stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)

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stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· 19d

It’s been a minute! Finally got a little hobby time and I’ve been committed to trying to finish these flawless blades. The off-white basecoat in the second pic will have pink painted over it. #wip #miniaturepainting

Flawless blade chaos space marine mini for warhammer 40k. It has alternating black and pink armor panels with silver and metallic purple trim and gold decorations. The skin is a sickly blue-green. There are decorative flowing cloth bits painted a dark red with white slaanesh icons freehanded on. The eyes and feeder tubes are an acid green color.

The figure stands on a rubble-strewn blue-gray base with a ruined stone imperial eagle. The color of the base contrasts heavily with the colors on the mini.

The third flawless blade mini, in progress. Several armor panels have an off-white basecoat which will then have the pink gradient painted over it.

All three flawless blades minis pictured on my painting desk, in front of some other minis including slaanesh-themed chaos terminators and a rhino.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Jul 17

Something I’ve been doing in the background is cleaning up 3 ebay fiends, but it’s been so much work! Scraping through layers and layers of thick primer and superglue.

Some pieces of a fiend of slaanesh, disassembled and partially stripped. While bare metal shows in many places, others have a layer of superglue up to 1mm thick (especially around the joints).

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Jul 13

I had so much fun with the orcs that I made a whole unit! It’s nice to work on something simple and easy once in a while, I love chaos marines but they are very time-consuming

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Jul 13

Messing around with some more frostgrave / oathmark kits. I thought the gnolls would be bigger then a generic humanoid but they’re a bit on the small side. The orc heavy infantry kit is fantastic! #nerdlings

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Jun 21

Progress on 2nd flawless blade. I guess I have (unfortunately?) committed to freehanding stuff on their flowy shawl-things, some of which will be quite hard to reach 😅 also painting a big sword #miniaturepainting #nerdlings #warhammer40k

Front view pic of a flawless blade chaos space marine mini for warhammer 40k. The mini has black and pink alternating panel colors, gold and silver trim, and red flowing cloth bits with white slaanesh symbols freehanded on it. Their skin is a sickly color with blue and green shading.

They have a wide stance with one foot on top a shattered imperial eagle, which is covered by lots of other debris. They wield a sword in each hand with one held back in an open pose and the other pointed forward.

A partially painted daemon prince mini holding a big monstrous-looking sword. There are runes engraved in the center of the blade, painted in a glowing blue gradient that is brighter towards the hilt.

The daemon prince has grey-violet skin, and pink armor with pale gold trim.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Jun 18

How the wings look so far:

A pic of a daemon prince for warhammer 40k from the back. It shows the color of the wings, a gradient from dark purple to magenta to a fleshy orange. The fingers are a bony off-white.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Jun 17

Put a bunch of time into these plasma coils, but from a normal viewing distance the whole thing just looks like it’s dark blue. There’s a lesson in here somewhere… #miniaturepainting #nerdlings

A closeup of a chaos space marine terminator champion for warhammer 40k with a combi-plasma weapon, focusing on the painting of the plasma coils. They are blue with a bright blue-white emanating from the brightest parts. The rest of the model has black and pink armor with silver trim, standing on a dusty blue-gray rocky surface for the base.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Jun 8

Small hobby WIP: I realized I was avoiding working on the DP because I didn’t want to use the shoulderpads, so I finally committed to leaving them off and sculpting over the holes in the shoulders / finishing the straps with milliput:

A top view of a daemon prince for warhammer 40k. It shows the shoulder areas and back of the neck - the holes in the shoulders have been filled in with milliput and the straps that would hold the pads in place have been fully sculpted and weathered a bit.

A front view of the same daemon prince model, showing the arm cannon which now has some paint on it. The color transitions from the pale grey purple to a deep burgundy and then an orange towards the “face” of the cannon.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Jun 1

2 of ‘em. And happy pride ❤️

The daemon prince wing from the previous pic is joined by the other wing, painted in the same way.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· May 30

Today’s exercise: work big and fast instead of tiny and slow. Daemon prince wing in about 1.5 hours #miniaturepainting

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· May 29

Aaaaalmost done #nerdlings #miniaturepainting

A flawless blade chaos space marine mini for warhammer 40k seen from the front. They wear black and pink armor with silver trim, have a bright violet skin color, green eyes and juice, and an enormous sword held in one hand.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· May 27

Paint stuff… inspired to try some red claws on a daemonette by @tristanwelsh.bsky.social ‘s color scheme. Also progressing on the terminator unit and champion. #miniaturepainting #nerdlings #warhammer40k

A daemonette chaos demon for warhammer. Painted with violet skin, dark grey/black armor, and reddish-orange claws.

