Nice progress, though!

Thank you, Slinky!

Found myself home with the kids, so I wrapped Raziel up. Fairly happy with the end result. Waiting on varnish and final pics. B&W teaser in the meanwhile.



Thanks for looking!

Raziel looks great. Are you doing a Kain to go with him?

Intriguing. I look forward to color photos.

Thanks, guys! Ask and receive.

Raziel, savior, destroyer, soul reaver. Happy with the results. Always something I would change or approach differently, but I do like him. Sort of a pain to photograph, though. Lighting ended up a little dramatic, but I think it works.









No plans for a Kain at this time. However, one should never say never. Time to pick something Space Mariney. Thanks for looking!

Wow, very dynamic. I really like the black outlining on the scarf.
My hands are not steady enough to paint that way.

Great work on the huge dude, lots of good textures going on

Also I had forgotten how weird Raziel looks, anatomically speaking He's not just a blue ninja guy with a psyonic blade like I remember from *checks wiki then chokes on his coffee* 1996!

Nice job on Raziel, but wow, super impressed by the Succubus Queen considering she's an old gummy Bones figure.

Thank you all, very much!

Stop it, Boss Salvage, you'll make me feel old.

What's that the Cap'n is always saying? Something about a long painting war? He's not wrong. Here we go again.



Primed most of Cammy, another Randolorian and Velma 2.0. When my friend printed her, I wasn't sure which options I would be using so I had him print everything. This included a nude torso, which I certainly wasn't going to let go to waste. Initially I planned to do it up as a 3/4 bust or something, but I got industrious and boldly printed another set of legs on my home printer. Seeing as how they are textured, I figured it could handle it. So far, it looks like I was right. Cammy is going to need a little more clean up, as some artifacts jumped out after priming.



Also trying to get some more Dice and Fire minis done. I wish THESE were the veteran models and not regular grunts. They are so much more dynamic and their swords are way more over the top. I don't know when I will play again. Between this game and Crisis Protocol, I don't like feeling like my knowledge of what my models do is probably outdated. I guess GW players deal with this and the associated fatigue as well. But that is one reason why I don't play 40K, either. BB Zoat is lurking, too.

Plenty on the go. Thanks for looking!

Toyed with the idea of entering Cammy for Space Marine month. She's MI-6, which is military, so sort of like a marine. And she takes up a lot of space, see? But I went with the Sicaran instead.

Wow, those are like Noise Marine level of colors.

Heh. Yeah, I was just using whatever filament was loaded at the time. Looks like Skeletor's tank to me.

Cross-posting the round-up from the monthly challenge. This was the first year I tried to take part every month, and I found it to be a lot of fun and a boon to motivation. Prior to this go-round I think I had only entered once, maybe twice.

Space Marine



Doomsday



Mistakes Were Made



Centennial Challenge



Renewal



Some Like It Hot



Sun's Out, Guns Out



Halloween Special



Wrecking Ball



Open Round



From The Shadows



Out With The Old, In With The New



Hopefully I can keep it up for this next year. Looking back I am happy with the entries, and I feel like they display the diversity in subjects and manufacturers I am sort of known for. That's a nice way to say I can't stick with anything. Velma, Gwenom, Raziel and the dragon stand out for me as successes. Thanks for a great year, thanks for the votes and thanks for looking!

Thanks for posting this retrospective. It's cool to see the variety models all in one place.

I think it's safe to say you nailed it, competition wise

That is an awesome display of true talent!

Greatly appreciated, fellows. Cam, you are too kind.

Snow makes priming an issue, but I finally got to spray another coat on Cammy and Velma and I got a few tank parts, too. In the meantime, I polished off the Night's Watchmen that have been stinking up my desk for a while. I feel they will look ok on the table if I ever play again.



And the aforementioned spraying.



Moving along. Thanks for looking!

Lovely flesh tones. Also Cammy is laaaarge

Thanks, Boss Salvage! She's a hefty piece of real estate.

Got the base sprays done on the Sicaran. Sort of a hassle, but I think better than brushing.



Curious how quickly I will be able to finish this up. May need to consider a stretch goal if it goes well.

Thanks for looking!

