The Cheetobrute and Mothman

Sunshine McHellbrute
Busy semesters are stupid. Just sayin'. It's been a while since I actually (kind of) finished this hellbrute. There's a serious lack of orange in anything miniature related I've been viewing lately, so I made up for it by vomiting up all the orange I could muster and throwing it on here.

The Cheetobrute.

And so it began. I actually kind of liked it at this stage, although not exactly what I would picture anything chaos to be like. But after doing a few layers of wash, it started to look less cheeto-like.

 I'm planning on tweaking a few things detail-wise later and I'll finish his base junk eventually,  but I've been pressed for time lately due to end of the semester shenanigans.

Dark Vengeance Moth Lord
Another thing I finished about the same time as the 'brute, was this Dark Vengeance Chaos Lord. All I could think about the entire time painting him was that he had a cute little face of a moth. Just slap on a proboscis and he'd be set to fly around under street lamps and/or in your face.

Srsly.

I think I'm most pleased the the carcass on his back... I have a thing for dead stuff. 

There's miniature paints for a reason, goddammit

I'm still working through a lot of technical issues, since painting on this sort of scale is nothing like what I've done before. Most of the paint I've used thus far (minus any metallics) is not necessarily meant for miniatures. It's not that it's terrible like the goopy latex-like acrylics I somehow managed to slather onto my Ravehammer Tyranid, but it's cheap under-a-dollar craft paint, low in pigment, high quantity for the price (compared to any Citadel paints). I'm currently working on a group of terminators and decided what the hell, spend the money on a couple Citadel brand pots and see if they are any better/worth the extra cost. Well fuck, they were. Who would have guessed a paint made specifically for miniature painting would be so good for miniature painting? My point is anyway, I'll likely cease using cheap paint for the majority of my painting, I'm already used to spending all my money on artist supplies for school, might as well keep on spending with hobby stuff, right?

Commissions? Oh, boy!

I've also been playing around with the idea of taking small commissions sometime in the near future. I obviously can't take on much while I'm still in school, but graduation at the end of next semester will give me more of an opportunity to get more serious about this idea.