Greetings Terrans, how goes it? I’ve been working to get more paint time in lately & have been making good progress on some Chaos reinforcements for my Nurgle warband, but I did propel this one guy to the front of the queue last week:
This is ‘Robo Knopf’, the Dire Straights themed mini that Mikko printed out for us all to commemorate the Stargrave weekend. He’s a really characterful sculpt that fits right in with the Stargrave vibe, so I painted him in the same lime green with red/cream chequered accent that I used for my Stargrave warband:
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Here he is with ‘Dark Knopfler’, the event mini from last year:
Thanks Mikko, a lovely mini to represent a superb weekend!!
Looking forward to seeing what mini & pun you come up with next year :-)
Greetings Terrans, and sorry it has been such a long time posting this, truth is, I just haven’t felt like painting much. I’m pretty busy, but when I’m not, I’m struggling to find much motivation to paint & am generally having a bit of a dry patch in terms of motivation for the hobby. I have also been having a good clear out of my hobby stash – several boxes of plastic have been gifted on to fellow hobbyists in the area – I had been storing them for years, waiting for that ‘one day’ project that I know will never come. I will be doing a similar thing with some of my lead pile in BOYL this year, so if anyone fancies some freebees, come and see me on the Saturday!
Anyway, all this ennui will pass, and this last weekend was quiet enough that felt able to sit down and push some paint around. I looked through my Primed pile, grabbed a few minis that were earmarked for my Nurgle RoW Warband & got on with it. Most are still half painted, but I did finish this big fella:
Wow, what a mini. I picked up this resin gem a while ago & have been looking forward to and dreading painting it in equal measure. There is a lot going on here, and it’s quite an intimidating piece to tackle. That said, once I got started, it was actually pretty straight forward, with lots of fleshy areas to play with. I didn’t want to do any converting here – mainly because I reckon it’s a great model as-is, but also I’m always a bit wary of faffing around too much with resin. As is now usual for me, I used Contrast paints to block out the main areas before shading & then highlighting back up with ordinary layer paints. I went back in for another round of finer shading & highlighting, and generally messed around for a while before calling it done. Here’s a few closeups of the head and face, including the lil’ critters living in it’s hair:
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I’m pretty chuffed with how he turned out, and am certainly feeling a bit more motivated to paint again after getting such a big model ticked off the to-do list. Hopefully more Nurgly goodness to follow in the near future!
Greetings Terrans, hope you’re all well. This is the last in this little sequence of posts as I put together the last elements of my Bob Olley inspired crew for Stargrave. We were almost complete on the last post, so it’s just a pair of troopers to share today – lil’ Wayne and Big Garth:
Lil’ Wayne is from the IC301 ‘Iron Claw Space Pirates’ from back in the day (better known as ‘Banzai Jones’). Meanwhile, Big Garth is an example of ‘Malig Infantry’ from the The Ion Age minis, still available on Alternative Armies. Neither of these guys needed any conversion work, and both were painted to fit in with the rest of the crew. Really the only thing to note is the yellow skin used on Garth. Because aliens.
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So that’s it folks – a very enjoyable & self contained little project, all ready for a trip over the Oirish Sea next week! I’ll leave you with some shots of the whole crew – firstly with the Captain in his fancy combat armour:
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And another one when my crew is skint & can’t pay the fee for fancy combat armour:
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So that’s it folks – job done! Not sure when I’ll be back to hobbying & blogging, or what my next project will be – I have a few ideas, but I’ve got a very busy time coming up & my motivation for the hobby isn’t what it once was. That said, Bring Out Your Lead is just around the corner, so we’ll see :-)
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