The comp entry's in Post

Here's the final pics of my build for the day after the end comp with decals and weathering added.

Hope you all like my little dio. It was a fast build using what was on hand on the desk, literally even the parachute was kitchen roll for brush cleaning and the ma.k had been sitting at the edge of my desk for 3+ years.

The :0 i've finished a comp entry before the deadline post

And here's the WIP shots that i took during the build.
I started it about 2 weeks ago but have had a lousy cold last week and also pulled my back at work and to top it off got smacked in the face by a falling metal stud and slashed the top of my nose. Still a bit tender after 5 days but the gash has healed up nicely and you'd be surprised at how much blood you get from a little cut at the top of your nose. Anyway enough of  my woes and more about this chap.

 First pic is the raw source material a 1/35 Ma.K SAFS pre paint i picked up a couple of years ago at a show.

Second pic grey primer as i planned a new paint job for this guy.

I was i bit apprehensive blasting primer on him as i'd heard the pre-paints were prone to paint peeling and soft spots but so far so good. The detail on the 1/35 scale ma.k's arn't up to there 1/20 brothers but still not bad for this little dio.

Here's the start of the base and that's all you get to see as i'll reveal the finished work when the comp has closed, not that i'm looking to win just doing my
bit for the longer term future of SFM:UK competition's and prize funds.

That's ment to be a future retro Ma.K version of a cruse missile by the way.

Here's the best bit and why i went with this idea as i'd been looking to try salt weathering again on a smaller scale to see if it would workout.

First was a light dose of hairspray followed quickly by some randomly but well placed table salt. Wish i'd used sea salt now but thought it to big for this guy at the time.

Then a couple of passes with the air brush for the overall colour, (white if you hadn't guessed) If any salt falls off at this point dont worry there's always too much anyway lol.

Here he is with the start of the other colours going on and details getting blocked in like the joint gaiters.

Some of the weathering going on mostly dirty brush water and some GW wash for oil staining near joints.

When i tried to remove the salt by lightly scrubbing with an old tooth brush i soon encountered problems given the size of the model. So alt plan was to ping of the salt grains using a fine scalpel blade and the end result work'd out nicely as it has a rotten blistered paint look to it, and as he is a nuke disposal expert i'd imagine the odd leaky old warhead blistering away his paint.

Most of the other entry's are hardware and not dio's so i decided as i like a back story and some sort of reason for the model being in that situation i would go with a diorama for this comp.



Keep an eye out for the finished dio pics coming soon-ish as always :)

Blitz

The playing favorites post

 Inspired by Admiral Drax's chain post http://admiraldrax.blogspot.com/2012/01/294-playing-favourites-chain-post.html here's my rundown ala Drax's list.

Wargames period :  40k grim dark all the way for me i'm afraid altho i'll admit to picking up a WWII Warlord German platoon to see what all the fuss was about and tho smaller than GW heroic 28mm there very nice. I've no idea what system i'd use to play a game with them but i've got them if i needz them.

Scale :  heroic 28mm

Rules : O hell! well i have to admit i'm S**T at rules but enjoyed playing Adaptus Titanicus and Space Hulk when they first came out, Rogue Trader was a mind boggler and really didn't get into 40k again till my late teens and then another hiatus has seen me only return to it in the last 5 or 6 years. I've recently read the large scale Inquisitor rule book (thanks ebay) and may have a crack at that this summer. Found one player willing to give it a try at 28mm but still need a 3rd and not asking the wife she always wins the bugger.

Board Game:  Well the last boardgame i played was LEGO Minaturus with my son. Long time readers will       be fully aware of Ninja Scientists compleat lack of sportsmanship and the inability to lose gracefully. He's not improved at all. Playing pontoon last week ended in shouting and accusations of foul play. So we'll just move on from that.

Figure manufacturer :  GW natch and Studio Mcvey have a place in my heart as the minis are devine. I also got to meet the man himself at a show. Was tempted to take an ancient copy of White Dwarfe along for him to sign, ya know the ones with his eavy metal pic in it ;)

Metal / Hard plastic/ Resin :  anything is good by me i have power tools if a model is too recalcitrant in the converting process lol.

Club :  Hmmm well last year i looked into this and found a local club http://www.peterborough-wargames-club.org.uk/ but as i work 6 days a week some times 7 it's a bit of a squeeze getting my s**t together for going on a Monday night to play but this year may change that situation. I follow there forum and they seem a very nice bunch indeed.

Opponent :   Eddi Fear. Yep that's his real last name and he wont mind me posting it, i think hmmm oh well to late now:)) This is from back in the day tho and funnily enough he works about 300 yards away from where that wargaming club meets lol.

Film :  Now this is a serious matter and i could probably bore the hind legs of a donkey so i wont. Top 4 only in no particuler order Full Metal Jacket, Blade Runner, Empire Strikes Back, and Zulu. The title music to Zulu is the most played track on my ipod. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qydHIjL7iMg&feature=related play at full volume ( take it up to eleven ) so the floor shakes hummmmmmmmm lovely.
Oh gotta add Were Eagles Dare so it's a top 5 now Richard Burton's just the coolest man to have walked the face of the earth imvho. [Broadsword calling Danny Boy] hmm good name for a blog.

