A detailed account of my various commission/hobby projects.
Warhammer 40,000 – Will the cultists never end? This chaos marine army has been fun to paint since I no longer play chaos marines and sold off most of my stuff to focus on my loyalist chapter, however the fact that there are really only five uniques sculpts for the cultists is getting really old. There's really only so many variations of red, brown and khaki you can do to make these models look slightly different.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – Grey Knights, I'm not really sure how I feel about painting them. They seem to be pretty easy and straightforward to paint. But it always feels like they're to plain. Of course once the details are done they look really good. It's just the middle part of painting them that gives me issue.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – I was able to get a game in with my Iron Storm list that I posted about before the new book came out. Not much changed with my list points were very close to what they were with the old book and I didn't have to change much.
Read MoreWarhammer 30,000 – So this is probably a bit late, unless you're like me and refuse to buy the Black Library books until they release as mass market paperbacks so they match the rest of the stuff on your shelf. (and a a more reasonable price for a book you'll most likely read once).
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – A little while back I painted up a team of Vindicare Assassins for a client, I had kept them pretty standard looking with just the straps being different colors. Initially he was quite happy with these but after having them on the table he decided he wanted to brighten them up. Part of the issue is he's color blind so it was hard for him to tell them apart.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – The decals are done and these marines are wrapped up. I'm pretty impressed with how quick I was able to get these assembled and painted. The decals were probably the most time consuming part of the process only because I have to wait for the chemicals to do their job and melt the decals to wrap the shoulder pads.
Read MoreHobby Tip – Recently I was at a local art store picking up so supplies for a silk-screening project I'm working on and saw that they had a sale on Montana Gold spray paint. I've heard of it before but never tried it out because of the price and lack of project to use it on.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – So my current personal project may be seeing some revisions when the new book drops on Saturday. From the rumours I've seen costs drop on most stuff so if anything I might be able to squeeze in some more toys.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – I really love the Badab War books.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – So less than a year after their initial release we've go a brand new Imperial Knight Codex. I for one am excited. I passed on the original codex because I couldn't stomach painting $30+ for two unit entries that I already got with my $3.99 White Dwarf pamphelt a year ago. This time around I decided to pick it up because the Knights are something I've been thinking about running for a while and I think the limited back story included in the codex is interesting.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – I love making lists. In fact making lists quite often leads to me getting new stuff. Which is a problem. I've been making a concerted effort to only build lists with models that I own or have the parts to build already. I've also been making an effort to only play with stuff that is fully painted. (at the minimum I have to have the purple, white and gold on a model)
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – I've been playing and painting 40K also exclusively as of late. Not that you couldn't tell based on the current glut of content on this site. Granted I'm not playing 2-3 times a week with a tournament every Saturday like I used to back during the heyday of 3.5 Edition with the special assault rules and god-like Chaos marine book. But I am getting a game in every other week at a minimum and as such am really getting a grasp on the subtleties of seventh edition. I'm still not 100% on all the rules all the time and don't do a whole lot with crazy formations yet. But on the whole I really like the game.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – I'm still keeping my head above water, it's crazy every spring I seem to get flooded with a bunch of new commission work, typically it's for a game that just released the previous season or that has recently seen a upsurge in popularity. As of late i've been seeing an awful lot of 40K models come across my table. This seems odd to me as if you believe the interwebs that game might as well be on it's last legs with the amount of "new" games; that play better, are cheaper and generally better designed; that are stepping up to knock the champ off it's proverbial golden throne.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – Storm Ravens have to be my least favorite model to paint. I'm not sure what it is about them the model is really pretty cool looking with a decent amount of detail so it should be quick and easy to paint. But for some reason I just can't get into the groove with them.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – Busy in not a strong enough word to describe what I've been lately. My latest commission of a White Scars-ish Space marine army has been devouring most of my free time at the moment. I'm really happy with how quickly I've been able to get through these models considering about 75% of them needed to be assembled and based as well as painted. My client is pretty laid back about how quickly I turn these around but I'm really pushing to get everything done ASAP.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – Bikes, bikes and more bikes. Right now I'm working on a really massive Space Marine commission, this includes not only a bunch of stuff that will need to be assembled or converted, but also a bunch of "budget" models that are in questionable condition. As with many of my 40K jobs this is a straight up 3-Color+ job just meant to get the army to look ok on a tabletop and meet painting requirements. As such my primary focus on getting these done is speed painting.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – My Grey Knight client has some interesting ideas, I guess he's working on setting up a team tournament where you'll randomly be assigned to a teammate. In order to make up for the inevitable lack of even numbers at an event he decided that the house team would be five Vindicare assassin. He handed me one metal model of the "good pose" that had been painted as well as a box of finecast "bad pose" models and said make them look cool.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – The second half of the Grey Knights commission I'm working on consists of two stormravens, three dreadnoughts, and two nemesis dreadknights. These go along with the last batch of models and are in the same three color + level of painting. It seems that this is a very popular level as it's not to costly and the models look great on the tabletop.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – The first group of Orange White Scars is done, I'm not 100% sure what my client is calling his chapter but the logo he gave me for their shoulder pads is a sun with a spear. If I would hazard a guess or was naming them myself I'd go with Dawn Spears.
Read MoreWarhammer 40,000 – I've been hit with a deluge of Warhammer 40,000 commissions lately, which I take as a good sign for the game. It seems that locally people are flocking back to the game as something tried and true after being disappointed by the latest hotness too often. I have to say I'm glad as 40K was my first real mini game and it still remains one of my favorites.
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