Have Hobby Will Travel (2023)

So the kit is sorted, but what am I actually going to paint?

I realise that this may well be putting the mockers on me actually getting stuff done while I am away, but this time I’ve actually PREPPED(!) stuff that I can do.

It wouldn’t be very neighbourly of me to break out rattle cans where we are going, nor am I going to be able to airbrush etc, so I wanted a bunch of models at the stage where I could just sit down with a brush and make immediate progress.

The models were already assembled and primed.  As described in my Halo Scar project, I took the unusual step of assembling the whole army before painting.  So that bit is easy. I have the AdMech side of that army – my “cavalry” that needs painting.

I want their colour scheme to be almost the reverse of the black templars.  So white/cream being quite dominant, black less so.  I would be there a million years trying to layer that over a black primer, so that’s a job for the airbrush.  I laid the cream/white onto all the robes to get that part done.

So the “what to paint” was pretty easy.  The biggest, most repetitive, job I had to hand.

Time to get them ready for their travels.  Really Useful Box number 2!

I magnetised the box using Greenstuff World self-adhesive magnetic sheets, and then magnetised the bases of the models using Greenstuff World N35 2mmx5mm magnets.

In addition to the magnetic sheet in the bottom of the box, I put a strip along the side as well, so that the models too tall to stand upright in the box could be laid on their sides and still be held in place.

This step is really just so they survive the car journey and being carted in and out of accommodations.  This is even more important with AdMech.  They have all manner of gribbly bits that break off if you breathe on them too heavily, let alone shake them around in a car.

I think they’ll survive!