Hobby Streaking

[thorn stump]

Day 353, pinning fun!

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1480
Reds on these two

[snow axle]

Good progress guys!

254+19 painting

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 750: built some goblins and painted a bit of ork

[bitter gull]

Streak Day 274, worked a little more painting floor, they need some corrections

[thorn stump]

Day 354

[noble breach]

broke my streak of ~35 yesterday - guess it's tiime to start over!

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1481
Cleaned up the purples

[obsidian estuary]

but you posted in advent event

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 751: Built more grots, and started basing my eidolon

[noble breach]

it's true, but you can go ~47 hours in between advent posts and still complete the advent, but not paint for a day

as long as I post before 9pm my time today I'm still good on advent, even though I didn't paint yesterday

[snow axle]

254+20 painting

[placid crystal]

Day 751, sculpted additions to the base for the ankylosaurus

[bitter gull]

Streak Day 275, finished!

[snow axle]

254+21 painting

[sweet abyss]

Day 60+21 priming

[thorn stump]

Day 355, working on prezzie

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1482
refined the purples on these 2

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 752: some basing work on the eidolon and the last yellow highlights on beast snaggas

[bitter gull]

Streak Day 276, basecoated Aayla Secura

[placid crystal]

Day 752, got food poisoning last night, forced myself to prime the base I expanded

[snow axle]

254+22 painting

[snow axle]

Ouch

[thorn stump]

Day 356, a little more work after a night out on a beach

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1483
Some more refining on purple dudes

[placid crystal]

Day 753, base coated a base

[bitter gull]

Streak Day 277, added more layers to my jedi

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 753: Forgot to post last night but posted in advent, built a marine

[sweet abyss]

Day 60+23 ongoing with nighthaunts. Now the top. Next the base and metalics

[thorn stump]

Day 357, progressing on prezzie a little more.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1484
Busy today so just a quick bit on these

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 744: ork ork

[bitter gull]

Streak Day 278, today worked placing some points of light, smoothing transitions with glazing, tomorrow I will do terrain and final adjustments

[placid crystal]

Second coat on the base, changing the color scheme on the griffin

[bitter gull]

Beautiful colors! 😻

[placid crystal]

@bitter gull Ty, love the blue girl

[bitter gull]

Thank you, my friend! I'm very happy that you liked it. ❤️
Happy Christmas for you and your family! 🤶🎄

[placid crystal]

@bitter gull same to you and your family

[thorn stump]

Day 358, hooves and nose and eyes and ears and tail

[sweet abyss]

Day 60+24 here be dragons. Xd Merry Christmas to everyone

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1485
Got a bit lost with computer troubleshooting so only a tiny bit tonight. I'll have a lot of crunch to do after Christmas I think

[jovial jacinth]

sweet precious Hobby streak ❤️

[bitter gull]

Streak Day 279, finished Aayla Secura

Merry Christmas, Family of minis, brushes and paints! ❤️‍🔥

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 745: highlighted purple and built another marine

[placid crystal]

Day 755, worked on the ankylosarus today

[jovial jacinth]

Day 755 finishing up this model. I'm starting to be happy with it. I painted the rug on the elephant back.

[thorn stump]

Day 359, put a coat of varnish on last night before a two hour nap before our first boat ride

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1486
Some zambie popes

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 756: More beast snagga painting (bone parts on these 5) and some marine building. Looks like I also was 10 off in my previous posts but eh🤷‍♀️

[bitter gull]

Streak Day 280, Trying to get back to this one that has been in the pile of shame for over 10 years 😬

[copper wagon]

Streak Day 756: All I had time to do was one paint stroke . Happy Holidays everyone!! 🎅🏻🎄🎁

[placid crystal]

Day 756, managed an hour to myself, got the color scheme on the wings

[wet anchor]

Day 25, continuing the advent streak with some bases that need doing for AOW3 (sorry assuming I can carry over the days, or do I need to start over anew for this channel?)

[jovial jacinth]

Day 756 working on skin tone while my sister * a non painter gave me backseat reminders of how creepy it is. She did not trust the process. Was good times lok

[placid crystal]

@wet anchor you don’t have to start over, this is about continuing your streak. It is also nice because this is a much smaller group and you can watch the progression of the minis from preparing to priming to basecoating all the way to the end, day by day. I find making a little progress every day works better for me than waiting for one whole day to make progress. Welcome to continuing streaking.

[sweet abyss]

Day 60+25 ongoing with the dragon. I put this on so im ready to do final touches to the face and some lights on the body.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1487
It's positively papal in here!

[placid crystal]

@obsidian estuary love 💕 the color scheme!

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 757: More bone painting, some eye painting, and 2 more marines built

[bitter gull]

Streak Day 281, I continued working on smoothing transitions and better positioning lights and shadows, working on volumes, especially in the light area. I also needed to make a new saber because the original one came unstuck and I put it away, but at the moment I still haven't found where it is kept. 😅

[torn relic]

I remain impressed by all the streaks, let alone the multi-year ones. I can usually barely get 2-3 days in a row

[placid crystal]

@torn relic the rule of the streak is you have to do something that day, sometimes it is just a brush strokes or two, on trips it is sanding, scraping or reading about the hobby

Day 757, Added shading

[wet anchor]

Day 26 - Added color to the greenstuffed stones and drybrushed the dirt

[obsidian estuary]

Thanks, the team should look quite nice once I get them all done and together

[sweet abyss]

Day 26+60: here be dragons! At last finished my first big dragon fella.

[torn relic]

Making good progress on that SDE set

[sweet abyss]

Trying... Still have enought for next year but thx!

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 758: painted some underwear for my orks

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1488
I hoped to get them fully done today, but not too far off. I've still got so many ghosts to work on

[snow axle]

Beautifully looking!

Happy Xmas all and new years, busy with the festivities but hobbying everyday

254+27 painting

[sweet abyss]

Day 60+27: nighthaunt forerver....

[copper wagon]

Streak Day 758: Fell asleep before taking a picture of my slime cats that I started cleaning up. Continued the same thing today.

[placid crystal]

Day 758, repainted a mini for a friend for a belated Christmas present 🎁, the left one is the before, right is after

[bitter gull]

Streak Day 282, painted terrain and saber, placed on plinth too!

[wet anchor]

Day 27 - more bases, more green stuff and cork

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1489
Base painting on these spooky boys. I had hoped to be further ahead but we'll make do

[placid crystal]

Day 759, cleaned up a few things, varnished it, took final pics

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 759: purple and red parts. Only silver parts and bases to go I think!

[granite geode]

I kinda miss my advent streak so I want to give this a shot here.

Day 1: primed some minis, built some bases, 3d printed another (not Pictured here).

[bitter gull]

Streak Day 283, I worked on the face of this 54mm saxon

[wet anchor]

Day 28 - filling in more of the bases

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1490
You can barely see the texture and thread crosshatching that I spent all day doing, but progress

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 760: Finished the beast snaggas, which wraps up my AoW! Here's a group pic with the ones finished today in the front

[bitter gull]

Streak Day 284, Another day of face painting and another one of the eternal WIPs

[copper wagon]

Streak days 759 & 760: I finished cleaning up the cat on the left yesterday and the one on the right today

[sweet abyss]

Day 28+60 and 29+60: Doing some bases. Finished some mounting and primming othera. The finished

[wet anchor]

Day 29 - finishd painting details on the bases

[granite geode]

Day 2:
3D printed and assembled these two

[placid crystal]

Day 760, on a trip, read some in the Color and Light book, about faces and the 3 color zones

[thorn stump]

Days 360, 361, 362, and 363 -- worked on some setting documentation/world lore sort of stuff, as is my custom when it comes to trips away from the painting table. Then day 364, started on a manticore fella when I got back

[placid crystal]

Day 761, continued on with my book, Color and Light, I read about Caustics, which is reflection and refraction of light

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1491
Still behind where I wanted to be, but we shmoovin'

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 761: basing work on this, and glued together some broken infinity minis

[bitter gull]

Streak Day 285, basecoated this beast

[placid crystal]

@bitter gull cool mini, what is it? Were east, hellhound?

[bitter gull]

Hi @placid crystal , it's a proxy for the GW kroot hounds, it's a 3D print, to me they look better than the originals, these are from Bestiarum. They're a pack of 3, I'm going to use two of them to compose a vignette with a kroot.

[placid crystal]

@bitter gull way cool looking

[granite geode]

Day 3: More printing, assembling and started to fill in some gaps. Kinda reluctant to actually pick up the paintbrush. I know once I start I'll like it, but sometimes I have a hard time starting...

[wet anchor]

Day 30: greenstuff, cork rocks and basing paste on the remainder of my AOW3 army

[thorn stump]

Day 365, finished up basing on a stocking stuffer to be opened on Wednesday

[placid crystal]

Day 762, more reading on caustics, the photo shows how light is bent

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1492
More mass work. Closing in on a finish

[bitter gull]

Streak Day 286, basecoated the second hound

[granite geode]

Day 4: more printing, sanding and stuff. Not much time while cooking a small feast.

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 762: base magnets, basing work on this and also started working on fire warriors

[wet anchor]

Streaking day 31: massive push to paint details, add grass and glue down most of my army for AOW3!

[severe aspen]

D1: did some gluing and repairs.

[thorn stump]

Day 366, mostly face and shadows today

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1493
Some bone chilling finishline rushing

[willow moon]

While I officially left hobby streaking at the beginning of December, I have to announce that my streak is now broken having spent 24 hours without hobbying. Aprx 400 days finishing 450 figures in a one year period. Glad to have done it but also very glad to be no longer chained to it. Thanks all.

[copper wagon]

Streak Day 761 & 762: Lots of running around to prepare for the celebration 🎊. Spent a little more time sanding and washing my slime cats. Layer lines suck.

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 763: Gap filling on this, and a few fire warriors

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 287, basecoated Kroot Hunter and added first lights

[sweet abyss]

Streak day 60+30, 60+31 and 91+1 painting my aow3 models non-stop to finish them in time.

[placid crystal]

Day 763, read more about caustics, I learned that you won’t see them deeper than 25-30 feet

[wet anchor]

day 32: trying out some asphalt texture paste I got

[granite geode]

Day 4:
More printing, sanding, glueing

[severe aspen]

D2: cleaned up two minis in prep for the monthly paint alongs. Gonna try for two more tomorrow before I priming the lot.

