Garfy: 2013, the year of the Tale of the Mega Painters, has been and gone. Stahly and I have decided to draw a line under our motivational army project.
Stahly: In this post we gonna share some full-blown army shots of all the models we painted for the project, as well as corresponding army lists. So check out Garfy’s Necrons and my Dark Eldar in all their glory after the jump.
Garfy; The above shot includes all my Necron models (except my Cryptek, which won a painting competition and is on currently on display), including models that weren’t part of the Megaforce. The Escalation supplement has meant this force is now a playable army. I still have 8 Necron Warriors and 6 Tomb Blades left to paint. For now though, the project has reached it’s conclusion.
Favourite part of the project must have been creating the two tutorials for Necron Lord. They came out really well and seem really popular.
Hardest part of the project is definitely the Tesseract Vault. I hand painted this huge plastic kit. I didn’t use my airbrush at all. I think the results are worth it.
Army list/points total.
Necron Overlord. Ressurection Orb, Sempiternal Weave, Phase Shifter – 180
Cryptek. Harbingers of Destruction, Eldritch Lance – 35
9 Necron Warriors – 117
9 Necron Warriors – 117
9 Necron Warriors – 117
5 Immortals. Tesla Carbines – 85
Night Scythe – 100
5 Deathmarks – 95
Triarch Stalker – 150
9 Scarab bases – 135
Doomsday Ark – 175
Annihilation Barge – 90
Canoptek Spyder – 50
Tesseract Vault. Antimatter Meteor, Seismic Assault – 665
Total = 2111pts
Stahly: Above you can see my collection of Dark Eldar from the Kabal of the Last Hatred I painted during the project. I started with the contents of the megaforce, but gave away 10 Wyches and the jetbikes. Instead I painted 5 Trueborn, an Archon and a Razorwing. It’s a small but playable little force. Unlike Garfy, who painted a lot of other models in-between, these models were my main painting endeavours of 2013. Just as Garfy I want to concentrate on other models now, namely my Ultramarines and Eldar, but this doesn’t mean there won’t be more Dark Eldar from. I still got another Raider and Venom, some Incubi, a Talos and a Haemonculi… just don’t expect that they will show up on the blog so soon 😉
My favourite part of the project was actually to see it all come together. There is always that sense of accomplishment when you figure out a paint scheme, paint up a model and see that it “works”.
Hardest part of the project were probably the Scourges, which took almost two months to finish, which is far too much for five models.
Army list/points total.
Archon. Shadowfield, Soul Trap, Husk Blade, combat drugs, Phantasm Grenade Launcher – 170
10 Warriors. 1x Splinter Cannon, 1x Blaster, Sybarite – 205
Raider. Dark Lance, Splinter Racks, Flickrfield – 80
10 Wyches. Haywire Grenades, 2x Hydra Gauntlets, Hekatrix with Agoniser and Phantasm Grenade Launcher – 120
5 Trueborn Warriors. 3x Blaster, 2x Shardcarbines – 190
Venom. 2x Splinter Cannon, Night Shields – 75
5 Scourges. 2x Haywire Blaster – 130
Ravager. Dark Lances, Flickrfield, Night Shields – 130
Razorwing. Dark lances, 2x Monoscythe and 2x Shatterfield missiles – 125
Total = 1095
Garfy: All that’s left to do is thank you for reading our posts and following our project. We’d also like to thank all of the contributors who we featured in the ‘Tale of the Mega Painters: Reader Submissions’ series.
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Thanks a lot, we appreciate any help to continue and grow Tale of Painters 🙂
Can't thank you both enough for featuring my work as a guest contributor – but more importantly, for inspiring me to start my own "mega-painters" project and blog.
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This is stuff you would see in White Dwarf, painted by the Eavy Metal team.
It really shows you that with some hard work and determination you can get substantial army painted in a year. I too would like to thank you for allowing me to contribute to the project, seeing other painters has enabled me to develop my technique. I was hoping the Reader Submissions would continue to run, mainly because it was so interesting seeing what other people were painting. Thanks again!
I have enjoyed seeing these forces come together over the past 12 months, and it is really refreshing to see some focus on non-Space Marine armies (which White Dwarf can't provide).
I look forward to what will come in 2014 and especially any Eldar on the site.
Two stunning looking armies. Although you have forgotten the main thing that's left to do. FIGHT! 🙂
I'd love to play a game against Stahly's Dark Eldar. I think he would have to ally with his Eldar to make up the points and I'd need to take a suitcase full of Necrons to Germany. Maybe Stahly and I need to have a conversation and put some plans together.
A great result to a year's worth of work.
One question, can you guys both give some pointers about how you photograph your units (en masse and on their own)? Do you have a professional lightbox setup?
Any plans for something like this for 2014? or at least guest posts? they seemed rather popular among the readers at least. Maybe a painting competition? Just some thoughts.
Keep up the great work guys! truly amazing stuff!