Painting did not happen this past week, again. But that’s
okay as I did get some construction,
basing and priming finished on some upcoming projects namely:
1.
Beast of Nurgle
This fun looking critter is Games Workshop’s latest
version of the daemon and the first as a plastic kit with a few options for personalization.
Neither simple nor difficult to build, the instructions were the only reason I found
this taking a bit longer to construct
than I’d anticipated. But the finished product, wow. Just a well-designed
model kit and with the left over bits, I think I will try my hand at some
sculpting with air-dry clay to see if I can’t make him a pal to give me two for
any future WH40K Daemons list that I might try out using the current 8th Edition rules (That I recently got a hold of.).
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| He's since been primed grey and is awaiting me to decide on a suitable colour scheme. |
2.
Volksgrenadier
I realized that I can’t stand the Warlord plastic
Grenadier sculpts and that their metal sculpts are so much more fun to paint
and full of character in contrast (Think I’ve mentioned as much somewhere
before?). So I gave my left over plastics to Densmol so he can build even more
Krauts for me to mow down. Instead, I bought Warlord Games’ Volksgrenadier
Squad and spent time prepping them for primer (They are now drying post-prime).
Bit dressed down for the depths of Winter I guess, but they’ll do for some
inexperienced level fun.
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| Poor buggers, thrown into the gaping jaws of the Soviet war machine. Doesn't matter how up-to-date and shiny their kit is, they're still inexperienced recruits and will probably die horribly in every game I use them in! ^_^ |
3.
Objective Markers
I ordered some VERY affordable 40mm round mdf bases
from a Spanish-based Ebay seller that arrived quite quickly and used some of
them as bases for some old resin Chain of Command objective markers that were a
kind gift some time ago from Stew. Still debating whether I should Winterise
the things or leave them as generic as possible so I can use them in multiple
theaters? Opinions on this are welcome. Notice the 5th one with the
German duo – another kind gift from the good Admiral Drax. Excited to paint
this one and it will end up being
done in a Winter theme.
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| Objective markers that can be used in multiple games, or as extra scatter terrain in a pinch. |
4.
Lights, Camera, Action!
After seeing some of my fellow bloggers’ super well
done pics using ultra-affordable portable lightboxes, I decided to get one for m’self.
And low and behold, it makes my own figs look better in pics too, AND, it’s
easy to set up and store and takes up little space even when left set up, so I will
be using the thing from here on in to show off my painted goodies for you all
to peruse.
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| My recently previewed SS-Grenadiers. Think the black background makes them pop way more than before. |