[thorn stump]

Day 367, mostly together time with the fam, but did a little late night work on her base and highlighting up the skirt

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1494
A day of rest

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 764: Repainting infinity stuff! Bought a second hand lot for cheap ages ago, now I'm finally gonna get to play with these so figured I'd give them a makeover. Basically adding a lot of highlights, cleaning up messy parts and repainting some parts totally

I guess the sad part is that these are probably not worth any points since they already had some color on them by someone else

[wet anchor]

Question - do we need to post our streak pictures every single day or is it just on the honor system and we can batch post an update for a couple days of work?

[pearl crow]

This isn't official in any way so you can handle it your way

But posting every day helps actually remember

[placid crystal]

Da 764, read about reflection and surfaces today

[bitter gull]

Streak Day 288, Basecoated this savage orc

[granite geode]

Day 5: finally got to hold the paintbrush again. Don't quite Love it tho, the highlights on the wings are to light. Need to tone those down tomorrow and give him pupils.

[wet anchor]

Cheers, thanks for the clarification

Day 33: added some color to the asphalt and concrete bases

[copper wagon]

Streak Days 763 & 764: Brush primed one of my slime cats yesterday and one today

[severe aspen]

D3: cleaned the second batch of minis. All set to prime for this month’s PALs.

[thorn stump]

Day 368, doing some more work on highlights and shadows, mostly on the highlight end.

[sweet abyss]

Day 91+2 painting some troll and thinking what to paint this year.

[wet anchor]

love the green and blue on the troll! Been thinking the same thing, I did a little spreadsheet for the upcoming all out war 4 and have something around 85 army minis to paint if I want--left over ghouls, unfinished pile of Stormcast from AOS, and a bunch of droids from Star Wars: Legion. And that's not to mention all the random one-off minis I have for various projects. So plenty of work to do, just a question of what to prioritize

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1495
Another light day

[granite geode]

Streak day 6: finished this little guy.

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 765: airbrushed some shadows and varnish on these (just to prep for brushwork, paint won't stick on them at all), magnetized their bases and broke and fixed the spear on my eidolon

[bitter gull]

Streak Day 289, only a feel brush strokes on this

[placid crystal]

Day 765, hanging out in an airport reading about highlights

[wet anchor]

Day 34: assembled some droids from Star Wars: Legion

[sweet abyss]

Day 91+3 more of my troll

[thorn stump]

Day 369, a little face and wings work, as well as the plates on his back.

[sweet abyss]

Focus on the small proyects to get the easy wins to maximize your motivation. And do not Focus only on one big proyect at the same time. Make some other minis of diferent styles otherwise when you will feel bored or you will be burned.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1496
One boi again

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 766: worked on the armarmor on this jotum, and did some build work on the eidolob

[granite geode]

Day 7: yay first week of streaking complete
Lots of filling, sanding, repairing, glueing. The joys of FDM printing 😅

[copper wagon]

Streak Days 765 & 766: Working on zombie Santa

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 290, worked on NMM of shoulders

[sweet abyss]

Day 91+4 more troll.

[wet anchor]

Day 35: Working on some bases

[placid crystal]

Day 766, read about color coronas

[thorn stump]

Day 370, gave him some pants and a shirt and a bandana.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1497
mould lines again

[sweet abyss]

Day 91+5 almost finished the troll

[copper wagon]

Streak Day 767: One paint stroke. No time for more 😢

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 291, more NMM work

[granite geode]

Day 8:
More modeling, sanding, fixing and glueing.

[wet anchor]

Day 36: had a lot of fun with these bases actually, and did my first stab at burn damage from a gunshot and from a cut electric wire. Turned out pretty good!

[placid crystal]

Day 767, back home, but sick, decided the golden yellow lion part was not working, chose to change it to dark gray

[thorn stump]

Day 371, got Kimera Magenta for Christmas, so trying mixing it with PB(Red) to get a better purple than mixing with Red Oxide. Here's a couple different mixes:

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1498
one more, plus almost a work days worth of finishing up the yearly challenges

[pearl crow]

Oh I guess I forgot to post yesterday? I even took a pic, so here's both at once

Streaking day 767 and 768: started building this infinity dude yesterday, finished him and started a new one today

And damn I really hate working with these metal minis

[granite geode]

Day 9: more of the same. Hopefully I can be done with the repairwork soon.

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 292, basecoated skin

[sweet abyss]

Streaking day 91+6 getting ready some minis

[placid crystal]

Day 768, feeling crappy from bronchitis, managed some work on the lion part and glued it to the base

[wet anchor]

Day 37: took a stab at a purple to orange-yellow fire scheme on these burning skull guys

[thorn stump]

Day 372, Put some more color on the bottom of yesterday's kraken, where I didn't want to paint because it was sitting on that part. Too tired to do too much though, so instead you get a picture of my work from the other part of the night:

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1499
Lazy lazy, I'll try get some more done tomorrow. I have some stripping to do for this years challenge too

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 569: More infinity

[granite geode]

Day 10: finally getting to the final steps of assembling this guy. After some sanding tomorrow and throwing his antlers on he's ready for Paint.
My Work in Progress shelf is starting to overflow, so in the next days I better get some painting done so I can justify printing the next things ...

[bitter gull]

Streak Day 293, I continued working on the NMM on the shoulders, softened the transitions on the gloves a little and marked the highlights on the face a little more.

[wet anchor]

Day 38: Adding some more color to the sunset death rider

[sweet abyss]

Day 91+7 cleaning

[placid crystal]

Day 769, changed the tail color, varnished the base

[thorn stump]

Day 373, did a couple coats on the base and working on his mouth now mostly.

[smoky cove]

Day 138, started a new model by doing a quick color and value sketch with minimal refinement.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1500
Did some more today, started a bunch of stripping along with this one

[daring vale]

Day 60
Big headache life so only a bit of painting. Layered up the purple cloth. Pretty happy. I feel it's a bit less lively than the others but these ones have some big flat chunks to try work around and hard to tell when it's still so glossy. I think I covered with less of the midtone so it's a bit darker in general. Might need to go back and deepen the shadows (mix blue into the purple?)

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 770: Finished this Shaolin which I've started a looong time ago, and built some more infinity stuff

[placid crystal]

Day 770, still sick, did some highlights, I might be about done, time to go stare at the TV for no apparent reason, and hope to feel better tomorrow

[granite geode]

Day 11: Today I got a ton done. Some final sanding, some assembly, but luckily also some painting. Fun that about 40% of that white dragon will be turned another color but oh well 😅

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 294, basecoated purple area.

[wet anchor]

Day 39: Finished up the basecoat on the sunset skeleton shooter.

[sweet abyss]

Day 91+8 fixing minis with plastic cement to eliminate joint points.

[thorn stump]

Day 374, doing some base work on this lady too

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1501
More stripping today and did these two

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 671: robot

[sweet abyss]

Day 100: mounting minis

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 295, striped and cleaned this LoTR second hand Aragorn.

[granite geode]

Day 12: All I did today was some more printing and assembling. Need to find a better gap-filler for my PLA prints, since apoxie is a bit to hard and I need to wear gloves for safety, making the whole process more complicated. Maybe I'll finally get some green stuff.
I am also considering opening my own mini-painting journal on here. My process seems to differ from what I see other people do, and maybe someone can get inspired by what I do. I've tried a ton of artistic hobbies, and they all influenced how I paint my dragons now.
I am starting to get more comfortable in this community, and it feels good to be motivated to keep pushing myself to do a little hobbying every day.

[placid crystal]

@granite geode I use plastic putty from Vallejo

Day 771, still really sick, managed some varnishing

[bitter gull]

Hi, I use Vallejo's Plastic Putty, as @placid crystal says, to fill the gaps, but when I need to model something more elaborate I use Green Stuff or Miliputty or a mix of the two. This year I also plan to make my own Journal to keep everything together and who knows, maybe it will be of help to someone.

[wet anchor]

Day 40: Some highlights and shadows on this guy

[thorn stump]

Day 375, wood has some grain, book has some trim and symbol

[granite geode]

Thanks for the advice!

[copper wagon]

Streak Days 767-771: I’ve been under the weather. Read a lot from my Shiflett Brothers book and got some supplies together for a new smaller project to start the new year. Also worked out a color scheme for my slime cats.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1502
Sorting some AOW stuff and cleaned most of Briar queen. The vines are a bit fiddly.

[placid crystal]

Day 772, finished and took photos, feeling marginally better

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 772: what is best in life? Edge highlights!

[sweet abyss]

Day 91+10: starting to build scenery

[daring vale]

Day 62 Various vase coats, layered up the rondels and prepping for leathers soon. Rondels are a bit stark but once they've got a decal and some varnish will be fine I bet. Also testing out a new rosemary and co s33 size 3 and so far like it very much

[granite geode]

Day 13: finally some more painting was done and of course some obligatory assembly. The wings of my resting dragon are supposed to get my first freehand on them, and I am VERY nervous about it, so today I stuck to the piebald patches. I love how they look on scaley critters.

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 296, added some texture to boots

[wet anchor]

Day 41: Added some more highlights and cleaned up a few mistakes. I flooded the details on the skull face and some of the chains and so want to watch out for that on future models, but overall I'm happy with the color scheme and had fun painting the fire

[smoky cove]

Day 141: injured painting hand so did some slow work attempting to get good skin tones

[snow axle]

Looks beautiful

[thorn stump]

Day 376, starting some work on a nice angel after a long day of emergency overtime.

[daring vale]

Day 62 Very tired hands today so just did the red tassles and slapped some extra base coats around

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1503
lil more

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 773: Built a bunch of fire warriors, primed my eidolon and continued highlighting the robot

[placid crystal]

Day 773, feeling a little better, actually walked down the street to get the mail. Did mould lines on two minis, tried to repair a broken mini, but still missing a piece

[sweet abyss]

Day 92+11 : Going back to finish minis. Starting to finish the troll

[bitter gull]

Streak Day 297, worked a little more today smoothing and glazing

[bitter gull]

I hope you recover and feel better soon! 🥰

[placid crystal]

@bitter gull thanks

[granite geode]

Day 14 : More assembly and sanding.

[wet anchor]

Day 42: Assembled some ghouls (minus their heads)

[thorn stump]

Day 377, doing some more work on the gold belt, starting to try to figure out what to do with the kid, and working on the underdress/skirt as a different but similar color

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1504
More stripping and another guy

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 774: Basing, painting the yaokong, and building a crane agent

[sweet abyss]

Finished 2 minis

Day 91+12

[placid crystal]

Day 774, feeling better, did some trimming and priming

[granite geode]

Day 15:
Not a good mental health day. At least I removed some supports from the prints.

