Holy Craptastic Crap Batman! What the crap! WTF! SERIOUSLY!
Okay now that the minor freakfest is over with it is time
to move on to the matter at hand…DYSTOPIAN WARS! Well let’s be honest it isn’t
that amazing but still. So Joel and I
are working to paint up our respective Fleets for Dystopian Wars before
NorCon.
All in all, I am making some good progress so far.
My tiny flyers are almost all finished. Horray!
I finished up my Aristotle Class Battleship. Of course like I said last week; Quick,
Dirty, and Tabletop worthy was the goal.
I feel that I have met that goal rather well so far. It is rather simple scheme. Adeptus Battlegrey basecoat, a wash of Devlan
Mud (Why didn’t GW invent this stuff sooner!), a dry brush of Adeptus
Battlegrey, a dry brush of Codex Grey and done!
Of course on a 1/1200 scale model you are going to make some mistakes
but!!! Tabletop worthy!
I also finished up the three Plato Class Cruisers in the
fleet as well. Same method again for the
hull, plus I picked out some of the engine details with Scorpion Green on top
of a Dark Angels Green basecoat. On some
of the filigreed areas I just picked them out with Shining Gold to help break
up the rather military grey paint scheme on the models.
Also I haven’t painted up the turrets yet and probably
won’t until the very last finishing step of the fleet. They are pretty damned tiny and I am going to
need to magnetize a dowel to use as a tool when I do paint them up.
I have one of the nine Diogenes Class Frigates painted up
as my test model, with eight more to go and my Pericles Class Fleet Carrier to
paint. Everything is painting up pretty
quick so I figure pending crazy insane things happening I should have most of
it painted up in the next week or so. Of
course work has been stupid busy for the past two weeks so not making any
promising.
Speaking of promises…I opened up my mouth and committed myself
to another 500 points for the Badab Wars hosted by Aaron P. for NorCon this
year. DOH! Painting up Space Marines…yellow Space
Marines with hearts and checkers and…and…and…dear god, what did I get myself
into again. Actually as bad as I am
making it sound, for a cool 1000pts of Lamenters all I need to paint up is a
ten man Assault Squad and either a Sanguinary Priest or a Rhino. It doesn’t seem like much but with what I
painted up last year it is going to be pretty nasty.
Malakim Phoros, Chapter Master of the Lamentors
5x Death Company
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Jump Packs
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Power Sword
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Power Fist
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Infernus Pistol
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Plasma Pistol
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Abraxas (converted Lemartes)
Death Company Dreadnought
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Magna Grapple
10x Assault Squad
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Two Hand Flamers
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Sarge has twin Lightning Claws
Rhino or Sanguinary Priest
Seems like a pretty solid list for me. Lots of quick heavy hitters. So again my poor Blindwater Congregation is
getting pushed behind another painting project…sigh.
On a good note, my Spartan Games Battlefoam Bag (Link can be found HERE) has gotten ordered and should be in my grubby little mitts soon! Can't wait! AND!!!!!!! my Winsor & Newton Series 7 Miniature brushes just showed up today! Of course...$40 for four brushes and some brush restorer/preserver is still kind of a kick to the nuts but I am happy that I have them.
Anywho...until next time!
On a good note, my Spartan Games Battlefoam Bag (Link can be found HERE) has gotten ordered and should be in my grubby little mitts soon! Can't wait! AND!!!!!!! my Winsor & Newton Series 7 Miniature brushes just showed up today! Of course...$40 for four brushes and some brush restorer/preserver is still kind of a kick to the nuts but I am happy that I have them.
Anywho...until next time!
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