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Rune's Painting & Miniature Blog

What is it they say "The best laid plans...".  It has transpired that we have some kind of blockage in the waste pipe at home, which resulted in a pretty substantial flood from our downstairs loo - the water from my sisters shower.  This has meant that we've currently got the plumber in, dismantling our fairly new downstairs toilet area.  We're struggling to get some of the carpet tiles for my brothers new flat (that I have to fit) which means that I'm having to travel farther afield to get them.  Oh and Monday evening got almost completely obliterated with computer jobs. On a plus point, I have Thursday afternoon, Friday and all of Monday… Read More

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The weekend's work wasn't quite as productive as I'd hoped - bearing in mind that I really should be starting to apply paint this week. The torso is largely done.  I need to fix the head in, rivet the whole assembly and add wolf pelts over it.  I've begun work again on the arm shoulders, the close combat arm will be pretty simple in comparison to what I was intending, although I'd like to add some runes and totems to it to make it a little bit more interesting.  The heavy bolter arm I've decided to simplify by having the guns simply glued together, rather than cut up and set within a box.  Although my original idea is still better, too many… 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

I ordered the bits to make up a Chaos marine last week and these arrived on Thursday.  Have just done minor tidying and blue tacked the pieces together to make a mock of the whole Dreadnought.  Still needs a lot of work, but personally I think that it's going to end up being very nice piece.  I'll put the photo of the mock at the bottom of this post.  There is a larger gap than I expected around the waist, so a few wolf pelts are going to have to be added to disguise it.  As I said on an earlier post, I'm aiming to have three basic assemblies - the Dreadnought, the giant fur and the base.  I'm going to get the Dreadnough torso finished… Read More

By some bizzare quirk of fate, this blog now appears at position number ten in google when you search for the phrase "golden demon 2009".  Quite bizzare to be honest and I have no idea why. 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

Just a short post as I've just caught my finger on the edge of my razor saw and it's chuffing painful. Update: So I now have a plaster on my finger and it's not inclined to split open and drip blood at the slightest pressure :)  As you can see the legs are almost complete.  I didn't manage to get the last bits of guitar wire cut as I decided to watch a bit of telly and then slice my finger open.  I think that the base looks pretty good as well :)… Read More

I have very nearly finished the leg assembly.  The picture in the last post was taken just after I added in a piece of brass guitar wire (which seemed to take ages to bend to the right shape).  The 60mm bases I ordered from GW arrived so I was able to cut the cork to the wolf shape I wanted and glue it in place with PVA.  I need to fill the edges with polyfiller or similar, but the actual effect is pretty good.  This meant that I was able to glue the pins and the left leg in place, which after checking this morning has set solid.  I have to clean up any mess made by glue (which generally can't be avoided), then add two pieces of guitar wire… Read More

So I managed to get the right knee join pinned, glued and filled last night.  I used pure Green Stuff for the fill, as it's more suited for the kind of gap that was created.  Also the trick of using a Milliput and Green Stuff mixture is that you sand it to get a perfect finish, where as Green Stuff settles slightly as it sets.  Due to the location it would have been difficult to sand, so careful Green Stuff'ing… Read More