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 298, worked adding more light and glazing some areas

[wet anchor]

Day 43: Picked out and added the heads to finish assembling these ghouls

[molten dust]

D2 Back at it after recovering from that god awful flu that everyone seems to have gotten.
Did some bits yesterday, did more today.

[thorn stump]

Day 378, the child has skin now, and some pants as well. Added some shading to the wings as well.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1505
Better amount cleaned up today

[daring vale]

Birb and blues painted. Metals base coated. Just coppers, small details and metal highlights to go

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 775: Zenithals on this, and some infinity building

[sweet abyss]

Day 91+13 painting

[granite geode]

Day 16: another pretty rough day, but here I am, sanding and glueing and filling gaps. Doing my best to inch my way forward a day at a time.

[placid crystal]

@granite geode Hang in there, its gets better

Day 775, developed some color schemes for the basilisk, wood golem, and terra cotta solider

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 299, cuted, sanded and glued slot base on plinth

[wet anchor]

Daedalus I love your photo taking setup, it always looks super professional

started on my next skull sunsetter

[smoky cove]

Day 144: did some skin and attempted a bright white/gold. Not sure I like it but it's practice.

[molten dust]

D3 little drone

[thorn stump]

Day 379, put some shadows on the greens, and mixed and based the purple and yellow

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 776: infinity building

[sweet abyss]

Day 91+14 5 mins more of painting.

[daring vale]

Day 66; Finished base coating metals. Done highlights on horse hair, just need to go back and add some shadows and separation for the strands. Hoofs based in and some small details done

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1506
Cleaning up some of the stripped minis

[placid crystal]

Day 776, started base coating

[bitter gull]

Love this minis! ❤️‍🔥

[granite geode]

Day 17: Some more assembly and adding texture to the base for this little armadillo.

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 300, Lately I have had little time available for the hobby, here it is summer and the little ones are on vacation and besides that I have had more activities related to my work. Today I only managed to glue the mini to the base.

[obsidian estuary]

Got a squad of them to do with this years AoW

[wet anchor]

Day 45: building up some highlights on the flames

[smoky cove]

Day 145: did a first pass on the rest of the face

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1507
The other horse

[thorn stump]

Day 380, trying to do some highlights and failing

[daring vale]

D67. Finally all done and ready for varnish then metals

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 777: some base work, and built some space dwarves

[placid crystal]

Day 777, worked on some highlights

[sweet abyss]

Day 91+15. Reading and planing my year

[molten dust]

D4 forgot to post last night oops

[granite geode]

I LOVE the green and pink color scheme ❤️

[placid crystal]

@granite geode Ty

[granite geode]

Day 18: Today I got to wield a paintbrush again and I painted up the little armadillo (mostly drybrushing lol) and the leathers on the saddle of my piebald dragon. For some reason the highlights just didn't want to pop, so you know what, I guess they just won't. I don't really care. The dragon also got some color to the horns which I will rein in a bit with a wash.
The more exciting part is that I got the sketch of the planned freehand onto the wings. It's watercolor pencil, so anything I won't paint over will come off just fine. Luckily it's all in the highlighted areas of the wings, so I won't have to shade it much if I don't want to.
Also I swear to the gods rescale miniatures do not make their minis with paintability as a priority. Some of the angles I have to paint this thing in are actually ridiculous.

[bitter gull]

Awesome job! 😍

Streaking Day 301, added some light for this big guy

[wet anchor]

Day 46: Taking a quick detour to play with some kit-bashing / light greenstuffing on a dwarf.

[molten dust]

Thanks a lot

D5 flesh colour, metallics and base, based

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1508
Slowly more

[thorn stump]

Day 381, adding the final main color and working the hair to make it dirtier.

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 778: gap filling stuff

[sweet abyss]

Day 91+16 just some color. Painted one min. Photo tomorrow that i expect to be able to paint more

[daring vale]

D 68. Some quick heads. Testing out new paints and think they're ok overall at tabletop distance

[granite geode]

Day 19:
Getting excited to hopefully beat my advent-streak soon.
But today my back needed a break from painting (the doctor said I should quit curling into a ball to paint tiny figurines and that it's a miracle my spine doesn't require surgery to fix... yet.) so I ordered some magnifying glasses to put on and hopefully help with that.
Until those arrive, I shall contend with this model and figuring out how to base him. Today I just gap-filled a bit more and started sanding the filler.

[molten dust]

D6 orange based, i’ll start layering yellow on tomorrow

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 302, painted terrain

[bitter gull]

Raising the height of your workbench helps you maintain a more upright posture.

[wet anchor]

Day 47: just a smidge more kitbashing and modeling work on this guy to get his swappable arm good and trim his beard

[placid crystal]

@granite geode I too have neck and back issues, I use this magnifying lamp. The base wasn’t heavy enough so I have a bag of fishing weights on it. It is great to be able to see without crouching

Day 778, tired today, managed to extend the bases on these two

[granite geode]

My doc recommended getting a adjustable table but I currently don't have the budget for it. But it's on my list of possible future investments

[thorn stump]

Day 382, did a little work going over and over and over the kid's face because I couldn't get the paint consistency just right to fill in enough and not run. Also did a little more work on the undergarment thing and the kid's clothes

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1509
Some more cleaning

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 779: Primed these, and built 2 more infinity minis

[granite geode]

Day 20: I started the basing progress for my big dragon and decided that he'll sit on a cliff. If you want to see my in-depth process, I am about to start a journal on this server so my streak-posts don't have to be so long 😁

[sweet abyss]

Day 91+17 mini finished

[placid crystal]

Day 779, felt fine today, got a lot of work done, nearly there on the wood golem

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 303, added more layers to this Kroot

[molten dust]

D7: Heavy layer of yellow and a first layer on the armour (idk what colour to class it as?)

[wet anchor]

Day 48: continuing to do some minor sculpting and modifying on the dwarves. Surprised to find there there are some fun choices to make with just a little beard shaving to give the poses more motion, as these guys are notorious for being very bland in their poses

[wet anchor]

might be sacrilegious to say about a dwarf but I think their beards are what are holding these models back, they are huge limiting the range of head movement, and come straight down, which robs the model of a sense of movement. So I swapped the braids of the one in the lower left for instance and now his braided beard is flowing with the pose of the model and looks much more alive (at least to my eye).

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1510
Man the whispy bits really take ages

[torn relic]

been a while since I've seen him. Got an unpainted version in my parent's basement from the GD I went to like 20 years ago

[thorn stump]

Day 383, some hair and eye and yellow highlights and I don't know what I want to do with the base now.

[bitter gull]

Yes this was a Gamesday 2001 miniature.

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 780: lots of airbrushing. Started putting some color on the eidolon as well

[placid crystal]

Day 780, worked on the wood golem and a terra cotta soldier. It is amazing how different a mini looks under different lighting

[granite geode]

Day 21: Today all I got done was finding and printing some 3D models of gnarly trees and roots to add to my cliffside base tomorrow

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 304, started Kroot scenic base

[wet anchor]

Day 49: switching back to paint, did some red and orange shadows and highlights

[thorn stump]

Day 384, doing some work on my faun's stump.

[sweet abyss]

Day 91+18 mounting some tyranid for my combat patrol.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1511
Out all day today, but did mr. power fist

[daring vale]

And all ready for varnish then metal touchups. I'll do basing later after I've done the hero

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 781: started painting black on these and built the last infinity mini on my aow list

[placid crystal]

Day 781, finished my myconids and wood golem

[bitter gull]

They turned out really well, all three! I specially liked the textures of the golem and the palette and saturation of the myconids. ❤️‍🔥

Streaking Day 305, continued adding more layers

[granite geode]

Whoa I love the texture on the golem. And the myconids look super fun also

Day 22:
Added the 3 D printed roots to my monster of a base

[placid crystal]

@granite geode Ty, what are the pins for?

@bitter gull loving the dreads

[granite geode]

They mark important spots on the base where I do not want to add any bulk so my model still fits on it

[placid crystal]

@jovial jacinth looking good

@granite geode are colors of pins a code? Or just random?

[granite geode]

It's random

[wet anchor]

Day 50: amazed to reach the big five oh! Trying to get my Malifaux models wrapped up

[sweet abyss]

Day 91+19: cleaning and reorganicing my space. (Including hobby space)

Will need to buy some boxes on tuesday to finish it. Tomorrow will start and inventory of minis i have.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1512
Plasma did

[thorn stump]

Day 385, started base colors for this nobleman

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 782: Painted more black parts and started building crisis suits

[daring vale]

Unit done. Will come back for the flag and basing later

[sweet abyss]

Day 91+20 mounting some goblins

[granite geode]

Day 23:
Covered the base in some basing sludge to give the apoxie something to grip onto. Needs to dry overnight, so nothing more for me to do today

[placid crystal]

Back to the basilisk, affixed to base started on the spikes, Day 782

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 306, worked on NMM blades

[wet anchor]

Day 51: coloring up those Malifaux models

had fun attempting to do a kind of fire bursting out of skull freehand under the hat

[thorn stump]

Day 386, working on the top of a mushroom. Also, had a nap, the first in far too long.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1513
I don't know what hell boomer enamel these had on them but they're nearly fully stripped now

[wet anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/krispy-kreme-glazed-donuts-donuts-doughnuts-donut-day-gif-17585791

someone glazing their minis back in 1998

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 873: last black parts on these

[sweet abyss]

Day 91+21 building minis

[torn relic]

lead based paints - they were used for a reason, and that reason was durability and colour saturation

[obsidian estuary]

Good thing a wear gloves while stripping

[smoky cove]

Lost my streak due to travel so here we go again.
Day 1: started on the metals

[granite geode]

Day 24: I spent my evening cobbling together this hell of a structure and I have to say I am over it😭
But now that my hobbyspace is a mess, might as well finish what I started. Hopefully once I give it another layer of sludge it will look decent enough for paint so I don't have to touch another bottle of glue for a bit. Also still need to 3d print a rim for this sucker. Someone make it stop 😭

[placid crystal]

Day 783, not much time to hobby today, did some painting on the basilisk, primed the base for the soldier, and unboxed a new ooze mini

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 307, Another one here with little time for the hobby today, I think the day was shorter😅, painted some lights and push more shadow to this SW

[wet anchor]

Day 52: Feel pretty good about the hair, but the scabbard just looks rusted

[stiff adder]

Day 1: 2nd time ever mini painting :3, had this plague doctor painted. Kinda happy but think I need better color choices.

