1941 lego world WWII battle of Brody

My friend Dave found this on Youtube and I was pretty impressed by it. Though it's done with lego's don't sell it short. I found it to be pretty historically accurate and well done, for lego's. Prepare yourself for a 6 minute history lesson;)

Cheers
Kevin

Less time means more projects of course!

Things have come to a crawl as my Wife underwent surgery last week and hobby time took a back seat to more important real life time. With my Wife feeling a bit better I was able to mess about in my hobby room and I started a few more projects. Nothing focused just did a little bit of this and a little bit of that. It felt good and was fun and that is what counts. So this is what took place:

Finally assembled the last five Necrons for my buddy Al, As he has patiently waited for these, I promised myself for every color I place on one of my own projects I would match it by placing a color on his. This picture is a little further along, but here they are with the primer on them.

Same thing with my buddy Skip, time to get his Moorish Warlord base on the move and I finished the horses and now only have the riders to go.

....and finally my little Horus Heresy project with my Emperor's Children Contemptor Dreadnought. Forge World resin kits are really expensive, beautiful, but expensive. This means taking ones time to get it right the first time, because my modeling skills are not the best, I didn't want to have bad things happen that would challenge those skills. As you can see with the picture below there are quite a few parts. Maybe not as many as on a plastic kit but what differs with the plastic kits (normally) is there is no slot A connects to slot B thing going on here. You have to figure out the positioning beforehand and I used a pencil to mark where I wanted stuff to go. Figuring out the feet was first. You especially have to be careful with the glue. Unlike the plastic kits using the insta-cure (super glue) on resin is it bonds almost immediately so you need to be precise off the get go when it comes to where you really want the part. Hence me using pencil to exactly mark.

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Once I figured out the stance it was lining up the joints to look like a realistic pose. I think it didn't turn out to badly.

Finally the prime and I've decided to paint up everything in a sub assembly fashion. So I will complete this part before adding on the next so I don't have to worry about getting around bits with the brush.

Thanks for looking
Cheers
Kevin

Infinity Nightmare resolved and work in progress!

My friend Dave took it out of it's little sit bath of Pine-Sol after soaking for 24 hours, got out his trusty toothbrush and saved my poor little figure (and some cash too!). I am simply amazed at how well it came out. So fear not fellow painters, if you screw up, don't throw away your figures and buy new ones. If it's acrylic based then go out and buy yourself a bottle of Pine-Sol!

In the meantime here's a couple of shots of the one I didn't mess up with only one leg mostly finished, it's just to show the different stages that have to happen before I get to the finished leg looking effect. Even when that's done there will be tons of other detail work that needs to be done.

Cheers
Kevin

Infinity Nightmare part 2, the resolution at hand!

Well boys and girls it's another day and my very good friend Dave happened to have a bottle of Pine-Sol so was involuntarily recruited into helping strip this bad boy. He sent me a picture of an in progress moment and it looked like some sort of exotic fish so had to post a picture of it.

Hopefully it works out and in the next couple of days I will have this bad ass little baby back in my hands for another whack at the painting table.

Cheers
Kevin

My Infinity nightmare!!!

These Infinity miniatures are super fine detailed little buggers to paint.

My first try:

Looks like poop... I know. The bitch of the thing is I would simply throw it away and get another if the price of these babies wasn't so high. Fortunately a good Pine-Sol soaking will strip this crap with the help of a little tooth brush. Sigh.... It took so long to get to this point. Lesson learned is thin your paint out more, but more importantly use the bloody right paint pots.

My second try with a different model:

I just did one leg to try the new paints I picked up. I think the shading and layering worked much better. The main hull is going to be a bitch, but I'll just have to take my time. 

What do you think?

Cheers

Kevin

Me? I don't have a problem!

Okay, okay maybe I do. Some of the projects I am working on all at the same time which means my wheels are stuck in the mud. This was a few weeks ago.

I need to paint up five Necrons for a buddy, and a Moor Warlord base for another. Since it was raining today I actually made progress on the Moor Warlord base. Got tired of doing that so have moved on to putting more of those stupid Necrons together ahhhh (okay their not stupid but it's not stuff for me grumble, grumble).

After putting some of those Necrons together I've had this Infinity itch for several years and done nothing with it. Suddenly I am on this big kick to finally do something about it and have started assembling them. They are tiny, delicate little bastards that are going to be a real challenge to paint because they are not Hero scale, but true to scale (I know there is another word for this). Of course it's Japanese Anime time with these things, which I like, but the female models are going to be something completely new to me. We will see how it goes.

Cheers
Kevin

Showcase: 28mm terrain for Saga

Whew, finally got a chance to do some blogging. So I am posting the finished project of making some hobby terrain to make my boards look nice. Again these are from Worldsmith Industries and are made from resin. The trees I ended up using I picked up from a flea market. I tore the trees off the old bases, which basically meant snapping them off at ground level because of glue used. I used a pin vise to drill out the bottom of the trees and then used plastic rod to glue in hole to use as pins for placing on Worldsmith's bases. Did a little dry brushing on bases, little static grass, polyurethane for protection, and then a mat coat to take off the shine. Presto change-o it looks pretty good in the end I think.

 

As always thanks for looking
Cheers
Kevin