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Good day and welcome to my randomness.

My name is Freddy, just your average geek that enjoys painting to calm down after a long day at work. I do not consider myself anywhere near a professional level for my skills since I just paint for the enjoyment of it, on occasion though some local friends or my local gaming shop will ask me to paint some stuff for them. so I will likely include shots of those in this blog post as well. I started painting mini's several years ago for myself and friends to use during our monthly D&D gaming nights and still work on new ones as we play a new game, but i have always liked futuristic and post apocalyptic stuff so i was drawn to the style of the 40k universe.

The first unit i am working on will be my HQ. A runepriest

so far i am at the bits selection stage and can not make my mind up on a couple of the parts. (i tend to go more for aesthetics then loaded up to match the army roster. but i do want to make sure it can be identified as the unit it is supposed to be at least)

the shoulder pads i am still selecting, but i am stuck on taking one with a pelt on it, or a wolf skull ... or just a blank one and trying a transfer (have never done them before)

Also the belt part, i am not sure on yet either. it looks a bit bulky and not sure if it will be out of place on the unit.

the base will be finished off with some small patches of snow and a little dried grass.

i am open to suggestions on bits to change out before i start painting these parts up.

for the color scheme i have decided to stick with the normal dark space wolves grey with weathering and such. had debated for a bit on making a custom grey for it, but that would end up being to difficult to keep uniform throughout the entire painting process of everything.

While waiting for Army Painter colored primer to come in ... and still making up my mind on the bits for the space wolves HQ figure.

the weather finally cleared up enough that i could clearcoat some terrain i have been working on for my LGS. now once it is all dry i will set up my light box and take some photo's of the parts ...

well i am off work on vacation all this week. so hopefully going to use this time to get some painting done ...

had to take my wife to the doc this morning though. so about all i will be doing today is cleaning up my workbench from my last project ... finally got the terrain for my LGS finished up ... so had to take a couple of better pics of it ... and used the time to snap some better pics of my last painted model .. my ork warboss...

Some nice stuff on here Your scenery and your Ork are quite good
Regarding the parts for your Rune Priest, they all seem pretty good choices. Maybe swap the sword for something a bit like a Crozius? I like the head as it shows him to be old and grizzled. Maybe the wolf helmet would also work.
Looking forward to this being finished

 Nashbashem wrote:
Some nice stuff on here Your scenery and your Ork are quite good
Regarding the parts for your Rune Priest, they all seem pretty good choices. Maybe swap the sword for something a bit like a Crozius? I like the head as it shows him to be old and grizzled. Maybe the wolf helmet would also work.
Looking forward to this being finished

thanks! ... i thought about the wolf helm for him, but it wouldn't work to well with the chest section so going to save it for another figure.

still deciding on doing a Crozius over the sword ... this one will be my HQ figure for the escalation league and it can not be a named figure. so will be building a few more later on as the points allow and i can always change up the weapons on the others to have a variety.

well today was sort of productive ... but not for the hobby ...

got the terrain delivered to my LGS and the owner was very happy ... he is deciding now what to get next to give to me to paint (which i will not argue with, he is normally more then fair on re-reimbursement for painting stuff. i paint stuff, he gives me free 40k stuff in return)

picked up some more supplies while out running errands ... still trying to gather up enough styrene for a project i have in my head ... sort of a titan for Orks but not a Gargant ... more like the SM styled ones .. but more worn and then looted and orkified. really need to find a better source for the styrene though, the local place that sells it never has much in stock and is closing up their doors in January ...

also my wifes cat is trying to keep me from doing much of anything else today it seems ...

so that, and supper (cheese stuffed, bacon wrapped chicken) on the grill ... while playing some World of Tanks waiting for it to get done ... makes up the rest of my evening.

well my Army Painter spray primer is still on backorder so i set off to find something that would work in town ... decided to give Rustoleum a try .. picked up their camo spray that says it will bond with plastic. and it was about the same color as the army painter i had ordered. So i gave it a try on a scrap part and it worked great .. so i have started to basecoat my Orks.

they also have a medium grey that i am debating on picking up for my Space wolves. its a little darker then the grey i have on order with Army Painter stuff. may give it a go since i would like to get some of the units basecoated at least while i am off work this week.

went ahead and got the last of them basecoated since there may be a storm heading my way in the next few days ...

tomorrow morning going to go out and find a paint that will work for my space wolves .. and make my mind up on the shoulder pads for my Rune Priest pictured above so i can get him going as well.

does anyone have a suggestion for mounting shoulder pads onto a sprue or something to paint? or would it be better to put them onto the model if i can.