[thorn stump]

Day 387, did some painting, also did some unpacking. My DF pledge may have arrived...

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1514
Bit more cleaning

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 874: Gold and grey parts

[daring vale]

Day 71 I think Primed HQ duder. The wire I used is very bendy though so might need to find a better way to hold him for painting

[placid crystal]

Day 784, nearly done on the basilisk and Tera cotta soldier, got some work in on the dinosaur I have been avoiding for a month

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 308, added color to some leather areas and some NMM to gun

[wet anchor]

Day 53: trying to get a base coat on the last 3 models of this group

[sweet abyss]

Day 91+22 : mounted some goblins as the last photos. I'm a plasticcoholic but still strong in my intention on not buying no more plastic for the year. Had an offer of my publishing company of very cheap gw minis and could pass but still feel the fomo on me.

[granite geode]

Forgot to post yesterday but
Day 25:
More sludge. More stuff. Looking like we are getting somewhere

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1515
Just some mould lines earlier today. Went to a concert and I'm dead now

[placid crystal]

Finished the basilisk and the terra Cota soldier, started prepping the slime for slime along

[daring vale]

Day 72 Horse base coat. Face base coat and grey cloth finished

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 875: Green parts

[thorn stump]

Forgot to post this here last night, day 388, finished up the basing for this guy

[granite geode]

Day 26:
Basecoated a Bunch of bases in black craft paint, cleaned up my hobbyspace, 3D printed a new wet palette and water cup. But let's be honest the star of today's painting efforts was my first freehand. I'd say it's not bad for a first try at all. I like her very much.

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 309, cleaned this little guy

[wet anchor]

Day 54: added more basecoats to these fine folks

[stiff adder]

Day 2(forgot to post 2 days). Pretty happy with the results, thinking I need to rethink my color palettes though lmao.

[thorn stump]

Day 389, finished unboxing and basic sorting another set of Dwarf Forge stuff, and also put a very blurry orange coat on a kobold

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1516
More mould lines. Debating if I should strip these before repriming or not

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 876: suits

[placid crystal]

Day 786, did some more gap filling

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 310, cleaned GW Galadriel

[granite geode]

Day 27:
Damn I got past my advent streak without even aknowledging it.
Just painted this guy. Was my first 3D print, he didn't turn out that great so he got a fairly minimal paintjob in matte black with minimal highlighting to help hide all the imperfections. But good practise for a new black colorscheme without using purple and I kinda couldn't just not paint him.

[wet anchor]

Day 55: Had fun experimenting with this sunset gradient on the blade

[thorn stump]

Day 390, unboxing and sorting terrain, and also local con

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1516
Just more cleaning

[daring vale]

Skin will do for now. Not perfectly happy. Especially with the left side. That neck is.. wrong. I painted it as highlighting the folds but really I should have painted it as a cylinder in total then add extra highlights for those folds. The back left leg is also just a bit of a mess but not sure how to fix. Might go with it and hope the varnish fixes my sins

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 877: Washes done, and airbrushed some stuff

[placid crystal]

Day 787, did some sanding and priming

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 311, other cleaning day

[wet anchor]

Day 56: put the finishing touches on these two

[granite geode]

Day 28:
Just painting some rocks grey

[thorn stump]

Day 391, working on hilt and eyes. Also got in a couple games at the con.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1518
More mould lines. Need to speed up on these got to do 5 for all out war

[placid crystal]

Zenithal primed and ready to go, day 788

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 878: started highlights

@obsidian estuary your day # is wrong 😅

[daring vale]

Day.. 75?

Cleaned up the neck and back leg a little. Painted in the sleeping bag which I think is great, really got the texture and layering style im going for I think. Not perfect but nice.

Also did the wood and puffy texture for the seat and started to base the straps

[granite geode]

Day 29: finished some dirt on the bases, finished my black dragon, most importantly: finished the giant base. And my mind already came up with the next insane base idea 😵‍💫

[obsidian estuary]

Looks like I got out by 1 a while ago

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 312, primed Cat!

[wet anchor]

Day 57: Feel like I'm in a good place with this last Malifaux model, moving on to basing.

[thorn stump]

Day 392, I'm working on putting it all in boxes. Really.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1519
More more

[pearl crow]

It's important you keep yours right, otherwise I get confused too

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 879: More highlights

[daring vale]

Leather at the back is done and the rest of it base coated. In think it's good. Not sure if I over blended with the mid tone so it's lost some shadows.

Also did the inside of the riders cloak. I feel the shadow isn't strong enough but Its also a smooth ass blend so I don't really want to try fix it

[granite geode]

Day 30: I got to this little Green dragon. Very proud of the color-blend in the wings, done with my (kinda secret) favorite material for smooth blends. The rest is started with my typical layering shennanigans, tomorrow I need to push the highlights further.

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 313, primed GW Aragorn and Galadriel

[placid crystal]

Day 789, almost finished with my mutated sewer ooze

[wet anchor]

Love the tone you got with that green Bad

Day 58: getting to work on some bases

[placid crystal]

@wet anchor u
I used Vallejo fluorescent green, it looks different under natural light, more shadows and highlights

[placid crystal]

@wet anchor I like your bases, what are they going to be for?

[thorn stump]

Day 393, finally got up enough energy after a nap to start on a new figure. Originally thought it was a plant monster, with what appear to be suckers on the arms, I'm going with a more aquatic/aberration coloration.

[granite geode]

I love how fleshy this looks

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 790: More hihglights on orange. Still need to do black/white parts and maybe something about the wings. Then I'll have my 5 for AoW january, but cutting it a bit close again

[daring vale]

Day 74? Finishing up the leathers

[placid crystal]

Day 790, made these base and mounted it, I am trying some gloss varnish on the slime, I also set up some color schemes for other minis

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 314, just primed

[wet anchor]

Thank you, I'm trying to made a sunset effect, going to add some red and purple

[placid crystal]

@wet anchor sounds cool

[obsidian estuary]

Forgot to take a pic but
Streak day #1520 was just more mould lines and cleaning

[wet anchor]

day 59: here's the finished bases

[thorn stump]

Day 394, did some work on the back of the pod/head, and shading the arms some more.

[granite geode]

Forgot to post it before falling asleep, but I did actually finish the little guy yesterday

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1521
Finished up the cleaning on these guys. Gave them the customary mini-marine height boost.
Also repaired a chain axe. Hoped to get them primed today but it didn't happen

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 791: Finished these! Not the bases, but I'll do those later

[placid crystal]

Day 791, finished my mutated sewer ooze

[daring vale]

Day 75. Hair and purple cloth painted. Blue banner based.

[granite geode]

Day 32: Painted this little red dragon today. Gonna finish the base tomorrow.

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 315, continued textures work in leather

[wet anchor]

Day 60: Adding more color to these ghouls for AOW4

[thorn stump]

Day 395, adding some more high colors, going to have to pick out those suckers soon.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1522
Not as much as I'd like done today, but this is the most time consuming part. Should zoom through the trim tomorrow

[pearl crow]

Well not even a full drone

Streaking day 792: low effort day, built a drone

[daring vale]

D76. Painting up the muddy pebble bits between base stones and base coating clpak

[placid crystal]

Day 792?, used the airbrush to do some base coating

[granite geode]

Day 33:
Finished my first diorama, if one can call it that.

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 316, basecoated Galadriel

[wet anchor]

Day 61: Finished basing the crew!

[thorn stump]

Day 396, more detail. Not sure what I'm going to do with those little nodules though, going with violet for right now.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1523
Fair bit done today. My steel paint has gone a bit weird though

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 793: magnet workshop

[daring vale]

Purple cloak and testing failure rocks

[placid crystal]

Day 793, not much time for painting today, cleaned up some overspray and fix some missing paint on my new dice

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 317, a little bit more

[wet anchor]

Day 62: Finished 5 hungry little guys for AOW4!

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 794: finished the magnet stuff and glued them to bases, or glued bases to them

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1524
Back on these wispy bastards

[thorn stump]

Day 397, working on the bulette face

[granite geode]

Lost my streak yesterday so here's a new one:
Day 1: cleaning up and filling in this bee.

[daring vale]

D 78. Faffing with rocks, painting the banner and some details

[wet anchor]

Day 63: cleaning up some resin models a friend printed for Trench Crusade

[placid crystal]

Day 794, not feeling well, did a little more cleanup on the tigers

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 318, worked more today

[bitter gull]

They are coming out really well, the color is really good, what paint/color did you use on them!? ❤️‍🔥 🎨

[placid crystal]

@bitter gull Ty, the ivory is from ProAcryl, the browns are MSP Harvest Brown and Orange Brown

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1525
Last of these guys. Just need to gap fill the horses before the riders go on

[thorn stump]

Day 398, doing a little terrain work today.

[daring vale]

Day 79. Horsey is now finished. Just needs a coat of varnish and the metals highlighting up

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 795: some basing work

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 319, glazing

[granite geode]

Day 2: more assembly of the bee

[placid crystal]

Day 795, worked on the faces

[wet anchor]

Day 64: zenithal priming the Trench Crusaders

[thorn stump]

Day 399, shading and highlights on his scales, starting to try to add the crease shadows as well.

[torn relic]

I like seeing all your work, Rain - nice to see someone working through the same reaper backlog, and I find it interesting how you pick colours compared to me

I did my bulette in a brown

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1526
Pretty busy with the AoW spreadsheet today, but onto the dreadscythe harridans now.

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 796: some gap filling and cleanup

[daring vale]

Day 80. Just varnishing up horsebro

[thorn stump]

Thank you, that's kind. That's one of the things I particularly enjoy about Reaper's discord challenges is seeing other folks take on models in my own cabinets.
I can totally see a brown working for him; about half my painting is me trying to avoid my first color instincts, and the other half is just leaning into it. I'm pretty happy with the scale color so far, it's definitely not what I would have originally thought, but it works, I think. Now I have to figure out what to do with those claws (and clean some more flash from them, those old B2 figures are covered in it, and its so rubbery that it does not come off clean and easy, as I'm sure you've encountered; not that I usually bother)

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 320, removed mold lines of Elrond

[wet anchor]

Day 65: assembling some more trench crusadees

[placid crystal]

Day 796, a bit more progress

[thorn stump]

Day 400, not much energy and most of that went to spending time out at dinner with family, but did a little work on his basing to add some character.

