Not enough hours in the day

I've been extremley, hideously busy. Work is suddenly relevant and I actually have things to do, so modelling suffers a little when I get home. I've got a craptonne, (I love this phrase,) of models to paint/build, alter or whatever, and even a little comission work in the pipe.

Skaven

  • Hellpit abomination is nearly complete. I've pretty much finished the main bulk of the body, using a whole box of Milliput in the process. Hopefully, it looks like a giant, fat worm with rat ogre/skaven parts stiched on. I've added all the spare stormvermin heads I had with smoothed over putty so they (hopefully) look as if they are emerging from the body. I've started adding greenstuff fur as it holds the detail better than MP, and constructed a jaw from a Starship troopers arachnid jaw and added teeth made of various sword tips/daggers, spear heads and odds. Works suprisingly well. The "not being able to sculpt a fist" problem was solved by the screaming bell kits rat ogre, which nobley provided its limb to the abomination. It now clutches chains and a plague censor in this hamfist.

  • No more work on Queek as yet, been trying to paint basic models. Added a pile of skulls to the base to give him even more height and make it easier to fit him into a rank and file unit.

  • Finished 20 clanrats in Mors livery (red/black/cream for the mostpart) At the death i never wanted to paint a rat again.

  • Bought a screaming bell/plague furance kit. With a flash of inspiration, decided to alter and magnetise the kit so I could choose between either loadout. This is not as easy as say, a Rhino chassis for warhammer 40,000, where you can just stick bits on externally. This is ok with the plague priest/vat from the front, but the bell and censor are integral to the upper chassis and alot of alteration was required. However, with perseverance, I got there. Thanks to Jim for the magnets. Bell will be painted as part of Ross' tale of heroes event for Tamworth Games Club in January. Got a Doomwheel for christmas I think. I say I think, but I was there when Beth bought it in Burton so.. "I have a Doomwheel, waiting for me to assemble"

  • Been working on a secret single model for the clubs secret santa. Shhhh.

  • Trying to get as much rank and file boring stuff out of the way and clear the decks a bit before I take on my first ever comission work. We shall see how that goes.

I will be posting pictures at some point, I hope to put together a stage by stage clanrat article for MyWargame at some point, coinciding with Neil's Skaven articles.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Warhounds - seeing the light at the end of the tunnell. (Its a train)

Image
Some more little updates, well actually a pretty big one! Legs section - done! Finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnell on this one. Lots of grease, muck and oil on there, when everythings done I'll give it a light dusting of graveyard earth too for a finish of dust. Also worked on the right hand "shoulder" The soot needs thinning onto the yellow yet. Note the reconstructed plastic whittled spikes to replace the original resin ones which snapped off almost immediatley. I've got a small list of to do now, thank god - the sides of the body, with some hefty detail, fans, grills, pipes, icons etc, but its all hidden - done one side but the other still to do. The gun servitors inside the weapon shoulders, the carapace metalwork and spikes, rear of the engines and the underside of the weapon mounts. Lots of little bits, considering how much I've already done! (and have still to do, with its sister warhound...)
Read more

Fire Masters

Image
  Four years between posts isnt a terrible average is it? In that time we've had a world wide pandemic, 2 presidents, 4 prime ministers, a new government, ok its been a while.  SO - recently I've been finishing off a Titan Legion, and returned to our gaming club - seem to have gotten some other people interested in the game, which is excellent. I chose the Legio Sutorvora, or Legio Infernus / Firemasters, a traitor legion known for their use of prometueum based weaponry. The Eternal Flame. No Bangles involved So my first titans...had no flame weapons. I built the Warlord, reaver and two warhounds with no flamers at all - but did paint alot of flames.  Reaver "Aeternum" Warhounds "Emberatum" and "Canis Destructor" and with paired gatling blasters (forge world upgrade) Warlord " Immolatum Rex " with Apocalypse Launchers Alot of people have complained about the time it takes to paint all the trim and it is fiddley. I built the whole model a...
Read more

Paint together!

Image
Last night the small group of friends I've been playing games with got together for the second time to practice some painting techniques. I get a real kick out of helping people learn - I don't, by any measure, think I'm anywhere near s good as some painters out there (the likes of platoon are stocked full of amazing painters) but I acknowledge I have skills to pass on. Last time we focused on my favourite, weathering and vehicles, and this time more of a free for all that included flesh tones, armour chipping, plasma and heat effects and finishing. Some people might think I'm stoking my ego by getting people together to blow sunshine up my arse - couldn't be further from the truth. I do bring along a selection of models which includes my golden demon finalists, but like it was for me I hope people find them inspiring. I still remember meeting mike McVey at the platoon get together and picking up the green knight - THE green knight, that I had gazed at in w...
Read more