WIP not Wednesday

This week has been devoted to finally finishing the Space Hulk miniatures as well as getting the Myth figures all cleaned and ready for paint. Minus a few clean ups and the final coat of spray, the Space Hulk figures are done.

These pics are of the last few Tyranids that need completion. They need a few things finished like the orange lines on the red armor and the black lines on the purity seals. Before I call it finished, each figure will get a final look over to clean up any issues that I find. 

Besides these and the Myth figures, I have two Space Marine Chaplains and two Reaper figures that I am working on. I should have some pictures of everything for Saturday.

Till next time!

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All the Librarians done...

The post for today is all about the two Space Marine Librarians that I managed to get finished. The first guy is the Librarian from the Space Hulk box. He goes with a bunch of Blood Angels and so I kept most of the colors from them. I think he turned out awesome!

The second Librarian is Turmiel from the Dark Vengence box. This one is almost done as I have to put the lines on the purity seals and then one last spray to seal it in.

After these guys, I've been working on finishing the Space Hulk box and I have Blood Angel parts on 8 of the Tyranids to get done. Then it will be done!

Till next time!

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New Project WIP

Last week and the weekend was a crazy time. I spent so much of it trying to finish the Star Wars figures that I was unable to get any pictures of the final pieces before I had to hand them in. I also really didn't have anything to show for Sunday so I was forced to delay my post till today. I was going to have so much more to post today, but an issue popped up that prevented me from doing much work. 

I've started a new project, the miniatures from the board game Myth and earlier today I took several of them to get primed. This was after cleaning mold lines and basing. I decided to use an airbrush and some paint on primer to make the job faster, but as soon as I started to spray I realized that I had a problem. The primer started to bead on the plastic miniature. All progress was stopped and all the figures had to be soaked in soapy water and scrubbed to get whatever release agent was still left on the plastic. I usually don't have many problems with residue on plastic minis (other than the occasional Reaper Bones), but these obviously had some so all 41 figures had to be cleaned. As such I don't have any of them painted.

This is one of the last figures of the Space Hulk set that needs to be finished. There are a few Blood Angel pieces on the Tyranids that need to be worked on, but other than that, I just have this guy. I believe that he is the librarian for the Blood Angel group and I'm hoping to get him done this week.

The other figure that I have started is another librarian, this time a Dark Angel one from the Dark Vengeance box. I started this guy by airbrushing the sand color of the cloak. I will probably try some more airbrush on the cloak when I prime the Myth figures tomorrow.

Till next time!

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New Post on Sunday

This is such a crazy week that I've decided to hold off on updating till Sunday. I want to spend as much time getting stuff done as I can and Sunday will be a big picture update. I will have all the Imperial Assault figures done by then and possibly some work done on another couple minis, but for now, back to work!

Till next time!

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Imperial Assault: A Stormtrooper is done!

I've been working on these awesome Imperial Assault figures all week and finally managed to get all of them cleaned, primed, and ready for next weeks painting! 

The first figure finished painted from the set is one of the 9 Stormtroopers. You wouldn't think that a white figure would take much time, but surprisingly it did. This guy used 4 paints, 1 wash, and some Flow Aid. The first layer was Citadel Pallid Wych Flesh over the entire figure. This is a slightly warm off white and came out really nice as the base. Over that I mixed Vallejo Medium Sea Grey, the Flow Aid, and water together and basically did a thinned down paint wash over the figure. I then painted Vallejo German Grey in the eye sockets and in the gaps between armor plates. After that I  took Secret Weapon Wash Heavy Body Black and picked out certain areas to darken, such as around the helmet, belt, and gun area. Finally some Vallejo White was used to highlight all the armor plates. A lot of work just for some white. I kept the base simple with just some P3 Ironhull Grey.

Here are all the minis set up in a group (minus the painted guy) and you can see all the different primers used here. I started with the grey and halfway through, the can decided to clog up. Instead of waiting till I could get a new can I switched to the black for Darth Vader, the Imperial Guards, the Imperial Commanders, and the Trandoshans. Then to finish it off, I primed Rebel Luke and the Stormtroopers in white. It all seemed to come together in the end and I was actually glad for the problem.

For next week I have a ton of painting to do. Lots of Star Wars stuff needs to be done and I'm also going to be working on some Space Marine guys. I have a Chaplain and a Librarian to get done.

Till next time!

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Imperial Assault Begins!

The update today is pretty short, but it is the beginning of a new project and so things start out slow. I have a new project called Imperial Assault. It's a Star Wars table top game that has some amazing figures. The sculpts are pretty great and fairly tight for the most part. After cleaning several of them, I can already see a few issues that I have with the material itself  as well as the construction and placements of the mold lines. 

The plastic used is pretty decent though it has a feel of some other plastic mixes, like the Privateer Press stuff. This means that cleaning the figures is a little bit of a pain and takes longer. Scraping with the x-acto knife doesn't really work and cutting the mold lines sometimes will not remove the plastic, but cause it to stick to the figure.

The fact that these figures come pre-constructed is great for people who want to take the figures out of the box and play right away. The only thing that needs constructed is the larger AT-ST walker. The problem with the pre-construction comes when you are trying to clean the miniatures. The mold lines are in hard to reach places and the chance of cutting something else is high.

The mold lines. I've seen worse on other figures, but these aren't the best. Some of them are alright and they tried to keep them in areas that wouldn't show as much. Others are over important detail to the character and on noticeable parts that can't be hidden. In fact the one crouched female figure in the image down below had a mold line run along the side of her face right next to her hair. Just a millimeter or two over would have put it in a much better spot.

Every set of minis has their problems and sometimes they out weigh the good parts, but not in this case. Yes, there are crazy mold lines and yes, the fact that the figures come pre-constructed is a little irritating to someone like me trying to clean them, but I would still say these minis are great. 

More to come Saturday!

Till next time!

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Late Update... It's all finished!

After three weeks I finally finished all the Shadows of Brimstone figures. This post is very picture heavy as I had to take pictures of everything today. All of the figures that I have up today are ones that I didn't have final pics of before or just finished this week.

First up is the big bad guy from the Shadows of Brimstone: Cities of the Ancients box. Like most of the other figures, I kept with the box art and I think he turned out awesome! He is a pretty big figure and while there were some issues with gaps when I put him together, he still was fun to work with.

This is the big bad guy from the Shadows of Brimstone: Swamps of Death box. This model is bigger than the other large model and was pretty hard to get a decent picture. He has these great big wings that keep me from getting a good overall shot of him so I figured that a good close shot was going to be alright. I kept with the box art as much as I could with this guy, but I switched the shading and overall feel to more blue than the yellow of the other one. The color schemes for both were just to similar that they needed a change.

All of the other monsters above have been shown in some of the WIP shots.

The people miniatures are the rest of the player characters besides the two that were finished first. 

All in all, I enjoyed working on all of these models. There is a good variety of monsters and people in this game to make it look like it would be fun to play.

For next week, I should have more stuff coming out and maybe some Games Workshop Ogres cleaned for priming.

Till next time!

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