My pledge is to think about doing an N gauge railway/skirmish board…

As for my answers… afraid they’re all a bit negative this week.

I was interested in the Old World when it was first announced, but it’s take them so long to do anything that I have lost interest.

Not into 40K and a decades old Rogue Trader book really doesn’t interest me as I have plenty og books I’m not using and don’t need another.

And I’m not a secret satanist…

Pledge –

Flames of war

• I have two planes for flames of war I need to glue together and at least prime before next Sunday.
• 3 Grant tanks that also need to be built and primed before next Sunday

TerrainFest

• Finish off the city walls
• Paint some barrels and Gravestones for the City
• Build and prime the tower/gatehouse for the walls
• Start painting some of the houses

G’Wullu shares more details on The Old World. Are you tempted?

Very excited about the old world coming back. I have an original Bretonnian army but never got to complete it with all the models I wanted to. The new models shown today look amazing I cannot wait.

G’Wullu also is taking pre-orders of a reprint for the Rogue Trader rule book. Are you tempted?

Yes sort of. I have an original copy of the book but the pages are starting to fallout. I would like a new copy and retire the original one for safe keeping. However at 40 pounds I need to think on it.

How is your Secret Satan progress

Painting things for other people is too much stress for me in case they dont like.

Old World:

would really like to have a proper Warhammer game again – can’t stand the Sigmar stuff; I sold off 10 armies when Sigmar happened.

Rogue Trader:

a little tempted … 6 month shipping? Not impressed with that. I used to have the original hardcover, along with all the Realm of Chaos and Ork books, sold them. So do I want to tempt myself into getting that lot back again? Not sure. I’m thinking on it.

This week’s pledge is start one of the Warhammer+ miniatures. My 3D printer is still broken which prevents me continuing with the Raging Heroes models.

1. G’Wullu shares more details on The Old World. Are you tempted? – I might pick up a cool model to paint if one takes my fancy, but I don’t game anymore these days.
2. G’Wullu also is taking pre-orders of a reprint for the Rogue Trader rule book. Are you tempted? – I have the original I bought off eBay back when I was in my “collect everything off eBay” phase.
3. How is your Secret Satan progress? – It’s ready to ship as is, or I might paint it up if time permits and the mood takes me to.

@gorram –  I was wondering where Army Painter sat in the paint line of things, but I think this new paint range sets them apart quite nicely. Fwiw, I got their Mega Paint set about 10 years ago and loved it. Dropper bottles over stupid Citadel paint pots any day. Their reds and yellows never covered particularly well – though that’s the same for many other ranges too – but often you’d spray your mini with red/yellow primer anyway (and touch up mistakes by painting white then reapplying whichever colour).

Where AP really excelled was their “good enough” style of painting – it used to be slap on a base coat, and some strong tone and call it done. Then they kind of got distracted with the everyone else releasing paint ranges and offering different things to different types of painters, to get “silky smooth gradients” and golden-demon-level results. AP could never compete on that level.

Contrast really has been a game-changer in recent years (and, even more recently “slapchop” – no matter if you hate the term or not, it really has been like a revelation for many). And – for me – Army Painter speed paint (even the v1.0 stuff) is just nicer to use than Contrast. It’s hard to say why – it’s just nicer to work with. It feels “silkier” and more “flow-y”.

I’ve gone from being thoroughly fed up with painting “the old way” (base, wash, re-establish base, highlight, details) to loving knocking out minis using a “slap-chop-plus method” (slapchop + edge highlights). Painting Space Hulk genestealers with speed paint is fun (and they look great with human flesh base + speed paint purple).  The idea of doing the same “the old way” left me feeling cold.

So with all that in mind, and the number of paint ranges aiming at the “pro painter” market (two thin coats, vallejo etc.) I’m really interested to see AP getting back to their roots – simple paints, used simply, to create great looking minis in a relatively short time. I’m really looking forward to using their new super-pigmented paints as my highlight colour(s) – if there’s one thing that still drives me crazy it’s that if I do finally manage to paint a nice, crisp, clean edge highlight, I don’t want the colour to fade out or become blotchy in the middle of a stroke, because the paint isn’t fully opaque.

My current method is black primer then grey zenith from rattlecans (I still can’t get along with an airbrush).
Then drybrush with white for a slapchop-like base.
Colour-by-numbers with speed paint.
Edge highlight with a really good, strong, light-but-vibrant opaque colour. For me, these paints will fit in perfectly here!

@sundancer – a lot of your midweek posts revolve around just work and coffee.
Have you thought about getting a hobby? 😉