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[bartschy]

Terry Hunt, on Jan 20 2008, 05:05 PM, said:

Bob,
        The Gobbos are amazing, thanks.  The only thing that we need to do to the others is a few checkers here and there on the cloaks, dont know if you remember that part of the conversation.  I will take care of the ones that I have now.  They look fantastic.  

Yep I have 2 spear chuckas.....The main difference of course is I have a BS of 2, so mine do not seem to hit that often, think I need to enslave a few stunties to do my shootin for me.  That way my lads can do the real hed bashin.

Very happy with the spiders.  

Thanks,
Terry

Goblins are BS 3 and WS2 you are cheating yourself

[ghoulking]

1/20/8
Today was a horrible day.  The Chargers and Green Bay lost.  Bleh.

I did most of the color work on Matt's last 4 Ogres and Gorger.  Had to prime the Gorger first, though.
Put some Green Stuff on my Vargulf, and on Ray's special Orc character on Boar.

[Solrac]

ghoulking, on Jan 21 2008, 01:41 AM, said:

1/20/8
Today was a horrible day.  The Chargers and Green Bay lost.  Bleh.

I did most of the color work on Matt's last 4 Ogres and Gorger.  Had to prime the Gorger first, though.
Put some Green Stuff on my Vargulf, and on Ray's special Orc character on Boar.

Maybe you could paint one of Matt's Ogres in Charger colors?

[ghoulking]

1/21/8

I finished 4 Ogres for Matt and 1 Gorger.
Began 10 Night Goblins.

I did some paint stripping today as well.  Saturday, after collecting some of my old undead figs I decided I'd strip the paint off the models (some of them had three coats of paint) and try a method I'd seen used at the store.  So I soaked the models in PineSol.  Two days later...it would take some real scrubbing to get the paint off, so I went back to my standby, Pyroil Brake Cleaner.

Pyroil is $3 in a gigantic can and will shave years off your life.  It comes in a spray can, which is a bit of a pain, but you can take a plastic bag, much like the ones supplied by Game Empire, and spray into the bag.  That helps avoid some of the splash and fumes.  Pour the contents of the bag in a jar.  I used an aluminum can with the top taken off.  Then drop the models in.  I gave it a couple hours (I was playing DAoC) and when I came back the paint was ready to leap right off the model.  Honestly I didn't even need the couple hours.  You could spray a model and paint will start to rub off.  I wanted to get into the nooks and crannies, though, so I let them soak a bit.  When I came back to the figs I just fished them out of the cleaner, and scrubbed them down with faucet water and an old toothbrush.  Nice shiny new models.

Brake Cleaner will not strip paint off plastic, though.  If you put a model with plastic in the brake cleaner you can just throw the entire thing out.  The plastic will become this sludge that is impossible to remove from the crevices and starts to chunk up the cleaner.  So remove all bases and plastic bits.

And I'd suggest using gloves, the cleaner on bare skin won't eat your skin off, but might leave them feeling a little raw, especially hands like mine with little cuts in them.


And despite my efforts I still can't transfer pictures from my camera to my computer.  I've reinstalled the program, even scrubbed it off the computer and reinstalled it.  Very frustrating to have something work one day and not work the next.

[ghoulking]

1/22/8

I still have glue all over my hands.  I'm rebasing Cliff's Dwarf army in preparation for the Broadside Bash.  Superglue and gravel for the movement trays, white glue and gravel for every model involved.  100 or so models are being based now.  I put the gravel on the bases today, will ink them tomorrow, put grass on them if I can, but we have a lot of deliveries tomorrow, so that's unlikely.  Hopefully it'll all be done Friday.  I need to get some canned air to take the dust off some of these old models.

I finished the first ten new Night Goblins for Terry and made substantial progress on the next ten.  To help differentiate this unit from the others I'm putting yellow dags around the hood.  The yellow is a really nice mix of Bad Moon and Bronzed Flesh, I really like the color.  Little darker than Sunburst.  Terry mentioned highlighting the robes of the Night Goblins, I think he felt there wasn't enough contrast going on with the robes.  With this batch I didn't put in the second wash of heavy black, which I'd done on the first to make them really appear black.  The robes are actually a P3 Bastion Grey which is a warmer grey color than Codex or Shadow Grey.  I'm actually not a big fan of Shadow Grey for Fantasy models because I feel it looks too plastic, too man-made.  Love it on 40K models, though.

