No pictures tonight, but I wanted to update what has been on my painting desk this week.
I continued painting the Directorate Firestorm Armada models needed for the next round of the campaign I am participating. Since Directorate frigates have served me well I am adding 9 of them along with 1 heavy cruiser and several escorts. The bronze color is almost done, so I maybe able to get the dip shading done this weekend if I don’t get to fussy with detailing.
I dug out the ogres for the Garagehammer challenge and started assembling some ogres. I realized that I don’t have enough parts for as many ironguts as I had wanted to do. Oh well, I will just do more bulls and ironblasters and perhaps do a few converted ironguts.
I have green paint on the War Steam Shrine Tank and have started doing the bronze/gold trim. I need to give it some more love as I will be out of town the last week of the month. Tick Tock Tick Tock.
Tonight I cut out 5 halberdiers from the sprue and added archer heads (furry hats are important since they will be a snow based army). I also added blades to the arms taking care to use the X-acto blade to cross score the contact surfaces before adding the glue, and then letting the glue melt the plastic for 30 seconds or so before making the join. I have found that in halberdier and spearmen models I have bought in the past that that joint is very vulnerable to breaking so I wanted it to be as secure as possible. I can not say enough about taking the time and care with scoring and letting the glue melt the plastic when assembling plastic miniatures as the plastic really makes a weld instead of a joint that consists of two pieces of plastic stuck together with dried model cement.
I placed the artillery and the death wizard into the display cabinet tonight. Its really nice to see them on display there… and really nice not to have them taking up space on my painting desk!
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