Sepia tinted

Two jobs done this lunch time, neither of which are particularly interesting I'm afraid, but both kind of important, particularly for the following steps (next week).

First paint all the robes with a medium layer of Gryphonne Sepia:

Just tones down the brightness of the bone and adds a little bit of depth. I may go back later and add another thinned coat to further puch the folds 'back' a bit more.

Second job, is going over everything that should be metal with black. It's a pain, but for me very important. I'm not the most careful painter, or the tidiest - because of the green 'wetbrush' and general mistakes, quite a bit of green made it onto pistols and grills and such. Get them black again, and boltgun metal will look alot cleaner.

Burn out

Well, maybe burnout isn't the right phrase...

I don't get to do much gaming these days, time passes, work and responsibilites intrude on the day. Oh, and then theres that damn inconvenient 'sleep' that takes up a majority of the non work 24 hours.

That means I get most of my 40k fix from reading forums and blogs, battle reps, tactical discussions, army lists and the strange politics of the warhammer biased interweb.

I'm full. I'm gorged on gaming by proxy. I have no interest in other people's 40k anymore. I don't think I've learned everything I can, I know I haven't memorised the rules and point cost of every race like I used to, and my interest in the game is still very much there.

I just need to digest all this wholesome games workshop food, and rather than sleep and excersize, I need to game.



Unfortunatly, I don't know when I'm going to be able to do that. I guess until a really tasty looking desert comes along (DA update? New DE codex? "Just a whaffer thin slice of ham sir?") I'll be staring at the menu with a glazed expression, and thinking that none of this really interests me.

P.S. Did I take the food = 40k thing too far?!

D.I.S.C.O

Stalled a bit due to lack of any of the paints I need to continue here at work, so I'm building a couple more grunts. Everybody needs more grunts right?
Do you ever have the problem of trying to make slightly more intersting marine poses, without taking a knife to any limbs? Oh, and also not look too rediculous...




Still want to do something wth arms on the right-hand grunt - gun out straight in one hand for example.

The next stage in the painting plan is some Badas-... Badab black ink in the crevasses - it just adds a bit more depth, and (at least in RL) makes the green pop a bit more.



Now I've just got to remember to stick gryphone sepia, boltgun metal and some reds in my bag tonight.

The Bone.. The Bone!

Follow up on yesterday, I've now added a layer of bleached bone to these 4:

The bone still isn't a perfect cover, but by the time I've added Gryphonne Sepia, the effect will be good enough.

Remember my goal is to look good, but also quick.

Bone.... Yuck!

Time to add the next stage to my dudes...

This is an undercoat of deneb stone on the robes - I tried putting on 2 or 3 layers of bone, but it didn't come out as smooth as I wanted. Now a layer of stone, and one layer of bone (for next update, didn't have time today) gives a nice flat colour to ink.

80? *Queue Maniacal laughter*

Just realised the box to the left detailling my paint points for 2009 had a target of 80... Starting at 4. Ha. Never mind eh?

I think it needs updating... And maybe a bit of added reality!

Happy New Green!

Happy new year! I hope 2010 rocks for all of us in the best possible ways.

Anyway, back to work today after last week being stuck in the house from snow...

Doesn't look a huge amount, but there was 10+ inches on the ground!

I had time to start the last stage of green on 3 out of the 7 dudes in my drawer.

Unfortunatly the pics aren't coming out too well under the lights in here. Anyway, over all the raised surfaces (especially edges), twice or three times if needed, paint on a mix:

1 part Dark Angel Green

1 part Snot Green

1 part Water

More to follow as I have lunches...

What people have to go through in the modern age

I'm going to add this link

http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=932

Please check it out, and support this guy if you can. I've only had to fly into the states once, and the guy behind the desk was itching to find a problem. These border guards seem to have needed to scratch.