Category: Miscellaneous

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

Today I finished assembling all of the infantry and three flyers. Some of the fliers are missing parts of their wings, but instead of taking time to look for them in the bits boxes (yeah, I got bits scattered everywhere), I decided to start painting a unit of infantry. In the game Warrior Heroes Warbands… Continue reading Mid-Summer Madness – Session 3

From time to time, one comes across a model that makes no sense. Today, I worked on one, it was the first iteration of the Dark Elf Cauldron of Blood. GW has since made two other iterations of the Cauldron of Blood, both as absurd as the first one. I remember the Cauldron of Blood… Continue reading Mid-Summer Madness – Session 2

The first thing I did was to organize all of the miniatures by release date. I used two sources to help me do this, the first was the Stuff of Legends website and the second was the Collecting Citadel Miniatures Wiki. I discovered my collection spans thirty years from 1985 to 2005. On the surface,… Continue reading Mid-Summer Madness – Session 1

With the Texas heat comes a madness - it's true! Just look at the circus of grifters goose stepping across the red carpet in Dallas this weekend. I won't get into that, though. But, in a fit of madness, I've challenged myself to try and complete my Games Workshop Dark Elf army. I purchased most… Continue reading Mid-Summer Madness – Session 0