Topic: Gankom's Painting Blog of Random Variety

[Gankom]

Almost exactly a year later, but I've got some stuff painted!

First up, some 3d printed ruins I've been working on. These first ones were the test bed, with the much larger pieces coming up next.





Some Bret Men at Arms on the new base sizes, ready to take the war back to the Old World.



Orcs!



A random adventurer!

[Warlord]

Random adventurer looks fun.
High Elf Archer legs and cape, Bretonnian torso? and head, and not sure about the arms.
Great stuff!

[Gankom]

Its a super random mix, but pretty good guesses! High Elf Archer Legs, Bret Head, torch is from the Fireforged Peasant kit, and the sword arm and cape are from the Fireforged Northern Kingdoms trooper command sprue. I was going for a really thrown-together kind of vibe you might see on a classic RPG adventurer who's looted who knows what.

[Artobans Ghost]

The 3d printing will win me over. I haven't had the means of space yet but it's going to happen lol. The fire forged kits are nice. I have a group of archers and swordsmen packed away.

[Rowsdower]

Is the orc going to try and fire that stick from the bow?

[Gankom]

He's a savage orc, so probably.

I'm deeply impressed by the 3d printing stuff these days. If I had the space I'd take it up in a heartbeat. Its still a ways away from the sheer quality of GW kits, but its getting closer. These ruins especially have a lot of printing marks that would take ages to properly clean up, but I left them to add a bit of ruin texture.

[Zygmund]

The pictures don't show to me. Opening them, I get the note: "This content is no longer available."

-Zyg

[Gankom]

Hmm, thaats annoying. Time to figure out what happened there.

[Gankom]

There, that seemed to fix it.

[GamesPoet]

The 3D printed terrain is loo king very good in that paint scheme, congrats!

And love the "random adventurer"!

[Zygmund]

There, that seemed to fix it.

Thanks. Nice & clean work on the terrain and models!

-Zyg

[Gankom]

Copying this over from the 2024 hobby goals thread for my own records.

Nearing the seventh month, so updating on my goals of 2024:

1) I've built up a stock of scenery, got some for christmas and got some more coming. I want to try and paint it all up and have a new tables worth of finished, painted scenery for the end of the year.

The one I've actually done okay on! I'm a bit more then half way through the scenery that I got, and I plan to get a nice, new piece of green felt for a board. Might actually finish this one!

2) Paint up the big new Bret Army Box coming. Would be nice to have a completed old fantasy army by the end of the year.

Somewhat... less done. I've got maybe half of it built. (I stalled HARD once I realized I had nowhere to safely store the various knights, pegasus and monsterous knights.) And I've successfully painted... 5 men at arms. Out of the 70+ models. Soooo, might not make that one.

3) Finish my latest group warhammer gift. Kustom Konverted dudes, one for each person in my gaming circle. I've been slowly gathering the parts, but stalled because I need to buy one last kit for it but my budget is shot after Christmas and the Bret box.

Also doing pretty good here. I got all the parts I needed, and most are built. I have two left unbuilt as I finish theory crafting what would work best. Part of the goal is not just making individual konverted guys, but also making them at least somewhat effective for a kill team game. (We want to do a game where each operative is controlled by a different player, vs a game master with the other side.) I ended up in a (actually pleasant) situation where everyone was looking awesome, but I should probably add in some rather basic effective[/i[ units. Currently its a lot of heavy specalist equipment, and a mountain of badass melee guys. Need to work in some more decent ranged weapons. Probably wont get them painted by the end of the year, but that would be nice.

[Gankom]

Whats that? A second painting update in the same calendar year? Practically unheard of for me I know, but here it us! Most of this I actually got done off and on over the course of July and August, but this is the first chance I have to post any of it. My particular favorites are the scenery pieces, all of which were 3d printed by a guy out of the States. And honestly I think its both cheap and fantastic looking. The only thing letting it done is my own paint skills.









Next up are some new AoS Ghoul Cryptguard. My brother and dad both picked one up as well, and I painted them up in 3 different styles. The two on the right were originally more brown and grey respectively, but the washes ended up making them look similar. The green is similar to how I painted my old world ghouls years ago. The fleshy one in particular I was aiming for more of a fallout mutant/ghoul look. It looks much better in person, and I'm pretty happy with it, but its also not QUITE what I was imagining.





A hobgoblin fighter! The yellow seems to be something of a 'traditional' look I've seen on the net, but I didn't super like how it turned out. I might experiment with some different washes, might work to tone it down a bit more. I've got something like 30 off these little blighters left so I'll figure something out eventually.

[GamesPoet]

The scenery, and the painting skills, including the miniatures, look wonderful, congrats!

[Gankom]

Whats that? More shitty quality pictures? IN THE SAME CALENDAR YEAR!? It truly is a miracle.

Check out some dwarves.







And a Vamp Ghoul King that I'm actually quite proud of, if only I could take half decent pictures to show it off.

[GamesPoet]

The ghoul is cool!

[Rowsdower]

I remember that dwarf from the Skull pass set

[Sharkbelly]

Looking good!

[Warlord]

I always wanted plastic ghouls, but I never understood the crazy hair on their backs.
You did a decent job with them.