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After looking at Fire warriors that were almost complete for more than a week, I finally finished them.
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Also first Recon drone for pathfinders:

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And about half of Riptide assembly is preshaded:
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Fourth Stegadon is finished. This marks end of the era for me, as this was last model from my initial surge of Seraphon purchases. Now I only have couple of models from new release and few flyers in my box 'o shame.
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Edit: and skinks... A lot of skinks.
 
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J.Logan said:
Love it. Love it. Love it. I can repeat that a few more times if you don't think I've emphasised the point enough.
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You can't compliment me like that. :D

It is just slapchop method of preshading and contrast paints (AP speedpaints in my case). Nothing fancy. :)
 
And this little bugger that was sitting forgotten in drawer got his finish as well.

Originaly pilot of knight that got nurglified, it seemed fitting to get him same treatment.
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Kiddo went to take a nap, I reached for some plastic to relax and I found out that in my infinite wisdom, I packed rest of riptide last week before sick leave. I was really happy, took all the parts plus couple of black primed minis I had laying around and started preshading only to find out that I basically run out of sky grey that I use for first preshading step. :D :D
Well, at least riptide is almost preshaded, missing only two plasma guns and two fusion blasters (alternatives to missile pods). Last drop was used to do turret, as it is a single model and I didn't want to partially preshade unit of multiple models.
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Also, I glued rest of halftrack parts and brush primed inside.
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Now back to coughing. :D
 
JTSleep said:
Now back to coughing
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We now return to the regularly scheduled coughing and hacking up of lungs.

Good fortune with the Riptide. And then bad fortune regarding your lack of sky grey. That's sort of sod's law at play right there
 
Yesterday I found a pot of sky grey while sorting old paints! Must be couple of years old, but after some proper shaking it looks as good as new. I am back in game!
Today, I woke up early and quickly left bedroom to not wake rest of the family by my coughing. So I sat down in living room and drybrushed till my hand hurt. :D
Better half woke up before I could start second stage (white drybrush), but this is still most hobbying I've done in one go since sick leave started.

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Is it wrong to be working on ethernal and farsight at the same time? :D
 
We had painting session with kiddo yesterday. He casualy sat on my chair, proclaiming that he is going to paint model as dad does. So naturally, I sacrificed one of my old minis for him to paint. There was everything. Concentration tongue out, suspense of hitting the right spot on mini and satisfaction of getting work done. :D
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And also, this year I rememberd that it is Orctober sooner than last day of the month. My supply of orc models is getting low since I traded most of them last year for Death Guard, but I found couple of gretchin and merged useful with pleasant, because I bought couple of vallejo xpress colours for my bolt action british forces (they have speedpaints range for WWII military) and AK pencil for steel edges to try out.
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Edit: added links to Orctobers to list at start of thread.

- Q - said:
Very nice work @JTSleep !
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Thank you :)
 
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Earlier today, I got phone call from leader of our modeller's club. He told me that there will be exhibition soon and asked me to present my minis as last year. Apparently they were catching a lot of attention as years before, there were only historical scale models. I am already making a list of what to bring. :D

And I'll make small surprise. I have couple of infernus marines on sprue that I bought for basing, so I'll prepare few of them in various stages of work to show how it's done. Right now, I'm thinking:
1. Sprue
2. Glued, cleaned and based
3. Primed and preshaded
4. Painted

I might change it up a bit, but basic idea is there.
 
Nice work @JTSleep. How do you like the Vallejo XPress colors? Have you used any Contrast or similar to compare?
 
Just A Skink said:
Nice work @JTSleep. How do you like the Vallejo XPress colors? Have you used any Contrast or similar to compare?
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I can give my own answer to that... I make extensive use of Contrast and similar (especially when doing a mass of similar models, like an entire army ¬_¬ )... I rank Xpress highly. Army Painter Speed Painter I find the weakest of the three... though at this moment I believe Speed Painter is the only one with metallics. And personal preference or no, I will always grab every contrast-like flesh tones for the variety (Speed Painter is also the only one that has actual dark-toned African American skin tones... I'll give Army Painter the points for the variety compared to the competition).

So, order of preference: Xpress, Contrast, then Speed Painter. Any other alternatives... can't really say (I've heard Green Stuff World have their own version, not tried any)
 
JTSleep said:
We had painting session with kiddo yesterday. He casualy sat on my chair, proclaiming that he is going to paint model as dad does. So naturally, I sacrificed one of my old minis for him to paint. There was everything. Concentration tongue out, suspense of hitting the right spot on mini and satisfaction of getting work done. :D
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Go little man go!!! :):):):)
 
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