Blog Joshua's Paint Blog - Back from the dead!

Good advice, I will stealthily take this onboard as well
Really liking the blood warriors - nice to something other than red - also a fitting colour for the blood
God that loves a good skull

 

I'm such a slow painter, but the squad is getting there, still a lot to do. The skin was a failure but I learned a lot and can always apply some more blood if I don't like it.

 

Looking good!

 

For the first time in my painting career I have hit a nasty wall. The wall is the shape of 10 blood warriors. I hate this unit. I hate the model and I hate how much time i've wasted on the paint job.

I've spent hours and hours on this one squad and overtime I've just made them worst. I had a terrible plan for painting them and i've made a million mistakes. It sounds dramatic but it makes me never want to paint a Blades of Khorne model again.

Has anyone else experienced total failure painting a unit? I think the best thing for me to do is to shelf these guys and get them out of my sight...

 

You certainly

You are certainly not alone !!

For me I quit for a few years after a very similar unit of tau I painted up - difference was I lived the models and was desperate for them - got them, put them together but struggled so badly to paint them well - I tried and tried but failed so bad that I ended up hating them (haven’t touched them since)

The problem was that I hadn’t painted clean armour before and the skills I did have couldn’t be used to a good effect - is advice thinking about what you want them to look like and test/try on other models and get the technique nailed.
If you keep trying and keep failing it will just piss you off, in the words of Elsa ‘Let it go’

 

I boxed them up pulled out some Lizards. I already feel better about things. When I think about how much time I wasted on that unit it is frustrating, but it taught me I really don't like painting that type of a model. I much prefer painting organic things. Not sure what I'm going to do with my BoK army now haha.

 

Lol, you may dig them out in the future
It’s a hobby that is very easy to enjoy - just make sure you are actually enjoying it

 

If it helps I actually quite like what you’ve done

 

Haha funny the skin was my favourite part what caught my eye first.

 

So small update. I scrapped my BoK army and traded it for some Sylvaneth. My hobbying is sort of all over the place right now. I am in the middle of stripping those models but I'm hoping to share my progress with them soon.

In the meantime I wanted to do something fun so I pulled out my SoulWars Nighthaunt. I wanted to do a different paint scheme on them. Below is what I started. These are only the base colors, so no highlights or shading, but it's interesting! I need to pick a secondary color for the "flames" on the bases and paint the weapons.

Not sure if I love it or hate it. Let me know what you think!

 

Also these bad boys are always lurking on my desk and someday I'll finish this batch of 40

 

That is some stunning painting, like to see the end results
Keep up the good work

Gr, Imrahil

 

Really great looking crop of skinks

 

Thanks. I struggle finding hobby time lately and I have a lot of cool grey models on my desk so I keep putting them off but they are really close. I've also accumulated a ton of great basing material and I think they would look great on some jungle bases.

 

I have project ADHD and I started rescuing some poor Sylvaneth that I picked up on eBay. I took some additional pictures along the way to document the process.

After soaking in some purple stuff time to scrub!!




Cleaned up, primed and starting with basecoat.



Basecoating completed. Faded to almost black.



First wash. Second to follow and then i'll go back in with some careful airbrush work to bring back some highlights then finish the details.

 

I should have picked lower model count armies lol

 

Basing 40 Skinks. Lord give me strength. I can't wait to be finished with this group and to move onto some other, bigger Seraphon

 

Finally finished with my 40 man unit. I left some spaces on the bases because ill be adding some painted plastic plants and purple flowers which will help add some color. i just need to paint like 4 feathers but ill calling them battle ready!!! Finally complete. Hoping to share some work my Bastilladons soon.