Weary

That feels like really specific fuckup that also requires them to know way too much about you to do...

The modern blockbuster killed what I liked about adventure movies. Stakes need to be 1000 combatants greenscreened and cgi'd battling it out. Billionaire heros and super powered unattainable skills.

Extra salty about WH announcing more price hikes too...

I feel similarly about missing weird adventure movies (though from a less DIY expression). Maybe it comes from a similar place. Money ruins art. Labyrinth and Dark Crystal are cool. They are messy, their stories big but also... kind of small. Relatable. Walk out your door into adventure scale.

So clean and crispy! looks even better on the table!

These are really nicely done!

The outriders we deserve. Make the White Scars jealous.

Yeah, even as I wrote it I knew that was the truth, especially with space marines. Probably why nothing SM gets new sculpts of old things, just new things that do the same stuff... Less complaints then they quietly squat the old stuff.

maan why does it feel like the sculptors like every game more than 40k lol

A very red mech wields a sword. Bits are glowing in blue. He stands on a tacticool rock and a stiff breeze blows through the ribbon and plants in the scene. It all sits in the palm of my hand, because it is a miniature that I painted.

Finished my Commander Farsight for my #Tau army! I cut close to the 'standard' scheme. I usually treat named characters often as an opportunity to practice execution over creativity and I am happy with how it came out.

#minipainting #wh40k #miniatures

A very red mech wields a sword. Bits are glowing in blue. He stands on a tacticool rock and a stiff breeze blows through the ribbon and plants in the scene. It all sits in the palm of my hand, because it is a miniature that I painted.

Finished my Commander Farsight for my #Tau army! I cut close to the 'standard' scheme. I usually treat named characters often as an opportunity to practice execution over creativity and I am happy with how it came out.

#minipainting #wh40k #miniatures

The paint chipping is great and the wheels looks so perfectly dusty. I appreciate the asymmetry there too!

Its so cohesive and nice overall. How did you do the front windshield?

thats looking so good!

yooo this is a great ghostkeel. I really struggled myself on my ghostkeel trying to find what 'stealth' meant for my army. I really like how the netting looks.

The lightning looks so awesome!

Slow going but making progress!

#tau #wh40k #miniatures #wip

Slow going but making progress!

#tau #wh40k #miniatures #wip

That makes sense!

I think part of what drove me to ask about this is I feel I am slow at the first steps (esp. vs the 'value' it brings); feeling like i invest the most time there, getting the base colors on the thing.

Id like to be faster through that so I can do more of the parts i love

Is my 'skill' that I just keep going until I'm happy? I've long thought 'aim small, miss small' is one of the truest-but-nothingburger tips in mini painting. Maybe another is 'dont stop til your done'?

Had a question for the minipainters out there. Is this pattern common:

My effort feels like 70/30 base painting to detail/highlight painting. After 70%+ of my time i have an ugly model nobody would pay attention to. With relatively little effort beyond that I get non-painters impressed.

I have the shirt too but I wanted it all the time so I had it incorporated into a tattoo

Gnope line is precious!

Commander Farsight's mech torso. Done in mostly red with black accent parts. Head is white with black accents. A few details are picked out in metallic bronze.

Working on Commander Farsight from #wh40k. I wanted to give him some extra attention so I am doing sub-assemblies (not something I usually bother with). I think I'm just about done with the torso. Not happy with the accents on the armpit hexagons, I'll black those out.

#tau #miniatures #wip

I genuinely would like a way to pay for a fair support that distributed funds to various organizations. I can't pay for all of it and I can't read enough from all of them to make it worth it individually.

I know this is reinventing cable TV but the solution does kinda work if you do it right...

Bust of Granny Weatherwax I painted.

"A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her." - Terry Pratchett

I had trouble photographing it because of the gloss but here is my finished(?) #mtg Swords to Plowshares shadowbox

#miniatures #diorama

@gazzsalad.vtubers.social Thank you for your encouragement! Room for better execution on the vision but I'm def happy with the outcome

This is my first shadowbox/diorama i have tried to create. I took inspiration from the #bloomburrow commander deck Swords to Plowshares for this.

I had trouble photographing it because of the gloss but here is my finished(?) #mtg Swords to Plowshares shadowbox

#miniatures #diorama

Throwback to these #aetherpunk28 models I kitbashed a while ago. The Kickstarter for V2 of the game's live now and I'm very excited.

Maybe I'll even give The Thunderfinch Alumni (this lot) a fresh photoshoot to celebrate 🎉

#nerdlings

#kitbash #kitbashing
#paintingminiatures #miniaturepainting