This blasted unit took me almost a week to complete. Every time I felt like I was making some progress, I’d look up and realize I had HOURS of work left. It was depressing at times.
Well the unit is done, and I’m relieved. I have mixed feelings on how it came out as I rushed the work somewhat, but again I’m glad it’s done.
Next up is completing the display. I’ll have that finished today so I’m on schedule to take pictures at my hobby shop.
Shawn G. (SoI)
~Minor Update~
I’ve completed 3 Necro Knights. HOLY CRAP this unit takes forever to finish! I’ve finished/mounted the command elements and one additional snake.
I’ve 2 more snakes, but they are sitting around 60% done (I have to finish/wash the metal elements). I also have 3 crew to do.
As much time as this blasted unit is taking me to complete, I’m unsure if I’ll even have time to get to Arkhan. I may have time on Friday but I don’t want to rush him as he’s the whole reason I’ve done this army. Thank the dark gods I’ve a plethora (Yes Jeffe) of completed Liche Priests completed already.
Shawn G. (SoI)
So I’ve just about hammered out my army list for the Blob’s Park tourney and it includes a new unit. I’m in the process of painting a unit of 6 Necro Knights for this event.
I must hate myself or something as this unit was VERY time consuming to assemble and completing it along with Arkhan and the display board may require divine/infernal intervention.
I’ll try to get some pictures posted but I need to get enough done to ease the pressure.
Wish me luck and stay tuned.
Shawn G. (SoI)
I’m a lazy person. I built my Tomb King host to compete on the tournament scene and major painting events. Have I taken it to any? No.
As the date of each event creeps closer, I get more lazy. I had plenty of completed units and more than enough time to compete in the local Armies on Parade event. The closer the deadline got, the more meh I became. I wanted to go to Nova this year. What happened? Meh.
No more meh! I’ve paid for this last event and my wife will skin me alive if I don’t participate. Since a flensing at the hands of my spouse is not something I care to experience, I’m going to Battle for Blobs Park! Although I wish I’d kicked myself in the ass one week earlier…
I haven’t touched this army hobby wise since mid June and I’ve still a few units I need to complete for this event on the 24th. I’ve one character, one unit, and a display board to complete. I’ve got a lot of work to do…
Details coming soon!
Well I’ve started work on some of the new Finecast models GW has released. To be honest my opinion is mixed.
First up is the new Liche Priest. I don’t really know why, but I like this model. Painting him was a breeze, but the sculpt has some muddy detail in some locations. The cloth was pretty ratty and some of the metal collar detail was poor. I’m glad I chose a simple paint scheme for this army, as it would take serious work to get this painted to a higher standard IMO.
The new Ushabti are damn cool, but GW was very lazy making them all the same body. They also suffer from thin spots that will break if mishandled. I’m also not seeing this extra detail that’s supposed to be with these new sculpts that does not exist in the metal/plastic forms. They do glue together with delicious ease.
I painted up the champion first and it came together pretty well.
I do have one problem I don’t have an easy solution for: the lack of command for this unit. I really don’t know what to do about it. I imagine I can make a standard bearer conversion that should look ok, but the musician is eluding me. My current idea is to create a unit filler for the front rank using the large obelisk from the Scibor terrain I have and just inform my opponent of what they represent. The filler would serve nicely until GW decides to release a kit, though I don’t think that would be acceptable in a tournament.
That’s all I have for now.
Shawn G. (SoI)
I got a good deal for this model on Amazon and it arrived Saturday morning. I didn’t have enough time to work with him that day but I managed to get him assembled and primed by Sunday evening.
I was a little worried that the scheme I’ve chosen for this army would not translate into the older units in this line but it worked. I’m quite pleased. It barely took a day to complete.
Hope you like!
Shawn G. (SoI)
So the OS on my PC died Sunday for the 2nd time. I think the hard drive had a bad sector, which was causing it to fail repeatedly. Got a new drive and recovered from backup (I love you Timemachine) and I’m watching to see if anything funny happens…
That aside, I’ve finished my chariot unit. I added some different parts from other kits to add some diversity to the unit. They ended up looking pretty good. Glad to get them off my table.
I’ve also finished a unit filler for my archer unit. It comes from Scibor’s Egyptian terrain line. I like it, but I wonder if it’s out of place with the other unit fillers I’ve done.
I found some resin models from the Uncharted Seas game called Water Behemoths that I picked up an my local hobby shop a few months back. I got the idea to cover them with sand on a 3/5 inch disks and use them as templates. They ended up looking better then I thought they would!
I’m trying to pin down what I want to paint next. I’m thinking about a couple of catapults or a bone giant. I really don’t know what I want to do next.
More to come as I progress.
Shawn G. (SoI)
I’ve finally started on my chariot unit. The weather lately has been completely horrible for priming with either rain or massive humidity. Yesterday I took a chance and decided to prime them even though it was humid as hell. I broke my own rule, NEVER PRIME ON HUMID DAYS! Some sections of a few chariots look like they’ve been sprayed in fine black sand. I was SO pissed at myself as that stuff murders any chance at detail work.
Here are the first two. The crew will be done when this weather clears up.
Shawn G.
It’s been a busy few days but I’ve gotten some work done. First up are two completed characters for my army.
Now to be honest these are my least favorite characters that I’ve built and it appears that that fact showed up in my painting. Especially for the Priest. But they are done and all they need is a coat of varnish I can move on.
Next up are some WiP’s that I’ve been picking at. I’ve started to paint the tower. This bugger will take a few hours to get done but it will be a pretty addition to my scheme. Second is an Obelisk I bought from Armorcast YEARS ago. I think I bought this back in ’04 I believe when I was first painting this army. It’s been sitting around taking up space so I dug her up and now she’ll get some love. Cant wait to get started on it.
Last but not least I think I’ve got my Arkhan model pinned down. I like the look a lot but he needs some green stuff touch up. He will look really intimidating when complete.
That’s all I have for now. The weather here has been horrible. We’ve had 1 rain free day out of the last 9 and we have more rain predicted for most of this week. I may get a free day on Wednesday to get some priming done. We’ll see.
Shawn G. (SoI)
I finished this on Sat but forgot to take pictures.
Shawn G.
