lone pilgrim

Friday, February 6, 2009

PAINTING: Third and final highlight

I've completed the third and final highlight on the armour. It was a50/50 mix of Fiery Orange and Skull White. It probably looks a little too much at the moment but I will go back over the armour with Blood Red to tidy everything up.

Right after I took this photograph my table lamp collapsed all over the models. I haven't found any obvious damage yet but one model was catapulted into my wet paint. Most of the paint went on the bolt pistol but very little damage was done. Lucky, I guess but now I don't have a lamp to help pick out those fine details. I'll soldier on.

Podcasts listened to: This Week in Wargaming, Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's Film Reviews, Dice Like Thunder, The D6 Generation
Food and Drink: Water, Vitamin C, Probiotic Yoghurt, Apple

PAINTING: Highlights, the second

The second set of highlights are now done. I hope you can see the difference!

One more set of highlights to go and then I'll take a break for lunch.

Podcasts listened to: This Week in Wargaming, Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's Film Reviews, Dice Like Thunder
Food and Drink: Water, Vitamin C, Probiotic Yoghurt, Apple

PAINTING: First highlights

I've finished the first set of armour highlights. It took about an hour and a half to get some Blazing Orange on all the hard edges. The next step is some Fiery Orange over that.

Podcasts listened to: This Week in Wargaming, Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's Film Reviews
Food and Drink: Water, Vitamin C, Probiotic Yoghurt

PAINTING: Starters orders

Today will be a day when I get things done.

I have a day off work and I know I'll have little time over the coming week to dedicate to gaming so I need to get as much done now as I can. So, at 8:30 in the morning, I'm sat at my painting station reading to start!

My rather ambitious plan is to completely finish all ten of my Assault marines today. I need to finish the armour and paint the black details on five of them just to bring them up to the level of the first five, then I need to paint the yellow helmets, the kneepads, highlight the weapons and finish the bases on all ten.

When they're all done I need to take a decent photo of them and put it on Warseer to fulfill this month's painting pledge. If I can do it it will add 300 or so much needed points to my current total of 735 points and therefore take me over the halfway mark with six months of the pledge remaining.

I plan to keep posting my progress on the blog every few hours to keep myself motivated.

And here we go...

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

GENERAL: Use your vote!

Only an hour left in my poll to see which 40k army my readers recommend I play for the next six months. At the moment the Daemonhunters and Imperial Guard are in joint first place.

Speaking of Imperial Guard, I've posted up battle report on my other blog. It was another clash against Gary's Chaos Space Marines.

Monday, February 2, 2009

NEWS AND RUMOURS: Set sail for profits

Warhammer Historical
Trafalgar is released by Warhammer Historical this month. It is 1:1200 scale game of naval engagements. It is written by Mark Latham and you can check out the game developers blog here.

Black Library
The Inquisition War trilogy is in the shops now. It was written by Ian Watson in the eighties and nineties and tells the tale of Inquisitor Jaq Draco uncovering a galaxy spanning plot which will impact upon the whole of humanity. The books sharply divide opinion for two reasons; one is because they were written before a lot of the background material was defined so it jars with the ret-conned 'current' 40k mythos and the second is Watson's writing style. He has a style, you see, rather than the homogeneous Black Library house style we get from every author nowadays. This can be shocking for readers used to the way books are written now. For me this tome is essential even if just to see how damn weird the 40k universe can be.

Blood Bowl computer game
I spotted a new trailer for Blood Bowl over on joystiq. It looks great and I'm particularly happy to see that there will be a turn based recreation of the board game as well as the run about smash 'em version. I'll be getting it for the PSP but you can also get it for the Xbox 360, PC and Nintendo DS.

Games Workshop Interim Report
On the 27th January Games Workshop revealed their latest interim report. According to wiser souls than me who have posted on Warseer GW seem to have stopped the rot; they have reduced their debts and Forge World is raking in the cash. The figures cover the period up to November 2008 so miss Christmas. The report also misses the worst of the economic downturn when companies were going out of business in December in the UK. Still, it's positive news for all of us who wish to see Games Workshop prosper.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

PAINTING: Daemon Hunters, by special request

I had a couple of requests to show photographs of my Daemon Hunters army so I rooted around my hard drive and found some. Here, in all it's glory, is Kill-Team Severus.