So how did we do in March? Well, I painted every day! I didn't buy anything! I tried a new thing (Contrast and Speed Paint comparison). And I completed a fair few models for #MonsterMarch!
I painted a total of 14 models in March, so that is a running total of 36 for the first quarter of the year.
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My new thing for March wasn't really a totally "new" thing - I bought a full set of Contrast and a full set of Speed Paints (from Army Painter) and really experimented with them (mostly on the #MonsterMarch figures). I'd used them before but now this let me really get to grips with them and understand. So, here are my thoughts;
1) You have to be careful with applying them - while you can get nice effects going over various colors (or other Contrast / Speed Paint) with them, they are translucent. So, when applying the main color you need to be pretty careful - or touch up afterwards.
2) You need to apply them in one single go - if you take too long, they start to dry and the effect is lost.
3) You can't miss bits - touching up afterwards to catch bits you missed is hard. It doesn't give as nice an effect.
4) Some Speed Paints (I didn't notice it with Contrast) get reactivated with water or wet paint - which can cause a problem. They need a quick seal between coats (which sort of negates the "quickness" of the technique, in many ways).
5) Because you don't water them down, Contrast is better because you can use it from the pot (while Speed Paints are in dropper bottles). There isn't a need for a palette, but you have to use one with Speed Paints.
6) Exactly as they are designed, they encourage bold and quick painting - but the end results are perfectly serviceable. I am sure a better painter would be able to get better results using traditional methods, but the results I get are just as good as anything else I have ever painted.
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Three days work to get him finished, but a basic Necron leader of some kind (not sure what kind, to be honest).
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The Sangreal RPG continued and they got to Outremer and met Melisende!
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Just a little bit of work on Renaud d'Chatillon background on my World Anvil page.
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Introduced some friends to Warhammer gaming this evening.
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A very complex model and it is taking me ages to paint it - but I am slogging along!
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It is the first day of Spring and the MeWe group had an event - Spring Cleaning! Put away WIP projects, tidy the desk, dust the cabinets, throw away old sprues, scrub the palettes! And so I did - no "before" shot, but a couple of "after" ones!
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I honestly don't know what this guy is - I got him free with a Reaper order. But he is a monster, clearly, and so can function for #MonsterMarch as well as a means of getting models done!
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A one-shot RPG set in the Dragonriders universe - just a bit of fun tonight!
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It's ya boi, Bob Pumpkinhead - his head is a pumpkin. Don't question it. Clearly a monster for #MonsterMarch (he will get used as a gryph for Outremer).
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Busy day today but I did manage to get some work done - but I didn't get a picture, and I forgot to take on the next morning when I got started on new stuff! Still, I did something :)
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It's all for #MonsterMarch because the Dreadnought is monstrous and the Marines are the antagonists for the RPG I am running, and I am an old-skool GM who calls any antagonist "a monster" :) Trying to get the Marines done quite quickly and simply - using a lot of Constrast paint on them and experimenting with it.
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More Dreadnought action! It's a slow process as it is packed with details and it needs to be sympathetic but distinct colors.
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A couple of things done today - I put my Blood Angels army (and some other models) in the cabinet and I got some gold on the Dreadnought.
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Another old model - the old metal Chaos Dreadnought, heavily converted into a Blood Angels Furioso - leaning heavily into the "monstrous" aspect of the Chapter ... so suitable for #MonsterMarch!
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The Outremarin Master of the Hunt; a model I've had built for a while, but it needed a little gap-filling etc. and the base needed some work. Not a monster for #MonsterMarch, but a monster hunter!
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George had all his Contrast paint work done, and it was just details and basing. He looks pretty cool! #MonsterMarch is completed (although I will certainly try to paint more things for it!)
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The classic Ikea cabinets (which I picked up a couple of days ago) now assembled and put in place. I still need to add extra shelves to them, but I now have more than enough space to display all my armies.
(I also assembled Fafnir Rann and Zephon... you can see them in the picture above, honest! :) )
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A fun night of killing a vile gorgon-like beast as we play out the tale of Perseus and Andromeda in sub-Saharan Africa!
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Huzzah! I know that buying something isn't "doing something on the hobby" (and I didn't even assemble them!) but it was the only thing I did today AND I had to go to Ikea to pick them up. Look, it was a busy day and I left immediately after work to get them.
Anyway - the Detolf cabinet from Ikea; the preferred cabinet for displaying miniatures. It's been unavailable or very hard to get for a while (Let's Go, Brandon!) so I've been watching on the Ikea webpage for it to be back in stock and the moment it was I jumped on it, ordering 2 for collection.
So, I now have enough cabinet space to display probably all my painted models - which is nice!
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Ya boi George is back at it! Getting some crazy colors on him - perhaps this could actually count as my "new thing" for March? Because all these colors are Contrast paints - I bought the full set and I have been using them here, trying to get a feel for them. I'd already bought and used a selected few - but this model is painted using nothing but and I've got the full set. I'm learning quite a bit - mostly; you need to be more careful with them than you might other colors.
George is painted in bright colors i) to test Contrast paints and ii) to make him look a bit silly and goofy (so the players don't treat him entirely seriously - meta-game-painting techniques!)
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It's ya boi George! For #MonsterMarch I wanted to create a Gryph for the RPG - the players need to have some kind of fun combat encounter, but rather than just throw some random T'au Pathfinders who happen to be on the capital planet of Outremer (unrealistic) I thought of a Gryph - just a monster to kill. Of course, the reality of what the Gryphs are won't be revealed for a while.
I kitbashed the Gryph from a Reaper Bones were-crocodile body I had left over after making a Scaly police officer and a bunch of spare Tyranid pieces. I deliberately made him look a little goofy and silly so the players wouldn't think exactly where he came from.
When I posted this picture in the MeWe group he got his name; another member wrote "You can't just spring this on us without some lore. What am I looking at? Would it eat me? Can I call it George?" I explained the lore, said it would eat him, and that he could call it George.
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