I stopped painting in pure assembly-line style (like I was doing last month), moved to two at a time, and now am experimenting with a “soft” assembly line: two on the handles, the rest of the squad nearby to make sure no paint goes to waste. Do the gold on my main two, finish it […]
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I stayed up late last night putting the final highlights on two more battle-brothers of Squad Karios. Then the dog woke me up at 5:00 am, so I figured I’d start on their decals. Knees: trickier than shoulder pads! But Micro Set and Sol are great, just needed a quick second coat on one knee
WIP it good: finished two more Marines, basing scraps, color guide Read More »
I love Terminators, so my starting Blood Angels army includes two squads of them — one shooty and one bashy, with the hammer boys riding in a Land Raider Crusader. For a bit of relaxation I started building Squad Ultio, the shooty Termies, starting with Sergeant Ultio and the teleport homer. I’ve never painted a
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I finished my first Blood Angel! Twenty-six paint colors. Terrain. A tuft. Decals. 7-8 hours of work. And loads of new-to-me techniques: texture paint; highlighting (as opposed to drybrushing), including two layers in some areas — on top of the base coat and wash, of course; decals; multi-step basing. He was so much fun to
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Since I got back into miniature painting — and actually into it for the first time, really — on February 22, I’ve gotten quite a bit done: Painted 11 Terminators and three bits of scenery, completing my Space Hulk set (the Genestealers were already done) Assembled three squads for my Blood Angels army: Karios, Dolos,
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After sticking to base coat > wash > drybrush for my Space Hulk set, with just a bit of dabbling in edge highlighting here and there, I committed to fully incorporating highlighting into my painting toolkit with my Blood Angels. I was pretty nervous about actually doing it for the first time. After base coating
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This past weekend I worked in a bit of painting time. Somehow painting my first Blood Angels model feels more like the official start of my army than any of the preceding steps — buying, assembling, priming, and basing. Audiobook as painting soundtrack I’m listening to the audiobook of Guy Haley’s Dante (paid link), narrated
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After washing Squad Karios’ bases yesterday I was worried I’d screwed them up. Today I drybrushed them: Grey Seer on the terrain, 50/50 Grey Seer/Corax White on the rocks, Corax White on the skulls (all thinned a bit with water. I probably went too heavy on the drybrushing — my default — but there’s definitely
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Tonight I wrapped up assembly on Narses, my Librarian Dreadnought. This is a really cool kit! I can’t wait to paint this guy. Narses is actually still in seven pieces: torso, arms x2, legs, feet x2, base — I’ve carefully balanced him for a photo, but he’s not glued together yet. I’m going to paint
WIP it good: Narses assembled, maybe screwed up my base wash Read More »
My timeline for Space Hulk — and, zoomed out a bit, miniature painting in general — looks like this: 2009: bought Space Hulk 2012 or 2013: finished painting all the Genestealers 2014: base-coated the red on all the Terminators 2014-2020: basically quit miniature painting altogether February 22-March 13, 2020: finished painting the Terminators I’ve shared
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