Get the batch ready, an excellent plan With the shoulder pads I blu-tack them to a paintbrush I'm not using (The brushes wooden end goes in the pads indent) works pretty well

just a small update ...

finally got the army painter paint in ... so my space wolves are based ...

got my drop pod assembled as well .. it is still in a few pieces as i am going to make it open and close ... holding off on painting for a little bit till i can find some magnets for the doors so they will stay shut better...

also picked up a DF Crusader model .. to build up and paint for my Space Wolves ... nothing that can actually be used .. heh but it will look cool ...

and the last photo is a christmas present i got a friend that plays Tau ... i do not think he has this one just yet


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 Nashbashem wrote:
Get the batch ready, an excellent plan With the shoulder pads I blu-tack them to a paintbrush I'm not using (The brushes wooden end goes in the pads indent) works pretty well

i ended up getting most of the minis posed in such a way i had easy access to the shoulder pad .. so i went ahead and glued them on ... on most all of the backpacks tho i left them off .. so i can detail them and under them a little bit more ... (along with the weapons for the few that i had holding their gun in front of them) ...

some of the head's that i wanted to detail that were going to be obscured a bit by the model i did not glue on either so i can work on them separately ...

That's a lot of things to work on don't let a back log build or things will never see the light of day (like my Necrons)

 Nashbashem wrote:
That's a lot of things to work on don't let a back log build or things will never see the light of day (like my Necrons)

yeah! hah the orks are boxed up for now ... so i will be focusing on the Space Wolves ... and the Crusader model will be for when i get the esc. army at a finishing point ...

right now just assembling and basecoating till the holiday is over and will have more time to focus on detailing out what i have basecoated ...

my three objective markers are assembled ... still going to do some gravel and maybe another small bit or two ...

need to figure out the design for one more terrain section for the league .. but haven't a clue .. any suggestions? ...

after i get it figured out i will be starting on the layout of a display board as well ...

(in the background of these photos is the legs for my next Grey Hunter squad)

a small update thanks to a day off ...

got the objective markers ready to spray and paint ... (brushed on some black to finish sealing the talus in place ...

also got the terrain section i was working on ready to paint as well .. but i am stuck on what color to paint the wrecked rhino ...

and a small amount of progress on my troops ... should have the base coloring done on their shoulderpads by the end of the day .. and maybe another detail or two.

made a little more progress ... but will be iffy for the upcoming week ... my wife is going in for surgery on Wednesday (early stages of cancer they are hoping to remove and make sure it hasn't started anywhere else) if all goes well then i will be at home for the week with her and painting on and off during it... if it doesn't then who knows... :(

The Fenrisian Wolf that i did, (still need to detail the mouth and eyes and lower legs) my wife has been watching me paint long enough that she has started asking how i paint them so i did this showing her how ... she is interested in painting animals and such so will see how it goes with the rest of the wolves i have (3 boxes of em)

and the Rune Priest from the bits shown above ... mostly painted and assembled ... still need to do some highlighting and a bit more weathering ... but wanted it together to figure out where would look best on the highlights ... (the head and beard is freshly inked so will be wiping it down soon to clean it back up and then highlights on it as well)

my group of long fangs are getting closer .. as well as the first group of grey hunters ... (though i have lost a head somewhere, it fell off of the sprue i had it glued to while painting ... so i gotta find it or start on another one... darn)

still waiting to be basecoated are another group of grey hunters, and 2 more groups of long fangs... then need to build up a wolf priest or two ... and my other drop pod and the razorbacks.

a little more progress ...

today between running errands and getting ready for wife's surgery tomorrow i have been working on stuff to keep my mind off of things.

the razorback was a model i saved from someone else who had painted it to look like a smurf ... still need to detail on it more and weather it but i am happy with the outcome ...

got the drop pod ready to detail and weather as well.

They are looking great so far

well after over a year i am back painting finally. (wife had two major surgeries last year which kept me preoccupied for that time) .... right now i am not playing at all ... i have just decided to finish up the models that i had in progress when all of that started ...

on that note, here is the Space Wolf that i had started at the earliest in the post ... now finished.

well i am finally getting into the swing of things again ... finishing up on the ork and space wolf models i had primed one at a time till they are all done ... and have another project i am working on ...

one thing that i feel is sadly lacking in 40k ... is a good representation of dwarves!!! ... so following along with some that i saw another person post... here is my first squad of Demiurg (squats, scrunts or whatever you want to call them)

got to love having a week off for work ... this is my kind of vacation!

first color on the space dwarves.

some more shots of my space dwarves ...

and the upper torso of an ork warboss i am working on ...

here is the base for the above ork warlord .....

my ork warboss is finished other then some minor detailing and such ...

Warboss Tredfut is his name...