Just F*æ"ing Paint It!! A new quest.

So after finally finishing the Panther Ausf A for a friends birthday present I decided that I would never do comissions and that I needed to play dirty to catch up on my back log.

So, following a rule I have seen on the web "Just Paint It," I decided to lower my standards and go Soviet on my sorely neglected painting back log.  Basically I would be following these standards:

1. Find the thing.
2. Put the thing together.
3. Paint the thing.

No consideration which lasts for longer than a minute would be allowed.  What colour works?  Whats in front of you?  No less than 2 tones.  No buying more until done.  The first up on the list?  These chaps (And chappete) Who for the better part of 6 months have been staring at me every time I have opened my gaming cupboard.  Pleading.  Begging.  Jerks.

So without further ado, and sadly no Wip Pics.  I present the celebrities of the Azin 3rd and last, my Imperial Guard army.

Choose your character!!!

Naval Officer Braggart and Astropath Xi'xu, discuss politics while the scribe skull records everything.

 Commisar's Lucious and Steinen practice execution shots against the latest offenders.

As you can see, each model had a simple palette selected, certain parts where marked out for colours (including a spot colour where appropriate).  Base coat, wash and any required highlighting (No more than two).  The bases were done the same as the rank and file.

As a note though, I'm becoming less and less satisfied with GW's Agrax Brown and Nuln Oil.  It seems as one Staffy put it "they are too good."  I need to find a sharper more aggressive ink to offset the soft staining affect these are putting out...  Any suggestions?

The last to be done was a reused Redemptionist Priest, (Better Red than dead!) and a beautiful fig I got off the internet a long time ago.  Thinking Inquisitor with Hell Rifle?  Very detailed though.  

Old school GW circa the 90's, Necromunda era.  Not too much in the detail department.  Sadly the Anti Shine varnish from Army Painter seems to be getting old, some speckle as an after affect?

Fell foul of "Eye Syndrome."  The figure was so nicely sculpted I just had to give this one some more love. While this went against the rules above, I figured I know the boss and could bride him with some whisky.  (Edit:  It worked!).


After nailing these very unique character models I had planned on moving onto some Spartan Games, Firestorm Armada stuff for a change.  However a recently planned Apocolypse game in January has changed things.  I will be using Necrons.

Let the path to Apocalypse begin!!