lamby Posted March 12, 2020 Author Share Posted March 12, 2020 (edited) Thanks Kolgrim and Majkhel! P][P the Second or The Curious Case of Oils: Part the Third Still struggling up the learning curves of oils on miniatures... Here’s just a few things I’ve discovered in my plodding journey: 1. White spirits can strip acrylic paint off a mini, whether you’ve varnished it or not, right down to their little grey bones... 2. White spirits are not the ideal medium for making washes - I’ve found some dark pigments like purple will fade drastically as they dry and even change colour... so if anyone has any better oil wash medium suggestions, please help? 3. Some oil colours don’t like other oil colours - for example, I’ve tried laying down purple and white dots and blending them with a soft dry brush - as per YouTube instructions- but the purple just dominates the white and instead of a nice white-to-purple gradient, I get a pink mess... But enough with the oil paint negatives; onto positives! I was struggling to get a decent transition of light Vallejo Model Air Sand (on a side note, this is an absolute nightmare of a colour to use - one of the few times Vallejo paints have failed me...) to shadows of Vallejo Armour Brown, to whit: So after failing magnificently to use purple oil over GW Dwarf Flesh (on the skin... ug what a mess...) -I threw caution to the wind and attacked those streaky shadows with some ‘dry’ purple oil technique, the end result being thus: Mmm blendy with a hint of painterly - is that what they call Blanchitsu?!? It’s not Golden Demon standard but I think in this case the oils were completely successful. My journey continues... Edited March 17, 2020 by lamby DaBoiKyknos and Evil Eye 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaBoiKyknos Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 The biker girl appreciates your heroic struggle with oil paints, she told me. lamby 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamby Posted March 29, 2020 Author Share Posted March 29, 2020 (edited) The biker girl appreciates your heroic struggle with oil paints, she told me. Haha thanks Kyknos! +++ I've heard them say she lost her arm in the Witch War of '93; and the gold hand was a Witch's Gift; and the face on her shoulder is the face of her sister, the Witch who made the hand... Is this truth? I don't give a damn; she can smell a Witch from one hundred paces, and kill them dead with her rifle from a thousand. That's good enough for me. Excerpt from How Not To Fight A Witch War: Memories of '93 by Ordo Hereticus Witch Hunter Tessene +++ First member of the Ordo Hereticus Witch Hunter retinue - the Witch Hunter Scout Aanika Gold-Hand: Edited April 3, 2020 by lamby Majkhel, ranulf the revenant, hushrong and 5 others 8 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamby Posted March 31, 2020 Author Share Posted March 31, 2020 (edited) +++ In the midst of the Witch War of '93, I found her on the Crucifixion Road; she had been abused by Witches, captured and crucified as a collaborator, and blinded with fire. As I passed her on hanging on her cross of Penitence, I felt the dark iron of her mind, now hard and closed, a weapon forged in adversity and pain - no Witch would use her ever again. I cut her down myself, sponsored her new eyes and Assassinorum training. I gifted her the sword she calls Loss of Innocence; she has slain many Witches for me, and many more for herself. To this day, I still don't know her name. Excerpt from How Not To Fight A Witch War: Memories of '93 by Ordo Hereticus Witch Hunter Tessene +++ Second member of the Ordo Hereticus Witch Hunter retinue - the Sword Sister: Thanks for looking! Edited April 3, 2020 by lamby Elzender, hushrong, DaBoiKyknos and 4 others 7 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Firewalker Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 Excellent work on the Sword Sister's model, and the backstory you wrote for her. lamby 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrautScientist Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 As I've said elsewhere, these are incredible! :) lamby 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaBoiKyknos Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 The Sword Sister slays!!! lamby 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamby Posted April 1, 2020 Author Share Posted April 1, 2020 (edited) Excellent work on the Sword Sister's model, and the backstory you wrote for her. Thanks Bjorn! As I've said elsewhere, these are incredible! As always, much appreciated KS! The Sword Sister slays!!! Thanks Kyknos! +++ Mas Edini. I met her during the '94 mop up following the Witch War of the year before, where she was working as an Arbites investigator. She could play a suspect like a symphony, make them sing and dance to her tune like none I had ever seen. She loved firepower and fire whisky, and that old leather coat. And what is with that skull? Excerpt from How Not To Fight A Witch War: Memories of '93 by Ordo Hereticus Witch Hunter Tessene +++ Third member of the Ordo Hereticus Witch Hunter retinue - Interrogator Mas Edini: Edited April 3, 2020 by lamby Bjorn Firewalker, Grotsmasha, hushrong and 3 others 6 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Firewalker Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 Excellent work on the Interrogator. lamby 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tristan2583 Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Lamby, your stuff is inspirational. All your latest witch hunter minis have got me champing at the bit to do my own. I tip my hat to you, great work. DaBoiKyknos and lamby 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamby Posted April 2, 2020 Author Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) Excellent work on the Interrogator. Lamby, your stuff is inspirational. All your latest witch hunter minis have got me champing at the bit to do my own. I tip my hat to you, great work. Thank you both! W][tch Hunters - The Gladiatrix +++ Yet another lost soul I found in the brutal aftermath of the '93 Witch War. With everyone she once loved dead or taken by Witches, she'd fled the war front with a million other refugees along the Crucifixion Road, until she found herself starving to death in the once majestic City of Saints, now ruined by an exchange of warp sorcery and Imperial nukes. Amongst glass craters and radioactive debris, crime lords raised empires in those lawless days; the gladiator pits provided food for those willing to fight against captured Witch Kin and warp things. She'd entered the Pits with nothing to live for and nothing to lose. At the sight of her first chained Witch, her anger and pain and self-pity ignited into burning rage, and she tore out the Witch's throat with her teeth. I found her a year later, revelling in blood and slaughter; </em><em>another hate-wrought weapon, forged to kill Witches. How could I not take her in? Excerpt from How Not To Fight A Witch War: Memories of '93 by Ordo Hereticus Witch Hunter Tessene +++ Fourth member of the Witch Hunters retinue - The Gladiatrix: Edited April 3, 2020 by lamby DaBoiKyknos, Majkhel, Bjorn Firewalker and 2 others 5 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majkhel Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) Oooooooh, you have painted the Gladiatrix with closed eyes! Sucha a lovely touch that changed the whole perception of her stance! Before that she might be considered static. Now she seems poised, boiling with total awareness and all her other senses outstretched. The open left hand in this context seems taunt. FAN-TAS-TIC! EDIT: other girls are also beautiful, but this one gained sooooo much additional life with painting I had to write some praise :) Edited April 2, 2020 by Majkhel lamby 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Firewalker Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Your skills in modeling, painting, and writing (re: the backstories you wrote for each Inquisitorial acolyte) are all excellent. I'm impressed with the results of your efforts. lamby 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamby Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 Oooooooh, you have painted the Gladiatrix with closed eyes! Sucha a lovely touch that changed the whole perception of her stance! Before that she might be considered static. Now she seems poised, boiling with total awareness and all her other senses outstretched. The open left hand in this context seems taunt. FAN-TAS-TIC! EDIT: other girls are also beautiful, but this one gained sooooo much additional life with painting I had to write some praise Your skills in modeling, painting, and writing (re: the backstories you wrote for each Inquisitorial acolyte) are all excellent. I'm impressed with the results of your efforts. Well I'm humbled - thanks so much, Majkhel and Bjorn! W][tch Hunters - Harley Angel +++ Recon Sniper Harlequin Saria Dannen found that hunk-o-junk when she took cover during the burning of Angel City, as the Witches unleashed their giga-level rage in those first savage days of '93. Trapped alone behind enemy lines by the frantic skirmishing withdrawal of her Imperial Guard unit, she rebuilt the machine quietly by day, while just as quietly at night she hunted Witch Kin, who mistakenly believed they were the hunters. Almost a year later - after my Ordo had finally got it's collective sh*t together and started co-ordinated cleansing operations - we rolled into Angel City at the forefront of Imperial Guard heavy fighting-armour and half a million infantry, with Witch Hunter teams to chain the Witches while while the Guard scorched the Kin nests. Amidst this chaos, we found her blocking the road, astride the ancient bike with her sniper rifle resting on her knee, cigar stub in her mouth. "Hey there," she drawled as our column rolled to a stop. "What the feth kept you lot?" And the legend of Harley Angel was born. Excerpt from How Not To Fight A Witch War: Memories of '93 by Ordo Hereticus Witch Hunter Tessene +++ Fifth - and possibly the most