<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Mazz's motivational project thread (part 2 necrons and 2013 commitments)"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/56.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Mazz's motivational project thread (part 2 necrons and 2013 commitments)
Firstly a bit of info, 2012 is my year of getting things i always wanted to do done! both hobby and personal wise, so far its going rather well, with some lovely new rib tattooing that i have been promising to get done for 10 years! so with that nearing completion its time to get some hobby done!

Now I have never posted any kind of blog before but i'm hoping to get feedback and motivation so any help and advice is appreciated, and having trawled most of the blogs, showcases and painting advice sections i certainly wish I had the talent of many Dakkanauts, however being awesome takes practice so practice I shall.

Being an ex staff member from the Bournemouth GW I have tonnes of projects still shrink wrapped awaiting me to be inspired and get my arse in gear, I have been busy painting dystopian wars so far this year but i have a few other things I need to get sorted! so when i bumped into an old friend who was getting back into the hobby with his housemates mentioned they were doing a tale of 3 gamers I opted in to make it 4, and after much deliberation I chose to actually paint that 5-6K tyranid army I had to have when I worked for GW but never even put most of together.
Unwrapping the battleforce and digging out the fincast hive tyrant (cos resin tyrants might not explode into pieces when they are gazed upon) I began my work in earnest.
The April goal was a biggy an HQ choice and battleforce in a month, and I decided to go with one with possibly the most models (I am sooo smart).
The first job was to build and undercoat, I did find some built gaunts and some warriors a mate gave me that he assembled (what looks lik in th dark) many years ago that needed tlc!


This was my start point 3 weeks ago, and having had a week off about that time i did all the ground work then.
I decided termagants were the place to start so batch painting in fours

I managed to get them done in plenty of time, now only a hive tyrant, 3 warriors, 8 Genestealers and 16 Hormagaunts to go and its only the 20th of the months, this will be easy right?
Here is how it stands so far...


Oh and here is a linky to my Dystopian Gallery and my steampunk penguins!
http://s780.photobucket.com/albums/yy87/angelz87/Dystopian%20Wars/]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4180432.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4180432.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids)

I took the talons off to ease painting, and I can repose them a bit as i wasn't wholly happy, so we shall see how this goes.

I also began base coating the rest of this months projects giving me a big box of purple!


I also got over excited and bought a tyrannofex that i took some time to start building, it was staring at me in its box, here is a quick size comparison to a heirodule that never got finished many years ago:


this thing is huge I can't wait to paint him!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4197085.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4197085.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids)



On to the hormagaunts next and with the purple done on them I even managed to make good progress and have 4 nearing completion, I might even make the may deadline!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4202214.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4202214.page GMT Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4202342.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4202342.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4202369.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4202369.page GMT Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids) There was supposed to be more progress but heading down to Poole gw to paint and catch up with folks I got roped into a 40k tournament over the next 3 weeks!
After cobbling together an army (1000pts) out of the stores necrons from the cabinet I got in a game so didn't manage any painting.

I'll take some photos next week and report back, not sure what to use as I have to muster 1850 and the bids won't be there for a while, so I'm thinking death wing/ raven wing force.

I did manage to get some hormagaunts started so will do some photos tomorrow.
Again thanks for looking and always remember try not to get eaten by bears...]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4209737.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4209737.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids) WIP shots!



I have managed to get 8 hormagaunts done with another 4 close to completion, then 3 warriors and thats April done, loads of time to spare honest!

Lets see how this goes and i'll get back to you fine fellows tonight!]]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4216269.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4216269.page GMT Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids) I'm house sitting for my cousin at the moment so can't get pictures of the camera (I'll sort some out tonight from my tablet but they won't be great) mostly I have finished the hormagaunts and just have another 20mins or so work to do on the warriors.

I'm fairly certain that month 2 will be a little easier for me, the plan is to sort out the tyrannofex, 2 venomthropes, a Tyranid Prime, and another 3 warriors. considerably less than the 44 models of last month, but now i'm pretty much done with all my little guys, i'd like to paint 10 gargoyles somewhere down the line, i have a flyrant that I built ageas ago and he got some shopping dropped on him by someone halfway through painting so he might get some repair and finishing this month too.
My roleplay group will also be starting a deathwatch game next month so obviously i need to sort out a model for that (even if we don't use them) hopefully i can use the forgeworl apothecary, as mostly it gives me an excuse to buy more toys!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4228782.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4228782.page GMT Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids) ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4229654.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4229654.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids)
So here are the pictures of the hormagaunts, from wip to complete!






