This evening I got all the pallets I had undercoated black ready to become some form of cover. I also found my next abandoned vehicle…
This will have a tarpaulin over the front to hide the windows which are solid. I can fit three pallets in the back. I have six sacks and six liquid chemical of them as well as five covered ones that need curing.
So onto the scouts – they all have their armour done. Next will be the cloth, backpack and pouches.
I am also in the middle of printing the last Marine as well as a captain and psyker for myself…I thought I had taken a photo, but evidently not.
As I mentioned the other day, I purchased some MDF stuff to make some sort of on table terrain.
Well I started building it, following the instructions downloaded from their website. Two problems I hit were the instructions as well as user error reading said instructions. First off I downloaded the wrong set, luckily the first bit was identical to mine. Secondly I stuck some bits on the bottom upside down. Then I ran into problems with the main bit of the fuel tank. In the instructions it clearly states to glue the bottoms in first which I did. I then had to fasten 12 pieces into the top, three of which had 3 tabs to fit into 3 holes.
I then had this problem…
Okay in the grand scheme of things it is not a huge problem, but it is like this on a lot of the pieces.
I really felt like the cylindrical thing wasn’t really so I started making changes using cereal card.
These are meant to have a ladder of sorts up three of the sides, but they just looked too out of scale. This also is covered up by the cardboard.
I think I have been spoiled in the past by some of the MDF terrain I have had. These are actually okay kits for the money. These were the cheapest I could find below £30. For some of the other ones, for something similar it was double or more than double hhe price.
Has it put me off, not really. It’s a relatively new material to me so there are bound to be teething troubles. In fact the second tower took a quarter of the time to build than the first.
I never did get the scouts painted, I did do some more pallets of sacks as well as some liquid bowser and covered bags to act as scatter.
I spent some of today building my TT combat MDF stuff. I will discuss this in another post tomorrow.
So I got the lifter finished this evening…
When I say finished, I think I may need a bit more rust on the side panels… I evidently forgot! As with the combined harvester, this has a skeletal pilot.
I also got some more done on my scouts…
I will hopefully carry on with the scouts and MDF terrain tomorrow.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Bogenwald 