The Wyrd Deck of Painting Achievements!

[Caedrus]

Greetings, fellow painters!

I’ve been painting for a fair old while, but I still have so much to learn. On these Wyrd Forums, I see so many innovative, creative, and technically excellent painters. I also see so many people who are keen to experiment, to develop their own style. I was thinking about what advice we give our fellow painters, to challenge them, to encourage them, and to help their own skills and style evolve. After a bit of messing about, I came up with the following: a Wyrd deck of painting achievements!

So, here’s a list of 54 things for you to try, personal achievements to gain in your painting in 2019. The higher the number, the harder the challenge, and the decks represent different skills. Crows steal ideas, Tomes develop knowledge, Rams smash through challenges, and Masks cover surfaces.

If you’re up for challenging yourself, see how many personal painting achievements you can unlock this coming year!

For those interested, I shall also be hosting the 2019 Wyrd Forum Painting Challenge, so there’s something else to try!

 

Enjoy your painting, and have a great 2019!

Caedrus

1. Black belt in Blanchitsu                                      Try painting a miniature in the John Blanche Style
2. Mike-Mack                                                           Try painting a miniature in the Games Workshop Style
3. Borderlands                                                         Do an entire miniature in black-lining
4. Sir Astro                                                                Wet-blend a miniature
5. The night is a very dark time for me                Paint a miniature in a low-lighting technique (e.g.: Spiraling Cadaver)
6. Mr Sinister                                                           Paint a miniature with your non-dominant hand.
7. I have to go twosies                                            Use a size two brush (or larger!) for an entire miniature.
8. Victorian Painting                                               Use an object-source-lighting effect.
9. Buddhist                                                               Use the non-metal-metal painting style.
10. Eternal, Shiny and Chrome                                Use an Sky-Earth-Non-Metal-Metal effect
11. Ooh! Shiny!                                                          Try painting a miniature in the Infinity Style
12. Homeopathy                                                        Use a glazing technique on a miniature.
13. Sheer audacity                                                     Paint semi-transparent or sheer cloth.

1. All your base are belong to us                           Make a base as impressive as the miniature.
2. Myopia Pigmentis                                               Paint a truly tiny miniature
3. Thin your paints, must you                                Give constructive advice to a fellow painter
4. Godzirra!                                                              Paint a huge miniature
5. These colours don’t run                                     Paint a miniature in the colours of your flag.
6. Homage                                                                Make a famous / celebrity / cult reference with your miniature.
7. Speed Painting                                                     Completely paint a primed miniature in 116 minutes (Speed run time)
8. Donatello wasn’t just a turtle                            Try out your green stuff sculpting skills.
9. I can typing                                                          Share a painting tutorial or painting recipe
10. Celebrity Chef                                                      Upload a painting recipe.
11. Wololo                                                                  Convert a miniature.
12. Let’s get a little crazy                                           Paint some freehand, Trompe-l'œil, or patterning effects
13. My eyes! The goggles do nothing!                    Show your worst miniature on this forum

 

 

1. Despicable Me                                                     Lavish attention on at least three minions.
2. Trousers of Time                                                 Paint an Alternate, Miss, He, or Nightmare Malifaux variant.
3. Dyslexic Satan                                                      Give a miniature gift to another forum member
4. Munchausen’s by Proxy                                     Use a non-Wyrd miniature as an unbelievably suitable proxy.
5. You’re all individuals!                                         Paint three identically named miniatures as individuals.
6. Old School                                                           Paint a metal Wyrd miniature.
7. Treachery!                                                            Paint a miniature for a faction you don’t play
8. That’s some good Cronenberg!                         Paint an abomination.
9. …and I’ll form the head!                                     Paint a big stompy robot
10. Microsurgery                                                       Pin two or more limbs on a Wyrd Miniature
11. Getting ready for 3^rd Edition                              Paint an entire boxed set.
12. Pro Painter                                                           Repaint someone else’s miniature (preferably from eBay).
13. Stay on Target!                                                    Paint 50 Soulstones of miniatures in a calendar month.

