Excuse the
drop in picture quality from this morning, its taking me time to work
out how to get best results from my best friend's photography set-up
(shout out for Matt for the lend of his spot lamp and scenery). So,
this past week's hobby: another week of a surprising lot of hobby for
a man intentionally taking it easy:
Gaming
Over the
weekend I had a couple of games. First, my entrance into Dave J's
Necromunda campaign sending my Goliaths to loot the territory of
Matt's Inquisitorial Warband. I lost and ended up with about half my
gang out of action. Hopefully, this week's game will end with
somewhat better results.
I also got
to debut my Tyranids on the tabletop, first against Matt's Death
Guard in a take and hold scenario where I just about managed to
squeak a draw and then against Tom T's Valhallan Imperial Guard where
I lost quite conclusively, conceding with a whole four models
remaining on the table.
An entire
mantlepiece of my finest troops
A big burst
of energy over the weekend saw me finish off a lot of the projects I
had in progress last time. At time of writing the sand is still
drying on the bases so, hopefully, I'll have some, all or less of
them finished in the next couple of days. The only things on the
shelf not previously showcased last week are these funny little
fellas...
… a pair
of Familiars from the Genestealer Cults Broodcoven set. They were
rather fun and quick to paint and I look forward to running them out
on the tabletop (I wasn't sure what they were for and left them out
of the list last weekend).
Underhive
Hustle
For a start
there's my Goliath gang. The progress so far is basic and messy and
inspired more by a need to get just some sort of paintjob started for
my first game than anything else.
The main
armour colour for the gang is Stegadon Scale Green because I liked
how it looked on the 'Eavy Metal Orlocks in this month's White
Dwarf. The rest of the models are giving me some trouble.
Surprisingly for big, beefy bastards on 32mm bases these are amongst
the most finely detailed and complex models I've ever had to paint.
There are so many belts, buckles, metal implants and rivets on them.
I mean, I can't argue against the value for money as these ten
miniatures account for more than a thousand points and that's whilst
pretending the two lads with stubguns and spud-jackers are juves
instead of full gangers.
Its A Bug
Hunt!
Reinforcements
for my Tyranids continue apace with a bunch of units getting their
grey layers finished, which isn't terribly visually interesting but
here we go...
Its mainly
Cults stuff because they were, to me, the surprise breakout
characters of the first two games. They were only in there to fill up
the 100 power limit but I found them surprisingly fun to use. I've
painted their industrial armour using the same method as the flesh on
the 'Nids which will probably be the only shared design element
between the two armies (except for the models that have carapace).
Now My
Watch Begins
Having sent
the test model, the Marine Malevolent with the heavy thunder hammer
to the basing shelf its time to get to work on the rest of his squad.
Eagle-eyed
readers will notice that one of them has a Chaos Space Marine Raptor
head with horns. This is because he's a Black Dragon, a chapter with
a geneseed mutation that makes them grow bone protrusions out of
their bodies as they age. This team is built around Marines from the
shiftier, less trustworthy chapters, the ones other chapters are
suspicious of.
They're also
joined on the painting table by the Blood Ravens Librarian from the
Kill-Team Cassius box set who is probably my favourite sculpt from
the unit.
The Big
Lad
The Great
Unclean One is getting closer and closer to done. There are some
small details I'm trying to work out how to do like scabs. I mean,
the flesh itself is the darkest grey available from the Citadel paint
range so I'm not sure what I could do for scabs since I can't go
darker. Skavenblight Dinge, perhaps? Aside from that, progress here
has been fractional as I tidy up some of the drybrushing and made a
start on the metallics.
Green
Energy
Finally,
some Death Guard. First off, I'm continuing to progress with the
Blight-Hauler which now has a start made on its metallics. The silver
that's on there is basically finished sans a little highlighting and
the rather flat Balthasar Gold will be worked up to bronze. Looking
at the photo I realise I have actually missed an entire bit of trim
on the top of the left wheel arch which I'll have to go back to and I
do need to fill in some more areas, like the spiked on the weapons,
silver.
And, having
proved to myself that these methods work on a large scale it was time
to apply them to some man-sized models with the Easy Build Plague
Marines. These are really cool models but they are so encrusted with
details that I keep finding things that I missed like the fly symbol
on the champion's right kneepad.
Hell, if
nothing else, posting all these pictures really makes me notice the
mistakes I've made in time to fix them, eh?
