@mage glad the day was enjoyable. Keen to see how the firebelly is progressing. Yes I have also had something in mind which would lend itself well to a ‘one weekend challenge’ type of format (If I could get the gear I need and get a clear weekend of course…). It might be a fun type of thing that community members could do now and then and we could all get behind and follow along with. With regard to your potential projects, you know we are always up for cheering along from the sidelines 🙂 Given the volume of stuff you can churn out in short order when you set your mind to it, wondering what exactly it is you have in mind?…
I hear you on the OSL – have only tried it a few times and it always makes me nervous. For what it’s worth i think it turned out well on your Vader, but your point is well made – a centrepiece mini like the firebelly may not be the best model to use as a test if you are not feeling confident in approaching. 20 points for hobby progress (but we still wanna see a pic! 🙂 )
@woldenspoons heh that made me giggle – 20 points.
@warzan he got a week off in the lead-up to a bolt action bootcamp? Well he craftily timed that well 😛 Really did enjoy part 1 of the Trench VLOG, looking forward to seeing more. – 10 points.
Surprisingly I ended up getting a fair bit done hobby-wise today. Got enough done on my Terrain Challenge entry that I’m actually going to be OK with meeting the deadline now, which is good as I don’t know that I’ll get any hobby time during after work this week (should still be OK to do the final spot-glue, snap some photos and do a write-up though).
My historicals survived the varnishing OK, so now need to touch up the skintone and white in a few places, glue some washers to the bottom of them (the small base makes them quite unstable so hoping to add weight to the bases make them a little less top heavy – failing that, magnets…) and then do a simple base. Probably need to do another 50 or so before I have enough for a proper game of Sharp Practice, so looking forward to hitting that threshold.
(Please ignore the historical goblins in the background… I believe they were a mercenary force working for Orcstria… OK, I’ll show myself out now…)
Got around to mixing up a large batch of homemade ink wash following the recipe i found online and posted a couple of weeks ago. Really happy with the results – this was a trial ink wash over a white primed Reaper mini I had in my ‘to do’ pile. Plus it will be easy to darken down further for when I need to do stuff cheaply on a larger scale, ie terrain…
And got a bunch of Skaven up to the varnishing stage – not great work but they are skaven so it’s all about the quantity 🙂 And the Army Painter dip really does hide a multitude of sins…
Rest of my hobby progress was for the Terrain Challenge components so I will update the project log with it over the week rather than post here.
