Category: Miscellaneous

Today, I was a little under the weather - you know, the pounding frontal lobe most-of-the-day headache, right above the right eye. Anyway, I only worked one hour on the project painting only one color - yellow. Yellow is a hard color to paint. Oh, you can gloop it on thick with lots of brush… Continue reading Mid-Summer Madness – Session 13

I only worked two hours on the project today. Bringing the total time spent to 35.5 hours. However, I feel like I got a lot done for this unit. The shields received the by now customary Reaper Dark Elf Shadow, a purple so dark that it is almost black. The bases were painted Reaper Earth… Continue reading Mid-Summer Madness – Session 12

The second unit is finished! I worked on the project 2.5 hours today. I finished the 12 figure Spears of the Winged Skull. I have now finished 24 models. I also applied the zenithal highlight to the third unit. I've spent a total of 33.5 hours on the project. I corrected mistakes, painted details and… Continue reading Mid-Summer Madness – Session 11

I started today by painting the bottom layer of skin color on the daemonettes before putting them away to continue working on the dark elf spear unit. Today's main focus was the dark elf skin. As before, I use a mix of three colors - Reaper Runic Purple, Warcolours Flesh 4 and Warcolours Flesh 2.… Continue reading Mid-Summer Madness – Session 10

Working on the same project 9 days in a row is tough. It reminds me of when I worked for a living. I'm certainly going to thank the labor movements of the early 20th century for pension plans and retirement. Also, if you enjoy having a weekend, that's another benefit from the "liberal" labor movements.… Continue reading Mid-Summer Madness – Session 9

I was going to spend several hours on the Dark Elf project today, but events and nature conspired against doing so. I only got to spend 2.5 hours today painting. This brings the total time spent to 25 hours. Today's main focus was the color green. You would think I'd have a basic green paint… Continue reading Mid-Summer Madness – Session 8

Wow, I've posted everyday for a week. I hope this isn't becoming too boring. I'm afraid the daily posts are the carrot and stick to get me to complete this army. Today I started the next unit in earnest, "Spears of the Winged Skull." Whereas the identifying color of the last unit was red, I've… Continue reading Mid-Summer Madness – Session 7

Before painting the details and highlights on the Red Skulls, I primed the next unit, the "Winged Skulls". The reason for this is that I use black colored gesso to prime metal and resin figures, while using black paint on plastic figures. The gesso needs time to cure as it shrinks and bonds to the… Continue reading Mid-Summer Madness – Session 6

Today's session saw the completion of all of the base coats. Tomorrow will focus on highlights and last details. The first hour was spent painting all of the wood and leather bits. Spear shafts and the banner pole were painted with Vallejo Flat Brown and all of the leather was painted with a mixture of… Continue reading Mid-Summer Madness – Session 5

I continued work on the 12 figure "red skull" unit. Today, I painted red. In the past, I would have painted the area to be red with white and over the white I would paint the brightest red color I had. Fast, easy, done - but a little one dimensional. Now days, I tend to… Continue reading Mid-Summer Madness – Session 4