A couple of Jetbikes

Are this weeks work. So a lot slower in painting than I have been for the last couple of weeks.

So hopefully next up will be another bunch of Night Goblins. Then the third jetbike to finish off the minimum sized squad.

I was sort of enjoying painting these, however the green on the front was not looking too good. I managed to bring it back with some really thin coats of the midcoat I think.

I also found out about the green that I am using for my highlighting, in that it does not thin down really well with water alone. Have to put some matt medium in there to stop it going chalky and not smooth.

With the stuff that I am undercoating with, as it has some sort of super-sci-fi style auto levelling property, that I have to let this dry fully on its own and not try to hurry it along with the hair dryer. The hair drier still works great for helping to dry the thin layers of paint though.

All in all, a couple of models done, some lessons learnt and a good way to lead into the next week of painting.

Cheers.

Alas, only 11

I only got 11 models finished this week. But again, any progress is good progress. Possibly it could have been a little more progress, but I was a little distracted by Skyrim.

So the finished models this week is another 10 Night Goblins with Hand weapons

And the Farseer.

Pretty happy with the Farseer.

And a group shot of the Seer Council. I am pretty happy with them all up really.

Which also brings my total for the year to 71 models.

I am thinking of working on some more Eldar models next. I found some jetbikes, and from looking around they have not changed or been updated since I bought these in the old blue boxes. So they are still the current ones. Which is good. I did have to grab some of my spare flight stands, as I could not find the original ones that came with them. Although they may have been used on an ancient project to try and make some flying assault marines.

Anyway...

I will see how the week goes. I am hopeful of some more painting being done. Will it be the a large number? Will it be a few? Or only a partial completion week? Only time will tell.

Until next time.

Another good week

Ahh. As the title provides, I have had another good week of miniature painting. Another dozen models have been completed.

Which consist of another 10 Night Goblins for the unit of 100 with Hand Weapons. Bringing the unit now to 20 complete models.

And another two Warlocks.

I am very happy with the progress that I have been making lately. I seem to get into phases and currently I am in a painting phase. So I am trying to hit the painting as hard as I can while it lasts.

Next up I am hoping to complete the Farseet from the box set for the Eldar. That will be good, because it will mean that I will have completed one complete box of models.

I am still not sure what army to take to Arcanacon next year. As it is the 9th Golden Fez I am swinging back towards my Thousand Sons and not a new army. I am waiting to see if the points for Arc have been upgraded, or if it is 1200 still. There were some mutterings about them being raised, however I will wait until the player pack is released and see what it says.

And I realised that I had a math failure with my model count so far this year. 36 + 12 does not 50 make. Sigh. Instead it makes 48 for last week. Which is still Ok.

So 48 plus the 12 from this week though does make 60. So that is good. Above 50 without a math error and about a fifth of the models that I have purchased this year. Which sounds just as pathetic to me as it does to you. However onwards and upwards in the number of painted models. Hopefully neutrality will remain for a while with the numbers of models that I have purchased.

Not likely, as I have backed a kickstarter for some Dwarven Musketeers and Ogre's Cardinals Guard. But that is only 10 models so far. And has not made their funding goal yet, so I will see what happens with them.

Cheers until next time. To the Paintening!

Computer troubles...

Well, I was without a computer there for a little while. The graphics card on my Desktop stopped working, so I had to get a new one and install it. While that was happening I found that my laptop's battery had died and it also no longer was working. Well, unless it was plugged in. So some limited computer time meant that I had some time for... Painting.

I am feeling quite good. I have finished 12 models since my last post.

The Eldar warlock is now done, and I am very pleased with how it turned out.

I also completed the Hurley tactical drone from my Sedition Wars set.

And also another 10 Night Goblins are now finished. This is the first 10 in the next unit of 100 that I have to paint.

So all in all a pretty successful time.

And it also brings me up to 50 models completed so far this year.

Next up I will see about starting on the next couple of warlocks that I have. Then more Night goblins. Then more Sedition Wars figs. And then... Well, best not to get too far aheard of myself in planning.

Well, back to it I guess. I should keep painting hard while I am in a painting mood.

Cheers.