September Paint Thread - Paint Thread 2: Paint Harder

[Piestrio]

It's september!

Time for another painting thread.

What to post:

Your plans for the month.

Progress pics.

Finished pics.

Advice/suggestions for painting.

My plans in the next post.

[Piestrio]

So I'm still painting my Romanesque Imperial Guard/Space Marine army.

I'm still sticking to the "one unit a week" plan.

I found a really cool older GW box from before the last price hike:  



So I got a squad + Chimera for $54, about $20 cheaper than buying them separately. I wasn't planning on getting any Chimeras yet, but $20 is $20.
I'm not planning a mobile infantry guard right now so It'll either be a Melta-taxi or a mobile command base for the moment.


So plans-

Week one: Imperial Guard Infantry squad.

Week two: Imperial Guard Command squad + character (either Morbo, a commissar or a company captain)

Week three: Imperial Guard Command squad + character (same)

Week four: Chimera.

Once those are done I should be able to field a 500-750pt list. It'll be a big boring blob but bringing 55ish models to a 500pt game has it's own kind of beauty.

"Quantity has a quality all its own"

I'm out of town for labor day weekend but I'll get started when I get back monday night.

[TristramEvans]

For this month I've divided it into two two week goals.

The first two weeks I'm working on a Doomwheel, a few left overs from IoB, an old metal Plague Lord Skrolk I managed to find, and Deathmaster Snikch (my personal favourite Skaven character).

The second two weeks I'm devoting to a Warlord riding a custom Bonebreaker mount. The last time I played Skaven they didn't have any mount options, so that was one of the things that really excited me about 8th edition. GW hasn't yet done any official models for the mounts yet, however, so if you want one you have to model it yourself (or buy the really awesome but really expensive Great Plague Rat resin model from Forgeworld). Bonebreaker mounts are, to quote the army book, a specifically genetically enhineered strain of Rat Ogre created by taking an augmented specimen and submerging them in a vat of growth agents for months, requiring the sacrifice of thousands of slaves.

Most people just take a Rat Ogre and affix a platform and Warlord on the model's back, but that didn't seem impressive enough to me. I did like this custom where a fellow used a Rat Ogre from the Screaming Bell and affixed a Headtaker Queek at the end of the chain as if he's being thrown

But if I'm going to shell out 80 bucks for the bell, I'm going to want to make the bell, not just ravage it for parts. And I still think the Bonebreaker should be way bigger. I considered adapting a few other models, from the Doombull to Varghiests, but I wanted to do something unique. Thus I started looking at WH40k models and that's when I came across this fellow-

The Chaos Marine's Mauler fiend. I'll be fixing the head a bit to make him a bit more rat-like in appearance, and giving him a tail. Moreover, the Maulerfiend comes with the following alternate head, arms, and a pair of machine guns,

Which I plan to use to make a custom warp lighting cannon and a pair of Ratling Guns.

[Piestrio]

I know it's from last months unit but my standards came in:

[TristramEvans]

Plague Lord Skrolk nears completion

[Piestrio]

Plague Lord Skrolk nears completion

Very nice. I wouldn't normally go for a green on green coloring but it works well here.

I'm being lazy and have been making only creeping progress on my guard squad this week.

[TristramEvans]

Very nice. I wouldn't normally go for a green on green coloring but it works well here.

I'm being lazy and have been making only creeping progress on my guard squad this week.

I wanted him to look as gangrenous and diseased as possible

And, yeah, my production rate has really slowed down, in that I no longer have hordes of unpainted Clanrats to motivate me to do a certain amount per day, and I've been getting into making terrain this week .

[Piestrio]

I wanted him to look as gangrenous and diseased as possible

And, yeah, my production rate has really slowed down, in that I no longer have hordes of unpainted Clanrats to motivate me to do a certain amount per day, and I've been getting into making terrain this week .

Terrain falls into the scope of this thread...

[TristramEvans]

Terrain falls into the scope of this thread...

Ill post pics as soon as I've got the first piece completed. Working on small cottages and town buildings now as practice for a wizard tower, which will be practice for a castle, and then onto underground dungeons/crypts/lairs.

[VectorSigma]

I recently dug my models back out for general rpg & skirmishing use - there were more unpainted plastics there than I remembered.

Found some random Empire guys, some Bret bowmen.  Gonna order some Persian infantry from Wargames Factory and turn this whole pile into my "assorted warriors and bandits".  And some ogres.

I'll probably paint bowmen first.  Though I have a ton of dwarves to finish, although they won't be as useful for the DCC game I'm going to be running, unless I do up an entire dwarf-themed adventure, which might be keen.

[thedungeondelver]

Okay, here's what I did in August because with one exception (the dwarf cleric with the open book) they're going to continue to be done in September.  So I guess that counts.  There's also other stuff pending.











...the painted dwarf was actually done at the first of last month but I didn't post any images in that thread so I wanted to show him off a bit.  His eyes aren't that screwed up looking from a tabletop perspective; I don't plan on entering any of my minis in a show or anything...I did have fun prying him off of his reaper base and putting him on a Secret Weapon Miniatures base instead.  The other, skin-only painted dwarf I just started is also on an SW base but it was easier as he's a slotta-based mini so it was just a couple of snips plus some file work to get him onto his much cooler base.

[Piestrio]

Nice tau.

My first week:



Now on to another command squad.

[TristramEvans]

Here's some in-progress pics of my first building. It's basically a practice run for a bunch of techniques, but even so, once painted I think it will turn out pretty nice, at least in that wonky Warhammer-fantasy approach to Renaissance Germanic architecture. Made from cardboard, foam board, Popsicle sticks and toothpicks, all courtesy the local dollar store.

[Piestrio]

So I've be interviewing for a new job this week so my painting hasn't happened :/

Hoping to get my command squad built today and painted this weekend but I'm really timid about priming in the weather we've been having in Denver (underwater).

[TristramEvans]

I've had a busy week as well, with little time for Painting. The Doomwheel is getting pushed back to next week. I am making a bit of progress on my little building though: