Skit's Mini Painting Journey Pt. 3
The Admech one.
C'mon, you all saw this one coming.
Back when I was painting my nurgles purple, I wanted to do a similar color scheme for my Admech army. I slowly moved away from it however, as I didn't quite like the way it turned out. The green and purple look took to Nurgle well, but purple Admech on desert planets didn't make a whole lot of sense. Didn't stop me from trying though, and while they certainly didn't look bad, I'm glad I didn't stick with it.
The Mars Pattern Family
This little fella may look familiar! Here was my first attempt at a more traditional mars pattern skit, and a jawa-esque one to boot! This was a kitbash of a proper galvanic rifle and backpack being added to The Makers Cult's Lil' Recruit.
I mean, Jawa admech is so amazing, but I had to have my little guy properly equipped!
Continuing the Mars linage is a technopriest and engiseer, both TMC printed minis. I love the way these two look. The face-shield on the technopriest looks amazing, and I'm incredibly proud of the reflection on it. The OSL on the hand isn't very visible in the picture, but it also looks really good.
This Thallax bot was supposed to be a Kastellan Bot for @elnubnub, however I got the two mixed up and picked the smaller one. I'm going to eventually remedy that, but he still looks good nonetheless.
This is by and large one of my best pieces in my opinion. Back when @cannibalcaprine had a bird face, this model was more applicable. Dominus Hera has so much soul and time put into her I don't know if I'll ever be able to replicate the state of mind I was in that let me get this mini to look this good. The cloth effects are fantastic, the OSL from the gun is fantastic, the molten axe is fantastic, the color choices and layout is fantastic, the cables are fantastic; I don't know who painted this mini, but it certainly wasn't me. It couldn't have been.
And the most important member of the Mars Pattern Family, the fan favorite: Goober. A kitbash gone wrong gone right. A broken mini finally becoming whole. The legend himself. What more is there to say?
Finally: The Submechanicum
Penelope, the Ocean Queen. My first model I painted for the Submechanicus. I'd love to say that this is my magnum opus, considering I made a whole video about her and everything...
However, I must rip the band aid off and say that this is the first version of Penelope...
Because what immediately followed her was this beast. This is the Krabaphron, another contender for one of my best models. This sucker was so genre defining, that it set a new standard for the rest of my Submechanicus army and would cause me to re-do my color-scheme and paint job planning going forward.
I based all of my future Submechanicus models off of it, using it as a template. The Skits and Techpriest both got the same treatment and I've got to say, I'm in love with the way it looks. I've continued using this style so far and I haven't had to make many modifications.
As such, Penelope... didn't quite fit the bill anymore. She stood out from the rest of the models.
So... after a livestream of planning and base layering...
She was finally given the paint job she deserved.
And that's just were our story begins fair traveler... With the rise of the Depth Guard, a proper protector of the Submechanicus will be needed to combat the forces of Nurgle... And coming late April, there will be such a machine surfacing, with a video to present it.
Of course, this is quite an older photo. It's far more painted than that. I've teased photos of it so far, however I'm saving the proper display of it for the video, so be on the look out if you want to see the completed product!
And that's about it! Hope you've enjoyed this little walk down memory lane and gallery of my mini painting endeavors! I'll be making a website for easier viewing once I've gone through and gotten some more professional looking pictures done. Thank you for reading and viewing!
-Jerry
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What makes you a rock star is what are you able to do when you get behind that microphone, when you put that guitar in your hands, when you wield those drumsticks, and when you raise your hand in front of twenty thousand people: do they respond? That's being a rock star.
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Skit's Mini Painting Journey Pt. Deux
It may surprise many of you that my first 40k minis weren't Adeptus Mechanicus, but lo and behold, I started with Nurgle Daemons.
I began with these three poxwalkers, initially the first of many, however now they're the only three of a kind. I wanted to do a noxious radioactive color scheme for them since I hadn't really seen anybody do anything similar to that while I was looking for inspiration. I largely stole from Risk of Rain 1 and 2 Acrid's color scheme and tried to replicate it best I could.
The results, I'd say, are a huge jump in quality from my previous miniature painting endeavors.
Then, there's the CUNK. The "Small Great Unclean One Who I Sized Down To Fit On My 3D Printer Because He Was Too Big To Print In One Go Because I Didn't Know How To Split Models" or just, Cunk as I nicknamed him, as SGUOWISDTFOM3DPBHWTBTPIOGBIDKHTSM was too hard to pronounce. I'm especially proud of this fella, and I'm sad to say that he's flawed. If it wasn't for the sizing issue, I'd say he's one of the few models from my older paint jobs I'd still run on a table today. The slime effects still stand up, and I love the colors of the mouth on the stomach. The horns and sword could use some TLC, but all things considered, I love this guy.
I love him so much in fact, I recently went back in and braved adding a couple red pupils to him, just so he'd have that menacing stare :3
Now surely, that's where it ends, right? I move on from my nurgle to admech and that's that, yeah?
Nope!
Feeling nostalgic for my nurgle roots, I broke back out the purple last year and started this fella. Cunk 2.0! I wanted a properly sized and more accurate GUO, while still bringing that funky feel that Cunk has going on. He's still a work in progress, but I've fallen in love with this guy. I'm planning on doing the goo effects again, but likely a little more conservatively, just to keep the effect looking classy.
I've also started working on a Death Guard army to fight my aquatic Admech army. The 'Depth Guard' as the community has called it!
I've got a couple standouts lined up, but most importantly we've got this amazing Sunken Despoiler Knight and a Mortarion who'll be getting the Sleepin' With The Fishes treatment :D
And here's Part 3!
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