[granite geode]

Day 3: forgot to post it yesterday but I did assemble stuff

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1527
did these two today

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 797: final basing work and primer

[daring vale]

D81 horsey finished, rider ready for varnish then metal highlights

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 321, other cleaning session, Reaper Elf Mage

[placid crystal]

Day 797, doing stripes on the second tiger

[wet anchor]

Day 66: Cleaning the mold lines on more crusaders

[granite geode]

Day 4: Gap filling

[thorn stump]

Day 401, made it to level 12 in our PF campaign, watched a loot distribution go terribly wrong, and worked a little on his face area afterwards

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1528
More on this unit

[daring vale]

Day 81: finished off the duder. Just gotta paint his shield now

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 798: did zenithals and started basecoats

[placid crystal]

Day 798, finished strips, mounted on the base, waiting for it to dry

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 322, I continued adding textures and shadows

[wet anchor]

Day 67: low effort day, but made a greenstuff hill and slathered it in terrain paste

[thorn stump]

Day 402, did a little work on a zombie fellow, and also made a big complicated dinner and dessert on what is normally my low effort night.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1529
Started some characters today

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 799: some more color on these

[placid crystal]

Day 799, worked on the bases for the tigers, started base coating the viper

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 323, cleaned this

[wet anchor]

Day 68: Primed some more models to paint this month for AOW4

[thorn stump]

Day 403, started laying down some wood and doing the underside of the greenery. Resolution: painting the trunk and probably branches independently next time.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1530
Back on the chaos stuff. Want to get onto painting this months ones much earlier this time

[placid crystal]

Day 800, base coated the viper

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 800: finished basecoats

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 324, sanded this 3D printed Pokémon Card

[daring vale]

That is awesome

Day 84. Building scaffolder

[thorn stump]

Day 404, started a spidey

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1531
Another angry psycho, Only a couple of the plastics left

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 801: sprue cleanup

[placid crystal]

Day 801, finished the tigers , did shade on the viper

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 325, primed Card

[bitter gull]

Amazing! 😻

[wet anchor]

Days 69 and 70: primed up a bunch of models now that the weather's cleared for a few days

[thorn stump]

Day 405, about nine coats later, thinly glazing up smaller sections to try and give it some fun flava

[wet anchor]

lil splash of lava is always welcome yeah

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1532
Bit more, will start on more of the plague bearers soon

[daring vale]

Speed painting a dude. I still can't figure out these banners but the rest of him is alright

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 802: Very busy day! Painted some terrain basically start to finish, put washes on the suits and started basecoating the zhanshi

[placid crystal]

Day 802, almost done with the viper, starting on the big

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 326, started card

My compressor had an issue and I had to interrupt the session, the yellow had several imperfections to correct

[wet anchor]

Day 71: greening up some ghouls

[thorn stump]

Day 406, light coats on the model to try to get my brain to practice some OSL.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1533
Almost done on these, then they can go in the booze

[daring vale]

Day 87 I think

Done subject to basing, varnish metal highlights. Gonna be first guy I use some 3d printed basing stuff on, starting with ribbit

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 803: Started edge highlighting and built a tidecaster

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 327, primer

[placid crystal]

Day 803, finished the viper

[thorn stump]

Day 407, put a couple more coats on spideyface, trying to ease those transitions, going over it with the base color in places to drop it back down.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1534
A very cleaned and shiny plaguebringer

[daring vale]

Day 88. Might bnunny and skull painted so just varnish, metal highlights then grass and we're done

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 804: built a space dorf

[placid crystal]

Day 804, worked on the snakes and the base for the beetle

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 328, continued work on card

[wet anchor]

Day 72 and 73: adding some reds and browns to the ghouls

[thorn stump]

Day 408, canceled my whole week because this throat bug is kicking my rear, but did do a little touchup on his loincloth and rock, now I have to build out a base to put him on.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1535
Another warty boi

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 805: More details on suit, and started building some kroot

[daring vale]

He looks great! I especially love the lens

[daring vale]

D89, build 10 shields and small kitbash to add a little bit more variety

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 329, basecoated

[placid crystal]

Day 805, basecoated a wizard, worked on my gold cobra and decided I don’t like the colors so I did a color test

[wet anchor]

Day 74: added some metals and bone paints

[thorn stump]

Dayy 409, did a little more high points on the legs, started zeroing in on the face and bum. Holding out as to whether to add a few more back markings as well

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1536
Almost enough done to warrant priming them

[daring vale]

Shieldidoos

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 806: final details. I think this one is finished, minus the base

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 330, added layers to green areas

[placid crystal]

Day 806, worked on the wizard some more

[wet anchor]

day 75: rusted up some metal

[thorn stump]

Day 410, the base has started to acquire color, and I'm pretty sure he only has four eyes, which have a tinge now too, and is less than the average spider.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1537
Another plague bearer

[placid crystal]

Day 807, mounted snakes on bases, changed the colors on the gold snake, getting close, need them for game day tomorrow

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 807: kroot

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 331, cuted, sanded and painted black than glued mini on plinth, now I need make a terrain

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1538
RP today so just quickly did their missed backpack before bed

[thorn stump]

Day 411, did a little work on a tree today. Mostly brushing highlights on the tops of the branches, and inking the bulk of the wood.

[placid crystal]

Day 808, Finished the two cobras and giant beetle

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 808: More kroot and started highlights on second suit

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day332, painted belly draw

[wet anchor]

Day 76 and 77: adding some more highlights to the fur

[daring vale]

Slow shield progress

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1539
Last berserker done. Time to dunk them

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 809: More highlights

[thorn stump]

Forgot to post day 412 last night, did a little faint color glazing work to add some more character to the floor and abdomen

[placid crystal]

@obsidian estuary what do mean “dunk” them?

Day 809, worked on a color scheme for a drake, and did some cleanup of my workspace

[obsidian estuary]

Alcohol for stripping

[placid crystal]

@obsidian estuary ah

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 333, worked a little more with layers in belly

[wet anchor]

Day 78: adding some browns and tans

[thorn stump]

Day 413, started work on an orcsome

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1540
Just some stripping today

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 810: Highlights continue

and when I say highlights, I'm just making scratches I guess

[placid crystal]

Day 810, sanded, cleaned, glued some wyverns and an intellect devourer

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 334, a little bit more

[wet anchor]

Day 79: Done with this batch of 9 ghouls!

[thorn stump]

Day 414, orc has some color on his stuffs now

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1541
Cleaned up the standard bearer

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 811: Last of the kroot

[lost ledge]

Streak day 2, after a long artblock, I feel renewed and focusing on a smaller simpler model is exactly what I need

Check out my new WIP journal as well in #1341536691587911741

[placid crystal]

Day 811, more gap filling and started on the dragon

[wooden coral]

Need to brighten it up after an enamel wash

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 335, Today the moment dedicated to Robin was to make a tool to help me when sanding the plinths and make it easier to achieve the 90° angle.

[wet anchor]

Day 80: Getting started on big Ush

[primal rock]

Day 3 (though first day of posting the streak):

The pattern on the leather on his back came from randomly drawing black and white lines and staining over it a few times. The leather materials are intentionally similar to his skin because I wanted the main contrast to be the metal

The metal has a really thin blue stain to give it a cool color temperature to contrast with the skin. Not sure how noticeable that is.

Feedback welcome

[thorn stump]

Day 415, adding a little shadows to some of his gear

[lost ledge]

Day three! Finished up my NuOrk boy, gonna be working on a Nob next, feeling really good about my progress right now

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1542
again again!

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 812: goblins?

[daring vale]

Been getting twitchy eye lid and tired eyes the last few days but doing 5 mins per day to get another blu shield done

[placid crystal]

Day 812, primed some wyverns, an intellect devourer, and started painting the dragon

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 336, worked a little bit in this pack

[primal rock]

Day 4: blocked out colours on mask collector. Going to be 5 way osl without airbrush so probably will be crap 🙂

[wet anchor]

Day 81: Ush got an arm

[thorn stump]

Day 416, picked the last base color, now starting to work some highlights and glazes on the armor

[lost ledge]

Day 4, and I’m moving on a nob. This one’s feeling a little tricky though, not sure what to paint for the two handed chain axe, but I’ll persevere

You can also check out my progress in #1341536691587911741 for anyone interested

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 813: starting to build a chariot

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1543
based up the boys for priming

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 337, cleaned this

[wet anchor]

Day 82: now he's got 2 arms!

[placid crystal]

Day 813, got pretty far on the dragon

[primal rock]

day 4: no photo because phone was dead. Previous 5 way osl predictably went badly, unfairly demoralized, going to work on fundamentals for a while. I just redid shadows on a large orc for a while. I want to get a better learning mindset.

[thorn stump]

Day 417, little bits today, hilt, starting to try to glaze some highlights down.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1544
Mahreenz!

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 814: painted highlights. And realized I glued the chest armor upside down on the other suit 🫠

It's actually funny how little it shows, the only reason I noticed was the Tau symbol looked different

[placid crystal]

Day 814, almost there with the dragon, having issues with the eyes, preparing the red dragon for display

[lost ledge]

Day 5, and I had some trouble figuring out the colors, but I know now what the other colors are gonna be

More pics in #1341536691587911741

[primal rock]

Those scales look great. I love how sharp the contrast is on the underside

[placid crystal]

@primal rock Ty

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 338, during the cleaning I noticed that one of the orcs had a printing error, so it was Green Stuff day.

[primal rock]

At first I thought you just painted the arm green. That looks very natural.

Day 5: just practicing layering a bit after having lost all confidence 🙂 I'm thinking its better to start with too much contrast and glaze together

[wet anchor]

Day 83: now with 100% more mace

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 815: built a wolf

[torn relic]

what is that, a frog?

oh, no - nvm. That's the vampire count undead thing, but without the head

[thorn stump]

Day 418, working on his base and face.

[wet anchor]

yeah it's Ushoran from the flesh eater courts. Don't have much time or energy for hobbying because of work, but am tryign to make progress on him a little every day

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1545
The boys! The top knot one was awful, probably like .5mm mould lines.
Still too lazy to do any airbrushing today

[noble breach]

Days 1, 2, and 3 - I’m back baby!