Starting to give it some character after partial assembly. I like vehicle models quite a bit, but always shied away due to size intimidation. I mean, my Armorcast titans have sat unpainted for decades. Looking for an effective method, and I hope this is a start. Also, eyes ain't what they used to be, so bigger models seem to be a thing I am easing into. Who knows. Rambling on a Sunday after losing an hour for no reason.

Thanks for looking!

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Starting to give it some character after partial assembly. I like vehicle models quite a bit, but always shied away due to size intimidation. I mean, my Armorcast titans have sat unpainted for decades. Looking for an effective method, and I hope this is a start. Also, eyes ain't what they used to be, so bigger models seem to be a thing I am easing into. Who knows. Rambling on a Sunday after losing an hour for no reason.

Thanks for looking!

I was kind of hoping for a bright blue-and-purple tank...

I don't do a lot of vehicles, but when I do I find that Gundam markers make panel lining much easier.

That Sicaran coming along nicely.
My biggest fear of large vehicles is them going to Legends after paying for them.

 Tommygun1918 wrote:
That Sicaran coming along nicely.
My biggest fear of large vehicles is them going to Legends after paying for them.

I agree that the Sicaran is looking good!

Also the worry about rules. 10th dumping a lot of rules for the 30k stuff into legends took a lot of wind out of may sails. And I have troubles with painting tanks to start. I love the look of them when done, but they just take so long to paint. Hard to keep up motivation

You’ve been busy youwashock. Benchtulu came out amazingly well, not a print line to be seen! Succubus Queen looks great with her slime buddy too.
Edit: I really am behind there’s a whole other page here!

Raziel looks amazing and the painting comp recap was really cool, masses of diversity and the bigger models look great. The Nights watch chaps look great, the ASOIAF unit bases always look super cool and the have great poses to boot. Sicarian looks sick… sorry, I’ll get my coat

Thanks, you three. Very kind words.

Sicaran has limped along. Not a lot of painting going on. May not finish in time if I can't get out of my head. Feeling a little disconnected.



In other news, a long time friend finally sold his house here in town and decided to pretty much dump all the game stuff that had been chilling in the garage for about 16 years. It was a lot. Most went to a friend with a game store, but I took a few shinies.



A grip of Rackham, 1999, and the requisite GW among other things. Sealed copy of Ragnarok and Hybrid. Warmaster, which I guess I now own again. There was a small painted Empire force to go with all the blister packs.

Also this guy:



Painted one many moons ago as a Black Knight for Mordheim. This one will be green.

And an absolute ton of random CCGs, which I pulled this guy from.



Never played, but I'll take a Fett where I can get it.

Thanks again for the comments, Tommy, Nev, gobert. Plenty on the go. Thanks for looking!

EDIT: It appears that I came out on top of the monthly challenge for the last year. Thank you to all who voted and to Nev and Midget Gems for keeping it running. I attribute my score to some early successes and to entering every month. Here's to another year, if I can keep it up.

Don’t sell yourself short! Take pride, pat yourself on the back, pop the champaign. You earned that win with your mad skills.

And while yes, your podium spots were more skewed to the first half, it’s not like you were an also-ran in the second. Took a prize more often than not overall. And while showing up does help, you were still well ahead of the pack, even for other people who were in every month. You still had an average entry score higher than anyone in the top ten. If Ezki or CanceledApocolypse had entered every month and maintained their average, they might have been able to knock you off the high spot. But they both missed half the comps, so that’s a lot of speculation.

You ended with a 7 point lead over second place, which is like a full month gap. That’s not winning by a nose, photo finish stuff. Whole horse length.

(Not to throw shade on everyone else in the comp. Amazing work from everyone, up and down the pack.)

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That is quite the pile of retro goodness! Always fun to paint old stuff, so much character in classic sculpts. Enjoy.

I played a little of the SW card game back when it came out. I remember it being fun, with some quirky mechanics. It did tend to suffer from PTW. While you could make some halfway decent decks with assorted cards, it suffered from the “I have all the title characters in my deck, I win” So more so then MtG, where you could make somewhat decent decks spamming commons/uncommons, it was a lot more pronounced. Still have them in a box somewhere.

Good luck getting the tank done. Motivations and time at the bench can be rough some days. Hope you can make it!