I tried using Shadow Grey to put the dags on, but the color is simply too dark to stand out on the grey robes.  My next thought was Turquoise, because I love Hawk Turquoise, but I figured I've probably used too much Turquoise already with my Bubonic army.  The problem is that the models, despite the dark robes, are very colorful.  Green skin, red shields, yellow moons.  I might use orange for the next unit, or red, but blues were out, because they would be too dark or they'd clash with the red/yellow/green.  Purple has similar problems.  White wouldn't stand out as much, and with the green skin of the face, I didn't like the idea of green dags.  So yellow it is.

[ghoulking]

1/23/8

I forgot to mention yesterday that I'd greenstuffed the wrists of the Daemon Prince, the hands are so big it took a little work, but I'm pretty happy with them, they look smooth.


Yesterday I also started work on my Tzarina Katarina, Wood Elf steed, wood elf legs.


Today I finished ten Night Goblins, and began ten more.  Tomorrow I should have Terry's second unit of Night Goblins (this one thirty strong) finished.


Tomorrow I can hopefully get some priming done as well, I have Cliff's Bolt Thrower and crew (Dwarven this time), Saeryn, Titan thingie, Orc Special Character, White Lion, and Dwarven Cursed Company, all waiting to be primed.

I inked the gravel for Cliff's Dwarves today, and Friday will put grass on them and black the sides.  After doing so many armies, High Elves with Goblin Green sides, Snow Zombies with Codex Grey, Lord of the Ring models with Snakebite Leather, I have finally decided that for my own purposes from here on out, the sides of my models' bases will be black.  I think it just puts the color of the basing in starker relief, makes the colors pop more, instead of looking like they're standing on a pile of stuff.  Thinking about the Vomit Brown I used to paint the side of my Khemrians...man there's a lot I'd do different now with those sand bases.  Maybe someday, kind of feels weird not having every undead army.


The Necromancer unemployment line:


And I've done a little more work on my Vargulf thingie, it's got wings and more fur in spots.

[ghoulking]

1/24/8

Today I finished the next batch of ten Night Goblins, completing Terry's second unit of Night Goblins, this one thirty strong.
I began work on two Goblin Bolt Throwers, a Goblin Shaman, and a Battlestandard Bearer.
I also began work on a White Lion Standard Bearer, and a Legion of Everblight Warcaster person.

I did some green stuff work on my Vargulf, adding some hair, and added a little bit of layer to the big hat my Tzarina will be wearing, though I snapped off her little head, which substantially slowed down the work I was planning on getting in on her hat.

I glued twenty shields to the Dwarven Cursed Company I'll be doing for Curtis.  I wish I'd been paying attention this afternoon and glued the shields to the skeletons before priming them.  I really believe in assembling the entire model then priming it then painting it.  It means the pieces stick together better, especially shields.  Metal on metal contact instead of primer to primer contact.  I also think that if you're not going to see something (such as the back of a shield) only the most cursory painting is necessary, so why not assemble the whole thing first?

And I of course got my camera working again.  I was one last desperate solution away from calling up Kodak and trying to wade through customer support, which is never supportive.  So I remembered that the pictures I was trying to transfer were all on the memory chip in my camera.  When I took it out the pictures were gone.  So I removed the chip, took a picture, tried to transfer and it blam it shot the picture right onto my computer.  So apparently the memory chip was bad.  All done now.

Tomorrow is Paint Clinic night, with myself and Aaron offering ourselves up as painting Dear Abbys.  Kung Fu masters, if you will, of different schools of painting.

[ghoulking]

1/25/8

I finished basing 96 of Cliff's Dwarf models today, grass and black painted sides.  What a huge difference a decent base makes.  I also spoke with Andrew about some really nifty flagstone plasticard I saw online.  I'd love to use it for my bases, but I don't think it'll go with my Kislevites.

