They don’t always turn out how I’d hoped, but no matter what I always enjoy working on bases. This whole scenic base thing is still pretty new to me, and I learn something every time I work on one. Yesterday saw Squad Ultio hit the texture paint stage, which ties the whole thing together — […]
WIP it good: I love working on bases, and the philosophical side of this hobby Read More »
With an overnight cure for my primer (might be overkill, but why not be safe?) and an overnight dry for texture paint, I need to plan my miniature queue at least two days ahead of where I currently am. I like to have something I’m painting, something else ready to paint, and stuff to build
WIP it good: Narses and Squad Ultio Read More »
Yesterday was a busy day, but I squeezed in enough hobby time to get Squad Ultio fully assembled and partially based. The 40mm bases are a joy to work with because they give me so much room for scenery. It’s hard not to go buck-wild and overwhelm the models. I used a mix of tiny
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March was a productive month for me, miniature-wise: I painted 16 miniatures! As far as I can remember, this is the most figures I’ve ever painted in a single month. Painted 11 Space Hulk Terminators, completing my set Squad Karios: painted 5 Space Marines, primed and based 5 Space Marines Squads Dolos and Ultio, Dreadnought
March miniature progress Read More »
I love Terminators, so my starting Blood Angels army includes two squads of them — one shooty and one bashy, with the hammer boys riding in a Land Raider Crusader. For a bit of relaxation I started building Squad Ultio, the shooty Termies, starting with Sergeant Ultio and the teleport homer. I’ve never painted a
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Since I got back into miniature painting — and actually into it for the first time, really — on February 22, I’ve gotten quite a bit done: Painted 11 Terminators and three bits of scenery, completing my Space Hulk set (the Genestealers were already done) Assembled three squads for my Blood Angels army: Karios, Dolos,
A month as a miniature painter: February-March 2020 Read More »
My timeline for Space Hulk — and, zoomed out a bit, miniature painting in general — looks like this: 2009: bought Space Hulk 2012 or 2013: finished painting all the Genestealers 2014: base-coated the red on all the Terminators 2014-2020: basically quit miniature painting altogether February 22-March 13, 2020: finished painting the Terminators I’ve shared
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It’s the home stretch for my Space Hulk set — I can’t believe it! As of February 22nd, I had 12 Terminators who were partially (and sloppily) base-coated in red back in 2014. Now I’ve finished 10 of them and am working on the final two: Leon and Deino. When I first got back into
WIP it good: the final two, and my Space Hulk set is painted after 11 years Read More »
It hit me that when I finish my Space Hulk minis I might, in that happy glow of satisfaction at finally completing a task I began in 2009, stall out and loose my painting momentum. I decided to start a second parallel hobby track, assembling Blood Angels, so that when my Termies are done I’m
WIP it good: splitting my time, first Blood Angels model Read More »
With the end in sight, and having just done three of the most detailed minis in the box (Gideon and Lorenzo, and the Librarian), I figured I’d apportion the amount of detail work needed in the final four and split them into pairs. Now that I’m thinning paints more regularly (which I never used to
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