Hi all, figured I lurk on here enough I may as well drop a blog for my work in the hope of getting a bit of feedback, good or bad, about how I am doing!
Figure I'll use this first post as in introduction/index if it proves popular, so without further ado, a little bit about me...
Started in 1992 at the grand old age of 10, the same month as my local store opened. Since then I have been playing on and off collecting various different forces, always enjoying the modelling and painting aspect of it but never actually getting into it properly. Although several years back I got rid of most of my collection, I have always loved the fluff surrounding the
40k universe, and the Horus Heresy books kept me circling around the hobby.
circle round to summer 2013, I knew some of my friends played so got back into it again. spent a bit of time building up a Dark Angel force, primarily based around 2 of the
DV box sets, but I've always wanted to do the Imperial Guard so decided that I will get up a gaming force of the
DA's, and then move over using allies.
Then they released the Imperial Knights, which I have loved since playing epic and wanted the models before I had even read the rules, so I have 2 of them that are work in progress, and decided that I wanted to learn knew techniques such as airbrushing/weathering/etc to make the best of such great models. After a bit of time learning the airbrush (although I still consider myself a beginner with it) I decided on a new force I will do first to fight along side them before I tackle the Knights properly, so decided on the Militarum Tempestus (as they will slot into the Guard side of things as well), got the book and finally, this week, picked up the big box of them to kick start me off.
The
DA's are all being stripped at the moment so I can airbrush them as well (as I was never really happy with how I did them before, and I was coming back into the hobby after a break so was just finding my feet) so they might pop up now and again as well, as well as some terrain that I am working on.
Well, that brings you up to date with me to the time of posting, hopefully it will speak for itself from here in. Don't expect updates to be constant as I split my time across a few hobbies, but I hope it is worth reading! Any feedback regarding techniques/etc is welcome!
And, of course, any good blog needs photos, so here is my first. This is a test model of my first Scion to see how it looks, and to make sure that the scheme works out.
Only done to the point of finishing airbrushing so far, and a couple of areas of other colours so I can see the effect, but I am quite happy with it.