Welcome my friends! Bit of a shorter post this week. Had a slew of wedding stuff lately, so time has been a bit restricted! I was able to get working on the enamels, and get some lovely close up shots for you all. I also had some fun working on the renegade ork knights, and coming up with ideas to flush them out. So first off, started with the powders, enamels, and washes. Also got some closer up shots, so everyone can see how deep the chipping detail is. It never really shows up that well at a distance, but boy oh boy is it awesome when you are seeing it in person!
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Welcome back friends. Another exciting week of lets watch Greg paint a single model! This week I finally get the dread yellowed up, and start the chipping process. Starting with a semi teaser so people read further...ha you all read anyway, you love the dreads! Admit it!
Welcome to Weathering, with your Host Rusty Greggles! This week was a flurry of activity on tiny sections of the dreads base, and his little grot controller Francis. First just your standard metallics. Bunch of leadbelcher everywhere, being careful to leave some areas which are still dirt. (you'll see why in a bit).
Welcome friends! I'm in full production mode! Since I got past the hobby block of how to successfully mount the Deff dread, I'm been a buzz with activity. Should hopefully have him finished in a week or so to meet my (sorry Dave) late deadline due to my ultra slow painting speeds. First off, here is the final posing. I can still adjust the arms slightly, but pretty much everything else is knocked into place. I'm currently working on trying to figure out the cable from the grot remote to the dread (you can see the wire in the background), but other than that, the build is done!
Short off day post for you all! I forgot to mention that the Nova Open Charity Raffle is now live! Buy your tickets! So many amazing artists have contributed! Including everyone's favorite Mordain7th! But that's not all. Have a Dread update! I worked on finalizing his pose last night. I think i like his arms best like this. This pose is further along, as his other leg, claws, shoulders are now in place. Put a marine in for scale. He's quite intimidating! You can barely see the little grot in front! I'm thinking arm poses from the first set of photos. Thoughts? Welcome friends! Had a great hobby breakthrough this week. Have been tearing my hair out trying to figure out how to get the deff dread base setup and finished. Finally woke up with an idea and went straight to work! I went to work grabbing some bitz and bubs to both support the main leg section, as well as cover up the gaps in the various sections of the base. Looking like a proper scrapyard base now. Tried to think about things like...how would someone get onto the rhino top? So made sections which they could walk up, and scratch marks from the constant climbing of the gretchin.
Exciting day today everyone! Not only have I been painting like crazy lately, but I finally finished something...and it's my best paint job to date! As I mentioned before, these models are part of a multi-artist donation for the ork army in Nova Open's Army Raffle this year. Tickets are available online (soon), as well as at the event itself. All proceeds go to Doctors without Borders. So please donate! (it's a tax deduction too!)
Welcome one and all to the great "greggles gets his groove back" post. Where I go nuts painting and update more then once a week. Who would have thought! Quick house update! Got a ceiling fan in the hobby room now. Super score! Now just need to patch all that drywall, buy new desks and completely rework it....but that is for another post! Lets talk about bases!
It's Monday! Surprise! Honda is taking a break while he deals with real life issues, so I've got a weekend update for you on the Nova Open stuff! Check it out! I'm on the artist page now! It's for reals! I haven't been leaving in a Mek's dream! :) Also buy tickets. I'm required to say that for the children, puppies, and kittens. But seriously, I have gotten a bit of painting and work time in.
It had to happen eventually. I'd have to sit down, pick up a brush, and go to work. Luckily most of the garage work is done for the time being, so I could finally sit down and prime/highlight a slew of models. I did my normal multi-spray primer (grey all over, then white from above) to get the ork flesh down. Then I also started on the bases, by spraying all the sand the base color. I'm a bit behind in the Nova Open Charity timeline, so hopefully I can catch up fast.
Hey Everyone! Short post this week. Will just be chatting about whats going on in the wonderful wide world. No new hobby stuff thanks to the peripheral nerve between my L4 and L3 vertibre. Seems my muscles spasmed there and compressed the nerve, which has made it relatively painful to sit at a desk and attempt to paint. On a happy note, I now know exactly what dry needling is, and how it feels! :) I will still be in attendance (judging armies with @lilthunderliz) at Hammer in the New Year at Huzzah this weekend, so if you are a local, stop by and say hi!
Welcome #dreadtober enthusiasts! Sorry for the lack of updates. Been having so real life stuff pop up (all good stuff!) as well as becoming addicted to metal gear solid V. At least that was walkers in it, so it's a bit of an inspiration at the same time :) Have to take a moment here and applaud Todd's awesome logo he created for the event. It's been a driving force for the group of participants, and has rallied the cause, showing up all over the googles! Todd is DA MAN! Before I get started, remember that this is just "my update" to dreadtober, and not the main dreadtober page. Dreadtobers main page can be accessed via this button, or by clicking the awesome logo!
This is the bat rep you all have been waiting for. The mighty steel legion faces down the ork walkers for battle supremacy in the campaign to keep the dirty humans back in their own space. With a whopping fourteen tanks lining up to end the orks day, it was going to be a brutal slugfest of drinking, yelling, and balling so hard. This battle would swing back and forth from turn to turn, with every tea light marker being used, and the orks taking massive losses. This battle was also vs Dan, and was one of my all time most enjoyable 40k games I've ever played. How much fun was it? Lets just say our secondary points were "Drinking, Yelling, and Having fun".
Welcome back loyal rust friends! Today is the battle royale between Colin's awesome Daemon army, and the Trust in Rust Walkers! I'd met Colin at the previous Nova Open, and at Adepticon, but had yet to play a game with him! Was definitely looking forward to this. (We also played Jason and Brett [his teammates] in an earlier matchup!) Colin had a number of wicked things in his list, including a void shield relay network, which rendered all my shooting pretty much mute! This was going to be an absolute slug fest back and forth Onto the mighty battle!
Welcome friends to the battle arena, where the walkers fast a series of dangerous and brutal opponents. Though I played in six games, I'm only going to cover the 2k point games, as that is when I played the walkers. The other games I was forced to put away the walkers and play with things I'm not used to which made me feel all icky. I need my steel and iron! The first game I'm covering is vs Sebastian, the son of Steve (my opponent at the LVO). Steve wasn't just content to krump me himself, he sent his minions to crush my spirit! Seb would be bringing the Dark Angels "Gets Hot" list. I would be bringing walkers...lots and lots of walkers!
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