When I went to bed, there was just a frozen scraping of snow and ice on the ground. I woke up to a winter wonderland ❄️
After several hours of clipping, filing, drilling, and pinning, I’ve finally finished assembling the first of 2 Penitent Engines.
It better be amazing on the tabletop after all that…
Me: “I hate working with metal models, especially old ones.”
Also me:
I have a lot of editing in my future, to get through that “pending” queue…
I’m still building these darned Custodes Vertus Praetors. Just 3 more riders to build, but I really need to get back to painting the Custodian Guard.
No.2 builds her first Lego kit with instructions
File this under “things you don’t expect to find in the shared office kitchen”…
“Red sky at night…”
I’ve got no mojo today for the painting I’d planned to do, so I’m spending the day building the next batch of Hobby Goals units, while watching the LCO coverage. Gotta stay productive! 1 down, 5 to go.
No rest for the wicked! This evening has been spent applying an all over wash to 17 Custodes, to get them ready for drybrushing. So much gold!
The first units of my Sororitas are complete, taking me most of the way towards that part of my 2019 hobby goals, and marking my first entries on the PaintHammer 2019 form.
As always, there’s loads I’d like to be done better on these (the white robes mainly) but finished is better than still in the WIP queue, so Im trying not to nitpick too hard!
The Imagifier will be getting her banner as soon as I find the copper foil I bought to make it.
Somewhat amazingly, I’ve never even read a #DND book, let alone played the game. At least one of those things will change in 2019…
I mentioned these on Instagram yesterday, but I really like these SKÅDIS pegboards from IKEA. They’re a great way of adding extra storage for relatively little cost. I added two more to my hobby area and it makes such a difference to how tidy the desk is:
Similar to my Lord of Blights, this is a “catch-up post” for a model I painted earlier this year.
Arwen was painted for the same competition, and she won her category (LotR Single Figure). This was my first time painting a GW Lord of the Rings miniature, and the different scale sure caused a challenge! I ended up stripping the paint off the model and restarting, no less than three times. In the end it was worth it. Not everything turned out how I planned it, but I’m still proud of the end result.
Next year I’ll be painting Tauriel for the same category – it’ll be interesting to see the differences in experience between painting a modern plastic and an old metal cast.
Earlier this year I painted up a Lord of Blights, from Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, for a local painting competition. I posted it all over social media at the time, but never got around to posting it here. So consider that oversight corrected!
The model was a joy to paint, one of my favourites in a while. I experimented with a few things on the skin, and I’m pretty happy how it turned out. I can’t see a Nurgle army in my future, but if that ever changes, it will be painted in a similar palette.
It’s not the be-all-end-all, but I’ll take it… (Mobile is at 96)
If you’ve ever read a Games Workshop publication from the 90’s, you’ll have almost certainly seen some of Mark Gibbons artwork. Mostly stark, black and white illustrations of single characters, he came to define the look of some of the early “named characters” in the settings. Personally I was a huge fan of these, and even tried to emulate some of them during my school art classes. The four below are my favourites of his work, and remain some of my favourite pieces of Warhammer art to this day.
I used to have a copy of the Ulrik The Slayer piece framed on my wall. I had written to GW (in the days before email!) asking if their artwork was available to buy anywhere. At the time it wasn’t, but they sent me a print anyway. Young me was over the moon at receiving such a gift, as you can probably imagine.
You served me faithfully for the last 2-3 years of hobbying, your nozzle only blocking every 5 or 6 applications. Even though I’ve already moved on to your replacement, I’m comforted to know your last drops were spent glueing together our largest project yet.
Mum and Dad were having a clear out, and came across this miniature, which is now the only known surviving model I painted back when I was a kid. I vaguely remember painting this, probably some time around 1996/97 as I appear to have base-coated it using the old Ultramarines Blue spray, likely to help Young Me with the white. I must have run out of Chainmail Silver, as all the metals are painted gold, except the sword, which is still blue!
I’ve no idea where this model actually came from, and I’m pretty certain it’s not by Citadel. I think it might’ve been randomly found at a car boot sale, and given to me as I was going through my “Bretonnian Period,” so people knew I was painting knights.
I should put it somewhere safe, as a bit of nostalgia. It’s the closest I’ll come to “my first miniature.” Part of me is tempted to strip the paint off it and repaint it though… hmm, decisions, decisions!
Continuing from yesterday’s Ancient, I figured that if this ends up becoming my Armies on Parade entry, I’ll need an HQ, to give the force a sense of purpose.
This model was much less work than the Ancient. The only time consuming bit was removing the sword hand without wrecking the wrist armour, and replacing it with a Forge World power scythe. Other than that, it was just a head swap and attaching a couple of suitable bits to decorate.
I should probably add some Troops next…
I’ve had this idea on the brain for several days, so I needed to get it out of my head and onto the workbench. Unfortunately for me, the Ancient from the Dark Imperium boxset didn’t go together the way I remembered, so this took a lot more work than I’d originally planned for!
If all turns out well, this might be the start of my Armies on Parade entry.
I finally got these up on the wall, after what seems like forever. Despite some careful planning and marking out where the pins were to be placed, Dhalsim still ended up slightly out of position. I’m going to chalk that up to manufacturing tolerances in the frames…
“The Might of Khorne” diorama by Pawel Makuch
Stunning.
It reminds me a lot of the sort of almost over-the-top entries we used to see in the late 80’s/90’s.
Via Warhammer Community.
2 Legendary cards (1 of which is Golden Sylvanas!) from #Hearthstone quest gold? I’ll take it! ?