Monday, October 30, 2017

Send in the reinforcements

These models I actually have painted rather recently.  When I put together my list for Operation Sting 2017, I noticed there was a small gap of models I was missing in order to bring my list to full strength.  So I got to painting and finished about 2 weeks ahead of the tournie.

First up is a model I've had floating around my room for some time.  I was debating on bringing it last year for Operation Sting.  That didn't happen, so I'm going to bring it this year.  Here is my Sd.Kfz.250/9 Neu 2cm Recce Half-Track.  Yup, that was a mouthful.







It was a fun little model to paint.  Not much more I can say about it.  I'm hoping it'll be effective on the battlefield and not get shot up the first turn.

Next we got some dudes.  A machine gun team, a rifle team, and a random scrub with a rifle.




I have to admit, I'm getting a little bored painting these germans.  I have a pretty sizable army and I still have a lot of guys that need to be painted.  Not sure what I'm trying to say.  I guess I'm just tired of painting germans.

That'll be it for today.  Thanks for checking it out.

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Some H.E. for Konflikt 47' and Bolt Action

I'm a bad person.  I was recently looking in my picture archive on my desktop and I realized I've taken a ton of photos of models I've painted, but never actually posted anything.  Then I let you guys sit all summer thinking I'm dead or quit the hobby and yeah.

Today, I'm going to start to rectify it.  I painted these two models almost a year ago.  Up first is my Spinemech for Konflikt 47'.






The Spinemech model was actually my prize from Operation Sting last year.  I think I ended up putting it together and painting it the night I won it.  It's pretty easy to paint and a lot of fun to throw on the battlefield.

Next, it's going to be cross between Konflikt 47' and Bolt Action.  It's the Panzer IV with an augmented weapon to make it a Panzer X.  Take a look...






And what is pretty cool with this model, you pop off the gravity gun on the top and put on the original gun and it becomes a Panzer IV.






I'll admit it, I had a ton of trouble painting the Panzer X/IV model.  I was experimenting with some colors as I wanted the green to be a bit more vibrant than I usually do on BA vehicles and I just couldn't get the color palette I was looking for.  I ended up probably putting 10 different types of base colors on this model.  I'm surprised any of the detail actually showed up honestly.  I think all-in-all it turned out pretty good.

Like I said previously, I'm going to start posting more photos of my back-log..... try to beef this blog up a little for this year.

Saturday, October 14, 2017

The Unarmoured Samurai

Blah blah blah it's been awhile blah blah blah.  Yeah yeah, we've all heard the story and we've been down this path many times before with this blog.  Lets skip the half-hearted apologies and get to what this blog is about.  Miniatures....

So nothing too big today.  This guy has been sitting on my desk since I picked up the starter set for Test of Honour during Adepticon 2017.  I looked around the net to see if anyone was showing painted examples of him.  Sadly, I could only find maybe 1 or 2 painted examples of him.  The Warlord's painted version of him was a bit "ehhhh".  The skin was too dark and it killed the entire Japanese look of the model.  I did however really like how they did the robes (kimono?  I dunno), so I basically stole they're color palette for it.  Here's what I got....




I really like how he turned out, and he was a lot of fun to paint.  I got to play with the golden skin triad from Reaper which gives you a pretty authentic Asian skin tone when applied properly.  Like I said earlier, I tried to follow the Warlord color palette (with a few artistic liberties sprinkled here and there), and I think I succeeded.