Speaking of which, I need to get some paint down...

Congrats on the big win, it was well deserved! You always enter quality stuff that I can only dream of doing. Also, very nice haul there! I love the classic Star Wars CCG and have a large collection of the cards in my closet. It was a better game than it got credit for even if, as Nev mentioned, power levels of decks was skewed towards the more rare cards (particularly the main characters). The company that made it, Decipher Inc., also made a very good Star Trek CCG and an amazing Lord of the Rings TCG, probably my favorite trading card game of all time.

You've made a lot of progress on your tank. I hope you can get it finished-- your challenge entries always inspire me to up my own game.

Entirely too kind, Nev, ZergSmasher, JoshInJapan. I appreciate it.

There's almost a full run of the first =][= releases in that pile,too. Missing Artemis and Josef, I think. One day, one day.

Still cooking away on the Sicaran.



Thanks for looking!

Got the Sicaran finished. In no small part due to the support of my fellow painters, so thank you. Little rough in spots, but so was the model. All in all, I think it blends in pretty well with the rest of the Imperial stuff.










Bonus group shot.



Always more to do. Thanks for looking!

End result looks great, love the glow of those XL plasmas. Also I wouldn't have guessed it's a print apart from the lines being a bit sharper than FW resin


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The dreaded rollover!

 youwashock wrote:
Got the Sicaran finished. In no small part due to the support of my fellow painters, so thank you. Little rough in spots, but so was the model. All in all, I think it blends in pretty well with the rest of the Imperial stuff.










Bonus group shot.



Always more to do. Thanks for looking!

Heh, thanks, Boss Salvage.



Going to be painting Cammy for April. Let's Finish This works great for a SF character, and she's been a pain pretty much every step of the way, so I am ready for her to be done.

Thanks for looking!

Tank is outstanding. Beautiful work. Now to go back over last couple pages!

Thanks, Cam!



Trying out a leg. Not completely convinced. Need to give it a minute.

Thanks for looking!

I sure am! That sheen is IMO really smart and fits Cammy-in-a-swimsuit to a t.

The Sicaran looks great- that purple power glow really pops.

Congratulations on the big win youwashock! Absolutely deserved And your Sicaran turned out great. From the pictures I wouldn't be able to tell it was a 3D print, especially not an FDM print! And wowweee! That is quite a deposit of old-hobby-goodness! Look forward to seeing some (all ) of it painted up soon.

Congrats on the painting comp win! There’s always stuff competition and your work is up there for sure! Nice job getting the Sicaran done, that purple glow really was a good choice!

youwashock.

That Sicaran is really good.

Cheers,

CB

Much appreciated, fellows! Thank you!

Let's not get too carried away, zahnib. I feel like I could paint a mini a day and still not get to everything.

I appreciate that very much, Boss Salvage. Unfortunately, this is one of those rare cases where the picture looks better than the real thing. After some deliberation, I have scrapped that process and will try something else. Hope to have a sample soon.

In other news, another rando Mando appears.





Not much, but it keeps me working. Always plenty more to go. Thanks for looking!

Another Mandalorian? How many do you have?

This is an interesting color combination. Is it canon?

Cool Rando, he looks great and the chipping works well

Nice looking Mando, is that the Army Painter white speed wash on the armor?

The weathering looks nice and subtle. May I ask what process you used?

Cheers,

CB

Since when did you go full pro? You always been brilliant, but lately you been full pro.

Thank you all very much for the comments!

Cam, as always you are too kind. I do my best with what I've got, and hope you guys like it.

Cap'n, the weathering is just sponged on using a mix of brown, blue and a dash of black.

Tommygun, it's Citadel Contrast. Apothecary White.

JoshInJapan, I bought all the Mandos released for Legion that I know of beyond Rook Kast, who I believe is still locked up in a box of stuff I don't need or want. Not a canon color scheme (at least as far as I know) just trying for visually interesting.

Still working on Cammy. Pretty slow going now that I have switched back to brushwork from sprays, and life hasn't been conducive to working on minis.



Also picking away at the Night's Watch.



These four are very nearly done. As with the rest, painted for overall effect on the unit base rather than for individual oomph.

