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2014/12/16 16:37:35
Subject: Paradigm's Hobby Blog- BA Death Co and SangGuard
And at about midnight last night, this was the upshot:
This is how I accidentally start armies, it seems. It went from 'this could be cool' to 'one HQ short of legal' (in the works now) in a few hours, and while I have no idea where the army if going, it was certainly a fun change from clean red to dirty black, and the RG symbol is not as scary to freehand as I expected, so undoubtedly be more at some point. For now, some more closeups:
Spoiler:
'But I already have 6 marine armies,' I did say
'Nevermind,' quoth the Raven
And among the RG frenzy, I also got some more Malifaux stuff neatened up and some better photos:
Sonnia Criid, pyromaniac witch hunter:
Samuel Hopkins, as played (probably) by John Wayne:
Witchling Stalkers, because why burn witches when you could brainwash them into being sword-wielding Jawas of death?
Group shot:
And some better shots of yesterday's lot:
Spoiler:
And he's the good guy (bonus points to those who get that)
Group shots. Here you can see best how I've gone for different tones on each crew to set them apart. I may redo one of Scales's braziers blue to tie the two together a little more.
That's it for today! As for what's next, I found a good deal on Amazon today for something really rather different, so assuming their one day delivery works out there might be quite a surprise in the next few days...
One last thing: 10 pages! Once more, my thanks go out to all of you that have commented, read and offered advice and encouragement. When I started this blog I honestly wondered if it would ever get this far, so cheers everyone! If nothing else, it's done wonders for my productivity!
2014/12/17 12:28:32
Subject: Paradigm's Hobby Blog- 'Nevermore', quoth the Raven (also, more Merry Malifaux!)
Since it's been mentioned, here's the tutorial I followed for the black:
Spoiler:
Simple and easy to follow.
@ckig: oh yes, if you don't glue yourself at least once to each Malifaux model then your either doing it wrong or some kind of assembling god! The sets I've done (Lady J and Sonnia) haven't had anything too bad, but this little blighter: Has something like 32 pieces! I think I'll be staying away from that one...
Thanks for the vid. Will check it out.
lol @ that model. I think at that point.. you need to rethink your design . You've convinced me to get the Lady J set, and maybe ill get some undead guys for a good opposing force. Too bad shes out of stock everywhere atm :(
Edit: Oh! New stuff! Really like the colours on the Sonia crew
Scouts look nice and dynamic too. Good job on it all.
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The Scout running legs are reposed from the Land Speeder scouts; in my days when I just wanted as many minis as possible I cut the middle from a LSS to make a normal speeder and then built the scouts as infantry with some very heavy repositioning to get any vaguely natural poses!
One day I fully intend to get all my painted Marines together and do a Massive Mega Game of Awesome. My record is fielding 8k points at once (SW, IF, UM, GK) a few years back, I think I could pretty easily push 12k now, more if I bring all my HQs. The tough partmwould be finding enough local players to match them!
2014/12/18 09:04:14
Subject: Paradigm's Hobby Blog- 'Nevermore', quoth the Raven (also, more Merry Malifaux!)
There has been an Awakening... Or I just found a good deal on some Star Wars toys on Amazon, figured there was enough in there to give me a lot to paint while I wait for my incoming SM and Deadzone supply drop, one thing became another and I'm now working on a full-blown Star Wars skirmish and Space ruleset... But a game is nothing without minis, so I slapped some primer on some toys from the Command range (SW version of green army men) and got to work. This was the result:
The Inquisitor, Vader's right hand from the Rebels series (which I haven't actually watched yet)
If you're ever asked to paint a Lightsaber, my advice is, don't! What with most of their colour being the glow around the outside it's impossible to paint them in 3D and look right from more than 1 angle, so all I've done is blended darker towards the handle and added some OSL to convey glowyness? Not perfect, but it'll do (and if anyone has any ideas on ow to get a better look, I'm all ears).
Next, an Imperial Engineer:
And his ride. There's a real mixed bag oh minis in the set I got, in seemingly 3 scales- all the Infantry match up, the fighters seem as near as makes no difference in scale and then larger ships/vehicles that are a bit all over the place.
Once I get some X-wings and such I'll be writing up some dogfighting rules for these, something probably a little simpler/more 'arcade'-like than the FFG stuff.
And the ship from Rebels, out of scale but still a fun model to paint up (mostly with washes, lots of nice panel lines on there) :
But it would be remiss of me not to include at least one actual wargaming miniature in this post, so I give you a converted Shadow Captain Kayvaan Shrike, of the Raven Guard 3rd Company:
And a scale shot so you can see how the Star Wars stuff measures up.
The infantry are probably around 40-50mm tall, the ships are much larger than their FFG counterparts, and considering I paid just £7.99 for 4 ships and 18 infantry, I think I got a decent deal... And may have just splurged another £30 on most of the cast and crew of the Original Trilogy. Between that lot and my incoming 40k and DZ I think I'll be having a productive winter...
Thanks for reading, and for those who maybe don't enjoy the odd Star Wars nerd-out, normal blogging service will be resumed shortly, as soon as Wayland ship my stuff!
2014/12/19 13:59:27
Subject: Paradigm's Hobby Blog- The Force Awakens... (Yes, that Force!)
In fairness, I only paint fast as I take a lot of shortcuts. Nearly everything I do makes extensive use of washes, sometimes drybrushes, and I tend to leave the fancy stuff out in most things. As for the variety, that's a combination of severe hobby ADD, that fact that I tend to go from 'idea' to 'paint it now!' ar too fast, and am just always looking for something different. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but at the end of the day, it's all fun!