1. Wham!                                                                  Use a fluorescent paint.
2. The Black Pearl                                                    Use a pearlescent paint.
3. Saturation                                                            Use inks on a miniature.
4. The shadow!                                                        Paint a miniature in ultra-high contrast
5. Grim Preparation                                                Use a Liner (e.g. Reaper Brown Liner) all over a miniature before painting.
6. Mastery in a bottle                                             Use Umber Wash, Agrax Earthshade, or Vallejo Smoke on a miniature
7. Film Noir                                                              Paint a miniature in monochrome.
8. Break the Seal                                                      Use a paint colour that you’ve never used before.
9. It’s the consistency, not the taste                     Use a water effect, blood effect or texture effect on a miniature.
10. Happy little trees                                                 Fill your base with foliage
11. Under pressure                                                   Use an airbrush on a miniature.
12. It puts the lotion on its skin                               Use a dip technique.
13. If you build it, they will come                            Construct and paint a piece of scenery

RED JOKER                                

The great white whale                                     Paint the miniature that you’ve always been scared to paint.

BLACK JOKER                                                                   

Strip Joint                                                          Strip a miniature back and start again.

Feedback is always welcome!

Caedrus.

 

[Chou]

I see myself gaining the red joker and the black joker badge the same day .

Great idea @Caedrus!!

[Butch]

This sounds so much fun and creative.

[Scatterbrain]

I just unlocked the 2 of Crows by doing a miniature in Games Workshop style! I accomplished this by selecting identical poses of a lone trooper miniature in a dated aesthetic and listed them for individual sale only on eBay for $55 Australian dollars each. With a minimum-to-be-even-slightly-effective squad size of 6, that's a paltry initial investment of only $330. Of course, a serious player would want to run several larger squads totalling up to 6 times that, including those they would need to butcher to try to convert to the special weapons (at another $25 each). Needless to say, there has been a rush of orders. At time of writing I am temporarily out of stock.

I'm working on unlocking the 1 of Crows by making a miniature look so pallid and sickly that it needs to be euthanized. The resultant full-page ego stroke for the magazine is currently at the typesetters. 

[rzaba]

I love it Definetly will participate, great idea!

[Nikodemus]

First figure of 2019 done, and with that a few achievements. Scarecrow from Reaper Miniatures. Bones material notwithstanding, quite a delightful mini.

12 Homeopathy / Use a glazing technique on a miniature - It's my go-to technique, especially for shading. Used it on pretty much everything.

6 Homage / Make a famous/celebrity/cult reference with your miniature - This guy's colour scheme took heavy inspiration from Moomin character "Snufkin", early childhood idol of mine. (see google image search)
4 Munchausen's by Proxy / Use a non-Wyrd miniature as an unbelievably suitable proxy - Quite similar to the official Scarecrow figure from Knight Models, and my intended use for the mini. "RAW" it fits but I'm willing to concede this one since it's not for a Wyrd game
1 Wham! / Use a fluorescent paint - These always seem to photo badly but his eyes are VMC Fluorescent Green. Makes for a nice, bright eye colour when I'm after something cartoonish.
3 Saturation / Use inks on a miniature - Let's see... VGC Sepia Ink, VGC Green Ink, VGC Black Ink, VGC Flesh Wash Ink, VGC Yellow Ink, VGC Red Ink, S75 Inktense Chesnut, S75 Inktense Wood... For shadows, tinting and rust effects. I love inks to put it mildly.
6 Mastery in a bottle / Use Vallejo Smoke on a miniature - Did some shadows with VMC Smoke. It's still not something I use regularly but every now and then I use it for some shadows. For this one used it for bones and coat.

So that's 6 (or 5) bagged. I can see this becoming an amusing checklist after whenever I finish a mini. Though I suspect I bagged most of the easy ones (for me) already.

[Franchute]

@Nikodemus What are the greens you used for the cloth on this mini?

[Nikodemus]

1 minute ago, Franchute said:

@Nikodemus What are the greens you used for the cloth on this mini?

