I should really get around to finishing that someday.
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About the Project
For two and a half decades I've been in the wargaming hobby. Collecting, building, converting, and gaming. But very rarely painting. Sadly a crippling fear of paintbrushes and paint pots has meant that while I've bought and built plenty of models the fear of mucking up my stuff has meant I can count on one hand the number of models I've painted to completion, and I wouldn't even need to use all my fingers. Well I've decided to change, pick up the paint brush and fight through the fear to very end. This project log is to showcase this process.
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We return now to our previously scheduled broadcasting ... 31
Don't ask me where it's from, I've no idea. It was clearly old school, pre slotta and some poorly molded areas, but I loved it nontheless.
Life happens and gets in the way, but here I am back once again plugging away at the “backlog”. To be truthful I’d completed this towards the end of last year but have only got near the internet with it now. It was fun playing with colours, and creating such a different base locale. In addition to liven up the sculpt a bit I had a go at some simple freehand “tribal” tattooing. I thought for a brief second that I should check how to actually do tattoos, maybe find an online tutorial perhaps . . . I didn’t. Just going at it blind I think it worked out ok. Dark blue on light blue skin probably helped out, but getting the darker outline was to me key to getting the look of the thing right. Fingers crossed the next completed models will be done a bit quicker perhaps.
3 more and I've hit 30.
Sticking with another simple paint scheme, this time on some mushroom men. What I did want to have a crack at was the crackle paint, I've had mixed results in the past but I was more than happy this time round.
26 and 27 and we'll have no monkey business here thank you!
I picked up these two at the begining of the year, no use for them but having had fun watching the Apes reboot trilogy of recent years I fancied having a go at these when I saw them.
It was a fairly easy painting process, multiple layers of drybrushing to build up the colour, bits of blue, bits of grey, lighter blues for the child, white for the parent, and then a black drybrush for the parents fur to tone it down a little. Not the greatest paint job certainly, but a fun little project nonetheless.
25, and we're back on a little bit of a roll!
I joked with a friend that for my next trick I would be able to get Archaon built and painted in a weekend. Well here he is. And after having my covid shot too so I was one handed all weekend as my arm was dead and unliftable for the best part of a week. at 25 I'm now pretty much at 1 model complete to a standard I'm happy about for every year I've been in the Hobby, guess the next landmark moment will be one for every year on the planet?
23&24 add up to just one I should imagine right?
Had a few of these kicking about, finally decided to finish these two off. I started these after I’d just moved, the reason they have such a simple scheme is I only had a half dozen paints. Can’t remember all the details, I think the blue was a 5 stage jobby, the metal two, paint limitations. It was those limitations, and the resultant simplistic paint job that make me love them all the more, red skin? Kind of looks like he’s wearing leather gloves.
And Finally, Model 22.
It's been a while, but at long last I return paint brush in hand!Once more to the prep my friends.
Bit more prepping on models that have been sat unloved (well unpainted at least as they were always loved) for far too long. Once again a much younger me threw green suff at this guy so for the sake of my rose tinted glasses I don't want to remove it. I have pulled off some of the rougher bits but overall he's no staying as he is.Model 21!! . . . . of still too many to count completed.
It never ceases to make me sad that however much time I spent touching up the stripey pants to get them to look good, as soon as you put the cmera lense to look through it suddenly looks a little rough.
Parts of this guy were painted over 8 years ago so rather than going over them now I decided to leave them as they were and just foccus on some of the bigger parts. Details in places on this figure were so shallow that the paint layer already there was obscuring the part, best just to make the best of it and move on.
I also wanted to keep the cape, I did the orange way back when but my partner played around with the little bit of freehand kind of flame effecct on the hood so I wanted it to stay. the stripey trews are new though, I'm pleased with them in spite of the camera.
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