anticipated - member of the Witch Hunter retinue - Harley Angel: And just for fun, here's the reference image again - 'Commando' by Jomaro Kindred: Cpt. Bannockburn, Grotsmasha, Bjorn Firewalker and 4 others 7 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rastamarine Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Absolutely sublime I’ve been following your thread for a couple years and everything you produce is a masterpiece lamby 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Eye Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 That's magnificent! I really love the blending on the cloak, and the pose is just perfect. lamby 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaBoiKyknos Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 I like the Gladiatrix, it a crazy cool conversion, but idk, maybe it´s the oil paints, she kind of looks like she has too much make-up on or so, you don´t see much of her facial features... lamby 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamby Posted April 5, 2020 Author Share Posted April 5, 2020 Absolutely sublime I’ve been following your thread for a couple years and everything you produce is a masterpiece Thanks Rastamarine! That's magnificent! I really love the blending on the cloak, and the pose is just perfect. Thanks Evil Eye! I like the Gladiatrix, it a crazy cool conversion, but idk, maybe it´s the oil paints, she kind of looks like she has too much make-up on or so, you don´t see much of her facial features... Thanks Kyknos! Actually, there no oils on her face, it's just bad painting with acrylics on my behalf - her head is a Daemonette head and the face is very featureless, but I ended up piling on too much paint and after 4 attempts I just decided to move on. DaBoiKyknos 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamby Posted April 6, 2020 Author Share Posted April 6, 2020 (edited) +++ The Witch War of '93 - a million dead by Witch fire or Crucifixion - that's all on me. My team and I - my previous team, formed 30 years before - went in to Angel City to chain a single Witch, and royally fethed it up. I still hear my people scream as they burned down to the bones. Their deaths saved me, though I barely survived - and in doing so ignited a Witch uprising that flared into a war. To avoid censure by the Ordos, or Crucifixion by the angry population of a burning world, built a new team of humans broken by Witches, forged into hunters by their own pain, and together we cleaned up the mess I'd made. Thus instead of righteous punishment, I live to hunt another day. Witches beware. Final passage of How Not To Fight A Witch War: Memories of '93 by Ordo Hereticus Witch Hunter Tessene +++ Witch Hunter Inquisitor Tessene: Edited April 25, 2020 by lamby Bjorn Firewalker, DaBoiKyknos, hushrong and 2 others 5 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Majkhel Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 Inquisitor looks great, but I think I'm missing the Inquisitorial icon other than the one on the sword. After all, she IS the Inquisition, not a mere operative being handed a weapon from Inquisition's vaults. Keep up the good job! :) lamby 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tristan2583 Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 This is excellent! It's nice to see a mini that doesn't automatically jump down your throat as a member of the inquisition, if you follow me? Even my own inq28 conversions are more kitted up for war than the clandestine operations they actually undertake! Your witch hunters have that perfect blend of power and subtlety that makes them fit. They seem like a proper guerrilla band. lamby 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bjorn Firewalker Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 (edited) Why is the Inquisitor wearing a collar? Is it an item of jewelry? A bomb collar, which a Lord or Lady Inquisitor put on her when she undertook a vow to clean up her own mess, to punish her if she breaks that vow and prevent her from becoming a radical or rogue? Is she a psyker or a blank, and the collar a means to suppress her powers, so she may conceal her presence from enemy witches? Edited April 7, 2020 by Bjorn Firewalker lamby 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viridia Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 I can't believe I've only just found this thread, the witch-hunters are amazing! lamby 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hushrong Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 Lamby!, these updates have been fantastic! the level on conversion work and the paint job has produced some drop dead gorgeous minis! DaBoiKyknos and lamby 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandalphon Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 These are fantastic! The conversions are clever and original and really capture that cyberpunk feel lamby and DaBoiKyknos 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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