Tonight I managed to throw some paint onto these, well when I say paint on these, best described as orange on these and red on one.
The orange looked fine until I added the orange. I might redo it as yellow to brighten them up a bit. The one thing I am thinking of is to add black scales and spikes onto them to add a contrast. If the worst happens and I don’t like them then they/it can have a respray.
Tomorrow I hope to crack on with these and get them all red at the very least.
I eventually managed to get these sprayed this evening. They are now sitting on the stove drying off a bit…
I am not quite sure what colour to do the mounts but I am thinking red. I know the box art shows them as green, but I reckon red with a yellow belly will be the way forward. If I do a different shade of red to the shields then that might help. I will have to have a good old think. Either that or do the shields a colour other than red! Green for example 🤔. Hopefully I can get something done tomorrow night, but as it is the parent council meeting I probably won’t get in until gone 21.00.
So, as I said yesterday, I was off gallivanting today. My original plan was to get things sprayed this morning ready to paint tomorrow. Unfortunately my good lady had a migraine that affected her vision and stability meaning that I was on horse and taxi duty this morning. The upshot of this was that nothing got sprayed.
They are built, but not white. Hopefully I will get them done tomorrow.
I did manage to throw a bit of Contrast on these, so at least I managed to get something done today.
Tonight I had training and then had to pick my daughter up from her drama so I really didn’t have time, or rather inclination, to paint anything. So instead I built things…
We have a couple of cold ones, which to be brutally honest I think look a bit naff compared to the older velociraptor looking ones. The skink is posed on the BB and I also decided to build the saddle for the hero. I decided to build it just to see if it would fit on the dinosaurs I have… and look at that. It actually fits perfectly.
Okay it isn’t as big and impressive as the GW one but it would mean I have another Big Beasty in my army. Obviously I would give it a respray. I reckon I have another theropod or two knocking around the place which may work too. If I got him on the same sized base as the blue one he might look a bit bigger (if that makes sense).
Tomorrow I hope to finish off the rest of the Cold Ones.
Today, on the way to work, I had a bit of a run in with some nature. I noticed something out of the corner of my eye and realised a red grouse was flying alongside the car. I slowed down and the bloody thing darted in front of the windscreen. As it was icy I couldn’t slam on the brakes so we had a few moments of his bum feathers touching my windscreen before he veered off and I slowed down enough.
Here he is… I wound the window down and he went ballistic, it was almost as if he was swearing at me…
So tonight I decided to try and get this finished. It was mainly the metalwork and collar decoration.
John suggested a darker colour for the collar so I went with the Tin Bitz. I thought it looked good, so a lot of the metalwork was done with this and Dwarf Bronze. Some gold was used on the dangling decorations.
I still need to do something with the teeth as they pretty much blend in with the yellow. Apart from that and the base I am calling this pretty much done (may do some highlighting). I just have to work out with what.
Next up will be the skink rider so that I can get it finished.
I didn’t get much done tonight, but I did get the straps started…
I still have to decide what colour to do the collar. There will be some gold, but I think a solid gold one will look a bit naff.
I should be able to get some more done tomorrow night.
I did a little bit more work on the big lizard today. I could have done a lot more but I spent a bit too long playing in the console.
This morning I spent far too long playing Hunter Call of the Wild. I have pretty much finished all of the mission arks bar two I think.
It is such a gorgeous looking world, I just keep going back to it. Like this morning (in game) I was in Yukon and watched the sun rise over the landscape. Almost forgot to shoot anything 😂.
This is just a random in game shot, I forgot to save the screenshot I took to somewhere useful.
Anyway after that, I got a bit of painting done…
So, this is where she stands now. I would have got even further forward except that my son reminded me that I had promised that I would reinstall one of my older games and he duly went and got it then ordered me to play something so that he. Old watch.
He chose Horizon Zero Dawn, so I went from hunting moose and bison this morning to hunting watchers and strides this evening.
Horizon Zero Dawn has to be up there in my top 10 games. Probably somewhere in the top 5 to be honest. It was so different from anything I had played before. I am starting from scratch again so it may mean a few nights of cursing as I don’t have the full skill tree like before 😂.
So tomorrow, I hope to crack on with the lizard and try and get it finished.
On a total aside, I have ordered some new ground cover from Geek gaming as I wanted something different from my usual Patchy plains as it doesn’t really shout fantasy rainforest.
Today I did indeed manage to get some more done on the Theropod. Not as much as I would have liked, but some progress is still progress.
I decided to add a contrast stripe between the blue and yellow. It was originally going to be just red, but I decided to leave a white border and kind of liked it. Bottom line is…if I don’t like it I can repaint it. It still looks weird with all the other white showing, but once that has gone then I can make my decision as to keep it or not.
The black lines on the sail are for a bit of extra shading in the recesses. It is going to be dark blue, so I wanted them to be a darker in the recesses.
There are still some bits around the claws that need filling in. I decided to go for he claws, my original idea was a bone colour, but black seemed more suitable, plus this chap has them too!
He was going to be a mount for my hero, but he does seem a little underwhelming. I think I might have something a bit bigger and in a better pose. I will have to check.
I also managed to fire up the printer again today….
Here we have a double width demon gate and some Dwarven statues… I also managed to print some levers as well as some more packing crates.
I might see if I can find a suitable scary Beasty as a mount, if not Sleich will work out a bucket load cheaper…. Gw version £50.00 (to be fair with a rider) … I already have the rider, saddle and reins. I just need something to ride.
I pretty much managed to spend all of today up, with a slight need for a lie down in the middle of the day.
So it looks like I am on the mend.
I managed to get this sprayed yesterday (or it might have been this morning) but anyway I started throwing paint onto it.
There is a mountain of tidying up to do, as well as some camouflage, but at least it is started. As you might have guessed, I didn’t do anything on the Wargs. The Good news is that my good lady has officially told me that I mustn’t over exert myself. So tomorrow shall be a lazy day painting miniatures. Huzzah!
Today was another home day. I managed most of the day on the sofa today. I did however manage to get the Greenstuff onto the base and into most of the cracks.
When this is dry, I will get it sprayed tomorrow.
I also managed to fire the printer up. I couldn’t be arsed to change cards so I went for something that was on the one in the machine.
This is the large dwarven door. It is the same width as the 3×3 tiles.
Now I am not sure why there is a small crack in the right had base but I will either just shove some superglue in or splat a bit of Greenstuff in there.
In my bed rest time I have been watching ‘The Vietnam War’ on Netflix. I am really enjoying enjoying it. I was well into gaming that period in the 80’s. Read and watched everything I could find at the time and I still found this interesting.
Bogenwald 