Back in February I attended the funeral for one of my son’s Godparents on the coach back we stopped in Truro to pick up more passengers and this was the roof of one of the bus shelters and this heavily verdigris-ed roof was useful inspiration for my Honoured Imperium’s Matt Black: Former hero of the Imperium. Obviously he’s a bit more vibrant, the picture isn’t a true reflection of his colours and maybe using Bonewhite might have matched the tone a bit better but it was useful source material nontheless.
Ebay sales I might regret – Ravenwing Attack Bikes
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ebay sales I don’t regret – Space Crusade plastics and a Dreadnought
Tactical squad update
Lastly the Space Marine Captain. Lots to do on this guy and he’s going to be very different with the huge cloak. not sure if Deathwink colours will work on him as it wouldn’t be very dark. Much the same as the robes on my Ravenwing, so many decisions and every one preventing me from moving forward. that’s what happens when you don’t have a plan, procrastination and delay. Must try harder.
ebay sales YOU won’t regret! Yet more daemons! Maybe not safe for work… eek!
My mate Liam, he of the scratch built Warhound and Warlord fame, is still having a clear out of old figures on ebay NOW! He sent me pictures of this baby and I thought I better put them online before this thing sells…
The second most important rule of painting [perhaps] – The eyes have it!
Well I think it’s as good a rule as any – get the eyes painted as soon as possible. Bearing in mind you don’t want to be doing things like drybrushing after you’ve done the eyes, there’s nothing like getting it just so only to smear paint onto the focal point of your miniature. As it stands I continue to plug away at my Tactical Squad and I finally took the plunge and thought I could do the eyes because any efforts on the Dark Angels green is purely highlighting. That isn’t going to be achieved without careful effort and that control shouldn’t result in any mishaps round the eyes, so I was pretty safe to continue.
I’m going old-skool Epic Space Marine with the lenses. Sure the red lense stands out and is awesome but that box is my original inspiration that I want to hark back to and I think it sets them apart from the rest of the Dark Angel crowd. Obviously it enters into Salamander territory, even more so when you take into account I will be painting all my bare-headed Marines with the white hair off the Epic box cover but the dark Native American Indian Deathwing skin tones of my 3rd Generation Dark Angel I better get that green just right!
ebay sales YOU won’t regret! Daemons, daemons, daemons!
My mate Liam, he of the scratch built Warhound and Warlord fame, is having another clear out of old figures on ebay NOW! Starting price 99p on everything. These things are really cool and well painted. I thin khe’s looking to build a new Dark Eldar force so you’d be really helping him if you bought some of his chaos figures to feed his addiction. Remember the rumours say Chaos is going to feature BIG in the next 40k so why not get some cool gear early.
Forgive the sales pitch but the figures are ally cool and even if you don’t want to bid they’re definitely worth looking at… I’ve a shot of his Dark Eldar Razorwing to add later on so you can see what he’s working on for his upcoming Throne of Skulls competition but I think there’s enough here to sate anyone’s appetite, even the blood G.O.D.
To done…?
Dark Angel odds and sods update
Dawn of War – Soulstorm
You may recall my recent obsession with Dawn of War. Dark Crusade has been filling my evenings and been both pleasurable and more recently a pain. What can I say I think the only race I enjoy fighting are Necrons because they move so slow you’ve plenty of time to build your force to bring the might of the Imperium down on them.
Anyway I’ve been keeping an eye out Dawn of War – Soulstorm and there have been a number of half decent offers but the other weekend I had to nip into my local town to drop off some bits at the charity shop. There’s loads of charity shops where I live, they get special business rates, so I believe, so there are around a dozen but mostly I drop my stuff of at Barnardo’s. Not sure why I choose that one, but I have a Gift Aid card filled out so it’s better to know they’re getting a few extra quid than going to another charity shop where I have to fill in the forms again. Whilst I was there I noticed a copy of Artemis Fowl that I thought to pick up for my son but when I turned back some bozo was hogging the book section so I decided to just get on with my shopping.
I nipped to a local hardware store to pick up a 1mm drill bit to drill out some bolter barrels. I’d got a 2mm one recently because I like the idea bolter shells are massive but one of my AoBR bolter barrels had split so I decided to invest in a smaller bit. What surprised me is that you don’t really need a pin vice to do this sort of work in plastic. In fact I’d say it would be far clumsier to do so with one.
Next stop was to the local art shop. I wanted to pick up some finer brushes for line highlights but on the way I passed Age UK a charity shop I’d be hard pressed to ever say I’ve entered but as I’d been blocked by one guy already I thought I’d just have a look what they had to offer. So it was that me and the littlest nipper perused the shelves and typically there was also a collection of Playstation 2 and PC games and what’s this Warhammer 40,000 game? Well it couldn’t possibly be Soulstorm the sole remaining title I need to complete the set… surprise, surprise indeed it is! And what extortionate price might it be? £2.50 you say, well it is for charity. So I did my bit for the old folks maybe they get a blanket, or Horlicks or some’t and I’ve got my game.
Short story long, but on a side note I also dropped the Tyranid Prime and his head snapped off! Hopefully my patch job should save him but I may end up having to pin it with a heat weld, time will tell.