Good Day gentlemen, before I get to the meat of this update allow me some self indulgent waffle.
Eminor has been a little quiet of late, mainly because old car had to be taken to the glue factory and replaced with a younger, faster, better looking model (bit like what happened with my mechdar). So Shard has a new raider, the down side is the soul sucking shenanigans that surrounds this sort of thing and acute wallet rape.
Still thats blown over and I have found myself with enough energy to push on with some painting and have completed my first trueborn squads venom, It may get some free hand later .
While my wallet was being brutalized I figured “what the hell” and booked myself in for the autumn Throne event. This necessitates some short term changes to how I blog as I need to use all available time to pain…t.
I even take my crap down to the club and paint as of last week, so from now until the army is done I will only post one Retro or Rave a month,on the plus side I hope to be posting far more regular hobby updates than usual,todays post is the first of hopefully many, I’m aiming for a squad or a vehicle a week, I hope not to loose too much quality in the process, I have even booked some time off to really get stuck into the army .
Finally big public thanks to craig for helping me spray up over 2k of DE in one afternoon, and here’s something that will entertain anyone with a love of Ranting/nerd rage and a medical need to bring a painful end to Mr. Ward. http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Matt_Ward
Ps, Sorry to those folks who emailed, I have been up to my eyeballs in it, I’ll sift through them and fire out some responses as soon as I am able.
First class… Amazing army!
This will look fantastic when you are all done with it!
Nothing quite like a deadline to give you a kick in the arse is there?
Venom looks the business, can’t imagine what the rest of the army will be like to that standard.
Certainly puts things in perspective, cheers, I kinda ish rushed the Venom, looks fine so hopefully we can shave some time off the project without it ruining the look.
I can’t imagine how it will look either tbh, will have to see, bit by bit.
Have you a list that your planning on taking?
Actually thats something I am struggling with, categorically NOT doing a spam list, I have one or two that are still subject to tweaks but just cant reach a happy balance of competativeness with things I want to field.
Amazing paint jobs! (the matt ward link has been quite entertaining as well)
Thats a nice attitude to have and hopfully this will be the motivator you need.
Have you heard of all the problems they have had with this event dont know if any of them effect you but thought best to ask?
There are problems ? What problems could they be having ? fill me in plz
matt! teach me! Teeeach Meeeeee!!!
look awesome buddy. the venom looks the shizzle!!! and with the unit?? yes please!! again. teach me! Whats this about problems with throne???
They oversold the event by apparantly upto 50 so people who have yet to recive tickets ar apparantly being asked to come down the weekend after for a 2nd event that they are being forced to put on
Well thats shit, have ticket 79, should be fine
which throne you at? i’m at event 1 afaik
Unless I hear otherwise its event 1, if I hear otherwise, its event 1, had the holiday and room booked right after I got the ticket.
Shard, your stuff is just sexy, man….sleek and sexy.
Nice work all around, sir….
Why thankee, you are very welcome, I love your Avatar, wish I had thought of that first ;o)
Those visors are excellent! Any way you can tell us how you did them?
Very cool army man!
Visors are just some simple OSL highlights at the bottom then give it a coat of gloss varnish or two.
Glad everyone likes the stuff, busy basecoating everything at the moment so little to show for a while , may have something by the end of the weekend…
Those shiny shiny helmets really are peachy keen and the Factor 40,000 tanned skin offsets the black armour. I think that you might actually get the hang of this painting lark by the time you finish off this army.