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The Mangler Squigs Return

Did y’all forget about the mangler squigs? Because I did. Now I’m going through hitting these guys.

One thing to point out—I’m leaving some black showing. I’m not trying to perfectly base coat it because we’re going to make these rusty to match our spears, so a brown wash is coming. By keeping the black in the shadows and recesses, it adds contrast and makes things easier because I’m really only catching the tops.

Production Time with the Kids

Got most of the spears done upstairs during craft time with the kids. It was that fast to paint one spear, but it still took me an hour or two to do them all.

The Final Stretch

The main thing left is skin and bone. The bone I’m doing with Vallejo air white plus bony matter over it—you get a really cool look that way. Going to do gold on the bracelets since I like how the yellow pops. Then just nails, teeth, and skin.

Two Days Into November

Main thing is we’re 2 days into November and I painted every day.

Gardens of Hecati Discovery

Just came across this vampire warband from Gardens of Hecati. I’ve been trying to catch their Kickstarters and always miss them. This one lets you get all their previous ones too, which is what I’m most excited about. Going to make sure I purge enough to back this—it’s over in 10 days.

Goblin Reality Check

Going into this week, I’ve got to finish Goblin Town. It’s literally been a whole month of nothing but goblins—hours and hours and hours. I don’t think I’ll ever try to paint 90 of the same model ever again.

I went in thinking it’d be pretty easy. Between life happening, I realized it’s just not possible to paint 90 goblins in a couple days anymore. Those days are over for me.

The Plan

The goblins beat me, honestly. But I’m finishing them by Friday. If I have to stay up all night, I’m getting them off the workbench and into the display cabinet this week.

Tomorrow is casting toads, and Tuesday night is hopefully a painting stream. Lots of fun things that are not goblins planned this week.

Transcript

Uh, hi. Did y’all forget about the mangler squigs? Because I did. So, I go through uh hitting these guys. Now, one thing I want to point out uh with these guys is we are not just like I’m leaving some black.

It’s probably the easier way of saying that. I’m not trying to like perfectly base coat it. One, because we’re going to make these rusty to match our spears. So, we’re going to do a brown wash over this. And that’ll also kind of like pick up and correct any mistakes of where we I didn’t I don’t think I did anything too bad of where I over overlapped on the red.

But just by keeping the black in, it’s going to help establish that border and uh almost like consider it like black lining between the skin and the chain. And when we wash it, it’s not going to be as stark. And that way having that black in the shadows and the recesses will just add like it’ll just make it look better cuz it’s going to add contrast. And it’s also it’s easier to paint cuz I’m really only catching the tops. Um on some things I’m going in on the sides and like getting it all where it’s going to be like super bright and super noticeable.

But uh it was actually pretty easy to not mess up the red doing this. Uh, last spear. I got most of them done upstairs. Uh, that was the last one. They’re ready to be rusted.

Um, I did not get anywhere near as much painting as I thought was going to happen. Uh, today was actually pretty rough one. Uh, but everything’s good now. Uh, but it was, uh, a little bit iffy there in the middle of the day. But, uh, we’re good now.

And the spheres are all done. Uh, I sat at the table production and craft time with the kids. Uh, I loaded them all up, got all the spheres done. It took me I don’t know, honestly, like it was that fast to paint one and it still took me like an hour to do. Hour or two, probably.

I got my pink purple dots on my pink finger. >> I think it’s going to look good when it was all said and done. Making sure my my brush is clean. Uh, so I still have to do the the rest on them. I still have to do the rest on them.

Let me get in frame. But uh the main thing left is going to be the skin. So the skin and the bone. The bone I’m just going to do quick little bit of Lejo air white and I’m going to go over top of it with bony matter. I get a really cool look doing it that way.

You get a really cool look like this. So this is just white with bony matter over it. And hopefully we can get to focus. I got weird lighting right now cuz it’s it’s a weird time of day. Um, got to go back.

I painted some of these nonmetal metallic-ish, but I’m going to go back and uh I’ll probably do gold on the bracelets just cuz I like how the yellow pops. And then we just need to do the nails and the teeth and the skin. Uh, but again, that’ll all be pretty fast cuz I’ve got I’ve got that system worked out pretty good. And I think I’m going to do some purple on the eyes maybe like the the Instagram post we’re we’re stealing from. Main thing is we’re 2 days into November and I painted every day.

