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Obviously I’m off work today and missus gone to the gym. I’m distracting myself with hobby.
Some Death Guard progress pictures.
Hope you enjoy. Still a LOT to do, even just in number of models. And I can see my stormcast queuing politely behind them. Fine. One progress shot of the Dracolines then.
@evilstu happy to elaborate. Let’s take the Song of Ice and Fire Lannisters for example. There are 22 “Lannister Guards” in the box (plus some Banners but painting Gold drives me nuts so those will be left at home I think) but there’s really only three. There’s guy with helmet up (8 minis), guy with helmet down (8 minis) and guy with sword up (6 minis).
Rather than do them by section or try to do them all at once you combine the two. I divided them so each pose was in it’s own group then started painting the entire lot one colour at a time. That way I get in a habit of exactly where to put the paint.
Also if I ever get bored it’s a lot easier to say to yourself “Ok just two more then I’ll do something else” since you’re painting by Section rather than trying to do the whole thing at once but you’re still getting the whole thing done at the same time. Also painting one colour at a time means I don’t get ahead of myself and start missing things.
I might make a project to demonstrate this a bit better but the basics (for me at least) are
Divide your minis into sections by sculpt. Even Plastic kits only come with 5-6 different bodies, ignore weapons and heads. Start painting the entire force colour by colour finishing one before moving on to the next. Once you finish everything they have in common split them again into new sections either by weapons or heads. eg. british paras with Sten’s/Rifles or Helmets/Berets. Repeat until done.It might not be the best way to do things but I find I lose a lot of motivation to paint something if it’s only half done since it almost feels like re-doing the same old thing.
This works for non-uniforms as well. Sort the minis into sections then paint by colour but just put it in different places and don’t be afraid to leave it out entirely. Bashi-Bazouks from last week for example. Here’s a WIP shot where I’ve painted some of the colours but not all of them. These guys were cool since there were only two of each sculpt but I chose to split them into sections based on what type of jacket they were wearing instead.
Also a cool project to check out https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1224831/
Saw this one doing the rounds on social media. For the benefit of our non-Australian friends, this is what a magpie looks like the moment before it swoops you:
Okay – why did no one tell me building 28mm models could be so hard!
So after 4 years in miniature wargaming, I’m finally dipping my toe into 28mm. Definitely a new experience from 15mm and 20mm.
Building a Warlord / Bolt Action 28mm LRDG / SAS force for the Allies in Bolt Action. American Chevrolet 30cwt trucks, New Zealand / British / Rhodesian troops, British SAS. I hope to get some priming on them tomorrow.
So as far as my own hobby progress goes today:
– Stop getting distracted by other things and get my terrain challenge project finished this weekend.
Yep, made some progress. Might be a bit sketchy with regard to hitting the end of August timeframe but it’s probably still doable… Need to finish painting 5 cultists (speedpainting, so not too much of an issue), paint the portals (herein will lie the time sink) and then just glue everything together thereafter. then a write-up and we’re done. Sounds simple in theory…
– Almost immediately get distracted by historicals (keep painting the next batch of French, matt varnish all the minis that have had an Army Painter varnish, start baseing if I have time).
Again, yes. took me all of 20 minutes to get distracted by the historicals. put a quick coat of flesh on the skin areas then stopped at that.
Further, varnished my redcoats, skirmishing voltigeurs and the French line infantry in trenchcoats. They will need a touch up to bring them up to tabletop standard but that might need to wait until next weekend.
– While I am varnishing, varnish the Sharp Practice counters and some Bretonnian archers I have kicking about.
Got both these done. Tried to use a cheaper varnish on the backs of the Sharp Practice tokens but that reacted badly with the paint I had used so will need to re-paint. On a positive note, I did trial this on the backs of the tokens, and the varnish that is on there should help with the application of a smooth, even coat of paint (I couldn’t get the paint to go on evenly earlier, so could be a blessing in disguise).
– Finish my trap markers (this is a fancy way of saying – put stickers on primed poker chips…)
Behold, the trap counters in all their glory:
A pack of cheap plastic poker chips, a can of cheap green primer and some coloured stickers. Will use these on the tabletop as markers for potential traps. Depending on the game I am playing the traps will have different effects based on the colour of the stars (pit trap, snare, explosive, fire trap etc). No star obviously meaning that this particular counter is not a trap. I had considered texturing the other side of the traps with flock but was concerned that if there was any differentiation between the flocking it would eventually be possible to ascertain which markers contained traps and which did not (a tabletop version of a marked deck of cards?), so have left plain.
– Paint base edges on the orcs
Yup, 150 bases again… Still need to add a few colours on in batches and can then call these clowns tabletop ready.
– Work on my foot knights
No progress yet.
– Progress Skaven
A fair bit of headway today. added colour to a lot of the cloth areas. planning on doing the armour in copper and brass and lost of rust effects and verdigreen on the metals. The rats themselves will be grey/black rather than brown. Might make the leader an albino to make him easily identifiable? And the mandatory warpstone on the heroes weapons too… These guys will all be dipped in AP varnish so not too precious about being neat. Leaning towards quick on this project.
– Paint terrain
No joy here yet…
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