At some point before the end of the year, I'll do a minis bought vs painted comparison for 2014 and see how that measures up. Thanks to redoing old stuff I rink was doing rather well on that, about a 2:1 or 3:1 ratio, but this latest Xmas splurge may put a dent in that, with 20 more SM, 30 DZ zombies and close to 50 Star Wars minis inbound over the next few weeks... And all that without backing any KS, which I think would give me huge backlogs!
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2014/12/19 16:00:30
Subject: Paradigm's Hobby Blog- The Force Awakens... (Yes, that Force!)
LotR Mordor:
20 Orc Warriors
6 Corsair Arbalests
The Witch King
The Mouth of Sauron
Misc minis:
2 Genestealers
1 Ork Nob
1 Alpha Legion Chaos Marine
1 Commissar
6 Legion of the Damned
5 Star Wars minis
Total miniatures painted in 2014: 281
So I'm 81 up on that front. Two weeks to go, in going to try and push that to 100!
Finally, while I don't have the space to line up and photo all of those, here are some favourites from the year. Go montage!
Spoiler:
It's been a great year for paint, I think my skills have come a long way, and starting up a blog on here has done wonders for my productivity! Here's hoping 2015 is just as good!
The upshot? 200 bought vs 280 painted! Hell yeah, I can justify buying new toys next year!
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2014/12/19 18:10:10
Subject: Paradigm's Hobby Blog- The Force Awakens... (Yes, that Force!)
Yeah, those last two were from my pre-blogging days. The Alpha Legion guy is a personal favourite as a conversion as much as anything else, and might occasionally see play as Cypher, as the fluff I wrote for him is similarly mysterious.
I was hoping to have hit a mini a day, and that might be my target for next year, but for now I think I'm happy to have painted more than I bought over the year (and if you discount Xmas stuff/the last week's purchaes, it's more like 280:90 Painted vs Bought). And I think I have come a long way as a painter, with especially the Infinity stuff giving me a lot more experience/confidence.
2014/12/20 18:25:36
Subject: Paradigm's Hobby Blog- The Force Awakens... (Yes, that Force!)
What's better than Star Wars? More Star Wars! Yep, some more repaints today, mostly from before Christmas but a couple of newer ones as well. I think I've hit my 300-mini target for the year with a couple of days to spare.
First up, an Imperial selection:
Stormtroopers, painted without a single actual white paint (more by lack than choice)
A pair of TIE Pilots. I now have even more of these guys in the same pose, so there will be some conversions coming soon, I think:
A pair of Engineers:
A couple of 'combat droids' (in fact, out of scale pre-chicken-walkers)
And a TIE Squadron, led by the TIE Advanced Prototype flown by The Inquisitor:
Next, the good guys, a few of those Rebel Scum:
Red Squadron, for all your Battle-Station-Destroying needs:
The Millenium Falcon, for all your Red-Squadron-Bacon-Saving needs. Very happy with how this came out for something that is 90% washes:
Finally, proof that it's not what you say, it's how badass you look saying it. You're no good to him dead.
And that's it for now! Hope you lot all had a good Christmas and will have an equally good New Year! Thanks for reading, as ever.
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2014/12/29 01:12:10
Subject: Paradigm's Hobby Blog- The Force Awakens... (Yes, that Force!)
Squall: The SW 'minis' are actually from a range of toys called 'Star Wars Command'. They're basically the SW version of the 100-in-a-bag green army men, but somewhat more detailed and more expensive (I got most of this for 50-75% of retail, I don't think I'd pay full price for them). The scales are all over the place, but the infantry are all about 40mm tall, and most of the fighters are roughly in scale. The vehicles and larger ships are in the 'whatever fits in the box' scale, so can't see much use beyond display pieces. You get a mix of everything in most boxes, so if you're just looking to pick up a few to paint the prices and quality aren't that bad (especially if you can get a discount; amazon tend to have them cheap)
But as it stands, I have enough for a good-sized skirmish game in the OT era, and the same for a space game (both homemade rulesets). I may expand into the prequels as and when there's some more variety in that part of the range. They are certainly a nice change from painting in 28mm, though, as the larger size does a lot of shading/highlighting for you compared to 28mm.
Next up will be some Raven Guard and some more LotR, probably in a couple of days.
2015/01/02 15:54:20
Subject: Paradigm's Hobby Blog- The Force Awakens... (Yes, that Force!)
And to open the show, more Raven Guard. The comment above about how the Scouts looked like something from a comic book hit the mark; I wanted these guys to look as varied and dynamic as possible, so these ones have also been heavily converted.
That last one needs a bit of a touch up, but other than that I'm happy.
And the first half of my entry into this month's Hobbit painting challenge, a warband of Easterling. This is the rank of swordsmen and the Captain (guy with the halberd in the middle), the next will be pikemen and a banner.
That's all, here's to a productive and successful 2015 for you all.
2015/01/02 15:58:52
Subject: Paradigm's Hobby Blog- Ravens and Easterlings!
Scouts look pretty sweet. Did you paint the pants / cloth a different color this time or is it the camera? They look darker / don't stand out as much as the last ones.
Like the scouts, especially since you painted them with the right skin tone unlike the official gw painters. Though I gotta say the second scout is giving off a Igor feel
Legion: Dark Angels 
. You've convinced me to get the Lady J set, and maybe ill get some undead guys for a good opposing force. Too bad shes out of stock everywhere 
Ultramarines, 3rd Co. and friends, 16k+ 
4k 
4k Points
