40k-Speedpainting-Challenge: A Battalion of Kasrkin in one Weekend ***COMPLETED***

Puuuh. Ok. Dipping went fine. But this means I got nothing to do now. And for the most part of tomorrow. As the Dip takes 12h-24h to cure I can only continue with the project tomorrow evening. I think about 1900h (that’s 1800h BST). But it’s not much to do left anyways and it should take me less than 5h to finish. Leaving me with time left until 2359h:

• Mat coating 0,5-1h (I can’t use a spray can as it’s raining cats and dogs outside)
• Glow effects 1-2h
• Bases 1-2h

But back to dipping. I told you that I glued my minis on nails for different reasons. One being that it is quite useful for dipping. One of you have asked me: How? What? It goes like this:

• Glue your mini on a nail (the big end under the base)
• Span the small end of the nail into your drilling machine
• Dip the mini on the drill into the tin with Dip
• Let it drop of
• Hold the mini inside a round container with a bottom (I use a Pringles can)
• Hit it with maximum rotation for 3-10 seconds, depending on how strong the effect should be. I used 4s for the troops and 6s for the characters (lighter effect on the chars)
• Et Voilá your mini is dipped
• Once finished with all the minis pour the excess dip from the round container back into the tin with Dip

To fast? I prepared a photo story:

So. That finishes the Saturday for me. I spent today 10h 19m painting, dipping and decaling. Bringing me up to a total time of 20h 10m since priming. It took me longer to get here, but I am really glad that nearly everything went well until now (besides the short snafu with the decals). But we are not finished yet and will put the finishing touches on tomorrow. Thats Sunday 1800h BST.

I’ll treat myself to a beer now. Or maybe two… or nine… teen. Good Night!