Reply To: Hobby Weekender 31/01/2019 – Let's All Down with the Sickness

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Oh  good questions  🙂

1) if  it’s too hot or too cold for painting, then my typical go-to is build something. Case in point my first Diet Knight:

Built as the snow starts to mount up here in the West Country.  Alternatively list building or trying to find some inspiration, be it podcasts, a book,  or video media of some sort. Ideally with a chilled drink (I’ve found a fantastic cordial of late – crushed lime & mint – on it’s own it’s smoothly refreshing but also an excellent mixer to add something to a class of Coke..)

2) sit, partly as I don’t have any hobby space I could comfortably stand at and work, partly because of my leg issues…

3) when I did my combined Raptors/Cadians army I had the crazed notion to spice up the minis bases to look like they were fighting through marshlands of some sort, so on each model before priming I added patches of sand whilst leaving parts of the base bare. once the model was painted the sand was painted in earthy tones and had static grass applied. after that the gaps in between the batches of grass were painted deep blues before thick layers of PVA were applied. Crude, and did not take dust well at all, but got the general effect across…

Brigadier Duggan at the top there shows the last time I finished the effect, whilst the two Inquisitors below him show how it looked ahead of the PVa layer

4) SCUBA-diving I’d give a shot, sky-diving may require a tad more convincing. also booze. Lots of booze 😀