Well, thought I might do it here as an incentive to actually keep this up to date...
{ A note on photos. I've taken some, but I'm still working out how to upload them. Bare with me. This will be more interesting with photos }
-What I'm Playing-
Warmachine - Grymkin. And I'm actually intending on painting some of these to break up painting fucking plaguebearers....
40K - Blood Angels. But don't ever expect to see those painted.
Malifaux - {Awaiting M3E and trying to stop buying Neverborn}
Age of Sigmar - Well.
So I decided my time was done with the Nighthaunts - wasn't enjoying playing with them, didn't think the paint job I did was very good. So I've decided to finally get to work on finishing my Age of Sigmar Maggotkin of Nurgle army (for the unitiated - everything Nurgle in Age of Sigmar from Plague Monk Skaven to Warriors to Demons). But I wanted to be able to do this army, ideally, fully painted from game to game. Sadly, thats not going to happen - I don't have the time or the patience to get everything done before I start playing. I'm a gamer, not a painted. But I do want to get all of it done before I move on to something new, perhaps even trying out new techniques to improve myself as a painted and converter - more on that later.
With the intention of doing a unit a week, I've been working on the two units of 30 Plaguebearers that seem to be forming the core of my lists this week, though I expect this will roll over into next week, especially since I go on holiday in a couple of days. The main idea with these units was to tidy up an old drybrush paint job on the old metal Plaguebearers that I think most folk in the club have had set against them for some times - a tidying up job which involved washing them with Coelia Greenshade to begin with, and then trying out something new with a technique I found and stole online. It's not quite there yet, but I've based them with Leadbelcher, washing with Agrax Earthshade and have just finished giving them a coat of wartered down Typhus Corrosion. Next step is to give them a bit of colour with some Rust Red from Secret Weapon Pigments - something I've not used before but I'm interested in trying out since I want to use the rusted armour on the big unit of Chaos Knights I've got staring at met from the big pile on my desk of mainly unbuilt Malifaux boxes & Primaris Marines.
The other job I'm doing tonight before bed is basing. I'm using cork sheet for this army, layers of it being sprayed Uniform Grey from Army Painted before touching up with a brush and then inking Badab Black. Just that would look fairly dull, so for the demons I'm using some dead grass flock to add a bit of character, but for the mortals I'm using the Valhallan Blizzard texture to give a stormy mountain vibe. My first unit of Chaos Warriors have been painted, but need some Blizzard on their bases. That's an easy 20minute job though, and I'm saving that for when I need a break from fucking Plaguebearers.
You'll notice I haven't mentioned the second unit of Plaguebearers in a while. Because I'm working on their bases. Also because there are 30 of the fucking things and I'm putting off getting to work on them.....
(photos to follow, thanks for reading)
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