It makes an
awful lot of sense, knowing me, that the moment I decide to take
things easy hobby-wise I end up doing more painting in a single week
than I managed in the whole first month of the year. If nothing else
it proves that shorter, more frequent hobby sessions are doing me
more favours than trying to block out an entire evening for this
stuff.
Nothing's
finished (and I still haven't
done the basing on the Hive Tyrant and Tyranid Warriors) but I have
got a surprising amount of stuff done:
Hormagaunts
and Genestealers
A
friend once told me that the two most important attitudes an artist
can cultivate are “good enough” and “screw it” and I'm
starting to get it with the Hormagaunts. They were an experiment in
undercoating with Zandri Dust spray and the finish came out all
wrong. The grey flesh took layer after layer, the ink and drybrush
didn't take quite as well on the carapace as I'd like... and I'm done
trying to fix them. They're Hormagaunts, they're small, there'll be
two dozen others and no one is going to look at them as individuals
so I'm just going to do a final pass on detail work and call them
done. You can see in the singular example how the inking has splodged
here and there, especially on the gun. I'll fix what I can but I'm
calling time on them and letting them be what they'll be.
The
Genestealers, who were undercoated grey, came out a lot better even
if it did take a layer or two to get the Zandri Dust to take on the
carapace. Between them and the still-incomplete Hive Tyrant and
Warriors I feel I've definitely nailed down the colour scheme for
Hive Fleet Jormungandr even if my interpretation of the artwork
violently disagrees with 'Eavy Metal.
Tervigon
Yes,
I know there are some parts missing from the middle legs. I bought
this one off eBay and I think that's why I got it for such a
discount. As you can see from the base, this one was also undercoated
Zandri Dust like the Hormagaunts and somehow the carapace has come
out a lot better. I'm genuinely unsure why, especially as I didn't
have the trouble with the grey flesh I had on the Hormagaunts,
either.
A
little more experimentation is due so for the moment I'll try
undercoating the small stuff grey and the large stuff Zandri Dust and
see how it goes.
Plus,
literally all this model needs is some tidying of the grey around the
gill things on the legs and I can start basing it.
Deathwatch
Kill-Marine
A
single test model, this one, as I tried out the methods I'll be
applying to the rest of the army and
road tested the first of the 3D printed shoulder pads from POP Goes
The MONKEY (that is actually how he spells it). This one used a
Marines Malevolent shoulder pad which fit perfectly over the shoulder
connector, took the undercoat relatively well (it needed a little
touching up) and the detail is crisp and easy to follow with a brush.
It looks practically indistinguishable, as you can see, from
something GW would produce.
I
also think I've finally cracked yellow, a colour second only in
infamy to me to white itself.
Myphitic
Blight-Hauler
This
is a pretty typical example of what I'm getting done in spare moments
on busy days: getting the larger areas of models blocked out. So the
Blight-Hauler now has all its green and flesh areas finished and when
I have more time I'll go back and do the more detailed work like the
silver metallics and brass trim and so on.
Also,
its nice to be working on this model because it is so damn adorable.
Great
Unclean One
Significantly
less adorable but no less fun to paint is the Great Unclean One,
again mainly just having finished the larger areas that I could
achieve mainly through drybrushing. Actually, what I really like
about the Nurgle Daemons and the Tyranids is how well they take to my
drybrush-heavy techniques.
I'm
not convinced the Screamer Pink guts work as well against the grey
flesh tone as they do on the green-tinged flesh Warhammer TV used in
their painting tutorial but I'll wait until I have them inked at
least before I decide whether to repaint them or not.
Beast
of Nurgle
Finally,
and back to the cute side of Nurgle, this has been my favourite model
to paint from the whole batch. It was a bit of a nightmare to put
together because the connectors are so non-standardised and the
manual is no bloody help but the finished product is so very worth
it. It was also a good test model for some new methods I wanted to
try out to diversify the look of the Nurgle Daemons like the Rakarth
Flesh / Reikland Fleshshade / Pallid Wych Flesh method on the
underbelly.
Other,
less visually interesting, progress
I've built a
Goliath gang for a friend's Necromunda campaign and I'll be having my
first game this weekend; my Imperial Knight arrived from eBay as well
as an alternate head piece for it from Shapeways so I'm going to
start working on that conversion in the coming week; and, I
undercoated my Adeptus Custodes Captain-General Trajann Valoris and a
Furioso Dreadnought.
So, all in
all, a successful first week.
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