Tonight's the last night for me to wrap things up before Adepticon. I touched up my Stompa and display board but didn't get around to doing weathering / battle damage effects to the ork monstrosity. After work, I'll be printing out all the lists and reference material and packing up all the supplies (and a good supply of beer).
If you happen to be coming, I'd love to meet you. On Friday and Sunday I'll be wearing one of my Blackhawks jerseys so I'll be easy to spot. Saturday I'm a part of the team tournament "Team Handsome" and later that night I'll be running the 40k trivia contest so please say hello.
Here's a picture of me; sadly the latest one I have from getting married almost a year ago!
My goal is to do a blog recap with the cool things at the convention every day. We'll see how much energy I have every night in the hotel room and how much I'll feel like opening up the laptop. See you then, looking forward to it!
Had a very productive painting weekend this weekend and basically finished most of everything for Adepticon. If my wife ever reads this blog, thanks so much for pulling all the extra hobby time!
I finished the 6 Killa Kans, my Warboss, Big Mek and the Nob Bikers. In addition I painted up a magnetized jump pack librarian for the team tournament. Sadly enough, I've gotten only one practice game in with the gladiator ork list, so I'm going to be green... literally. Here's a flood of shots.
It was fun going splotchy on the yellows. One thing I've realized more and more is Golden Yellow sucks. It is so translucent but needed for that yellow base. Rather then reapplying after the Sepia wash, I streaked and brushed in straight Sunburst Yellow. It makes for more dramatic contrast, but on orks I think it works.
Here's the last things I have to do for Adepticon.
- Write up 51 40k jeopardy questions... suck!
- Two 60mm bases for a teammate's attack bikes
- Touch up the Stompa (almost done)
- Reference Sheets & Army Lists
- Work on fixing up the display base for my Blood Angels (going to borrow the kroot one).
I finished up the objective counters for Adepticon for our Blood Angels. I like to do 5 because that tends to be the max you'll see in most games. I think a good looking objective really adds to the game. Here's the finished product!
I took advantage of the marine casualty pack. For the banner bearer, it was an easy arm swap. I had plenty of extra banners from the Sanguinary Guard. I didn't go the original route though, painted it very similar to my Sanguinary Guard banner. I also didn't like the hurt marine that was long dead... figured why would anyone fight over a dead marine. That was an easy head swap.
For the fourth and fifth objective I struggled with what to do, so I went to my bitz box. I thought the inquisitor "Book of Knowledge" might be something worth going after. Finally I grabbed one of the Blood Bowl trophies as well as an arcane candle thing. Maybe it's a chaos shrine full of blood... or my chapter going towards the dark side.
All of the bases were from Scibor Miniatures. I don't like the fact that they sculpted plants on the base. Painted plants just don't seem to mesh well. I guess if I was overly concerned, I could have chopped them out; laziness won over!
Here are the shots of the completed and based assault squads. For the guys on foot, I magnetized their backpacks so I can swap up with jump packs. It remains to be seen if I can go through a tournament without losing any.
Right now I'm working on the Nob Bikers for the gladiator list, and a Librarian with a magnatized jump pack for the Adepticon team tournament. I ultimately decided against the Sanguinator for the team list and for a little more utility of the librarian. More updates tomorrow!
The home stretch for Adepticon is here! I have less then a week to get a whole lot of things painted. I finished Snikrot and his 10 buddies last night. I really like that model, he has a lot of character. As with the rest of my orks, I'm keeping with the speed painting methods. Basically I'm doing one color with a wash on most of the model and focusing on one piece to focus - in this case it's a few color highlight/wash of the skin.
This weekend will be jam packed with painting. I should be able to finish my 5 Blood Angles objective markers tonight, and I'd like to finish or almost finish my nob bikers.
Here is the list of what needs to be done by next Thursday:
- 7 nob bikers
- Warboss on bike
- Mekboy
- 6 Killa Kans
- finish the stompa
- static grass all the orks
- clean up the old display base
- print out all the lists, signs, reference materials, etc.
- write 51 jeopardy 40k questions for the quiz show
It's so nice to see a finished product, I just wish I was a little better at taking pictures. Here are the shots of the 4 squads of Sanguinary Guard with the basing finished. These miniatures took way longer then I expected. I'll have shots of the 2 squads of assault marines finished tonight after I'm done with the backpacks.
For each of the squads, I tried to match their right leg knee-pad. For gaming purposes, I also numbered the bottom of the base so I can identify which squad is which easily.
I had a lot of fun basing some of the taller resin bases. With the ruins, I was able to glue some dried flowers against the facing for support. Places like Hobby Lobby or Michaels are perfect to find supplies. One plant is worth decades of projects. I'm still using the dried plants/flowers from my kroot project a few years ago and I haven't even gotten 10% through the supplies.
Tonight, I'll have the backpacks done for my assault squad and I'm going to try and get as far as possible on the five objective markers. I'll be sure to post progress.
Making some major progress this weekend painting. I finished off the Sanguinary Guard as well as my lucius pattern drop pod for the team tournament. This drop pod was a recovery project. I bought it off someone years ago, and it was badly mangled. With a little TLC, lots of simple green, and elbow grease, I think I was able to clean it up for the most part.
I didn't go with any dirt or exhaust effects, went with a clean look. Also I kept the metallics pretty simple. I may go back and do some extra highlighting if I have time.
Right now I'm working on the objective markers as well as the magnetized backpacks for my assault marines on foot. I'm lazy so I'm not pinning the backpacks to corks, so my hands are completely covered in paint trying to hold them while applying detail. Here's a "unfocused" shot of the army so far.
I'm going to take a little break from the painting and start applying foliage & flowers to the bases. I'll put a couple of close up shots with what I come up with, I feel like I'm almost doing flower arranging. Here's some of the materials I'm working with. I'm going to try some new materials today, I'll provide my review of how they hold up.
I'm hitting a wall with my hobby progress, mainly due to the lack of strength in my painting hand. I think it has to do with the fact I've been cramming in way too much painting and repetitive strokes (insert repetitive strokes joke here)... mainly due to the damn Sanguinary Guard wings!
Figuring there is about 30 feathers per side, that's 120 feathers per model multiplied by 21, that's 2,520 feathers. Seeing that I do three line highlights per feather, we're talking 7,560 repetitive motions. Oh, that doesn't even count every shoulder pad with all the wing grey colored details too and the weapon "feathers". Argh. Combined with typing on the computer all day for my job, I need to give my hands/wrists a vacation.
I'm really close to finishing them off, here's the work in progress on my chapter banner.
On to the home stretch, less then 2 weeks until Adepticon. I'm hoping to (wishful thinking) finish the Sanguinary Guard tonight. That will leave me with:
- 10 backpacks
- finish the drop pod
- 5 objective markers
- Warboss on bike
- Big Mek
- finish the mekboy stompa
- Snikrot and 10 pals
- 6 killa kans
- 7 nob bikers
- 3 grot helpers
- pretty army lists
- touch up an old display base
- do all the grass/flowers/foliage on all the bases
- write the Adepticon quiz show questions, 51 in total and get Jeopardy ready!
- most importantly get supplies for Adepticon (beer, etc.)
