20 Guardsmen assembled

I'm feeling quite accomplished from a hobby point of view. My "progress" took a bit of a knock at Warhammer World, followed by a Tempestus Firebase related bargain that my wife was lovely enough to get me as a present.

So, one of the things that my painting lesson at Golem suggested was that I should mix my paint on something closer to what I was painting, rather than a wet palette. I've been noticing a bit of a problem with getting a consistent consistency of paint, so following the lesson, I'm going to give it a try. This involved a cheap bit of hardboard I picked up from 4D Model Shop, and spraying it with the undercoat I use. As I undercoat in both black and white, I split the spraying half and half. I'll now be mixing my paint on this and I'll see how that helps.

And here is the real progress. On the weekend, I finished assembly the 20 Guardsmen for my February commitment in the Independent Characters Hobby Progress Challenge. As I was out on Sunday evening, and my wife had her airbrush out, she offered to undercoat them for me. As she was using a new airbrush (also from 4D, oddly enough), a couple are a little less smoothly undercoated than we would usually do, but I'm pretty sure we'll cover over that with the base coat.

I do still have a bunch of battle reports to write up and post up, but life has been pretty hectic recently. I don't want the blogging to end up getting in the way of actually getting some modelling and painting done!

How my bank holiday went

Its already Wednesday and I haven't updated! I had a good Bank Holiday and got a lot done.

I've been learning how to use my wife's airbrush and am quite pleased with how I'm doing, although I think I will need to take a break before doing any more so the wife does not kill me dead. Apparently I am an infuriating pupil...

Other than the learning, I also got a lot of under-coating done. Sim is getting some preparation done for her Timeline 300 purchases from Salute. As I was undercoating already, I picked up her undercoating. These are the mining machines, now undercoated.

And here is the main thing I got done. Four Sarissa silos all undercoated and ready for painting. One was done from an airbrush, the others with standard white spray undercoat. The airbrushing was unnecessary, and was just to learn about how to use it.

I also airbrushed these cobbles, which are intended for background for photographing other models I do. I've since washed it with black wash to improve the contrast. I'm pleased how that's come out.

I've written this on my iPad, and can't work out how to do my usual links through the app... I'll come back and add those tomorrow night. (Now done, 11 May - I was clearly very busy!)