I was very excited for this team as soon as it was announced. Thrilled to knock them out as soon as I could: and in about a week. Used the same technique I used on my Leviathan Tyranids, but I did punch highlights up by an extra step. I think the glowy green and wet pink parts are the most effective.
I took a crack at these thinking they’d paint quickly: I was right! Something’s up with the Dullcote I have that makes it less satin than I’d like: I’m trying out some AK Ultra-matte here, and it’s definitely WAY more matte than I’d like.
The Fireteam changes to N5 made me really excited to return to ISS – a huge difference from N4, in which the rules seemed actively tuned to punish the sectorial.
So, I was delighted to grab the action pack and get it painted up. I skipped the models I already have painted (Celestial Guard, Crane Rank, etc)
The Bayara Palace Guard is a unit I don’t know I’ll ever take! But it looks so cool, I’m really glad it’s done.
I was weirdly cool on the Longwang until I assembled it. The unicool material is great… and there’s something about its relatively small size that just makes it neater to me. Very pleased with my freehand unit logo there.
I’m pretty sure “Jinyao” means “difficult to assemble” but once it was assembled: thrilled with the results. Not shown: another freehanded unit logo.
I also knocked out the Koga and Kunai Ninjas (the former’s been in my pile of shame since N4) and a printed turret for my Sophotect Shenji.
Finally, I printed off and painted a Waldo mini from Skullforge to use as an HVT because it seemed fun. And, as I’ve had to print and paint dozens and dozens of Critters for the NOVAOpen Narrative, I decided to run one off for myself and give it a bit more attention; it’s a QAZ Creature.
Painted the Kill Team Equipment because that seemed like the thing to do. Went quickly, no complaints!
Spearhead sees some action at the game store so I was eager to hop on the new box. Very, very happy with how these game out.
I threw this weird, seasonal Cyberpunk Combat Zone merc on the painting table and knocked him out pretty quickly.
I’m really satisfied with how these models came out… but something about them photographed kind of poorly. So poorly, in fact, that frustration over it kind of killed me posting here. I’m pushing through, posting them, and moving on, though.
The special characters, who aren’t just Gunners/Heavy Gunners took 3 weeks to get done… the gunners too a week. :sigh:
While Dead Moon’s Hand was on my brain a few months back, I knocked out all of my Lunar backlog. I put more effort into these (Freelancers in desaturated blue, JAXA in orange) and I’m really in love with them. So much so I went back and painted the reflection on the faceplates of all of my previously painted Lunar models.
These guys are from Skullforge, more on the later. Me being me, I’ll take whatever goofy moonshit I can get.
These aren’t so much Dead Moon’s Hand, but I worked on them at the same time. I’ve got a half-doodled PAC-MAN game written up using these. Clearly I love the space ghost models.
These aren’t Dead Moon’s Hand, Lunar, or PAC-Man: they’re Arsenal models. I think they’re pretty sick. I need to wrap up the MCVs for them to have a playable force, though.
