>This weekend was pretty successful!
First off, Thursday night I soaked all my Gargoyles and Zanthrope in Nail Polish Remover and one of my Warriors in Simple Green. The Nail Polish worked rather well on the metal guys and the SG worked great on the Warrior. Then Friday Night the rest of my Gaunts went into a Simple Green bath. They came pretty clean..I think I need to give the one last brush while they are dry to rid them of any debris. The second Warrior came clean quickly thanks to Linz' old mascara brush. I then soaked my Carnifex in NPR for about 10 minutes and the paint peeled off the easiest yet. I'm hoping this is because of the primer I used back then. My first batch (the Gaunts and gargoyles and warriors) were all primed w/ white and the later stuff primed in black...I can’t remember which ones I used GW primer on. Anyway I'm hoping that the black primer is easier to get off since most everything was primed black.
Now I have all of my Genestealers soaking and will be scrubbed tonight.
I have also been trying to come up with a paint scheme for my army. I'm thinking of doing the Gaunts in a yellow...but I don’t want to do that for all my guys...What do you all think about a multi colored bug army?
On top of all that I cleaned the entire basement out and cleared off our work table. I now have a safe area to have my army sit out and paint and work and everything…this is very exciting! Now I need a rule book and a codex!
Cheers,
-josh
Last night I got home and continued to try and clean off some Warriors and Gargoyles. The metal guys seem so much easier to clean then the plastic ones...Damn me for doing such a craptasttic job painting 13 years ago!
Later on in the evening I got the motivation up to try my hand at painting a few Gaunts that I started years ago but never finished. Two of the six where almost finished and the other four had only been primed red and washed a darker red. So I started with the carapace in a brown and then to the flesh bore with purple or orange. When it was time to add some detail to the bugs I first tried to do some feathering and blending, but my brush wasn't fine enough and I can’t seem to get the paint consistency right. Also these things are so damn small for adding so much detail. I also tried to do a wash for the detail but that sucked! (What is the difference between a wash and a glaze and a dip?) So of course I resorted to dry brushing the carapace light tan and the flesh a pinkish red, and washing the flesh bore purplish blue. I dotted the eyes bright green but could not manage to get the teeth without painting the entire face white.
By the end of the night I had a small brood of six Gaunts painted though I still need to do the bases.
I need to find a better way to plow thru a lot of small miniatures in a shorter amount of time. I plan on building this army up with mostly all Gaunts so there will be tons of them in the future. I will spend good time on the big guys like my Tyrant and Carnifex and so one, I just want to be able to get my hoard of light troops done quickly and still look ok. I painted a Gaunt a few nights ago and spent like two hours on him and it looks pretty good considering it was the first thing I painted in about ten years...but I don’t have the patience to paint 50 Gaunts at two hours a piece.
Any advice of a good technique for busting out hoard in a short amount of time?
This weekend I plan on cleaning out the basement so I have a habitable working space and I want to strip as many models as I can.
Cheers
-Josh
When I was younger my weekends were spent in the basement of a friend’s house rolling dice and talking s!*t, many weeknights at GW eating hoards of Marines and Green Skins and trying to hone my painting skills. Somewhere along the line I lost focus and moved on to other things. For years I felt that black case full of foam and pewter drawing me in and tempting me to return, but I never committed to it.
Skip ahead a number of years and I've dropped out of "art school", moved around a bit, went back to college, found my BooBoo (insert Linz here), adopted a few monsters (K9), got my degree, and now have a "career" as a Web Designer (just shot myself in the foot if I don't make this blog look awesome).
The point is… this has all left me felling rather none creative , empty, and uninspired.
I had been saying for months that I wanted to try to get back into the hobby and behold... for Christmas my super hot awesome girlfriend bought me tickets to Games-Day 2010 (motivation much?).
Recently, said hot girlfriend/partner has gotten into jewelry making and is amazingly talented at it, especially for someone who has never done such a thing before (she’s like that with everything though). So there's my inspiration. Seeing her do her own thing and getting satisfaction from it was the kick in the ass I needed.
I went down to GW HQ on Saturday and this guy David walked me thru the new rules...last time I played was 3rd edition. This week I dug out the boxes and decided it was time.
Looking at all my old models I remembered how much of a spaz I was as a kid. I have so many different things; I could easily start an army with Chaos, Orks, maybe even Guard.
I'm sticking to my original obsession. And soo it begins...
Towards the end of my 40k years as a kid I got pretty good at painting and modeling. Unfortunately that was around the time I started to build up a Chaos army and even got into GorkaMorka. Needless to say most of my Bugs were painted when I first got into the game...and they all mostly look pretty terrible. So I've done my research and I got myself some Simple Green and the stripping process has begun. I want to start completely over and repaint most of if not all of my Bugs. Last night I got a few of them cleaned off (thanks again to Linz and the addition of her nail polish remover).
So it’s going to be a process, and I plan on writing about it all the way to completion. So to anyone who is going to read this, you can look forward to reading about the evolution of my army, my progression as a gamer, and any other random s!*t I come up with, and please give me any advise you may have.
....one thing you need to know is I cannot spell for the life of me so any posting comments about my grammar!
-Cheers
Josh
