Water Caste Studio

(He/Him/His) - Big fan of tabletop wargames, currently Warhammer 40K, Adeptus Titanicus and Battletech. Primarily an art-focused blog in my continual attempt to master the brush despite my shaky hands, but I may post occasional battle reports or theorycrafting from the wilds of north america. TERFs and bigots of all flavors are not welcome - you can leave the way you came in.

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My partner picked me up the hypercrypt legion battleforce, so I'm working on muddling through a paint scheme on some old indomitus box weirdos I picked up a long time ago.

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Beware, I live

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Weird kind of dog

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Everything sucks but we stay silly, I didn't die I just moved. Blasting the rust off with my first model in, what, 3 months? I got about fifteen more of those weirdos to paint and then some lumineth to get off the wip shelf, then it's back to tau baybeee

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Almost done the bird themself- soon I can work on his worse half

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I daresay we are getting somewhere

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Down with some kind of Sickness but the fella only continues

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Working on a big fella

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My largest painting project yet - literally!

The display scenery from The Battle for the Throne box for Marvel Crisis Protocol (gifted to me early by the manufacturers).

I've never painted scenery before so this was an exercise in efficiency of scale - I can't use up all of my expensive miniature paint!

I started with a rattlecan base spray - purple and red-brown, with a narrow spray of teal for the lower half and a white zenithal dusting to finish.

It really informed how I built the colours back in - I had initially pictured something fully black and blue like the cave of wonders in Disney's Aladdin, but the progression from dark blue to purple to brown felt surprisingly easy to wrangle and strangely believable?!

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Work has been kicking my ass but I "stay silly" as the kids say.

Been working on some Tiny Fellas and some Short Kings

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Yeah a Kahl too why not

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One boxes worth of hearthguard down, 2 more to go

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Got pretty sick this week so my time and drive to paint has been near zero but the show must go on

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Tiny command squad continues, now with a flag weirdo and a captain

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They're so small....

I have dwarves to paint but the allure of tiny EC may be too much for me to handle

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Dwarfin' time continues, 35 models remain

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Dawn of the 32nd day

1 Kahl, 1 Grimnyr, 1 Champion, 8 Pioneers, 1 Sagitaur, 1 HLF, 10 Hearthguard, and 6 Thunderkyn remain to be painted before the tournament