#dressawilly the painting challenge from TheStillTower !

Hey all ! With the end or Orctober, I wanted to take the opportunity to post these guys which have a bit of relevance with the topic. A while ago, thestilltower (check his Instagram HERE) launched a painting challenge around a dolly he made of Willy... which participants had to dress, hence #dressawilly, get it ?

Like usually, I was immediately taken by the idea then got submerged by a trillion more ideas and 6 months later finally came around and did what I had to do !

It's a lovely sculpt and although I'm not great with Putty, I had to do it honor. I knew right away I didn't want a model with weapons and the free willy on Willy conveyed an idea of freedom so I went for a subject dear to my heart : metal. It seems like painting metalheads is a happy place for me so after painting an ork metal band a while ago, I somehow had to have a fan for them !

You can appreciate in detail below the mediocrity of my sculpting in the picture below, bit of a shame with the dolly I had but i was happy to use the helmet trim as a head band !

Now he looks super hapy with his favourite musician, let's just hope he even remembers meeting them !

Now along the dolly, I had the chance to get 2 variants so I tried to play a game of "variations on a theme" and paint them in different styles !
With the style of the guy, I knew I had to paint one in a grimdarkstyle to really make a contrast with the other 2, he might actually be my favourite of the 3 !

Now the third one left me abslutely no choice ! being an obvious nod to the monopose gretchin from the 2nd ed 40k starter set, I just had to paint him according to my ork scheme !

Now one BIG surprise and something I wish more people did with casting vents is THIS :

I think Ramshackle are the first I saw doing that but I seriously wish every resin caster did that, not only does it save resin from getting into dumps, it's also such a little bonus when getting a model ! I was almost as happy to get those extra scatter bits as the models themselves !

 Little pieces like that take no time and when you get a handful on a table, it immediately takes it up a notch for immersion !

Anyway, hops you folks liked those, my painting schedule is starting to get packed from my over comitment/enthusiasm !

Happy painting all !