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.
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?
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.
Lots of little things:
For some reason I must have thought the beetle platform was about 6 inches square rather than the inch and a half that it probably is!
Still bucket loads to follow on this lot, but it is a start.
Yes tonight I returned to my artistic endeavours. I was a good boy and picked up a paint brush instead of a controller. I basically painted the person at the front, snapped the seat back off as I found the person wouldn’t fit where the seat had been placed. I glued said person to the seat the glued the seat into the right position.
The platform is now glued in place. Everything on it is just shoved on. The unpainted dude is probably not going to be there permanently. The original has a central pole on the platform with a tin roof. It just looked wrong to me so I am either going to make a tent type idea, shove a tarpaulin over the goods or just leave it open. I haven’t decided yet.
Remember this rider on the stenobeast… I evidently hadn’t and basically put together another one. Somehow I gave managed to print ian identical mount, body, head, left and right arm. This is with multiples of each… weird or what…
Actually subconsciously I probably built what I had before without realising it as I liked the aesthetics or something like that… probably not as weird as I made out!
Last night I got a dry brush of copper over the beetle. This evening I did a bit more work on the saddle and seat for the driver (?) Perhaps mahout?
It is slowly coming together… I might have to sort out that front leg a bit. I can’t remember it looking that shiny though. Could be camera flare?
I had a go at the GW plastic orks at Geek Club (not sure what they are called now.. probably GW-orks!)
I really do not like them. Not sure why, but definitely not for me. I only painted them as I had forgotten to take my stuff in!
This evening I worked on the saddle for the pack beetle.
The decorations still need doing as well as a lot more goods. There is definitely a lot less white visible. Still a long way to go but I am getting there. I was thinking of going down a muted route for the saddle, but then I thought about camel saddles, so colourful it became.
The biggest issue I have is that the beetle has almost become invisible. Okay it wasn’t the best set up for the photo, but I am thinking of doing a gloss varnish on the living thing.
Hopefully I will get it finished soon…. Still got to come up with a base for it.
You know sometimes you have an idea, execute said idea and kaboom something amazing appears
There are other times when the kaboom is a pile of poop. Can you guess where this us going?
So yesterday I posted shiny beetle…
I decided to paint over the shinyness and went for a nice green… Sat looking at the green, then got out a pretty purple, sat looking at the purple then got out a red… did I choose any of those nice colours? Did I buggery! No, captain brain dead here went for this….
Okay it isn’t a total balls up, but it definitely isn’t what was in my head. It may grow on me, but sadly the nice shiny bits will be covered by the saddle! The one in the background is demonstrating what this one will eventually look like.
This evening I did a high speed gold decoration session.
I will start on some more Erroish tomorrow.
