2013-02-28: Month 2 Wrap Up

Here are the finished (except for basing) of the cannon, mortar, and their crews.

 

I am a big fan of the Vallejo flesh wash.  I base coat some sort of flesh color and then pick out the highlights with flesh/white mix (or just white).  Then I apply the wash.  I have found that this is a very quick way to get a very nice flesh effect.  Below are the pictures of an artillery man before and after wash:

      

I decided to put my artillery pieces on round 60mm bases.  While I could do some shenanigans with not basing them, I think they will look better based and I also wont have to deal with any questions about mini’s touching in not when in play.  The bases arrived yesterday and I will slap them on this weekend.

My Directorate ships are mostly base coated.  The gold/bronze is taking a while since I paint those areas brown and then go over with gold and there are lots of fiddly tubing to paint with this color.  But I hope that they will be base coated this weekend.

I have to tally up my ogres this weekend and see if I have enough to take the plunge and do the Garagehammer painting challenge.  Two challenges at once seems like a lot, but the ogres should paint very fast and I would like an excuse to paint them,

2013-02-11: Hobby Fail

   The artillery pieces are moving along.  I primed the unprimed crew members (and the musician + bear model for later painting).  Nothing to see here, move along, move along.

I have three Directorate frigates painted and just waiting for the sealer/dip (I like to use a little polyshade mixed with regular polyurethane to give a little depth without excessively muting the colors),  I got back the silver prime I used for them tonight after loaning it to a fellow Firestorm Armada player.  I will have to prime 6 more frigates, 6 escorts, and a heavy cruiser tomorrow.

I primed several Drindrenzi gunships and a carrier yesterday night.  Today I noticed that two of the gunships had primer flaking right off of them.  Arhhgh! Rookie mistake!  I didn’t wash them down to remove the release agent from these resin models.  Well, those two gunships are now patrolling the Simple Green Sector and will be re-primed when they get back.

2013-02-06: M2 D6

I base coated the cannon and mortar a few days ago.

I had to then put them aside in order to work on some frigates for my Directorate fleet that I need for a campaign I am involved in.  They are coming along very fast, but if I remember correctly, putting the bonze/gold color on the brown is fiddly and takes longer than it should.  I also have several escorts that need to be primed and also painted in the next week.

 

When the new warshrine kit came out I (and others) thought that the griffon looked to big and top heavy.  An idea I had was to stick it on top of a steam tank chasis to give it a suitably big bottom.  I also wanted to me able to convert it back and forth to a regular steam tank.  Magnets will likely be involved,

2013-02-04: My List

2500 Pts - Empire Roster

State Troops (69#, 464 pts)
48 Halberdiers, 464 pts (Musician Mus; Standard Bearer Std; Hand Weapon; Halberd; Light Armour)
1 Sergeant (Hand Weapon; Halberd; Light Armour)
10 [Det] Swordsmen (Hand Weapon; Light Armour; Shield)
10 [Det] Swordsmen (Hand Weapon; Light Armour; Shield)

Master Engineer (1#, 65 pts)
1 Master Engineer, 65 pts (Hand Weapon)

War Engines (4#, 120 pts)
1 Great Cannon, 120 pts
3 Crew (Hand Weapon)

War Engines (4#, 120 pts)
1 Helblaster Volley Gun, 120 pts (Volley Gun)
3 Crew (Hand Weapon)

War Engines (4#, 100 pts)
1 Mortar, 100 pts
3 Crew (Hand Weapon)

War Engines (2#, 250 pts)
1 Steam Tank, 250 pts (Steam Tank Weapon Systems; Steam Engine Rules; SteamTank Boiler; Causes Terror; Large Target; Random Movement; Unbreakable)
1 Engineer Commander (Hand Weapon; Repeater Pistol)

Luminark of Hysh (3#, 120 pts)
1 Luminark of Hysh, 120 pts (Chariot; Large Target; Swiftstride)
2 Acolyte (Hand Weapon)
2 Warhorse

Wizard Lord (1#, 200 pts)
1 Battle Wizard Lord, 200 pts (Level 4 Upgrade; Hand Weapon)
1 The Lore of Metal

Battle Wizard (1#, 100 pts)
1 Battle Wizard, 100 pts (Level 2 Upgrade; Hand Weapon)
1 The Lore of Beasts

Greatswords (34#, 364 pts)
23 Greatswords, 364 pts (Always Strikes Last; Musician Mus; Standard Bearer Std; Hand Weapon; Great Weapon; Full Plate Armour; Stubborn)
1 Count's Champion (Always Strikes Last; Hand Weapon; Great Weapon; Full Plate Armour)
5 [Det] Archers (Hand Weapon; Bow; Skirmishers; Volley Fire)
5 [Det] Archers (Hand Weapon; Bow; Skirmishers; Volley Fire)

Knightly Orders (6#, 170 pts)
6 Inner Circle Knights, 170 pts (Musician Mus; Standard Bearer Std; Barding; Hand Weapon; Great Weapon; Full Plate Armour)
6 Warhorse

Pistoliers (5#, 90 pts)
5 Pistoliers, 90 pts (Hand Weapon; Brace of Pistols; Light Armour; Fast Cavalry)
5 Warhorse

Arch Lector (2#, 255 pts)
1 Arch Lector, 255 pts (Always Strikes Last; Battle Prayers; General; Hand Weapon; Great Weapon; Light Armour)
1 War Altar of Sigmar (Chariot; Large Target; Stubborn; Swiftstride)
1 The Golden Griffon
1 5. Banishment
2 Warhorse

Warrior Priest (1#, 70 pts)
1 Warrior Priest, 70 pts (Always Strikes Last; Battle Prayers; Hand Weapon; Great Weapon; Light Armour)

2013-02-04: February Pledge

I decided that my pledge for February will be to do finish up the artillery of my army.  The motor and cannon are primed and I have 5 primed crew members for them, that along with painted crew (my January pledge) and other mostly painted crews that just need to be finished, I will have all the crews for all 4 war machines I have (I painted a Helstorm Rocket Battery previously thus it is not in my to paint list).

So my pledge is to paint a motor, cannon, and crew:

I will also pledge to finish (including basing) all my other crews:

Yeah, there is a wizard in there that I will also finish, but as he was mostly painted from before the start of the challenge.  But I want to finish him this month.  The two wizards in my list (beast and metal) are below, but I am not pledging to do them this month since I need to spend some time assembling models.