Sunday, October 21, 2012

Weekend Painters Block

Well with my weekend coming to a close (I have duty tomorrow), I look back and realize I have made very little progress on my army.  Its almost like this weekend I had "painters block" just as writers do, I couldn't seem to paint anything right which led to frustration and quitting painting.  That sums up the weekend, like no kidding.  I did get spit on by a llama today, twice.  Interestingly enough I wasn't sure they spit before today, I know everyone says they do but I wasn't quite sure.  Now I can tell you with experience that llamas do in fact spit.  Anyways, I did try my hand at green stuff and thus far its going to be a skill that I have to work on a lot more. One thing I did do this weekend was figure out what I wanted to do with my Chapter Master.  I decided on terminator armor for him mostly because the chapter uses it extensively, this nullified my previous model I had for a chapter master (reference image).  I also want him to use a weapon besides a sword, mostly because swords are rather common and I like the idea of something with a little more umpfh.  I was thinking a halberd or hammer, most likely a halbred with a storm shield.  I also want to used a hooded head for the model to continue the idea that the Guardians of Silence are war sages, mystics of death.  Priced out I think I can get all the parts plus some for less than $25 which is expensive for one unit but he is sure to look bad ass.  I also ordered a 5 man squad of Deathwing Terminators from the Dark Vengeance set off ebay (12 bucks! Couldn't resist!) and I will probably be working them over to be an honor guard for the Chapter Master but I don't know for sure yet.  My wife was so kind to add up how much I've spent thus far in my 40k Adventure and I think I am at about $400 for the figures (well over 3000 pts worth) and about $200 for all the various hobby and storage supplies.  Well I'm out of time, I have to get to bed.  Here's some pictures of what I've been working on:
This is a scout I had painted previously as a 13th Company Scout.  His face is kind of  jacked up.

Finished the purple outlining, later I ended up doing the silver  parts and trying to get his face right (nightmare!).

Pretty Cool Model, but I had just washed him to get the purple color I like for the outlining.
This is what I was going to use for my Chapter Master, originally he was to be 13th Company's Captain and well now he'll be one of the Guardians of Silence's Captains.
This is the guy I green stuffed today, not too terribly pleased with the results but I suppose its okay, gotta learn somehow.  I did notice he has the inquisition logo on his shoulder and a filed one of his belt buckle, which is pretty cool.  I obviously covered up his belt buckle one. Whoever owned him before me painted him pink, I have no idea what they were thinking and he didn't strip very well.  Oh well I guess that's the nice thing about 40k everyone has their own way of doing things.

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