Got a little disappointment today, apparently Tasar Boris' lower half is part of his big bear.  I really should have looked into that closer.  I'm going to see if I can fit him on a Kislevite Lancer bottom before I make any other decisions.  I maybe I mount him on a chariot bases with a little parts swapping and make a ridden black coach.  Or something of the sort.

Did the Painting Clinic today.  It went really well, some interested folks were there, Terrance and Aaron were instructing in different things, I was working with Tad on his zombies.  I think Tad is color blind sometimes.  He certainly has odd tastes in color.  He wanted a beautiful yellow for his undead, but I think it'll only be good on shields and banners, just too bright and difficult to work with for lots of clothes and stuff.  He ended up brewing a couple nice zombie flesh mixes, one with some purple, one with green, and a brown glaze of sorts afterwards to dirty up the skin.  Really nice.  Shadow Grey for the pants, I want to offer up some advice for the shirts or other bits of clothing, because a guy dressed all in Shadow Grey looks wierd, but can't quite come to a decision.  Yellow, no.  Red, doesn't go well with Shadow Grey.  Blue looks a little wierd, green as well.  I almost feel like it should be a darker color, or something more muted.  He's using gray right now, but...  maybe a Khaki Kommando off-white.  Sort of dirty, but neutral.  I'd need to see it, I think.

Finished Terry's two bolt throwers and crew men.  Six Goblin war machines finished this month.  Sheesh.
Finished a BSB for Terry and nearly completed a Night Goblin Shaman.

Little too tired of painting and such to continue tonight, so I'll get back to the salt mines tomorrow.

[ghoulking]

1/26/8
Finished the Shaman for Terry.
Finished a Warcaster for Alex.
Finished the White Lion standard bearer for Bama.

Basically I just finished a lot of the little solo models that've been cluttering up my desk.

Put a red base on Tony's Titan, and washed it with a red/black ink mix to darken the base up.  This Titanspawn needs to be darker than the big gigantic one I painted.
I also started work on Curtis' Dwarves.  The Slayer has a skin tone with a scorched brown wash on it.  Tomorrow I'll put the hair in.  I began work on one of his Cursed Company Dwarves.  They represent a force of Dwarven ancestors coming back to aid their brethren, so the standard skeletal paint job won't work on this one.  So I'm painting one model just to work out a system, I'll snap a picture when it's done and see if Curtis is happy with the look.  Right now I based the model with a Thrall Flesh from P3.  Thrall Flesh has replaced by Rotting Flesh for doing undead skin tones and such.  It has less green in it so it tends to take other colors a lot better.  Of course, this Cursed Company is supposed to look like the undead from LotR, so I glazed it with a green color anyway.  This green is of my own making though, Snot Green mixed with some blue, it looks a bit like Dark Angels Green, but with a blue tone to it.  It's the base color for the Goblin army I'll never get to make.

I also put a little more fur on my Varghulf, and added a little bit more to the hat on my Tzarina, and cut the tip of the tail off the Daemon Prince.  I've been asked to lengthen the tail and make it a little more animated.  So I rolled some Green Stuff up into the shape of a sinuous tail and have it drying now.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll have some things worth taking pictures of.

[ghoulking]

1/27/8

Today I finished a Spectral Dwarven ancestor:


I also base-coated ten more of his brethren.


Put the grey on Tony's Titanspawn


I clipped the greenstuff tail down to size and added it to the Daemon Prince, tomorrow I'll smooth the join out.
I decided I can't sculpt a poofy Kislevite hat for my Tzarina, so I chopped that all off, and took a flamboyant hat with big feathers from the Empire General sprue and carved that out a bit to fit on her head.  I think it's an improvement.  I also chopped her head off the body so I could pin the join, I couldn't even get fur on around her neck without popping the head off, so, much as I dislike pinning, I had to do it.
And I put a few more base colors and washed them on the Slayer.

