Necromunda The ballad of how I lost my mind and decided to paint a ton of stuff

[SuboptimusPrime]

Actually got to paint a whole evening today, and from my table I pass on the new content to you, dear readers/viewers/aggregate image trawling scripts:

Orlock CC.jpg

• SuboptimusPrime
• Nov 26, 2019

I mostly painted this guy because I had the old space marine bionic arm bit about for ages and wanted to do hazard stripes. I do not want to do hazard strips any longer on anything.

Orlock Bolter 2.jpg

• SuboptimusPrime
• Nov 26, 2019

An old friend from the initial post who had most of his weapon swapped for a bolter.

Orlock Bolter 1.jpg

• SuboptimusPrime
• Nov 26, 2019

And bolter dude #2 Experimented with different washes for different skintones. He does look a little like he needs sunscreen in real life.

Next up: Combat shotguns, a juve, and more skintone diversity.

 

[Paupoi]

I love those bolters man. Fantastic job once again.

 

[cainex1]

Solid bolters and the skin looks good to my eyes.

 

[Punktaku]

i’ll go a step further and say solid paint jobs all around. very nice minis!

 

[cainex1]

Well yeah, goes without saying (thats why I didn't say it :3)

 

[SuboptimusPrime]

Another Sunday, another tiny bit of progress. Thanks to not doing bad at all in our campaign, my newest sidetrack is painting and converting reinforcements for my Delaque. My ganger with a shotgun added 1" to his movement and became a specialist on account of standing near my gangboss who has Mentor. I armed him with a web gun, and converted a holstered shotgun for his back.

Knight of coins front.jpg

• SuboptimusPrime
• Dec 8, 2019

Knignt of coins back.jpg

• SuboptimusPrime
• Dec 8, 2019

Next up: Another Juve, and a new Shotgun ganger.

Also, bonus pic because I foolishly joined Yakcomp 31, meet Stumpy the Cyber-Hydra, with a guest appearance by half-done shotgun ganger at far left:

Stumpy progress.jpg

• SuboptimusPrime
• Dec 6, 2019

Due to surgery complications, Stumpy lost two of his heads. Poor Stumpy. He's a plucky Hydra...

 

[SuboptimusPrime]

What's this? Another update!? Yes, on accounting of me sitting at home working on my thesis all day I got to paint in breaks. Turns out, my Delaque are pretty quick to paint.

Reinforcements.jpg

• SuboptimusPrime
• Dec 9, 2019

Also, I need a better light setup for them, they're so damn pale it's nearly impossible to take pictures of them without making their faces a uniform white mass.

 

[Deleted member 10658]

I find that any miniature photography can be improved by taking your pictures against a plain(ish) background, and not the cluttered environment of a hobby desk.

 

[Punktaku]

Yup. My “setup” is a swing-arm desk lamp turned upside down (so it shines on the ceiling instead of directly on the subject) and I open up a miniatures transport case (from Chessex) and place the model(s) on the foam with the inside of the lid for the background. Nothing fancy in any way.

 

[cainex1]

I find that any miniature photography can be improved by taking your pictures against a plain(ish) background, and not the cluttered environment of a hobby desk.

I had exactly this problem when I was trying to take my last pictures in front of my monitor, it refused to focus on the mini so I pulled up an image and blew it up till it was blurry. That forced the camera to focus on the details on the mini.

 

[Crazy Ivan]

Lovely gangers!

 

[SuboptimusPrime]

And presto, CONTENT! I caught a pretty nasty cold while Christmas shopping, so I stayed home all weekend and painted. This is the result:

Orlock Shotguns.jpg

• SuboptimusPrime
• Dec 23, 2019

And with an almost finished champ and two ~50% finished juves milling about the table, the Orlock gang is nearly done. Crazy.

 

[SuboptimusPrime]

This was last Sunday:

Orlock Champ and Juves.jpg

• SuboptimusPrime
• Dec 31, 2019

And on the final day of the year, I actually sat down and finished a few niggling details I missed on the last few figs (which I noticed after taking the first photo) I actually did it:

Knights of the Iron Hand.jpg

• SuboptimusPrime
• Dec 31, 2019

The Orlock gang, all finished up! Astute observers will see that these are 12 models. The guy in the back with the sawn-off and knife was the first NC17 fig I ever painted, and I had the second Juve half-finished before I realized I didn't need him, so they both got painted included.

That means 2 down, five to go. Next up: Goliath.

 

[SuboptimusPrime]

Setback on project Goliath, and a short rant. I used a few resin parts from FW, as I have before. I bought resin parts for my Delaque, Escher and Goliath. With the Delaque I remembered halfway through that I should have washed the mold release off the parts, but the two parts I used up until that point took paint without issue, and the rest were washed with warm soapy water, and have never had an issue with holding paint. The Goliath parts were each individually coated in soap and rinsed with water multiple times, more effort than I put into the Delaque parts.

