Friday, March 1, 2019

February Hobby Challenge Wrap Up

EDIT: Finally got around to processing more pics and getting them up.

At the moment, this is just a single quick photo of everything for Squaduary, Fembruary, and Neglected Model February. Sometime in the next day or two I'll get around to taking better and more detailed pics, but right now, I'm just not up to it.
The front 10 are a legit Squad of Neophyte Hybrids. I want to touch up their bases a bit, but I've taken Models to Tournaments in worse shape than this. In the back, we have a quartet of various non-combatants, a couple of female Spaceport Crew in the middle from Statuesque Miniatures that I was reminded of by Suber, who are my (smaller than hoped) contribution to Fembruary, and they are flanked by a couple of old-ass Imperial Guard repair crew or something, I can't remember exactly what they were called. Every last one of them qualifies for Neglected Model February.

I'll be back in a day or two with better pics, and until then, y'all have a good one, y'hear!

First off, here are the two for Fembruary.  My camera isn't great at capturing darker skin tones, and it kind of distorted the features on the second woman in particular a bit. I'm really happy with how they came out, tho, they look great in person.


 Now the other two civilians. These are, as I mentioned, old GW tank repair workers or something like that. These and the two above were a really nice bit of a break from the Stealer Culties, since they were all hand-sculpted and cast in metal, so they don't have so much ludicrously fine detail as modern CAD-sculpted plastics. The dude carrying the fuel cans is the only one that has any remotely interesting detail from more than one angle, so he gets more pics. I'm kind of assuming he also has no eyebrows, since things like smoking while hauling around tank fuel tend to lead to that ;)



"Man, I need another gas fire like I need a hole in the head." "I think we can safely assume that you don't have a good grasp of what you do or don't need."
And we'll finish everything off with the Culties here. First a bunch of generic grunts to fill out the Squad, but even they end up having a lot of fine detail on them. One of my fave things about this colour scheme is that the skin and the reinforced parts of the work suits both start with Rakarth Flesh. The only difference is whether they get Purple Tone or Strong Tone over that. I try to further differentiate by thinning the Purple Tone down more for the 4th gen Hybrids than for the more alien-looking 3rd gen Hybrids. The spotlights on their shoulders are Nihilakh Oxide over white, and I need to remember to do that after the Strong Tone in the future, because it's really fiddly trying to keep that off the lens.




 I wanted to take a couple more pics of this guy, because he's got the most chitin of anyone in this Squad. This is the hideously garish blue and red (Caledor Sky and Evil Sunz Scarlet), with a coat of undiluted Purple Tone, and then another coat of turn-of-the-century era GW purple ink, which was ridiculously shiny, and utterly crap for actually shading things, but perfect for the effect I wanted here. The first pic is closer to how it looks in person. The second, the bright lighting from the flash and light box make a bit more of the base colours show through the glaze.

And that's it for now! I've been kind of crashing since rushing to get this all done by the end of February, but I have been working on other stuff as well, and hopefully I'll have some actual new content, instead of just edits of previous posts, up soon. Until then, y'all have a good one, y'hear!

16 comments:

  1. Oooh, you took it to the wire there! Cult Ambush post! Well done!

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  2. Actually I have no idea what time it is America. Maybe you're early.

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    1. No, you got it right the first time. This went up at about 11:58 local time ;) Thanks!

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  3. I'd forgotten about those 2 old IG minis...I had 'em a long time ago.

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    1. I'd almost forgotten about them too, even tho I still have mine. They've been sitting around primed since like 2003 or so. I did rip them off the terrible basing job I did back then and put them on Necromunda bases just a couple of days ago.

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  4. Great choice of colors and cool bases. Good looking unit you have there.

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    1. Thanks! I'm pretty happy with how they came out.

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  5. Nice going! They are all looking good :)
    I managed a sum total of 0 for my squadary pledge. All hobby motivation evaporated, and anything I did turn my hand to went horribly wrong

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    1. Thanks! Those periods definitely happen to all of us. Hopefully you pull out of it sometime soon!

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  6. They look great!
    I really like the orange colour scheme, It compliments the industrial style clothing and tells their story without any need for words.

    Like NafNaf, I too failed with my pledges for February.
    I did manage to get my Dark Mech base coated, which was all I hoped for, but the camera on my phone has pretty much given up the ghost so I can't take any photos (I'm now looking for a new phone, so if anybody can recommend one with a good camera for taking photos of models, I'm open to suggestions).

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    1. Thanks! One of the things I really love about the GSC is the look they give us at civilian life in the 41st millennium. I wanted the colour scheme to reinforce that, and I'm pleased with how it came out.

      We all go through slumps. You'll pull out of it at some point here. No idea on cameras. My phone camera sucks, and my dedicated camera is like 15 years old, and was kinda cheapo back then.

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  7. Great work here - and those cultists front and centre really look the business!

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    1. Thanks! I did, in fact, put a couple of the ones I was happiest with up front.

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  8. Awesome stuff, man - Really dig the civvies in particular!

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    1. Thanks! I'm really happy with the civvies as well. But, um, [img]https://66.media.tumblr.com/eedd7ae366a080c7da1709f38b204f48/tumblr_o6z8efkilD1s5w0b7o1_400.gif[/img]

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    2. WTF. That was supposed to embed.

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