Short but sweet

Trying to keep posting every once on a while and well, yeah.

So here's a quickie that Google kindly put together for me. I was trying to get some shots done for a "how to paint a basic Minotaurs symbol" and after uploading it to my account, it ended up getting animated...

Back from the dead - minotaurs

Almost every day as part of my job I tell people they should have goals that are realistic and achievable. Well perhaps I can learn to listen to my own advice and paint something that matches the time I have available for painting!

It's not going to win any prizes (although I will admit that photography at this level does it no favours) BUT, it is a quick paint job to reproduce en-masse with minimal effort. By combining this with ramping down my desire for a successful list  and literally just painting and assembling everything in my space marine box I've actually been able to make quite significant progress.

I traditionally play at around 2000 points and while this army shot is about 500 points short of that it is about two thirds painted and the 500 points of remaining models are waiting in the wings, ready for assembly and a quick paint job. Painting so far was done in three batches - two batches of troops and one of vehicles - with each batch taking a little over a week to complete. At this rate I may actually have a finished army painted inside a year. Inside 6 months even! 

It's not a complete rush job either, there has been time for a few little touches to try and individualise the army. There are NO mark 6 beaky heads to be seen, all the sergeants have  an approximation of mark 8 errant armour and I think the bases look pretty cool compared to my usual rather sparse flock job. Plus all the squads are getting painted squad markings. All in all it's a satisfying experience so far, and as a playable army it looks very nice on the table.

Pre-Heresy DG - AGAIN???

Well I've reached a bit of an impasse as I have ordered some "studs" to continue with this little project, so I can't continue till they arrive. Couldn't resist finishing off our MKVI friend first, so here he is in all his test model glory:

I think I might have to accept that this is the last time I can call a main torso a "test" - so it looks like I'll have to work out squad markings soon....

Pre-Heresy DG (continued)

Good god - another update!

Well yesterday had me so disappointed with the results of my photographic experiments that I decided to hit the books and read up a bit, so here is something that's (hopefully) a little better.

Mk V(ish)

Its not going to win any prizes as far as painting goes (or modelling or that matter) but its clearly recognisable for what it is and that's what will count on the tabletop.  Let's all say thanks to Mortarion for having the only legion not obsessed with polishing its own armour.

I think for the production model I'll add in the nose-guard and maybe file the knee-pads a little flatter.  If I'm going down the mass production route I'll also have to find a better source of studs, sticking them on is bad enough, but after having to MAKE the things as well??

Now this makes me nostalgic....

Can't go pre-heresy stud-happy and not have some of these guys.  I've got enough of the legs to do most of a ten man squad but I'll probably mod some others for a bit of variety.  I'm not sure how much of the colour difference is due to my painting and how much is due to my "mad photo-skillz", but I think I'll need to work on consistency.

 

 

This is probably what needs the most work.  I'm not shelling out for official DG pads for these guys, but to be honest I think a stencilled look (if I can manage to perfect it) would suit better.  Kind of like IG in power armour.

Pre-Heresy DG

Well, it would be too much to keep any kind of consistency to this wouldn't it? I should at least try and keep SOME kind of pace up though, so here's a test moodel for some pre-heresy Death Guard

Still struggling to get the light box to do its thing, think I need a better light source - akthough it does hide a multitude of sins...

A Seditious Start

Hello and welcome to my humble Blog! (Or something like that)

Like many wargamers around the world I struggle with the idea of beginning half the projects I want to - never mind actually completing them! With this in mind I have resolved to start Blogging about all the miniature-related crap that I do and that spills out of my head.  

As I am hoping this Blog will spur me on with some of my ongoing projects the sensible place to start seems to be with the new Sedition Wars: Battle for Alabaster minis which arrived on Monday.  I think it's a wonderful little package - I'll leave those with more experience to review it in full.

Here's my first test mini - both as a test of the paint-scheme and my photography skills:

What a wonderful start - look at that mould-line!! It really isn't that noticeable in person (and certainly won't be from the angle I will be playing at) but its just the sort of thing that I'm hoping to force myself to improve on.  Looking at this test-piece again I decided it was a little bit too blue and decided to have another go - this time without wasting a nice fresh mini...

Much happier with the colours this time, but perhaps a touch more blue is needed.  This time though I just don't care about wasting a mini as I have no idea where this one even came from!!!

Well I hope this start gives some indication of what this Blog is likely to be like - the first post features a game which I have yet to play (I'm a 40k man normally) and above and beyond that features a miniature that isn't even from the games own range.  Come back next time for even more off-topic ramblings!

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