Of Epic Proportions (spring clean challenge 26)

As I wrote in a pervious post, I’m a big believer in green bathing. I’m lucky that I work in a country park, so within a couple of minutes walk from my office I can be in deep woodland.

So I had an idea. It’s June next month and finishing the guard so there’s a playable army seems a world away. But what if I took some of the jobs with me and I did a bit in my lunch break too. Not painting that would be too complicated, but cleaning and gluing.

So off to the ruins I went

I’m not sure if this is a good plan. But if I’m going to do all the remodelling on the vampire, having some time extra to painting on a morning might work.

One of the interesting this about this little and often method of painting means that stuff just sometimes gets finished.

So here are 3 Basilisks. 

They were fun to paint, especially compared to the Leman Russ’s.

Yet again the photos don’t do them justice, but I’m happy with the overall outcome with them.

So I found the eldar aircraft and it’s not in the shape I thought it would be. It’s a vampire. The hull is there it’s just the tail fins that are missing.

Painting wise I like the idea of trying to use contrast paints over the top of silver. I have a feeling it will work.

A look through the Aeronautica book and the colours of the Pirate raiders seems a fun look.

What I need to do is that tail fin. Hopefully I can build it out of something like plaster card, otherwise this will all be for nothing.

I haven’t quite finished with the Blood Angels just yet. There’s still some units I would like to add to make them feel like a proper force, so I decided to paint up a bike squad

I tried something new with the base, but I’m really not sure.

I added some of my leaf mix and drybrushed white. I think the white was a success, the herbs not so much.

I would like to add terminators as there such an iconic unit

Probably obvious to most people, but I’ve only just realised that I’m now using metal models so need to varnish them.

At least it was only a few tanks and a airplane at this point

This nearly broke me. It wasn’t as if the models weren’t lovely to paint or anything I was doing had changed since I started. It was a failure in methodology.

My painting a couple of models everyday for about 15 – 20 minutes worked really well for the Marines. There squads are small and the models were simple. So when I started with Leman Russ I didn’t see a reason to change what I was doing.

Trying to paint 8 quite complex models at 5 in the morning was more than a challenge. Batch painting works normally but due to the time constraints and my own mental state, remembering what I had done was a massive issue. For the first time this felt like a challenge. The Bank Holiday Sunday gave me the chance to get the unit painted all in one go.

This has given me pause for thought though. This is what the guard are, large units. I can’t really adapt my methodology as the external factors aren’t going to change, so I’m going to have to adapt.

I have the infantry regiment to come so more of the same. So rather than try to do all of it at once, I’m going to approach it, 3 stands at a time and hopefully keep track.

It’s a bank holiday so I thought best get back to painting… With a little help

So I saw this on YouTube

…and my little soul went “oooooo”

Now painting 3 armies is not going to happen, certainly before midsummer, but in the box of random models are eldar, and there is an eldar aircraft. So to make this project even harder, I’m going to add to the side quests paint the eldar fighter