[lost ledge]

Day 6, futz about with the other areas of the mini, need to think of how to paint the two handed chainaxe.

More pics in #1341536691587911741

[primal rock]

Nice! I painted a 75mm version of this guy. Great metals.

[noble breach]

Thanks! Oh cool! Can I see?

[primal rock]

Some experimenting with textured leather

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 339, today I finished fixing the ork, yesterday I had to finish the hand. Then I used what was left of GS to make Galadriel's floor.

[placid crystal]

Put some flocking on the base, I have a brachiosaurus that was rattle can primed, it is sticky to the touch, so I am testing to see if some monument primer will make it not sticky or if I have to strip it

[noble breach]

Nice! Dang I wish mine had that sword over the shoulder

[primal rock]

Day 6 I think, I'm sick but talked myself into doing a bit. Smoothed the fabric out on the orc and started undoing the bad osl on the oni

[wet anchor]

Day 84: cape and fur mantle went pretty quick

[noble breach]

d4

[thorn stump]

Day 419, doing some more work on his shield and little touch-ups here and there. Maybe a little more work on the base, and some rust on the sword, and he'll be done painting, I think.

[primal rock]

What's with the bubble wrap? Is that masking for airbrush or something?

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1546
Primed and preshaded the daemons

[noble breach]

So I can hold it without rubbing off my hard earned paint job

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 816: did some work on the bases

[lost ledge]

Day 7!! A whole week, and I figured out my chainaxe dilemma, and added caution stripes as well

You can see more in #the-mini-gallery since it is done

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 340, worked more adding light

[placid crystal]

day 816 , finished this drake, worked on color schemes for 2 wyverns

[wet anchor]

Day 85: Waffled a bit on whether to do a sub assembly for the main body and the cape but figured there was no point in trying to be precise in places nobody is ever really gonna see,

[noble breach]

D5, just a little bit of work on these scales tonight

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1547
More on the daemons

[thorn stump]

Day 420, starting a new boyo to try to do a little scene for next month. Well, girlo, I think, there's a hint of bosom there.

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 817: finished my crisis suits and continuing the zhanshi. Also built a little bit of goblin wagon

[primal rock]

Day 7 (paused streak yesterday because I was sick in bed) added chromatic shading to the skin and made the face less rough

[primal rock]

This is quite inspiring. When my 3d printer is running again I'd like to try to recreate it and see what I can learn. The skin and metal both look about perfect to me

[noble breach]

Aw thanks! Happy to provide tips if you want

[placid crystal]

Day 818, base coated some wyverns

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 341, today I had a workbench cleaning day, no picture 😢

[lost ledge]

Day 8, and I’m doin a space marine mini, a Reiver. Wanted to do Raven Guard but not the main chapter, one of the successor chapter. I chose the Black Guard, simple to do but interesting to look at

More pics in #1341536691587911741

[noble breach]

D6 - making great progress in making plinths lol

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1548
Some more work

[thorn stump]

Day 421, did a little shadowing on the clothes and put some base gray on the sword, still trying to decide whether to go with a darker fur and bring the gloves up to a gold, or more of a gold fur and leave the gloves dark.

[bitter gull]

Hi, last week I made a tool that helped me a lot in getting better results in this task of cutting plinths with more correct angles, that day I only made a comment, but I didn't get to post a picture. It has a 90° angle and I support the side surface that already has a professional cut and I only correct my cut with the sandpaper that I applied to one of the faces, I didn't even glue it, it was only stressed by the meeting of the two pieces of wood that were fixed with screws.

Another thing that helps me with this is that I stick white tape around the plinth before cutting and draw a line with the square and initially I rotate the wood to mark the edge of the cut on the 4 sides, also because I don't have an electric saw and this helps me to have a more regular edge.

[noble breach]

Nice, thanks for the tip! I will try something similar. I like that you can put sandpaper in it - very ergonomic!

I splurged and bought a good saw last night - I think part of my problem was my terrible home depot $15 junk saw

got this puppy

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 818: More details on this

[daring vale]

Big old break but finally back

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 342, worked adding more lights, they need another session on textures and lights

[placid crystal]

Day 819, found more bibs that needed trimming on the wyverns, after that primed and rebase coat, worked a bit on this wizard

[primal rock]

day 8: trying to nicely texture the leather on the boots and strap, mostly by over texturing and then glazing over.
Added shadows to this sea witch lady since they were bright orange and she looked neon.
When I zoom in on high detail parts like that orc's face, it looks like past me was going too fast and not thinning enough. Oof. I'm pretty impatient with the hobby sometimes.

Will add photos when my phone cooperates.

[wet anchor]

Days 86 and 87: Cleaned up a bunch of wrestlers from Rumbleslam. core set of guys actually has a lot more character than I assumed.

[lost ledge]

day 9, and unfortunately, it looks like i'll be breaking my streak

ah well, i made it pretty far, might as well start over again tomorrow

(to be clear, i have not painted today or anything)

[noble breach]

That’s really cool

[primal rock]

My photos

[noble breach]

d7 - learning to cut straight(er) and stain wood

[bitter gull]

Thank you! 😊

[bitter gull]

It turned out really well, has this been cut with the new saw!?

[thorn stump]

Day 422, trying a darker fur and light gloves. Also, did some highlights

[noble breach]

nope, just better technique! It's still pretty rough so I'm excited for that new saw

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1549
Getting there

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 819: almost finished with this, just needs pupils and some stuff on the base

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 343, Cleaned Obelix

[primal rock]

That looks so cool, where did you get it?

[placid crystal]

Day 820, Worked on the witch and the wyverns

[bitter gull]

Hi, A friend who has a printer printed it out and commissioned me to paint it. All I know is that the name of the studio is CA3D, I think it's a Patreon.

[primal rock]

Day 9: did cleanup on this witch and the orc. Orc is fine but she looks really sloppy and sometimes it's not clear how to improve things. Cleaned up missed patches on the freak drake. I'm going to oil paint it with a bunch of colours and we'll see how that ends up. Dry brushed values for the violinist who I want to try painting colourful and expressionistic. I've got to get better brush control and uh.. paint consistency management?

[noble breach]

D8 - experimenting with sanding and staining

[thorn stump]

Day 423, feeling a little better, so started working on making some bases for a few figures -- one already painted, one started, one only primed.

[wet anchor]

Day 88: some reds on these ghouls

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1550
Very close now. Hopefully can finish in the morning before Monster hunter goes live

[lost ledge]

Day 1, and I got some work done on my Reiver

More pics in #1341536691587911741

[daring vale]

Finally finishing up the blue. Just got... So much more to do

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 820: Finished my Zhanshi

[placid crystal]

Day 821, started to strip a 🦕

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 344, started to paint floor

[noble breach]

D9 Really pleased with this!

[primal rock]

If I'd made that I'd obnoxiously show it to everyone I know

Day 10: a bit of supergluing and base coated violinist in gaudy colors (though I did try to keep adjacent colours nearby on the wheel). Idea is to use dark muted oil paint wash and see how that looks.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1551
Just in time as I watch the Monster hunter files optimize

[wet anchor]

Day 89: some bones on the ghoulies

[bitter gull]

Awesome job, you have every reason to be proud! ❤️‍🔥

[placid crystal]

Day 822, got some work done on this wyverns, feeling better about it

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 345, finished

[primal rock]

Day 11: basecoating this base and repairing the mask oni

[noble breach]

D10 - varnishing

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 821: based some stuff

[pearl crow]

You are skipping ahead one day!

[noble breach]

Busted!!

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1552
Got a little lost in MH Wilds today so only a quick bit of mould lines tonight

[placid crystal]

@pearl crow Oops! you are right, thanks for letting me know!

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 822: Finishing touches on these bases, and glued some goblins together

[placid crystal]

Day 822, really I double checked, been trying to strip the primer on this because it was sticky, this is after an hour of scrubbing, the original paint is intact. I let it sit in Green Stuff for 48 hours. I plan on priming over it. Would isopropyl alcohol work better ?

[daring vale]

Got a little bored of batch painting so decided to just finish 3 off to get an idea of how they'll look varnished up etc.

Went much simpler on the back since there'll be. Big guy standing there and it won't be that visible

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 346, worked some more glazing

[noble breach]

D11 practicing cutting and sanding, got my first sub-millimeter precision diagonal crosscut, then proceeded to screw it up on my orbital sander 😆

[obsidian estuary]

If you're going that precise on the cut you could probably hand sand it

[noble breach]

I do 80 on the orbital and then hand sand 120/180/220

I’m still not great at sawing so there are blade marks on the surface perpendicular to the cut, so I kinda gotta use the orbital or I’ll be there all day

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1553
Cleaned up a marine

[wet anchor]

Cleaned up and prepped some wrestlers to add to AOW4

[primal rock]

Forgot to post, day 12: just some layering

Edit: I'd like to thank you all for being a wholesome bunch. It's nice to watch everyone work.

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 823: primed these a did some base magnets

[placid crystal]

Day 823, in answer to my own question, isopropyl alcohol 99% works much better than Green Stuff. After soaking for three days and scrubbing for hours I was getting minimal results against the rattle can primer. The isopropyl took it off in seconds. I used a fume hood and mask, but it was so much more effective.

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 347, worked polishing details

[torn relic]

I tried my own experiment today. Contrast paint vs. oils for underwater effects. The contrast were new for the dragon turtle. I did oils previously for a sea horse. The oils were a clear winner. I'm going to reprime the base and go back to oils

for the base, that is

[torn relic]

I remember him coming on a round base?

either way, nice job on him!

[bitter gull]

Yes, it came on a round base, I just attached it to this to paint, I will not put it on a game base, it will compose a scene with 2 hound beasts that are still in progress, I have not finished the terrain yet. Thank you very much! 🥰

[thorn stump]

Days 424, 425, 426: internet and cell service went out for a few days for customers of much of town. Still kept painting though

[wet anchor]

Day 92: Trying to finish up the last of my ghouls

[wet anchor]

note: an appropriate emoji did not come up for "dinosaur" but searching "brachio" turned up 🦕 (sauropod) instead.

[noble breach]

D12, worked on the OSL a bit which I am not yet pleased with

[primal rock]

Neat, airbrush?

