Sunday 5 February 2012

Plague Monks

As promised - updates! I finally got some painting done today with the help of a friend who joined me for some banter while we painted. It was my first time painting with someone else in the room and it made it so much easier to keep going; banter always helps! Thanks PB, you're the man (as manly as an elf player can be anyway)!

Today I painted the bases of my 20 Plague Monks and got some paint on one of the monks. The bases aren't finished but the unit looks a little better with some defined colour on the base.

This Monk is not finished, I still need to highlight and finish the basing but I'm happy with how he turned out. Hopefully I'll get the other 19 ready to join him soon!

Saturday 4 February 2012

Getting Back on Track

To my legions of fans out there (yes I'm talking to you 3!) I'll be posting some more updates soon.

Work on my Skaven halted for a while due to a new baby which has selfishly been hogging all my time but I'm hoping to get some painting done this week while my paternity leave lasts ;)

Watch this space.

Monday 9 January 2012

Airbrush Results

Here are some of the results from today's airbrushing. I did many elements in scorched brown and the Plague Monks in gnarlock green. I've only included the Abomination for colour contrast (and because I love the model).

The Doomwheel turned out very well, relatively even coverage and some paint in the bits I knew I'd struggle to reach with a regular brush (I don't have the patience to paint things in sections as I build them - they'd never get played).

The Plague Monks were last. I had a small spill after finishing them (back in the middle) and if you look at the first rat on the left you'll see that I didn't quite get the brown cleaned out of the airbrush properly first. I struggled a bit more with these, mainly because 20 in one go was too many and meant they were too densely packed so getting the stream on them all was tough. In future I'll do batches of no more than 10 at a time. The nozzle also started to clog towards the end (I base coated the rat ogres, giant rats, packmasters and 4 weapons teams before the Doomwheel) so smaller batches is good advice all round. I gave the brush a proper clean after doing the monks and there was a lot of paint gummed up in the nozzle.

I've added an Ikit Claw model and built the Games Day show mini (warlord) that I've had sitting around. The army is now up to 144 models. They are all based and I only have 3 units still to undercoat (will be done tomorrow night). If I get some time this coming weekend I'll try and get a clanrat or two finished.

Saturday 7 January 2012

A Brush by Any Other Name...

Today I had my first chance to use an airbrush I was gifted by a friend a long time ago. I finished building a spray booth in the mancave last weekend so I decided it was time to get to grips with it. Having never used one before, there was a little trial and error getting it all connected up to the compressor then some time spent trying to get the right pressure and paint consistency (having some old sprues to spray at really helped there).

Once I got the hang of it, it was amazingly easy to use. Like using a can of undercoat spray but many orders of magnitude easier and more controllable (especially after I figured out that you can control how much paint comes out of it)!

I'm hoping that I'll be able to basecoat the entire army quite quickly using the airbrush which will make it look a step better than being all black or all bare plastic.

I'll post photos when I get a chance.

Monday 2 January 2012

My Skaven

Here they are my recently built Skaven.
Two of my favourites - the Hell Pit Abomination:
The Doom Wheel:
Lots of painting ahead of me!