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A Painted Machine

So this evening I decided to crack on with the walker and got on quite a long way…

Still the metalwork to do followed by the muck and rust.

No while painting these I came across a rather ‘orrible realisation.

Well if you remember ages and ages ago when I first got into Speedpaints there was a problem with reactivation. So when I got Speedpaints 2.0 I gave one of my school leavers my 1.0 with the caveat that they would reactivate. Fast forward ten months and I am painting my miniatures…. remember this painted dude in the foreground?

Well that yellow paldron kept reactivating whenever I put white over it as I decided to go with yellow. I did think it was a bit odd… This evening I may have worked out why!

Note the bottle on the left has that 2.0 visible and the one on the right doesn’t… the blue arrived last week. The red was my upgrade in the past. I am now confused… did I give my upgrades to my leaver or is the 2.0 a new thing on the bottles. I really cannot workbout how i managed it if i did…If anyone knows about the 2.0 please let me know. Since typing this, I did a bit of checking around and it would seem the first run of 2.0 were using original labels, so I did seem to have given away the 1.0. Which then begs the question…why the reactivation?

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My Colour Choice

So this evening I got my son’s scouts finished and undercoated

I also had a little time to try out a colour combination on my scout …

I think it will work… well it had better as I have gone for yellow paldrons on all of them 

I will hopefully carry on tomorrow evening.

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My View on Games Workshop Miniatures

So as mentioned the other day I relented and purchased my youngest (13 years old) a Kill Team box. He wanted either the scouts or the enforcers. So as our local toy shop only had the scouts he went for that.

I may have commented on my view on these miniatures in an earlier post.

This evening I finished the last three. Sadly he had got some of the legs wrong in his early miniatures. As he was so disheartened I promised I would get them sorted. I used clippers, Greenstuff  and a whole load of expletives to make them usable.

So here we have three sort of generations of Scouts…

The painted one was done by me in the early 90’s the red ones in about 2012 and the grey ones last month.

My totally unscientific complexity build grading is as follows

Painted…. doddle… glue a couple of arms on a mini.

Red…. bugger at times…trying to make the arms line up with the weapons and each other.

Grey… Absolute Bastard… too complex, badly organised part layout. I spent more time trying to find a part than I did glueing things together.

To be honest I felt that the ‘snap fit’ Tyranids were a pain in the arsenal. The scouts just about finished me off.

Hopefully his motivation will have returned by time I get them undercoated.

I will also hopefully be motivated to carry on with my Scouts tomorrow too.

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Seeing Red

Well after yesterday’s dithering  I thought sod it, life’s too short to procrastinate  so I went with the original red idea for the armour…

It’s not looking the same here as on the miniature in real life but it gives a general idea on the colours.

I also built another soon to be abandoned vehicle (or walker in this case).

I have installed a skeletal driver since this photo was taken.

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Starting on My Scouts

This evening I did some more slicing and started printing the remaining marines to make a squad of ten.

I also got the scouts underpainted…

Hopefully I will get them painted tomorrow.  The little dudes in the foreground  are for a big Tyranid base.

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All Done

Well apart from the usual ‘still the bases to do’ comment😉.

I am calling these done even though I could do a lot more to them. I want them out of the way. I do however keep having to fight down the urge to get some close combat homagaunts and some flyers.

I will get the bases done tomorrow.

Oh and while I remember I hate  some ‘effin’ plastic GW miniatures. I got my son the space marine scouts for Kill Team. Ye God’s they were an absolute sod to put together…why do they make them in so many bits,,,he managed three and I managed one as he was struggling with it…In my defence I was painting Tyranids and assisting my daughter with her revision for May’s exams.

Give me the old style any day.  (It’s a bit ironic that I was just saying I might be after some more Tyranids)… thankfully if I do jump I  will go after older ones.

My son and I have started watching the Fallout TV show… three episodes in and we are enjoying it.

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Another Ten Done

Well by done I mean they have paint on them. Still teeth and muscle bits to do if I can be bothered.

Last of the small miniatures

I still have this lot to do though….

Time to bring out a larger brush.

Basically I have four days left to do the big beasties (on my self imposed deadline).

I am hoping that I can crack on tomorrow. Luckily I am not using a lot of colours (well done past me)!

Well that’s the hobby bit out the way…

As some of you may know, I am a principal of a small school. Sadly it has got too small and as such the council is deciding our fate on Monday. Thankfully the staff will be redeployed, but we are still losing the team as we will all be split up. This has been a major stress for the past few months.  In the words of someone senior to me…”it’s Shit!”

So my deadline for Sunday night is there as I may not feel like carrying on on Monday.

Non whiny post will return tomorrow.

We went gallivanting on Sunday and had a close run in with an otter. Guess who didn’thave his big camera.

At one point we were about 20 metres from him/her.

I have some out and about videos that needs putting onto YouTube. Hopefully they will be done soon too.

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Painting Again

Well I dragged myself off my bed to get some more done on the ‘Nids. Feet were on fire this afternoon… hence the bit of a stint on the bed with hhem raised up… made bugger all difference but hey ho!

I decided to get half of the termagaunts painted this evening and I managed it…

I am also pleased to note that the green/brown combo now outnumbers the black/white in my box…

My original plan was the the weapons would be the dark green shown here:

However, I remembered that each bio weapon is a distinct creature in its own right so I went for an orange colour instead. It works for what I want. I went for Speedpaint ‘Fire Giant Orange’ as the Dipping Ink version didn’t really work with a single coat.

Hopefully I will get the next ten termagaunts done tomorrow.  I want this lot finished by time I go back to work. If no weird crap happens then I reckon it is do-able… queue weird crap music!

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Listening to Mick

Well Mr Jagger said ‘Paint it Black so I did…

My youngest wanted to have a go at “slap chop’ so I sprayed everything black including my combined harvester.

I fully intended to do a lot more this evening, but can you guess which pillock forgot to take his meds!

I did manage a smidge of something else…

I thought the big ‘Nid bases needed something on them. I, therefore, built a casualty in 3D builder. I then used Greenstuff to make the wound  (a wound sounds a little trite, for what has happened to this poor sod).

His back is flat to allow it to fit onto the base. I am hoping it will look more natural when it is embedded into the basing material.

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My New Tiny Wheels

This post comes with a sing along 🙂

See I said it had it’s own song. 😉

Technically the above is a weaponised vehicle with saw blades on the front. I left them as is I have no idea what future crops will be grown. It is meant to have  flamers on three hard points… I just left them off as this is intended for a terrain/cover piece

I also put together a pile of Printed Battle Brothers. Eight Scouts on the left and six marines on the other. Oh and the little Erroish Dude at the back gives an idea of the size of the vehicle.