Day 13: more layering and starting on trying to fix 3d printer screen

[thorn stump]

Day 427, huffed some good... er, did some clearcoating on some folks to get them ready for sorting 🙂

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1554
An ghost

[noble breach]

Some, some brushwork too

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 824: zenithals and some wolf goblin building

[daring vale]

Slow progress

[placid crystal]

Day 823, some gap filling, discovered some fluid was leaking out along a seam, must have been from soaking it in Green Stuff, yuck . Guess it is on hold while it dries out

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 348, worked adding more layers

[noble breach]

D13, just put some super dark shadows to hide stuff

[wet anchor]

Day 93: highlights on the ghouls, just need to clean up a few spots and decide if I want to freehand the banner, they should be good

[primal rock]

Day 14: tried and failed to fix printer screen connection. Sad

[thorn stump]

Day 428, trying to go for a sort of cream fancy shirt under it all, and adding color to the hat feathers. Starting to work up overcoat highlights

[lost ledge]

Day 1, again, but I finished my BlackGuard Reiver! The icon could of been made better, but I feel good about my attempt at freehanding

More pics in #the-mini-gallery

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1555
Back at uni so more travel cleaning

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 825: More wolfgoblins

[placid crystal]

Day 825, still working on the brachiosaurus, had to drill a second hole to try and get the Simple Green out. I am vowing to never use it again

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 349, today I built a 3-tier rack with wheels so I could get some hobby tools and materials off the bench. I'm also going to use it to store the paints I'm using and some minis I'm cleaning and modeling.

[noble breach]

perfect fit

[wet anchor]

Day 94: Feeling sick but managed to clean up some of the messier bits of this guy

[primal rock]

day 15: no printer repair progress but I did some easy painting. Pictures added later

[thorn stump]

Day 429, doing some work on the buckles and blade, trying to put a little detail on her face to add character, and finally remembered to paint the dangly bit of cloth between the legs.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1556
Spoozoozle!

[primal rock]

Yesterday's picture

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 826: troll

[lost ledge]

Hey! Day 2, and I’m gonna be working on a faction I’m not familiar with, Adeptus Mechanicus

Doing a subassembly, so that’s why the rider isn’t present. More pics in #1341536691587911741

[daring vale]

Sorting transport solutions today

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 350, cleaned Blade Dancer

[placid crystal]

Day 826, flushing out the cleaner inside the brachiosaurus, it’s draining here, worked on a wyvern

[wet anchor]

Day 95: wrapped up a drummer!

[primal rock]

Day 16: layering, priming, and a tonne of time spent cleaning and repairing a very nasty brush

[thorn stump]

Day 430, sorting and putting away some of the recently clearcoated models, and of course, pulling more to paint, and scrubbing them up to get them closer to the agonizing part

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1557
Some of this commander cleaned

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 827: Basecoats done

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 351, added some light

[placid crystal]

Day 827, not feeling well, worked a bit on shadows on blue wyvern

[lost ledge]

Day 3 and I’ve started on the rider as well

More pics in #1341536691587911741

[primal rock]

*posts picture of beautiful finished model "basecoats done"

[wet anchor]

Day 96: another drummer done!

[pearl crow]

Well it's literally just a coat of contrast over zenithal 😅

[primal rock]

Day 17: In desperation I go to my dad to see if he has advice for LCD screen repair. In the process of demonstrating the issue it fixes itself. I guess that's a win. Prime bird guy. Speedy wet blend this vampire focusing on moving around the color wheel

[thorn stump]

Day 431; among other things, this. Inking some moss to try to use later for basing as seaweed on a guy reminiscent of the black lagoon.

[torn relic]

What was the issue? If it "fixed" itself, my guess is a loose connection on a wire

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1558
Finshed off and assembled the character

[primal rock]

Yeah, the clamp for the LCD ribbon on the mobo wide came off when I was removing the old screen, and I figured it had snapped something. No amount of pushing or taping or wiggling the ribbon in made the screen test work, and the clamp wouldn't go back in - it'd just fall down again at first opportunity. Then yesterday somehow the clamp did snap back in and that made the cable work. Idk what I'd have had to do if the clamp really was broken or lost.

[placid crystal]

Day 828, decided to change the blues to a cooler range instead of the turquoises I was going to use. Worked on a base for the other wyvern

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 828: Worked in the base a bit and did some base magnets

[primal rock]

Day 18: iterating on this vampire mostly

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 352, worked a little bit adding layers to this orc

[wet anchor]

Day 97: little smidge of kitbashing on this biggun ghoul

[thorn stump]

Day 432, attached yesterday's work to a base with some glue after brushing some highlights on. Now to see if it will stay well enough to start putting a few coats of water effect over it tomorrow. Also, to see if my water effect bottles are still liquid or if they've all set into a solid block

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1559
Out again so just a quick pass on this

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 829: washes done

[primal rock]

Day 19: done this quick vampire. I had letting the base color show through the layers making it pretty well unified

[placid crystal]

Day 829, still sick, worked on a base and a wyvern

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 353, added more layers

[wet anchor]

Day 98: started carving up some 2" fioam board to take my first crack at a terrain piece

[thorn stump]

Day 433, laying down some soilworks water. The Vallejo has set up into a solid mass, sadly.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1560
Rough pass on this one

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 830: goblins

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 354, started with glazes

[placid crystal]

Day 830, finished this wyvern

[bitter gull]

Beautiful result!! 😍 I can't help but comment that we are using almost the same color palette! 💚 💜 Good taste my friend! 🥰

[placid crystal]

@bitter gull Ty

@bitter gull love 💕 your’s too

[wet anchor]

Day 99: finished carving the foam and got a dry fit on some trenches

[primal rock]

Day 20: very busy but I manage to drybrush shade and work on color pallet

[thorn stump]

Day 434, worked on a diorama scene I hope to be able to show soon with some of the figures I've been painting over the past couple months!

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1561
Another one

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 831: started painting crane man

[daring vale]

More shields finished up

[placid crystal]

Day 831, worked on the blue wyvern and base

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 355, added light points and edge highlights losted in glazing process

[primal rock]

This is really nice. I like how high the highlights go. Poppin

Day 21: my wife is away for some months to visit family so lots of time to paint between weeping of loneliness. Edge highlighted and started basing vampire. Glazed the highlight jumps on oni. Just contrast based the bird, will probably completely cover it up later. Put new matte varnish on my shiny oil paint guys and hoping very hard it works this time. I've tried matte medium and an expired matte spray and they both did nothing. And a picture of new paint that arrived, my first new paint after the Vallejo starter set I got a couple years ago

[placid crystal]

@primal rock Ty, my replacement unit just reminded me this is a frost drake and I need to do snow on the base, so got to rethink that

[thorn stump]

Day 435, trying to fill in some wing gap with milliput.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1562
Got to find some arms for these guys. Vaguely thinking of running them as chosen.

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 832: worked on the orange armor a bit more

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 356, continued adding light in some spots and smoothing transitions, add hues

[placid crystal]

Day 832, worked a little on making the base snow and ice, not happy so far

[wet anchor]

Day 100 and 101: put together the last of my hairy ghoul knights

[primal rock]

22: didn't feel up for Mich and mostly base coated this base, discovered that i have the world's shiniest matte varnish, and some other quick stuff.

[thorn stump]

Day 436, drove a fellow player crazy with almost a full quarter of a session dedicated to something other than him arguing about combat and "That's the way I always played" when the rules inevitably turn out to be counter to his statements. Also, did a little priming mostly of metal afterwards, and put some base color on the bottom of the tree I'm slowly working on and trying to get done by the end of the month

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1563
Final pass on these two, that's the last for that squad now. Just have to source some arms and backpacks

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 833: worked on this some more

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 357, cut and sanded plinth

[primal rock]

23: mostly bird stuff. I'm enjoying the "style" of using a moderately loaded brush sideways across the texture to rapidly shade. Is that "overbrushing"? I'm not particularly patient with slow techniques

[placid crystal]

Day 833, Almost there , need to let the glue dry overnight

[wet anchor]

Day 102: Painting an angry halfling

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1564
Did he stripping on these finally

[thorn stump]

Day 437, did a little work trying to touch up the skin shadows on a zombie fellow to be nice and mottled and gross

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 834: worked on the.... hair?

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 358, Today I worked for about 3 hours correcting, adding points of light, smoothing transitions and I simply have the impression that nothing has changed 😅

[primal rock]

24: tried the oil thinner I got and got artsy. The girl is probably doneish because being painterly is the intent. The drake will get more care. Druid is just getting washed.

[placid crystal]

Day 834, worked on the base for the wyvern, and did gap filling on the brachiosaurus

[wet anchor]

Built some layers onto the halfling wrester

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1565
Trying to safely extract this rescue model from a tomb of super glue

[thorn stump]

Day 438, trying to finish up some small projects, while puttering at bigger ones. Like this. Did a first pass on the hair of the little guys.

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 835: glued a wolf

[placid crystal]

Day 835, did some varnishing and cleanup, calling her done

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 359, started a base for Tohaa

[primal rock]

25: bringing back saturation where I foolishly painted red onto green, and used dark purple to make the shadows darker and smoother

[thorn stump]

Day 439, started on a guy

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1566
Some final little cleaning on these where the stripping didn't quite get everything. I'll do the other two tomorrow and hopefully get their little boot extenders and bases on

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 836: Finished crane man, and started highlighting the troll

[placid crystal]

Day 836, started back on the ankylosarus

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 360, finished base

[placid crystal]

@bitter gull what is that a base for?

[bitter gull]

Hi!

For this! #1056622916143435866 message

[placid crystal]

@bitter gull what kind of mini?

[bitter gull]

A friend of mine play Infinity and ask me to paint it.

It's not something I would normally paint since I like organic things more, but it's interesting to set a challenge every now and then and I was happy to paint it for him. I'm glad people like what I paint and I'm happy to be able to make this gift.

Base needs paint job of course.

[primal rock]

day 26: did a bit of oil paint shading. No pictures because its barely noticeable

[wet anchor]

Day 104 and 105: painting up some fun greenskin wrestlers

[thorn stump]

Day 440, trying to add some fun and color by doing the cones, but THERE'S SO MANY I HATE IT

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1567
They got their little booties on

[daring vale]

And finished off 3 more shields. Pushed the leather layers a bit further and think it looks great but not sure if actually looks much like leather

[primal rock]

I'm going to pause my streak because Im in a wrist brace and don't want to be stupid.

[primal rock]

I strongly relate to this sentiment

[primal rock]

Look at all these goddamn candles. And anywhere there was clear surface they stuffed some more candles in so I kept finding more

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 837: painted some troll skin and based a wolf rider

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 361, finished!

