A lot of edge highlighting left to do, but they’re starting to shape up

Starts to make a difference pretty quickly!

Honestly these are harder to paint than the Space Marines 👀 A lot more steps and more-organic highlights to worry about, but I can see an end in sight and they’re looking 👌

The workspace 🎨

Next pass in progress. Only a few steps to go beyond this

Last thing to do on the model is the skin, which I have no practice at. Can’t ruin it too badly from here though!

Only basing remains! March goal achieved 🥳

And we’re done. Tomorrow starts the next project

Final spread for the month of March! A touched-up Sentinel and Dreadnought, and freshly-painted Cadians, Praetorians, Intercessors and a lone Hellblaster. Very happy with every bit of this, and big chunk of progress made on the pile of shame 😄 #WarhammerCommunity #warhammer

And a glamor shot of the Cadians before I put them in the cabinet 🤓

I accidentally spent the evening creating a small diorama board just to have a nicer background to photograph minis on 😅 So have some action shots! /cc @pilky

I should have made this years ago 😍 #Warhammer #WarhammerCommunity

Really enjoying the storytelling potential here

I guess I should show you the actual board too, huh

I had begun these Death Guard back in 2019 when I first started painting again, with Contrast, but I think I can do much better today — so I picked up everything I need to re-spray them and start over. Luckily Contrast is very thin so I don’t think I’ll strip them beforehand. Final shot of the previous attempt

So many edges to highlight 😰

This sculpt is kicking my ass — there are just so many nooks and crannies and different surfaces to pay attention to. I don’t want to think about the other dozen on the todo list 👀

Starting to look convincing. I think every model in this damn army is going to have to be treated like a character model for painting. There’s just no way I could batch five of these at a time

No more for tonight. Just a few things remaining, but Papa Nurgle would be proud…

That specular highlight on the bone, and the fleshy tentacle, came out 👌

I guess I lied! Mini complete 🥳. I’m sure I’ll go back and tweak a few things when I have the patience, and basing is in progress, but so much better than my first attempt (second pic)

Fin. The first mini of April.

It finally feels like I can hit the standard of painting I always dreamed of, after 25+ years of collecting 40K. YouTube has completely transformed the learning process, it’s true, but having the right tools, brushes, techniques, and paints, really makes all the difference for an amateur like me. Proud of these minis! #WarhammerCommunity #warhammer40k

Tiny toys; it's easy to forget how small these things are, when all the photos are closeups #WarhammerCommunity

A strategically placed iPad mini makes for a great, versatile backdrop! #WarhammerCommunity

The next logical step was to create a little backdrop app, and populate it with some generated artwork from Stable Diffusion. Does the job!

Another Space Marine in progress, in the stolen minutes of late nights. Gotta keep powering through. My DIY dust shield seems effective…

Freshly-cast white metal, just like back in the olden days 😋

Pretty much done with this one. My April quota is definitely not being met so far — this is only my second mini this month 😅

All done!

Something a little different on the painting desk tonight…

Turned out ok, though! My first ever Legion mini

Looks great with a backdrop! I really gotta paint up the rest of my Star Wars Legion Core Set so I can justify getting more 😛

Two down. Unfortunately it’s a duplicate sculpt, but there are plenty more where they came from

One last project before April ends. Gotta power through this 8E box before 10E lands 🫡

A reasonable-looking head, complete with stubble! 😄👌

It’s taken longer than I’d hoped, but I’m nearly done with these guys. 70%/80%/90% respectively. Bare head leader guy is going to get some fancy checkerboarding on the knee, which is going to extend the process a bit

@nevison I use sable brushes for all mini work — Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky. Size 1 for normal painting, Size 0 for chunky highlights, Size 000 for fine highlights. I also got a cheap wet palette from Amazon which helps keep the paint thin and flowy. My current battle is with dust, as I paint minis bit by bit over a week or so and that starts to interfere with the brush, so I've taken to storing the models in sealed plastic containers when I'm not actively painting. But, practice!