On the table now - Daemonettes

6 finished, 2 in progress. That leaves the champion and the Herald left to finish. So close I can taste it!

Finished - Squig

I have had this mini chilling in my bits box for longer than I can remember. I don't even remember where it came from. It does not look like a current or recent 40k model. I decided to paint it up as a Squig and maybe use it as a counter for an Attack Squig or, if I wanted to be really beardy, a Bomb Squig. 

He was fun to paint up. I tried to use a modified version of my Daemonflesh. I started with a purple basecoat followed by Mechrite Red first pass. I then hand highlighted the flesh with Evilsuns Scarlet. I have all the skin a wash that is a 1:2 mix of orange and red washes. The current red wash is entirely too dark to be suseful to shade red. After the wash was dry, I touched up the red.

I left the gums purple to act as some contrast and to make the mini look more alien.

The hair was based with a 1:1 mix of black and grey, highlighted with a grey dry brush and washed black. I did a final dry brush of grey to finish. 

The teeth are bleached bone washed Sepia and touched up with bleached bone again. 

I don't know what it would take to replace this mini. Current similar models go for between $2 and $10 on eBay so $5 is about right to replace Paint job is solid for me at a 6/10. Value of the pant is about $10 (below my bench fee because of how easy and fast it was). I would estimate the total replacement value at $ 15 and the same for the trade value.

On the table now - Daemonettes, Savage Shoota Orks and Necron flyer

I and grinding my way through the Daemonettes and wanted to outline my next two projects. I find that if I set specific goals in my painting it keeps me from bouncing from project to project and leaving my table strewn with half-finished minis. 

That does not mean that I will not indulge small side projects like the Squig or Preacher of Nurgle, but I should finish one large project before moving on to another one. 

Up next after the Daemonettes, I have my Feral Ork Shootaboys. I like pairing the Clans and paintjobs ironically with the minis.  I can think of no type of Ork less suited to be a Shootaboy than a wild Feral Ork. For a little further irony, I am going to paint them as Bad Moons, typically the most rich of the Ork clans. My Sluggaboys are also Bad Moons so they can share use of the Trukk that I have already painted. 

I am very excited to start work on these Orks and am trying to use that excitement to propel me through the Daemonettes (which are still not going well). Really, what I want to do is to set the Daemonettes aside and work on these bad boys. To tell a secret, I have been. when I am waiting for Daemonettes to dry, I will try to get some paint on either the next set of Daemonettes or on the Orks but always returning to the Daemonettes. 

On the table now - Daemonettes

This 10 man squad of Daemonettes will finish the basic Troops for Daemons. I have finished but not yet taken pictures of my Plaguebearers and with the Bloodletters and the "Pink" Horrors finished, these little pink ladies will complete the set. 

The painting is not going well. 

I decided to go with a pink, black and silver color scheme to match my Emperor's Children. With the EC, I randomized (to a point) the colors and where they were placed. With the Daemonettes, I decided early on that I would paint all the skin pink and use silver and black as accents. Painting black and silver are two things that I can do well. I thought that I could do pink as well because I remember it being shockingly easy on the EC models.

Finished - 'ard Boyz

I finished these Orks summer 2014 and never posted about them. Recently, I took out the old photo studio and tried to document them. I had some lighting issues in that I did it at night, in a poorly lit area wiht only two halogen lamps for lighting. I am still trying to get my photography skills to the point with it displays my painting skills. I have some programs that will allow me to edit photos (Apple has updated their camera software to include this recently too). Even though I can edit the photos, they still never turn out perfect. Seems that I am no better at editing photos than I am at taking them.

I knew that I was going to do a unit of 'ard Boyz (now called Boyz with 'eavy Armor) from the start and also knew that I was going to use WBF Black Orcs as proxies for them as soon as I saw a unit of the plastic minis. I fell in love with these models. What is more terrifying than a giant unstoppable green killing machine than a giant green killing machine wearing 100 pounds of armor. The kits also had very little Fantasy feel to them. Aside from little chainmail hanging out the cracks, they could easily be 40k Orks. 

Finished - Lootas and Meks

To go with my Ork Wrecker Trukk, I painted up a minimum squad of Lootas and true to my word, I used Speed Freak colors. Lootas are supposed to be the greedy thieves of the Ork warband. They think that "sharing" is an integral concept to Ork Kultur. My vision for them is that they stay in the Trukk and shoot wildly ant anything that comes near. then they zoom up, unload and haul away their kill. 

I painted them just like the Trukk primarily red with lots of silver and yellow and gold accents. I am really liking the two color scheme for my Clans. I have finished but not posted pictures of my 'ard Boyz. They were blue with some dark red rust. There was silver and gold in there too but with only one bright color (blue), they look kind of monotone. I should have added in some red accents, but you live and learn. 

Finished - Ork Wrecker Epic Post

I started this project almost a year ago. After a flurry of initial activity, I encountered difficulty in converting this 1:32 scale Army truck into a sufficiently Orky Speed Freak Wrecker. I started cutting up bits of plasticard into interesting shapes and gluing them on. I quickly found that this did not really make things look Orks and rather just kinda made it look like I had glued a bunch of crap onto the model. It was a mess. It like the more I did, the worse it looked. I initially tried to fix it by adding more armor plates, bits and gubbins but that really made it worse. Getting frustrated by converting it to an Orky Trukk, I set that project aside and tried to focus on other aspects of the conversion.

I wanted to magnetize the crap out of this vehicle to the point that as it became damaged, parts would come off of it. I wanted all the doors to work and the top of the cab to come off. I wanted the windshield to fold up and down. As the assembly went forward, I had to stop assembling the cab and paint the interior. The doors were held in by the top of the dashboard. To assemble it further, I would need to have the inside painted. Before I could finish painting the interior, I needed to get the driver and gunner assembled.