Clover Pop Top Mittens

I enjoyed the podster gloves pattern so much I made myself a pair of mittens. These are knit in Patons Kroy Socks FX in Clover Colors using Size 1 (2.25mm) needles.

Splodey Tardis

So I do a bit of babysitting, and when it is to be an all day affair I bring out the art supplies. The child and I share a love for Dr. Who, and he really wants to do a mural of the exploding Tardis painting on his wall. Working from a picture I showed him how to divide the painting up into squares and draw it onto a canvas. Then we spent the day painting our line drawings.

Here is my finished piece.

Here is the artwork of my ward. He really enjoyed doing it, and I think next time we'll paint dragons.

Saim-hann Hat

This is a version of my beenie hat made for Kris Belleau, the host of Way of the Brush. 

Crochet Sloths

These are gifts for some friends. They were made using the Tiny Baby Sloth pattern by The Twisted Crocheter some scrap acrylic yarn and a 4.00mm hook.

Captain America Shoes

These are a pair of converse shoes that I painted for a friend as a birthday present. His favorite comic book character is Captain America and loved the final results. The original artwork is not mine as I asked him to pick out pieces he liked, but both ended up being heavily modified.

Captain America Shoes Paint Scheme

Black
White

Blue
VMC Dark Prussian Blue
VMC Prussian Blue
VMC Dark Blue
VMC Medium Blue
VMC Sky Blue

Red
GW Red Gore + Black
GW Red Gore
GW Blood Red

Pouches
GW Rhinok Hide
GW Snakebite Leather
VGC Tierra Earth

Flesh
GW Dwarf Flesh (base)
GW Tuskgor Fur + GW Rhinox Hide (lining)
GW Tuskgor Fur
P3 Khardic Flesh
GW Dwarf Flesh

Pop Top Mittens

These are pop top mittens made using a modified version of Podster Gloves pattern. Knitted in Prism Merino Mia yarn in the color Alpine using US size 1 (2.25mm) needles. I knitted these as a gift for a friend, and they turned out so nice I plan on making a pair for myself.

Hokie Legwarmers

These are some legwarmers I knitted for my mother-in-law. They are made of  Loops & Threads Impeccable yarn in the colors burgundy, white, and pumpkin using US size 6 needles.

Tyranid Hat

This hat is for my husband. I wanted it to have more of a traditional color work look with the DNA strands surrounding the Tyranid icon.

40k Tyranid Hormagaunts

These 18 models bring me up to 90% of the Tyranid army painted. I feel like I'm making good progress, and am on track to finish by the end of the year.

Bettie Beanie

A beanie I knitted for a teammate. I lost the file that had my font charted and had to redo it all.

Harlequin Paint Scheme

Here are all the paints that I used for the harlequins.

Ombre Coats

1:1 P3 Beaten Purple / GW Black

P3 Beaten Purple

1:1 P3 Beaten Purple / P3 Murderous Magenta

P3 Murderous Magenta

2:1 P3 Murderous Magenta / GW Blood Red

GW Fiery Orange (glaze)

P3 Ember Orange (glaze)

P3 Heartfire (edge)

Bases

GW Khemri Brown

Army Painter Dark Tone Wash

P3 Hammerfall Khaki (drybrush)

1:1 P3 Hammerfall Khaki / GW White (drybrush)

Squares

GW Space Wolves Grey (edge)

Secret Weapon Wash Cool Grey (very thin glaze)

Mask

GW White

Secret Weapon Wash Storm Cloud (very thin glaze) x2

GW white (highlight)

Helmet Crest

GW Scab Red (base)

GW Blood Red

GW Dwarf Flesh (highlight)

GW Carrobrug Crimson (wash)

Hair

GW Worm Purple (base)

Secret Weapon Amethyst Wash (wash)

GW Lucius Lilac (highlight)

Gold

GW Rhinox Hide (base)

GW Shining Gold

Army Painter Strong Tone (wash)

GW Burnished Gold (highlight)

Vallejo Metal Medium (highlight)

Silver

GW Black (base)

1:1 Vallejo Model Air Gun + GW Black

Army Painter Plate Mail Metal

Vallejo Model Air Silver (highlight)

(swords) Secret Weapon Blue Black

(swords) Army Painter Strong Tone

Vallejo Metal Medium (highlight)

Liquitex Iridescent medium (final highlight)

 Gems

GW Black (base)

GW Khorne Red

GW Blood Red (highlight)

GW White (spot)

Suits

GW Black (base)

GW Xereus Purple (thinned)

1:1 GW Xereus Purple / GW White (highlight)

Motleys

GW White (base)

(Orange) GW Fiery Orange (base)

(Orange) 1:1 GW Fiery Orange / GW Rhinox hide (shade)

(Orange) 1:1 GW Fiery Orange / GW White (highlight)

(Purple) Army Painter Alien Purple (base)

(Purple) 1:1 Army Painter Alien Purple / GW Black (shade)

