Tuesday's Conclusion and Wednesday's Work

So, yesterday evening I managed to finish the first Bounty Hunter. He ended up very blue, but he does look pretty good. There are a few things that I could have improved, but overall I'm quite happy - my long absence from painting means I've forgotten a few tricks which I need to relearn.

Anyway, after doing that Bounty Hunter I finished off another this morning that I'd started painting a long time ago - I think two or even three years ago! To keep you all entertained, here are the pictures:



Tomas Kane, Bounty Hunter. Blue is his lucky colour!



Kurt Sureshot, Bounty Hunter. His name is an homage to the bounty hunter in the Necromunda Battle Report in the first WD I ever bought.

Olley Painting Points:

This Week: 2
2010 Total: 57
2009 Total: 58
Grand Total: 115

Work in Progress, Or, A New Schedule

Having been to my best friend's wedding at the weekend (which was good fun), and finding a couple of new potential wargames partners, I decided to try out a new schedule. Rather than fretting about my inability to paint in my lunchbreak, I'd just get up early and do an hour's painting before my son wakes up. This has the advantage of ensuring I'm awake for him and not semi-asleep, and also that I get a nice quiet time to sit and work.

I didn't quite manage an hour this morning, just 40 minutes before he woke up. But the principle is sound, and I should be able to squeeze in a few minutes tonight after he's gone to bed in order to finish off the Necromunda Bounty Hunter I started. I also managed to finish the Sallow Man's base, which was good.


The (finished) Sallow Man.



Based on the near-completion of the bounty hunter, tentatively, I propose...

Olley Painting Points:

This Week: 1 (0.5)
2010 Total: 56
2009 Total: 58
Grand Total: 114

The Sallow Man

Hurrah! I got another figure done! In this case, the Necromunda Wyrd with eight-pointed staff and long coat. I've called him The Sallow Man and I'm rather chuffed by him. He looks suitably disturbing on a subtle level. At the minute his base isn't quite finished, but it's finished enough for me to claim the Olley Painting Point.



The Sallow Man, with autopistol, laspistol and focussing staff. The studious among you will realise that he is TAINTED BY CHAOS and should really be the subject of a Redemptionist crusade or two. Or maybe even an Inquisitor...

Olley Painting Points:

This Week: 3
2010 Total: 55
2009 Total: 58
Grand Total: 113

Late-Night Painting

Right - this was meant to chronicle the painting I was meaning to do on Wednesday night.

But I didn't do any, instead getting caught up in packing and planning for the short holiday we're taking to go to my best friend's wedding over the weekend.

Ho hum!

Sunday's Work, Updated on a Tuesday That's Actually a Wednesday...

Woops! Meant to do this earlier so that it'd register as Tuesday 6th July, but hey ho. I've not gone to bed yet so it still counts! Sort of.

At any rate, although I've not managed to get any more painting done, I present the Dire Avengers that I did a few months ago, and on Sunday:



Sunday's work - two Dire Avengers in the livery of their Aspect and wearing the green of Biel-Tan.



The original Dire Avengers from back in March.



The Exarch, with his back banners displaying his membership of the Dire Avenger Aspect and his citizenship of, and loyalty to, Biel-Tan.


The squad so far. I've got another five Avengers knocking around somewhere, I think still on the sprue.

Next up - either a Farseer or Da Red Grot from GorkaMorka!, one of Games Workshop's better games.

More Old New Figures

Without further ado...



Anarchist urban guerilla from my Police Action! project.


Metropolitan Police Inspector, Police Action!



Markov Regiment, Volunteer Army - officer and rifleman



Kornilov Regiment, Volunteer Army - officer and rifleman

The Markov and Kornilov men are now in Al Front's possession, as a thank you for the gun-running he did for the aborted attempt at Evesham.

