that was the partner of the gift recipient sent that over. The dice are a Pathfinder set.

Suvanto wrote:

Coldstream doo eet. A local, very active Facebook group "Painting projects support group" has, I swear, several posts each week along the lines of "I haven't painted in 25 years and just started again, can't believe how fun it still is".

+1 to all this. That quote is so spot on for me. Will say the main reason got back into it was because my son got the bug for it too... Honest it was!

Also, yeah the rocks need some drybrush I reckon, maybe just do it it where you can. Anywhere can't get to be more in recesses, shadows anyway?

Maybe lightly wash or drybrush some browns/muddy greens on the grey too, might help make a bit more natural?

"7:00pm - 9:00pm - Painting Minis With A_Unicycle"

The international gwj games thing, just spotted, will try and stay up to do some late night painting and tune in on the side.

What timezone is this?

Central time I think. It's all listed on the site article.

So midnight until 2 for me

Thanks Bubblefuz! I'm a bit nervous so some friendly faces would be welcome

Should be Central time, Suvanto. That's 11am for me here in Australia.

I'll likely be painting up the Mortal Realms exclusive model, Xandria Azurebolt in the Lions of Sigmar colours (purple and gold)!

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Bubblefuzz wrote:

Central time I think. It's all listed on the site article.

So midnight until 2 for me :)

Edit. Next weekend.

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Bubblefuzz wrote:

Central time I think. It's all listed on the site article.

So midnight until 2 for me :)

That’s 2-4 for me, sorry guys have to sit this one out. Would’ve loved to do it.

Shameless self advertisement, but I'm planning on getting back into my paint streams soon (link in my sig), so you're always welcome to hang out with me outside of the GWJ stream

Pop it up here when you plan to do it, will try and check out. Like to have something on in the background while painting. At the mo that's the interview with an artist series from Vince V.

Suvanto wrote:
Bubblefuzz wrote:

Central time I think. It's all listed on the site article.

So midnight until 2 for me :)

That’s 2-4 for me, sorry guys have to sit this one out. Would’ve loved to do it.

I usually get my chance to paint sometime between 9pm-12 GMT. Can try another time maybe.

Bubblefuzz wrote:
Suvanto wrote:
Bubblefuzz wrote:

Central time I think. It's all listed on the site article.

So midnight until 2 for me :)

That’s 2-4 for me, sorry guys have to sit this one out. Would’ve loved to do it.

I usually get my chance to paint sometime between 9pm-12 GMT. Can try another time maybe.

For sure!

Drybrushed the stones and it looks a lot better now:

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I've been dragging my heels on getting the figures for Rangers of Shadow Deep, finally pulled the trigger. Now I've got 60 or so models incoming, along with the Frostgrave 2 rulebooks. Got Frostgrave because it shares the models with RoSD.

With that many figures to prime and undercoat I'm seriously looking at getting an airbrush.

EDIT: Picking up a compressor and an airbrush tomorrow. Excited!

Cool.

Yeah rocks look good!

Frostgrave is my skirmish game of choice though I am picking up other similar level of indy skirmish rulebooks at quite a pace. A rulebook pile is looking as likely as the pile of minis, board or video games.

The Frostgrave official sprue kits are great by the way, especially the most recent female wizard set and also the Knights box just released same time as new book.

I'd like to try out an airbrush, but haven't really looked into the cost and what makes a good one yet.

I've been filling out a 5 ork Nob shoota sqwad for Orktober! Here's my progress with some other orkz I've dabbled with this month in the background! IMAGE(https://i.imgur.com/sg9A9nL.jpeg)

Really starting to miss painting. Had to suddenly pick up all my belongings and get out of my unit, just couch surfing with all of my stuff stored between various family/friend's houses so there's no chance I'll be painting for a while (not until I find a place and move in...which is taking longer than expected). I've also had to cancel my Mortal Realms subscription because I'll be paying a lot more rent wherever I go.

So yeah I guess painting minis really has become a big hobby for me. Starting to feel grumpy because I can't have that nice zen time.

Anyway, to keep this from being all moaning and groaning, I'd love to see what you're all working on.

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I'm staying with my fiancee cousin 1.5 hours away from my hometown so I strolled into a closing down newsagents and they had all of these.

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Cheap cheap cheap! Got so many chainrasps! Can't believe GW want to sell 10 for $70 and then throw the same sprue into a magazine for $6 a pop.

I know the first issue was silly cheap. I bought one for myself, one for my son and then my mother-in-law randomly bought the boy one as well. Didn't get any beyond that though.

No photo to hand, but at the moment I'm behind on painting up the really bendy plastic minis from Horrified board game for Halloween.

Hope you find somewhere to settle into soon and able to get back to painting zen times.

The shipment from Northstar came and it wasn't 60 but 90 figures.. here's picture of some Work In Progress

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The white ones are my first airbrush experiments, first prime is black and then zenithal highlight with white from the top, I think they came out pretty nice. I'll go and get some more Contrast paints to try and see how to paint these to show the highlights properly.

All in all that's figures from Frostgrave (the dudes in the front), Warhammer 40k (Space Marines), Warhammer Underworlds (Wolf riders) and Necromunda (very unfocused Goliaths int back)

The Space Marines I got from a Starter Recruit Box which I found for 22eur at a run down toy store window, between random animal plushies and dolls. I have no interest in 40k but couldn't pass up an opportunity to get a bunch of models at that price. Good fodder for airbrush experimenting.

Got in a game of Blackstone Fortress this week. Amallyn Shadowguide, UR-025, Thaddeus the Purifier and Pious Vorne trying to uncover the final clue for the location of the first Stronghold.

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Traitor Guardsmen foolishly ran into a trap and are about to found out what we think of Chaos.

That's a lot of models, I'm sure you'll be learning a lot with all the different styles! Space Marines are nice for edge highlighting. Really helped me get ok at the technique when I started - hoping to pick up some more cheap ones to practice more.

Those boardgame Warhammer products seem pretty nice. As someone who doesn't have a lot of space (or money...or time) for the full game, it seems like a good way to be immersed in the Warhammer universe quick and easy! The models look wonderful too.

Blackstone Fortress is good intro to the universe for sure, it's totally coop and playable solo, there's a ton of content in the box and numerous expansions are out. The models for it are absolutely fantastic. I even read the book Blackstone Fortress, which was good bit of fluff for the campaign.

The Underworlds kits are full of really nice sculpts as well.

Playable solo?!

Please don't say that, my wallet can't take it!

Yeah, for the rules in the box you need four explorers, nothing stops you from playing all of them, and it's not too much of hassle really.

White Dwarf has been publishing new rules and quests and they have been collected in the booklet Blackstone Fortress Annual 2019. They include rules for 2-3 players and a solo version too using a Harlequin Solitaire, a one-man-army kinda dude.

Pleased to enable.

Been in a funk lately. Painted this for the monthly painting club, but I'm not feeling it. Part of me is proud that I tried some new things, the other part knows it's not my usual standard.

Moving house during exams, hey I'm allowed to not be perfect this month.

I initially tried for a vaporwave style but stripped it and tried a galaxy design on the cloak. First time trying something like that, and I learned a lot doing so; primarily that I need to invest in a slightly finer brush, but also how glazing and layering colours works. So really big plus on bringing up my knowledge there!

Otherwise, these colours just felt difficult to work with. I had a lot on my mind so maybe I rushed things, but I couldn't help the paint gumming up a lot. I'm keen to try something entirely different this week, hopefully get me back in the zone now that life has settled down a little bit! Ultimately just glad to be done with this thing haha!

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