Greetings Terrans, I hope this finds you well. I have another quick update on my progress through the Blackstone Fortress set to share, and this one is a bit of a tale of two halfs… First up, I tackled the four Ur-Ghuls in the set:





I did some light conversion work to differentiate them from each other, and the painting was some super-quick and very enjoyable blending work with Contrasts. I stole the ‘fade to dark on the extremities’ idea from several other talented painters, and can take no credit for that :-)
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Now, as much as the Ur-Ghuls were a pleasure to paint, this next quartet were the absolute opposite… I didn’t think much of the electro nob-head models before, but after painting them I actively dislike them! Still, done is done:



Folks that know these minis will notice that I chopped all the silly head tentacles off in an attempt to clean up these messy buggers… I’ve had some limited success in that regard perhaps, but there is no getting away from just how fussy these things are… Nope, definitely not my faves, and I painted them with as much enthusiasm as I could muster… i.e. not a lot.
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Finally, and finishing on a good note, I got this dude done:

He was great fun to paint, and looks good with his mate wot I painted up before:

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And that’s all for today! Next post will be another Realm of Warcry post – me and the other droogs taking part are having a game of Warcry over Zoom tomorrow, a 4 way Champ-off as it were :-)
I’ll let you know how it went & will include some pics of their Champions.
Laters Potaters
The Ur-Ghuls look fantastic, and there seems to be a mottling to the skin that adds to their alien feel. With you on the Electro boys, not a fan of the models, the removal of the tentacles make them less cluttered, but still your painting elevates these terrible models. Fantastic work on the Psyker, the painting makes him look truly evil and chaotic.
Cheers mate, yeah, those electro nobs are crap 😂
I enjoyed painting the rest though, glad you like ‘em 😊
All the minis look pretty nice! I really like the blending effect you got on the Ghouls the most. I also picked up on that mottled effect that Dave mentioned. I don’t know how you got that, but it looks like you went in and stippled that by hand! :D
I don’t know how I got that either – a happy accident 😂
They were a piece of cake to paint – the body is just a coat of ‘Dreadful Visage’ Contrast paint, and then I wet blended in Magos Purple (mid), down to Shyish purple (dark), all the way down to black… Really easy to do mate, like 5 minutes per mini
Damn, that’s sweet! I have a feeling I’ll be “borrowing” this when I get around to tackling my Ghouls in Blood Bowl. Magos and Shyish are pretty nice. I don’t have Dreadful Visage yet, but that looks like an awesome grey that I’ll have to pick up. Thanks for the recipe!
Welcome mate 🤘
Nicely done on all the figures Alex even if some weren’t such a joy to paint. I do like the look of the Ur-Ghuls. 🙂
Cheers mate, every box seems to have its ups and downs 😊
The Ur-Ghuls look great. I remember enjoying painting mine. I didn’t even bother building the “electro nob-heads” haha as I didn’t like the look of gem on the sprue
Cheers mate, and yeah, the electro dudes ain’t great 😬
Those are all great. The Urghuls are probably my favourite too. I also found the negavolt cultists faffy to paint… I did just enjoy them as them are the first Darkmech figures made though….
Cheers,
Pete.
Cheers mate, nice silver lining there 😁
Oh, well, I’m with the others, the Ur-Ghuls are my favourites from this batch. I know what you say about the Negavolt guys, but you also did a fantastic work on them!!
Cheers mate, I’m just glad to see the back of ‘em 😊
Super! The Ur-Ghuls look properly creepy, and even if you didn’t like the electric people they’ve come out looking great. You can look forward to gunning them down in droves when you play Blackstone Fortress.
Haha, cheers mate – yes, the electro-mooks will be on the front line every time 😂
Slowly getting caught up on all the posts I seem to have missed lately! More top work all round, those Ur-Ghuls are especially lovely. I’ve got to say I loved the tech-cultist guys before I painted them, and by the time I was done my mind had been changed entirely! Good thinking to chop off the head-cables, I chickened out of doing that because I wasn’t sure if it would work but having seen it now I wish I’d just gone for it, it would have made painting them a little less fiddly at least.
Cheers dude – yeah, these two were polar opposites in terms of ‘fun to paint’ from my perspective! The thought of doing a squillion head-tentacles was just a massive NO 😂