Clone Commando Omega Squad, In Their First Engagement Deployed On Qiilura. If You Haven't Read The Republic

Clone Commando Omega Squad, in their first engagement deployed on Qiilura. If you haven't read the Republic Commando series by Karen Traviss, stop and do so. It breaks modern canon but who cares, my boys matter more

Another skin tone practice, this time limiting myself to layering. I can't recall where I got the model from, but I know I printed it. While I would have liked more bark and grit and nature on a Dryad, the uninterrupted skin was the challenge I needed to try and get the shading down, and we required a tree person

What was your process for the lava sword? Any suggestions for doing a similar thing scaled up?

Just a simple layering process really, no fancy techniques. I wish I'd taken step by step pictures but alas. I started with the white basecoat, then stippled on yellow, orange, and then red. I didn't use normal layering to avoid stripes, a natural look would have more variation and unevenly cooling areas. You want the inner parts to show the lighter colors, as the core is molten hot, with the darker cooling edge on the outside. Do one more layer of stippling with a deep grey on the edges and a sprinkling across the rest of the blade to represent cooling spots and that's perdy much it. If you're familiar with the coconut crab tyranid technique, it's kind of like a dirtier smaller scale version of that

Hope this helps! If I do it again I'll be sure to take step by step pictures. I've found other people using the same method and other colors as well, if you want a more magical look. Edit to answer the rest since I cannot read, I don't think it would suffer much from being scaled up, the only thing I would suggest is to add more layers of variation to the color gradiation if it's a big enough weapon. A giant axe being wielded by a Khorne Bloodthirster, for example, I might do 5 or 7 layers going from yellow to deep red instead of the simple 3 here. A life sized weapon... not sure the technique would hold up, but you'd definitely need a lot more layers

My sisters pc for the family campaign, a half elf ranged rogue. We've gotten about halfway through the introductory module and it's only taken us about 4 months, we're way ahead of schedule. Anyways she's already managed to crit my partners Minotaur by accident trying to snipe, and seems determined to set off every trap the hard way, a necessary addition to any campaign

Another Stormcast Knight, no crazy headpiece for this one. I'd love to paint more Stormcast but my painting queue is so long and I don't have a local group, feels almost like a waste

A gift I made for my dad a couple years back, he used to keep lionfish when I was really young. Don't worry, they didn't end up dumped in the bay and adding to the problem of invasive lionfish, i believe they were donated to a proper aquarium once they got to a certain size. The model is from Dragon Trappers Lodge, highly recommend their stuff