Foehammer’s 2019 New Year’s Resolution
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About the Project
Half way through 2018, after over 10 years in my previous house, my family and I moved to a newer, bigger house, driven mostly by the increasing size of offspring. However, a side effect of moving (particularly packing and unpacking) was the realization of just how much gaming/miniatures stuff I have, particularly of the unpainted variety. Fortunately this pile of hobby stuff didn't significantly increase over the holidays. Thus my mission: New Years Resolution - make a significant dent in my pile of unpainted minis. The reason I chose to do this as a new project is there is going to be no consistent theme to these painting completions. No single game system. No single army. I'm just making it a goal to paint some more of something every day. If I get tired of painting 1 thing, I will jump to another. Some days, I plan to just randomly reach into my pile of stuff, no peaking, pull something out, and paint it. Lets see how it goes.
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Johnny 5 is Alive
This is a model my son got for Christmas for his British Airborne K47 army. These are Automated Mobile Platforms. They are light vehicles/walkers that provide some additional firepower to British forces. While very light on armor, as can be seen by the last picture, they pack A LOT of firepower for a model of their size, having either
- 3x 50cal machine guns
- a Medium AT gun
- A light howitzer
Overall the miniature was nicely detailed, came in only 5 pieces, and painted up very quickly. I think I need to add 1-2 decals to break up the green and I can call it done.
Snake-Man
So, lets get started. In the future I hope to have more in-process shots, but the first few will be minis that I painted towards the tail end of my Christmas Holiday break. During that break I randomly reached into one of my Target plastic storage cabinets and pulled out the following miniature. Its a snake man from the original Shadows of Brimstone Kickstarter. Its not the most detailed miniature ever, maybe a good half-way between a board game miniature and a good Wargaming miniature. However, it was something very different from my usual miniatures so was fun to paint.
Front View
Back viewI still need to complete the base, and do some form of dry brushing to bring out the details in the scales. I might actually paint some kids of spots/pattern on the back scales to make it so its not all universally one color.
Thoughts?
Ok, Lets Get This Rolling
As it says on the tin, my goal with this project/New Years Resolution to start making a dent in my massive pile of unpainted minis. I hope to grab something every day, and try and make some progress. If I find something in my collection that I absolutely can’t bring myself to paint, then I guess its destiny is the trash bin or Ebay.
I’m looking to you, the fantastic BoW/OTT hobby community, to help keep me motivated with comments/critiques/constructive criticisms. Are you up to the challenge?
