I've probably been a forum member long enough now to throw my hat into the mix. This will probably be the paint blog with the slowest progress, but I'll bank on the fact that slow progress is better than no progress! It all starts with my Christmas presents. I've begun work on them, nothing fancy; cutting from the sprue, mold line removal and assembly. Will post progress pictures as soon as a snap a photo.
Hoozah! What a Jolly day it is Reaching 2nd place in the posting ranking has changed you I am looking forward to your work. Have fun working on your team! Grrr, !mrahil
Paint blog! *wipes tear* I remember when you joined. I thought you were someone's second account to get double slannhood. And here we are, you are painting. Looking forward to see your journey.
Assembly (and mold line removal, which is the most time consuming step) progress. Half the team is ready and I'm part way through my first of two pump wagons.
I've now cut from sprue, assembled and cleaned mold lines off of the entire team. I haven't glued on the right arm of the troll on because I'm worried that with its positioning so close to the troll's face it will be difficult to paint. I'm thinking I'm going to paint it separately and assemble afterwards. Not sure if that's a good idea; we'll call it a learning experience. Best of all the two pump wagons are assembled (sans crew, who will be painted separately). As @Bowser forewarned, they were a nightmare to put together. So many fiddly little bits that all have to line up properly together. Thank goodness they are both done! Next steps will be to finish preparing Ripper Bolgrot, coming up with a paint scheme and a basing scheme.
Not bad idea, just scrape paint from connection point for better adhesion of glue and you can always dip a little wash to shoulder connection after glue hardens and it'll look like you painted it in one piece.