The colour scheme itself is rather quick, which was rather important for a tale of four gamers. The red is the only part that I have struggled with, I need to blend each layer more to get a smoother gradient. It hasn't been to much of an issue but I noticed it on the warriors (sorry for the lack of pics) I'm hoping it won't be so noticeable once I get the carapace done I might get to apply brush to model tomorrow night...maybe!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4232360.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4232360.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids) It has been most productive, as I have warriors all done!
Before

After


So that's the first months done only 3 days late, not bad for 40+ models in a month, but wait I hear you cry there is no evidence of genestealers you are full of lies and deciept! Well no I say, I did them early on but never sorted photos so here they are!



Next we will mostly be building venomthropes and a tyrranofex whip pics to follow!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4236035.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4236035.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (Tattoos and Tyranids!)
I got round to doing a group shot of the first months mammoth task all finished

I got some time to think about month 2, I want to get a tyrannofex, 2 venomthropes and 3 warriors done. I plan to finish a Tranid Prime as well, he is mostly done from when I started the army, but needs a weapon swap, I won't be counting him in my targets this month.
Also I got somewhat distracted by my tattooist:

For those who don't speak Binary, it translates to "Flesh is weak worship the Machine" this is only the first session, more work to go later to tidy it up and add more detail to the numbering.
And the while recovering got on with some building, firstly I got cracking with the first venomthrope so fresh out of the packet I had the trepidation of a finecast model and the usual horror that that brings, and i wasn't dissapointed, plenty of bubbles and gaps, the pieces had to be soaked in hot water to allow me to even consider them going together, and I had to invest in some liquid greenstuff to make this guy presentable, but its a good investment as this stuff is brilliant.


So he all went together without too many worries, one of the tentacles had a bubble almost all the way through, but it has been filled and seems stable, I am so very glad i never bought these guys in metal though, it would be a most horrendous model to build.
Here is an example of how much work the back vents took to get in place:


I also decided to get my prime painted, since he was almost finished from when I first started painting this army about 4 years ago he is mostly ddone, but I swapped his arms for the new Bonesword bitz, which came out rather well in finecast, only 1 or 2 areas to work on, as it was just the arms to paint here i grabbed a pot of the imperial primer to basecoat them with and well need i say more than this:

At first I thought I had watered it down too much, so i used it neat from the pot and got the same effect, this stuff is most definately not Ronsil and does not do what it says on the tin, so back to basics i'll pull the arms off and spray them black then paint them and reattatch, safe to say not impressed by this new primer!

Well thats all for now, I might get some time to get more done on the tyrannofex and get the other venomthrope built, then I can spray the lot and get painting.
]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4249106.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4249106.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids) The tyrannofex is fully built and the second venomthrope is all cleaned and green stuffed (which took forever) then I finally get some quality hobby time and my super glue is all dried up!
So I sat in front of iron man and continued to plot my deathwatch character and felt the need to paint power armour, so I sorted out a dark angel veteran, or sternguard (depending which codex I'm using) I built most of the squad ages ago, but never got round to painting them.
Here is the first.



Sorry about the rubbish pic but I was too engrossed to find my camera and take proper pics, I'll try and sort some tomorrow after a trip to the Poole gw!
More bid related goodness to come shortly, and I even have a week off work soon so that will aid my progress!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4288793.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4288793.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids) 40k campaign was over and no one bothered to tell me! shame as i was feeling dark angely and had dusted them off come up with a reasonable list and fought through road closures, car park closures and other traffic and late working mayhem! so I came home dejected, checked on one of the snakes who is shedding and got snapped at (she is grumpy when she is blind) and took some photos, and finally finished building this months challenge pieces!

So we have on the table, 2 Venomthropes, 3 Warriors and a tyrannofex, there is also some arms for the prime and another sternguard, i really enjoyed the change from purple flesh! not much got done as it was late but i took a few piccies of the guard and uploaded some work in progress shots.

basecoating isn't fun but has to be done!


The green here is done and all the detailing is picked out with a base coat, i do this so i can see where each section interacts for highlighting.



