This evening I slapped more paint on the scouts as well as built the ‘Chonker’ ready for undercoating tomorrow.
Still some work to do on the scouts, the problem I am having is the choice of weapon colour. Might go for an orange to complement the red/yellow combo I have going. An easy option would be black… I might fall back to it if needs be.
Hopefully I will be as semi productive tomorrow.
Well this evening I was a busy boy! I redid the new vehicle and added my own supports and they seem to be working, the first build plate was a success. This included failure pieces from yesterday.
I also did some posters for the terrain, first off they were far too big, so I had to shrink them down by 50%.
My nail art jewels came today to become rivets on the MDF terrain.
I also did some painting and glueing too…
Well, not sure why, but I achieved very little this evening. Sliced a new vehicle to be abandoned as well as cleaned and cured a pile of things too.
Sadly the bloody print failed, it was too late to faff on with it so I will clean the tank tomorrow and add my own supports too as the miniature fell off the ones that came with the pre supports.
Hopefully I will get it sorted tomorrow.
Abandoned vehicle on its way…
So in the above photo you can see the sacks and liquid containers. I still have to sort out the tote bags which are a similar size to the above. As I said o. An earlier post; I am going to cover the front with a tarpaulin. This will hide the solid plastic windows. Yes I probably could paint them, but it would be a right faff so I will hide them.
Well it is probably ‘Scouts Pary IX, but never mind I managed to do a bit more on them.
So that is all the cloth done. My original idea was to do a green blanket, but as I had the black lotus handy I went with that. This is the colour I did the trousers in.
Still a long way to go, but getting there.
I have got some ideas for the chapter name and had a mess around with a battle cry and motto in Latin.
Well WordPress continues to mess with my head. This should now be 25 days in a row… we shall see!😬😬
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.
So the other day I was up to something like 19 days straight. I post today and I am now down to 3.
It has today, yesterday, 2 days, 3, 4,5,6,7 and then dates from then on!
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.
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 🙂
Bogenwald 