So, first week of vacation almost over, still got one more to go, but in the meantime it feels like I've painted more in those last few days than I did in the last six months.
One of the things I did was paint up some scatter terrain. Two reasons for this, I need a lot of it for games of
SW-A for models to hide behind and Azazel's blog has nice pieces of scatter on display every now and again, which certainly gave a bit of extra motivation to work on these. It was also a nice diversion from painting nothing but infantry all the time, while still forcing myself to keep holding onto a brush and not do something else for the rest of the day. Nothing too shocking technique wise, just a simple basecoat, wash, drybrush and in case of the crates, a decal or two to give them a little something extra.
The crates have been glued together into stacks of two high, so models have something nice to hide behind or clamber over for a clearer shot.
One of the teams I've started work on is an Angels of Something-something kill team, which will most likely be much hated by some of the locals, because of well.. I'm lonely, shut it.
Still need to do one or two coats of red for the chainsword housing of the sergeant, plus devise a simple urban camo pattern for the cloak of the sniper, but other than that, these are done. It was a nice diversion to paint something other than blue or red all the time and I've always secretly wanting to do something Dark Angels related for some time now, especially something involving the classic image of dark green armour and bright red housings for their bolters, an image well cemented into my head for some reason. I also wanted to pay homage to the old Space Crusade scouts, who had these weird mohawks with mullets / tails, so the bolter scout has a small mohawk.
A simple team really, heavily focused on ranged:
Sergeant - bolt pistol & chainsword
Scout - bolter
Scout - shotgun
Scout - sniper rifle, camo cloak, red-dot laser sight, telescopic sight
Gunner - heavy bolter
On the desk right now are two extra noviate scouts (read: scrubs), both armed with bolt pistols and combat knives, who will act as cheap reinforcements for campaign games. As always, the heads are from
Statuesque Miniatures.
The other team I've been working on are the Skitarii, having gotten a box from my
FLGS on Monday (thanks Mark!) with the test model now done and the rest in various stages of completion:
Troika-14, a reference to a rather disappointing novel about the Skitarii, armed with a plasma caliver. The rest of the squad will swiftly follow and be done on Monday, fingers crossed, as I may turn this team into my primary team for an upcoming campaign later this month.
This team is a strictly ranged affair, though I did build an Alpha armed with an arc maul and arc pistol for melee duties, but why get stuck in when you can shoot them from a distance instead?
Skitarii Ranger Alpha - Galvanic rifle, omnispex
Skitarii Ranger - Galvanic rifle
Skitarii Fresh-forged - Radium carbine
Skitarii Fresh-forged - Radium carbine
Skitarii Specialist - Plasma caliver
Skitarii Specialist - Transuranic Arquebus, red-dot laser sight
I mainly hope to dig in and shoot-shoot-shoot with my Arquebus and Alpha, whose omnispex is a filthy piece of equipment. The other specialist and fresh-forged will move out and wipe out anything I can't snipe straight away. Or so I like to think. Knowing my luck, all terrain will have no great points to snipe from.
And on the desk right now:
Back row: Skitarii warband, with two alpha's, one holding an omnispex, the other kitted out for melee. I'm still going to finish the melee variant, but chances of him seeing action are in hindsight slim to nil.
Ogryn, almost done! Just need to redo the shield and the housing of the power maul.
Noviate scouts: primed as of now, but will be started on after the Skitarii are done.
An Inquisitor primed gold! Not sure what I'm going to do with this model just yet, but I felt like priming her, so I went ahead and did just that.
A pair of converted scions. Not sure when I'm going to start on those, perhaps after I'm done with the scouts.