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  • JUNE #PaintSlam22 COMMUNITY SHOWCASE! All the pretty things!

    JUNE #PaintSlam22 COMMUNITY SHOWCASE! All the pretty things!

    Whoaaaaaa, we’re halfway there~eeehhh~~, whoaaaa paintin’ on a chairrrr~~~

    *cough* sorry about that, what I meant to say was: Welcome to the June community showcase for #PaintSlam22! It’s another amazing month for hobby, and this month’s showcase is chock full of colour! We’ve also got a couple of new faces in this one so if this was your first month for PaintSlam, welcome!

    If you’re reading this and want to get involved, check out all the details here. And now, let’s get into the gallery.

    *Sorry if some of the pics are low res, I’m not sure why my Discord is suddenly only giving me low-res images…

    Alexander

    Almighty_gir

    Belzébée

    Ceda_Kuru_Qan

    Commissar Lewdfang

    Coreworlder

    DalekCheese

    Failnaut

    fin37

    gardengoth

    Goomba

    HaleysRedComet

    Hatmadder

    Jack

    JB

    MajinDachi

    Myaori

    NicoSaiba

    Pandaemonium_Miniatures

    Pete (Sippster) Sippit

    Pete_Paints_Plastic

    Pyra

    theelusiveshaun

    Thokamous

    Torrentstride

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  • It’s the spectacular 2022 PRIDE MONTH COMMUNITY SHOWCASE!

    It’s the spectacular 2022 PRIDE MONTH COMMUNITY SHOWCASE!

    Another year, and another exciting month of hobby in the PaintSlam community! Once again, to celebrate Pride month I asked the community to paint models with a Pride theme – it’s a riot of colour! Thanks to everybody who took part in this years Pride event and stay tuned to PaintSlam for upcoming painting events as well as the usual monthly showcases! Now, without further ado, to the PRIDE! (If I missed you off, please DM me on Twitter or Discord and I’ll get you added into the article!)

    Amy_Jade

    Bractica

    Ceda_Kuru_Qan

    Coreworlder

    Dad_Mech_Hobbies

    Eldy

    Erik

    Giraton

    Gundeck

    Hatmadder

    JewelKnightJess

    JJ

    Lily.Erin

    Lord_Fateweaver

    Maid of Cake

    Momma Negan

    Myaori

    Phire Danck

    Rathmore

    Sk8r

    Stardust_X86

    Ti_Dinzeo

    Timeblob’s Miniatures

    Amazing work everyone! And remember, whatever else happens…

    You Are Welcome!

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  • How to paint a Fire Brand Kobold!

    How to paint a Fire Brand Kobold!

    The folks at Steamforged Games kindly sent me a bunch of their Epic Encounters D&D Supplements lately, and I am in love with the miniatures in these sets. Each set contains not only miniatures but a full encounter including double sided playmats and books containing enemy stats and attacks, story beats and more. Going forward I am hoping to bring more painting tutorials for these sets to help you get your models painted to a nice gaming level!

    This Kobold is from the Shrine of the Kobold Queen set. In this tutorial I’ll show you how I painted my unit of 4 shield+spear loaded Kobolds to a playable tabletop standard.

    I started with a spray of Grey Seer undercoat. This is a very light grey, which gives colours placed over it a slightly cooler tone which befits the scales of a reptilian kobold (although some Kobolds are mammalian, I think?)

    Over this, I apply Citadel Contrast Blood Angels Red over all the Kobold scales and flesh. Don’t worry about splashing it onto other areas, since we’ll be using darker colours over most of the other areas.

    Next I took Cygor Brown contrast paint, and applied it over horns, claws, the shield, and the staff shaft. I then used Leadbelcher over all the metal areas.

    I used Zandri dust to pick out a few straps on the spear staff, then I applied Agrax Earthshade over everything so far, including the red areas to help deepen the shadows and tie the colours together.

    The horns, shield, and staff got a quick drybrush with Gorthor Brown paint to bring out some of the woodgrain texture, I also gave the edge of a shield a highlight with the same colour. Then I painted a little purple into the eye area, which will help the bright green glowing eyes pop a little more.

    The eyeball was painted first with Corax White paint, then given a plentiful coat of Tesseract Glow technical paint. I put on enough that it flowed into the sharp crevices of the eye and created a glowing effect.

    I used Ushabti Bone and Zandri Dust to highlight the straps on the spear, as well as bring out a few extra highlights upon the shield. The silver areas recieved a highlight with Mythril Silver.

    Evil Sunz Scarlet was then used on the red areas to highlight the more raised areas and brighten up the overall look of the scales and skin. I used Troll Slayer Orange next to create even smaller highlights.

    Lastly, I used Cygor Brown contrast paint once more to paint in pupils into the eyes, although this is a matter of taste and you might prefer the plan glowing style eyes. To finish the model off, the base was painted completely with Abaddon Black. You could also use a texture paint or other basing materials to match your other models, but I do my miniatures for these sets with plain black.

