I am also trying out a new brand of primer the guys at 40k radio recommended called touch n' tone. This stuff applied incredibly smooth, and I really didn't have to use a lot of spray to get a nice even finish.
Monday, August 8, 2011
New Warmachine Project
I hear that the next local tournament is going to be 20 points painted, or 15 points mangled metal. Either way I have some painting to do. I'm going to start with this Cyclone. I really like pairing him with the Arcane Tempest Gunmage Unit Attachment. This frees up focus for my Warcaster and and really makes him a swiss army knife with the rune shot ability.
Finished painting my Ironclad!
Here he is all finished up. I used citadel mithril silver, washed with badab black for all the silver parts. The blue came out great with P3's Cygnar Blue Base, followed by two washes of Cygnar Blue Highlight. The shoulder pads are citadel chaos black, and the studs and outline are P3 blighted gold. The gold on the legs, head cowling, exhaust ports, and shoulders are Citadel Shining Gold, then washed with the P3 blighted gold. The base was painted with a watered down goblin green. The basing material is from an old bag of citadel modeling sand. Note: DO NOT BUY THE NEW CITADEL MODELING SAND YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED!
Painting the Ironclad was totally worth it, because he charged around the board at the And Books Too Warma-Hordes Battlebox tournament yesterday. That Earthquake hammer knocked down, another Ironclad, and Scorcha. And turned a Cryx chickenwalker, an Iron Clad, a lancer, a juggernaught, and a destroyer into slags over the course of the tournament. He definitely had a pile of dead cogs to his name at the end of the day.
Also special thanks to Rob for throwing a great event! I'm looking forward to the next one.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Paint Rack on the Cheap!
I've been getting the man cave in order and I ran into a problem with my painting table. Most of the available "real-estate" was taken up by paint pots. So being the guy that buys first and thinks about it later I went shopping around to see what was available. I was disappointed to find nothing at all at my local hobby stores. So I turned to the google, and found one that seemed pretty neat but I decided against it.
The carousel was really cool, but it was almost 50 bucks, and still would have taken up space on my desk. I really didn't find any others that I would even consider. Next I checked around to see what other gamers had done. The 40k radio freeboota forums have a great thread on man caves that is several pages long. Most of the man caves had something like this:
The theatre seating style paint organizer, which is cool but I decided that what I really wanted was to get my paints off my desk all together.
This is what I ended up with:
Materials Needed:
3 Plastic Tackle Boxes (3 at $6 each)
1 Set of mounting hardware (97 cents)
Hammer
Pilot Nail (Slightly larger nail than your mounting nails)
Yes its a fishing tackle box. I found a new gamer use for the tackle box. If you don't own any of these I got it for $6 at a large store that rhymes with Paul Blart. You can get these from pretty much any place that sells fishing supplies.
Step one. Rip the lid off, and put it in the recycling. You won't need it.
Next run a pilot hole into the two top corners. This is what makes your tackle box into a wall mount rack. You really don't need to swing hard to drive the pilot nail through.
I found the easiest way to mount it was to place the mounting nails in the mounting points you just created before lining it up on the wall.
These little dividers can become your shelves if your paints are too tall for you to mount the rack horizontally.
This is your finished product.
I mounted three of them. It looks really slick and grand total ran me $20 for this enormous paint rack. I hope this DIY was enjoyable and informative. Feel free to comment, and let me know how I'm doing.
Welcome Welcome!
I intend to use this blog as a motivational tool to keep my hobby projects going. I am an avid miniature warfare kind of guy. I've played Flames of War, Warhammer Fantasy, and many others in the past. My current / long term games are Warhammer 40, 000, and Warmachine. I'm really looking forward to all the things I can do with this blog. So enough about this, I'm going to start on the first real post!
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