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I can’t believe it was March when I last wrote a post. You may recall that I was starting a new job and may also have guessed that this has been in some way related to the lack of posts – you’d be correct in that guess 🙂 I’m leaving home before 7am and not getting back until […]
Continue ReadingAlthough getting up earlier doesn’t appear to be getting any easier, I am ploughing through my ‘Wolves at quite a rate. The pack markings have been done, all of the bone elements and trinkets, black on the weapons and all the metallics. I’ve base coated and washed all of the ‘rope’/thong type bits that are […]
Continue ReadingBeen a little bit since I’ve posted because I’ve been struggling to get anything approaching a half decent photo because it always seems to be dark. Thankfully the mornings are getting light enough that I can take a few snaps before I go to work. I’m changing jobs the end of the month which is […]
Continue ReadingMaking a bit of progress on my Blood Claws on a day off after a really nice weekend away. Weapons have received their washes now so just a matter of a bit of drybrushing and then sorting out the black sections. They can then be put to one side until I get the pack of […]
Continue ReadingFor some unknown reason I’ve never published an update to my Drop Pod construction. I clearly began to create a post but then had a moment of epic fail and didn’t put anything other than a collection of pictures together. The drop pod is actually glued together now (the pics below don’t show the “engine” […]
Continue ReadingAlthough I still have my drop pod to glue together, on Wednesday my other half wanted some company whilst she did some bits on the PC so I did a bit of airbrushing. I have now managed to base colour another block of Space Wolves, including the remaining 7 Blood Claws of the large pack […]
Continue ReadingNot sure what happened but everything seems to have “come together” over the weekend. I’ve done all of the edge highlighting (and pushed that further than I normally would) and got a coat of varnish on everything. I spent a bit of time yesterday evening gently scraping the two pieces where the fins slot in […]
Continue ReadingWell the drop pod is almost at the point where I can begin to assemble it. All of the blue has been airbrushed and just needs some edge highlighting with a brush. The fins has have their red tips airbrushed and again just need a edge highlight. Once the edge highlight has been done I […]
Continue ReadingAfter changing my weekend around so that I had a bit more painting time today, I’ve ended up spending that time masking off the fins on the drop pod… The doors aren’t all masked yet either. However, here is a wip shot
Continue ReadingOk, perhaps a slightly inappropriate title considering how hot it currently is in the UK 😉 The past week or so had seen me beginning to put together a Space Marine Drop Pod as it’s been far too hot to paint or do very much at all. If you’ve never put a drop pod together […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been giving a lot of thought recently to sorting out the characters that I need for my Space Wolf army. Space Wolves are unique in that they can have two character’s for each HQ slot in the Force Organisation Chart – meaning a normal game can have up to 4 characters rather than the […]
Continue ReadingWell although I didn’t manage to hit my target of getting a unit of Blood Claws painted (it was quite a difficult challenge if I’m honest), I did get in a really good game of Warhammer 40k 6th Edition on Sunday. A bit of a learning curve (I lost) and still plenty of rules that […]
Continue ReadingMy plan of ploughing into my Space Wolves has worked quite well although I would have liked to have got further than I did. I believe that I’ve finally managed to work out a simple, effective and straight forward way of painting up a Space Wolf to a decent gaming standard. It does have more […]
Continue ReadingI cannot believe that it’s the middle of June and until a couple of days ago the only painting I had done was painting the kitchen! That said, the transfers on my Death Guard got done a few months ago and have turned out really nice, it’s worth taking the time to cut as much […]
Continue ReadingAs hoped I managed to get a bit of painting done last night. I didn’t start quite as early as I wanted but I did get a reasonable amount of time on them. I’m still working on the reds and brass colours currently and I’ve not really started on edge highlights, shading, silver metallics or […]
Continue ReadingWell the eight Space Wolves I’ve been painting are progressing nicely despite not having much time over the past week, in fact last night was the first time I picked up a brush since Sunday. As I was airbrushing on Friday I had this horrible feeling that I would get different results from Space Wolves […]
Continue ReadingThose of you who know me from here or CMoN will know that I’m a bit of a Space Wolves nut. It was the first army that I came across in 40k (back in the late 80’s) and I’ve been collecting an army on and off ever since. When the 5th edition Codex came out […]
Continue ReadingLast night was very productive but not on a modelling front. I got home late as I loitered around due to an un-forecast rain deluge and grabbed some meatballs and minced beef. When I got home I did the washing up, cooked tea and prepared a chilli con carne in the slow cooker for dinner […]
Continue ReadingThe Dark Vengeance boxed set contains some of the nicest Chaos miniatures that Games Workshop have produced (at least in my opinion). The Chaos Chosen and Lord are ‘spiky’ but hold true to their original Space Marine form and the spikes are more ‘warped’ than just poked on decorations. The poses also make them appear […]
Continue ReadingWell the Stormlord is very nearly finished, only a bit of drybrushing and painting of the shrine beside the engine pipes left to do and then I’ll call it a day. I’m not going to pretend that this is 100% perfect – or even 80% and I could happily tinker away at this for the […]
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