D&D - Orc Fighter

I'm really not happy how this turned out. From arm's length, it looks pretty good, but of course, photographed up close, I'm not too thrilled.

The shield... ugh... I don't know how to shade stars! It looks blotchy. I probably wasn't going to glue it on anyway.

D&D - Gnome Monk

Man, this thing is so tiny, it's smaller than my thumbnail!

Obviously, I couldn't airbrush this. I'm not entirely happy with it because it doesn't look like what I envisioned, but I have another model coming that hopefully will look more the part.

D&D

I've never played D&D but I've always wanted to.

I recently joined a group and we had our character building session the other night and played one encounter.

I decided to go with a gnomish monk which will be interesting. I got this model from Stonehaven miniatures. I also got an elven ranger and a half-orc fighter as possible characters down the road (and funny enough, those two exact race and class are in this campaign!).

I also splurged and got a custom one from Hero Forge miniatures. It's 3D printed very finely but Ilif the rendered image on the screen comes to fruition, it'll be exactly what I envisioy character to be. I like this model but he doesn't have the quarterstaff that I want.

Terrain - More Platforms!

I think I'm starting to get the hang of airbrushing black. I still have a ways to go on the filter. I've been using roughly 1:1 black templars contrast with water. It might be a bit too much black.

Terrain - Platforms

It's been a while since I've painted!

My patriot airbrush went down and I only had detail airbrushes. So I spent some time assembling and trying to convert (not good at this yet).

I just got back from a camping trip (covered in mosquito bites) and the part I needed for my patriot was in my mailbox.

I've been trying to paint up some terrain that I printed from Warlayer. It's really good stuff. However, I got to find a quicker way to paint it... otherwise,

it'll take me forever!

Warhammer 40K - Necron Cryptek and Lychguard - Part 3

I finally got some painting time in tonight. I did a long session and got these guys finished (except for the bases)!

I'm pretty happy how they turned out... especially because I bought the Lychguard second hand and they were glued wrong (now fixed) and they were this really badly painted purple and black scheme.

Warhammer 40K - Necron Cryptek and Lychguard - Part 2

I managed to get to the next stage tonight... I did my original colour scheme like 5-6 years ago and I'm having a hard time remembering what greens I used on the gauss weapons. Good thing there's only one on that old 3rd ed. model.

Hopefully, only one more sitting to go.

Warhammer 40K - Necron Cryptek and Lychguard

So funny story.

I've sold pretty much all my 40k models over the past 2 weeks.

I didn't have the energy to start 9th. I'm barely playing and with the whole Necron line about to be redone (and about time), I didn't want to have to deal with buying a crap load of new models.

So, I sold all my Eldar, Space Marines, Dark Angels, Necrons and my Death Watch and Orks are still up for sale.

But, I kept all the full amounts of kill team models for each of these armies. I can manage that.

So this is all that is left for me to paint for my Necron kill team options (other than buying flayed ones).

I managed to dry brush and wash these guys.

Star Wars Legion - Stormtroopers Part 5

OMG! They're finally done!

I'm so happy! I was really pressing in once I got the recess edging done. I really like how they turned out.

I still have to matte varnish them and I think I'll paint on a gloss varnish on the white armour as well.

Star Wars Legion - Stormtroopers Part 4

I finally finished all that dark recess stuff. Man, how could I have believed that these would have been the easiest to paint! I still have 2 more squads of these guys that I'm definitely saving until last!

My favourite has to be the orange pauldron. I used Daler-Rowney orange after building it up with a mix of brown.

I think there are just gun highlights to go and then the bases... I hope that's it!

Star Wars Legion - Stormtroopers Part 3

Working on some shading. This may take a while!

Star Wars Legion - Stormtroopers Part 2

Well, the motivation for starting off Star Wars Legion with the Stormtroopers was because I thought it would be a 3 colour job. Hell, this is taking forever! It doesn't help I'm taking on 2 squads though.

Base colours are now complete... they look pretty good... I think they will look amazing when done. I'm following Sorastro's YouTube video for inspiration.

My only complaint is that Vallejo's Heavy Orange is turning out to be Heavy Creamsicle. I don't know how I can possibly shake it any more... I might have gotten a bum bottle maybe. I had to depend on FW Daler-Rowney Orange Ink... we'll see how that change turns out.

Star Wars Legion - Stormtroopers

I started these models over a year ago - Blackstone Fortress got in the way - and it's time to go back to them. Now I remember why I stopped... such monotony. And why am I doing two squads at a time? Because I'm a sucker for painting burnout! Thank goodness for Netflix while I paint!