New Paint Station

Much to my surprise I actually managed a good few hours of painting last night at my better halfs parents house. Initially I set up on the dining room table and this was fine with the daylight however as it got darker the lighting just wasnt up to the task of painting minis. Thankfully there is a den that has much brighter lighting and after a quick move (4 separate runs with hands full) I was set up again. 

Initially I was working on the second coat of wash for the Shaltari, as you can see below I decided to stop after the second coat and do some work on the details. I toyed with the idea of doing 3 coats but thinking long term with Dropfleet and more Dropzone mini’s I really need to consider time vs looks. In this case time won. They detail work will still get 100% attention I just dont see the big change between 2 and 3 coats.

While the wash was drying on the Shaltari I finially managed to wash the Sigmarines. My distaste for block painting still hasnt gone away however for relative speed painting with decent tabletop resukts there is no better way to go. I chose the GW Sepia wash in the end iver the Fleshshade and I am happy with the outcome. Just the final basing needing to be sorted and a coat of Anti Shine and we are done:

The tail on the monster above is gold because until I washed it I didnt notice it wasnt fully armoured. So tonight all going well I will fix that slight oversight.

And finally I got my horde of UCM stuff out to start chipping away at. No detail pics of these guys as its all just blocking work again like the AoS stuff, expect them to be done sometime in 2019 🙃

3rd times a charm

And as you can see below it really is:

Now that I know the consistency of the basing material I can paint over it with black when its still wet and let it crack and dry like I seen in the GW TV tutorial. 

In other news I managed to get some more paint down of the Sigmarines aka GROUNDMARINES!!!! and they are looking relatively ok. I am really not a fan of this blocking speed painting but I know when its all done after they have been washed they will look tabletop ready. Its just a damn ugly slog in the mean time.

And finally I picked up a Shaltari starter box, totally forgot I ordered it however it is now assembled to the stage if being ready to paint and this will be living on my table after the Sigmarines are finished.
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Basing Fail

So in a previous post I made an attempt at using the GW Technical paints aaaannnnndddddd it failed 😔 however not all is lost, I will return stronger, faster and apparently as a much thinner layer of paint.

I went wrong by adding too thick a layer of the technical paint over the base so my next attempt will be a much thinner layer so the cracking is more prominent. Update to follow tomorrow…ish 

Sigmarines

Decided to hop on the AoS bandwagon and picked up the starter box with a friend. As usual with GW box sets its really good value. I worked it out at roughly £300 in the box and we got it for £75 (rrp I believe). Models are epic quality as per current GW sculpting. The Sigmarines really are just a lost Legion in the fantasy realm. Decided to just do a super quick job on these guys so base coated them with Halfords Grey primer then a quick covering in a gold from Montana Gold. Below is a quick snap as I was on my way out the door to play a game of Flames of War.

And a close up of one of my favourite GW models since the Terminator Chaplain.

Plan for these guys is a super quick job. The blues will be put down first then the rest of the smaller details, finishing it off with a wash of Sepia. Basing wise I think the cracking earth effect paint GW does will look good.