Painting Miniatures

Cheers Suvanto! It's Citadel's Fulgrim Pink.

Aaaand exciting news, I won the monthly paint klub at my FLGS! Check it out!

For this month's competition, I'm painting up this friendly fellow. It's one of my favourite GW minis.

The cracks between the different parts are still really noticeable so I've ordered some liquid greenstuff. A new month, some new lessons...

Congrats on winning Unicycle! How many participants are there generally? My local GW shop doesn't organise anything like this.

Wife said she wanted a new 1v1 competitive game and I had just the thing in mind: Warhammer: Underworlds Beastgrave. So that's what I've been painting all week, it's 11 models in total and I'm just about done with everything.

Here's a few models from the warbands, the Wild Hunt and the Despoilers.

Not super happy about one or two (the eyes on the one on the left bug me, but I don't see way to improve them).

Finally a fantasy setting so I could try out some basing. That long plant is not going to survive long but I think it looks pretty cool.

Tried a quick game last night and it seems really fun. Fast, tactically pretty deep with some dice throwing.

It's a CCG/figures skirmish game. Warbands of 3-7 figures duke it out on a small two part hex board. You have a hand of 20 cards, some of which are objective cards that you try to fulfil during the game (like occupy hex X at phase end, knock-out two enemy fighters etc) some are one-off spells or permanent upgrades for your dudes.

The game is played over three phases and a phase consists of four activations per player, activations are done on I activate model, you activate one model gameplay so it's fairly snappy and reactive. Activations include move, charge (move + attack), guard and draw card. Each player can play cards from hand after each activation. One model can do multiple attacks (only if it has not charged).

Winner is who ever has the most victory points, scored from doing the objectives, at the end of phase three.

The deck consists of a number of warband specific cards and a number of universal cards, usable by all warbands bands. Cards only come with warband packs, and are known, so it's more like an LCG in that respect. No blind boosters here. I've not looked into the CCG aspect at all yet.

It plays fast, like 20-30 minutes a game I'd say. There's a videogame version of it as well, it's quite a bit behind the board version in available warbands but the UI is pretty slick.

EDIT: clarifications

Took my time with model 2, looking a bit better

Good job on the detail work. You're better than I am. I generally subscribe to the 5 foot rule.

Unicycle, to my completely untrained eye it looks like you're laying the paint much thicker on the Stormcast than on, say, the Poxwalkers. The paint just looks heavier. To cover the grey undercoat better, you could've used multiple thin layers, right? I've been much too impatient to do it, but many of the youtubers seem to recommend two or three thin layers.

Alrighty, I feel like I'm getting my mojo back.

This is my monthly "paink klub" entry at my local. I usually like to spend a week or two on these, but I rushed a bit due to a heavy workload at university right now. This was done over 3-4 hours.

I accidentally gunked up the helmet with some liquid greenstuff while attempting to fill in some gaps, so I decided to make it look worn and rusted to cover up my mistake. I also tried some new glazing techniques I'd red about (mostly on the front two mushrooms), and I'm pretty happy with them! It's my first time blending that way and it worked a treat.

Great thread! I used to paint these figurines in the late 80's, back when they were all made of pewter and only the cheap masses of fodder-figurines were made of plastic. I used to love painting these things, even if a single figurine was enough to wipe out my entire month's pocket-money. I've really considered getting back into it. Are all the figurines plastic now? What's the quality like?

Games Workshop are killing it with their models at the moment. All plastic, easy to assemble and wonderfully detailed. Still pricey, unfortunately - the goblin above cost me $40AUD.

There are other companies out there who are considerably cheaper. Reaper models are pocket change and the official D&D line isn't much more. They just aren't as detailed, and due to that I find them harder to paint. Still great value and perfect for practice.

Just as a contrasting view, I increasingly find GW minis obnoxious to paint because there's TOO much little fiddly detail. More and more I'm drawn to older style minis or those from 3rd parties that frankly tone it down a little.

Also I find assembling GW to be a pain, especially in cases where the complexity isn't justified by high levels of customizability. Go die in a fire, Necron Tomb Blades.

The real answer is 3d printing though. =) Although many of the models you can get for your own printing also fall prey to the "too much embellishment" issue.

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...

I have come to hate washes. I find the sheen I get from them is unpredictable and unwanted. I've been trying to go with higher contrast hand painting to emphasize depth. Here's my latest 3 "Orkz In Progress." Its funny what about your techniques "pops" once you take a photo. I find myself starring at this and plannign where to go back and try for something smoother.

Fixed the link for da boyz!

Those are really nice! Light blue isn't a colour you often see on Orks. The skin looks really good!