What Minis Are You Painting?

I painted several squads lately (as in in the last 12 months), not sure which ones I have shared.

Assault marines, my favorite marine type



Sternguard Squad, the elite shooty squad



As comparison, these are the regular marines, but I painted much longer ago.

As a bonus, these are my old HOTT 10mm armies:

Human


Orcs

Oh, alright...

Cruddy looking Enforcers and Pathfinders

Forge Fathers (I'm doing them all as non-white people)

Asterians

40k Assassins

CSM Sorceror Lord

Delurking to share my Stormcloud Attack flyers.

Crimson Hunter. Pretty much complete, I just need to glue everything together and a bit of final touch up.

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Dark Eldar Razorwing

Close up on the gems

Damn man, those look excellent.

Have you played the game yet? I have yet to see anyone comment on how it plays...I know it's a sort of "bonus feature" for the kits, but it sounded like fun.

I like your color scheme on the kneeling dude with the sniper rifle Barnes.

As for Sevej and Lao, that shit is GOOD. The texture you got on the planes to match the wraithbone eldar thing...

Now we're talking!

Sevej, what scale are those Hordes of The Things armies? 10mm?

Barnes, those Enforcers look good to me. What are you using to base the minis with? I mean, what are you using for texture? You're going at a good clip here...about how long does it take you to do a fig?

Dr. Lao....damn...that is some smooth painting.

Y'all have got to check out the scratch built post apoc terrain in this thread:
s1.zetaboards.com/Post_Apoc_Wargames/topic/6014000/1/

This is what I was going for there:



But I couldn't find the right teal. I tried Hellion Green but it's a dry paint, too bright and mixing it yielded uneven results. Then I tried a 7-1 mix of a dirty bone color and turquoise ink. Which sort of worked, but I had to put it on so thick. And then shading made them look even messier.

Weapons, I wanted to be more Halo/Colonial Marine looking. No Leadbelcher drybrushing! They turned out OK.

I hate those Enforcer miniatures though. Assembly is terrible and the sculpts are awful. They have these weird poses. The Pathfinders are way better. I wound up with double sprues of them so I think I might just give the whole concept a do-over.

Anyone know of a stock color from any line like that Genesis Climber teal?

Jeff, I am pretty much speed painting the army figures. Those Enforcers took a while because I experimented too much with them. But I can do a non-character in about 30 minutes. That little Brokkr dude only took about 20 minutes. Sometimes I get better results just getting on with it.

Those bases all have Astrogranite slapped on them- takes about 3 minutes. It doesn't look awesome, but you can go back later and dry brush it or glue some other stuff on there. I have some Army Painter scatter stuff to put on them later. I have a bunch of stuff with Agrellan Earth bases and scrub brush, that's a pretty simple but good-looking way to do it. Those are both Citadel Technical paints.

Reminds me, I remember some fucking rad repaints of Armada engines that Superfly did for his... don't remember where he put those but those were awesome.

Michael Barnes wrote: Have you played the game yet? I have yet to see anyone comment on how it plays...I know it's a sort of "bonus feature" for the kits, but it sounded like fun.

Yes. About ten times. Using about as many different flyers from the line.
It does compete. It has more in common with Wings of Glory than X-Wing. If you are familiar with Games Workshop's style (dice, random, flavorful, tactical) then the best description is that it is GW's take on dogfighting. They did not shed their design Hallmarks for this game.

Those look fantastic, and by the way, WELCOME TO THE SITE!

Pete, what was that ruleset you used for post-apoc tabletop gaming?

Strange Aeon. I'm sure Pete's also cooking using the Strange Aeon rulebook.

@Barnes - The color you are looking for is most likely uluthuan grey or fenrisian grey. Use white to highlight uluthuan grey, or uluthuan grey to highlight fenrisian grey.

@Mr. White - 10mm! I LOVE 10mm, but really don't have the chance to expand my collection. They're just the right scale for mass-looking army from price, size, look and painting time perspective.

Mr. White wrote: Pete, what was that ruleset you used for post-apoc tabletop gaming?

I think Pete has preached This Is Not A Test before?