Working on my 20mm British this time…

Where were you when I went into self-isolation back in late march? Anyways – during the first lockdown, I spent over 400 hours building, correcting, detailing, painting and lighting a Star Destroyer:

Now, I’m scratch-building an escort ship for the Star Destroyer at the same scale (1/2700): An Interdictor Cruiser. I’ve finished building and detailing the upper half of the ship and I’m now in the process of painting it before I move on to drilling .5mm-holes for the fiberoptics into the finished sub-assembly:

Lockdown hobby so far:

My wife would say that I bought a lot of paint – and yeah, she is right. I bought an awful lot of paint since march. So here is what I did with all that paint…

I painted a 2000 pts army for Eldar. The center pieces are the Phantom Lord and Phantom Knight.

This one is a copy from a model I saw in the White Dwarf Magazine.

The Knight is completely magnatized with every option available in the box.

Next I completed a 2000 pts army of Imperial Knights. Surprisingly, it doesn’t take as long as I initially thought to complete 2 Questoris and 1 Dominis class Knight.

I like how the bases turned out. I picked up weathering powders when I saw them used by Warren in a VLog show.

Three more projects to go….

First, I continued my Stormcast Eternals and added some Evocators and a Lord Ordinator accompanied by some other models.

Second, I painted the Space Marines of the Indomitus Box completely.

And finally I gave my boardgames some love they deserve, from HeroQuest to Starcadia Quest on to Blackstone Fortress.

And yes indeed, that was an awful lot of paint. But it is also an awful lot of miniatures done. I really need to slow down, but there is already a terrain project on my desk, waiting to be assembled.

Amazing how much people have done since this was announced.

Seems like a perfect place to show off my attempts to clear out some of my Reaper Bones minis that are waiting for paint.  The giant beetle was done using Vallejo’s Color Shifters.  Wonderfully odd paint that is really thin and not at all the same color wet as dry.  Apply it over a gloss black and one gets amazing colors.  Going to have to use it on some vehicles and aliens in the future.

I’m currently plodding on with some Napoleonic British line infantry. Almost done with these dozen.

Lurking in the back behind the paints are some samurai that will be next for painting.

Here is the work in progress on the new monolith

here is a link to the project with other stuff from the Indomitus box:

Making a fist of Indomitus