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horati0nosebl0wer 5 years, 11 months ago.
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Hey guys! Did I miss much last week? Anyway I’ve just finished work and start a week off, Huzzah!
So I’ve a few hobby goals for the coming week, things like completing that Deathwatch squad I was working on, basing the 2 Knights, but I’m seriously tempted to paint up the 14 miniatures included in the Highlander boardgame that arrived via kickstarter this week;
Oh, and I have a veritable mountain of anime to work through and review (shameless plug – I wrote a thing! https://www.uk-anime.net/anime/SSSS.Gridman_(Episodes_1-5).html ). I’m quite looking forward to watching the dub of Kabenari of the Iron Fortress,
Hey all!
@mage thanks for hosting this week and @elessar2590 thanks for hosting everyone last week.
I determined to actually get some hobby done today and have managed to finally complete the Bretonnian BSB that has been on my paint bench for months (Seriously – the first WIP photo to hand that I found was taken in March …).
Now I say that he’s finished but naturally when I saw the photos I noted that I had missed painting the leather stirrup straps, so I’ll need to do that. And yes no doubt I’m sure you all noticed straight away and were about to comment on it and all… 😛 But seriously, now that I’ve seen it isn’t done it will annoy me if I don’t fix it 🙂 He’ll be helping out with the cohort of the army done up in Canterbury Crusaders colors, hence the limited black/white/red palette. And a shot next to Sir Ruchie of Canterbury who will lead the force:
Still not settled on colouring for bases hence the ‘primed’ state of the edging. the BSB looks a lot brighter (no washes on the colour other than a bit of thinned down black paint on the helm decoration) but I’m OK with that. Still on my paint bench are about 50 French and British historicals and an adventuring party of 6 Christmas minis. The adventurers will be my primary focus, and will swap over to the historicals when I overdose on christmas cheer…
@dawfydd the highlander mins are still in the packaging? Wow, that’s showing a great deal of restraint! Tough call – maybe paint one as a test piece and see how they are to work with?
@mage Mordheim still in the pipeline?
@sundancer hope the new component arrives soon!
@mage Gil? Really!?! What kind of exchange rate are we getting for this, seriously? I wanna trade in my quatloo and at least find some way of converting the ducats that @evilstu awarded. Where’s a Toydarian when you need one? Ugh… anywhat, I am quite pleased that I have just had my shipment from Kingdom Death’s Black Friday sale and the Signum 11/11 sale arrive.
- Oronox Captain Konstantin
- Rowena, Duke’s Daughter
- Krampus Pelznickel
Oh these are some beautiful casts in resin. I’m seeing one problem for future hobbying… the bases. Konstantin and Krampus both are based on 60mm beveled edge plastic bases that I really don’t care for. As of writing this I’m trolling the entries I’ve collected for display bases like fishermen for seafood. This is much easier than trolling ancient yuletide carols (look over the lyrics to ‘Tis the Season’ again and see what I mean). I should order some more and be aware that I might need an 80mm or larger for other figures in the Legends of Signum KS. Looking at the Signum site I might order some more from their most recent notices for release.
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Look, so long as I can eventually trade this sweet Gil in for Squall or Cloud’s Ultimate Weapon I’m golden @horati0nosebl0wer 🙂
Nice classic Brets there @evilstu 🙂 Still a shame GW let that range flounder. I’m sure their whole Arthurian-romance shtick would fit wonderful amongst The Mortal Realms of AoS…..
@mage, maybe this link will work better?
https://www.uk-anime.net/anime/SSSS.Gridman_(Episodes_1-5).html
Anyhoo, my plans took a slight change for today as I decided to get some of those Space Wolves I had built and primed in the last few months based ahead of starting painting. I put them with the rest of my “to do” Wolves and, well:
Yeah, O_o . So right here are 15 Blood Claws, 26 Grey Hunters, 15 Long Fangs, 5 Sky Claws, 8 Wolf Guard, Company Champion and an Iron Priest.
And then made a start on getting base colours down on Njall Stormcaller:
(Have to say, I know I’m late to the game but I may be buying up as many of those painting grips as I can afford. Makes SUCH a difference….)
@biggabum Lol… You have my condolences for the trip into the great beyond which lies outside your hobby hideaway. I recommend watching the film Krampus as it opens with a great ision of what Christmas commerce looks like. I’d say that the idea of cooking the lamb would be best done by the experienced chef but how often does he stop by? As a consolation prize here is what I can say about the two large models.
Wow, there is almost no tolerance in the molding for the Signum model for the Konstantin figure. Its essentially a knight on an armored chocobo (what Signum is calling an oronox) for an easy Final Fantasy explanation of the mini @dawfydd . Setting the right side of the figure has been a pain in trying to get the proper alignment for the fore and rear legs to sit properly. Once set into their respective slots without the rider they are quite snug and press against each other. When trying to set the rider’s right leg between the oronox’s limbs its a nightmare for dry fitting. You can see there were issues with the fitting even in the website photo of the figure. I don’t recommend it for the novice to jump into if you haven’t pinned for a while. Having a sense of spatial interaction is a must. Here’s my plan to address this issue for the build. This all should give me a better idea of what kind of gap filling that needs to be done.
1. Set the right foreleg in place
2. Try to dry fit the rider’s leg in place along the figure
3. Dry fit the right oronox leg to see where the alignment problems lieLooking at it there is no way this can’t be done as a single piece paint job. Subassembly is required. I didn’t expect this to start me thinking of this as a project piece but just beginning the report of my findings moves me to do so. I guess that means I need to put in my order for the resin plinths.
Krampus is also very finely cast and the tolerance for where the mini fits together again is very slight. With that the joins are well done and almost seamless other than where the horns fit to the head. With minimal gap filling this will definitely be a sweet figure. Again the 60mm base will require a special order since this will not be a run of the mill play piece. I want to show this off and have people other than me go “Ooh” and “Ahh”. Getting into the Christmas spirit I’m putting together the Bad Santa from Enigma minis. Sadly it looks like, despite having the license (according to Wiki of Lost Minis), Coolminiornot.com looks like they aren’t making any more.
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