    And with that, the Kobold is ready to take on some brave adventurers and die for his queen. Here’s the completed group of 4 Fire Brand Kobolds…

    I hope you enjoyed this little painting guide, and if you found it useful please let me know in the comments below. Thanks once again to Steamforged Games for hooking me up! Also let me know if you’ve got any of the Epic Encounters stuff yourself, have you played any of the scenarios yet with your friends?

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  • Check out my OLDHAMMER Wood Elf Army so far (It’s so beautiful TT_TT)

    Check out my OLDHAMMER Wood Elf Army so far (It’s so beautiful TT_TT)

    Hey folks, as you will probably know I’ve been building an oldhammer Wood Elf army for the last couple of years! Thanks to some canny eBay bidding, some lucky finds and some incredibly kind and generous folks on Twitter I’ve been able to amass the Wood Elf army of my childhood dreams.

    It started out with a focus on the 1996 release for Warhammer 4th edition (soon to be replaced by the exciting new 5th edition), but has since introduced models from the 80s, 2000s and today (to quote my local radio station!)

    So this here blog post is to show you *everything* I’ve painted so far for this army. Now, I’ve still got a heck of a lot of unpainted and unassembled stuff in a big box of lovely metal yet to add, but I think this is already a gallery to be proud of. So grab a cup of tea and some hobnobs, and enjoy…

    Boys from the Wood

    Here you can see the core infantry units in the army. With two full units of 16 archers, 10 Waywatchers, 12 Scouts, 14 Wardancers and 25 Glade Guard (aka Eternal Guard) consisting of 15 of the 90s shield versions and 10 of the 80s models. The Wardancer unit includes the Warhammer Quest wardancer character, who can be played as Wychwethyl The Wild in the 4th edition army book.

    Bark as bad as their bite

    The forest spirits have gotten in on the action too, here you can see my unit of Dryads as well as two classic Treemen, one of which is the original Durthu!

    You can be my Oak of Ages

    Here’s Orion, King in the Woods and his lovely lady, Ariel. This is Ariel before she (re)merged with Alarielle during the End Times of the Old World! I based her colour scheme on that of her appearance in Total War: Warhammer 2.

    Wood you please behave

    Here’s the lesser characters and heroes of the army, who serve underneath Orion and Ariel. This is where some of the more recent models come into play, such as the 2005 Battle Standard Bearer and Spellweaver, and the much more recent Araloth, more commonly known as the Nomad Prince kit. You can also see the custom BSB I made from the plastic Wood Elf hero from Warhammer Quest, based directly on the one seen in the army book and White Dwarf of the era.

    Horsing Around

    My army currently includes two units of Glade Riders, one of which is armed with spears and the other is a unit of archers. I found the archer models much harder to find than the spear ones, probably because the spear chaps used to come in a box set whereas the archers were only available in blister packs. I also love the Elven Attack Chariot, which is one of those fabled kits I always wanted as a child but was never able to obtain. I’m super pleased with how it looks with the rest of the army.

    What a drag-on

    Here’s my centrepiece model, my pride and joy. The Wood Elf Forest Dragon. This is the original version that was used as the base for the later Sisters of Twilight kit. I really tried to capture the colours of the original ‘Eavy Metal scheme with this and it even uses the original banner. I’m absolutely delighted to have this model standing front and centre in the army in my cabinet. Truly one of my all-time favourite Warhammer miniatures!

    This miniature even inspired how I painted the recent Stormcast Eternals dragon that the good folks at Warhammer Community kindly let me paint for an article:

    And, for now at least, that’s the whole of my Wood Elf army. Although it’s certainly not the end of it! Stay tuned to the blog and my social media channels for more classic Oldhammer goodness in the near future! Thanks for reading!

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  • Jess’s Quick Tips! How to make your eyes happy.

    Jess’s Quick Tips! How to make your eyes happy.

    I’m sure I’m not alone in having picked up a model to paint, primed it, then sat there looking at it thinking “Where do I even start? What is that detail there? I can’t quite see what it is…”

    If your eyesight and brain are anything like mine, you’ll sometimes be intimidated by odd shapes and bits on a model your eyes can’t quite “read” which makes it hard to get started. Or perhaps due to the lighting in your room or the colour/finish of the primer it’s all just a bit hard for your eyes to make out without straining them.

    So here’s my little tip! Now, this obviously will work best on a lighter undercoat (in this case I’ve used Grey Seer but anything lighter than a mid-grey will also work for this) but what I like to do is pick a wash or contrast shade and apply it all over the model as a first step, as you can see here:

    This is a model from Vae Victis Miniatures, and after priming it Grey Seer (the end of a can, hence it being a slightly rough prime) I washed over the whole model with Citadel Contrast Gryph-Charger Grey. Other good colours to use for this are washes such as Seraphim Sepia or Reikland Fleshshade.