The finished article! I really need to sort a light box, but i really have trouble with space my flat is rather small, so i need to make a collapseable one realistically!
Those eagle eyed may spot the green stuff, i actually noticed the bolter wasn't sitting right and had to adjust the arms once that is dry i can cover it pretty easily, but mostly thats 1 down 9 to go! i'm gonna use my dark angels to break up the nid painting otherwise my tiny mind gets bored!

Well thanks for looking, and C&C is much appreciated, i do want to get a more realistic look on the marines i feel my style is a little cartooney, and i want to get into more realistic colour schemes for next years big project!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4292817.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4292817.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids)
The DA looks awesome, the Nids look sweet, and the tattoo is amazing. Love it all! ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4292835.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4292835.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids)
Well another generally unproductive day of avoiding painting nids, hope to get them basecoated tomorrow when i am visiting a friend, then i can airbrush them purple when i get home, in the meantime i spent my food budget on more flames of war soviets and some foam to store more dystopian wars goodness!
I have a game tomorrow with a friend and still haven't reaached 1500pts of soviets but this gets me damn close!


Only need 4 more artillery pieces to get to a passable 1500, then all i have to do is learn to paint 15mm scale toys which so far has not gone well! my old collegue from the bournemouth store will hopefully be able to offer me some assistance, he has taken to the smaller scale rather well but i for some reason can't adjust! I will be looking into getting these and the other 40 stands done once the tale of four gamer's is over in august.

Here is where I stand on this months challenge:

as you can see the forge world open day models are also begging for some hobby love, but i haven't really thought about what i want to do with them yet, for now they will go to the black space of the project shelf! (yes this is more like a chest of drawers, book shelf and large number of boxes)
I'm also still searching for a decent spray matte varnish, so if anyone can point me in the right direction i have a few bits i would like to have a better finish but i can't find a good one, the last one i bought gave everything the shiniest wet look finish ever, and has been relegated to a friends use for his casting experiments, and upon finding how tough the varnish was he cast some dungeon floor tile coasters, most excellently geeky!

Well thats all for now, hopefully i can sort a battle report and some in game photos from tomorrow, the plan is also to trial my first game of the new fantasy rules, time to dust off the dark elves!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4299182.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4299182.page GMT Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids)
In actual task news i got everything undercoated but not having the motivation to break out the airbrush and purple them up tonight, might have to do that tomorrow, then on to painting during the week, but which to start with the tyrannofex or the venomthropes?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4302509.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4302509.page GMT Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids) gw and grab more purple! aaargghhh the gods conspire against my alien painting.

Feeling a bit soviet at the moment so i might have a crack at an infantry stand to see if i can do any better!

Also I want some of this to inspire my troops:


anyone know where i can get it in the uk?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4305756.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4305756.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids) http://candy.overlord.positive-dedicated.net/store/Leninade-892458019174.html

Nids are looking great so far, keep chewing through them. It's going to look fantastic when it's all done.
]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4306336.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4306336.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids)
Well I have been a busy not painting bunny over the last few days, mostly doing lots of excersise, making a fool of myself and recovering!
But in the midst of it all i aquired more liche Purple! so i can get on with more nids however i am the king of procrastination so i painted some flames of war soviets to test some new theories provided and further wasting time posting them here!


And some other views hidden here:
Spoiler:


Spoiler:


They have alot more definition than my previous attempt, and were rather simple and quick, which is important when you have 70 stands to paint!

Still enough putting it off, to the shops then back home to maul some paint onto models!

As always C&C welcome!
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As you may be noticing I get easily distracted, so today I spent the. Morning getting to grips with the tyrannofex, I got all the purple done on everything for this months challenge:
That totals 1 tyrannofex
3 warriors
2 venomthropes
And a tyranid prime.

I broke out the airbrush and base coated the purple, and spent the day getting them all purpley!
This morning I have enjoyed some sunshine and made the most of the good light and got the green dealt with on 2 legs, this beast is so big I am painting him in sections.




I'm slowly working my way round him, but his back is going to be an absolute pain!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4325205.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4325205.page GMT Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids)
Purple tentacles or red? red makes them look more like the weaponry (and i wasn't sure what to do red) but i'm not massively confident on getting the highlights right on them, on the other hand they are already painted if i leave them purple.....arrrghh the dilema!

