Thursday, March 10, 2011

The Inner Circle

Just a quick update - I finally finished painting a pair of miniatures I started over a year ago. The dreadnought is from Forge World, and is one of my all time favourite miniatures. The Librarian is the old, very old, Grand Master Ezekiel model. I replaced his backpack with a modern Dark Angels version and gave him a Forge World servo-skull, but he still fits in extremely well with the modern GW space marine range.


Until next time...

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Project 2011

It's been nearly a year. That's slack. Real slack.

Did I hit my targets? No. Not by a long shot. What happened? Computer games... Dragon Age: Origins, followed by Fallout 3, followed by Fallout New Vegas. 150+ hours into each game. In succession. I guess the miniature painting just couldn't compete with that kind of addiction. Maybe I should see a shrink...

Not all is lost, however. The new year has introduced new interests, and new passions. Field of Glory: Renaissance has arrived, and with it, strangely enough, an interest in building a French army. French? Who'd have ever thought that would happen. Not me, I can tell you! Why French? Well... three little words... The Three Musketeers. Yup, cliche, I know. But painting those little (15mm) fella's in bright blue tunics with white crosses sealed the deal. The Japanese are still there... waiting for brush to touch metal... but the French are more appealing. Maybe it's just because the Testudo miniatures are so damn nice:



So, French for FoG:R is Project 1.

What about Project 2? My gaming group has decided to start a painting 'competition' (not the right word, but will do for the purpose of this post). Each month for the next twelve we have committed ourselves to paint up 250 points of a Warhammer 40,000 army. My choice is the First and Finest, the Dark Angels Adeptus Astartes. I thought painting an army of 3000+ points would be hard, real hard. It is, and it isn't. It seems I always paint with more dedication when I'm working to a deadline. Breaking a whole army down into individual monthly deadlines seems to be doing the trick. It also seems that having a varied colour pallete is also beneficial: dark green with the odd bone-coloured robe for they standard marines, black for the 2nd (Ravenwing) company, and bone for the 1st (Deathwing) company. So far, so good:



Project 3? Keep this blog more up to date than I did in the last year...

Well... stay tuned. Let's see how it goes.