The Morning After The Night Before

Last night, I sat down in my living room, set up a painting table, and cracked on. After a bit of umming and ahhing over what to paint, I decided on finishing the Dire Avengers which I started a few months ago. With only two to paint and a nice and simple scheme, I managed to get them both done whilst also talking to my wife (brownie points) and watching silly TV with my wife (brownie points).

At any rate, with those two Dire Avengers completed, that brings the little group to a useable squad of 5 and gives me a sort-of-completed Troops choice for my wife's Biel-Tan Army. I intend to try and get the Farseer done tonight, but I might not be able to. Expect pictures of all 5 Dire Avengers plus the other figures I did just before the hiatus either tonight or tomorrow morning.

Olley Painting Points:

This Week: 2
2010 Total: 54
2009 Total: 58
Grand Total: 112

What I Did While My Laptop Wasn't Working

There follows, in no particular order, and not yet completely, a pictorial list of the figures I painted at Visiongain before I left and while my laptop wasn't co-operating. Have at it!



Usuthe, the Ssotayan cultist swordswoman.



The three cultists together.



The demon Ssotay itself, and Ashal, its High Priestess. I'm pleased with her, but I think that the dress doesn't work quite as well as I'd hoped.


The warband as they stand at present. I still want to get a packet of Copplestone's Ngoni Female Archers to bulk them out for Song of Blades and Heroes.


The cardboard buildings I made from cereal packets, prior to the addition of a cooling tower and some paint. Note Necromunda Goliaths for scale.

Speaking of Goliaths...



Ded Cred version two, this time with better trews and a bigger gun. Combined with Kal Cutter's autocannon, the heavies of the Automatics are a serious force to be reckoned with. "Dominating the tabletop" is an understatement!



Slimy Sid, Goliath Juve. I like him because he looks so cowardly, like the types you get hanging around with gangs in school; the ones who get picked on if there are no other victims and yet who are pathetically greatful just to be part of the group.



Thick Dave, another Juve. This is where the Automatic theme starts to dilute. I'm not sure figures like this'll ever see action, but it's good to have them anyway. I'm a completist.



Rotten Pahul. Not much to say - just a Juve.

Now, on to some Warhammer and Mordheim stuff:



Grey Seer, agent of the Council of 13. I love this model! It's probably my favourite Warhammer model of all time, primarily because of the little rat on the staff. It makes me chuckle whenever I see it.



A Prince of Tor Sethain, and member of my Mordheim Elf warband. Nothing too special - I'm a fan of the classic blue and white colour scheme for High Elves.

And now, on to the science-fiction stuff, in this case a Biel-Tan missile launcher and Guardian leader. I also have some Dire Avengers I need to re-photograph, but more on them later.



Eldar Missile Launcher platform, to accompany a Guardian Defender squad in my wife's Biel-Tan army. Apparently the EML is a rubbish option according to the internet, but I don't care and neither does my wife.



Guardian Defender leader. No rules for the position, I just liked the pose and think he looks like a squad leader.

Still to come - Kornilov and Markov regiment figures from the RCW, some VBCW Police Action figures and those Dire Avengers I was on about earlier... plus tales of ACTUAL PAINTING, the first for months!

State of Play

Well, after another hiatus of over a month, here are how things stand at present:

I am finding it hard to get any painting done primarily as a result of my work schedule - usually working late and starting in the middle of the day. I can't paint at work because 45 minutes isn't long enough to get anything meaningful done and there's no natural light in the staffroom, which is underground.

As a result, starting tonight, I'm hoping to get an hour's painting done before bed. In the meantime, I'm going to (re)photograph the figures I did months ago and which I never put up here, so that even if I don't get anything done for a few days there will at least be pictures.

The main thing is that having been push-jumped from my previous job at Visiongain Ltd, where I wrote this report on future soldier programmes before my contributions were no longer required, I'm now a minimum-wage slave at a Famous Fast Food Franchise. Which has reduced spending on toy soldiers and toy soldier related things to zero in order to continue with things like rent and bill-paying. Ho, and, indeed, hum!

At any rate, expect daily updates commencing once again, as of now.