Tonight, the VR was switched on, so I probably didn’t get as far on these as I probably could have done. Anyway I painted the skin on them all and then started on the leather armour.
Still a very, very long way to go but at least I managed to get my backside into gear and get some paint on these.
I still can’t find my other Wargs, but I have just this instant had a thought as to where they might be.
Hopefully I will carry on with these tomorrow evening as well as hunting for the missing Wargs.
There was no painting tonight during the Two Towers part 1. Instead I decided to tidy up the Wargs and riders…
I cracked open the Greenstuff and hid the joint lines along the leg and shoulder and across the rear. I bought these years ago from Ebay and have eventually got around to making a Start in them.
I will get the Greenstuff undercoated tomorrow and see if I can find any more in any of my hiding places. I also had a hunt on Ebay for some of the LOTR wood elves and there seem to be none. I have enough Uruk Hai for a whole army. Some more bow armed ones would be good too.
Well I just went on a Foray to both Sheds and I can’t find anything (apart from gazillions of Uruk). I did manage to just about freeze my nadgers off. Gale force winds and hail is not a good combination by anyone’s standards. I must admit I thought I had more than three of these Wargs.
So, although the Hobbit film Wargs are more like they should be, It might look a bit weird mixing up the two.
I may have to give you all a warming story tomorrow…
Okay it does sound like a Progressive rock band, but it is some more mini painting.
You know what, I don’t think I like these, maybe it is just the colours and after painting lots of bright things perhaps these just look a bit bland. Not sure what happened to the reins, I must have caught it with some brown when I was adding the brown to the base, it is still wet in this photo.
I will have a look at them again tomorrow and see what I think in better light.
Fellowship of the Ring is finished, tomorrow onto the Two Towers…
Lots more things to paint 😉
Tonight we started on the Lord of the Ringsathon. One film every night until we have watched them all… so I nipped out into the shed, located this lot and sprayed them white…
I also had a blast at finishing the Chaos marines…
I though I had finished them until I saw the photo! I still need to do the eyes on the one in the middle.
Shouldn’t take long to do that, unless I throw red paint everywhere.
So once these were finished I made a start on these two…
I will carry on with them tomorrow.
Oh whilst I remember… the painting competition….
I was pleasantly surprised that I was in the top three for a number of classes….
Fantasy Small Miniature…3rd with 6.67% of the vote
Sci Fi Small miniature … 3rd with 10%
Fantasy large miniature…didn’t enter
Sci Fi large miniature… didn’t enter
Fantasy unit… not placed in top 3, but one of them got 3rd in small miniature above
Sci fi unit… 2nd with 26.67% of the vote.
All in all very pleased to be placed at all as there was some really awesome painting on show.
So tonight in our final Film of the Harry Potterthon I managed to get some work done on these fine fellows…
They still have a fair bit to go but I am getting there.
I would have got further but this happened!
I would go as far as saying that I might have uttered the odd expletive or thirty. Although evidently I am a pillock, a numpty and no doubt a knob head for not putting the pot in the holder I printed at least I am a stingy one and managed to get a fair bit back in the pot.
The printer was busy again…
Meeple orks to go with the goblins… as can be seen not all of them came out perfectly.
I also printed some stairs and a few doors…
Again there was something up with these prints…
As can be seen there was a load of stringing.
I haven’t used this colour PLA before, it is the same manufacturer, but perhaps the temperature tolerance is different. Either that or there could be some extrusion issues, the bed might be the wrong height or a whole host of other reasons that need checking out. Once the new build plates arrive then I can see what is what a bit easier.
Got mates coming round to see the new year in tomorrow, so if I don’t get to wish you all a happy New Year, then please accept it now. I wish you all Health, Wealth and happiness for 2020 when it arrives…
So today I have had the chance to get these painted during this evening’s Harry Potterthon (tonight was Deathly Hallows part 1).
Now to be honest I haven’t got a clue about Chaos Forces in 40k. These Pox walkers came in my Son’s Christmas Present.
We made a start on the Space Marines using the colours he chose…
This set has six marines, six pox walkers and three Nurgle marines.
Regarding the painted troops, I am really pleased with how they turned out. I have never painted anything like these before. I reckon my rusty metal needs a bit more work but apart from that they weren’t too bad to paint. I suppose the trickiest one was the one with the elephant trunk and axe as he has straps going across his chest and shoulders as well as his waist.
Tomorrow I will help him carry on with the marines. Funnily enough, I have all of these miniatures from when they did the Conquest magazine. In fact I have two or three lots of Death Guard and two or three of the Primaris marines.
This evening saw the end of the painting for the Beastmen. There was a bit more than I thought there would be and to be honest when I add the photo to here in a bit I am bound to see something I missed! 😂
As promised I have added both factions side by side…
I have thoroughly enjoyed painting both factions. I don’t actually know if I have got a favourite one.
