Steve Troughton-SmithThere are few things quite as satisfying as slapping down Skeleton Horde Contrast paint on an actual skeleton
Getting the hang of this; I feel pretty comfortable painting a skeleton now
You did say you wanted the return of classic models…
So enjoy cutting off all the flash and metal gates, sanding, resculpting missing detail, pinning, Green Stuff-ing all the massive gaps, and cutting new slots in the plastic base to fit the actual tabs in the model 😅
This Green Knight sculpt is gorgeous, but I’m definitely feeling the curl of the monkey’s paw
What's on the painting desk this weekend? More skeletons, of course
Easing myself back into painting with an easy project: touching up a model I did 2009-ish. Still need to base it, but pretty happy with the result!
And we’re done! One Terminator Chaplain repaint complete 😄
More skellies! Have to search my bits box for the rest of the shields, mind
And shields for everybody! Now I can actually call these complete. I only wish more of them had survived since I opened the box (…in 1998?), but maybe I can bulk them out with spare parts later on
Next assembly line up and running. Left is washed. Middle is recess-shaded. Right is finished test mini. Painting is exhausting 😴
I’m still highlighting these Death Guard. Finding all those edges is *exhausting*; I can manage maybe a couple a night
It’s slow going, but next up is the metallics and that will make a big difference quickly
NGL, this has been a marathon project. Certainly in no rush to paint any more Death Guard in immediate future 😅 Can’t argue with the results!
This has been two weeks of 2–3 hours a night, or two seasons of Hell’s Kitchen worth according to my watch history. It’s real nice to do something analogue for a while
Not a whole lot left here! Bones, cloth, and final details
And just to highlight what 5 years of progress looks like, here's where I gave up the first time trying to paint these models, back in 2019!
I’m so glad I don’t have a timer counting how long these have taken to paint. The people who can do this all day every day are heroic
Tomorrow, the Death Guard will be done! Feels real good 😄
And we’re done; a full painted squad of Death Guard before Christmas 👨🎨
One for the Reddit crowd:
Spent December painting up some Death Guard a la the TableTopReady tutorial and they turned out neat!
Before I run out of energy, I figured I’d begin a test model for some very classic Dark Eldar I have lying around. Even the studio paint jobs for these were awful, just like the models 😂 So I have very little to go on; uncharted territory
Ben S@stroughtonsmith I used to play 40k back in this era … and I can’t get over the quality of the modern models in comparison, and the massive change in style when painting them.
Almost enough to make me go buy the Horus Heresy box and relearn to paint. Almost.
Brian Grinter@beseku @stroughtonsmith brilliant stuff - scale model builders are usually “good enough- he’s in a cockpit anyway and you won’t see him”