I just came across this vampire war band uh from Gardens of Hecati. I’ve been always trying to catch uh their Kickstarters and I always miss them. So, I’m stoked that I I finally caught this. So, I’m just uh sharing it with you guys. If you want this one, you can get just this one, but you can also get all of their previous ones, which is what I’m most excited about.

I’ve wanted these for a very long time. So, I’m going to make sure I purge enough to be able to back this cuz it’s over in the next 10 days. So, I’ll put the link in the description for this uh cuz I definitely want to go all in on everything. All right, so uh going into this week, got to finish Goblin Town. I cannot spend any more time on these goblins.

It’s literally been a whole month of of nothing but goblins. Hours and hours and hours of goblins. I don’t think I’ll ever try to paint 90 of the same model ever again. I uh I don’t think I have it in me anymore. I was going into this thinking it’d be pretty easy and [snorts] then uh just between a lot of a lot of like just life happening I realized that it’s just not not possible to paint 90 goblins in a couple of days anymore.

Those days are those days are over for me. Um it’s been a lot of fun. I’m glad like I’m glad I stuck with it. I I’m talking like I finished it when I haven’t like I still have to do the skin and the bone stuff and that’s going to be a process too, but it’s going to be much faster than the robes or and much faster than even building them. So like in my mind this is pretty much done cuz I know like tomorrow I’ll get to paint.

Um Wednesday I’ll get to paint, Thursday I’ll get to paint. I mean every day I’m going to get to paint. So I know that this going into next week goblins are going to be done. We’re going to get out of Goblin Town. Uh we did all of and didn’t actually paint an orc which doesn’t feel very good.

Uh, but you know, that’s just how it goes. Uh, I thought for sure I’d be able to finish How Orcs and Goblin Army. Uh, so it’s weird that I didn’t that I just made a bunch of videos about how I didn’t accomplish what I wanted to do, but I think that’s real. Uh, I think it’s probably hopefully entertaining watching somebody like fail miserably at painting their army project cuz I still have like I didn’t I didn’t touch a single orc really. [snorts] But knowing that the 90 goblins are done is going to like even if the orcs sit for another couple months, which I probably will honestly cuz I’m I’m over it.

I’m [laughter] over it. Uh that’s okay cuz I stuck with this project. 90 Goblins was a real project. Even though the army the arm is all playable. Uh [snorts] even though I stuck with the goblins, I just couldn’t.

It was the goblins beat me. Honestly, the goblins beat me. Especially with all the problems I ran into. Uh I’m I’m still I’m very proud of this tongue though. Like the tongues are so good.

Even with my terrible lighting, the tongues turned out so good. But uh I want to do uh I want to do the vampire the h vampire halflings because in the if I do play old world anytime soon, those are going to be what I’m I’m going to play right now. Um, and then if for some reason uh I decide to like really take it seriously, I’ll probably pick up orcs and goblins just because it’s not legacy and it’s going to be like my my longterm old world plans are going to be Orcs and Goblins, but in the short term, I just want to get some vampire counts in one cuz I think it’ll probably get nerfed. Um, I want to play because it’s super strong. I just really like those figures and I also just really love like the necromancer stuff and bring stuff back from the dead.

I think it’s cool. So, uh, I want to get that painted and it’s going to be easy to paint cuz that’s going to be mostly airbrush work and then a little bit of brush work. Whereas this was like a lot of like prep work with the airbrush, but none of the actual painting. Like all all the paintings been brush work, uh, which has been brutal. [snorts] So, uh, I don’t even really know what the point of this video is other than I’m I’m showing up getting a ton of hobby time, not getting a ton of hobby time and getting like the bare minimum amount of hobby time and and finding ways to do that.

And uh just don’t let them don’t let them beat you. Don’t let the bastards grind you down like they did to me. Uh I’ll see you tomorrow. Tomorrow is going to be uh I’m going to do some real casting tomorrow now that the vacuum chamber. I’m going to cast some toads.

Hopefully tomorrow is the finally the announcement video that I’ve got some toads for sale. Uh which is going to be really cool just to like spread them out into the world. Hopefully people are there that want to buy some of them so they can also recast and do this really cool thing. [snorts] And building dusk Tuesday night is hopefully a painting the fantasm stream. So I got a lots of fun things that are not goblins planned this week but the goblins will have no matter what I’m finishing the goblins by Friday.

If I got to stay up all night I’m getting the goblins off the workbench and into the display cabinet uh this week. So thanks.