Vessel of Judgement - Done?

So after untold hours, I think I'm done with this model except for sealing it and maybe putting some tufts of greenery/plant stuff on the base.

Anyways, here it is:




I'm actually pretty happy with everything, especially all the golds. I've also learned why I will never play Menoth or Skorne. Painting that much filigree is dangerous to my mental health :p

Just a quick update - Vessel of Judgement Commission

So I didn't get nearly as much painting over the holidays as I expected, but I managed to put my brush back to the model this weekend.




I haven't really done any highlighting on anything, and I've really only been focusing on the top piece. Hopefully I'll be able to crank that piece out and have it done in the next week. I doubt I'll finish the whole thing before the end of January purely because of how busy this month is, but I'd like to get it done soon so I can get back to assembling/painting my own models again :p

Vessel of Judgement Commission - Part 1

So James, one of the guys at my LGS who plays Menoth, Retribution, and now also Khador, got a Vessel of Judgement and wanted me to paint it for him. He magnetized it up so that it wouldn't be such a pain to transport.

So here are all the pieces minus the priesty dude. I might have knocked his head off, so I'll have to go back and pin that so it can't happen again.

Now, with the magnetization, it should be easier to paint since I can just pull the people out of the way. It turns out that the magnets hold okay together, but not really strong enough to be able to move the base just by holding the top of the Vessel. To fix that and to keep the chains onto the buff dude, I put in some pins for this thing. I pinned the chains to the Vessel, and they'll also glue in to the buff dude. I put two little pins into the back wheel section so that the magnets holds the piece close, and the pins keep the pieces aligned. This way, a little sheering force won't knock the piece off. I also put in a big pin that runs from the bottom of the base, through the large wheel section to the pipes section. It's fairly snug, so now just holding the top of the Vessel can pick everything up.

As you can see, I have tile on the base, just done by using a lot of GS, some water, and a piece of screen. The rest of the base will hopefully be suitably deserty.

So when it's put together, it'll look something like this:

As for the actual painting, James wanted something like the studio paint scheme. Seeing as I've never actually painted anything Menoth before, and how large this model is, I opted for using the Army Painter Skeleton Bone Primer to get everything in the right shade. This is where I'm at so far after a thin layer of bleached bone on top of the primer (plus a couple washes on the base and buff dude).

It looks like the white color shouldn't be too hard to build up from this, which is nice. I'm going to try and finish a quick basecoat of the bleached bone all over the white sections of this model before busting out the metals on this bad boy.

Reaper Mini

Here's a Reaper mini I painted up for someone to use in their DnD campaign. This was my first Reaper mini and I really enjoyed painting it. I can understand why so many people paint them, they're cheap, good quality, and a lot of fun to paint. I think it's some kind of Ranger/Enchantress or something and the commissioner wanted them to have a bit of a Navajo flair.

After getting schooled at the Kingdom-Con painting competition I'm trying to improve my skills. Some things I need to work on with this mini:

1- Keep practicing NMM, this is like my 3rd or 4th time trying it and I have a long way to go.

2- The gloves are pretty flat, I think I just wanted to hurry up and finish it.

3- Keeping my lighting source straight. I think between the gems and the highlights there are like 3 different sources of light on the mini, I need to keep consistent throughout the mini.

4-Gems, I 've seen some beautiful gems painted on minis and I'd like to get my gems looking that good.

The Soul Crushing 13th

From time to time I get to thinking that I'm a halfway decent mini painter. Then get put in my place. This time it was a set of models that cut me back down to size...the dreaded black 13th. I didn't spend a whole lot of time on these guys, but even if I had I doubt the result would have been much better. These things are so tiny with so much detail, it's ridiculous. I know people whine about them a lot but some people still manage to give them incredible paint jobs (See Ghool on the PP modeling and Miniatures forum). Anyway, I managed to paint them which is an accomplishment and they taught me a valuable lesson about how much I can improve.

Epic Nemo

Here's an eNemo I painted as a commission. I'm pretty pleased with how he turned out, even though the front picture is a bit washed out. I started painting him around 6:30 and finished by 8:45 with a trip to the grocery store thrown in somewhere while a wash dried. So yeah, I'm happy with how my painting speed is progressing.

Pookie the Smashinator

I just finished painting a War Hog for a friend, it was a real hoot of a model to work on. When I was done I was informed that I had the honor of naming my creation so I give you Pookie the Smashinator.

Holt your horses

I've seen a lot of amazing paint jobs on Holt and I must say that mine is nowhere near that awesome. It's a very cool model though and it was pretty quick to paint up, maybe 2 hours tops. Once I finish up basing the last 4 MHSF I can move on to a War Hog and then finally my own models for the escalation league. Bloody B here I come!

Some Retribution

I just finished painting up some commissioned Retribution models. Only 4 mage hunters and UA left! The client wanted this alt color scheme as well as snowy lava field basing.

A Rorsh is a Rorsh, of Coursh of Coursh

Here's a Rorsh I painted as a commission. I was procrastinating on this project until I got to play against a Farrow list this weekend and had so much fun against them I decided Rorsh wasn't such a bad guy after all. Anyway here he is, pretty basic.

Retribution of Commissions

My LGS commissioned me to paint a retribution army for them. So far they've only got the battlebox but here's what I've finished. They wanted the bases to be a lava field after a heavy snow, so that's what I gave them. They also wanted it in the store colors (which you can see in the background) green, black and silver.

The heavy is a magnetized omni-jack but I just show the Phoenix variant here.

I also picked up a commission for a manhunter. The client didn't care too much about detail so I manged to crank this guy out over the course of two episodes of Merlin, or 1.5 hours.