Law Dawg slowly paints Yu Jing, Defiance

I agree. There are pros and cons for each. With the white background I had to manually overexpose due to the way cameras auto-exposure works, and the colours are a bit more genuine. The back background makes colours more saturated (again due to camera sensor algorithms). The gun casing and barrels are not actually that blue on the model- they're supposed to be much more muted grey-blue glaze. Also black looks a lot more dusty. It's hard to wipe up all the dust specks.

Either way, both types of background make my paint job look good

 

I forgot that I had finished Agnes Ferreira back in May, so here she is. I like her Defiance colour scheme and followed it. I did her rather quickly, so she's looking a little rough. My favourite part is her skin tone and the base, which I had a lot of fun painting.

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Now- the mighty Yan Huo with HRMC! What a great sculpt and an absolute pleasure to paint. I took some time to do some free hand, and attempted some battle damage on the armour. I think they turned out ok. I showed my wife and she said, why don't you just take your knife and hack at it a bit? Well, yeah I could, but then the damage would be permanent.






Annoyingly, I put together the big cannon before checking the alignment on the back (which was not easy or obvious how it should be connected). It ended up not lined up with where the head is looking. Not obvious from the photos, but very obvious when viewed from certain angles around the front. Ah well.

 

I see your point! To me, the struts seem to be there just for balance- too thin to poke into the ground to support the legs. It's perfectly fine, just the OCD part of me wanting the cannon to line up with the head.

 

Finally got around to taking photos of my last minis of 2024. October was a bust but November and December saw some painting done.

With the Yan Huo done my Invincible Army was pretty much done, with the exception of the Libertos which is primed and ready to go. I couldn't decide how to paint it so decided to put it aside and get ISS started with N5 dropping.

When I first started playing Yu Jing, ISS really appealed to me and I was intending to play the sectorial once I got more familiar with the rules (see the Kuang Shis of my first post). Well that didn't happen as I was initially put off by the extra layer of Fireteam rules, and then somehow ended up painting and playing Invincible Army. I have yet to play a game of N5, but hopefully that will change soon as I finish painting the ISS models I collected over the years.

First up is the Crane Agent. I've been wanting to paint this guy for a while. I painted him like an actual crane, referencing lots of photos because I got a bit bored of YuJing yellow.

This is the result:


He still got a bit of yellow-orange and violet to tie in with the rest of my army. Painting him was very challenging but so much fun. I tried to do nmm gold trim, which turned out to be my favourite part of this mini.

Major Luna: her concept art showed her with snake patterned cloak. So to continue the animal theme I referenced diamond back rattlesnake skin. I think it turned out ok.


The last mini of 2024 was the old Guifeng Spec-Op mini. I wish CB had made more generic minis like this for each faction as they're great to use as proxies. I think Ariadna may have the highest number of these Spec-Op models?



The first mini of January 2025 is Zhanying hacker. This is probably the profile I will take the most often. Such a nice sculpt too.



And finally, a WIP of Su Jian that I'm working on.

 

Thanks :) This guy will most likely proxy as Adil Mehmut, since there's no reason not to take him instead of an actual Crane.

 

Finished the Su-Jian! I love Yu Jing heavy infantries. I've only used him once (ineffectively )in a game before he got painted up. I found the timing of the transformation a bit tricky.

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For Bromad Academy's last painting contest, I painted up an old edition Pheasant Agent. Since it's a pheasant, I used the colours of the red golden pheasant aka the Chinese pheasant. It's native in China and commonly seen in Chinese paintings.



Faces are hard, but hers is the best one I've done.

 

I had a lot of fun doing it. I didn't particularly find it difficult, just time consuming. The shiny, almost metallic looking yellow was really hard to nail down and I never quite got the right hue.

Last week I finished the Celestial Guard with Kuang Shi control device and smoke grenade launcher. I already had an old edition but it's always nice to have an extra.

The old and new together!

 

It's Sun Tzu! I painted him like my Crane Agent so that he can also proxy as Adil.

Chipping away at my painting backlog- need to paint MBH, CSU, Hsien with multi rifle, 4 Wumings, plus a couple of proxies for the different flavours of ninjas, 3 Dakinis, Deva, and Garuda to proxy as Jinyao. I will then have enough figures and proxies to field anything I want from ISS.

 

So Imgur seems to have changed the way images are shared from their platform and I can't seem to get pics to display properly on the forum. That's annoying.

Summer came and gone, and I have been painting and actually playing some games. Continuing with my ISS is the Hsien. I just love love love this figure.


Wu Ming- I don't really understand these guys' fluff. They're dangerous subversive political prisoners. Why in the world would you give them heavy weapons and set them loose? Anyway, since they're criminals, they don't get to wear proper Yu Jing orange - justification for wanting to experiment with other colours.

 

I think I've found a workaround to the Imgur issue - don't use their mobile app to share pics.

Anyway, here's the MBH. She took me much longer to paint than expected. The motorcycle took up most of the painting time. By the time I got to the lady I was running out of steam, but I think she turned out all right. Overall I like this cyberpunk color scheme.

 

Here's Avicenna who's going to proxy as Miranda Ashcroft in my ISS. By special request from my wife she's painted as Rumi from KPop Demon Hunters. This is probably my favourite paint job of the year.


Fat Yuan Yuan will proxy as ABH. It's a really fun model to paint!

 

Father Lucien Sforza - I didn't particularly enjoyed painting this guy, but I didn't hate it either. He's just something that gotta get painted. I haven't had a chance to use him in a list yet.

The hapless Warcor. Her pose is hilarious. I noticed her face is messed up while taking the photo. Not gonna bother fixing it since it won't be noticable at tabletop distance. So far she's proxying as Sacha.

Next painting goals- Dakini tacbots and Devas.