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So I had a fantastic weekend away, still feel quite chilled despite the fact I'm still flagging from lack of sleep :)  Looking quickly at the mock up of my dreadnought, I'm still very happy with the overall appearance.  My new rivet maker arrived yesterday, so I can put some rivets onto it soon as well.  Watch this space... Read More

I had today off, but went off to The Hawk Conservancy today and had a very nice relaxing day there, chinese takeaway for tea and have just chilled this evening.  However (and onto the subject of the post), I've decided that due to time constraints that neither arm will be clad with the ribbed plasti-card.  Current thinking is that I'll 'edge' the shoulder blocks with the plastic strip I have - perhaps thicker card on one side than the other.  I am still going to do the conversion for the heavy bolter arm though. I've also just won a rivet mold - basically you heat up a piece of… Read More

A few days without a post, which is somewhat remiss of me.  Basically I've been messing around painting the couple of tanks that I've airbrushed the other day.  A few reasons for this.  Firstly it means that I can go back to my Dreadnought nice and refreshed, secondly it has been a bit of R&D into how I can paint the Dreadnought.  Pretty much perfected the colouring and shading of the armour now.  Highlighting I know in principal, but I need more practice, although you have less large panels on a Dreadnought than a tank. Airbrushing is also a much smaller task than I originally was envisaging, so I'm not quite as hung up on having such… Read More

So yesterday was my self imposed deadline - which I managed to miss fairly significantly.  I spent pretty much all of Saturday trying to get everything up to a point where I could spray it yesterday, 15 hours of modelling, much of it with a headache.  The legs are now complete and have in-fact been primed PlastiKote grey spray.  In addition to acting as a primer the colour highlights any potential problems and imperfections in filling and similar.  The torso has come on leaps and bounds, but I was scuppered by trying times of milliput.  It appears that there is no way of speeding up the drying time of a milliput/green stuff mix :(  Leaving… Read More

It appears that I have two parcels waiting for me at home.  One I think must be my pillar drill as it was despatched yesterday via fedex.  My pin vices arrived yesterday (fantastic for only £2.30), so the only thing that I think it can be is my ForgeWorld order :D This is fantastic as it actually means that I should stand a chance of getting the cloak shape created this weekend.  Currently it appears that I potentially have all of tomorrow to do modelling, so I'm going to have to structure my time carefully.  Plastic cement dries fully in 4 hours give or take, green stuff can be artificially cured in an hour (actually less, but I like to… Read More

During my perusal of the good old internet, I chanced across an entry that won gold at the Chicago Golden Demon.  The entry is fantastic - just the right balance of realism versus fantasy.  Metallics are definatly worth inspecting closely as they're spot on, looks like a fair number of black washes to remove the shineyness of metallics and highlighting as if they were a regular paint (as should be done). The whole blog is very well done and there are a few posts that are quite interesting.  One thing that does fill me with a little dread is that this chap is… Read More

So that I can keep up with what things need to be done, I've knocked up this hit list, which looking at it, is unbelievably long...  The torso assembly is the bit that is worrying me the most as this is the bit I was hoping to have completed for the 9th. Edit - updated 10th Aug

Leg Assembly

• Re-sculpt & fill right thigh
• Fill right ankle
• Assemble right leg with bend + fill gaps in calf pistons
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Ok, just to make it official - it's highly unlikely that I'll be doing any work on the Dreadnought tonight as I'm donating a pint of blood. Read More

Today I was lucky enough to be able to scrounge a lift to Swindon on September 27th.  For those who don't know, September 27th (2009) is the date that Games Workshop is holding its annual 'Games Day' exhibition.  This is held at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Bristol.  Every Games Workshop store runs a coach from the store to the NEC and back again and Swindon is the store closest to me.  Tickets to Games Day cost £30 this year, which (as with last year) include a limited edition model, the coach ticket from Swindon is £12 - yes that's right, it's cost me £42 plus whatever my lift wants for me to get there... Thriftyness aside,… Read More