Greetings Terrans, and a joyous new solar orbit to you. I hope you all had a good festive period and all that good stuff! I’ve been super-busy with RL of late, and despite having a rare couple of weeks ‘off’, I’ve had very little hobby time. I managed to remedy that a bit, and finished this dapper chap this evening:

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He’s ‘Janus Draik’, the Rogue Trader from the Blackstone ‘goodies’ side. He’s a really nice model – probably one of the best in the set in fact, with a really decent pose and a nice level of detail. I found him a bit fiddly to paint, but I’m pretty rusty after nearly a month off, so there’s an element of that too. I kept him pretty clean rather than go for my normal grubby style, and I think it suits him.

Not much else to say about him really, so that’s it for now. Next time will be the last three members of my Nurgle Warcry band – ‘deserters’ in fact, so something a bit more grungy to look forward to :-)

Laters!

Greetings Terrans, how goes it? I have a smidge of progress to share on my Blackstone Fortress set – it has been a really busy time, so not much space for hobby, but I done bagged me a Kroot:

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This is ‘Dahyak Grekh’ apparently, and he’s a Kroot mercenary, and he’s one of the better minis in the set I think. I had fun painting him, adding some texture to his cloak and generally roughing him up. I don’t know anything about Kroot – this is the first time I’ve ever painted one in fact, so I had no real frame of reference & just went with what felt ‘right’:

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All in all, I’m pretty pleased with old Dahyak – I may see about picking up the Kroot Killteam to give him a flock to hang with.

Anyhoo, that’s all folks. Another busy week next week, but I’m hoping to get some Warcry stuff done over the holidays.

Greetings Terrans, I’ve got quite a (a-hem) short post for you today…

Space Hobbits:

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These two wee scamps are ‘Rein and Raus’, the Rattling (aka Space Hobbit) twins that are one of the ‘goodie’ options for Blackstone Fortress.

Now, full disclosure… I really don’t like the whole barefoot Hobbit thing at the best of times, (sorry Tolkien!), but to then lazily port that stupid trope straight into 40k really grips my shit… (Really? Woolly toes too? Oh, do f*** off GW, why not give them a bag of Hobbit food too – oh you did… Brill.)

Still, that aside, these are actually really fun minis to paint – full of character, and with a decent amount of detail. I went with a general militaristic vibe, and I just followed my now usual ‘Contrast followed by Highlight’ approach. These two can hang with my Inquisitor warband when they aren’t padding around all barefoot, spreading their Hobbity verrucae all over the BS Fortress.

That’s all folks, catch you later :-)