Reply To: Hobby Weekender 08/03/19 – Slightly Forward to the 90s

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@limburger quite the haul! As you say, those Gitz would make great unit champions or just add some variety to the rest of a mob.

@mage oh dear! Hope you are OK. Finger injuries inevitably take ages to heal properly as you inevitably keep knocking them and opening them up again. Hope you are OK and it wasn’t too deep. Really like the way the Minotaurs are looking – they have almost a dieselpunk feel to them. Buildings were a couple of weeks ago now. Really keen to get some paint on them as I think the designs will look really good once detailed a little but busy focusing on batch painting armies presently. Might give myself a bit of a break after the Middenheim infantry are finished…

@dawfydd Heh, yes ironic timing on the Sisters. Still those TGG minis will make nice alts for characters or an elite squad. I guess ‘rare’ is relative in a big enough universe and over a long enough timeline and it doesn’t sound like the the project you are considering is thematic rather than over the top. No doubt there is always a space hulk drifting towards a manufacturing world or a hive fleet somewhere, so I can’t imagine a smaller Crusade style force would be difficult to rationalise fluff-wise… Ordering a copy of Shadowspear is erring? … Did you mean to order two? 😛 Seriously, this was probably a smart move. I can see them running out of stock on this one so best to get in early.

@horati0nosebl0wer Well the Eldar are looking great so far 🙂 Is it inspiring you to do more at smaller scale? I painted my first 10mm’s last week – approached it the same way as I would 28mm’s and they came out way too dark. Was a good learning experience for me – apparently smaller minis need bolder colours and let the wash do all the shading. who knew? 😛

@robert Scotland V Wales looks like it would have been a great contest – I only saw the highlights. England V Italy? well to paraphrase a mate of mine it wasn’t all one way traffic – they changed directions at half time… Not a fan of internationals where the score blows out like that – I always feel sorry for the players on the receiving end of the onslaught…

@sundancer really nice work on the Pathfinders. Love the way the drab camo colours have turned out. Great stuff!

On the hobby front finished the pass of black over my Middenheim force and got the leatherwork on all but 35 of the infantry. Going to set the character models aside and do in detail later. Plan for today (it is a public holiday here today – I think it’s Weasel Stomping day or something similarly important…) so will finish off the leather, then try and do the hair on all the minis and detail some of the leather armour. If I can get that done I might be close to a varnish…

Have also been stripping a bunch of cheap Ebay minis but some of them had been varnished so the paint is coming off unevenly. Might require a second go with a more concentrated batch of stripper… Also been printing up some warmachines to use the filament on the end of a few spools. Actually quite pleased with the way they have been turning out – Might need to consider a small Artillery School of Nuln force at some stage…