[bitter gull]

I'm sorry you're hurt, I hope you recover soon and get back to painting as soon as possible! 🥰

[primal rock]

I really like the vivid edge highlights. Kind of like tron or a computer terminal

[bitter gull]

Thank you!

[torn relic]

pssst. #1332867618276900895 if you think you can get them done in 2 weeks

[placid crystal]

Day 837, primed a brachiosaurus, now I can see all the gaps and mould lines I missed!

[torn relic]

hate it when that happens

[wet anchor]

Day 106: fancy spandex!

[wet anchor]

Appreciate it! I've already submitted these to AOW4 so I can't double dip right?

[sweet abyss]

Sorry no cant be in another event. One mini one event

[thorn stump]

Day 441, working on the head and wings mostly, trying to add some character and blends in there.

[torn relic]

Sadly nope, can't double dip. You can still post in the thread for more company, but you can't claim it for points twice - along or aow

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1568
Just some quick base prep

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 838: More troll skin, zenithals on droggz and started building a commander

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 362, worked on this beasts

[placid crystal]

Day 838, just about done on the wizard, did some layering on the ankylosarus

[primal rock]

27; trying to make use of my oils on the pallet before they dry out. Washed all these bases.

[primal rock]

hehe at a long distance like this some of that shading looks really nice. I should take all my progress photos from arms length 🙂

[primal rock]

that crystal actually looks lit from within, very nice

[placid crystal]

@primal rock TBH it is a translucent material and I used a green ink to dye it. So a cheat, but I like it.

[primal rock]

fancy. Personally I cheat as much as possible

[wet anchor]

Day 107: highlights and finishing touches on the orc wrestlers

[thorn stump]

Day 442, doing some more freehand work on this cloak to try to finish him up

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1569
some cleaning on my rescue greater daemon

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 389: built some space dwarves and did some highlights on this

[placid crystal]

Day 389, not feeling well, managed to varnish this wizard

[primal rock]

28: acrylics again with the first good brush ice owned mostly metal and highlighting this grim landlord

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 363, continued adding first textures

[bitter gull]

I hope you recover soon! 🥰

[placid crystal]

@jovial jacinth thanks

[jovial jacinth]

I also hope you recover well!

I've still been hobby streaking but mostly from my journal

[primal rock]

the new ones are the small ones? If you prefer the smaller scale, how come? I usually find the bigger I print something the more I enjoy it

[jovial jacinth]

Oh sorry the new ones are the blue "zenithal" ones. The just black primer ones (smaller) when I scaled them all at the same percentage, the bug (bow) guy's legs are so long it made the women look like an infant, so I changed up the rescaling and adjusted it to be more "accurate" to the person's actual art. (These are Original characters from a friend)

I also prefer to paint bigger models 😄 hence why I'm much happier

[primal rock]

nice we are in alignment. Your friend 3d models? Those are great

[placid crystal]

@bitter gull thanks

[placid crystal]

@jovial jacinth @primal rock I enjoy the big models, I dislike the little models, they are so much harder to get things looking the way the want, the eyes drive me crazy!

[primal rock]

I am glad to be in a room full of right thinking people

[jovial jacinth]

Technically his son designed the models in 2d. And he got someone to sculpt them in 3d.

I'm painting a few of them as a gift

[jovial jacinth]

I agree.i also feel i can't quote be as relaxed about painting the smaller model as any little mistake will be so noticeable

I also ended up starting this frog before bed

[wet anchor]

Day 108: moving on to some human (and hobbit) wrestlers now

[placid crystal]

@jovial jacinth love the colors

[thorn stump]

Day 443, no work done obv just showing off.
OK, maybe he has a tail now. But you probably wouldn't even notice it, so well camouflaged.

No, it won't stay that way, but I'm hoping the undercoat will help, and I really want them to release him at some point so I can do him more phoenix style or something that that tail demands.

[jovial jacinth]

I'm digging the tail color even if its an undercoat

[torn relic]

I'm with Dork. I actually like the flamey tail

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1570
Barrels: drilled
Feet: shaved
Pedicure gore: piled

Got them ready for priming with a little weapon repair. That should happen tomorrow

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 840: built some space dwarves and highlighted the weird growths on the skin

[placid crystal]

@pearl crow I think you repeated day 839

Day 840, finished the wizard, reprimed a base, worked on the ankylosarus

[pearl crow]

oh whoops

thanks. but I did it only because @obsidian estuary did it first

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 364, a little bit more light and texture

[obsidian estuary]

Ugh this is why I always like having the image. I miss it when I go back to check if it doesn't

[primal rock]

That reflection on frogs jacket looks cool, is that a gloss finish or something? They all look great and fun to paint

Thanks for crossposting 🙂

29: Mostly work on the wings and leather parts. I get intimidated when I get to the tricky or slow parts and start wanting to move onto new models

[jovial jacinth]

the gloss is from the light/ and the still semi wet ink but it is the planned highlight to go on the jacket once I work out the design that makes me happy 🙂

[jovial jacinth]

love the feathers

[primal rock]

Oh thanks, I had no idea what I was doing so there's dry brushing and contrast and feathering and oil paint and now highlighted tips. Some parts of them are still really raw

[jovial jacinth]

trial and error helps make everything better!

[wet anchor]

Day 109: not too much energy today, just made a guy's pants blue

[thorn stump]

Day 444, trying to glue together some Klocke pieces to work on over the next couple months

[jovial jacinth]

Not the outie belly button

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1571
Priming done

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 841: Started basecoating

[primal rock]

I swear your base coats look like finished models

maybe I'm just bad at zenithal contrast. Next time could you take a picture of how it looks before the contrast goes on?

Im guessing mine have been too dark in places

[placid crystal]

Day 841, worked on the base and last set of highlights on the dinosaur

[wet anchor]

it is a surprisingly deep squat, his belly area goes like, below the pants and then comes back up

[jovial jacinth]

Dang... I know I'm out of shape but now I feel like I'm even more out of shape lol

[primal rock]

the highlight weathering looks great, and all the different layered textures. I really like those sorts of contrast jumps

[placid crystal]

@primal rock Ty

[primal rock]

30! Mostly giving a solid basecoat over places I had tried to base with contrast earlier that looked awful. Water washable oils seem very convenient for mini painting.

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 365, added some light to orc skin! One year with! 🎉

[wet anchor]

day 109: did highlights on the wrestlers (went way too thick on the blue but not sure if I care to go fix it

[pearl crow]

Here's this one with the zenithal. I do spend a bit more time on this to get the highlights in the right places, but don't think it's anything too special. Though on these models the zenithal is purple-light blue-white

Ans I don't think there would be anything wrong with just calling it done with just the contrast, it's a fine tabletop ready paintjob. Transparent paints with a zenithal usually look pretty good

[primal rock]

I think the colored zenithal was what was confusing me. I've been priming black and then drybrushing white with various transparency. I think maybe my main issue has been leaving the dark areas too close to a flat black, because contrast paint on black does virtually nothing. Starting with appropriate colors and shifting between them up the value scale is almost obvious in retrospect since I already do that when basecoating.
Thanks for the response 🙂

When I hear 'basecoat' I think of models looking totally flat like a plastic action figure, so it made me laugh when I saw your troll so nicely shaded as a basecoat

[pearl crow]

Ah if you're doing zenithals with a drybrush and only 2 colors then yeah it's gonna look a bit more rough. The colored zenithal isn't that big of a deal to be honest, it's more about being able to make the transitions a lot smoother. I imagine you could do it with a drybrush too if you just use enough intermediary tones between the black and white

The larger the mini the more those intermediary tones matter

[thorn stump]

Day 445, still poking at the tail

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1572
Did a bit on these, very awkward away from home. I think I'll make a wet palette while I'm away

[torn relic]

orange to green? Interesting blend. Looks good so far - looking forward to the final piece!

[placid crystal]

Day 842, I didn’t like how the mini sat on the base, so I added some earth texture and made better contact points

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 842: finished basecoats and did washes on this, and painted some bone parts on the troll

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 366, more light to beasts

[primal rock]

31 prepping up some new models. The spooky onis see how my undershades normally look. The demon I drybrushed layers from yellow to red to black to give a fire look that only sorta turned out

[wet anchor]

day 110: Blue pants on the wrestleeeer

[thorn stump]

Day 446, trying to finish up some terrain pieces too, so doing some brushing and inking on the roots of this tree.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1573
Painted some trim on the marines.
Made a wet palette with paper towel and a small plate, it was a vast improvement.

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 843: Got started on highlighting this and did quite a lot, and some stuff on the troll

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 367, more textures and lights

[wet anchor]

day 111: Think this guy's muscles turned out pretty good

[placid crystal]

Day 843, gap filling on the brachiosaurus and varnishing and base work on the ankylosarus

[primal rock]

32: mask oni details. Ghost oni black wash shading. A mixed gold and black to start the metals on demon guy.

I have a problem when I get to little bits I don't know how to paint where I slow down or leave them unfinished. For example the lanterns on the mask guy, I have little confidence I'll make them look good and little plan so they're not very exciting to work on. What do other people do? Maybe I should focus more on good references and take them slowly

[thorn stump]

Day 447, doing a little bit of base gluing while in a paint funk. OK, not really, but my schedule has been off with my partner away and they're coming back on a morning flight, so trying to avoid starting any new projects.

[obsidian estuary]

Streak day #1574
More trim, here's my low rent toast plate wet palette.
My back does not enjoy couch painting

[placid crystal]

@primal rock Exactly, look at other people’s work, make a plan, it is those little details that really make the difference and will elevate your work, don’t rush through them, take your time

@obsidian estuary cool idea for the wet palette 🎨

[pearl crow]

Streaking day 844: More highlighting! Still a few more parts to go, but getting close to done

[obsidian estuary]

Works pretty well, good temporary one

[torn relic]

looks great! Where's the model from?

[wet anchor]

parchment paper, wet paper town and a plate works great in my experience! Did some of my best painting ever (granted not a high bar for anyone to reach) at Reapercon with a similar setup

[placid crystal]

Day 844, finished the ankylosarus, reprimed the brachiosaurus, found a few more gaps I missed, prepped and primed some flytraps and a hellcat

[bitter gull]

Streaking Day 368, I worked with the airbrush applying some glazings and hues, I took a photo with Kroot to see how they look together,

[wet anchor]

day 112: some green on some ork