Anastasia

I wanted something quick to paint so I grabbed Anastasia Di Bray last week. I had no idea what she did or if she would even work with the armies I have. Thankfully she does! I painted her up in a muted scheme as befits an intelligence agent. Her clothes are quite neutral and she could be usde as a model for a more modern setting too. I have mainly been working on terrain at the moment as I really have lost my painting mojo. I am not sure why but I can't seem to get too enthusiastic to take my paints out. At least that means I am making some progress on the various terrain projects I have been thinking about for the last while.

Friday Showcase - Bad Moon Dreadnought

I have a good sized collection of Orks. I only began collecting at the start to the last edition and I guess I only played with them maybe four times. I have had a soft spot for Orks for a really long time and I managed to pick up two starter sets of them relatively cheap. I painted them up quickly as a project to get me back into painting after almost a years break. I thought I would showcase them here especially with the advent of the latest edition of 40k. I don't play the game at all but I keep up somewhat with whats going on. Maybe someday the game will evolve enough that I may play again. If not the appreciation on the miniatures should pay for my retirement!

Rusty Rails

Despite the fact that turpentine dissolves the foam I have ben using I risked it on the railway. I think it came out fine. Once varnished over it will be less vibrant than it is now. I essentially washed the areas I wanted to be rusty with turpentine and pigments. These are normal artists pigments, nothing fancy. All the pigments that are sold by various companies are all the same and you can buy them in an art supply shop a lot more cheaply than you can from a wargames supplier. I have enough in each bottle I don't think I will ever need to buy more! I got the variance in colour by applying a second wash with much more yellow mixed in over the first coat. As the pigment is suspended rather than dissovled in the turpentine you are picking up variable amounts and this gives a random amount of coverage. This is perfect for a project like this.

Light at the end of the Tunnel

Here is the first section of the Iron Kingdoms railway painted. It so far isn't too impressive but once laid out across a board I am hoping it will be! I want to rust it up too but I need to test how the foam reacts to Turpentine before I do. I can't imagine the reaction to be a good one but just in case it is fine I would like to know. I use turpentine as a carrier for the pigments and it would be really annoying if I managed to dissolve the foam from underneath the railroad after having gone to all this work!

Progress on the Tower

It is a busy week for terrain here. I fired up the airbrush and got my Watchtower basecoated. I am using the salt weathering technique on it. You can see some of the lumps on the metal sections where the salt is sitting under the drying paint. The orange that is underneath is going to be a strong contrast to the green and I am hoping it comes out fine. I have had a lot of problems when weathering stuff as I find it can sometimes blend in to the surrounding colours a little too much. I want to do a stencil design on the side. I cut out a 5th border legion symbol but the five is remarkably hard to do and I am not convinced mine is right. I shall have to experiment. I can't find a handy printable symbol online so if anyone knows where I can find one please let me know! I stuck a castigator beside the tower to show the scale. This building is really tall. It will probably overshadow most of the colossals. It doesn't quite fill the base but if it did it would be great as a sanctuary for the colossal event scenario.

Last week I played over 350 points of Warmachine. Three hundred of those points were part of a campaign between myself and Owen from Farfaraway. Owen is still editing the video of the one hundred point game. However he made a videos of the other games. These are the main body of the campaign and you can find them here if you are interested:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four

The one hundred point battle was an epic clash that took us about five hours to reach a conclusion. Kromac should have been killed early but some poor rolls saved him. We reached a point where I would have killed at least one of the Cryx 'casters in the next turn and the attrition was heavily in my favour. It would have taken too long to finish that turn and pack up so we declared it a slight win to me which was an okay resolution. If Kromac had been killed earlier in the game I think it would have turned out a lot different!