[ghoulking]

1/28/8

I began painting Cliff's Dwarven Bolt Thrower today, got most of the base work done, and will probably finish it Wednesday...unless there's a VC army book to be drooled over and hoarded like Gollum with the ring.

Gotta love Tournament season, projects to work on, painting priorities and so on.  It's also nice to see the finished product.  Be able to look at the army I've painted.

Did more work on Curtis' Spectral Dwarves, ten undead dwarves that now look like my ethereal Kemmler troops.  Tomorrow I'll finish those ten, add the runes and a little age to the bones.  Then base coat the command and remaining troops.  While I like the idea of using the Cursed Company as Dwarven ancestors...I'm getting tired of painting this one figure!

Did a little darkening wash on Tony's Titanspawn's gray spines.  Painted it's mouth and I'll probably finish it tomorrow.

I finished Curtis' Gotrek model.
Put a little more green stuff fur on the Varghulf.
I thickened the tail of the Daemon Prince and started smoothing over the join.  Tomorrow I'll do the very last smooth.
Tomorrow I hope the weather dries a bit so I can get some priming done.  Got some heroes and Forsaken and other odds and ends to attend to.

[ghoulking]

1/29/8

Finished Curtis' Cursed Company today.  Got a little symbology to do tomorrow, because I have no idea what certain Dwarf symbols are, but the unit is complete.


Tony's Titanspawn is also complete


I did a little work on Cliff's Bolt Thrower and crew, and got some base paints and washes in on a bunch of Everblight warcasters for Alex.
I finished two Forsaken for Alex.

I also began work on Ray's Orc special character.  Just a few colors, Dark Grey and Khemri Brown, I'll start doing washes tomorrow.

The Daemon Prince's tail:

[ghoulking]

1/30/8

Finished the last of Alex's warcasters, three female Everblight peoples.
Finished Cliff's Dwarven Bolt Thrower as well, which means his army is ready to go for the BSB.
I also e-mailed my army list in to Kurt for the BSB.  I was looking around today at some of the options open for my Bubonic Court, and really...there are no options.  The BSB will probably be the last big hurrah for them, and then plenty of shelf time, I'm afraid.  Ah well, it's been fun, and maybe when there's a new Skaven list I'll revisit them.

I did some more paint work on Ray's Orc, ink washed the armor, wood and bones, did some of the highlighting for the boar fur, tomorrow he'll get a thin black wash for the boar and another layer of highlights, this time to put some accents in the fur.
I also greenstuffed some of the most offensive gaps on Miltion's Khadoran War Jack.  He wants these done with Shadow Grey as the base color and red and black for the other colors.  Not quite sure how far up I want to take the Shadow Grey, I'll probably revisit Fenris Grey for the base coat, see what I think needs to be done to create a good contrast.

[ghoulking]

1/31/8

Finished Ray's Gorbad Ironclaw


Received and completed two Feralgeists for Alex.  These have to be some of the worst models I've had the misfortune to paint.  For one thing they're supposed to be spectre-like models, rising up from a skeleton thing, and there's just not much of a sculpt to them, I think there's barely more detail to the model than GW's ghost models which were basically guys draped in sheets.  And it's a multi-part model, not only multi-part but the join between the two body pieces (top and bottom) is terrible.  Okay, a Khadoran 'Jack needs some putty to gap fill.  A Dire Troll needs putty.  But I need to gap fill a ghost?
Anyway, they're done.

Put some little caps with fur lining on my Kislevite Zombies.  Oh yeah, I got to read the VC book, I'm gonna need a lot of Zombies no matter what.
Put some more fur on my Varghulf.  175 points and there's a bunch of other rare choices, not sure I can afford the Vargie.
Began work on Tony's Empire troops, Griffon Standard Bearer, Warrior Priest, and Empire General on horse.  

I never feel like I'm getting much work done when I have these periods where I'm doing solos and people's heroes.  I guess I'm just used to working 5-10 models at a time, so completing three models in a night (two of which were just ghosts and not overly complicated), just feels like I didn't get much accomplished.

