Warhammer (with the models and everything)

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About an hour and a half to do this twice. My god it's painstaking work.

I did the wrong maths earlier. I have two units of five and had six which are largely base coated, so it's been four today, including two primes.

If by 'batch' you mean painting one colour at a time on several models, that.

I'd considered eg doing all legs then another part but I've just taken to doing the whole coverage of one colour then picking the other model up. I'm just slow as anything I think. It's a thing with me in most stuff I do to be honest.

Anyway have a decent covering of gold and black on the four models. Have Thursday free and was hoping to get then fully base painted for shades and highlights but not gonna happen. Didn't get much sleep and even with a daylight strip lamp my eyes are now stinging.

Really for these I probably ought to have bought the gold spray but I can see issues with painting over that.

Apparently the metalic primers are quite shiny so subsequent colours don't stick to them as well as matt primers - not impossible but probably need more (thinner) coats...?

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I don't think I'm gonna mess with the metallic primers. It's a pain painting all the armour but it is what it is.

I always thin and layer the paints although a wet pallette is helping with that immensely which is a new trick. I'm using the Army Painter one.

Some Citadel colours are just an arse though. My Abaddon black is ridiculously ineffective, and for Hammers of Sigmar it's all tiny details like belts that are hard to cover accurately in the first place.

I think they look better with black bolters. I'd add some blue heraldry on the knee pads, maybe red eyes.

Mostly black with a few blue shocks through it would be fun.

Easiest way to get nice metallic of a weird colour is either:
1. Boltgun metal, nuln oil, drybrush runefang steel or the like. Then put over a few washes of an appropriate blue wash
2. Boltgun metal coat (maybe also the drybrush/shade), use the right contrast paint for the colour you want over that

Because it was before contrasts I got this from method 1 using Druchii Violet as the tint (my old camera phone was shite):

Right Arco-Flagellants done, I won't lie I hated painting these pricks for some reason.

Amazing work ethic that.

They look great. Working towards getting a full army but it's a sloooow slog. Must be satisfying as anything.

Re the scale thing, funnily enough when I went into a GW shop for the first time since I was a kid I ended up incredulous at a staff member that they had not actually shrunk the scale.

He pointed out my hands had got bigger 😂

You've got to enjoy the modelling side haven't you, 'Rule of Cool' as the kids say.

Not sure what reminded me of this today, but the worst thing I ever did was buy the Eldar Viper Jetbike the week they first came out, and then ruin it completely by spraying it neon yellow in an ill-advised attempt to start an Exodite army.

The re-introduction of Blood Bowl and Necromunda a few years ago is what got me back in... It's a slippery slope.

Don't resist, you know you're Phucked.

Why did you feel the need to mention this. My wallet is spouting vulgarities at you

3 is out this year, but likely to be kinda pricey? The pricing model for the last one wasn't friendly with lots of teams being DLC. They all faithfully implement the board game so its ease of use is the main selling point, e.g. finding someone to play with remotely or a good UI.

2 is excellent, even if the AI is too easy. Pretty cheap nowadays.

1 has one of the worst game UIs. Avoid.




I keep feeling the temptation to buy my brother the body, but not the arms, for one of those really expensive Dark Angels dreadnoughts as a present just to annoy him.

I've spent a lot of money on a lot of stuff since starting this hobby last summer, but the £10 spent on a vice drill and micro drill bits to put holes in my gun barrels is up there with the best of the buys! Satisfying to do and looks great.