Category: #PaintSlam21

  • August #PaintSlam21 Community Showcase!

    Alright, who’s the joker who pressed the Skip Month button on August? It feels like I only made the last community showcase post about five minutes ago! Well, regardless, here we are at the start(…ish) of September for another showcase of your beautifully assembled and painted miniatures. Let’s not waste any more time, bring on the minis!!

    ALMIGHTY GIR

    BIGGEORDIEGEEK

    BRIN

    CEDA_KURU_QAN

    CRITONYENTERTAINMENT

    GARDENGOTH

    HOUSEFIREHAWK

    JB

    JEWELKNIGHTJESS

    KING_KABU

    MOMMY NEGAN

    PANDAEMONIUM MINIATURES

    PSIPPIT

    SHEROQUEER

    THEELUSIVESHAUN

    THOKAMOUS

    TIM”CHOPPER”KELLY

    TORRENTSTRIDE

    And there we go, once again another stunning month of hobby from the PaintSlam community. Amazing work everyone! Keep it up, and keep filling those logbooks in!

  • JULY #PAINTSLAM21 COMMUNITY SHOWCASE!

    JULY #PAINTSLAM21 COMMUNITY SHOWCASE!

    July came and went like… a month… that started and then ended…I didn’t think this analogy through so well, actually. Well anyway, it’s another month of EPIC hobby from you folks. And since this is a community showcase, thats quite enough of my warbling on. Let’s take a look at YOUR hobby!

    ALMIGHTY_GIR

    This is Lydia, the Lioness, where Gir was working on both NMM and OSL. Doesn’t it look amazing? 😀

    CALLIE

    Some more Star Wars stuff here from Callie!

    CRITONY_ENTERTAINMENT

    FIN37

    HEAVY METAL WARS

    HOUSEFIREHAWK

    More lovely Star Sentinels from HouseFireHawk! They posted a lot more than this so do check out the Discord to see more!

    JOEMANGO

    KING_KABU

    MOMMY NEGAN

    MOSH

    PANDAEMONIUM_MINIATURES

    PETER THEPAINTGOBLIN

    PSIPPITT

    THEELUSIVESHAUN

    THEPOSHGOBLIN

    THOKAMOUS

    TORRENTSTRIDE

    USAGI/SHEROQUEER

    Sorry I haven’t put much commentary on the images this month – technical difficulties resulted in this post taking WAY too long to get done so I just wanted to get the showcase up! But please share some love to our wonderful community members on Twitter and other socials using the hashtag #PaintSlam21!

  • JUNE #PAINTSLAM21 COMMUNITY SHOWCASE!

    JUNE #PAINTSLAM21 COMMUNITY SHOWCASE!

    Six months gone, six remain. It’s still been a bit of a funny old year, the Pandemic still very much ongoing and a lot of honestly pretty crappy stuff going on in the real world. At least in the PaintSlam community we’re all here for each other and build each other up with great hobby and support. Let’s take a look at how we’ve all done during the month of June (in addition to the Pride Month Roulette showcase!). It’s a big one this month, folks, you’ve all been busy beavers!!

    Heads up, a couple of the miniatures this month have gore/horror themes so do stop scrolling if this may be upsetting to you <3

    Remember, all the details for PaintSlam can be found on this very website, and you can join our friendly and welcoming Discord server to share your hobby and join in with community events!

    ALMIGHTY_GIR

    A rather gruesome model here, I hope you weren’t eating!

    CALLIE

    Callie brings us Separatists from Star Wars Armada. This is very nice work!

    CEDA_KURU_QAN

    This lovely looking Lord Exorcist is named Constantiniel Wyrdsong. Great work!

    CEE

    Very nice miniatures here from Cee, including a bi pride ranger (which you may have seen on the Pride Roulette post too)

    CRITONYENTERTAINMENT

    A lovely scout strike team here! Plus a Terror Toad, painted with cheap 50-cent craft paints rather than the usual miniature paints. Shows that you can still get a respectable result!

    DARKHANON

    From DarkHanon we have these lovely skeleton warriors of the Ulfenwatch!

    GARDENGOTH

    Gardengoth gives us this creepy plague-drone like creature, complete with amazing scenic base! Plus some fantastically painted Space Elves!

    HAZE

    From Haze, a super red (it goez fasta!) Wartrike, and some converted Bladeguard veterans!

    JAMIE

    A couple of lovely zombies here from Jamie, and a pair of Lumineth heroes!

    JB

    A couple of lovely knights for adeptus titanicus, plus the god of thunder himself, Thor.

    JEWELKNIGHTJESS

    My own June hobby was largely dominated by the Greenskins from the new Age of Sigmar Dominion box set, but I did manage to slip a few other jobs in too!

    JOEMANGO

    Delightfully creepy Spite Revenants/Tree Revenants here from Joe!

