Category: #PaintSlam23

  • Believe it! It’s the July #PaintSlam23 Community Showcase!

    Believe it! It’s the July #PaintSlam23 Community Showcase!

    Oh hey, I’m actually getting a showcase post done within the first week of a new month. That’s pretty good going I think! With July officially behind us, and the nights drawing in, we’re well into the latter half of this year’s PaintSlam now. But if you’re not yet involved, it’s certainly not too late to join in! Why not join us for the next few months?

    In the meantime, let’s take a look at the fabby hobby done by the community and submitted to the Community Showcase Channel in the PaintSlam Discord!

    Ads20000

    Alexander

    Amy_Jade

    burningoleander

    Ceda_Kuru_Qan

    diami03

    EricJ

    jedi58

    JewelKnightJess

    Lewis

    MikeB

    MilesTheMighty

    MommaNegan

    Myaori

    Pandaemonium_Miniatures

    phoenixNMGLB

    SHeroQueer

    SoylentRobot

    SpooKi

    theposhgoblin

    Torrentstride

    And there we go! Yet another incredible month of your excellent hobby work. Remember to join us in the Discord and take part in PaintSlam <3

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  • Two Thin Coats – First Impressions of Duncan Rhodes’ paint range!

    Two Thin Coats – First Impressions of Duncan Rhodes’ paint range!

    I waas very kindly sent a selection of Duncan Rhodes’ new(ish) paint range Two Thin Coats, from UK supplier Exit 23 games. They’re currently running a promotion on these where if you buy any 6 paints from Two Thin Coats or Turbo Dork you get the cheapest paint free, by the way. If you’d like to try them out yourself, please give my affiliate link a follow here! That said, they sent me these for free to try out, so I took to Twitch to give my live reactions to these paints. This isn’t a full range review, these impressions are based purely on my Twitch stream today (go back and watch the VOD if you can!)

    Firstly, I received a total of 10 of these 15ml pots – Dragons Gold, and three colour triads: Green (comprising Wyvern Green, Emerald Green, and Ethereal Green), Yellow (Dark Sun Yellow, Skulker Yellow, and Yellow Flame), and Red (Berseker Red, Sanguine Scarlet, and Demon Red).

    Whilst having a nice chat with the viewers, my first point was to test the coverage of the “base” versions of each triad on a test model. Above you can see Berserker Red, Dark Sun Yellow, and Wyvern Green. The Red covered excellently in 2 coats and is a deep maroon colour that reminds me of the old Mechrite Red from Citadel’s Foundation line. The yellow is very much like Averland Sunset from the current Citadel line with very similar coverage. This took 3-4 thin coats to get a smooth finish over the grey basecoat. As with all yellow paints, you’re probably best using it over white to get a strong bright finish. The green took 3 thin coats to get a nice even finish. This strongly resembles Caliban Green from Citadel and would be a great base colour for Dark Angels. The red and yellow paints both had a very flat, matte finish. The green has slightly more satin finish to my eyes which you can see from the brighter light reflections.

    Overall, these were strong base colours with a subtle saturation rather than being super bright. The Red is certainly closer to Khorne Red than something like Mephiston Red.

    Next I started picking out areas on each model with the two lighter tones of each colour. You can see each labelled in the image above. The yellows as expected took a few layers again to get a smooth solid colour, but hold up favourably compared to those in the Citadel line.

    The mid red is similar to Mephiston Red, but slightly darker. Demon Red is very similar to Evil Sunz Scarlet, and brings to mind the 90s Blood Angels orange-red armour. I liked this colour a lot.

    Emerald Green and Ethereal Green are roughly equivalent to Warpstone Glow and Moot Green from Citadel. The coverage on Ethereal Green did feel slightly better than Moot Green though. I think this would be an excellent triad to replac the citadel trio for Dark Angels if you wanted to change things up.

    I used the Dragon’s Gold upon the weapon of the Red warrior, with Retributor Armour from Citadel on the Yellow warrior. These two colours are extremely close – you’d struggle to tell them apart. I do think the Dragons Gold is smoother though, and had a more even colour after a single coat. I think it may well replace Retributor Armour for me just for ease of use.

    This is very much still early impressions so I will be integrating these into my paint flow long term to see how I get on with them. Stay tuned to my Twitch streams to keep up to date and see me using them live!

    I do however have one nitpick with these paints, despite the colours being excellent, and that’s with the dropper bottles. They do seem to be a little on the leaky side, with some of them having noticable outspillage even upon first use (see the Demon Red on the right of this image). So I’d recommend having a tissue on standby to wipe the caps if you have this particular issue.

    On the plus side, each pot contains 15ml which is 3ml more than the usual Citadel paint pot, and it feels/sounds like each also has a mixing ball inside so they are easy and quick to shake and get ready to use.

    I had a great time trying these paints out today and certainly would like to pick up some more of the colour triads in the near future. Thanks once again to Exit 23 Games for being absolute legends and providing me with these to try out.

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  • Oh yeah, now we’re streaming.

