AD FINEM

Happy New Year Everyone!!! My home WIFI went down (like this downed Valkyrie) last weekend and the work week rolled over me right after so there's been very little progress after the new year started. To be honest, I have not touched a paint brush for nearly the last 5x days. However, I have spent plenty of time obsessing over the hobby; observing painting techniques, exploring Etsy, and looking into some other low-model count games. If procrastination sounds like a familiar

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays! Progress on the Inquisitor/Templar Crusade continues although not nearly as fast as I thought it was going to. Over the course of the week, I spent 2-3 days building models and kit-bashing ones I thought could have been better. It was only yesterday that I got around to putting paint on models and that is something I'd really like to take my time with. In regards to Templar Initiate builds, I found that I did not have a huge drive/need in con

Greetings all! I have a few projects in the works at the moment but I'm happy to report the Neophytes are close to completion. With 5-6 hours spread through out the week, they are at the point where they each need one last review to shore up highlights and some details. However, before I get that far, I decided I'm going to base them which brought on a titan of a project taking up most of the Sunday. I ended up modifying the resin tech-decks with a wasteland asthetic and the

Greetings All! Another fine week of hobbying and dreaming up new ideas for future projects. As you can see, I finally built one of the Black Templar Neophytes and got some paint on him. I'd say he's done for now (minus the base which are on order) but I will touch up some areas as I get to painting the 3x other Neophytes in his squad. I pretty much spent all of Saturday working on them. What I like most about the models is each one has a visual narrative to them. Whether it

Hello everyone! Another week down. Most of my hobby time this week, to include Saturday, was dedicated to completing the Tumon project. It was a stress test in so many different techniques, including working with resin at the very end. While it's not going to win any awards, it was not meant to. It was just an idea that spiraled when the first attempt failed and I decided to give it another go with a piece of aquarium scenery. An updated shot of the Work Bench. While it has m

Greetings! 4x days off sure flew by! I'd like to say I got a lot accomplished and I guess I kind of did. Most of it is undocumented and I was dabbling in various techniques. I'll try to hit some of the highlights. Project: Tuman. The idea was to create a small terrain piece to honor my son who is now living in SE Asia. However, despite my best efforts, "Mission Failed" on this one. Honestly, I think the palm trees are what took up most of the time for this project. Flashing,

Greetings! It has been a bit of a slow week. A sickness hit me in the middle of it and stopped all progress for a couple of days. I was eventually able to put some paint on the test-models using Army Painter's Speed Paints . I spent around an hour or so on each model and they came out alright considering I normally spend around 5x hours per model using the normal method/paints. I think there is use in mixing the Speed Painting method and the older layering methods. No more t

Greetings Dudes! Another week of work-work-work and hobbying has gone by. I've made some great, albeit slow, progress. It feels good to see some of it finally coming together and looking just as good as I imagined it. All of the images I've used below are already spread through out the site but thought I'd capture some contsxt in this post. Working with Rust Effects As you can see from the Post image I had GREAT SUCCESS with the Dirty Down rust paint. However, it did take

"Everyone needs a friend like me!" I ordered a cordless "dremel" a couple of weeks ago and it finally showed up! After taking it out of the box it is screams quality product... I think it was around 140 Euros on Amazon. I can think of a hundred terrain and vehicle related projects where this is going to be crucial... >>>>>>>>>>END VOX TRANSMISSION<<<<<<<<<<

Nectar of the Gods... Greetings all! As the site comes together I fully intend on giving an update every Sunday no matter how difficult the week was. The CONEX box is just about done. Not super happy with the results but I was experimenting with oils during the process. It will be good to get it off of the bench. After a quick trip to one of the only places open on Sundays, I was able to stock up on White Monsters. Should get me through the day's hobbying. I'm starting to th

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust." I saw this texture paint and thought I'd give it a go to experiment with a new basing theme. I'm going to glob it onto a 32mm base and let it cure. I'm not entirely sure if I should add sand/rocks before or after. I may have to try both. Afterwards, I envision 3x shades of brown/tan and then affix a dead grass patch or two. Sounds easy enough... A few hours later and the texture paint dried to the perfect con

"You see boys, everybody thinks they want freedom, but what they really want is order..." I fully intended on painting the GW CONEX container this morning but Amazon happens... A little bit of wood glue and bam... done. Most people probably use it strictly for paint brushes but I found that tools will fit in there just as well. Ok... back to it! >>>>>>>>>>END VOX TRANSMISSION<<<<<<<<<<

I was missing a few paints essential to painting some rust effects so I took another trip to the local GW. I often wonder why GW keeps their store fronts so small. I have been to a dozen of them around the world and they are always the size of a closet. I wonder if it is the overhead cost... or masybe it is an effort to say you don't need a lot of space for this hobby. Either way, it gets claustrophic rather quickly when you add 10 human beings. Otherwise, while I was there I

One day recently, I woke up and decided it was time to get back into Painting & Wargaming. Taking stock of my paints... it has been a few years and the paint-Gods were not kind. Luckily, I've got a GW store with in walking distance so I replinished the ranks. On a seperate note, I picked up the complete Villainy line... >>>>>>>>>>END VOX TRANSMISSION<<<<<<<<<<