The workbench is looking quite sparse today, as I'd just finished off the 15 Black Knights earlier in the week, and was only working on the Krell model as my Undead hero for the #talesofinstahammer secret challenge. Work area looked thus -
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| It'll be all wight... |
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| Multicoloured Horrors of Tzeentch |
I worked away in a haphazard manner on Krell, varnishing certain areas when dry and moving onto others. Basically to try and have him ready for the end of the month. The style and colour scheme for my Draugr Undead is very forgiving in terms of effort and time commitment. Or. in other words, it is really quick to do a kinda sloppy job that still looks passable on the table. Or something like that... Anyway, I managed to get my Vanguard challenge plus Hero done in time. The Black Knights were a bit of a slog, really wasn't feeling much love for them, but they are done now, and tie in with the rest of the force.
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| Charge of the Wight Brigade. |
The not quite Pink Horrors were just me testing out various transparent paints before committing to the colours for my spectral undead stuff coming up, and they just happened to be the closest models to hand already primed white. I reckon I am going for the Turquoise (back left) as, combined with white robes should give off a Corpse Bride vibe.
I've been getting stuff assembled too, built up my first Clockatrice (Thanks Allan) for my Grymkin, as well as a 15mm Stug and Tiger from Plastic Soldier Company for What a Tanker!
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| Vikings and Tanks and Nightmares, oh my! |
I'm getting pretty close to having most of the stuff I already own for my #hobbyresolutions2019 projects built up, and I'm throwing in the occasional odd model too, just to keep things fresh, and, like the 15mm tanks, I only need to paint one or two models to have enough for a game. The Hordes of the Things elements are started, so, the biggest job now is getting the Warband models cleaned up and on painting sticks.
I've also been gaming more, Warhammer Underworlds and Warmahordes, and have knocked out a few games versus Sarah's Skaven, and played into Cole's Gaspy2 Bane list on Tuesday.
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| The Bane of Heavy Warbeasts... |
I missed doing an extra blog post this month, although I have done some work for it, so I'm not beating myself up too much. I also lost some time between 2 of the kids birthdays and travelling to Belgium, so, I'll catch up with that at some point. Plan for next month is to finish off Sam's Blighthaven Warband, do my Tales of Instahammer stuff, and crack on with the Hordes of the Things elements to get them off the desk. I also want to get more games in before the Welsh Masters in May, and get more stuff assembled and primed. Not sure that I'll also get the Warband army finished, but, well, it is just a rough guideline, 10 months left to get it all done.
Overall Challenge Completion is below.
Cheers,
John
| Amount | Task | Completed | ||
| 78 | Fully Paint Grymkin (HORDES) | 16 | 21% | |
| 152 | Paint Tales of Instahammer 2000pt Death Army (AoS) | 138 | 91% | |
| 31 | Paint 15mm Tree Folk army (Dragon Rampant) | 31 | 100% | |
| 8 | Paint 10mm Taurian Army (Warband) | 0% | ||
| 8 | Paint 8 new elements for 15mm Picts (Hordes of the Things) | 0% | ||
| 6 | Paint 6+ pts Jomsviking force (SAGA) | 0% | ||
| 4 | Paint 4 Shadespire Warbands | 0% | ||
| 40 | Paint 1200pt Norse Army (Of Gods & Mortals) | 1 | 3% | |
| 100 | Play 100 Games | 22 | 22% | |
| 8 | Play 8 new opponents | 8 | 100% | |
| 8 | Play 8 Boardgames | 2 | 25% | |
| 1 | Run April Fuel Daze 3! | 0% | ||
| 64 | Maintain blog with weekly and monthly posts | 11 | 17% | |
| 4 | Go to 4 shows or conventions | 1 | 25% | |
| 467 | Transfer flip top paints to dropper bottles | 0% | ||
| 12 | Write 1 extra blog post per month (BatRep, tutorial, review etc) | 1 | 8% | |
| 991 | 23.31% | |||
| January, February, March | 2 | 50% | ||
| April, May, June | 0% | |||
| July, August, September | 0% | |||
| October, November, December | 0% |
Coming along as always John. I'm looking forward to the completed Krell. I have one I never got around to starting so I'm hoping a look at yours might get me at it. I can see why the knights felt like a task. I'm not digging the minis. I'm a sucker for the GW black knights. A bit fiddly but they look pretty sweet. I did some armour at 28mm scale so I'm curious how you are going to treat your 15mm panzers. All of the models in that shot look like they would be fun to paint.
ReplyDeleteHaha, that is the finished one. He was still on the workbench as he was drying. It's a very early Finecast version, so the trophy racks aren't the best, and his other horn broke when I dropped him. Don't imagine the giant air bubble in the bottom of it helped...
DeleteFor the 15mm Armour, I'm thinking the traditional late war Tri Colour scheme. But I doubt I'll get much done with them until I invest in a decent airbrush and compressor.
Keep the good work John. I really like the multi coloured horrors. They will look excellent when finished.
ReplyDeleteCheers Simon, but they were only for testing the transparent paints. I've already papped them off to her for her Thousand Sons army :p
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