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Late pledge: Since my order of contrast paints is arriving this weekend I'll make a start painting my horde of Ard Boyz

Going to try out the Blood Angels Red and the Ork Flesh with highlights applied after, looking forward to properly trying these.

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Finally!! First part of my goal this month is done, and probably more important, the first miniature I finish in years!  You could say a small step for mankind, but a giant leap for me. When I look at the photo's now, I still see plenty things I missed, or could use some rework. But still, given my  average at best painting skills,   I am quiet happy with it tbh.

I like to think of Ogres as brutal creatures living in a world of ice, steel and fire. So a lot like BCR, a little less like Gutbusters, and even less like most of the man eaters .  Worn outfit, rusty armour, nothing fancy or shiny...that's what I like about them. I have less with the gore and blood that is usually also an important  part of their theme. 

The reason I choose the more classic grey/khaki skin colour is twofold. First of all, like I said in my previous post, I bought this army years ago around the time the newer kits like the stonehorn where released, and although I never finished anything, I still have quiet a few half painted ogres with this skin colour, which was at that time common skin tone for ogres. So it makes sense to continue to use it, rather than I have to re-paint the rest. Apart from that, I simply like this skin tone more than the human skin tone that is more popular these days. I like to see them as monsters rather than just fat, ugly human beings. And to me, this colour also feels a better fit in the  picture I have in mind of them. Just a personal preference of course.

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Part 2, Stonehorn underway. :)

 

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So, despite much procrastination and logging a ridiculous number of work hours, I did get this lot done. The chariot is complete and looks ok. Not my finest work but it will do. 

One way:

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Or another:

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Something a bit different I worked on this month. My brother gave me an idea to kitbash some 40K Nobz into Ard boyz to give some variety to the unit. 

So here are some Ard Nobz... Or Nob Boyz... hmmm

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and a bit lower:

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As always, any comments are welcome. I did just push up my model count for completion of this project tho... damn.

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Just noticed this thread. Think I'll get involved next month 👍

Got excited by contrast and decided to finally get my Nighthaunt up and running. Aiming to do 1k first along the lines of the following tester model. 

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On 6/10/2019 at 7:13 AM, valenswift said:

Bit late this month

a lot of FEC stuff for a friend

Forbidden Powers scenery and spells

My new Sylvaneth (Looncurse and Start collecting)

My first pictures from this months pledge.

 

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This month’s pledge is complete! Really pleased with how Brokk has come out, although an error when gluing has left the left hand guard sitting out of place. Oh well. 

 

Going to be painting mostly lotr stuff for the next few weeks I think, but I’ll be back when I return to AOS projects (probably more overlords)

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4 more grotlings for silver tower (they're all painted now only like 50 more models to go in that one :) and a blightking using some contrast paints and some traditionals for the metal on the weapons/big shoulder spike. Really liked the contrast for yellow, made it rich and i didn't have to build up like six layers to make it pretty. also good for cloth

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On 5/29/2019 at 1:09 PM, RuneBrush said:
  • Finish assembling a 2k Legion of Grief army
  • Base everything using the same scheme (something that ties in with the tombstones on the E2B kits)
  • Undercoat everything (Grey Seer Spray)
  • Work out the colour scheme
  • Paint the battleline options

Happy to say that I've largely done most of my targets!  The one I didn't complete was painting up the battleline options - although as my pics show, I've got the main colours down on them.  Sadly time commitments and the weather both consipired against me to get them actually completed 😕

(WIP pics in this thread)

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So I didn't get round to making a pledge this month, since I was away on holiday for a month, but I do need to post the (almost) finished minis from last month's pledge. 4 bloodthirsters and Scyla. I'm waiting to do the flames until I get my hands on Contrast paints, which look amazing for wet blending.

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On 6/1/2019 at 3:06 PM, Kramer said:

So for this month I have a couple of things I (rationally) want to do but nothing really got me excited just yet. So my pledge is to do two, stretch 3. 

1 build awesome base for Brokk Grungsson / paint brokk*

2. Build church tower terrain 

3. Finish last Skaven (except for: thanquol)

4. Convert thanquol base / paint

5. Convert and paint 5 chaos warriors & 2 chariots 

6. Find and paint 10 daemon slayers/hearthguard bezerkers 

* which I got this morning from my awesome girl in response to me proudly declaring I finished painting all my KO... I don’t think she knows how clearing backlog in this hobby works 😂

Probably won’t find the time for the pictures, so this is mostly for my own record. 1. Waiting on scenic base to built from. Did assemble and did first base layers  

2. Basic structure done. Just need to pull the trigger on how to represent a meteor strike through it and order the stormcast endless spell to finish it off. 

6. This turned into s very fun (and time consuming) experiment in blending contrast paints. 5 slayers down. 6 to go. One slayer standard bearer added to stand in as a runesmiter. 

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More or less finished the 2nd part of my contract yesterday. Still have small things to do. For one,  I am hesitating if I should add snow to the ogre, it is a bit scary as I have little control over it, and hard to remove afterwards.stonehorn-09.jpg.83b52b71ddd820d8a98fc652593b0bc3.jpg918762299_stonehorn-02(2).jpg.0ec2a22317eeafe75cbadbbf517adaaa.jpgstonehorn010.jpg.1c65a5b8191fe725714567e6ce9e3ddb.jpgstonehorn01.jpg.96c22e1bd77ff80ceab41f6d84e8892f.jpgstonehorn-02.jpg.b60a50f8355c0e20e1d1de770abf305f.jpgstonehorn-07.jpg.fb6a5346c54af191c1b7f9a2ea582a75.jpg.

And the Tyrant I finished earlier:

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