Four chaos space marine terminators with black armor, pink accent panels, and silver trim. They all have slaanesh decals on the right shoulderpad.

A front shot of the terminator champion, showing the kitbashed tabard from the slaangor kit from aos. The sword is also an unused bit from that kit.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· May 20

wip wednesday (as if all my posts weren’t wip…) #nerdlings I’ve made my peace with painting the terminators mostly black and silver, with pink accents. I’m not sure about the TMM-all-over scheme for the noise marines, the reflections seem overwhelming. So I started another one that’s just magenta.

A noise marine for warhammer 40k, painted with vallejo amethyst purple armor with silver trim and copper shoulderpads. I finushed the base and added some teal OSL coming from the front of the figure that also catches a bit of the loincloth.

The same noise marine seen from behind, showing a slaanesh decal on the left shoulder and a brain-like thing on the backpack.

A chaos terminator painted mostly black, with silver trim and pink accent panels / shoulder pads. The combi-bolter casing is painted in a midnight blue to magenta gradient.

A noise marine body (just the torso and legs) painted magenta with a purple wash. The loincloth is painted teal with an attempt at cast shadows from above hand-painted onto it.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· May 12

Little update with the assemed gunner

The same rhino / razorback conversion as before, but now the hatch with the combi-bolter is fully assembled with the gunner.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· May 11

I made a plasticard adapter for the razorback hull part so that it can fit a rhino top hatch! Now this rhino can have a bigger number of loadouts. #nerdlings #warhammercommunity

A closeup of the razorback top section that comes with the rhino kit. I wanted to get the most out of the kit parts, so I cut a section of plasticard to match the raised bit with the large hole and cut a smaller hole into it so the rhino hatch with the pintle could fit into it.

In 10th ed 40k, a rhino can have 2 sets of pintle-mounted weapons and a havoc missile launcher, which is all pretty hard to model on the kit at the same time. This gets it a bit closer to that reality, while also allowing me to set it up for much older editions.

Pic of the rhino with missile launcher and closed hatch up front, and a second hatch with the pintle in the rear, using the razorback hull section.

Pic of the same rhino with the more traditional setup of a single pintle mount and the rhino top doors in the back.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· May 6

Evening painting… the interior of this rhino and whatever this guy is. #miniaturepainting #nerdlings

Plastic rhino from warhammer 40k, seen from the rear and with the top piece not yet glued on, so that I could paint the interior. The inside is a very dark purple, the seats are magenta, and the console has many pink and green lights and buttons. Two large monitors show the view outside the rhino, showing a red sunset over a gray rocky landscape with ruined buildings in the rear view. The door to the cabin is black and features a large icon of slaanesh and also a good deal of wear from the door retracting sideways into the hull.

A noise marine body that has been converted into some kind of champion, with a plasma pistol and power claw. The head is from the lord exultant kit. The armor is a dark blue-purple with magenta mixed in for some soft highlights. The loin cloth is a dark red to bright orange/yellow gradient, using the same paints I used to paint the sunset in the previous pic. I wish I had given this guy a screamer pistol instead, so he could fill in as a lord exultant / kakophanist where needed.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Apr 29

Flawless blade progress continues: the bases are done, I made a decision about whether to use the EC shoulderpads (“no” this time), and I painted their necks and such so that I can put their heads on. #nerdlings #miniaturepainting #warhammer40k

Flawless blade miniature for warhammer 40k one of three. a partially painted miniature with the basing complete, showing a tocky ground that transitions from blue/gray to pink.

Flawless blade miniature for warhammer 40k two of three. This one is primed black on its finished base, with only a bit of the skin painted.

Flawless blade miniature for warhammer 40k three of three. This one has a more greenish skintone.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Apr 27

Hobby progress: setting up the basing on the flawless blades. I’m using some of the resin factory floor bits from epic basing. #nerdlings #miniaturepainting

Flawless blade chaos space marine from warhammer 40k (one of three) body without head or backpack, primed black. They are standing on a pile of wrecked imperial infrastructure - large stones and the imperial eagle, as well as metal factory floor bits.

