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Also listen to this guy he's got the right idea. FTFY.

Whooo, okay, let's take this one at a time here: BUILDING A MODEL: -Superglue for metal models is a must. Nothing else will do. If you can get your hands on Gorilla Glue's hand-sized super glue bottles, do it--totally worth the $5. That stuff has rubber in it, ain't NEVER gon' break. -To make sure a model will survive the inevitable falling and traveling, you'll want to pick up a pin vice. http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?p=557851 has a solid tutorial for beginners. Do note that for plastics and most resin kits, pinning isn't really necessary. -Trim your models! There's this annoying thing called "flash" that ends up on all of them. Use a hobby knife and a metal file to trim it off. "Mold lines" are also a problem, shave those down *gently* with a file. Not strictly necessary on the last part, but it makes your models look seamless. -For brushes, get some decent but inexpensive brushes to start off--you WILL wreck these at first, but that's to be expected. -Go for acrylic paint. It's water-based, which means it washes off brushes easily and can be watered down, which is key with some companies. Cheap acrylic paint like what you can get at Walmart for a buck isn't the best, but it's great for basic commonly-used colors like black...so long as you water it down anyway. -I have no idea what the studio colors are for the models. Personally I don't stick with the default color scheme on ANYTHING so I'm not the best person to ask about that. You can learn a lot from here http://www.how-to-paint-miniatures.com/ on how to start off. Just remember to be patient and don't get discouraged! None of us start off as amazing wham-pow artists, and some of us take months if not years before it "clicks." Each mini you paint will get progressively better as you experiment and learn better techniques, and grow more bold in color schemes and styles.

Where is the Effigy model from? Reaper? As for the Warden: pretty decent for a simple conversion work. Get's the point across. I'd have personally switched the legs out for more bulkier ones, or GS'd some armor plates or something on it; as it is they simply look too weedy. The Warden has goat-legs to give the impression of power and speed--that it could just LEAP on you at any time to wreck your day. You might have some luck with Warmachine in that regard, as the scale is about the same and several parts can be 'socketed' into Wyrd's models without too much trouble.

Digging the female gunsmith there. Totally looks like she's surfing there (which would be an AWESOME conversion...). Kaeris's wings on the other hand, could use some more variety there; it looks a little too bland as it is.

Let's look at the wording. "[...]Spells with the icon may not cast through a model in melee using Ice Mirror." The wording would seem to imply that, so long as the Ice Gamin is itself not in combat, you could pull off such a trick. You're channeling a spell through the ice gamin; by all intents and purposes the origin point of the attack comes through the Gamin itself, since you are drawing LoS and range from the Gamin, not Rasputina. It's quite the dirty trick and is a no-lose situation for Rapsutina; if she ends up being the target she can simply cheat it down so it doesn't go off, but if she isn't the target she's immune to the potential blast damage.

It's actually not bad if you're the kind of person who owns several crews (which is about 90% of people). You can trim the foam easily, making it ideal for shaping them to fit a model exactly, and the bag size itself is actually kind of on the small side. I'd just get the standard load-out though, because if you're that specific in foam shape, you can darn well cut the foam yourself.

The lamp came from one of the Games Workshop 40k buildings, with some random bits and pieces glued on and around the base. I almost never use the golem, Kev. Mostly because it's kind of terrible :whistle:

...she has a belt?

The "patient copy" is a nice touch.

Hoffman is British. It would be ENTIRELY unbecoming of a fine gentleman of high standards to refuse helping out a lady in distress!

Thanks! I should probably amend that it's not really speed-painting per-se, just being very quick in how I go about it. Modeling, for me, is about 80% planning, 20% execution; I almost always have a clear idea of how I plan to paint something even before I put it together, so when I bust out the paints I'm already halfway done (in my mind anyway).

Blue/orange contrast, eh? Movie-poster crew! I like it. Can't quite tell of the female gunsmith's coat has painted reflection on it, or it's just your light source doing that (if you DID paint it like that, bravo!). The pistols themselves could use a little sprucing up, however; they seem bland compared to the rest. Perhaps a wooden under slung handle or a touch of brass? The color transition on the EoP are lovely, as are the glow effects, but the white near the base of the flames seems too harsh. Not something you can really work away from, given the nature of white paint being a fickle mistress, but just an observation.

(and by cleaning, I mean ohgodsomuchdust) Yeah, so I paint models. A lot of them. Very quickly, in fact--I'm a bit of a speed painter, more out of habit than anything else. Most models are painted in about a day, usually in groups of 2-3, more if I'm keeping it simple or really got the flow going. My camera is also terrible, and while I usually edit them through GIMP they don't always come out well. I'm working on that, honest. Rasputina's Crew Rasputina Ice Gamin Ice Golem (aka Fire Magnet) Essence of Power Cerberus Ramos's Crew Ramos The glow effect isn't too noticable here, mostly because I cannot into photographing. Steamborg Executioner I actually painted the inside, but you can't really tell even if you hold the model up. Mobile Toolkit (aka "Duckyface") Arachnid Swarms. With magnets no less! Handsome Squidward--I mean, Joss Hoffman's Crew Disco-queen Hoffman Hunter Guardian Watcher (nananana bat-booooooooooot) Ryle, the derptastic robo-zombie Exorcist. Not actually used him yet, and will probably have him roll with Sonnia when I get her. Model is from Reaper, the zombie is from Mantic, crossbow is off some Warmachine model. Scrap counters. Fun to make and easy to eat! Commissions. These are all from one guy, the totally awesome bro-tastic Abdiel. Note that this isn't even half the model he's commissioned me for; some I simply forgot to take pictures of before handing them off to him. I'll rectify that shortly. Also note that the photos here aren't great, since it was when I had crap lighting in my house (nevermind my camera is far from good) or taken quickly at the LGS. Alps Coppelius Cherub Doppleganger Candy Dead Justice set. God, I had SO MUCH FUN painting these guys, kind of kicking myself for not buying a set. Alt Seamus. --- Finally, at the very end, my Avatar Rasputina. Made about a month ago or so, long before the announcement of its impending release. The model is Dark Age Miniature's ice elemental; Raspy's body was a greensculpt cast of a Confrontation miniature, the arms of which were sculpted by my good friend Doc. The head, as well, was done by Doc, since I kept getting frustrated at trying to do it and he's better at that stuff than I am (just look at his Simulacrum 29!). Those ice crystals on the base and back? Sprue, cut down individually and glued in place. Photo's were taken by my friend Jen, with her amazing $500 camera.