Always more on the go. Thanks for looking!

Nice progress. Keep up the good work.

I just noticed you use a mix of the old chonky GW handles and a slim necked one. Worth upgrading?

Thanks, Nev.

I got off the blu-tack/paint bottle wagon pretty late, and the chonks were on their way out. Otherwise, that's all I would have. The skinnies aren't bad, but for my big sandwich grabbers, I prefer the heftier handle.

Another rank down. One more to go. Then another unit. Then the war machines. And that's it. Practically done, right?

Thanks for looking!


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And a little bit more WiP on Cammy. Steady on.

Mando looking great as ever!
Good progress on Cammy as well. Will look forward to see it done!

I look forward to seeing Cammy done, as it looks like a pretty cool sculpt of the character. Gonna do any other Street Fighter characters?

Thanks, Ezki, ZergSmasher!

No plans for more SF, right now. Maybe if I can find a cool Akuma. Or another Cammy.



Got this where I want it. Mostly. Now to do the rest of the skin. Need to knuckle down.

Thanks for looking!

Getting there.

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And she's done. Pretty happy with the results. B&W preview before varnish and final pics. Need to decide on what to do for next month. Was hoping for Glow Up, but I have lots of options for what we got. Too many, if I'm being honest.

Thanks for looking!

And done.







Pretty happy with how she turned out, overall. As always, there's plenty of room for improvement, but I feel the effort shows. And, given the issues printing and painting her, real glad she's finished.

Bonus scale shot. She's 'uge.



On to the next thing. Thanks for looking!

If I was standing where that little dude is, I wouldn't be looking forwards...

Seriously Cammie turned out great! Kind of a cheesecake pinup thing going on, but that's okay, it's well executed. There's a Facebook group called "We Love Female Miniatures" where that model would fit right in.

WOW I did not realize she's so gigantic! Makes the layering all the more impressive, another level of abstraction going on there. Really solid skin, which is good considering how much of it there is

The only thing I don' like is the shape of the eyes. Great work nonetheless.

Wow, I knew she was big, but she is way more huge that I expected. Great job on her

Thank you, all.

Yeah, the skin was something. Quite an exercise in layering/blending/glazing. A quick note, the sheen you are seeing is painted on for the most part. She has a pretty matte finish. I was going for sweat/suntan oil. Or something like that.

Onward. Nice Ride is the topic for May, and I'm bringing the Green Knight. A classic mini.



Thanks again for the comments and thanks for looking!

The fleshtones and shading are remarkable- extremely impressive work!

 youwashock wrote:
Thank you, all.

Yeah, the skin was something. Quite an exercise in layering/blending/glazing. A quick note, the sheen you are seeing is painted on for the most part. She has a pretty matte finish. I was going for sweat/suntan oil. Or something like that.

When I first saw the finished model, I wondered whether those highlights were painted on or reflections of ambient light. Very effective.

I look forward to seeing your take on the Green Knight- there's a lot of interesting detail to work with there.

Nice work on Cammy, great skin!

Cammy and the Nights Watch turned out great! (We’ve been rewatching GoT and I think it’s better second time around as there was loads that I missed first time.) those ASPIAF minis are really cool, even the duplicates!

youwashock very nice work on such a large model, where the details need to be more...detailed..

Cheers,

CB

Thanks, guys! Always appreciate the comments.

Green Knight has stalled. Primed and sitting. Real life has been hectic and motivation is low. Switching gears to a couple Star Eagles prototypes. Hopefully knock these out by the end of the month.



Just showed the kids The Last Starfighter, so spaceships are on my mind. Interstellar!

Thanks for looking!

Assembled and ready to prime.

Thanks for looking!

Wrapped up the Night's Grunts. I hate that I still love seeing units of minis. I feel like I have been conditioned to collect and paint a certain way, sometimes, and that way is no longer practical. Why paint ten of something when I get what I need by painting five? Or one? Need to look into that. Anyway, on to the next block of infantry.



And I fired up the 3D printer again. It has slumbered, but after getting Cammy done I feel OK printing this guy. A Rancor. Who may or may not end up as part of the Mando collection with a handler or rider.



Still working on the Star Eagle ships. Thanks for looking!