(Purple) 1:1 Army Painter Alien Purple / GW White (highlight)

GW Black (outline)

Orange Sashes

GW Fiery Orange (base)

1:1 GW Fiery Orange / GW Rhinox hide (shade)

1:1 GW Fiery Orange / GW White (highlight)

Magenta Sashes

P3 Murderous Magenta

GW Xereus Purple (shade)

1:1 P3 Murderous Magenta / GW White

Yellow Sashes

P3 Ember Orange (base)

1:1 P3 Ember Orange / GW Rhinox Hide (shade)

P3 Heartfire (highlight)

Red Sashes

GW Red Gore (base)

1:1 GW Red Gore / GW Rhinox Hide (shade)

GW Blood Red (highlight)

Turquoise Sashes

4:1 GW Black / GW Hawk Turquoise (base)

2:1 GW Black / GW Hawk Turquoise

1:1 GW Black / GW Hawk Turquoise

GW Hawk Turquoise (highlight)

1:1 GW Hawk Turquoise / GW White (edge)

Pirate Box

This was a birthday gift box for a friend. It is a wooden box painted with some P3 metallic acrylics (Blighted Gold and Solid Gold) over black and then given a high gloss varnish.

40k Tyranid Warriors Batch 2

Here are the other half of warriors from the Tyranid army. These are all armed with Deathspitters. The formula on my tracking Excel file was incorrect, and after fixing it these models put me at 81% painted.

40k Tyranid Spore Mines

These at the spore mines from the Harpy / Hive Crone kit. They differ slightly from the ones out of the Tyrannocyte kit. Mainly these have claws at the ends of one tentacle and fewer spikes on the main body. This puts me at 80% of my army painted.

40k Tyranids Lictors

So here are the finished Lictors. I painted an out-of-production metal lictor model to be used as Deathleaper (in the center if you've never seen one). I think the model is one of the few from the old line that still holds up compared to the new ones. I like how he has more claws and ended up with so much more red on him than the finecast miniatures. The extra texture on his carapace was a bit of a pain with the way I paint my color scheme. I have a second one of these Lictors from the inheritance hoard, and I'm not sure if I should paint him up like this one or try to heavily convert him. I received a metal zoathrope and ravener from the hoard, and plan on eventually making those into a doom and red terror respectively.

Also, I posted previously about converting a warrior arm to replace the missing arm on one of the finecast lictors. I'm happy to report that with the full paint job, the replacement arm blends right in. 

Even though I had a minor setback when my cat ran off with one of the finecast lictors breaking it in half, I now have 75% of the Tyranid army painted. Yay!

40k Tyranids Venomthropes

I'm hard at work on the Tyranid army. Here are some Venomthropes. These brings me to 74% of the army complete.

40k Tyranids Termagants

One of my dear friends passed away last December, and I inherited a great number of his miniatures. These are some termagants that he had, and I've integrated them into the hoard. Painting these models puts me at 73% army completed.

Here is one of the recent termagants on the left compared to one of my early paint jobs on the right. The main difference is the way I painted the carapace. I much prefer the newer version for it's greater contrast.

Red Hots Socks

Here are some socks I knitted for myself during jury duty. It's been a long time since I knitted socks, and I remembered how much I enjoyed it. The yarn is Lion Brand Sock-Ease Prints in the color Red Hots. I used size US 1 (2.25mm) needles. Pair# 98

40k Tyranids Genestealers

Here are the finished genestealers. This puts me up to 70% of the Tyranid army painted.

And some Ymgarl genestealers. I have four that still need feeder tendril heads. I put regular heads on them for now. I'm trying to scrounge a few from local wargamers, but have yet to have any success.

Continuing Tyranids WIP

I've been hard at work this week to make more progress on these nids. I gave all the minis a magenta wash of my own concoction on their skin, and I also added fish gravel stones and texture paint to all the bases. I decided to split them up into type before drybrushing the base color for the skin back on.

2017 SotA Update 2: Tyranids WIP

After finishing up some recent commissions, I'm finally able to get back to working on Tyranids. In this tray are 31 Genestealers, 12 Spore Mines, 18 Hormagaunts, and 8 Termagants assembled, primed and base coated with their skin color. I think I'll go through the tray and do my wash and drybrush to the skin on all of them before splitting them up by model type to finish. The skin is always the hardest part for me to slog through. Fully painting all the models in this tray would be a big chunk towards my goal for my State of the Armies challenge.

40k Harlequin Skyweavers

I did a commission for a squad of Skyweavers to match the Harlequins I painted before.

 

 

Yeah, I know that back end is misaligned.

Royal Gartelac Dishcloth

This is a Garterlac Dishcloth knit in Peaches & Cream in Royal using Size 2 US (2.75mm) needles.

Cu Chulainn Alter Berzerker Stuffie

This was a commission piece. He is the chibi version of a character from the Fate/Grand Order video game. It is made of felt and is completely hand sewn.

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