Eldar update and random stuff

Been a while!


College and the holidays have both conspired against my blogging and hobbying, but i have finally found some time to do this post and even some painting!


I have some very rough pictures of what i have been doing in-between essays, assignments and being a dad. One day I will remember to look into setting up a light box or a photo spot in my little painting dungeon, any advice welcome!


First up some updated pics of the Eldar I have been working on:

Banshees need a little finishing and basing, then they are ready to go.

Warp Spiders, again, need a little bit of finishing (I messed up the symbol on a couple of their heads, that's why some look odd as they have only have a thin coat to cover the mistakes so far) and basing.

Dark Reapers are waiting for basing and their weapons.

Harlequins are coming along, have just put the halves together and finished the Death Jester/Troupe master (I'm not sure about the hierarchy of the Eldar). I am pretty happy with how they are going, I had been a bit nervous about getting under-way with them as the motley sections on them didn't look like much fun! Turned out to be easier than it looked and not nearly as time consuming as I had feared.


Was also sent a Wraithlord to paint up in the Iyanden* scheme:

Am still getting used to my airbrush, but love how nice the yellow came out! still a lot of work to do, extra armour and details still need painting blue, but so far so good!


Have been playing Pathfinder RPG quite a lot too recently and have to say, the more I play the more I love the system!


I freely admit that I was always dubious of those strange creatures that played RPGs and never imagined I would one day be one of them! as if painting and playing toy soldiers wasn't geeky enough! lol.


It has really helped that my first forays into playing RPGs were with two VERY experienced and fun GMs and both groups I played with were amazing! however I did meet a group that included the stereotypical gaming pair (like these guys Fear of Girls) and ran for the hills.


Anyway, enough rambling about it, I have painted a few characters up for my ongoing weekly session of Pathfinder but typically I don't have them with me. A couple were painted for the GM and his wife and the latest (Eando Kline) has come out really dark and grainy in the picture :( Again, I really need to sort out a light box or something!


Here are the pics anyway:

Finally, one of the best purchases I have ever made is the Pound-o-dice by Chessex. I got it from http://www.snmstuff.co.uk/ and oh biy was it worth it!

I got:


13 - d4
8 - numbered d6
14 - Standard size spot d6 - 1 with a dire wolf instead of a 6
1 - Large d6
5 - Small d6
8 - d8
22 - d10
3 - d%
8 - d12
30 - d20
Complete set of limited edition dice green numbers on cream with orange specks
3 Micro 5mm dice
and 2 craft/charm dice with holes through them to thread.

Not bad at all! and for all you war gamers, they do a pound-o-d6 too :)


Hopefully the next update won't be too far away, will do my best.


Stay frosty people,


Apoc/Rob

Sly Marbo and his merry men

Decided on which army to go ahead with :)

Have also found my new bestest ever highlighting colour too whilst I was painting up my Sly conversion; Space wolf grey! Doesn’t drain the colour like white or bleached bone and is easy to work with for good looking results :)



At the minute, I am painting the base blue on all the chaps you can see in the picture. Very boring and slow going but it needs t be done. They were all sprayed with my airbrush for the grey when I first got it, using the same colours as by hand; I work from codex grey up to fortress grey. The blue starts with fenris grey and goes up through shadow grey to space wolf grey.

I did mean to put some tutorials up, if anyone is interested let me know and I’ll see what I can knock together :)

Anyway, back to the grind!

Apoc

New post, new location

Hi folks,

Sorry about the lack of bloggage, but it has been a pretty hectic couple of months. Work has gone crazy busy, and I have also moved house and had various other dramas along the way as usual :)

But (touch wood) I now have my own little hobby room with pretty good lighting, space for all my gubbins and my main PC within immediate blogging distance!


Wouldn't hold your breath on a torrent of blogging from here out, but i should be able to post alot more frequently as everything I need is in a single room!

Painting wise, there has been progress! I have actually put paint to minis!

The Heroquest stuff is all done except the gargoyle, which i have been promising Moritz would be done for the last few months! He is 50% complete, and i will do my best to get him done this week, pics posted and shipped as soon as i am done!

Here are a few pics of the rest of the minis he sent:

 

On some personal mini stuff, here are a couple of minis that have been finished for me and my wife. We have just started playing pathfinder after finding an awesome couple that happen to be DM's and massive pathfinder fans.

First up is Baal "Giant's Blood", my Barbarian ex pit fighter. Big Borris from Heresy Miniatures, with a few gubbins from my bitsbox to make him WYSIWYG, not really needed for RPG but years of playing GW games meant i had to!


Next we have Amarylis, my wife's Half-elf druid and her animal companion Humpy (wow, how imaginative!). Autumn Bronzeleaf by Reaper minis, a really nice model with lots of detail which was a real pleasure to paint. Humpy was from eBay, and not so nice to paint, but will do for now.




Next up is a model i am planning to use as a half-ork ranger named Bronn. Also from Heresy, Ebric the Doomed.

And finally, here is my new toy!


That's all for now, C and C are always welcome.


Apoc