Closing 2017

Seems fitting that I join the hordes of other people setting goals for 2018!

I have lots of personal goals which have until now meant my hobby has taken a back seat.

A career that used to be the reason I picked up a paintbrush to cope, has become a success and taken off for me, lots of challenges to come. My martial arts training and fitness has suffered, and I'm really keen to get to my first dan stripe on my black belt this year. Anyway, I'm really looking forward to seeing if I can balance these things against painting models!

Hobby goals Josh, hobby.

Commission works


I'm currently working on Mortarion, and I'm hoping to get him finished for the end of January. Friend I'm painting him for is the same crazy man with all the titans I've previously painted, and he keeps threatening me with a Warlord. It would be crazy - but I'd love to be able to say I've painted one.

One of Mortarion's roadies - very fun to paint
He's also got Tartaros terminators for me to paint, along with a heap of tactical marines, assault marines, quad launchers and other stuff. These are the projects that mean I get to try cool stuff out on someone elses models - someone who's paid for them not me.
Cool stuff like this guy

I've had an offer to do the Blood Bowl boxset which would be interesting -  already have a number of ideas on that one.

 Personal Work

 I've had a stupid notion I want to finally buy and paint a Thunderhawk for my Dark Angels -  with the new Forge World kit just out, seems a good time. Green or bone though?

Finish Sammael MKII and Black Knights - perhaps add a command function (champion, apothecary and banner bearer) using the same conversion.

Buy and paint a Nephelim / Dark Talon kit

New army perhaps? Something not....gasp...marines? I've been playing and painting Dark Angels so long it seems wrong, but the idea appeals. I have a small growing force of Night Lords, but this is really more marines and primarily Horus Heresy era. No, I'm thinking guard, Death Korps more than likely. Watch this space.

Finish my blood bowl Middenheim Redfangs after ten years of painting them!

Golden Demon entry

It's been a while - 5 years in fact, since I last entered Golden Demon. I got a finalists medal back in 2013 for my Games Day 40k special blood angel captain, which was a surprise for a mini I painted in 2 days! Loved it and hope that shone through. My Imperial Fists rhino (shown below) didnt finalise and neither did my Great Horned Rat - which I really poured some love into. This kind of demotivated me to the whole event, and with the traditional Games Day event going for a burton, I thought I was done with it. 


2012's Imperial Fists  Deimos Rhino didn't hit the spot with the judges













The new format seems to have settled and there is some quality work going in now, and I'm starting to get thoughts about entering again. I have a duel entry I started ages ago, featuring the forge world wraith seer model and lilith hesperax, very acrobatic and action packed, that I'd love to finish. We will see.

In the meantime I'm also working on this beauty. The Naughty Gears, "Jessica Thunderhawk" bust by scale 75, bought for me by Darryl for my birthday this year (see his great, well named blog at https://containsgraphicimages.blogspot.co.uk/)


Jessica Thunderhawk and her ample...painting areas
The mini was remarkably clean out of the pack with minimal prep needed - just some minor filling on join lines on the impressive falcon she comes with. I'll add these later as it progresses. I'd love to get this one finished in the coming months.

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

Thunderbirds are go

Image
Weehee! can there be anything more fun than getting an unexpected package in the post? A package with Japanese mail posting all over it...big box, what can it be? Turns out its the newly released Aoshima 1/350 scale Thunderbird 2, which I pre-ordered in November and promptly forgot all about. I'm not going to get started on this one just yet with all the other work already going on, (see my last post,) but I thought I'd review the kit and contents for you. Shrink wrapped magic The kit itself comes with a hell of a lot of content. The craft itself, the iconic, original 60's TV series transport, is represented in 1/350 scale - but what really attracted me to it was the addition of all of the rescue craft too (not just Thunderbird 4 as usual!) Kit features 11 separate scaled pod machines, including the rolling road transports seen in the first ever episode, Firefly the bulldozer, radio transmitter, lifter, remote line launcher and missile launcher - as well as ...
Read more