    Oh yeah, now we’re streaming.

    So, after almost 7 months, we’re finally getting settled into our new place and we just got hooked up with that fabled thing known as “The Internet” again!

    So, with my hobby space now set up (if still a bit of a WIP), I’m now intending to stream much more regularly once again.

    Please drop me a follow (and a sub? *puppy dog eyes*) over at twitch.tv/jewelknightjess and tune in if you ever see me live! So far I have done two streams in the new place, where I started and finished this wonderful “Mummified King” miniature from One Page Rules (Kindly printed for me by the folks over at only-games.co):

    He’ll make a fine start to a Tomb Kings army for Warhammer The Old World, I reckon. Or at the very least a great test of a colour scheme idea.

    What’s next? Depends! I’ll be streaming my own personal projects plus commission work over the coming weeks and months, so please do tune in and keep me company as I slap colour down on little soldiers! I look forward to seeing you there!

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  • I “MAY” be late to this wicked PAINTSLAM COMMUNITY SHOWCASE!

    I “MAY” be late to this wicked PAINTSLAM COMMUNITY SHOWCASE!

    Ahh lads and ladies and everyone else, turns out I’d also missed the May community showcase post. So you’re getting a bumper crop of showcase posts during July instead. I don’t know, you wait ages for one showcase then three show up at once!!

    I’d like to take this opportunity to shout out the 3 latest supporters of the Patreon: Marc, Keith Christmas, and Gregg Bond. You’re all legends! And as always, the support of PaintSlam patrons helps me keep this whole shebang going year after year – thank you!!

    Let’s get into the hobby…

    Ads20000

    Alexander

    Amy_Jade

    burningoleander

    Ceda_Kuru_Qan

    Dad_Mech_Hobbies

    diami03

    EricJ

    Fariss

    Hatmadder

    JewelKnightJess

    Mosh

    Myaori

    phoenixNMGLB

    SHeroQueer

    SoylentRobot

    Spooki

    Torrentstride

    Wolvassa

    And there we go, the amazing hobby showcased in the official PaintSlam discord during the month of May! Look out for the July showcase, hopefully arriving within the first week of August! Pray for Jess.

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  • Into the meatgrinder!! How to paint a Spacenam soldier from Wargames Atlantic

    Into the meatgrinder!! How to paint a Spacenam soldier from Wargames Atlantic

    If you’re looking to add some jungle-based death-world defying warriors to an army of the far future, or just some unfortunate blokes in a forest, you could do a lot worse than the Spacenam kit from Wargames Atlantic. These are modern-looking sculpts with tons of options, and I’d been meaning to pick some up for quite a while for a painting project.

    In this article I’ll show you how I painted one such model with step-by-step instructions. Apply this guide to your own warriors and you’ll soon be thrashing whatever decided to see you as prey…

    I assembled my miniature with a bandana, open jacket and a pose with easy access to all the details for this tutorial, but there are tons of options in the kit and you’ll have dozens of leftover bits. The base got a Barbed Bracken addition. I began the paintjob by spraying the model Death Guard Green. This will give us a solid base for the model’s fatigues.

    The skin was painted with Tuskgor Fur from Citadel, then the weapons, kneepads, boots and waist pouches were painted with Vallejo German Grey. This gives us our three main areas of colour blocked out. For a purely “3 color minimum” tournamnet requirement you could probably get away with this if you’re in rush! But let’s continue on…

    Next I picked out a few extra details – the bandana and wristband with Game Colour Scarlet Red, the hair with Citadel Hobgrot Hide, and the belt and knee straps with Thondia Brown. I also painted the top of the base Thondia Brown at this point. Then I took Death Guard Green from the pot to go over the fatigues again and clean up any mistakes I could spot. With this, the main base coats are done.

    It’s fair to say that “Get Spotted By Hungry Alien” is fairly low down on these guys’ To-Do lists, so it’s time to help them hide a bit in the jungle growth with a bit of camo. I began by applying islands of Citadel’s Krieg Khaki across all the green areas. Try to imagine each one as an irregular island shape, each one different to the ones near it. Apply these so the green areas are roughly 50% Death Guard Green and 50% Krieg Khaki.

    For the darker shade, I made a mix of German Grey and Death Guard Green and applied these again in irregular mottled shapes. You want the dark areas to overlap both of the other shades of green – try to make each dark patch connect to both of the other shades. This will help create that ideal forest camoflage.

    The black and green areas were all then given a coat of Citadel Nuln Oil to shade the recesses. The black areas were then highlighted by mixing Vallejo Stonewall Grey into German Grey, with edge highlights along the gun, boots, pouches and knee pads.

    Next I picked out the teeth with Pro Acryl Ivory, and shaded all the flesh (and hair) with Citadel Targor Rageshade. This is like a slightly reddish Agrax Earthshade-like. While I was at it I also used Citadel Biel-Tan Green on the bracken.

