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It Came from the Lightbox: Nomads & Mercenaries

I painted up a couple of random Nomads & Mercenaries to fill out some options.

Lupe Balboa, obviously.

I needed a second Missile Launcher and Sniper Rifle so I have better options when linking Alguaciles. Also, a fifth Jaguar when running Corregidor.

Khal Drogo to be my third Yuan Yuan (first non-Fat Yuan Yuan)

This is my Raoul Spector conversion: mostly a Bashi Bazouk, with a few bits from a Hellcat to make it feel more like a Nomad. He’ll also fill in as a Yuan Yuan if it ever makes sense for me to run four Yuan Yuans.

A Krakot Renegade. These guys seem really useful, so it’s good I’ve got one painted up.

I also painted up a Xenotech I’m pretty happy with, but he’s got to be held back for the Mayacast thing.

It Came from the Lightbox: ISS

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I painted up almost the entire ISS Sectorial in a couple of months leading into NOVA. Right now, I think I have the whole sectorial painted (except for the named bounty hunters and a CSU, I think?).

It Came from the Lightbox: Shadespire Terrain

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I’m glad they finally put out some obstacles for Warhammer Underworlds. These were basically a single sitting’s worth of work. I forgot to photograph the throne, but who cares: it’s pretty dumb looking.

I’m happy with how the glowing pyramids came out.

It Came from the Lightbox: Adeptus Titanicus

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Turns out I haven’t photographed anything I’ve worked on since…. before NOVA. Time to fix that.

These are the models from the Adeptus Titanicus Grand Master set. I spent the better part of a month working on these: I’m quite happy with them… although I haven’t had the chance to play the game yet. It’s my understanding that the game plays better with some Reavers & Warhounds, but I’m having a hard time finding it in my heart to buy more models for this game until I’ve pushed these around.

No deliberate house here: I just picked colors and decals I thought would look good.

It Came from the Lightbox – ALEPH

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I painted up the better part of the OSSS starter from Operation Coldfront in the final days before NOVA so that I’d have coverage for the ALEPH support options for the Imperial Service. Not the whole thing, just the Dakini and Garuda (which I’d had for a bit) and the Shukra to stand in as a Sophotect.

Somehow, even though I got these things in the lightbox, I never got around to posting them here.

I painted these mostly with airbrush paints brushed on. The GW airbrush paints have great coverage with great flow. I also tried to push up the contrast on these with the black metallic parts. I don’t know that it was super-effective, but it’s progress.

It Came from the Lightbox: McMurrough & St Isaac

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I’ve been working on stuff, just not photographing it. Had to pull the lightbox yesterday out to demo how to use it, so I got the chance to photograph a couple of the things I’ve done in the last few weeks that came out pretty well.

McMurrough came out pretty well. In retrospect, I wish I’d pushed the kilt farther (it wasn’t challenging at all). The sword isn’t what I’d like it to be, but it was a learning experience. I’m sick of the half-assed treatment I give weapons in Infinity, and this is a step in the right direction.

I’m painting Dark Age, I guess. I’m actually pretty happy with how these came out, even though I’m frustrated by the low-quality of the metal in the metal figures and improved material but drastically worse casts of the plastic versions that came in the starter.

It Came from the Lightbox – Nomads & StarCo

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It’s been a while since I had the lightbox out, so while photographing the first of my Yu Jing, I took the chance to photograph some of the random figures I’ve painted since the last time I had it out.

Nothing fancy: just some assorted Nomads and models used by StarCo, with results that range from “satisfying” to “well, at least they’re painted.”

It Came from the Lightbox – Yu Jing

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I painted up most of the Yu Jing side of Red Veil (I pushed off the Ninja, so it’s effectively just the Yu Jing starter box).

The effort took me, I think, just about a week. There are some things I’d prefer to have done better: I’m still not sure how I feel about the black cloth, nor about how to differentiate the black cloth from the black hair, and I’m still only in the earliest of stages of figuring out how I can paint Asian flesh… but it’s a start.

I’m happy with the yellow-on-black, though: I’m starting ISS in our local Infinity league, and since they’re on the baddie side of the scale, I like the idea of them looking like wasps. That coloration is probably going to continue to guide my color choices for Yu Jing going forward. Of course, given that I’m running ISS in the league, I get to use one (1) of these figures (the Hsien).

It Came from the Lightbox – Shadespire Skaven

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I painted up the Shadespire Skaven over the weekend: I want to give them a try, and there’s no excuse for me to be playing anything in Shadespire unpainted.

It only took about a day and a half’s hobby time. I don’t think they’re particularly noteworthy: just servicable Skaven.

I painted them up with my old approach to Skaven, but with a few differences:

I went with a pink, pale flesh instead of the yellowed flesh I used to use; I really like this.
The red turned out much brighter than it used to, I clearly don’t remember how I used to do it, but I don’t know where I went different.
The grey turned out alright, even though I used VMC and not GW paints

It Came from the Lightbox – Necromunda Goliaths

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Finished the gangers; here they are.

They turned out pretty well, I think. I used the Warhammer TV painting guide because I didn’t really want to think through how to paint them.

I went a little off-script in painting a couple of them black: I’m still not happy with my approach to African skin, but I’m not going to dial in on one that works great unless I keep trying. I also painted their eyes, and toned their faces, ’cause that’s what I do. Finally, I gave a couple of them some tattoos.

I regret not drilling out their weapon barrels. I normally do that, didn’t, and I think they suffer for it. At least, I’ll have to go back in and dot some black barrel holes on them, I guess. It also wouldn’t kill me to go in and freehand some stuff in white on the red armor.