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Since I wasn’t able to prime the minis I want to next paint, I had this primed from long ago and went ahead & painted it. It’s the same fence model as I’ve previously done, only this time I’ve got more skill and more techniques under my belt. This time, it came out a lot better; at least, it’s much more evocative of the look & feel I was going for originally. The posts look much more like concrete/stone, the toppers are a more weather-worn bronze look, I cleaned up details on the mug, shield, pouch, and pipe… Overall a much better looking fence, inRead More →

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Now that I have two of an identical model, painted over a year apart – I thought it would be neat to do a side-by-side comparison of the two and evaluate how my painting skills are progressing (or not). In both April of 2015, and August of 2016 I painted this version of the Dwarf Slayer. Old one on the left, new one on the right: For some reason, the left eye on both of them are a bit wonky… Other observations — The skin looks a bit better now. The contrast on the metal is better & clearer. The hair is significantly brighter andRead More →

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And here is the group of three Dwarf Slayers I painted together. Groups of three are nice – Enough time for paint to dry between colors, but no so much painting at once that I burn out on the models or colors during the process. Yes, I know this isn’t a “full” Unit, but now with the already-painted Slayers I have enough for a full unit of them!Read More →

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This is another copy of the Dwarf Slayer #1, from the Battle for Skull Pass box set. Tomorrow will be a post on this recent set of 3 completed Slayers.For this slayer I used a Yellow wash instead of an Orange wash on the hair, so it’s slightly brighter than the other two Slayers in the set. This is a plastic model, whereas the other two Slayers in this set are the older metal Slayer models. I bought a slew of the Dwarf Slayers in metal from another player at the local game store back when I started playing Warhammer, thinking I might do a Slayer-focusedRead More →

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And, FINALLY, the LAST — yes, the very last — of the single-model Dwarf Santa Shooter posts! Phew. And just to reiterate, this is the last time I’ll do a batch of this many of the same model/type at the same time. It was trying to get through them all, and trying to get through posting them all. All around a poor experience for me. So — In the future, I really think I’m going to limit myself to a maximum of 5 at a time. This will get hard when I get into the Skaven clanrat masses, but it’ll probably still work as I’llRead More →

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Here is the salt & pepper bearded Standard Bearer for the Santa Shooters. I have one blonde bearded Command group and one grey/salt & pepper bearded Command group. I could have done much better with the details & highlighting on these guys, but in making the mistake of trying to do over 15 at once I burnt myself out on the models and the color scheme. By the time I got to the edging/highlighting layers, I was toast and missed a lot of areas that could have made these models look a lot better. Lesson learned, don’t do more than 5-10 models at once. ThoughRead More →