My aim for this lot was to paint in only contrast paint, and to be truthful, I used some AP Dark wash for the black and a dot of blue for a wash on the severed head. The metallics were done in GW standard paint. But that is it – once the white spray was done everything after that (apart from the above) was Contrast. Some white was used to tidy up, but that took it back to the base spray colour.
So what have I learned from this…
First off, I like Contrast paint… I was really pleased with it for the 10 and 15mm minis, but this was the first time doing a full 28mm miniatures and I am chuffed with the results. These are quite textured miniatures, I might dig out my space marine scouts and see what happens to them.
Secondly, the paint on the whole does what it is meant to do, I like some other people, was sceptical. My kids got me some for my birthday. I got a few more, then a few more and a few more still. Since getting a bigger range I haven’t touched the AP paints at all. I think my initial scepticism was unfounded.
To be fair some colours work better than others. Over white, the black looks dark grey, but I reckon putting it over a grey base coat would darken things down a bit, either that or stick to going over it with the AP dark tone.
So like most things there are down sides too…
Price, these things ain’t cheap, and if you add in the ‘special’ spray cans, individual pots of matching undercoat and mixing medium then things get pricey very quickly. If you are like me, you can buy a grey and white auto spray can that costs about £4.00 and go over the top of that with the Contrast paint. I have a pot of Matt medium which, at 500ml will last me a good while.
Pot design – same crap design as usual, tall pot that easily overbalances and pours your expensive paint everywhere. I 3D printed a pot holder and so far I have been lucky when I haven’t used it. Luckily the paint is thin, so the tops are closing properly. However on some of the ones I have used a lot I have noticed a build up of residue.
Stupid bloody names. I have each pot that I own written down, so when I go into the shop as I can’t remember them, let alone spell them. When writing up my blog, if they are in front of me they get named, if they are back in the box then they are brown, blue or red paint. One day they may come up with names like Khaki shit and nipple pink, at least I would remember them.
So in short, even with the failings mentioned above, I do like them. I must, as my new GW standard paint totals about five pots and three of them are metallic!
So moving away from the miniatures for a bit
Well this has to be one of the best adverts for Remembrance I have seen in a long time…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahGRNKi8-18&feature=share
It made my a bit tearful to be honest. Not sure why. I never met my Grandad on my dad’s side he died ten years before I was born in 1956. He survived a gas attack at 3rd Ypres and after being invalided out of the army he returned to the North East of England and returned to the mines where the coal dust finished off what the gas had started. He was one of the ones that made it home at least.
I have been doing Remembrance with my class, and showed them the Reawick war memorial embedded in the cemetery wall. It has the dead split into three groups, lost at sea, killed in action and also died of illness contracted during service. I have never seen this before. The only thing I can think of in this case is that they outnumber the other two causes of loss.
Still one of the best songs out there…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDyip7SIJkQ&feature=share
Not to forget this too…
These are now so close to finishing, but I ran out of steam.
First up the Ungors…
Still bits and pieces to either tidy up or still to paint. Scars, beard and earring on the rear middle for starters.
As for the big two…
A similar story…
the bases had a bit of a repaint, I did the main colour then spot painted/tidied things up before painting in the bones, rock and vegetation.
Definitely on course for a finish tomorrow. I would have been able to finish today but it would seem our small freezer has given up the ghost and everything started to defrost, so rather than bin everything we have spent a long time cooking stuff and making it into things so that they can be frozen in the big freezer.
So tonight I set about doing the metalwork on these.
I decided on steel rather than a bronze colour. A few bits and bobs to do on them, then onto the bases.
I can honestly say that I have really enjoyed painting these. They were easy to paint and I think that the Contrast paint has done a good job on them. Once the bases are done I will stick them alongside the Fey for a comparison shot. There are less bushes on these and more bones as befits their character.
I probably could have got a bit more done today as I got home quite early today, but was knackered, so decided to just chill a bit. I did consider giving the painting a miss tonight, but as there wasn’t much metalwork on these then I thought I might as well do something. I mixed a bit of black contrast with the gun metal to darken it. I might go over it all with a brown (if I can be arsed) maybe they nicked it from an armoury which is why it it shiny.
The upside of coming home early is that it was still light when I headed off… nice colours on the way home (including heavy snow showers over towards where I live)…
Tomorrow I hope to get the bases finished and then who knows where I will go. I do have a lot of Middle Earth stuff to paint just now 😂
Further progress made this evening….
I feel like they have really turned the corner now. There is mainly the metalwork and bases to sort out (not to mention all the bits I missed but failed to notice until the final photo.
Tonight was all about painting the smaller bit and pieces. I found that the Aggoros dunes (or however it is spelled) makes a really nice flint colour.
The next conundrum I have is what colour to paint the metal, I was going to go for ‘iron’ for the axe and maille and a bronze kind of colour for the stomach plates and piercings.
I am sure I will come up with something.
Bogenwald 