What are you doing today hobbywise?

So close to finishing the SC but I keep finding parts that a missed, either small strap details on Skeletons or the vines on a Knight. Other than that it's a drybrush of the base and putting some water effects on. Not sure whether to put a layer of ardcoat on to make the mud look wet...

 

First I painted rats:

Then I made a Khornate monstrosity that needs a bit of work (and some paint):

Someone in a chat group suggested I put an altar on its back and have someone sacrificing a Primaris Marine to Khorne. Any suggestions for a good donor mini to be tied to the altar?

 

I like the idea, but wanted something I could actually mount on a stone block and raise up so I could pile skulls around it.

 

Did the ardcoat layer yesterday on the bases, does indeed make the mud look wet. At the moment I am not sure whether to do the same on the metal or will it look too much. How it's the undead and old armour, will it look to shiny if I put the varnish over. Got nothing to test it on.

 

I just 'finished' another 2 Saurus Knights, tonight I have some time to do the basing of all painted Saurus Knights.

Now I will take up painting 2 Saurus Warriors to round out the SCB Seraphon. Then I will start on the SCB Ironjawz.

Grrr, Imrahil

 

I based my Saurus Knights, some of the glue is still drying. Also tried to do some New stuff, basing wise. Creating constricting vines... Hopefully it will work, we'll see.

Pictures will follow upcomming week.

Grrr, Imrahil

 

With the likely prospect of returning home by the end of this week from my government-mandated "cruise", I've take the liberty to see about minimizing how much time I'll have to wait for an air brush kit and compressor to arrive. I intend to use the three weeks of time off to mass paint a lot of minis.

It will certainly make my skaven horde look a lot less daunting to paint, among other things.

 

Not hobby related unless you count the fact that doing this sort of crap makes my wife less likely to complain about how much money I spend on minis.

I went to work and got yelled at by impatient and stressed out customers who did not care that I was the only person trying to cover a department that normally has four. Then I came home and spent 3 hours fixing the drain on my bathtub. All of this on my 43rd birthday. Yay.

 

They are up at my blog

Grrr, Imrahil

 

Also I started today with the last two Warriors to round out the SCB Seraphon



Just some base colors as of yet.

Grrr, Imrahil

 

Finishing off two 'spare' Saurus Knights to fill the time until my Skinks turn up from GW.

 

I got the time to work out a part of my only piece of scenery (still in the making)

Very happy with it so far

Grrr, Imrahil

 

Delivery from GW at last. It's all about the Skinks....

 

I've got all the 'woodwork' of my building done



Grrr, Imrahil

 

I am absolutely and categorically horrendous at painting, so have nothing to add on that.

However, I am methodically unboxing Ebay purchases I have been making over the last god knows how long and am now storing them all in cases.

Then I'll start on the inevitable (and already sizable) gluing and fixing of the models that got broken in transit.

 

Since returning home from 50 days at sea, I've largely been taking it easy. With that said, I promised a shipmate that I'd get an Iron Hands paint test model done up for him, so I slapped together Brother-Sergeant Sevastus and Brother Garus from the Space Marine Heroes series and got them primed with Chaos Black and pre-shaded with Leadbelcher. The reason for doing two in this case is to showcase two ways of getting a used dark iron effect quickly and effectively even as a beginner - Sevastus being the wash example using Agrax Earthshade, Coelia Greenshade, and Nuln Oil; Garus being the contrast example using Basilicanum Grey.

Spoiler: Results

Reference from left to right: Contrast, Washes


Having done this by hand, I honestly felt that the washes were faster and more effective at getting the cast iron look I was aiming for. Most of the time spent on these models was on the silver trim, which I had done before the Nuln Oil wash.

Apart from that, it's back to building my first six chariots from Victrix for my Ancient Britons collection (I bought enough kits for 18). They're easily among the more tedious 28mm builds I've worked on thus far, and this will be the first time I'm having to build and paint non-vehicle models in more than three sub-assemblies.