Totem Huntress Painted

I am so pleased to add the Totem Huntress to my painted collection.

As one of the earliest minicrate models, and a very desirable one at that I wanted to paint her but missed out on subscribing when she was available.

My good friend Andrew kindly sold her to me for the same cost he paid (even though on the 2nd hand market he could have gotten a lot more for her). So huge thanks to him!

She was a very interesting model to paint. I was a little intimidated due to the limited nature of the model and how cool the sculpt is. But eventually I pushed through and got it done!

It was incredibly hard to photograph this model well enough, I still didn't fully manage it as the blending and shading in the skin doesn't show up as well in the pictures as it does in person.

Its a little hard to see but the pale blue eyes really give her a menacing look.

I painted the Farrow head to match other Farrow I have painted in the past, brown skin with ginger hair. Its a scheme for them that I really like.

I wanted to make the Farrow's head look relatively freshly decapitated so blood for the blood god technical paint was my choice here. It was my first time using it and I have to say I'm pretty happy with how it looks. The puddles of it on the mud look pretty realistic as well.;p

The little raised bumps on her back I painted orange, not sure why but the colour fit well so I went with it.

I'm really happy with this blend from green to yellowish orange.

I really wanted to try something completely different with the colours for her armour and weapon. 

Picking flesh tones for the armour hoping for it to represent a lacquered plate of some kind and a bronze for the spear. I figure being from Zu different materials are available there.

I really wanted to sell that she comes from a completely different environment to the other models I've painted.

Using money from my generous supporters over at Patreon I purchased a rotating display stand. I like to put the money from supporters back into improving the content I make.
I'm hoping to get better at making these over time, one thing I know I want to save for is a better camera (I currently use my phone).
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Even if it's just $1 it really helps me out!

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Model Review: Heist Expansion with Princess Delores

Today we take a look at the Heist Expansion with Princess Delores. Delores is a Gunner class hero in Riot Quest and a Mercenary solo for Warmachine.

The Heist Expansion is a new game mode for Riot Quest, which involves the security bots represented by the three miniatures and the card deck which controls their actions.

Delores comes in two parts, this main body has fantastic detailing especially on her dress which should make it really interesting to paint. I think I will ask my daughter to help me pick what colour to choose.

She is seriously well armed. braces of pistols can be seen here.

More pistols on this side too.

In game terms I hate these miniguns... they are more powerful than the chaincannons on the Stormwall... it makes no sense to me.

Her head, left arm and the bazooka strapped across her back is the other part of her. The way they connect together is interesting and has allowed for a more interesting angle of holding her arms out.

These are the main body parts for the three different bots.

This is the alarm style bot with a big megaphone looking attachment.

This one looks a little like a Scutter from Red Dwarf. This alone has picked my colour scheme for these bots! 

For some reason I lost the pics of the zap bot. Not sure how that happened, sorry...

They each have two of these mini tank treds which are the same regardless of which side they go on which makes it easy to assemble them. 

Here they are fully assembled.

And with Professor Pendrake for scale.

I like the look of the bots but I will be putting them on 30mm bases like I have for other Riot Quest tokens and non hero models.

Delores is one of the Riot Quest models I think doesn't fit in well with the Warmahordes aesthetic, but does fit in really well in Riot Quest.

Over all these are really nice sculpts with hardly any clean up. I am really looking forward to painting up the Princess as I can see there being a lot of scope for trying out new colours or techniques.

For Warmachine players it is annoying that a solo as desirable as the Princess is tied to a Riot Quest add on which is understandable.

 

If you want to support my content consider taking a look at my Patreon which you can find here. I don't put any content behind a paywall but I do offer rewards to people who support me in ways like getting to vote on what content I work on in the future or outright just picking the next subject of an article as well as some wip content.

Even if it's just $1 it really helps me out!

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Feora the Foresaken Painted

Feora joins my Riot Quest crew!

She was initially intimidating to paint due to how much detail the mini has, but once I got into it I found her to be fun and interesting to paint. I've not painted Menoth stuff outside of a couple of wreck markers. This made deciding how to paint various aspects of her armour tricky.

I painted her eyes to look glowing orange (doesn't show up well on camera sadly) to match the fire style magic she uses.

Overall she was an enjoyable but tricky model to paint with tons of detail it did add to the overall painting time.

Using money from my generous supporters over at Patreon I purchased a rotating display stand. I like to put the money from supporters back into improving the content I make.
I'm hoping to get better at making these over time, one thing I know I want to save for is a better camera (I currently use my phone).
Please let me know what you think of this addition to my painted model articles.
If you like it please like, comment, and subscribe on Youtube it really does help with letting Youtube know it's a video worth suggesting to other hobbyists. (And it upsets Mike...)

If you want to support my content consider taking a look at my Patreon which you can find here. I don't put any finished content behind a paywall but I do offer rewards to people who support me in ways like getting to vote on what content I work on in the future or outright just picking the next subject of an article as well as posting wip projects.

Even if it's just $1 it really helps me out!

See you all next time!

100% Mayhem Gear Expansion Painted

I painted these last year but got to a stuck point with the decoy gate. I wanted to paint the rear as if it was either corrugated cardboard or wood grain, however, I found that whatever I tried it didn't look good enough. So in the end I repainted it blank and gave up.

I did want the front to look like it has been painted so deliberately painted it in a sloppy way.

Here it is with a normal gate.

This surgery table was a lot of fun to paint, I wanted to make it look really well used and I think I managed it nicely.

The turret I found to be really quick to paint, but there isn't a huge amount going on with it to be fair.

The loot hoover was a nice mini to work on, it was the last of the gear I did the base coating on so I picked a main colour which was different than I used in the other gear models.

The portals were a pretty choice for colour schemes. If you know - you know. 

Overall I'm glad to have put these into the display cupboard with the finished minis, they had been haunting my wip shelf for way too long. Making the choice to give up on the fake gate was tough but I think it was the right call for me as I wasn't having fun - and painting is supposed to be fun for me.

Using money from my generous supporters over at Patreon I purchased a rotating display stand. I like to put the money from supporters back into improving the content I make.
I'm hoping to get better at making these over time, one thing I know I want to save for is a better camera (I currently use my phone).
Please let me know what you think of this addition to my painted model articles.
If you like it please like, comment, and subscribe on Youtube it really does help with letting Youtube know it's a video worth suggesting to other hobbyists. (And it upsets Mike...)

If you want to support my content consider taking a look at my Patreon which you can find here. I don't put any finished content behind a paywall but I do offer rewards to people who support me in ways like getting to vote on what content I work on in the future or outright just picking the next subject of an article as well as posting wip projects.

Even if it's just $1 it really helps me out!

See you all next time!