[unofficial weekender] red icky stuff

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First thing you must do is make your “pledge”. It can be anything gaming related, big or small, and you don’t even have to finish it. No, in here, happiness is the road. Have fun doing whatever it is, but it is not a race. Accompany your work with pictures or we might think you are do something sinister and just using us for cover.

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If you have never taken part before we may bark and bite, but we also like a cuddle! It is all done in the best possible taste and it is character building. feel free to give as good as you get.

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And don’t forget the highlights of the weekend: The Weekender on Friday and XLBS on Sunday. And the little show that is the unofficial Hobby Hangout over at twitch.tv

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This week it’s more a topic than a specific question. So “blood” is (in theory) something that’s all around the hobby. After all most of the games are about shooting and blowing up the other players or use sharp objects to carve them into little slices. It’s called wargaming for a reason. Now how do you handle this in your hobby time? Do you go all gory with red ink and Uhu strings? Blood splatter on every base? Or do you keep that for dioramas an special builds? is there a “too much” or can’t it be realistic enough?

And now back to the show.

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Pledge: keep going with my MFJP2024 project and videos (see my YouTube channel)

“Blood on my carpet.” Well. To be fair I can’t remember if I ever have painted blood on any miniature. Maybe on my old 40k doc boy but that’s about it. Oh and the stomped Emperors Guardian on my SW:L terrain. But that’s about it. Most games I play it  just doesn’t fit.

• Blood Bowl – yes it’s in the name but for me it’s cartoon violence. Nobody *really* gets hurt
• Battletech and Bot War – Well, machines don’t bleed. And coolant is green.
• Star Wars: Legion – Have you ever watched Star Wars? Yes people die, Whilhelm screams a lot and limbs get cut of but there is no gore or blood. So it wouldn’t fit the visuals.
• Frostgrave – technically blood could work here but I never felt the need to add to it.

Maybe some day I’ll do a diorama (haha, who am I kidding) and then blood will be needed. That’s it. Coffee is getting cold, The Weekender still needs to be watched. Have some music:

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Pledge: finish some Riders of Rohan and most importantly post them to a Project. I’m so lazy at taking WIP shots.

 

Blood for the Blood God:

My take is to paint blood only on cases where it fits and also then quite sparingly. It’s kind of a shock effect. I did blood splatters and bloody weapons to my Bestiarium Penitent Crusade stuff in this project https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1806509/ Gore goes strongly with the theme of the miniatures, and in fact I chose the colour scheme so that the red stands out.

But I don’t have blood on my 40k Ork choppas or lighning claws while they obviously are extremely violent weapons. If I was doing World Eaters or Khorne Daemons, then it would go with theme. Star Wars: absolutely not. WW2? only if it is realistic, e.g. a medic tending to a wounded soldier. Napoleonics? Nah, prefer them clean and romanticised.

Then, thinking of this, you could go completely contrary with a shock factor. Do Burrows & Badgers in super gore, the animals bloody and feeding on each others flesh and see if Ben gives you a golden button ?

 

 

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Oh Moonstone Gore Edition? That’s a thought. XD

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Pledge is to flip a skirmish tile in my project and try to make it a dungeon tile for double the goodness.

I put blood on blade edges at times, but that’s usually it.

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Blood or no blood ?

welll … for me to answer that I’d have to paint a mini first 😉

I’ve been thinking about this while contemplating (and procastinating) how to paint the Eddy bust from the “Killers” album.

The bust included a few curious tiny bits of resin that I didn’t recognise at first, but the researching the actual cover image showed that it had to be blood.

So now … do I use the UHU method as shown on a Gerry Can ? or do I attempt to use the bits of resin and hope I can make them look realistic. The former would require me to buy that glue and would delay the project. I’m not convinced that extra delays are what I want at this point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killers_(Iron_Maiden_album)

This was also my inspiration to add lights to my airbrush setup. 🙂

Can’t mention Iron Maiden without adding some of their music, can we ?

 

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This week’s pledge is to continue by second dungenoalia project. The backdrop is progressing, but the model I bought first is too small. It’s replacement won’t arrive until around the 20th. I have to ensure everything else is done before then if I want to hit the deadline.

 

Blood – my use varies from army to army. My first army was vampire counts which can easily be a very gory range if you want. I had red paint on my zombies, vampires, and ghouls. In 40k my blood angels had none. It wouldn’t have stood out against the red armour. In Age of Sigmar my vampire counts evolved into a Flesh Eater Courts. Pale flesh combined with a gory theme saw me apply quite a bit of Blood for the Blood God. More “realistic” games like Bolt Action I don’t use blood. Maybe if I did a wounded model as a counter there’d be a tiny bit on a bandage.

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by second dungenoalia

At first I read “sexy dungeonalia” and now I’m disappointed XD

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surely an X-rated dungeon is somewhere … right ?

Crispin/Lludan would be the one to think of such a monstrosity 🙂

 

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“Sexy dungeonalia” is the S&M dungeon…

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The theme of the diorama is intended to be “bedroom fantasy” after Lloyd suggested it a few Weekender’s ago.

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Pledge: start into my next army.. slowly?

Blood, a highlight for violent action and is sparingly included as a detail. I’d use UHU as dripping fluid that might come from things that make the sound *schmeck*.

I am done with my Arabian Knights. I now need a hug, a chocolate cookie and a nap.

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@horati0nosebl0wer  we might need to have a talk about the definition of “slow” XD

It’s Monday morning and windy as flock out there.

Stay safe, grab a brew and enjoy the week!

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@sundancer Slow means I’m not going full bore into assembly line batch painting like an Imperial Guard or Ork army that I hammer out in a month *shudders at the thought of effort and cost*.

I’ve got a great single model that I have on my table that I will lovingly paint with care.

 

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Ah I see. My understanding was more like “taking it slow because we’re all not growing younger” 😉

Tuesday! Windy again, it rains. Didn’t get to do any hobby last night because taxes. I hate paperwork.

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