Painbringer

My plan is to finish Slann Starmaster - I've already done a lot of work:

These are the prices in GBP, that were shared in one of the groups that I am a member of:

My Blades of Khorne/Daemons of Khorne army is finally done! This was my main painting goal for 2023 - to fully paint an army I own and I managed to achieve it. Now I'm thinking about what will be my main project for 2024.

AND HERE IT IS! I have managed to paint my Khorne army this year - I'm so happy because of this! The best thing is that the models shown below are not the only ones I've painted - there's actually quite a bit more. I will now decide what will be my main painting goal for next year.

I continued rebasing my Stormcast: And my last unit of Bloodletters (and the whole Khorne army!) is nearly done:

Fantastic!

Just a little bit more, and my Kairos Fateweaver will be finally finished:

I decided to rebase my Stormcast. Here's the first unit I rebased - I am using "Temple bases" from Gamers Grass.

And Gotrek is done!

Besides working on Bloodletters, I also started painting this gentleman:

Fantastic work! The baes are perfect and they really make the miniature stand out!

Well, I started off my October painting contract with painting my Bloodmaster in a single day: Next up - to paint one more unit of Bloodletters!

Thanks! This year I painted a lot of stuff (actually, it's a lot for me - for someone else it might not be that much) and I'm constantly trying to improve my skills, so reading comments like yours really means a lot Yesterady, I managed to fully paint Herald of Khorne/Bloodmaster, so here's another photo for the thread:

I've managed to finish these guys!

Flesh Hounds are done! However, I took a short break from painting Khorne and managed to almost fully paint a full unit of Plaguebearers! The pictures do not show the most recent state - I have finished swords and the banner, so now, there's only horns and faces left to paint. I expect to finish that during next week. I've used Tyler Mengel's painting tutorial for Plaguebearers and was able to paint them really quickly. However, I have to note that I decided to spend a bit less time working on transitions and some details, because my primary goal was to paint these models fairly quickly (I want to play them in WHFB 6th edition campaign in my Daemonic Legions army, so that was my primary motivation). Here are some pictures:

And here's a group shot of all 3 Bloodcrushers:

I've painted 4 Flesh Hounds (I just need to finish the base on the last one). One more to go - and the unit is ready!

I have finished painting a unit of Bloodcrushers:

I want to paint unit of 5 Flesh Hounds this month - I've already almost finished two of them. Here are some pics:

Almost 9 months after I opened this topic, I wanted to provide a hobby update. My goal for this year was to have fully painted Khorne Daemons army that I can use for both AoS and WH40K, Here are the models that I have painted since the beginning of the year: I've painted this using the approach I've described in the opening post - painting in small sessions few times a week (usually 30 - 60 minutes, with occasional longer sessions). Currently, I am painting unit of Flesh Hounds. After that, I need to paint 10 more Bloodletters, and that's it! However, not all of the things I've painted are shown on the picture. Besides Khorne models, I have also painted: - Chaos Knight Rampager - Daemon Prince (for Warhammer 40K) - Several Stormcast Eternals models (Bastian Carthalos, Lord-Imperatant, Knight Vexillor with Banner of Apotheosis) - Kairos Fateweaver (almost done) My main reason for posting this was to try to motivate people who might be struggling with painting their armies and models. As I already described at the beginning of this topic, I've struggled with this for years (and left many armies for several different games unfinished). However, now, despite work and family taking most of my time, I am (paradoxically) able to paint more models than ever. It's a slow process, but the results just keep piling up - and it's great when you take a look at what you have accomplished after some time

Hell, I don't even play Ironjaws (my friend does) - and I think this type of battletome supplement is great! This is the way to go!

This month, I want to finish painting my Daemon Prince for 40K and paint one unit of Bloodcrushers. The Daemon Prince is mostly done, but there’s a lot of missing/undefined details - here’s the current state: I like the new Daemon Prince model so much that I have three of them Two are WH40K-specific, but the third one has been built with AoS in mind.

These were my first two minis that I bought and painted: There's also a story about these two minis, so here it goes in case that you want to read. I bought these minis (and a few other ones) from a man who was visiting illustration & comic book workshop that I was attending at the time (I think it was 2000 or 2001). That workshop was a magical place where (besides learning how to draw comics), I met a lot of interesting people and learned about many cool games (including Warhammer). So, this person was selling recasts and he mentioned that these miniatures are used in a game called Warhammer (and basically, that's how I found out about the game). He also agreed to show us how the game is played. So, next week he brought a fully painted 6th edition starter set (the one with empire and Orcs) and a bunch of us played a battle on one of the tables in the studio, with artbooks and comics used as hills and obstacles I really liked the game, but at that time, it was very hard to find Warhammer miniatures in Serbia and they were really expensive (and the country was recovering from economic sanctions and bombing campaign, so the whole economic situation was not very good). So, I bought a dozen of recasts - I understood they were not the "real" miniatures, but they were cheap and it was a first step, anyway. At that time I also learned that there was a set of fan-made rules in Serbian, called "Sword & sorcery". These rules were used for playing small skirmish games with just a handful of miniatures (much like Age of Sigmar Skirmish or Warcry rulesets). I managed to find copy of those rules as well and played a few battles with my brother using these miniatures. Some time later, I learned about the "White Dwarf" magazine - also from a guy that visited the studio from time to time. As far as I remember, he was not collecting Warhammer miniatures, but he liked the miniatures in general and he liked the magazine as well. So, I borrowed a few issues from him - one issue every week. I would look at the pictures of miniatures and battlefields for hours and I started reading lore articles, rules articles and painting articles. I carried the WD to school as well, and read it with a firend of mine during the breaks between the classes. By reading painting articles in the magazine, I actually learned the basics of miniature painting. I found a bunch of oil paints that my mother used while she was painting and decided to paint a few miniatures using them. Both of these miniatures on the picture above were painted with oil paints, using some god-awful brushes (and I did not wash the brushes properly, so I destroyed a few of them while painting these Orcs :D). I remember that I tried to make my own washes by diluting paint with water and applying it in the same way as wash (actually, it somewhat worked) and I also used tea and sand as a flock for the base.

Here's another Khorne model I have finished in the past couple of weeks - Skull Cannon:

I have finished my Skull Cannon! I also started painting unit of 3 Bloodcrushers, but I don't think I'll finish them by the end of July.