No piccies today as i'm being massively lazy and haven't sorted them out yet!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4337765.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4337765.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids)



Thats alot of work and painting time devoted, now i'm on to the prime and venomthropes, still trying to figure out how to do the poison sacs and tentacles, i'm thinking i'll keep the sacs purple and giving them a wash, i'm thinking hawk turquoise or scorpion green, any thoughts?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4340838.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4340838.page GMT Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4340955.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4340955.page GMT Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4340985.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4340985.page GMT Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids)
cormadepanda wrote:I like your painting but i feel your purple skin is lacking highlights and colors. Either way good work!


Indeed the camera pulls some of it out but the wash has brought it down further than I expected, given a bit more time I will look to go back and re do the highlights, it is much more noticeable on the big guys, the main job first is to get them to tabletop, then I can make a fuss of the big guys :-) I'm not sure if it is worth going all the way up to bleached bone before the wash?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4341126.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4341126.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids) The army list I am working to is :
Hive tyrant, hive commander, and 2 tyrant guard - 255pts
Tyranid prime, bone swords, death spitter adrenal glands - 105pts

2 hive guard - 100pts (I have 2 painted already and one unpainted)
2 lictors - 130pts
2 venomthropes - 110pts

6 tyranid warriors, deathspitters, adrenal glands - 240pts
10 genestealers, brood lord, alons for the brood lord, and toxin sacs for all - 218pts
16 termagants - 80pts
16 hormagaunts, toxin sacs - 128pts
Tervigon, adrenal glands, catalyst - 185pts

Tyrannofex, rupture cannon - 265pts
Mawloc, adrenal glands - 180pts

Total 1996points

So I'm thinking the 2 tyrant guard and hive guard and the tervigon need to get done, I also have 10 gargoyle that I want done so I figure that will be my June mission. Hopefully I can complete Mays tasks on Sunday so more pics then perhaps.
For now I'm off to baby sit and fix my sisters house,
Have fun guys!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4348648.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4348648.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids)
First up this rather spiffing process unit:



And the first part of the fencing, the "quarantine zone style"


Assembling this stuff was pretty easy, i also got a P.U.P and walkway set which is built and i'm planning to do in the yellow.

It will be being used for infinity and necromunda, and probably 40k, i have to say very pleased with it.
My gaming group are starting a necromunda campaign and i have started work on a scavvy gang, however i seem to have lost all my old scavvy models, i only have the new ones for now, but thats not really enough for a gang, i'll just have to keep searching boxes, maybe even convert some.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4385749.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4385749.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids)
Right so i have been a little absent recently things have been a bit hectic and i blame sins of a solar empire for taking my painting time!
Still i have made a bit of progress and have stuff to report (lots actually) Huzah!

So firstly I have completed all of Mays tasks they overan by loads and quite frankly i have no excuse i just failed in an epic fashion...
Still here is the tide of flesh so far!



notably missing the Genestealers because i forgot to get them out of the case, and one of the venomthropes, although this is due to catastrophic finecast failure and he snapped off the base, so he is hanging between some paint pots and setting as we speak after 2 hours of pinning and greenstuff work, he will likely need alot of repainting too! Still onwards and upwards I have plenty of tim for this months stuff and here is the project shelf to be completed in June, no time off won't help but hey i love a challenge! so we have 1 Hive guard, 2 Tyrant guard a Tervigon conversion and if i get chance for bonus points 10 Gargoyles!



I got more work done on the warmill bits i purchased and tried using the dreaded transfers that i haven't used since i was about 14 (before electricity and stuff) but with the aid of some wonderful articles regards the use of decals and the need to learn how to use them for my soviet 15mm tanks i figured some practice was in order. so here we have the pup unit!




For thos of you who have poked about in my gallery and noticed that there are battle report photos, i promise i will sit down and write it up soon ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4408583.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4408583.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids)

I went 2 stages higher including almost completely to bleached bone before a wash it looks much better, takes a bit longer but much less to paint this month, so i should be fine!

Thanks for the advice guys any more C&C welcome as always, in the mean time

Try not to get eaten by bears!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4411697.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4411697.page GMT Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids)
the tyrannofex looks awesome! the purple and turquoize work great!

Can't wait to see your Tyranids munching on the inhabitants of that POD.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4427568.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/4427568.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (First up Tale of 4 gamers Tyranids)
OK so thongs got a little busy out here and my hobby had to be put on hold, the miss did get done, only the tervigon remains to be painted.
The other 3 member of the tale of four games have yet to finish month one so I can't say they were much encouragement but these things happen.

