The weekend was a busy one, though it didn’t really start the way I anticipated, it did finish well. Saturday morning the wife was supposed to be going out with a friend, and my oldest daughter was supposed to be baby sitting the friends kids. She was supposed to keep them entertained in the rumpus room so I could get some painting done. You can probably guess that no painting got done on Saturday. Sunday however was a different story. It was still a busy day, but by my standards I got a fair bot of painting done.
First I laid down some flesh on the first six of my Malifaux crew (I’m painting them in two separate batches). This produced mixed, patchy results because I wasn’t laying it on thick over the black undercoat as I normally would. I wanted to try something different with these beasts.
Then I mixed some Flat Earth with Flesh to make a dark wash and added that to the ‘human’ figures, adding some green into the mix for the Necropunks.
The mix was pretty much just an experiment, and seemed to work ok.
Next up was highlighting with a mix of White and Flesh, which seemed to work out quite good on the humans.
Adding some green to the mix and highlighting the Necropunks had varied results and I’m thinking of adding another wash, this time Dark Green.
In between adding washes and highlights to my Malifaux crew, I managed to paint the webbing and base coat the helmets on my Airborne chaps. It was a bit of a mission swapping from 32mm down to 15mm though.
I was also able to put a couple of coats of base colour on my Tigers in between everything else. Though the photo was taken before the second coat.
Having several projects on the go at the same time enabled me to add some variety to my painting, meaning I got more done than I normally would. Having kids of an age where I can leave my paints and models on the dining room table for the course of the day whilst I did everything else that the weekend required on me was also great. Being able to keep everything handy in a cupboard, rather than tucked away in my office, far from where I paint is also a huge benefit.
I still have a long way to go before I’ve completed everything I’ve set out to do in this year of Frugal Gaming, but I’m more motivated at the moment, and trying new painting techniques that seem to be working, so things are looking good.
I almost for got to add that I did a bit of work on the first of my 28mm Western Buildings, tweaking the structural design of the piece. Unfortunately I have a very busy week at work this week, so probably won’t get to construct it anytime soon.
My Sunday started a little earlier than anticipated. After watching a ho-hum rom-com with my wife last night I had to write a review and up-date my two other websites, FilmGuide and GameGuide. Just before shutting down the computer I glanced at the time, it was fast approaching midnight. I figured I had two options; I could crack open Dead Rising 2: Off the Record (which I have to review) or I could go to bed. In a moment of genius – or sheer madness – I grabbed a halogen desk lamp and chose the third option: work on putting my Cromwells together. Whilst this did work surprisingly well – I’m not normally tired at night – I did manage to super glue two of mt fingers together!
With most of the work done on my Cromwell Tanks and my wife having a lazy Sunday in bed with a book, I was able to go full steam ahead with my Dystopian Wars Prussian Empire Arminius Class Frigates. I’ve managed to finish painting them and will likely ink wash them later today. It’s a quick and nasty paint job but should do the business on the table.
The colour scheme I used (using Flames of War Vallejo paints) is as follows:
