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I mentioned in an earlier post that I had ordered 13 paints from Wayland on Monday. That post was made on Wednesday and I had a bit of a moan that they’d not been dispatched. I’ve been checking fairly regularly to see when they were likely to be dispatched as I really wanted them so […]
Continue ReadingEver since I was a child, I’ve always enjoyed taking photographs. My first camera was a little disk camera where the film was on a wheel. Obviously to anybody reading this today the concept of having only a dozen and a half shots and you had to take the film to a shop to get […]
Continue ReadingAcross the UK, Sunday 23rd September heralded almost 8000 hobbyists across the country head to the National Exhibition Centre for before 10am. Many of them with carefully packed miniatures and amazingly painted display pieces or with hopes of gleaning some snippet of unknown information. I was up around 6am and after doing some last minute […]
Continue ReadingThe Forge World seminars are always a wonderful source of information and pleasure. Because Forge World are a smaller team, much of their work is planned months in advance and they’re not bound to the same ‘tight lipped’ secrecy that has become synonymous with Games Workshop. I think some of this is because Forge World […]
Continue ReadingIt’s been a little time coming, but I’ve begun to make a few odd changes and a clean and polish, in an attempt to liven up the blog a little bit. Scarily I’ve been posting bits up for the past three years and although there have been odd hiatuses on the whole it’s been quite […]
Continue ReadingAs I mentioned in a previous post, I’m itching to do some ‘traditional’ painting – i.e. using a brush and not airbrush and weathering techniques. To this end I have in my possession one of the lovely plastic Chaos Lord models from the Dark Vengeance boxed set. I picked this up for the bargain price […]
Continue ReadingWell despite my best efforts and spending many hours and late nights, I didn’t even make first cut. Although I knew my model would never take home a demon I’m a little annoyed that I didn’t even get a green sticker. It didn’t help that the stewards were telling people there wasn’t an early entry […]
Continue ReadingI’m still running behind my ‘schedule’ but by going to bed at 2.30am last night (technically this morning) meant that I got all of the oil washes onto the dreadnought which means by the end of tomorrow they’ll be dry enough for me to varnish. I also ‘drybrushed’ black and brown oil paint onto the […]
Continue ReadingUnsurprisingly my “perfect weekend of painting” ended up not so perfect. Due to numerous phone calls, chores and other interruptions I lost around 7 hours worth of painting time. I also managed to balls up the application of the larger custom decals – I should have gone with my gut instinct and gloss varnished first. […]
Continue ReadingFor some reason I woke up this morning at 6.10am. It’s not a time I’m particularly fond of as it means that I should be asleep for another 35 ~ 60 minutes. However as I lay in my small 1/5th of the bed (it’s a ladies prerogative to utilise 80% of a mattress regardless of […]
Continue ReadingWell the Dreadnought has progressed quite significantly since my last post. Pretty much all of the main airbrush work has been completely (with the exception of a few touch ups) and I’m fully onto brush work now. True to form this isn’t going as quickly as I would like although some of that can be […]
Continue ReadingDue to a long weekend at a LARP event (Thursday to Monday), I’ve not got as much done as if I were home, however quite a bit of progress was made early last week. All of the Dreadnought (including knees, elbows and arms) have received the base colour. The red knee pad has been base […]
Continue ReadingAs forecast, this weekend saw a decent amount of progress on my miniature. As you may be able to see from my Flickr Pool, the base has had quite a bit of work done on it and I’ve finally pulled my finger out and got some more of the cloak done (though there is 60% […]
Continue ReadingWell that’s got your attention 😉 And this post is about is airbrushes rather than ink… Gravity fed-airbrushes are lovely pieces of kit, very efficient on paint and able to spray at very low pressures. Now one thing that you must always do is to thin your paint down to the consistency of semi-skimmed milk. […]
Continue ReadingDuring the past week I’ve managed to make some substantial progress on my entry, though not as much as I’d hoped I would as I got less done during the weekend than I’d planned (but more during last week). The base and body have now both been finished from a modelling perspective and both have […]
Continue ReadingWhere has the last month gone 🙁 In fairness I can actually answer that for a change – insulating and stud walling the garage (and slicing my finger open with a stanley knife), tidying the house for visitors (and them visiting for a weekend) and going away this past weekend to a LARP event. Although […]
Continue ReadingWell this weekend I made a really good amount of progress. The Kheres Assault Cannon has been glued together and with the exception of a little filling and gluing the gun onto the shoulder, is now finished. The claw arm now has an appropriate genestealer head and I’m trying to bid on a Space Hulk […]
Continue ReadingI’ve done a little bit of research in preparation for painting the Dreadnought as I like to spend a good chunk of time working out what I’m painting and how. The first decision to make is what colours to paint the dreadnought. In principal he’ll be the stereotypical blue grey colour that is universally recognised […]
Continue ReadingMy 100th blog entry! *queue a fanfair and confetti* Well as expected the new arms for my Contemptor arrived last week. For reference, the Contemptor Claw arm actually comes with a normal set of “fingers”, but a different ranged weapon – a Graviton Gun and Plasma Blaster (which the rules are only in Imperial Armour […]
Continue ReadingI’ve finally relented and just ordered myself a new set of arms for my Contemptor – a Kheres Assault Cannon and Close Combat Claw. As I mentioned in a previous post, I wasn’t very impressed with the range of movement that was available from the Heavy Bolter arm and after spotting one of the heavy […]
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