Inner cloth is VGC Heavy Blackgreen. Highlighted by mixing in white in a few stages. Shaded with VGC Black and Green ink mix. His coat, which admittedly after all the washes and glazes is more of a brown, started with VGC Heavy Grey (misleading name, it's a desaturated green, lovely colour). I lost count what all I tossed over that though. Various brown washes, inks and similar.

[Caedrus]

@Nikodemus: Beautiful, saturated green, contrasting beautifully with the browns. A very pretty miniature indeed. Kudos on a 'hand of six' miniature!

(You also have a pair of sixes! Nice!)

Caedrus.

[Nikodemus]

7 Speed Painting - Completely paint a primed miniature in 116 minutes

As detailed in my personal thread, this guy took 93 minutes in single sitting. Very atypical of me. Very fun.

Current total per suit: 3, 2,1,1

[Caedrus]

@Nikodemus: A Challenger appears!

It's time to back my words up! My (extra, other) painting project for the year will be to try to match Nikodemus as he powers through the Painting Achievement list!

I'll be defending the glory of Australia 🇦🇺 against Finland🇫🇮! The two painting superpower nations, head to head! 😉

Expect an update soon!

Caedrus

[Nikodemus]

Here I was just checking things off as they happened. But sure I can play this game

Unrelated to this thread, I should have first timer NMM by end of the month (the very same frustration that drove me to do a surprise speed paint). And thinking on next month's projects... Should be able bag at least four more achievements without doing anything wild. Maybe more

[Pierzasty]

Sign me up. I expect to do quite a few automatically during my painting, and more because of the 2019 painting marathon.

[Nikodemus]

Welcome aboard! I didn't start with the intention of hunting any particular achievements, and so far haven't, but I must say I've been feeling the urge. At the very least I'm re-prioritising my painting plans for the near future. I can already feel some old school treachery coming up in February

9 Buddhist / Use the non-metal-metal painting style

12 Let’s get a little crazy / Paint some freehand, Trompe-l'œil, or patterning effects

Did my first NMM on Paladin's sword. Did armour in TMM to save time (and my sanity) on the paintjob. Freehand on the Space Marine (lightning and hydra on shoulders, 'A' and omega symbol on knees). You can check my personal thread for other shoulder & kneepads. Here's a little secret: I detest painting space marines (and most anything with large flat areas and sharp edges). Way I make it bearable for myself is through lots and lots of freehandThis is my first metallic marine (third total) and I gotta say it's a lot nicer to do freehand over matte paint.

Current total per suit: 3, 3,2,1

[lusciousmccabe]

I got 7, 3and 11on my January entry to the painting contest (Insidious Madness). Feel like it's Chronenbergy enough for the 8, but it doesn't have the biomecha aspect.

[Scatterbrain]

 

5 These Colours Don't Run - Australia, one of many flags with red, white and blue on the flag.

[lusciousmccabe]

^^ Think I'll have to try that one at some stage. Patriotism aside green, white and orange look pretty heinous together so it'd be a real challenge to make them work on a figure. 🙂

[Scatterbrain]

11 hours ago, lusciousmccabe said:

^^ Think I'll have to try that one at some stage. Patriotism aside green, white and orange look pretty heinous together so it'd be a real challenge to make them work on a figure. 🙂

What about Som'er Teeth Jones in a white linen suit jacket and matching hat a la Fred Astaire? Orange flourishes for the shoulder brocade and the feathers in the hat. 😁

[Nikodemus]

On 1/31/2019 at 7:34 PM, lusciousmccabe said:

^^ Think I'll have to try that one at some stage. Patriotism aside green, white and orange look pretty heinous together so it'd be a real challenge to make them work on a figure. 🙂

I think there's room to play around with it, if you're not locking yourself into a very specific hue. Green and white would make a nice ghost, or a skeleton. Throw some rust (=orange) on the inevitably tattered piece of gear it's carrying and voilà!

