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Speedpaints 2.0

So instead of going to bed (I am knackered) I have been watching YouTube videos from a year ago when 2.0 came out.

What I am finding is the box has the two on it but not the bottles…

An example here:

https://youtu.be/WY3UB8WeEJY?si=rs_uj9e_BYAVcSUf

Sorry too tired to link it properly. It’s basically Peachy from the ‘Painting Phase’.

To solve the problem I am going to email Army Painter and ask them,oh and ask the sibling of the child I gave the paint to if hers has a 2.0 on it 🙂

Night, Night … off to bed I go 🙂

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Reactivation… the Plot Thickens

So in yesterday’s post (basically 2 hours ago) I was waffling on about how I may have kept the wrong Speedpaints ie gave away the 2.0 and kept the 1.0. I now don’t think I fiddle, but a red paint kept reactivating. On the scouts I used a red and decided to take a photo of the paint bottles I used (primarily in case I forgot). Lo and behold these are the paints I used…

Now the question is, did I use these for the original miniature or not… secondary consideration is the white paint I used… it was a pretty gunky white that I used a pile of medium in to make it more liquid… looks like it need to do some testing.

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UnderCoats R US

This evening I really couldn’t be bothered to paint stuff earlier on and then we had a power cut  when I was about to start so I undercoated whatever I could find hanging around!

These got a bit more white and then I undercoated a pile of stuff black too.

Sod it! I just remembered I was going to respray my printed marines black. I did them already but missed a fair bit around the legs etc.

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Too Much Choice

Well I would have painted my scouts, but I have run into a snag. I honestly don’t know what colour to paint them. My original idea was red with white paldrons, but I am having a dither. I have printed a lot of greebles to go on the MDF terrain as well as an industrial vehicle to become a part of it…well in terms of it will fiti nto the style of the building.

Hopefully I will get on with them tomorrow! I may have had inspiration 😊¡

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Combined Harvester Done

Well it was moral support day for my daughter. She revised and I painted. I managed to get this terrain piece finished.

I decided to go a bit mental with the rust. Well it has been sitting in the field a good while.

If truth be told I am a bit Happy with this.

I got a parcel today, six new Speedpaints and a carry case to put them in… I also decided to shove the spare bottles that i had lying around in it too. Somehow I found a lot.

I kind of thought it would have my Contrast paints in there as well as my Speedpaint metallics… so much for that plan.  To be fair some of these need to be put back into the shed as I haven’t used them un months… probably years since I used the washes.

I also got some terrain bits too…

Yeah I know I could probably find the files to print something similar or indeed actually craft it myself, but this seemed cheap so I went for it instead.

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A Build with it’s Own Agricultural Song…

Sort of!

This miniature dropped yesterday, I think, and I just had to print it… so much for painting what I have first!

This is if in it’s raw form. I was a bit pooped today and never got around to building it.

What Agricultural song could thus be about… you will find out tomorrow.

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Not Quite a Sea of Green

This is more of a puddle to be honest…

I really started far too late to get much more than this lot done.

You know, I have absolutely no idea how many points this lot would actually amount to in terms of the GW rules… come to think of it… I don’t know how many points for One Page Rules either. Whatever… don’t actually care :).

Will they win any prizes… nope, but I want these painted and out of the way. I watched something on YouTube the other day and the presenter said something along the lines of ‘they are finished for now… there is nothing stopping you coming back at a later date and doing more on them.’

I am starting to get a big backlog. But as my youngest is interested in 40k then I thought I had better change direction for a while.

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The Green, Green Nids of Home

Yes I eventually remembered to do some painting this evening.

I got some paint on my ancient Genestealers. These were from a boxed game with Space Marine Scouts. The tiles were hexagonal and were a kind of Jungle trail… totally forgotten what it is called!

I went for the Dipping Inks as they are in 60ml bottles so enough to do a whole army.

They are beginning to grow on me.  I still need to get the claws whitened again to make the papyrus to show up better.

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All White on the Night

No it hasn’t snowed, wind chill was bloody cold though. I spent some of today working out how to print some terrain on the FDM printer as well as printing more resin bits. I (with the help of the family) even managed to move the rockery back a bit… okay I managed about 45 minutes and they carried on being busy after I needed a lie down.

After that excitement I booked my ferry south, with my youngest being into 40k in a big way he fancies another try at the Claymore show.

I even managed to dry brush this lot white…

I am going to be honest, I cannot work out how this is meant to be quicker than a blast with a white undercoat and let the speed paints do the rest. Tomorrow we get colour… woohoo!

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Bringing out the Not so Big Big Guns

Well because I am a total sucker and project creep is evidently a thing I decided to set about doing a cult army to go alongside the Tyranids

I decides on a little mobile firepower

This is him next to the Big fella

He is missing his port weapon and exhausts. Not because they failed, because twit boy here forgot the exhaust and then printed the rockets to go on the starboard side too.

The Tyranids are all undercoated black and I have the necessary paints and brushes for the dry brush phase. If I am being honest, I am not looking forward to this.

I am going to go for a bright green body and a bone coloured carapace…well that’s this evenings thought… yesterday was bone and grey… who knows what tomorrow will bring