It Came from the Lightbox: Raveners
I was very excited for this team as soon as it was announced. Thrilled to knock them out as soon as I could: and in about a week. Used the same technique I used on my Leviathan Tyranids, but I did punch highlights up by an extra step. I think the glowy green and wet pink parts are the most effective.
#KillTeam #PaintedMiniGallery #Tyranids #Warhammer40K #Xenos
It Came from the Lightbox: Arbites Exaction Squad
I took a crack at these thinking they’d paint quickly: I was right! Something’s up with the Dullcote I have that makes it less satin than I’d like: I’m trying out some AK Ultra-matte here, and it’s definitely WAY more matte than I’d like.
It Came from the Lightbox: Imperial Special Service
The Fireteam changes to N5 made me really excited to return to ISS – a huge difference from N4, in which the rules seemed actively tuned to punish the sectorial.
So, I was delighted to grab the action pack and get it painted up. I skipped the models I already have painted (Celestial Guard, Crane Rank, etc)
The Bayara Palace Guard is a unit I don’t know I’ll ever take! But it looks so cool, I’m really glad it’s done.
I was weirdly cool on the Longwang until I assembled it. The unicool material is great… and there’s something about its relatively small size that just makes it neater to me. Very pleased with my freehand unit logo there.
I’m pretty sure “Jinyao” means “difficult to assemble” but once it was assembled: thrilled with the results. Not shown: another freehanded unit logo.
I also knocked out the Koga and Kunai Ninjas (the former’s been in my pile of shame since N4) and a printed turret for my Sophotect Shenji.
Finally, I printed off and painted a Waldo mini from Skullforge to use as an HVT because it seemed fun. And, as I’ve had to print and paint dozens and dozens of Critters for the NOVAOpen Narrative, I decided to run one off for myself and give it a bit more attention; it’s a QAZ Creature.
It Came from the Lightbox: Sand and Bone, Kill Team Equipment
Painted the Kill Team Equipment because that seemed like the thing to do. Went quickly, no complaints!
Spearhead sees some action at the game store so I was eager to hop on the new box. Very, very happy with how these game out.
#AgeOfSigmar #KillTeam #PaintedMiniGallery #Spearhead #terrain #Warhammer40K
It Came from the Lightbox: David Gourdon
I threw this weird, seasonal Cyberpunk Combat Zone merc on the painting table and knocked him out pretty quickly.
It Came from the Lightbox: Night Lords Nemesis Claw
I’m really satisfied with how these models came out… but something about them photographed kind of poorly. So poorly, in fact, that frustration over it kind of killed me posting here. I’m pushing through, posting them, and moving on, though.
The special characters, who aren’t just Gunners/Heavy Gunners took 3 weeks to get done… the gunners too a week. :sigh:
#Chaos #KillTeam #NightLords #PaintedMiniGallery #Warhammer40K
It Came from the Lightbox: Lunar, Dead Moon’s Hand
While Dead Moon’s Hand was on my brain a few months back, I knocked out all of my Lunar backlog. I put more effort into these (Freelancers in desaturated blue, JAXA in orange) and I’m really in love with them. So much so I went back and painted the reflection on the faceplates of all of my previously painted Lunar models.
These guys are from Skullforge, more on the later. Me being me, I’ll take whatever goofy moonshit I can get.
These aren’t so much Dead Moon’s Hand, but I worked on them at the same time. I’ve got a half-doodled PAC-MAN game written up using these. Clearly I love the space ghost models.
These aren’t Dead Moon’s Hand, Lunar, or PAC-Man: they’re Arsenal models. I think they’re pretty sick. I need to wrap up the MCVs for them to have a playable force, though.
It Came from the Lightbox: More Minotaurs
I painted up a Minotaurs Intercession Squad for Kill Team two years back, but with the new Kill Team edition conflating the Intercession Squad and Strike Force Justian into the single Angels of Death list… I had some gaps in option coverage. So I knocked out the three models I needed: a Captain, an Eliminator, and a Heavy Intercessor.
It Came from the Lightbox: Fomoroid Crusher
I’m just knocking out some random models and shrinking the pile of grey: I picked up the Warcry Chaos Monsters box a bit a go and was happy to make a little progress against it. Very happy with the result here: the blue is so effective.
It Came from the Lightbox: Da Kunnin’ Krew
I painted these for use in Warcry. I expected Mannok Da Kunnin’s face to be difficult to paint given the metal basket around his head but it actually wasn’t so bad
#AgeOfSigmar #Destruction #Kruleboyz #Orruks #PaintedMiniGallery #Warcry #WarhammerUnderworlds
It Came from the Lightbox: Sylvaneth Spearhead
Breaking my catch-up of unposted painted model picks: I finished these guys yesterday and got them into the lightbox this morning.
Got a bug up my butt about the leaves looking kind of elm-y and that elms have a beautiful golden yellow in autumn… and with as frigid as it’s been the last few weeks it was tough to think about painting these green and spring-like. So: autumnal.
I’m quite happy with how they came out, though getting that golden yellow took many, many, many coats. I think the results are worth it, though.
Very displeased with the models themselves, however: all those branches and arrows are incredibly fragile. If you look closely you can see all bits that broke off while painting them.
it Came from the Lightbox: Gnomes
Warp Miniatures makes these magnificent gnomes and I’ve had them for a while. We’ve started playing a lot of Spearhead at the game store, so I got a bug to print off enough to counts-as them as the Gloomspite Gitz spearhead and paint them up.
I’m quite happy with them! I’m looking forward to printing off and painting their Mouse Cavalry to run as the new Gitmob spearhead, once we know what’s in it (and my printer is fixed).
Here’s a photo in front of a black background because I’m still playing around with that.
I want to note that I did paint these little fellas’ eyes because yes. I gave them pink, magenta eyes because they’re magical little forest fairies.
And I used fluorescents so that, in the right circumstances, they’ll glow with sinister menace…
#AgeOfSigmar #Destruction #GloomspiteGitz #Gnomes #PaintedMiniGallery
Testament to how nuts November has been that I’m only now getting around to posting my Orktober project: some Orks from PuppetsWar.
https://www.warpstonepile.com/2023/11/it-came-from-the-lightbox-waaghbusters.html
