Television is rather a frightening business. But I get all the relaxation I want from my collection of model soldiers.
Peter Cushing

Friday, 1 June 2018

Barak-Eik Expects


Our GW Store is having a painting competition  - as are all the others - and this is the first of my two entries. The full title is, of course, "Barak-Eik expects that every dwarf shall do his duty."

To be honest the main value of it was in helping me lock down the colour scheme for my Kharadron Overlords. 

The deck was made from coffee stirrers:




The dwarf was built more or less from stock, no conversions. 



The zombie pirate, on the other hand, required some fairly serious work. He started as the bog standard zombie from the sprues that are nearly 15 years old. 

The coat started as some tails from a Skitarii, with the upper section, torn sleeves and lapels sculpted from greenstuff:








And the hat was actually made from a disk of greenstuff in pretty much the exact way a real bicorn hat is made. 






Painting wise the KO was painted in a colonial british, East India Company scheme befitting their background as merchant venturers. 



The Barak Eik symbol was based on the EIC symbol.... 


...and then repeated on the deck of the ship















The whole thing was finally stuck to the base using a bit of sprue to get the tilt right.














Overall, another little project that came out exactly how I wanted it. 

Sunday, 20 May 2018

The Lost Foundry of Sycorax



The ill-fated expedition to Sycroax set off late in 841. It was expected that transit would take 58 days sidereal. Locating the lost Foundry was estimated to take another 15 days, effecting entry 2. Exploration and mapping 11 days and bringing the astropathic transmitters back on line a further 5 days. Contact was therefore expected within 90-100 days. 

After 120 days with no contact an emergency committee was convened.

After 150 days a servitor probe was dispatched to attempt to make contact with the Explorator Vessel Agamemnon.  

After 200 days the expedition was recorded as lost. 

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No, I'm not dead. I have been very busy with work so it was largely a choice between painting or keeping the blog up to date. So I do have a few bits and pieces to share. Here's the big one, though - I finished my Adeptus Mechanicus force. This is the first army I've ever completed for any Warhammer game so I'm quite pleased.






The last unit that needed finishing was my second unit of Skitarii. For the purposes of identification on the battlefield I gave them blue as an accent colour as opposed to the red of the other Unit. 



So what's up next? Well, I've entered my first ever painting competition. What was originally a very simple idea has become something much more complex - yes, I'm building another vignette. Two, as it happens. If you want to get an idea of what I have in mind for one of them have a look at a photograph I took a few years ago:




Left Hand of Darkness