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.
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Hey Guys! It's time for a blogger special event! The DreadTober! While we were at Nova, a group of us bloggers discussed how wonderful it was to see everyones different paint styles, and how it might be fun to have us all paint something similar, and see what each comes up with. Not so much a true competition, but just for fun. So we came up with DreadTober! The rules are simple. Create a dreadnought in your paint style for the month of october. Try to restrain yourself to dreadnought scale (contemptor and smaller, scratchbuild fine), but since this isn't really a competition, nobody is going to get angry if you go nuts and lets say, build an imperial knight pyramid in the shape of a giant jackolatern or something. (*Glances at John*). Updates will be posted on this blog, and other blogs, and we'll have a finished page of everyone's entries, linking back to their blogs on FYN (I think or someones website). Just a fun little event to get everyone motivated and to share in the painting excitement! Dreadtober 2015 Participants |
Greg > FeedYourNerd John S > 40K Hobby Blog Mike S > MiniMayhem Michael A >TheKiltedGermain Xeno Inferno > DIY Hammer Nils H > Klatu.org Todd > Sincain40k Jason > Head wound Minis Captainhelvetos - on da twitters | Evan S > Facing The Grey Tide Chandler > Facing the Grey Tide Bee Cee > Facing the Grey Tide rednekkboss Tommy > bigbossredskullz Stephen (Daemon Orks) Dan > Forged at a Painting Desk Jeff > Tibbs Forge Dr Gumby - Code40k | Dave > Gaskmask Journal Westrider > Cascadian Grimdark Rory - Stepping Between Games Nick - The Burning Eye Nafnaf - Objective Secured Adam - Sprue Grey Thomas - High Times on the Eastern Fringe Chris - on da twitters David - on da twitters |
The main point of this exercise, is just to enjoy each others painting style and see what everyone comes up with. Whether it's John's controlled clean weathering, Todd's careful blends, Greggles and his spilling powders all over his model and calling it done, Mikes colorful compositions etc etc. I just realized I haven't seen Nils do a vehicle outside of bolt action so now I'm super excited. Look for #dreadtober on twitter, or any dreadtober tags on facebook/blogs to follow along. You can also visit the main dreadtober site by clicking the main image, or the button below. I will try to update this three times a week.
1) It should be part of a cart (stealing sincain40k's idea), so that it is easy to cart my models around in the hotel
2) It should be similar to the bases in my army
Note: When I talk about washes/glazes, I an interchanging the terms. A wash is generally used to shade, and a glaze is used to tint. I use them both for similar purposes. (I'll wash and glaze at the same time)
I also took some photos of each step, for those who can't view videos, and will get them up in the next post (probably friday).
I do have some sad news though. Our fellow blogger Honda is taking a break from blogging due to real life bumping into his hobby. He will still be reading and commenting and we have a place saved for when he has the time to return. We wish him the best of luck and highest hopes!
So bugs...
While I was focusing on a larger target, I decided to test a different technique for applying the blood to models, so out came the sponges.
The idea behind the sponge technique is to apply color using an irregular shape. The material used is the old figure packing foam that GW used in their blister packs. This comes from all sorts of sources, so even though GW clam packs don't use this material any more it can be found from other sources. If you're not able to secure any, then paper towels suitably crumpled up is a very workable secondary option.
I bring you bloody bugs...
First off, "no" I didn't just discover "that". By the way, "Young Frankenstein" is still a brilliant movie and Madeline Khan was "teh hot".
NO, what I was excited about is finding this...
It's amazing how smart I used to be.
What is even more exciting is that it's still good, so now instead of having to recreate the tones and color saturation of the previous batches, I can pick up where I left off.
So what's with the whole "world is going to end" thing or science says it's an Apocalyptic Climate Climax or Climate Apocalypse I heard some people ranting about?
It rains down here.
Sometimes it rains a lot, obviously enough for Stevie Ray Vaughn to briefly comment upon it thirty years ago.
EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas.
And we're not just saying that because we feel the need to compensate for big hats, big hair, and big boots.
Everything is bigger, y'all just come down and check us out for yourself.
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