There's never a limit though, as there's always more Horrors to be had. Well, painted, as there's still a box worth in a tray. Well, constructed, as said tray doesn't have much that's glued together. But there's more! Always more.
So, Pink Horrors are the reason I started with the plastic crack. It wasn't immediate, but the pink gribblies in Relic's masterpiece (though maybe less masterpiecely for the lore…) Dawn Of War. Chaos Marines were cool, because they were just psychologically broken. And Pink Horrors? Just so aligned with my brain. While the first models I painted were something else, it was Horrors that I wanted to paint lots of and made the most progress. They're still what I'm most proud of. Every time I look at them, I smile and thinking "that's what I want to achieve".
And then I look closely. Or at the base. And I feel bad again. Imperfections, bad choices and just WTFery of the ugly bases. But no more! As I let the paint-shit bug bite, I wanted to come back to these gentle, docile little creatures. Also, I have all of this basing material to actually fucking use one day. So I did.
After noticing imperfections last time I looked closely, I thought I'd poke around a little bit with some touch-ups. Gone is the horrible black smudge on the cheek, teeth have been cleaned up and all around they've just had a little polish.
And I just love the end result for the bases too much. Fixing, rather than starting from scratch, as there was at least some texture there. A bit of drybrush, a bit of wash, then the magical grass. A few attempts at sorting out the base rim colour, which is still a tiny bit rough but good enough. Can't really see the progress well though.
Should have thought of this at the same time as doing the other media here, but whatever it's here now. Now I look at them side by side, the original base work makes me shudder a bit. No depth, not much thought, texture crap all along the rim. It'll take a bit of time to sort all of them, but the important thing is that I want to sort them.
Finishing the Tzeentch theme, we have the old daemon prince in all his blue glory. Well, almost all as I've misplaced a leg armour plate. It's around somewhere.
He was stripped once and ended up very shiny. I forget what I used, or how badly I did the initial paint job. He may get stripped again to a) fix shines and b) just do him better.
He also suffered from my magnet obsession, as I wanted optional wings for point juggling options and travel considerations. I could have done a much better job with it. There's way too much green stuff to make the mutated backpack exhausts fit flush again, which may not be fixable. The wings were really worth it though.
Yeah, I forgot I'd put the magnets the wrong way around.
Holy shit, I put some paint on something. Actual paint! By me! Now, technically this is more paint on something with some paint, rather than newly painted, but whatever. It's still not just kitbashing grey plastic or priming.
So, Florence is back, baby. Not so new, but improved!
So we slapped on some magical Army Painter speed paints: Palid Bone on the white bone bits, some Enchanted Steel on the chain that seemed a bit dark and some Golden Armour to highlight metally edgy bits.
Alright, maybe he ended up better in some areas and slightly worse in others as I wasn't sure what I was trying to do. The gold works, but I really clusterfucked the Khorne symbol it with a slop of normal red paint.
One more update from the archive, I promise. I've been doing real hobby things that are have so busy that photos and posts and things just get swept away in the tidal waves of grey making and slaying just so much done hard to track and everything...
Fine, low effort clip-show post of something half painted over a decade ago, because I'm not allowing myself to let the schedule drop. Really working that idea.
Anyway, this is the only one of the metal Sisters of Sigmar models I have that's even been primed, let alone been touched by a brush. All of them solid single lumps of pewter, bar one or two shields, I think. The original idea was to join in a Mordheim campaign that never really happened, alongside another dumb idea. I at least came up with a colour scheme, but kind of gave up there, as painting flesh tones scares me.
Another attempt at some variety, but taking a step backwards to prime plus wash. I think I'd managed to not coat them too thickly with the priming, but this meant less of the pseudo zenithal.
The purple doesn't work. Not sure if it was the application, or it's just too harsh a jump from the bare white, but it looks too blotchy. Red was a lot easier on the eye, probably because red+white = pink, but purple+white is just still purple.
I'm happy with the flames, though no idea what paints I used for them.
This is where my memory gets a bit hazy and I tell off my past self for not writing things down. I'm older now, I've learnt.
I'm pretty sure there was a standard white prime, which might have been done at the same time as the first round. Or not. I know I did something different with the wash, but I don't remember if that was using Caraburg Crimson, or still Bhaal Red but over Leviathan Purple. The overall effect was a blue-tinged pink, but it lost some of the vibrancy of the pure Bhaal red.
I think he showcases the teeth and claws a little better, and somehow I didn't completely screw the eyes over.
Spinny girlies! Hoo boy, the mix of colour schemes were due to me trying to do squads of 6 because Slaanesh in different colours. I think one of the schemes wasn't my choice, but anything more than that is best left in the past.
I don't think I was doing the paint thinning thing very well, and I didn't really have a good plan for what I was doing. No plan can be all fine, as can a meticulous plan, but the overall feel was less obvious than with the horrors.
For bluey, I think I was going for the 40k colour scheme at the time, but with more fun hair. I had some notes for the colours, even a reference painting card!
Pinky claw, no clue. Not sure if I was trying to get a little closer to the fantasy colour scheme, or tried to mix it up or something.
Ginger Ms Orange I think wasn't painted by me. I didn't, and still don't, really like the colour mix. I think were some washes over something, but I don't recall what the base coat colours were. As there's only one of her, she's more likely to be redone.
