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!
MDF Terrain
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.
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 🙂
An Abandoned Vehicle
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bogenwald 