    KING KABU

    King_Kabu brings us these fantastic miniatures, copplestone troopers.

    MOMMY NEGAN

    Lovely classic Chaos Warriors, in a strong blue armour!

    PANDAEMONIUM_MINIATURES

    More of the absolutely astonishing Conquest miniatures we’ve come to expect from Paul here!

    PSIPPITT

    A superb Knight Vexillor from Psippitt here, looking rather resplendent in bronze and purple. Also a reaver for Titanicus (with a Warhound as basing material!)

    THEELUSIVESHAUN

    A stunning Ravenwing conversion here, really channelling that historical imagery of the Dark Angels being heroic knights riding out into the forests of Caliban to hunt beasts! I’m a big fan of this one.

    THEPOSHGOBLIN

    ThePoshGoblin provides us with some square-based Warhammer action here with a classic couple of mortal enemies, the Skaven and Dwarfs.

    THOKAMOUS

    Some more real-life miniatures here, including an Australian Commander! And a Dark Apostle! Plus a certain bounty hunter enters the fray.

    TORRENTSTRIDE

    From Torrentstride we have these wonderful Thousand Sons marines with lovely lava bases!

    USAGI/SHEROQUEER

    Usagi continues to impress with her gorgeous purple-clad dwarfs. Plus, because it was Pride month, feast your eyes on the absolutely gorgeous trans pride Tyranids she’s painted. How fantastic!

    And that’s it for yet another month! Don’t forget it’s never too late to join us in the Discord and PaintSlam21 hashtag over on social media so please do get involved if you fancy joining us and maybe seeing your work in a future blog post too!

  • PRIDE MONTH ROULETTE COMMUNITY SHOWCASE!

    PRIDE MONTH ROULETTE COMMUNITY SHOWCASE!

    For Pride Month 2021, which encompassed the entirety of June, we ran a fun community event over in the PaintSlam discord, namely a Pride Month Roulette. Check out the graphic below for how it worked. Also, feel free to give it a go yourself any time if you want a fun challenge!

    Anyways, it was down to anyone who wanted to join in to pick a mini and paint it using the colours they rolled on the roulette above. Other colours were perfectly allowed, but the emphasis was to be on the 1-3 colours randomly chosen. Let’s take a look at what wonderful minis got painted! Some of you even painted more than one!

    CEE

    CRITONYENTERTAINMENT

    GIRATON

    HEAVYMETALWARS

    JEWELKNIGHTJESS

    KING_KABU

    PEGGY

    THEELUSIVESHAUN

    THEPOSHGOBLIN

    TULLAVIN

    WREN

    Well, I think that’s all of the submissions for this particular little event – if I did miss you please send a DM to me over on Discord or tag me and I’ll get yours added here. And I’ll have the regular June community showcase post up soon! Thanks again to everyone who took part, and grats!

  • MAY #PAINTSLAM21 COMMUNITY SHOWCASE!

    MAY #PAINTSLAM21 COMMUNITY SHOWCASE!

    As the kids on Twitch might say, today’s post is “pretty pog”. The #PaintSlam21 discord has been full of awesome hobby over the last few months, so I want to take this opportunity to share some of the wicked miniatures you folks have been painting on your PaintSlam adventures.

    I’ll be building this article, as always, using your submitted works from the Community Showcase channel in the discord channel so if you’re not already with us check out the links at the main #PaintSlam21 page for all the details <3

    On with the hobby!

    ALTARNIS

    “My Knight of Shrouds finally complete”

    Nice! Always sweet to see some well painted Nighthaunt!

    CALLIE

    “Legion events starting up over the next few weeks, so speed-painting loads of bits, but these three were on my painting resolution list for this year so I’m happy to have them finished! Not used Leia yet so figure she’ll become one of my new go-to choices!”

    Really nice work!

    CEE

    “I was surprised how effective such a simple paint scheme turned out to be. Black base, slaanesh grey drybrush, nuln oil wash, skink blue drybrush, another was of nuln and a final limited skink blue drybrush for the odd detail. Silver on the claws & fangs finished the look. It’s also a solid size match, aside from the base, for a hive tyrant.”

    Great work all around here!

    CHRISRITI

    “If you’re going to subjugate a world, you need an army.

    Guardsmen, Space Marines, or Stormtroopers are fine…but don’t hold a candle to Mastodon Sentries.”

    I love the vivid colours on the rangers!

    FIN37

    “[Re]Posting here for sweet blog post action”

    Lovely Tzaangor models, I love how they really pop against the desert like bases! The rubric marines are also fab. Tzeentch stuff is tricky to paint!

    GARDENGOTH

    “Red hot space elf action”

    “My first finished squad in 15mm. Bit of a slow process working things out but I think the next one will be quicker as a result!”

    Sums it up really! Lovely stuff.

