The road to Heresy Doubles 6 - painting dry run

I was nearly ready to start base coating this morning but decided on a dry run instead. Cleaning an airbrush can take some time so I want to spend the maximum amount of time laying down paint I can manage.

The dry run showed me I didn't prepare my model space as much as I could. I had all the bases lined up but I wasn't going to do them all, I was going to take four up at a time to minimise paint splatter on the other bases. I had no easy way to remove all 60 at once, I'd have to put them on another table and then back up again. If I only had 10 done I'd have to put all 60 back in to keep them away from small fingers. Some thinking and I realised I have an unassembled Deltof, the base would fit and make it easy to move the bases around in one batch.

If the rain stopped for awhile I could just use a rattle can on them but its ever-present during my hobby time.

The road to Heresy Doubles 5 - Armoured support, 10 minute progress

Searching for some Rhino sprue's for my veterans I found two assembled and based rhinos. I had these painted up for my Crimson Fist 40k army but I think I'll rebase them for 30k IF.

Recolour the majority in black, paint over some parts with ochre and then yellow for some nice contrast.

I'll try to replace that techmarine head with another HH era style helmet. I'll also be adding multimelta pintle mounts, have to make sure they fit!

The road to Heresy Doubles 4 - 30 minute Hobby Progress

More today! Getting the bases glued to something, this will make them easier to airbush evenly and then to paint afterwards. I found I was missing one after a count, thankfully it was hidden in the corner of my cheapo-DIY airbrush box.

60 bases ready and sorted. Hoping I'll have them all basecoated in the next post or a large part of them.

I'm going to try for this

1. Prime black.
2. Paint the earth areas with skavenblight dinge.
3. Drybrush with longbeard grey.
4. Paint the metal areas leadbelcher.
5. Wash the whole thing agrax earthshade.
6. Dab typhus corrosion onto the metal to give is some extra texture and provide the base for the rust.
7. Then dab on some ryza rust onto some of those areas.
8. Done.

This should give a nice base and somewhat match the theme of the other armies bases.

The road to Heresy Doubles 3 - 10 minute Hobby Progress

Lining up the first squad. Some weapons need to be removed and replaced with proper ones. I'm glad I used superglue on these guys instead of poly, those things just snap off :) I have to add a bolt pistol to the Sergeant and a second heavy bolter. Also a vexilla.

I have the 40k marines with heavy bolters as a backup in case I cannot get enough 30k ones. I should have 3 plastic ones and one resin (the Minotaur event only miniature) It fits will with the style Sigismund has on his armour.

The road to Heresy Doubles 1 - 10 minute Hobby Progress

I'm on the hobby road to finishing the 30k Imperial Fist army I started last year. The marines saw three games of unpainted shame, the next game they're in will be with fully painted honours.

I have limited time most days so I'm aiming for at least a 10 minutes hobby progress each day with occasional 30 minute and 1 hour painting sessions. The 10 minute sessions should let me get everything ready to go for the longer ones, if everything is set up I can just sit down and paint straight away, no messing around for 10 or 20 minute before hand looking for tools, paints or models.

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10 Minute Hobby Progress

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Lining up bases to make sure I have them all and get them ready to be glued to corks for airbrush basecoat.

Hobby Progress - A dent in April

I've dusted off the airbrush compressor and made a temporary space to start putting a basecoat on my hobby progress units. I've also made a move over to dedicated airbrush paints so I don't have to thin out GW or mix in other colours to make a blue I like, I never remember recipies and I'm dire at writing them down. Two paints I settled on where Vallejo's Blue Angels and P3's Blue Exile. I had to thin the P3 a bit to make it suitable but I liked the colour, it reminded me of the old Crimson Fist artwork.

 

I selected two models that where the same, a terminator from Dark Vengance and two plasma Dev's from a past ebay purchase. Left is Blue Angels, right is Blue Exile.

Crimson Fist Terminators

Crimson Fist Terminators

Crimson Fist Plasma Devs

Crimson Fist Plasma Devs

I liked both so I asked the Google+ warhammer community and on the hobby progress thread as to which one everyone prefered and the Vallejo colour has come out in front. I gathered up my forces last night and set to spraying.

A good bit has been done, I've left the assualt marines as they need more work to fix broken hands and weapons, perhaps in the next hobby progress phase :)

Hobby progress Feburary and March

Last months entry has gone well, a basic tabletop standard Ironclad Dread.







There's plenty on this model I'd like to do again but considering it's been a year or more since I assembled it and nearly that long since I painted anything so I'm happy with a basic table top standard. Once I get the rest of the army painted I may revisit this model.


I've moved on to a Terminator Librarian and I was about half way when I got impatient with the painting method I was using and added a bit more pigment for the blue armour and that ruined the paint job. I thought about it and just decided to strip it back to the resin and start over again but with a shortcut, I reached for the army painter blue spray. It didn't work out well for me, the can was old and it gave me a nice lumpy texture on the model, time to strip again and start over... again. It's one model so it's not much of a set back but I was hoping to move on to devastators early.

Buying is hobby progress... right?

Yes! It must be! Because that's my hobby progress for the moment. I've added a droppod, thunderfire cannon, Land Raider,..... battleforce.... and megaforce. Each step just gets bigger and more complicated.

Once I get all of this done I could field a tactical company and a small portion of the 1st company along with plenty of dreadnaughts. I've also increased my bitz range with a random bag of bitz from ebay. Some nice stuff in the bag, old stuff I make use of and some.. terrain perhaps. I can always melt the remainder in to mishapen plastic lumps

I've added everything to my Kanban board which is turning in to a Kanban monster.


If you need something to get yourself organised I recommend setting up a kanban board for hobby progress. I've started using https://kanbanflow.com/ after hearing The IC podcast talking about it. I haven't made much hobby progress, for other reasons, but at least now when I sit down I can just load up the page and pick something to work on based on the time I have available and move it one step closer to Fin.

This will be the last of my purchasing for quite awhile. If you can tell from the board picture above I have quite a backlog to get through.