Books :  Another serious subject that really deserves it's own batch of blog posts. Now i do read a fair bit say 5 books a month 7 or 8 if the piles getting to high, and it's mainly scifi and fantasy with some WWI and WWII factual and fictional plus alt historical and i've even strayed into American civil war and Nepolionic. Yet still i can't spell for toffy. Faves are in no particuler order, The Sten books all 7 are fab, The Black company all 10 are fab (not your typical fantasy novels). Gaunts ghosts all! hell i've lost count think it's 13. The Alex Benedict books by Jack McDevitt. A talent for war is superb, the ships the star for me. Sooooo meny more to list. These ones are at the top cuz i've mostly reread them 4 or 5 times and i've still got em all well the good ones so not a lot of space in the attic what with the comics an the kit stash.

Art :  Simon Bisley His Slaine McRoth is unserpased, 
 I also LOVE spaceship art and any scifi art. My hard drive is stuffed with it and my work books at collage were filled with doodles of entire fleets.

And finally i do like a large glass of Coca cola (hence the top pic) in the evening whilst painting my minis and listing to absolute 90's or 80's or movie music off the ipod depending on mood.


Rich

The Templar psykologis nearing completion post

 My Templar psykologis just about finished. The idea came from a list of alt character types for Inquisistor. I really liked the idea of the templar and this is my go at it. Lots of resculpting for his sholder guards and his left gauntlet plus the imp eagle on his chest is a green stuff copy from a blu stuff mold. Came out nice but not perfect. His gun is a mash up of empire pistoliers and bits from my junk stash. Ment to be a sort of needle gun.
The back pack is a piistoliers sadle holster and a random bit of an old chopper with added cable (home made) with 2 back up needlers.
That thing at his waist is amegaphone thing for shouting out commands and suggestions (go jump in front of that tank) to the poor unfortunates infected by his halusinogenic gases on the battle field.

 His Falchion is a bit too big but will have to do for now.  I went for a dark blue uniform to give him a sinister look coupled with that grey knight head i think it works ok. If he didn't have the back pack he would have had a cloke to finish of the effect but decided on some extra gubbins instead :)

Hope you like and c an c welcome.

Blitz

Captain and sidekick for the 28th

Here they are, the officer commanding and his heavy flamer toting aide.

Wip pics first

And the finished camo job. On the office i did an attemptat a more detailed camo echoing the WWII german camoflage. I added the black as the other colouers needed something finish off the overall affect. His left sholer guard was originally gretchin green but whislt looking at some recent John Blanche minis on Steve Buddles blog (great blog go check it out) one of the minis had a great shield on his sholder that was an orangy red that i just loved and made the mini pop for me so an ilyanden yellow base then sunburst yellow strait on top followed by orange GW ink (very old) and then red ink around the edges all in fast sucssession. The decal is a cut down braun and his other sholder sports a family shield. And 28 layed on top, all with micro sol and set to make it permanant.
hope you like um and any thoughts welcome, i've added a comms guy to the unit and found a couple of alt heads i did last year that need bodys to finish off.

And check out my last post about winning For Holy Terrors RPC.

Blitz

The I've only gone and won :0 post

Well i've held off posting about this as i was not sure where i'd come in the contest but it seems that i won the reverse painting contest over at For Holy Terra's blog http://forholyterra.hobbycore.net/ bit flabbergasted as the other entrys were all superb with some great background historys to accompany there chapters.
What's a Revese painting contest i here you shout! well the idea is you submit an idea for a home brew Astartes Chapter and the winner get his chapter painted up on a squad of space marines. In this case the Very generouse Paul at For Holy Terra is painting at least 1 model for every one that entered the comp.
Be sure to check out the rest of the entrys on Pauls Excellent blog.
On a related note well sorta related whilst scanning the blog roll i spotted pics of my hobby cupboard on w40kTenerife http://w40ktenerife.blogspot.com/2012/01/zona-del-hobby.html
Note to self stop posting pics of my creative workspace when in what can only be discribed as compleat and utter disarray or junk hole as it's also been discribed (by the wife). It's very much more tidy and rearranged now but o well it's not the worst photo of my airing cupboard posted as the guys at SFM.UK well know lol.

The 28ths officer and his sidekick are done and pics may appear before the end of the evening depending on how motivated i feel.

One more thing, the Ghost Vipers 5th company captain is next up on my workbence (junkhole) as i think i owe it to them seeing as i won :)

Blitz

Camo camo camo camo camo

 Camo on my Tallarns oris it Tallerns can never remember, oh well not to worry. These are my Tallarns that i've added to the 28th SpD "amalg" detachment, Taskforce Hadrada Subsector.

These guys were great to paint up as there'slots of area on those smocks to get camo on to and the addition of there shemaqhs in a different camos was a last min decision but i think it works as all the 28th will have bits of kit from there old regiments and the Tallarns stand out as well Tallarns what ever youdo with green stuff lol.

As discribed a couple of posts ago the the camo was mid grey then light green then dark green to finish http://blitzspearslab.blogspot.com/2012/01/i-know-im-spoiling-you-post.html compleatly with the absecne of any pics to back it up do'h.

I can't find any pics of the shemaqhs being done (the head scarfe thingys) as i exstended them and resculptid some bits but they'll turn up i'm sure.
I'll get the hofficer and his heavy flamer side kick finished tonight and post there progress pics tommorow-ish. The heavy flamer is the samecamo as the rest of the 28th and the big cheese is having something that i think looks a bit like gumfesumpe or woodland dapple as it's modern version is sometimes called.

After i've got my Guard kick over with again for a little  while at least i'll post my progress on my warbands. I've not stalled as such it's just proving hard to find the right coloures to use on civiies.

Blitz

Almost forgot to say welcome along followers 50, 51 and 52.