Tales of a hobby butterfly
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About the Project
Turns out i may be a hobby butterfly freshly hatched from my chrysalis of denial. This challenge started with the intention of completing a project i started many years ago when i purchased advanced space crusade. Turns out i am now massively into rebasing my epic collection on washers so they dont slide around everywhere im not sure where my hobby time will take me next. I have recently noticed that when i start a project with enthusiasm i take my time and enjoy what i am doing but then when a new shiny catches my eye i rush through the project to try to get it done as fast as possible so i can start the next thing. So i think the project will now be reduce the pile of shame but in my own time and pace, i can always go back to a project when the enthusiasm returns which it always does.
Related Genre: Science Fiction
Related Contest: Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2023
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Forbidden psalm of doom
Picked up the forbidden psalm and the last war rules at salute.
Because of the bankholiday this weekend I got out of work early on Saturday so decided to spend the couple of days off building a board and some models to get the game on the table before Tuesday.
This old wooden pencil box was being thrown away so i liberated it, thought it may be a cool way to make an easily storable game board
I used cardboard to make each side level then broke up cork tile to make a cool texture
Next up I was going to need trench sections, rather than digging out the cork, I made some boxes that can be placed down randomly to create the trenches
Added some coffee sticks and putty sandbags
Next it was time to stick on some sand and ruble texture then splashed on some texture paint to create thick mud
Made up some scatter terrain using lumps of cork with some barbed wire attached, also stuck some resin crates to cork tiles but forgot to picture them 
Needed some bridges to join areas together so once again used the trusty Greggs coffee sticks and a glue gun to make these
Painted everything brown then went over it all with a sponge and various browns and greys. Once that all dried I splashed a load of mud textured paint on everythingAdding a few more chaosy chaps
Been having fun painting these models apart from the good trim everywhere.
If Im not careful I may actually get a project done before flying to the next shiny thing ..
I did pick up some Rubicon vietnam Anzac at salute and some gringos 40s dwarfs that are kind of calling to be painted
Huzzah chaos chaps of doom
Played a couple of games of 40k recently and have really enjoyed them, thought it would be cool to try another army rather than guard all the time.
Luckily I was gifted a big box of chaos marines, helping me start my decent into chaos.
I have always found black a bit of a challenge to paint so watched loads of YouTube videos on the subject and in the end followed the black legion painting guide from midwinter minis.
I’m pretty happy with the result, I did try black contrast and black speed paint but both looked odd on the marines armour.
I tried good old martian iron earth on the bases but it just made the models look dull so decided to try my hand at a flamey larva/Deamon base and am very happy with the result
The marines are raised up on bits of roughly broken up cork and the bubbles in the hot stuff were made from craft beads.
Only another 30 or 40 to paint gold trim on so that will be fun…
Bam 💥 Stuff about the same age as me
Kind of blown away by this pile of old shame that was a gift from a great mate, now all I need is the time to paint it.The long term plan with these funky chaps is to get it all painted and ready to rock for which ever dungeon crawl I fancy playing at the time
There are orcs, goblins, undead , trolls,ogers, Deamons,dragons and a scorpion centaur and loads more, all pre slots.
The sculpts are super cool, time to start splashing some paint.
Thought I would start with a group of chaos warriors, each warrior aligned to one of the gods of chaosKermit the frog Gargant of DOOM
This chap has been in the painting pile for a while.
Every good ork horde needs a Gargant so these chaps are starting with a slasher Gargant which is one of the smaller varieties of ork stompy goodness.
Unfortunately I lost his head a long time a go so after some bits box diving I found the gubbinz and twisty bits to form a kind of head
Painting some evil minions for advanced space crusade
The gaunts and gargoyle miniatures were painted a long time ago when I was about 13 rather than repainting them just gave them a quick bone drybrush and some strong tone wash
The hybrid orks are 3d prints, the rules are set so you can use the miniatures frome space crusade as mind slaves but thought it would be cool if they were aliened up a bit.
The space men with bolters are substitutes for mind slave chaos marines
Huzzah the idea worked
Smooshed some paint on the short buildings this evening 
Will they fit in an A4 box file?
Bam 💥 town in a box Splashing some paint
Squished on some paint with a sponge, mixing blue, white, black and sand
Once that dried I went over the wood with burnt umber, followed by an off white drybrush.
Last but not least using watered down black acrylic I black lined the wooden beams and frames.
Tomorrow night I shall add doors and glass to the windows and work on removable chimney stacks
