So you would imagine this is some of my Agincourt forces. You would be wrong, this is a different kind of Imperial Knight.
I helped my son build his 40k version. This is one of a pair. It still needs it’s armour plates added, but he wanted these left off to paint the legs and weapons.
Second one will be done tomorrow. I have run out of metallic spray paint so we will need to do a run into Lerwick ASAP.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Today has been a busy one and I bloody ache!. We have only got the ceiling to do on the conservatory now, we have everything we need so we are going to crack on with it tomorrow. In between cups of tea and hammering I got this little thing printed from Iain Lovecraft’s frost…
This gibbet has a corpse in it (not sure how I am going to paint it). I am printing a different one off right now. I also managed to get a smidge of painting done on the Chaos Marines…
As I was painting them it suddenly came to me in a flash of … of.. what the **** am I thinking about now… these guys must have bespoke armour, the chances of finding someone (or something) that has spike coming out of the same bit is highly unlikely. So if Mozarg the unclean has his armour blown off then how on Earth or planet Mogadoooo for that matter is he going to get another bit. Sorry random bollocks break is now over.
I also managed to get the War dancer printed… however sadly the mage is still armless, I also snapped the foot off the paladin….
For some reason I printed the same lot off again so now have two of the witchhunter etc. The zweihander snapped on the Lanschnect …again. Tomorrow if the weather allows then I am just going to print the Mage and see if I can add in some other supports.
Unfortunately the heater in the shed packed in today, tripped the RCD and caused both printers to stop, the resin one, which had been temperamental all day restarted itself and the Ender restarted where it left off. Because I had been in the bath when it blew, I had to let the temperature come back up again. In this case I had to snip off a lump of filament where the print head had stopped. It seems to be going okay, my only concern is that it is going to run out of filament overnight… wish me luck!
So yesterday, I said that today I was going to paint something, in fact anything… well I kept to my word and actually did a fair bit. First off I sprayed various things…
Now there were some spaying annoyances to deal with, first off my grey primer turned out to be an etch primer… luckily I realised as it had a different nozzle. I gave it a try on the small ‘goat shed’ to see if it would work. Luckily I had other cans of the basic grey so the rest got done in that. Then I moved on to spaying things white. I warmed up the can, I shook the blazes out of it and it came out like a watered down version. If you look at the right hand photo above you can see what I mean on the green and orange miniatures. It eventually came good on the grey. Now it might just be a bad batch or the coloured plastic needed going over with a different colour first. I sprayed the top of the mini tower white and it seemed to work fine. I will have another play with things tomorrow.
I also managed to get these three just about finished…
I need to sort out the bases, but apart from that they are done. I really enjoyed painting them to be honest.
I also got a bit more done on the Genestealer cultists as well as some other bits and bobs, mainly the original scouts…
I also got the hole in the roof finished too, so hopefully the leak of leakyness has buggered off, only time and heavy rain will tell.
Tomorrow I have the tyres to change on the car, but I am also hoping to get a start on the lighting and then ceiling insulation.
Well I got a bit of time today so I managed to get her to the almost finished stage. There are a couple of white bits that need sorting but that is about it.
I will get the grass attached to the horse hoof painted and then also add some tufts too.
Also managed to get my Nobori finished too…
As well as sorting out some more on the knight’s mount and the nids…
So I buggered my ribs again and have promised the family if they still hurt tomorrow that I will go and get them checked in A&E. Some pillock left the car lights on yesterday and foolishly tried to push it to allow for a downhill start…problem was I had to push it up hill in the car park first!
I will get my first Covid Jab on Monday morning. Looks like things are heading in the right direction. I am already doing a test twice a week so I know I don’t have the Lurgy (well I didn’t on Thursday).
Well it has been slow on the painting front of late, but tonight I worked on various bits and pieces and managed to get paint on a few things.
The main thing I worked on was Madame…
There is still the glaze to go over the yellow. I managed to pretty much hide the big gap, there is now a dip, but it could be a joint in the cloth.
I also got some work done on the cultists as well as the gold design on the other side of the knight’s horse.
I got the kids to watch Galaxy Quest with me this evening, they really enjoyed it. So did I, it had popped up on Netflix and as such I decided to watch it myself yesterday. I enjoyed it so much that I watched it again tonight. Hopefully I will manage to get some more bits and pieces done with the painting. I need some progress as I have a Patreon and two Kickstarter worth of printable miniatures and terrain to land in the next couple of weeks.
Bogenwald 