And now that I tried to hand-prime these parts, as the models they were attached to were already partially painted, the [PROFANITY FILTER ACTIVATED. VOCABULUM SANUM, CRANIUM DIVINUM] paint came right off the [PROCREATING] parts like some sort of [LOW GRADE EXCREMENT] finger paint. I had to pry the whole [EMPEROR DISCIPLINING] mess off the [CHILD OF PROCUREABLE COMPANION] miniatures and brush the flakes off by hand with brush soap like [FORNICATING HOOVED TERRAN MAMMAL KNOW FOR STUBBORNNESS] for half a [INTERCOURSE] hour. I have now put the whole batch into nearly-pure dish soap (mild) to soak before taking a toothbrush to them to get rid of the microscopic [EXCREMENT] stuck in the corners. Thanks for this batch of resin, FW, whatever the [INTERCOURSE] you put on there as mold release, you [SEVERAL BARELY TRANSLATABLE PASSAGES RELATING TO PRACTICES INVOLVING LIVESTOCK OUTLAWED BY THE ADEPTUS TERRA] and you hamster too!!!

Ahem. Anyway, I also swapped the spudjacker on one ganger with a second axe/brute cleaver.

Goliath Axe dude.jpg

• SuboptimusPrime
• Jan 3, 2020

Swapped the Spudjacker in the right hand for another axe/brute cleaver. I think it's supposed to...

Rather simple conversion, though I'm still not sure if it's supposed to be a brute cleaver or an axe, that beak thing at the top looks great for disarming.

 

[Gdolkin]

Those are indeed the official Brute Cleavers, but ya can call it an axe no worries.
With the priming, here's my thoughts:
When cleaning, did you use a toothbrush or equivalent to both scrub the soap on and also scrub it off again in the clean water? If you really soaped' em up, maybe it didn't all come off..
What primer did you hand-paint them with? I only use GW Black spray and have never had the kind of trouble you describe priming FW resin.. But I have experienced paint sliding off bare resin if I've missed a bit in a crevice while spraying and try to hand-paint from the pot a bit that isn't properly primed..
Best rant ever, by the way.

 

[SuboptimusPrime]

Those are indeed the official Brute Cleavers, but ya can call it an axe no worries.
With the priming, here's my thoughts:
When cleaning, did you use a toothbrush or equivalent to both scrub the soap on and also scrub it off again in the clean water? If you really soaped' em up, maybe it didn't all come off..
What primer did you hand-paint them with? I only use GW Black spray and have never had the kind of trouble you describe priming FW resin.. But I have experienced paint sliding off bare resin if I've missed a bit in a crevice while spraying and try to hand-paint from the pot a bit that isn't properly primed..
Best rant ever, by the way.

Thank you, and I figured as much. I primed the weapons with black from the pot and did notice it pull back from the edges, but kinda ignored it. Anyway, the second brushing did improve things on a test piece, so lesson learned, and I'll see I'll do my lazyness penance scraping paint flakes tomorrow. But it's still odd that none of this showed up with all the other resin. Oh well.

 

[cainex1]

I feel for you. I came to the conclusion that an ultrasonic cleaner would be the right solution, I was correct (of course technology is the solution!)
Every mini a pull out of there feels clean in a way I can't describe, they're almost tacky to your fingers. I had grown to HATE scrubbing minis and I broke too many parts even with a soft toothbrush.
Trust me, if you're going to work with any more resin or metal, just bite the bullet and get a small one.
P.S. shop ebay and sort by price, don't buy the crap ones that don't look like a piece of machinery.

 

[Daniel36]

If deciding to collect and paint all the gangs is losing your mind then I am glad to be there with ya, pal! Seriously though, why wouldn't you? They are awesome minis, and now that GW FINALLY does things mostly right, at least in ongoing support for Necromunda, it would be foolish not to support them back.

So I am doing the same as you, albeit at a much slower pace, it seems, haha. I had a really good start but then stuff happened so I had to put it on the backburner. Fortunately two new gangs coming my way and all the others almost entirely finished, so hopefully I can show some stuff soon as well.

I am a little bit jealous of your Orlocks. Mine look fine, but your colour scheme... I don't know... it gives off the right vibes! Well done! Keep it up!

 

[SuboptimusPrime]

Forgive me Omnissiah, for I have sinned. Sort of. I got very frustrated with the resin parts on my Goliaths, to the point where I felt project resentment rearing its ugly head. So I temporarily lapsed into a completely different thing and finished a Warhammer Underworld warband I got early last year. Might actually get around to playing this again soon, so hey, a tiny FYSC for myself.

So as a filler image, Thundriks Profiteers. I mean, Underworld, Underhive, I might get away with it.

Profiteers.jpg

• SuboptimusPrime
• Jan 6, 2020

Maybe pretend they're squats...

 

[SuboptimusPrime]

No real update still, because still hella busy, but at least I was partially busy with actually playing Necromunda. And in an egregious display of escalative violence in our otherwise absolutely fair and gentlemanly bout of Underhive team deathmatch, two players bought Ambots. I was none of them. I decided I was having none of that brutish, saw-blading, smoke-belching, bug-brained nonsense. I was going for the gentleman's choice. A laser cannon.

IMG_20200126_105403.jpg

• SuboptimusPrime
• Jan 26, 2020

It's going to be a new armament option for my sniper champ (pictured left) now I just gotta figure out which body to use and which arm to cut off this lovely mining laser bit I lifted off my GSC sprues which are probably never getting properly assembled.

And besides hubris, this is a quasi-hommage to theclassic Delaque heavy with a laser cannon. It was pointlessly overpowered back then, it is pointlessly overpowered now, and probably a bad investment. But since I quietly managed to slip to first place in our campaign, I am not about to start powergaming.

Hope I can get some hobby time in this evening or tomorrow. Because for now: More lesson plans to write for my seminar.