Panic over and one Viper done

"Who the hell are you and wheres my ground crew?"
"Caprica news net sir, I'm Poppy Cambell and this is Nate Blakewell my cam op, were here to interview you"

"No one told me about this. There's a hanger full of pilots why pick me?"

" I belive your name was picked out of a hat lietenant. By the Cag whilst you were on long range patrol"

" And i bet every slip of paper had Blitzspear scrawled on it. Wait till i see him" That's why flite control were sniggering when i got my landing instructions, the Gak heads.

" So that interview Lietenant, can we do it now or should i come back after your finished here"

"It'll have to wait i'm loading up with 4 nuclear hellstorm missiels and going after a Cylon heavy tanker as soon as my ground crew get off there butts and refule me. Anyways it'll make for a better interview when i get back.

"So your long patrol was an unaventful one Lietenant"

"Apart from spotting a lone tanker with nothing to kill it with no oh except the waist systems broke so i got a lot of yellow liquid in drinks bottles rolling around the cockpit"

Ok Lietenant i'll probably get back to you about that interview whilst you sort out your err tidying up."

"Oh i'm not cleaning that up. Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggg where are you i've a presant for ya.

Well that's my bit of the group build done and dusted and just in time for the South Cheshire Militaire www.southcheshiremilitaire.co.uk/index.asp

If any of you guys in the Wargaming world are attending there are some gaming models on display there, well there was 2 years ago anyway. It's an excellent opp to get some tools and sundries also at reasonable prices plus cheep kit bash fodder from the second hand kit sellers so if your near Crewe pop down/over/up which ever direction you may be coming from.

I'll be on the SFM:UK table just ask for Blitz or the guy that did Lady Gaga in his Viper dio LOL

Plus we have sweets and Star wars posters up for grabs but you need to say hi and also be a kid for the posters lol

Blitz

Panic stations

Watch dear reader as what i thought was 6 weeks to finish this Viper and its dio and 3 figuers to accompany it suddenly turns into 2 Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrge.

I know i do work well under pressuer but getting Fubruary 27 and March 27 mixed up is causing me to have a panic attack and swear off Major group builds, Especially ones that need finishing for a big reveal at a major model show with 9 other Vipers.

Oh and my car is lacking a spear wheel and is sounding very poorly at the mo so if i get the Viper finished i may not make it to Crewe in the old rust bucket anyway Hummmmmmmmmph.

May have to implament the secret plan B option and also ignore the family for 2 weeks, that shouldn't be hard tho.

Blitz

Hammerstine

Here's my attempt at Hammerstine the leader of the ABC Warriors of 2000ad fame. Its an old kit that a modelling buddy gave me to play with last year and i've been chopping it about and adding details to better refelct the 2000ad art work. It's not based on one particuler artists interpritation of Hammerstine tho i have leaned towards the Biz's art the most i must admit :)

Also if i try to keep in scale with Hammerstine my Mongol scratch will be about twice the size of Hammerstine, Luckely the Joe Pinapples i bashed up a couple of years ago is about the right size in comparison. Just wish there were not 7 of them :( thats a lot of Gundam/votom kits to perform frankensurgery on lol.

Paint on this after the Viper is done and dusted later this month fingers crossed.

Ps sorry about the kak spelling i've a nasty cold thats clogging my brain up at the mo.

Blitz

Progress

Yep some honest to goodness progress on real life models instead of just thinking about it and planning what i'd do if the time monster didn't eat up all my free time.

You may remember this guy from last year as a tracker/hunter type bloke for my long range recon force.

Gone a bit mad on the paint job but i'm very rusty, it seems ages since i painted a mini but happy with the overall look. if i did him again id do a lot differently but thats hindsight for ya.

Some other projects to come in the next few days unrelated to 40k but after these are done i'm planning to consentrate on 40k/inquisitor for a while before launching into another kitbash whitch will be 40k related and something i've been planning for some years now.

Hope ya like him.

Blitz

Happy new year

Happy new year fellow bloggers

I've just spent a couple of hours unfollowing about 50 blogs that have slipped of the radar some just stopped updating and some officially closed down so i've slimmed down the list :) Still got 160-ish blogs i follow lol

2011 is looking like a good year for modelling and wargaming and i hope to get more done and more stuff published on here. The blog in 2010 has been lacking in content and for that i appologise but i think a lot of people have struggeled with keeping up there hobbies and i've been no exception. Here's hopeing this year starts as it means to go on, i'm planning to finish a model every week-ish be it a small one off figure or a scratchbuild. I've a lot of half finished stuff on the desk that i can get started on before attempting anything else but knowing me new sparkley things will distract me before long lol.

Hope everyone has a productive and happy new year and maybe i'll see some of you at Salute in 2011, i'm making it my mission to attend this year come hell or high water.

Blitz

Dust models vid

Found this on Face book and just a bit gob smacked by it's awsomeness.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=434830050193


I'm currently in negotiations with the finance director (wife) to get me some of the Dust Models goodies for my birthday but may have to wait for the familys fiscal years end (crimbo) to finally get the green light and a perchasing chitty for one of these beautys.

Here's a link to the Dust site for more info http://www.dustgame.com/

Blitz

Back at the desk

Well after a month or more of doing very little in the way of modelling i'm back at it. Been a hectic month with working in Lincoln so traviling there has robbed me of most of my motivation to build and paint but a week off work begins taday so hope to have an update or 2 for the blog by weeks end.

Blitz