    HEAVYMETALWARS

    “Full Dark Angels force to date. Didn’t expect to enjoy painting this army I’ve never been a fan of the chapter, but I’ve loved every moment of painting it.”

    Absolutely gorgeous army here, I also appreciate the classic card terrain! Some of this stuff is so old it can remember when Caliban was intact!

    KOMMISSAR_AZURA

    “Skitarii Auxilia Equitate, Skitarii bound into a Centaur auto-chariots.”

    How cool are these!

    KING_KABU

    “Finished my evil stargrave crew and some heroes for a second, less evil crew”

    These are great, and so bright! I love the little bulldog chappy!

    MOMMYNEGAN

    “Hehe”

    I love the hazard striping on the Iron Warrior here, it’s super sharp! And how about the burn-your-eyes-brightness of that lovely retro ‘nid?

    PANDAEMONIUM_MINIATURES

    “Finished my Armsmaster from Conquest”

    Oooh, a submission as a video! I like this model, the Conquest stuff looks really nice and you’ve done great work as always!

    PSIPPIT

    “Finished my Warlord, all ready to roll for the first game next weekend since the first lockdown…”

    Great, I love the stippling/marble texture on the panels!

    RUBY MAGICAL GIRL

    “JD at last four months in this model. XD”

    Slow and steady wins the race! Lovely work 🙂

    SHEROQUEER

    “I know bun-fu!”

    I love that kung-fu rabbit, what a character! And I always love your super trans tyranids!

    SPARTAN06

    “90 shock troops, 100% finished!”

    Now that’s impressive to see! More lovely cannon fodder for the emperor!

    THEELUSIVESHAUN

    “I tried out some more intricate freehand than usual on this Greek Hoplite and I’m really happy with how it came out.”

    Fantastic work, the freehand is very impressive!

    THOKAMOUS

    “Finished these up this weekend”

    Nicely painted historial models! Not something I’m familiar with but great work 🙂

    WREN

    “Look who’s finally done – my first HQ!”

    I love this Dark Angels librarian, it’s just the perfect design for an Unforgiven psycher.

  • Golden Oldies Showcase!

    Golden Oldies Showcase!

    And so we arrive at the start of May, and Golden Oldies month officially draws to a close. This April challenge was to paint something that fit the theme of a “Golden Oldie” – this could be a really old miniature, something thats been in your backlog for many years, a model of an old character, however you wanted to interpret it! Let’s take a look at what you wonderful hobbyists got up to for this project!

    Cee, aka the Dork Phoenix, painted up this Krell model. The bright red harks back to a nostalgic era for many of us!

    From Kemp, comes his first ever “proper” paint job as he calls it, a classic beakie Blood Angels space marine. Lovely work!

    From Heavy Metal Wars comes a Rogue Trader Astropath and a Talisman 2nd edition Astropath standing in an old ruined chapel, a scenery piece that was a card insert from White Dwarf 212! Not only that, but check out that lovely unit of classic Grey Knights! And certainly not least, a classic beakie space marine from the Rogue Trader era in custom chapter colours of the Star Breakers!

    From PSippit we have this classic Adeptus Titanicus titan, which afaik dates back to the late 80s! The modern paint job really hides its age well, it could stand proudly amongst a modern AT collection!

    ThePoshGoblin is a hobbyist after my own heart with this, the original classic Orion model from back in the day! Got to love a bit of the retro Wood Elves!

    It’s heresy time now, with this old school Chaos Sorcerer from BigGeordieGeek! Again I love the bright reds and greens here that really bring out that classic 90s vibe.

    theelusiveshaun shared this Ork warbike, complete with evil sun iconography on the banner pole and front of the bike! Really lovely work!

    Something from myself now, a unit of metal 90s Wood Elf archers with full command. I’ve always adored these archers and will probably aim to add more at some point to my growing Wood Elf army! I also added Ariel and a unit of classic metal Dryads.

    You’ve seen one Krell, now it’s time for an even older Krell courtesy of Mommy Negan. Green base, red armour, banner pole, what’s not to adore? Mommy also shared a few other characters – a Wood Elf, an Empire halberdier and a Dwarf!

    From Usagi/SHeroQueer comes this 1995 Hive Tyrant. Looks fabulous to me, would slip right into a modern army seamlessly! That’s not all though, she also shared this lovely HeroQuest warrior model!

    Thokamous shared this Sgt. Rock for us, and although it did make it into last month’s community showcase he’s from an old comic and thus qualifies to get another showing! 🙂

    From Art comes a trio of retro wonderfulness! The 1990 Maurauder Giant, a metal Imperial War Wagon and Malus Darkblade upon Cold One! A really varied and nostalgic mix of miniatures!

    Aaaaand that brings us to the end of the Golden Oldies month. I think you’ll agree that we’ve seen a great selection of classic models here! If you’d like to join us in the #PaintSlam21 community and enter future events, please checkout the PaintSlam21 page for all the info!