Steve Troughton-SmithIt’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!
Pushing my way through the ugly phase on my Cathay test model 🐉
It's been a while, huh. Painting faces is so damn hard, but very rewarding
I think the head maketh the model, in this case, but I still have a lot of highlights to do to bring it all up
A quick composite paintover in Photoshop has me excited to finish this thing 😄 It actually is gonna look ok in the end. I just need to do it for reals
And now for real, the final assembly 🥳 Even better than the Photoshop version
Tonight's rebound project: re-basing and magnetizing a bunch of pilky's dwarfs
It's fun to go back and see the mini painting progress I've made in the past couple years in specific details, like faces. They're one of my favorite things to do now
Continuing with the re-basing project on pilky's dwarfs, and gave the leader a tiny bit of a face/hand touch-up too
Been pretty sick for a week, so recovering by slowly making progress on the first mini of the year
Finally pushed these Star Wars Legion stormtroopers off my painting desk after them being there for the past year. Soft plastics: never again. I'm so glad they've moved to hard plastic minis in later editions. Lesson learned
Have done very little hobby in 2026 so far, so I was compelled to paint up some terrain prints that have been sitting on my shelf for too many years now
Love the little vignettes you can make when you have some terrain pieces
An offhand ChatGPT repaint inspired me to actually go and repaint my goblin tower, which I was pretty unhappy with when I painted it in 2020. It didn't take much to bring it up to a much higher level, though, and now it looks great!
The last photo is what ChatGPT made of it, just for reference. But it convinced me that it wouldn't suck so much if I put just a tiny little bit of effort into it, so I did
Finally making progress on this guy from January again. Nurglings are fun to paint!
1997–2026, a painting journey in pictures. It really goes to show that this stuff is not innate talent, it's a lot of hard work and time spent learning and practicing
This is all the hobby I've done so far in 2026 — not a lot yet, but there's still time to catch up
Next dilemma on my painting desk: me struggling with tentacles. I have painted and re-painted these things a dozen times, and mixed so many paints together in a panic that I have no idea what instructions to leave for next time. But I think I'm getting to something I'm happy with — especially when comparing with an earlier revision (picture 2)
I do love how each little poxwalker has been its own puzzle to solve, since they're all so different. It's been a year since I last posted them, so here's what the rest look like
Printed this beautiful retro @DoctorSpork terrain piece up today and couldn't help myself but paint it. Tested out a wet-brush marbling technique I found on TikTok (never done marble before) and I think it worked out ok! Still have some finishing work to do on it, but I love it already
James Thomson@stroughtonsmith These always look really good, and I’m happy when they cross my timeline!
@jamesthomson you have a whole collection just waiting to be painted!
@stroughtonsmith I do, I just need to spend the 10,000 hours to get as good as you 😅
Timbo@stroughtonsmith
Wow, you’re so talented. What awesome talent💙💙💙💙
Wow, you’re so talented. What awesome talent💙💙💙💙