Steve Troughton-SmithTiny boy!
It’s new brush day! Trying out Artis Opus this time. €100 doesn’t get you an awful lot of sable these days… 😅
Finally pushed through to the finish on these two. My new Artis Opus brushes are fantastic, now I just need to get better at using them 👌
At least basing is the fun part
Basing begins.
One thing new I’m doing on this batch is going back in and manually adding shading and black lining after the fact, which makes all the difference
Current status: very carefully trying to paint a model past me glued together and didn’t have the foresight to make in subassemblies…
When I’m just doing one, I’m much faster! Maybe batch painting is what’s been killing me
Particularly love how this cloak turned out. I still need a lot of practice
Honestly not a very complicated model or paint job. Another couple of sessions should be all I need
On the turntable, since this model arguably looks better from the back than from the front 😂
Attempting a pox walker test model, since I can’t find a decent box art tutorial. I don’t have my recipe 100% right yet, but it’s not too far off
I think I pulled it off? He looks reasonably close to the box art version
Poxwalker no. 2. These guys are fun to paint, as a little goes a long way, and every single model is unique
Already making a difference to the shelf. Now I just need to rescue the rest out from under the layer of dust 😝
Nearly there! Those pants turned out way better than I expected
One thing I'm noticing, doing these poxwalkers, is that it's really satisfying finishing one miniature at a time. It's quicker, I'm having more fun, and the variation makes each one interesting. I'm also more willing to try more advanced things, like mixing, glazing, etc, because I only have to worry about what's in front of me, and as a result I am learning and (I think I’m) getting better at this with each one. Batch painting doesn't give me that same dopamine hit
Poxwalkers on the turntable 😄
If you think painting miniature eyes is bad, wait till you try teeth 😅
Almost started painting the base before painting the horns 🤦♂️ Disaster averted
On the one hand, painting Poxwalkers to this standard takes a certain kind of madness…
On the other hand, they look sooo goood 🤤
New techniques time! Not 100% sure this is giving me what I’m looking for, but I’ll play it out and see
Might have to shelve this guy for a few days; need some colors I don’t want to have to mix, so I gotta pick up some paints before I continue. The blues are making for an interesting tint, too
Reasonable progress on this guy! Capturing the right facial expression makes or breaks a mini like this
Right now, cloaks are my least favorite thing to paint. Blending is hard
Starting to come together. I’m kinda procrastinating until my new paints get here, but it’s nearly done
My first Inquisitor! Real happy with how closely I could match him to the box art. Still some cleanup to do (he’s not glued to the base yet), but overall great mini
He’s in better shape today for sure. Still gotta figure out those tentacles though
If I’m to make any progress on my backlog at all, I need to work on more than one mini per day 😅 That’s a pretty fking tall order…
Little morning diversion. Saw a great painted commissar online and it spurred me into action
I could paint Imperial Agents all day long. I really enjoy painting up once-off minis
The face was the first part I painted, as a subassembly. It turned out OK but I stressed about it for a long time, and it took many attempts to get it somewhere I liked. Painting faces is hard, man. And it’s still nowhere near as good as those from any decent painter
It’s been a while since I painted anything, and I now have a lifetime’s worth of minis inherited from @pilky, so I figured rebasing some of them would help me ease myself back in. So Thousand Sons it is today!
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Gary Ash@stroughtonsmith One heck of job. Makes me wish my friends and I had time for some good ol’ Warhammer and D&D
HipsterDM@stroughtonsmith
That's incredibly clean.
I was just so proud of the stuff I did today and then this, lol
New brushes still work wonders though.
That's incredibly clean.
I was just so proud of the stuff I did today and then this, lol
New brushes still work wonders though.
Joe Chott@stroughtonsmith I…. Actually had pictured these more than double their actual size. I had NO IDEA how masterful you are! That is unreal!
@Verxion and these ones are on the larger side, too!
Scott Elfstrom@stroughtonsmith I liked this commissar model so much I had to make it part of my T’au army.
@scotticus good job shaving that breastplate!
La Langoustine@stroughtonsmith The gold parts 
@stroughtonsmith Love it!!! :)
Jordan@stroughtonsmith Have you got any shots of your entire collection?
@jordan I do not! There's not enough of the whole painted for me to take photos, and there's a lot of stuff still in boxes, not assembled, when you're talking about the 'entire’ collection 😅
@stroughtonsmith Absolutely STUNNING!!!
vt102@stroughtonsmith Very nice! I love the colors.