Need to pick up some more Brown Ink, I finished a bottle again today, I'll probably use the money from Cliff's Bolt Thrower to just buy 6.  I also ordered some FW brown inks, but I can't tell what the browns really look like online, so I had to order two different browns.  One will be too red, and hopefully the other will be right.  I'll get a chance to use it, see if it'll replace my GW ink.  GW's ink has properties I'm really used to, like the way it dirties up metal.  Matt's Ogres would look completely different if I didn't have the ink for their weapons and gut plates.  Bleh, I'm sad GW is getting rid of their brown ink...really just the brown ink.

Today was a good day, though I got some stuff in the mail.  Leaf Litter, which is basically broken up seed pods (Birch I think) some colors of which were dyed to look different colors.  Mine are light brown.  I'm looking forward to using them soon.  I also got a pot of...well I forgot what it was.  I'd considered buying some powdered pigment to play with, so when I sat down and looked at the non-descript little pot of powder I couldn't remember what it was supposed to be.  So I ran out into the cold night to get my garbage, which was where the invoice for my shipment was.  The cold has woken me up, the warm drowsy feeling is gone.  Bleh.

Anyway, it's a Dark Umber Weathering Powder Pot.  When I was surfing this site:
http://www.barrule.c...shop/index.html
I came across this Tamiya weathering kit stuff.  When I clicked to order I thought I was getting a set of three colors with a little make-up brush to apply it with.  Imagine how underwhelmed I was when I just got the one pot of powder.  So this stuff is like makeup, a blush of sorts.  I imagine you spot it on with a flat brush, and it leaves spots like mud splatter.  I'm waiting for my first victim and I'll let folks know how it works.  It'll need a varnish to fix it to the model though, it's just powder.  Thank goodness they sent me the Dark Umber and not the White or Red I saw...though maybe for rust...  Dammit!

[ghoulking]

2/1/8

Ahh, February, already.
I did some more work on Tony's Warrior Priest, BSB, and Mounted Warrior Priest/General.  I might finish them tomorrow.
I started work on five of Matt's Ogres, just got the skin down and washed and the leather and metal down, I'll wash that tomorrow with Brown Ink, which I bought four pots of today.

I also did some number crunching on my Kislevite Vampires...four vampires is nearly 1000 points already.  300 points for a good cavalry unit, good lord the costs went up fast.  I can see an infantry army using four vamps, but I'm going to have to drop one vampire in the mounted list, maybe take a Necro to save lots of points.  Maybe put the Necro on a Corpse Cart.  The list needs something more...maybe split one of the units.  Sucks that Dire Wolves don't count for core selection anymore.  Minimum cost of a core unit is 80 points nowadays, yikes!

[ghoulking]

2/2/8

Not much work done today.  I finished Tony's BSB, Priest, and General.
Got some work on Matt's Ogres done.  Not much, but should finish the five I'm working on tomorrow, maybe start the next five.

[ghoulking]

2/3/8

Finished 5 of Matt's Ogres, got a lot of work done on the next 5.  Tomorrow they'll get inked.
I also did some work on Jan's Happy Yhetee standard bearer, I'm just painting the doo-dads and the standard, got that stuff done and will be painting the Happy Yhetee tomorrow.

[ghoulking]

2/4/8

Got some good work done on Matt's Ogres and Gorger.  Probably finish them tomorrow.
Did some work on Jan's Ogre army, the bitz on 12 models, and finished the Happy Yhettes banner.

Pictures tomorrow, I hope, and get some priming done on my Zombies so I can start painting the Kislevites.

[ghoulking]

2/5/8

Today I started sneezing.  Sneeze sneeze sneeze.  I don't feel bad, but it sure makes painting strange.

The banner for the Happy Yhetees:


I finished up Matt's Ogres:


and Gorger:


I got some Zombies started:


Started laying down some basic color on Milton's Khadoran Warjack:


I was also given a deadline by Tony for his Chimera, Medusa, and Cerberus.  So I got started on those today.  Basic colors and some washes.

I felt like I was going to say something else, but I've completely forgotten it.  nuts.

[DogOfWar]

You sir, are brilliant.