Probably not the most patriotic representation of one's coloursBut that's what I thought of first for that particular colour combo.

[Nikodemus]

4 Sir Astro / Wet-blend a miniature

Wetblending is something I only occasionally try but (/therefore)I still lack practice and confidence with the technique. But this Batman's large, flowing cape really lent itself well for the technique. I did go in with glazes afterwards to push some shadows, highlights and smooth a few transitions but it really did a lot of work setting the initial values for surprisingly little effort.

Totals: 3, 3, 3, 1

That's 10 down!

[Nikodemus]

7Treachery! - Paint a miniature for a faction you don’t play

Filthy Guild

7I have to go twosies - Use a size two brush (or larger!) for an entire miniature.

 6Old School - Paint a metal Wyrd miniature.

Metal Vik. Painted with W&N Series 7 #3 (awesome brush for eyes too, not that I did on this model) and Kolibri SQI24 #4 synthetic (comparable to #2 from W&N).

I do most of my painting with large brushes, especially detail work. But my primary metallics brush currently is a #1 and one of my "trash" brushes I use for the occasional basecoat or wash is also a #1 equivalent. Hence why it took so long to get this one.

Totals: 4, 3, 3, 3

Up to 13.

[Diddick]

Hello there, here's my first post in this thread, I'll use the same guys I just posted in the monthly painting challenge.

 

And with them I'd say:
1 - Black belt in blanchitsu.  Well, at least this was my intention with Goryo on the left... I'm not sure if I achieved it or not, if anyone can point me to what shouldn't be there or what should to make it more "blanchitsu" I'd appreciate it.
8 - Victorian Painting:  is subtle... but there's some OSL rocks on the bases
9 - Buddhist:  swords have been painted using NMM
1 - Wham!: use a fluorescent paint: yep I actually used 3 (magenta, orange & blue) 
6 - Mastery in a bottle: the skin is Vallejo Game Color bonewhite and washed with Agrax Earthshade (does it count as a painting recipe??? 😱Do i deserve this?  9 )
8 - Break the Seal: It's hard to tell, but for the right goryo spirits I used a mix with neon blue for the first time.

[Nikodemus]

On 2/18/2019 at 9:49 PM, Diddick said:

1 - Black belt in blanchitsu.  Well, at least this was my intention with Goryo on the left... I'm not sure if I achieved it or not, if anyone can point me to what shouldn't be there or what should to make it more "blanchitsu" I'd appreciate it.

I wouldn't mind getting some discussion/help on the subject as well. I've been looking into it lately and I'm still a bit lost about what makes blanchitsu... blanchitsu. I've got a few figures set aside for when I feel knowledgeable enough to attempt it.

As for your Goryo, I didn't get the Blanche vibe when I saw it without the accompanying text. I recognise the colour palette as something that gets thrown around a lot when people talk about the style. Maybe it's how you applied the paint? Seems Blanche style painting is often "dirty" and weathered. Yours is pretty clean looking. It is a lovely looking mini.

[Nikodemus]

8Break the Seal / Use a paint colour that you’ve never used before.

Bought VMC Dark Sea Blue on a whim. Used it to highlight her black hair, gloves and boots. It's a really nice, turquoise-y near black. Really happy with it based on this first impression.

Figure herself is Catwoman from Knight Models.

Totals: 4, 4, 3, 3

@Caedrus any update on your end? I'm counting 14 to 0 at the moment

[lusciousmccabe]

I'm going to claim 4  and 12  for my Bandersnatch. Watched a fair bit of Sorastro's painting channel recently and he really shows how to get a good gradient of colour and value across a large area in no time. Only really needed the glazes for parts on the legs and very happy with the result. 

Also taking 9  for the occasionally successful NMM on these guys and the 1  for the fact that I bothered with it on all 4 of them. Bought the metal one second hand years ago from someone who quite possibly got it on eBay themselves so it gets me the 6 and 12 of  as well.

 

Think I'm now getting into the territory of actually having to look some stuff up before claiming any more of these. Looking forward to it!