    His hair was highlighted by making a mix of Hobgrot Hide and Ivory, painting short stripes with this mix, then using pure Ivory at the front of each strip. Hobgrot Hide was also mixed into the Scarlet Red to create a highlight for the bandana and wrist strap.

    The skin was highlighted first on all the raised details with 50:50 Citadel Cadian Fleshtone and the original base colour of Tuskgor Fur. Then a pure highlight of Cadian Fleshtone was painted on the upper areas, avoiding the shadows and undersides of the arms. Lastly again, a little Ivory was mixed into the Cadian Fleshtone to create a final highlight just for the most prominent upper areas, and on the model’s nose.

    Gunmetal was painted onto the knife blade and a few of the gun details, and these were given a shade with Nuln Oil.

    I returned to Krieg Khaki to highlight some of the various areas on the fatigues a little more, to help make them more readable.

    To add a little weathering, I thinned down Citadel Mournfang Brown with lots of water to make a thin wash, then ran this into the recesses of the boots and shoulder pads.

    I then mixed a little Vallejo Elfic Blue into the Cadian Flesh skintone and glazed it onto the face to create a stubbled look.

    Base texture was applied with Mig Ammo Dark Mud, this is a great wet mud texture paint that has a real nasty glossy wet look to it. Perfect for the jungle! And after painting the base rim Black, and adding a couple of tufts, I called him done.

    By following the steps in this guide you can quickly and easily paint your squads of grizzled jungle fighters! Perfect for the present day or the far future! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, and please stay tuned for more like this. Is there any kit you’d like to see me tackle next? Let me know in the Discord!

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  • How I painted my Harbinger Of Nurgle in only one day!

    How I painted my Harbinger Of Nurgle in only one day!

    Games Workshop very kindly sent me a box of the new Dawnbringers “Phulgoth’s Shudderhood” box set, which contains the brand new plastic Harbinger of Nurgle as well as 5 Putrid Blightkinds and 2 Pusgoyle Blightlords.

    With time being at a premium thanks to a busy commission period for me and the house move, I wanted to get my Harbinger painted to a good standard but quickly enough that I could get it added into my army ASAP! In this short article I’ll show you how I did it! This won’t be a full step-by-step tutorial, although I am hoping to bring you more of those soon.

    I began with a full spray coat of Death Guard Green from a rattle can. This gave a nice unhealthy sickly colour to the whole model to start with. Next I moved onto the base colours.

    In order to move quickly, I focused on just getting base colours down for each area first. The cloth areas were painted over with Death Guard Green from the pot, the horse’s raggly hair and the raven were painted with Corvus Black.

    The wood & leathers were painted with Mournfang Brown and Thondia Brown, the armour with Incubi Darkness, silver areas with Leadbelcher, bronze with Screaming Bell, sore areas with Pink Horror, boils with Screaming Skull, and the horse fur with Rakarth Flesh.

    I also made a thin 50:50 mix of Corvus Black and Rakarth flesh to make a transitionary colour for the hair around the horse’s feet. I picked out the base with Mechanicus Standard grey for the rocks, Thondia Brown for the signpost, and Warboss Green for the slimy bitz.

    With all the base colours down, I moved onto an all-over Agrax Earthshade wash.

    This wash tied all the previous colours together and shaded them nicely. This would already be plenty nice for a tabletop gaming standard, but I decided to do some highlights to just bring out the details a little more and make the model feel more finished.

    Whilst this next step looks like a lot has happened, it’s actually surprisingly quick and simple to get to this level.

    I started with a drybrush over all the corvus black areas with Mechanicus Standard Grey, then a lighter drybrush with Dawnstone.

    The cloth areas got a highlight of 50:50 Death Guard Green and Krieg Khaki, before a few highlights of pure Krieg Khaki.

    The wood and leathers were highlighted by mixing Zandri Dust into the base colours and drybrushing and edge highlighting subtly with that mix.

    The silver areas got a quick highlight of Stormhost Silver, and I used thinned down Skrag Brown to add areas of rust.

    The armour was highlighted with Sotek Green. I also mixed a little more Warboss Green into Sotek and made a thin wash to apply over the bronze areas as verdigris.

    The sore areas got a quick layer of Berserker Bloodshade. I mixed a little Rakarth Flesh into this wash to make a sore color which I painted around the 3 big boils on the horses neck in a few thin layers.

    I overbrushed the front of the signpost with grey seer to make it look like it had been painted, then used Abaddon Black to write a town name on the signpost. 

    The rocky base got the same drybrush treatment as the horse hair.

    FInally I picked out a few extra details like the mushrooms on the base using Blood Angels Red contrast paint. I splodged a bit of Nurgles Rot onto the base and on the end of his scythe. And in the end, I was left with this result:

    I am very pleased with how the model came out for what was essentially just a one day semi-speed-paint. I hope this article encourages you to paint your own Harbinger or other Nurgle minis – why not share yours with the PaintSlam community in the discord?

    Thanks again to Games Workshop for sending me a free box of Dawnbringers: Phulgoth’s Shudderhood.

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