Compulsive non finishing!

G'day!

Seems like I have once again started something with all intentions of following through and not doing exactly that!  Oh well lets give this another crack!

I have been busy (ish) since my last post.  On the Marine front, I started painting some Crimson Fists, thanks to the anniversary model, and some Forge World goodness.

Pretty happy with the results and it is a nice easy paint job.  Start with Necron Abyss and then dry bush right up to ice blue.  Follow with a nice heavy wash of Asurmen blue.  I used this technic based on an article I read on Kantor Base.  Hugely helpful!
The bases are from Back 2 Base-ix as I was planning.  These are great quality resin bases made right here in Australia.  I also added some Swamp Tuft from Army Painter that I won in a local Blood Bowl tournament for my Lizardmen Stadium.

I have also added some paint to the man eaters that I showed last post.

The water turned out really well I think, it was simply some sausages of green stuff that I flattened down one edge in a rough uneven manner to try and create some ripple.

Below is a purchase that I would not have made if not for my 5 year old son and his love of skeletons!  Amongst everything else, he told me one day he wanted some "Space Skeletons" and he wanted me to paint them!  How can you argue with a kid who wants you to buy more miniatures??

Painting and theme wise I decided to do something quite different.  I had been watching an episode of Grand Designs Australia and one of the people on there wanted a Mondrian inspired interior.  I determined at that moment to tap into my dutch heritage and do something outside the box.

All bodies in the army will be a nice rich red, all vehicle blue, all weapons green.  Cloaks will be yellow and detail white or black.  I plan on placing them on some sort of tiled base and continue with the Mondrian look on those with nice big white flag stones, black lines between and primary colours on some of the smaller flagstones.

The barge has been painted using only the new citadel paints and they are a pleasure to use.  Each colour I started with Base paint and then built it up through layers, followed by a shade and then a glaze.  The white has gone straight over the top of these colours in practically one layer!

The other thing about the new paints is I have no found a way to the Executioners armour justice and in an easy enough method for my poor painting ability!  Again simply dry brushing starting with Leadbelcher Base and working right through to Runefang steel.  Wash with the new blue shade, and then two covers with the blue glaze and you end up with this:

Bad iPhone picture I know, but you get the idea.  A really nice blue steel look, now to just win the lottery and buy everything I need and I will be good!  I still want to wait for 6th to make any MAJOR purchases for these guys, but may well end up buying some more older mark armour from Forge World.  I figure there will always be Tac marines and a veteran squad of some sort should be fine!

Ok well I think that just about brings me up to date!  I will try and post more regularly from now on.  really I will!

Ogres, beasts, evil stunties, executioners and ships!!!

Aargh!  Time, once upon a time I had more of it!

Never mind I actually do pretty well with what time I have!  Including managing to get a week of days off work!  Normally this would mean I sit down and force myself to get a whole bunch of stuff batch painted!  Not so this time.

I stepped on the bathroom scales in the first time in ages!  Probably a good thing.  I have known for years that I was over weight but, was happy to float 6kg's between 88 and 94kg's.  However 97 was too much for me so decided to do something about.  My wife and I have both decided to change our eating habits.  Instead of having a plate full of meat and potato, we are now actually going by serving sizes and not snacking as much throughout the day.  So far I have dropped 3.5kg's and am feeling better than I have in ages, so it seems to be working!

So other than that hopefully life changing decision, I have been doing some hobby.  First of all the Executioners force I plan on building on has been on hold for a couple of reasons.  First I would like to see what 6th edition of 40k brings.  I would hate to spend a bucket load of money on an army that I couldn't then use in a game.  Second I am struggling to find a paint scheme that I am really happy with for them.  I am not sure the metallic looks is right for the force I want.  So I will continue to try and find the schemes that I like best then probably ask for some opinions and go from there.

I do want to try and push my painting skills in the meantime, so I had a look at the Warhammer Forge side of things.  Now when I started playing Fantasy, my friend always took Chaos Dwarves and I always took Dark Elves.  These are the games that I remember the most fondly!  We stacked the board with terrain and had difficult and entertaining battles!  It was also these early games that got me hooked on taking musicians!  My friend always feels the points are better spent on an extra trooper or 5 throughout the army, than upgrading one model.  As fate would have it, this means that I win most combats by the musician bonus after a tight drawn round!

I have also started painting my Dreadfleet, erm, fleet!  Had my love of my Beastmen army rekindled by a post I read on Bell of Lost Souls., and also started work on some Ogre Maneaters to finish off my 3k army of them!  Below is a work in progress of the first.

I will add some waves around body, as if the are emerging from water.  Also for line of sight reasons I will always have a separate full sized ogre to swap in if people are trying to target them!

And to top it off, the Blood Bowl league I am a part of has kicked off for another season, and I have the choice of which Tournament I will enter this year and which team to take as well as build a custom board to fit with the team!  Last year I took a the "Phlorida Gators", a Lizardmen team with "The Swamp" their home ziggarut stadium.  I ended up in the top half of the final standings both overall and in casualty count from memory.  But more importantly I took home the best custom board medal!  A feat I hope to do again soon!

The centre tower doubles as a dice tower as well as being a nice focal point.

Anywasy, Once again time has caught up with me and I need to go do the funniest daddy in the world routine (my kids are rather sheltered apparently).