Hails all,

Sticking with my Adeptus Mechanicus this weekend. Once I have the two squads of five Skitarii done I can get back to my Tech Priest Dominus.

@woldenspoons

I’m working on Skitarii at the moment but I actually made a mistake on last week’s thread, it’s the Rangers, not the Vanguard I’m doing now. I had a ten men squad and I split it into five of each. The Rangers are decent at a distance while the Vanguard are armed to do more damage up close.

This is pretty much where I’m at currently. need to add text to the purity seals and then highlights on the metalics and black robes. Then the last bits of detail work. Not sure what I’m going to do with the gloves yet. That mini is actually a good bit darker in person, it has my painting lamps blasting down on it there.

Questions.

1. Yes. I have an ‘Iwata Eclipse’ hooked up to an ‘Iwata Smart Jet Plus’ compressor.

https://www.iwata-airbrush.com/iwata-eclipse-hp-cs.html

https://www.iwata-airbrush.com/smartjet-plus-tubular.html

2. I’ve used it almost exclusively for priming or adding weathering but this current army was a challenge to do a bit more with it. I still struggle with it as when things go wrong I’m not sure what’s causing the problem. I get frequent blockages and I’m still trying to figure out if that’s down to paint being too thick or dry paint inside. I use a mix of Citadel Air and the older Forgeworld Air range (now converted to Citadel Air as GW combined the ranges.) I also use the AK weathering stuff like Streaking Grime.

3. Nah, never learned to dance.

This weekend’s playlist is comprised of bands I was supposed to have seen live over the last couple of months. I’ve never enjoyed the pub and club scene so gigs are my “nights out”. Hoping some of these get rescheduled for next year.

Happy Weekend to all, as seems to be my way at the mo, I will try to get more FoW British done. Some of it is at a roadblock as I need to get some decal paper to do the next bits on the carriers and artillery, so I guess that means it must be the infantry next.

Questions of the week:

Do you own an airbrush setup?

Yes I do. It’s a slighty older version of, see below.

TC-80T Airbrushing Kit With Ultra 2 in 1 Airbrush

Do you use it just for priming and terrain or also for detail work on miniatures?

Trying to use it for more and more. Mainly prime, zenith and main basecoat with a colour shade/modulation.

Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?

Only thing that came to mind was, see below, but listening to it that’s not what they say.

Some more music options

Work continues, ever more slowly, on the Aggressors. Hopefully the silver will be done soon and then the detail work can begin, which should weirdly increase painting speed. Still have to do some touch ups and fixes on a few minis I randomly experiment, including a renaming of that Dark Elf from last week. She originally was called Lillith and I added it to the base, but for reasons of a personal joke between a friend and I I’ve decided to call her Cosmic instead…so the base will need changing… Summer finally arrived here, so it is far too hot for me right now; I’m built for the cold and enjoy summer holidays in the Arctic… I might also do some fixing work on my Escher ganger’s face, too, but I’m still not sure what I want to do with that, really. So much to do, so little energy…

As for questions, I don’t have an airbrush, though I wouldn’t mind having one, but purely for basecoating and weathering (maybe even shading) larger vehicles. I’m so used to brush painting that it’s just the style I enjoy. That covers one and two, but as for three, the Devil won’t return my calls anymore…

MUSIC!

Hi de Hi!
It’s good to be back 🙂
I’ve been enjoying riding my trike to work again.
Pledge wise I had been planning on doing sometthing a little more contructive hobby-wise, but Epic had to release GTA 5 and now Civilization 6 as free games …
Maybe I can get myself motivated enough to get started on yet another project or continue one of my existing ones.
Everything will depend on how much hobby focus I can achieve.

1) Do you own an airbrush setup?
No, but I do want one.

2) Do you use it just for priming and terrain or also for detail work on miniatures?
I suspect priming will be its main focus, but I don’t know how easy it is to learn.

3) Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?

No, but the Joker almost always steals the show in the Batman movies I’ve seen.
I suspect that is because villains often have a lot more character than Batman ..

The only exception is in the Suicide Squad where he’s used as a really bad sideplot and as a result he’s just a crazy mob boss.
OTOH … the Joker being the ulttimate villain in all of the Arkham console games got a bit boring.

@irredeemable no pics yet my phone camera is scratched to hell so everything I take is in soft focus ? be careful with the metal reamers it’s very easy to deform the tiny spray nozzle with metal on metal cleaning, where as a cocktail stick whittled to a point is much less likely to cause damage.  Yeah gws white is shite, for priming now I just use ump/stynelrez primers brilliant by air or brush works well with contrast, layer and any paint really and much easier to clean than vallejos

Will see if I get chance to paint today got a 1:1 scale bit of terrain to paint in my garden today as well (well a retaining wall I had get built before I had a landslide lol)


may also see if I get time to build enclosure for my mk2 DIY compressor

• Do you own an airbrush setup?

I have an airbrush. It is very rarely set up. I want to like it, but I can never quite get it to work.

• Do you use it just for priming and terrain or also for detail work on miniatures?

I painted some terrain with it a year or so ago and it was ok, but I’ve never had a decent result on a mini with it; rattle-cans are just much easier for me.

• Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?

I didn’t understand what this meant when I first watched the Batman remake in 1989. I’m still not sure. I recall waiting for six hours(!) the day it came out at the cinema, and leaving feeling a little deflated. After all, I only had the 60s serial and the black-and-white Saturday morning Batmans from TV. I felt the remake wasn’t “bright” or camp enough to compete with the TV show, but not really dark enough to be a “serious” take on it (the Dark Knight, many years later, is more how I expected the original remake movie to be).

I don’t think I’ve watched it again since. I might try it again. It’s probably better than I remember (although nothing will get me to enjoy the annoying Prince soundtrack “BatDance”).

Pledges – internet connection *still* driving me crazy, making developing my own game idea slower than I’d have liked. So I might try some painting during “blackout” times. I’ve a squad of about eight cyber-punk dudes I started painting – maybe I need to get them finished….

Music. Wow.. Meatloaf. I spent decades hiding the fact that I think Dead Ringer is actually a brilliant album. We’re amongst friends, right? I love this song: