Screamer Squad Complete

From Stuff I Have Painted: Chaos Daemons

I finished my Screamer squad this weekend, adding the last two members to it. They seem to have turned out pretty well. The models were a lot of fun to paint and I hope that the huge swathes of color will draw the eye.

From Stuff I Have Painted: Chaos Daemons

I painted them in 2's, and tried a different purple build on each pair. I am not sure which I like best, if any of them, so far so I will keep messing with it. It always feels good to have a squad behind you, and now it is on the next.

I am kinda pecking at some flamers while I try and get the horrors done. Hoping to have all Tzeentch stuff done this month, but I hoped that last month too...

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T

Behold, I Fail

From Mars' Project Blog

The Month of Tzeentch comes to a close, and I find myself only completing four of nine models. What a drag.

I tried to push through the last two Screamers last night, but it wasn't happening. I am thinking I will take the next little bit of time to get the Screamers done. I will probably then table the Horrors and do something else, before coming back to them to finish.

As for this month, I guess I will be setting a slightly less optimistic goal.

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T

Pleasant Surprise

Most people in this hobby have sold minis at one point or another, and probably on eBay. If you haven't don't worry. I have done it enough for all of us. Normally when you sell something it is kind of out-of-mind after the transaction is tendered.

Followers of the blog might recall I took a bombastic deviation into Black Templar a little while back. I was young and I needed the mo-...we wait that was something else. Anyway, I got better, and in order to fund my next project I put the minis I had built up on eBay, as I am want to do. They sold, as they do, and I thought that was the end of that. However after I shipped the neophytes I had built, I got an email from the buyer telling me how much he enjoyed the way I built them.

I thought it was cool the minis could be appreciated, and, as I am a painted model junkie, responded with a, "Thanks. If you get them painted send me some pics." Thought that would be the end of it.

So this week I get an email pointing me here with a note saying something to the effect of, "Hey I painted them, check them out." I can say that even at my most enthusiastic, I never expected these minis to look this cool when I was building them. G.N.O.M.E. did an amazing job with them. His whole project is awesome. You should read about it in the blog. Basically he is taking reclaimed models from auctions and stuff and breathing new life into them with some great looking brush work. I think it is like recycling, or carbon foot print or something, but like, for minis.

I take zero credit for G.N.O.M.E.S. minis. A model converted and primed black, no matter how cool, is just a piece of black plastic or metal. Instead, what I will take is pride in the fact that something I did inspired someone else to keep it going. It is neat to think that some kernel of the vision I had was contagious enough to spread to someone I didn't know, and in a very impersonal internet sale. It made my week for sure. And apparently some other people liked it to.

Killer work G.N.O.M.E, props!

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T

Four Screamers Down, Two To Go

I was able to meet my club's painting challenge deadline. The self-imposed Month of Tzeentch is looking a little grim though. Looks like about 5 days to finish 7 models. Not too likely but I have not yet abandon hope.

From Stuff I Have Painted: Chaos Daemons

The newest additions are still kind of shiny. I will probably hit them with another dull coat when I get home. I have been having some weird texturing with my gloss coating. I am not sure if it is because of uneven coverage or temperature. It is pretty friggin' cold here right now. Either way it is a little bothersome, but I don't think it ruins the model.

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T

Off Schedule

The Month of Tzeentch has had some serious set backs brought about by the other chaos gods. I am not sure why I thought the five days in Vegas for work would be just that. But the five days in Vegas, or what we will call the five days of Slaanesh,gave way to the weekend of Nurgle, where I didn't actually leave my bed. I was delusional to think that I would be immune to the nastiness that abounds in that petri dish called a Trade Show. It is like the best and brightest colds are imported from all over the country to run rampant over an alcohol battered, sleep-deprived immune system.

In short, I have three days to finish one screamer, and they way I am feeling, it will be down to the wire.

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T

Two Screamers Complete

From Stuff I Have Painted: Chaos Daemons

Finished up these two yesterday and snapped some pics. There are four more yet to do in the squad. I think I will do things a little differently for others, like outline the pink scales and so something different with the tusks, but keep the same colors. That is the freeing thing about painting Chaos, not every model has to look a like. It will be pretty quiet around here for a week or so as I travel for work. In the meantime, enjoy this meager offering.

From Stuff I Have Painted: Chaos Daemons

From Stuff I Have Painted: Chaos Daemons

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T

Screamers of Tzeentch WIP

From Mars' Project Blog

I was able to get a little bit of work done on these guys this weekend, though not nearly as much as I would like. I lost a large chunk of yesterday to a really great game. Congratulations to all the Packers fans and Steelers haters out there. Not really having a dog in the fight I was just excited to see a good game.

My Month of Tzeentch thing is quickly shaping up to be a photo finish. I have not yet finished a model, and I have eleven to do. I tabled the five horrors I was working on to get these screamers done for this month's painting challenge at my game club. I will finish the horrors once the painting challenge is met.

I have seen screamers panned by a lot of daemon players, and they might be right. They are often a bust for me. However, for what I am going for, they serve my purposes perfectly. First off they have melta bombs, so they help me open up armor. Secondly, and far more importantly, they are big long swathes of color. The bright stripes on my display board will hopefully draw people in to see what my army is all about.

Because I am looking for these guys to be flashy I used fairly drastic line high lighting on them. I wanted sever contrast to have them "pop" from a distance, so I gave up some of the blending I would have loved to have done these models. With only the blue and purple done, the severity seems to be working. Proof, my wife, whose interest in my miniatures doesn't extend past her general approval of me doing something I like that is fairly benign, noticed them amidst a horde of other painting projects.

From Mars' Project Blog

I should be able to get the pinkish scales and bone-colored spines done fairly quickly. I may go for another color on the tusks to visually represent their warp jaws, maybe that blue-green color I have been using for the fire of my horrors?

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T