Painting Small and Expensive Plastic People

[Kaelik]

AWWWWW, he just a little baby.

[Sigil]

He's the squad leader, so that makes him the Boss Baby thank you very much.

[Zaranthan]

This heresy has been handled, you're welcome. *throws fistful of money into the air*

[Sigil]

Decided to paint a small and expensive plastic car for my small and expensive plastic men:


More in the Spoiler

[Koumei]

Nice work there. Is the dozer 3D printed? The rest looks completely smooth, Baal Predator IIRC?

[Sigil]

The dozer is printed yeah, but so are these parts and the heavy bolters:


The heavy bolters and dozer I just grabbed online, but I made these two parts custom for it.

It is a Baal Pattern Predator. I got it second hand for free, unpainted, fully assembled, and badly assembled with plastic glue. So all these extra parts are ways I came up with the cover up and distract from the assembly. I actually went back today and added a few little spots of rust in places like this where you could still see that melted plastic cement look.

[Sigil]

Finally found the time to finish this guy up:


Squads starting to look good together.

[Koumei]

They are some mix of adorable and hilariously awesome in the way the really early RT/40k minis were.

[Thaluikhain]

Yeah, they've really got a thing going on there.

[Sigil]

That's good to hear, definitely the vibe I'm going for with them. A little silly and a little bit brighter and cleaner than 40k is these days, but without going so retro I was doing bright yellow instead of metallic gold.

[Sigil]

With the power of 3d printing I was able to do something pretty cool, a custom faux bas relief greeble

[Kaelik]

It's cool. I love it. Now you have to do Bas Relief for all your Warhammer Imperium vehicles, you have raised the standard.

[Sigil]

To be honest it's so easy to do compared to how good it looks that I'm probably going to find excuses to do more of this.

[Zaranthan]

Are the shadows different color paint or just good "sculpting" on the 3D blueprints?

[Sigil]

It's partly both. The detail is there in the print, it's been painted a flat color and 'washed' with a darker shade that ends up in the crevices and brings out details. So the detail is there, but has been accentuated.

[Sigil]

Did another one of these, turned out good.

[Thaluikhain]

That looks a lot better than the legit GW fancy models.

[Sigil]

After a bit of a funk, started actually painting again, this time something in epic's 6mm scale. Still WIP obviously. It took me a while to find a scheme I liked for the dead nids.

[Sigil]

Finished it up today, came out better than I had hoped:


Several more in the spoiler:

[Sigil]

Sister had spring break, so I walked her thru painting her first mini one evening, she did pretty good!




Bonus group photo with my own gobbo:

[deaddmwalking]

I figure this might be the target audience... Reaper Mini does a kickstarter every couple of years to release their miniatures in plastic. The molds to make plastic figures are expensive, but once they're made the cost of making figures is relatively low. So the kickstarter pays for the molds, and backers get a bunch of new plastic minis.

Bones Kickstarter

It ends 4/30. I've participated in the 5 earlier Kickstarters, and have always been satisfied with what has been delivered.

[The Adventurer's Almanac]

I haven't painted any of my Bones 5 minis. Maybe I should do that so I can show off my shitty paintjobs.

[Sigil]

I like some of the bones minis in that, but I dont need that much unpainted plastic when I've got so much staring at me already.

And yes, you should absolutely paint some of them Bones.

[Sigil]

Big skeleton, rude gesture

[phlapjackage]

Isn't this the Ral Partha giant skeleton mini from like the 80s ? God that takes me back