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The cat tax is real. And cute.

I would add patches of grass, yes. Alternatively pieces of ruined temple causeway come to mind

 

You mean kind of like the rubble the Ripperdactyl's elevation columns are set into, or the flagstone like features the Skink Starpriest is standing on? Is that something I can buy somewhere?

Any thoughts on the two grasses--darker or brighter?

 

Mix the grasses... a batch of bright here... a little of dark there... then some tuffs on prominent places... and for temple ruins: I think @Lord-Marcus might be able to provide some help...

 

Wow, that looks amazing! Thanks for the advice!

 

They really do get into the craziest of places.

 

At long last, I can field a fearsome fighting force of forty fiery Skinks!


I picked my brush back up and began painting in earnest on, I believe, March 31st, inspired to get ready for a now-ongoing escalation league. Since then, I've painted 41 models from primer to completion and repainted 10 Skinks to match my new scheme. Here are those 51 models.


Actually, that doesn't even include the three Skink Handlers I painted for a now set-aside version of my 1000 point list, now that I think of it. So it's actually 54 total models, 44 wholly new.

To be ready for my 1000 point game, which is scheduled to start six days from this posting, almost to the minute, I need to paint four more models. Though I hope to get these done sooner than that so I get started on the models I'll need for my 1500 and 2000 point lists!

 

Great looking skinks, and I like how everything looks together as a group! Lot of color.

 

1. You can do it.

2. It's just 54. You repainted them. The old paint job is null and void.

3. Write everything down. Keep a list of what you paint. Trust me it helps.

4 you can do it.

 

Thank you @Crowsfoot and @Warden and especially @Lord-Marcus for your comments and encouragement.

Lord-Marcus, I just read a post at the Realm Gate blog about hobby project management and your advice to write everything down dovetails nicely with what the author wrote there.

Yesterday I took what I believe might have been my first day completely off painting in the month of April. Today I have to go to a baby shower, but this morning I've got a good start basing my two Ripperdactyls and I think I'll be able to take them to completion this afternoon and evening after we return from that. Then I have Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings for the Skink Priest with his feathered cloak and the Troglodon. I'll probably be taking Crowsfoot's advice on the big guy and just getting a niceish looking three-color down on him and a minimal base treatment so I can get everything done on time. Unless it goes a lot faster than I think it will.

 

The realm gate blog? I'm not familiar.

I'll share my full methodology for hobby management soon

 

It's run by Chuck Moore, a nice-seeming fellow who's big in Age of Sigmar tournaments and so on nationally. He helped put together a community resource document that's getting a lot of buzz on various podcasts and so on, and I believe he's running the AoS tournaments at the big Northern Virginia/DC area tournament later this year. I don't know him personally. Here's a link, if anybody is curious.

 

I appreciate the link. Will take a look

 

I did not finish my Ripperdactyl Riders today but I got tantalizingly close. Got everything done but the riders themselves, and got a couple of areas of them basecoated. I figure I can finish them in an hour tomorrow afternoon, then get started on my Skink Priest.

 

Ripperdactyls complete, finally!


Of course, I have to build and paint a whole 'nother flight of these guys for my 2000 point list. But that's a week or two away.

Tonight, after dinner (and after my wife has gone to yoga), I will do as much on this Skink Priest as I possibly can. It's a tiny figure, but I have a complicated color scheme in mind for all those feathers, so we'll see how far I get.


And then when he's done, Troglodon!

 

Base coat down on the Priest. This is turning out to be probably the most fun I've had painting a model so far!