I can’t believe that there has been 10 days since my last post, it’s true that the closer to the festive period you get the faster the time seems to fly past.
I have however managed to get some painting squeezed into this last week and a half, so I’m thankfully not having large gaps in my hobby again. I’ve managed to undercoat a Wolf Guard Terminiator with pair of Wolf Claws as I though that this would allow me to practice one of every item that my marines would have – wolf pelts, lightening weapons, face, armour, etc. Overall I’m fairly happy with the progress that I’m making, modern terminators are really large models so it’s taking quite a while. The basing technique that I’ve chosen looks absolutly fantastic and genuinly looks like this Wolf Guard is stood on top slate.
I have however come across a rather annoying item in my armour colour – I use Fenris Grey in the first three phases of painting the armour, this paint is one of Games Workshops Foundation Paint range which have a really good coverage. The biggest drawback with this range is that as soon as you add water the paint seems to separate into a multitude of hues, Fenris Grey for example ends up with a rich purple sat on top of a mid/light grey. The real problem comes in that you end up constantly mixing the colour up – normally with your expensive W&N brush in order to maintain a consistent colour ending up on your model. I need to do some investigation to see if the addition of a flow retarder or similar will slow down the speed of this separation. The armour on this miniature is far from complete and although it only requires four colours in total, in order to achieve a smooth transition is going to take quite a bit of time for each miniature. However I’m sure that with a bit of practice I’ll be churning out armour in more of a production line style than this first one. Justing rethinking I’m probably closer to finishing the armour than I thought as each progressive layer actually covers less area than the one before.