So onwards and upwards we look.

The next gleaming pile of stuff that needs painting is my necrons, I originally painted loads for apoc release way back when I worked for gw, and since then there have been some lovely new models. Just after the release I painted some for a tournament and began to revisit the apoc ones with a much nicer colour scheme. I still have plenty to repaint and some bits and pieces laying about in need of love.
Up first are some close to completion immortals



These are very close to done, and even in this state got second in best painted :-)
On the list to do by the end of 2012 are these and the dark angels from the dark vengeance boxed set for a friend

Let's see how it goes..]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/5006163.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/5006163.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (part 2 necrons and 2013 commitments)

So I have completed 5 of the immortals, and 4 more tactical marines. I am very pleased with the immortals, not that you can see much on the photo, unfortunately I am forced to use the camera on my Xoom :( for this week.

So my promise for the year is going well, with only 5 immortals and 3 marines left before I get stuck into the dark vengeance characters, which I am rather looking forward to.
The marines are pretty basic but they are for a friend to sell so they are decent gaming quality, the characters will hopefully be much nicer...

Thanks for listening, more nonsense to come soon!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/5035987.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/5035987.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (part 2 necrons and 2013 commitments)
Still here is some work done:


the last immortals are awaiting the glowing cables and lots of work to do to finish the marines.
Still I work on inspired by the fact that i get to paint the terminators, still not sure how to do them yet but we shall see!

The aim by next week is to have the marines all finished and the immortals done! fingers crossed!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/5063751.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/5063751.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (part 2 necrons and 2013 commitments)
It may have been over a week, I haven't had a huge amount of time and alot of it has been spent trying to obtain a daylight bulb for my painting lamp, to no avail mostly! however after 3 days of searching my next door neighbour has piped up that he has a spare! so now i have decent lighting to paint at my desk outside of daylight hours!

so having had an evening to paint while the Mrs is in London and I finally finished the immortals!



I have been looking into playing more warmachine so have been trying to resist starting to paint them until i finish the marines, still got 3 left to paint before i get onto the terminators. finding the motivation is getting more challenging especially with my mind on lots of other projects.
I really need to stay focussed, but i have now got a ruined tower on my desk that for some unknown reason i am now painting! AARRGHH too much hobby!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/5097063.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/5097063.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (part 2 necrons and 2013 commitments)


I have also had a bit of time to test a colour scheme for my cryx force for next year, I'm not overly set on it, but it is quick and simple.



And the terminators are all base coated and a quick test has given me an easier scheme to use, going from rhinox hide through graveyard earth to bleached bone, pics to follow :-) ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/5123099.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/5123099.page GMT Mazz's motivational project thread (part 2 necrons and 2013 commitments) and a mega bargain from the b&q sale!


I also managed to top up some paints and get the first termies done, however haven't had time for photos!

also here is the slayer that is missing from the last post!


however I'm pretty set on going for a pale rotted green colour scheme]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/5147672.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/5147672.page GMT Mazz's motivational project thread (part 2 necrons and 2013 commitments) UK tournament so I had to get some bits painted for that, including 12 infantry, 10 genestealers and converting a patriarch for a genestealer cult, which I managed to get done in an evening, then after some play tests I decided not to take the army!
So at 6am on the morning of the tournament I had to paint 2 bane blades without waking the missus! But with those done, I managed to get to the tournament on time and place 8th, and win most sporting :-)

Hopefully more pictures next time.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/5197089.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/5197089.page GMT Re:Mazz's motivational project thread (part 2 necrons and 2013 commitments)
Well it has been a stressful week and i needed to relax a little by doing some painting. so I have set aside the Terminators (although I have made a little more progress) and did a couple of colour tests for upcoming projects, firstly is a repaint of my epic guard army, it is painted but very basically and i'd like to have a bit more of a wow factor so they are getting a new lease of life and will be getting some genestealers done to make them useable as a genestealer cult!


slightly crappy photo, but until april i'm still stuck in a corner :(

I have also begun some tests for a scheme on my Cryx for warmachine, this is the second test and a much lighter scheme, this is the first stage with weathering and such to be added later!


Hope you enjoy
I'll be back soon!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/5215287.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/444512/5215287.page GMT