Organising And Experimenting

Another day of no painting, but instead I did a lot of unpacking and rearranging and organising within the garage. Now all the Really Useful Boxes full of magnetised (and un-magnetised...) toy soldiers are safely in there, along with all the other things. They need to be sorted out and tidied away, of course, but by the end of tomorrow I should be able to set up the 3D printer and washing station, ready for ordering some resin and any other bits I need so that I can get printing by next weekend. Exciting stuff! I have also arranged a wargame with a local chap over in Bangor on the 29th, and there seems to be some movement towards the development of a local wargames club in Llangefni, which is a nearby town. So who knows; maybe soon I'll actually be able to get some games in again.

 

It's a lot more cluttered now, but it'll become tidier by the end of the day. The RUB towers will eventually expend even more to provide homes for armies like my Old World Tomb Kings, my Raptors Space Marines, my Iron Warriors, Orks, and so on. A project for the upcoming few months I think

I also found the lightbox that my partner P got me for my birthday last month, and I finally had time to get it out and have a play around with it. First impressions - a great little bit of kit! It's a 30cm cube with lots of backdrops out of the box and a pretty self-explanatory process to use it. I think it'll take a little effort to really get used to, but it's already producing some quite nice snaps just with my mobile phone's camera:

This is the Dire Wolf from my Falcon Guards Cluster Command Star, and you can see how crisp the photo is and the colours actually look much like they do in real life

The way the lighting illuminates the panelling and the details on the rear is really good too!

Ad-hoc mixed Star of light omni-mechs and Elementals

After playing around with the Falcon Guards, I dug out one of the oldest Games Workshop models from my collection - not in terms of date of manufacture, but in terms of its relationship to me and my time as a customer of GW and a painter, collector, and gamer of their stuff:

 

Battle Brother Major of the Ultramarines! Purchased for me by my Dad in late summer or early Autumn of 1996 from Games Workshop Oxford and painted by me with a mix of Humbrol Enamels (the blue and orange) and Citadel Acrylics (everything else)

Yes, the Chapter badge and Tactical marking are on the wrong shoulder pads, and I think the skull on the knee should actually be in the yellow circle on the greave...

The power pack has black vents, but I can't remember why now

I was nine, nearly 10, when I painted this model and the rest of the Tactical Squad that he came with. I'm not entirely sure where the rest of them are these days

And that's that for today - tomorrow, more organising, and maybe some painting. I found my various Blood Bowl teams today, and part of me is tempted to finally finish my High Elf / Pro Elf team, the Tor Sethain Thunderbolts, but I do have some Grots to paint too, so we'll see what I end up doing.