Flawless blade chaos space marine (two of three) body without head, partially painted with black and pink armor with purple and silver metallic trim and red flowing cloth hanging from their armor. They are striding through a mess of blue-grey rubble with some red hues on the left side of the base.

Flawless blade chaos space marine (two of three) body without head and backpack, partially primed. They are standing atop a mess of blue-grey rubble with some red hues and a chunk of metal factory flooring and mesh.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Apr 22

More noise marine progress… sorry for my shaky hand! I should get some kinda recording setup. This shows off the vallejo amethyst purple very well #miniaturepainting #nerdlings #warhammer40k

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Apr 22

Noooiiiiise 🔊🔊🔊

Noise marine from previous post, with more parts painted. Loin cloth has been painted with zebra stripes, the head, backpack, and arms are attached.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Apr 18

Trying more Vallejo metallic purple on a noise marine (wip). Have not yet painted any more wizards for wizard month 😔 #miniaturepainting #nerdlings #warhammer40k

Noise marine legs and torso subassembly for warhammer 40k. Torso and lower leg armor are painted with vallejo tmm system “dark amethyst” paint, with silver trim and some of the fancy gems and bits painted in.

The same noise marine with head and weapon fitted on to show how the pose will look.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Apr 10

More progress on the flawless blade. I wanted to see how the pink armor and purple metallic trim look together (expecting it to clash a lot), but I don’t hate it? Maybe my mind is too warped by chaos #nerdlings #miniaturepainting

Flawless blade chaos space marine mini for warhammer 40k. It is striding forward with a massive blade in one hand and the other outstretched. The armor is painted in the modern emperor’s children scheme of random-ish pink and black panels. I have used some of the vallejo true metallic purple on some of the trim and the slaanesh boob-thing. The skin is painted a pale, sickly color. Front/right quarter view.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Apr 9

Playing around with the vallejo tmm paints (the purple) and painting some ABS #miniaturepainting

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Mar 17

Ooh, I can play this one! First mini I painted (early 2000’s?) and now #nerdlings

A dark eldar warrior from the 3rd edition warhammer 40k starter box. Painted darl blue with gold trim on the shoulders. Based with green flock.

The pink and turquoise daemonette from my previous bsky post, touched up a little more.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Mar 15

Back to working on the daemonettes tonight… so close to being done with the unit #miniaturepainting #nerdlings #warhammercommunity

A warhammer daemonette mini with pink skin, black armor, and teal hair / loin cloth with hints of purple. Front view.

A warhammer daemonette mini with pink skin, black armor, and teal hair / loin cloth with hints of purple. Rear view. Her claws have a reddish hue with magenta at the tips.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Mar 11

finally !!!

warhammer 40k termagant from 3rd edition with devourer painted in a white scheme with dark purple-maroon armor plates. I think it’s hive fleet kraken? The devourer is painted like the box art these days - the weapon body is more reddish and the lump with holes is more purple.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Mar 9

Worked on my dropfleet commander pirate ships last night #miniaturepainting #nerdlings

A resistance frigate and cruiser from dropfleet commander. Both are in the process of being painted in a red and black color scheme, with the frigate being further along. The frigate has accent lines in grey, weathering, and blue and yellow lights / weapon markings.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Feb 16

Can you tell I like painting things pink? 🩷🩷🩷

Three warhammer 40k chaos terminators, all WIP. The one in the middle is the furthest along. They have dark purple-black armor, pink accent panels, and gold trim.

A WIP terminator with newly-painted pink shoulderpads and pink hip plates. The gradient is mostly pink potion with a bit of spellbound fuschia and a tiny bit pf moldy wine to add some reds to the lowest points.

A WIP terminator with a pink head. The furs and skulls have been basecoated with leather brown and the sections that will be pink have a basecoat (that needs to be filled in more) of grey seer.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Feb 13

I haven’t posted them in a while, but I did resume working on their bases: here are my Quar test models! I’m looking forward to doing a dark blue wash on the cofty fella. #quar #miniaturepainting

Two quar soldiers: one crusader wearing a green uniform and one coftyran soldier in blue. Both are partially finished with wip bases being tge current step of the process.

stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ (painting minis)@stephiepaints· Feb 11

Hobby stuff: 3 out of 5 terminator bases done, and painting little spaceships from dropfleet commander #nerdlings #miniaturepainting