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Hails all,
Apologies for being two days late to the party. Had a crazy week after my cat escaped through a window at the Vet’s on the far side of town. Took us two and a half days of constant searching before we found him. I put up posts on the local Facebook groups and had multiple sightings around an area two miles from the vet, which we searched and every housing estate in between. I eventually found him about ten houses from the building he escaped from… No complaints though, just relieved to have him back.
Pledge this weekend is to get some work done on my Techpriest Dominus. He’s already had the yellows airbrushed on and some washes applied. His arms got a blast of Iron Hands Steel as well to give me a basecoat to work from and I’ve blacked in all the areas that will be metal on the main body as I don’t like painting metallic colours over yellow.
A shot of the progress on my army so far.
Questions:
1. Weather here has been really good but yesterday got a bit colder.
2. Nope, I suck at multitasking. I’d end up painting a burger and grilling a mini.
3. Assuming we’re not counting porn sites, just Netflix and Amazon Prime. I’ve considered Disney+ and I like the look of the new HBO one (not available here yet though) but considering I also get Spotify and a few other things, those charges can really start to stack up in a month.
Blackstone Fortress is top of my to-do list once I finish my Admech army. After painting a set colour palette for so long it’ll be nice to play with paint again and not worry about everything matching. Red plastic is horrible on the eyes, I had the same problems with Space Hulk. Those Celts look great.
Had the exact same issues with Army Painter sprays. Thankfully I only destroyed some test models but no amount of shaking could get a smooth finish. I use GW sprays for everything, need a good shake but no problems once they get that.
Love that base mate, I always say it but I really need to put more work into my basing.
Have you tried just thinning with water? I generally only use medium if I’m trying to turn something into a wash or if I’m fighting with a particularly awkward airbrush mix.
Covid has been playing havoc with deliveries. I’m waiting on several deliveries for weeks now.
That army’s looking amazing, any close-up shots?
Finish with music…
Happy Sunday all. Hope everyone’s made good hobby progress or had fun in the real world instead!
@robert Great work on the sheilds, where’d you get the decals from. Cloaks are cracking too and damn that tartan’s nice.
@crazyredcoat Very nice job on the tommy. Is he for Bolt Action? I started doing WW2 in 28mm, but seeing as I’ll end up buying and painting both sides 15mm just looked a bit cheaper.
@horati0nosebl0wer Thanks very much. I usually use tufts to mark squads and because I was aiming for D-day, thought poppies were a nice touch. Plus, seeing as I’ve gone to the arse-ache of making decals so it’s got my grandad’s right unit I should at least spend a few minutes making the bases nice.
@irredeemable That yellow’s really good, it’s been a bastard to get smooth for me. Are you thinking of getting the new mech flyers?
Finally got the decals to work. Started with a massive failure rate but got most to work in the end. In 15mm an A4 sheet would do a whole army group so there’s not an issue with wasting some, took HOURS to get finished and I didn’t bother with the bridge weights as they’re on a white background, I’d never get them cut out.
Also, store your paints in a cool dark place.
Odin is done! I need to leave the basing paint to cure overnight, but here’s the mini sans basing.
Once the base is done I’ll take some new pics and upload to my project.
“Faces and bases” said Lloyd this weekend. As if that’s what you needed for a nice mini.
Well, in recent months I’ve got over my fear of painting eyes and actually look forward to painting faces (I tend to do them first now, instead of leave them ’til the end, then end up paralysed with the fear of messing up the paint job to date).
But bases? Surely plain black disks suffice, if the rest of the mini is good enough? I can’t be arsed with all that gluing and sand and then sticking it all back on when it falls off mid-drybrush – plain black disks for me! Then I found some bases on thingiverse and learned how to slice my own shapes from them in Blender, and had a go at some base “toppers” this weekend to see how they’d look. Obviously it’d be far quicker and easier than “traditional” basing.
They’re not even primed yet, but I’m beginning to think @lloyd may have had a point. They look awesome already!
@evilstu This is me finally starting FoW. I’ve been playing Tanks for a while and finally got started after getting hit the beach for Xmas last.
The decals are mostly ones I’ve made on the carriers, the earlier ones I did on the tanks are the clear backed ones from the box. I’ll try not to go on too long about this. It’s better for both to put decals on to a satin or gloss varnished surface and get a box of fresh scalple blades for clean cuts. Decals that you buy are probably going to be easier but may well be on a thicker backing that will be clear and slightly larger than the image. I don’t have it, but decalfix will melt away the backing to nothing.
If you are going to make them you buy either clear or white water-slide sheets, they are pretty thin and have left no raised edge, unlike the box ones. Now it’s a bit of a steep learning curve but printing wasn’t a problem, with the caviat that no home printer has a white ink cartridge, you might be able to get them done at a pro-printers but then if it’s toner not ink that’s a different sort of sheet. So the printed decals are on a white backing sheet, they need sealing. There’s a proper spray for this, but a few good, light coats of varnish does the job. Too much at once will lift the ink, let them set for a good 12hrs.
One they’re cured cut out a decal with a good couple mm border and score around the edge of the image, not all the way through the backing paper. I was extra careful and painted water on the back of the paper then lifted the corner of the decal with a scalple, if some of the paper comes with lay it flat and put a bit more water on the back.
Either type of decal I just brush a drop of water of the surface, lay the decal on top and move into place using a slightly damp brush. If they get folded beyond use just brush off, give the surface a brush down with clean water, let dry and start again. When they’re in place dry the brush and wick away any excess water, then I put a drop of any paint medium on just to get a bit of hold, let dry and then give a brush of varnish over top. With the printed ones I went back in and painted over any bits of white showing with the armor colour. Then for both a bit of the base colour mixed with some ivory was sponge chipped over and my weathering and washes is continued.
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