The Age of Strife

Eric said:
Not that I've been able to find much hobby time for painting, but in a moment of eternal optimism I topped up the lead pile with a few new additions from ebay.

So this lot await their dunk into the paint stripper (apologies if you recognise your work!) and then hopefully in the mythical future of extra time I'll do my own scrawling on them!

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Otherwise I have done a few more bits of woodland, just small sections to pack out the larger ones I did a while back. I was curious to try some of the tree stump bases from Jarvis and picked up a few. They are perfectly decent, although perhaps the spacing is a little tight on them for the larger K&M trees, although that said in real life trees often grow into their neighbours. Anyhow they certainly made for a faster build. Still a bit of work needed to pack out the trunks now and add a few more bits of foliage before they are ready.
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Great haul! Are all of the originals? I have several of those in my pile.
 
I really ought to strip and repaint some of those. Quite a few of them are wearing almost forty year old enamel at this point. The enamel has held up surprisingly well, but my opinion of my teenage paint jobs less so. Anyway, looking forward to seeing all this! Should be splendid stuff.
 
Well They got some yellow on them now! Along with some plague bearers that I primed they are slowly having the weapons and whatnot picked out in black whilst I try to remember what I used to pin-line the armour on the older ones!
 
Well I can finally call myself an Oldhammer-er now ...

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The collection is complete, what more can there be to collect? ;)

I really didn't think I'd actually end up buying one given the stupid prices™ the poor beast sells for these days, or rather the stupid prices people are trying to sell the poor beast for and I've always regretted not bidding a little more on the easy Live Auction one last year, which then promptly went on eBay. So when this one came up for similar money I decided if no-one had bought it by the end of the day I would and fate evidently decided she was to be mine (despite a bit of a faff with Royal Mail just now, but that's a different story).

She'll stay as she is for now, I've too much in the painting queue to strip off a perfectly acceptable paint job, I shall just enjoy owning one at last.

I'm going to make a cuppa and enjoy sitting here with a stupid grin on my face for a while longer!
 
Nice score! I am well impressed. And sure, sure, it looks fine and that's all well and good, but you know you want to paint it . . .
 
Yep, only at the early stages. I've got a batch of about 15 marines on the go and have had the Dread sat waiting for a while in the cabinet. Not quite sure how exactly I'll paint it, but for the moment I've been getting the pin-lining and so forth done. Trying to get the rest of my older metal marines done. I think after this lot there are perhaps another five or so marines and a couple more jetbikes and bikes and then we're onto RTB01s and thinks like the 'strike force' era marines. Actually there are a tonne more terminators to do, forgot about those for a moment.
 
Well the marines might be put on hold for a little bit (main base blocking is all done) to let me easily get the airbrush out to do some terrain (Some simple MDF Necromunda style stuff to aim for a game against Weazil over the summer), but in anticipation of trying to clear some space on the desk I have been working on my remaining Plague Bearers this evening. Not totally successfully I fear. My previous ones were done with washes over white, for these I tried working up from a darker base and did some basic highlighting when I base coated them with the airbrush. I don't really quite feel this approach has been successful. Still they are what they are and I shall press on in my best imitation of Macbeth.

Do you find soldiering on the best approach or do you start over when you're not quite feeling the zone? I shall press on I think, but I'm curious what others do.

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Perhaps once I start to pick out the sores and work on the detail they wills start to feel like they are coming together. I think the difficulty I had was matching the highlighting to the base colours, especially with the more red/purple ones. Getting the right colours proved harder than I thought and one or two needed a yellow ink wash to attempt to better unify what I'd done. There were some great red plague bearers on here a little while back and I was hoping to ape those a little, but a tad more subtle to go with my others. Not quite sure yet if I will pull it off. Still this lot will complete the unit when done. I think that leaves one Palanquin, some random nurgle-esq warriors and a FW Great Unclean One in the rotting Nurgle pile. Then unless some more Beasts crop up on Ebay nice and cheap I might call that army done! Which may well be a first for me (if you don't count the odd Blood Bowl team), still I get ahead of myself somewhat!

Otherwise I did finish up some five Undead Carrion which was good. Still models I am undecided on, and that was after spending a good while adding in some more detail and trying to get the riders to actually sit on their little vulture buddies, rather than float on top of them weirdly. So photos of those to follow at some point.
 
I think they look fine. Once eyes/teeth/pustules are added they will start to pop.

I too suffer from the 'everything I paint looks sh1t' blues. It has stopped various projects dead in their tracks for months. I'm getting better at knuckling down and clearing my desk before starting the next thing, but it's not always easy.
 
Eric said:
Do you find soldiering on the best approach or do you start over when you're not quite feeling the zone? I shall press on I think, but I'm curious what others do.
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I never paint that many figures at once.
If I am painting a unit of like figures I will paint one to test out things and then go ahead with the rest once I like the test model.
Maybe going forwards do a trial model to see if it works and then only do loads at one go once you are happy with that initial one?

Other than being Nurgle they look fine to me.
 
I just realized those painting stands are pieces of dowel with a slot cut in them. I know I'm supposed to be looking at the glorious miniatures, but . . . nice painting stands! I love the way you made the clamps to fit slotta tabs. And sure, the miniatures will be great too and all that. But that almost goes without saying. Bravo! (They really will look chaotic and wonderful. The colors are already looking quite lovely.)
 
symphonicpoet said:
I just realized those painting stands are pieces of dowel with a slot cut in them.
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Yep. Magnet in the bottom and then just a tenon saw cut and a bolt through to tighten it up. I quite like having a decent handle on my models when painting. About 3-3.5" long. I was going to make up another batch for my marines since toes are all still just on croc-clips and I was also playing with some sprung clips I picked up to see how well they would work, but short of 3D printing a mount for them without a proper mill I can't really cut a piece of wood properly to fit them.
 
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