Pretty good progress this week. I've got the base colours for the skin/chitin and the hard parts of the environment suits done on everyone, and the orange cloth done on just over half of them. The chitin/Stealer flesh looks hideously garish right now, but it needs to be like that to work right after I ink it.
I also got the set of 10 that I had sitting around from Kill Team put together. Working with that set was kind of annoying, because it's almost the same colour as the older, softer plastic, but it's the newer formulation, and I kept misjudging how much mold line scraping was needed.
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| The bases here are glued to the textured plasticard I use for these, but hadn't been cut out yet. |
They came out pretty nicely in the end, tho. Also, I'm very glad I chose to take this approach of painting Models that I'd already primed, and building new ones that will wait to get primed, instead of trying to push one set through from start to finish. Because I ain't spray painting in this:
As I said at the end of the last post, I'm going to be alternating here, so the next one will be the GSC Characters review, and then another painting post, probably some Gellarpox Infected. Until then, y'all have a good one, y'hear!
I also got the set of 10 that I had sitting around from Kill Team put together. Working with that set was kind of annoying, because it's almost the same colour as the older, softer plastic, but it's the newer formulation, and I kept misjudging how much mold line scraping was needed.
As I said at the end of the last post, I'm going to be alternating here, so the next one will be the GSC Characters review, and then another painting post, probably some Gellarpox Infected. Until then, y'all have a good one, y'hear!
Great progress mate, yeah very good call on not spraying in snow! What new characters are you going to add to the GSC? Buy all 7 and add when you want?
ReplyDeleteThanks! Eventually, I do want them all, but the Jackal Alphus and Clamavus are first up.
DeleteI've actually been thinking about just leaving 60 or so Points loose in my lists, and using Telepathic Summons to bring in whichever Character feels most useful in a given matchup. I'll have to play with it a bit.
Textured plasticard...now there's a ridiculously simple (yet effective) and inexpensive idea for custom bases that I never would have thought of...
ReplyDeleteOh, and I'd be thrilled to trade your snow for our constant deluges!!
Thanks! Ironically, I started doing that just a couple of months before the Sector Imperialis bases came out.
DeleteI think your end of the trade actually held up there. Well, not full on deluge, but it started raining sometime in the night after I took that pic, and hasn't stopped since ;)
ugh, that just results in a big sloppy mess!
DeleteAt least it's the kind of big sloppy mess we're used to dealing with. That was more snow than the Seattle area has seen since before my parents were born.
DeleteBeautiful summer's day here in upside down land
ReplyDeleteRegularly talking with people in the other hemisphere often results in some kind of odd contrasts, yeah. One of the fun things about living in the future, where we're all connected by the internets.
DeletePainting is coming along well, even if the weather isn't a fan of it.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Fortunately, the only stage the weather can mess with is the priming, which is I why I took this approach :)
DeleteGreat progress here, Westrider - hopefully you can keep it up to completion!
ReplyDeleteThanks! It's starting to get into the more fiddly bits, so yeah, hopefully I can keep pushing through on those parts.
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