    This highlights all the raised areas and definies all the details nicely without creating a super thick layer of paint that fills in any detail. Plus if you use a shade that you intend to use on the model anyway, it can help speed up the process overall. I used this grey/blue tone because I’ll be using Black Templar on some areas, and the blue will slightly tint the areas that don’t end up pure black and add some colour to an otherwise greyscale area.

    Now I can see what all the details on the model are, and avoid hurting my eyes trying to see what I’m looking at.

    Give it a go and see if it helps you if you’re not feeling confident when starting a new miniature!

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  • Cool minis that’ll knock your socks off!

    Cool minis that’ll knock your socks off!

    Hello there! It’s your friend Jess here! I thought it’d be fun to make a blog post to show off some of the cool minis and stuff I’ve been enjoying lately. If you’re a fan of mini painting (and if you’re a PaintSlammer, that’s a fair bet) I’m sure you’ll find something interesting in this post…

    Animal Adventures RPG

    Firstly, the kind folks over at Steamforged Games kindly sent me a huge bundle of Animal Adventures sets to check out. Now I’d already backed the original Dungeons & Doggies kickstarter, and been very happy with that first set but this is my first time looking at the later products like the Animal Adventures RPG starter set, the Gullet Cove expansion and the Cats & Catacombs miniatures too.

    Over the last weekend I painted up all the miniatures from the Starter Set box which also includes dice, maps, tokens and a playbook with the basic rules and a first campaign to play. It’s all presented extremely nicely, and all the models and rules from the range are compatible with the current 5th edition rules for D&D. I’m excited to paint more of these models and have my first animal adventure with friends 🙂 I also had a few duplicates here from the first kickstarter, so I gave those away over on my Twitter page.

    Dead Man’s Hand

    These are fun, I got a box of the lady Gunfighters for the Dead Man’s Hand game along with the rulebook and cards from Bad Squiddo Games. This is a great modular kit of badass ladies from the Wild West, with tons of head and weapon options and tons of scope for making the warband or gang of your desire. I mostly painted these using Citadel Contrast colours which helped me get them all tabletop ready in short order!

    If you want something that’s a little different from the usual fantasy, sci-fi or WW1/2 settings, I’d recommend giving Dead Man’s Hand a look.

    JRPG Heroes!

    I’ve also really been enjoying painting miniatures based on my favourite JRPG heroes. I’m a huge fan of the JRPG videogame genre and it’s so fun to bring some of my favourite legendary characters to life like this. These particular models are sculpted by RN Estudio, and purchased through We Print Miniatures (affiliate link!).

    Above, you can see I’ve painted Chrono, Frog, and Marle from Chrono Trigger, as well as the hero from Dragon Quest 8, and Vivi from Final Fantasy 9. I’ve also still got Tidus and Yuna from FFX and Cloud, Tifa, Barrett and Aeris from FFVII on the pile of things to enjoy!

    If you pick any of these up from We Print Miniatures, you can get 10% off your order if you use the code JEWELKNIGHTJESS at checkout too!

    Rivenstone

    I was reached out to by the creators of Rivenstone, Broken Anvil, and they sent me one of their new miniatures from the upcoming game that recently had a successful Kickstarter. This model was cast in the new Siocast material, which I greatly enjoyed painting. I think the material is a great thing for the industry as it makes small runs much more affordable and achievable. I can’t wait to see more on this game.

    Steel Colosseum

    This is super cool, I was sent an early 3D print of Insectoid, one of the battle robots from the upcoming Steel Colosseum game from Needy Cat Games. Think Robot Wars with even wackier and unique battlebot designs and an awesome almost graffiti-like art style. Each model in the set is very different from the others, go take a look!

    VAE VICTIS MINIATURES

    Vae Victis Miniatures were very kind to send me the STL for their new Musketeer sculpt, one of many they’ve released through their patreon service. This was printed for me by @OMechanicum. This is a wonderfully clean and characterful model, and I’d definitely like to get more miniatures from these folks in the future. Go give them a look 🙂

    And Finally…

    @OMechanicum also printed me off the chibi Jess model which is available to all supporters of the PaintSlam Patreon! This is my first time holding the miniature in my own hands and I’m absolutely delighted by how it came out. If you’d like to print and paint her yourself, please consider supporting me on Patreon. You help keep PaintSlam going and you don’t even have to stay a patreon for long. Even one month of support entitles you to the miniature and I appreciate every single penny.

    Next Time…

    I’m planning to do these kind of posts semi-regularly, so look out for the next one where I’ll hopefully have some cool new miniatures to show off. I’m hoping to be able to show you some really neat models from my friends at Dead Earth Games and Warp Miniatures to start… 😀

    If you want me to feature your minis or store here on the blog please feel free to DM me over on Twitter! I always love checking out cool new stuff and showing it off.

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