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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.

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Bringing out the Teeny Tiny Big Guns and a Sea of Green

So I had a go at reducing the big clanky bloke to fit in with 20 mm miniatures. So a drop of about 65% this is one of the beauties of 3D printing. My only concern with this is that it might have a void inside that has liquid resin in. Tomorrow I investigate. This was my proof of concept. The original had a number of drain holes, the scale reduction means they are now too small to be useful. The scale reduction might mean any void is now miniscule and the resin cured through the walls. To be honest it’s an easy fix. I electronically cut it in half to see what is inside and fill it or add my own larger drain holes.

I got the lighter walker finished too… not sure if I want the lid to be openable or not. It looks cool like this but then I have to paint the pilot.

Talking of painting… I also managed to dry brush this lot this evening…

I already hate them lol! Tomorrow I do a next layer of white.  As these are going to be green I went for a green on the first dry brush.

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Going a bit Sci Fi

I have started printing stuff for my son. I have sort of persuaded him to let me print him some stuff and he can buy stuff too. He likes the Necrons and Space Marines so the poster boys are getting printed…

There is a scout on the left and a flamer on the right. The flamer Dude is missing his backpack thingy and I also shoved scout Paldrons on him too ( I will probably regret this).T

He more dynamic pose on the right makes him look a bit shorter… he isn’t really.

Oh yeah, these are two of the bases I printed :).

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Beetle MKII

For anyone coming to see a Volkswagen… sorry!

I did some cyber snipping and reduced the original beetle down to a leg which I duly printed, along with some bomb rats… exactly as it sounds. Another nomad and a pack saddle too. A bodge job with super glue and Greenstuff and voilà a six legged beetle.

Here is the nomad and the bomb rats… oooh good name for a rock band there!

Not sure what I am going to do with the bomb rats, but I mean bomb rats… I just had to!

I also managed some painting…my son and I sat at the kitchen table and we both painted stuff.

The dwarf is from One Page Rules. The rest are Print Minis

A female space dwarf and another of the nomadic Erroish. She ended up yellow. In Fallout 76  you get to build yellow mining armour as one of the side missions… very original aren’t I. I cannot remember what colour the faction were going to be, but it certainly wasn’t yellow!

To be honest the Print Minis stuff has really kick started me painting again. Not sure why but the Spyre Hunters and the Erroish have got me going again.

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Painting Little Things….

Lots of little things:

For some reason I must have thought the beetle platform was about 6 inches square rather than the inch and a half that it probably is!

Still bucket loads to follow on this lot, but it is a start.

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Slow Progress on the Beetle

Yes tonight I returned to my artistic endeavours. I was a good boy and picked up a paint brush instead of a controller. I basically painted the person at the front, snapped the seat back off as I found the person wouldn’t fit where the seat had been placed. I glued said person to the seat the glued the seat into the right position.

The platform is now glued in place. Everything on it is just shoved on. The unpainted dude is probably not going to be there permanently. The original has a central pole on the platform with a tin roof. It just looked wrong to me so I am either going to make a tent type idea, shove a tarpaulin over the goods or just leave it open. I haven’t decided yet.

Remember this rider on the stenobeast… I evidently hadn’t and basically put together another one. Somehow I gave managed to print ian identical mount, body, head, left and right arm. This is with multiples of each… weird or what…

Actually subconsciously I probably built what I had before without realising it as I liked the aesthetics or something like that… probably not as weird as I made out!

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Working on the Beetle

Last night I got a dry brush of copper over the beetle. This evening I did a bit more work on the saddle and seat for the driver (?)  Perhaps mahout?

It is slowly coming together… I might have to sort out that front leg a bit. I can’t remember it looking that shiny though. Could be camera flare?

I had a go at the GW plastic orks at Geek Club (not sure what they are called now.. probably  GW-orks!)

I really do not like them. Not sure why, but definitely not for me. I only painted them as I had forgotten to take my stuff in!