Greetings Terrans, as promised, my painting mojo is back, at least for the time being, so I’m making hay & working through my dwindling supply of primed minis. This week, it’s the rather famous Gaunt’s Ghosts that get the spotlight:

I’ve been equal parts excited and scared about tackling this set for about a year now, so riding the wave of renewed enthusiasm to finally get stuck in seemed like a good idea… and I have to say that painting them was good fun! I still found them difficult, and there are a lot of soft fabric surfaces to work through, but still lovely to paint. The faces in particular are really well ‘sculpted’, (rendered?), and were particularly fun:

I’m nowhere near as good at painting camouflage as some folks out there, (*cough* Azazel *cough*), but I’m pretty pleased overall :-)

Next up, more picking through my to-do pile of primed minis for a brief revisit of my Tzeentch warband!

Greetings Terrans – wow, it has been a long while since I posted anything! I’m struggling for any free time at the moment with a lot of studying going on in the evenings & weekends, while a change in role combined with a change in my employer’s remote working policy means fewer chances to do some bonus painting during Zoom calls. Less painting has reduced my motivation to paint, so even when I have had time, I haven’t had the motivation… I’m in a bit of a catch 22 slump at the moment! Still, I did muster the energy to get these wee mites done recently:

Painting was super quick and easy – just a silver drybrush & some contrast paints to add a spot of metallic colour. Me and a pal are planning to get into Rangers of Shadow Deep next year, so these are for that & didn’t need to be amazing.

And that’s all for now! I should have a bit of time over Christmas to get back into some painting so hopefully I’ll rustle up some enthusiasm and have a bit of something to share before the new year, but in case I don’t catch you, have a great Crimbo & all the best for 2024.

Greetings Terrans, something truly random today – I recently picked up one of those new-fangled ‘League of Votann’ nouveaux-Squats as a free giveaway mini at the local GW… well, seemed rude not to do something with it:

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I spliced in some Fyreslayer bits & and gave him a CSM head from BS Fortress – no plan, I just wanted to do something a bit different really! The paint job was a bit of a faff – I hate edge highlighting at the best of times, but I hate it even more when the actual edges aren’t very clearly defined… Still, it’s tough to argue with free, and he came out ok I think.

As a side note, last week Jon posted a comment about the Votann, comparing them to the Sontarans from Dr. Who – absolutely spot on with the official GW fluff, and the head that I used is a bit too close for comfort – now I can’t unsee it! As another side note, I think I have painted more Dwarfs this year than I have over the rest of my life… weird!

Anyhoo, that’s all for this post – painting time is a bit limited at the moment, but hopefully I’ll manage to get a little bit of something done for next week. Cheers!