2014 Projects Pt. 2

The Astral claws are dead, having painted and repainted I've got so sick that I've given up on them. They are now boxed away, bits salvaged, awaiting to be stripped and re-painted in a quick & dirty Black Templars scheme for my friend. This is one of my planned projects for 2014 and will be an exercise in speed painting.

I love / hate power armour. Love the lore of Space Marines, hate the monotonous painting of them. But you can't claim to be a self respecting 40ker without them! I've always liked the colour scheme of the Red Scorpions, simple but effective and given that Forgeworld have lots of tasty bits for the chapter I couldn't resist. I've started collecting bits and will be trying my hand at casting to for this project. This is something I won't be embarking on until I'm happy with my airbrushing skills. In the mean time I'm building a very small World Eaters 30k army. This will be to practice painting mk IV armour and to use up my spare Space Marine bits that are not going to be used for either the Black Templars or Red Scorpions. They will also serve as my Chaos SM's/Astral Claws standins in my small Chaos/Tyrant army.

Dark Vengance, I picked up the Chaos elements of the DV box on the cheap from eBay, mainly for the parts, but after a game of Killteam I thoroughly enjoyed playing as them. I'll be painting the Chosen, hell brute plus a Blackheart model in Red Corsairs colours. Any cultists I don't convert I'll also being painting.

Cadain Redux / Inquisition - I've got tons of spare guard parts that simply won't fit the asthetic of my Helghast armies, I also wanted to create an army based off the Helghast sworn enemies, the ISA. I'll be incorporating elements from HALO, TitanFall, Aliens, Metal Gear, anime and modern miliraties. The idea is to create a charachterful, modern clean looking forces that display a sort of Vietnam swagger. This is a small 1500 pt force to act mainly as my 'standard' list (No Imperial Armour stuff here!) but also to be the main contingent in my Inqusition force. Speaking of which the Inq force is a warband and some Grey Knight termies as Allies.

Finally there is my Late British infantry company and German Panzer grenadiers for Flames of War. These are my projects for the first halve of 2014 In between these projects I'll be fine tunning my casting / airbrushing / painting to gear up towards the bigger projects I have planned! This consists of preparing for my Red Scorps and Renegade / Tyrant Legion force.

 

2014 Projects Pt. 1

A good mate of mine asked me to explain all my planned / current projects not to long ago. As I detailed the various projects his brain quickly melted and was he left a jibbering wreck. I suddenly relieased that in my mad, dyslexic process I had only completed one batch of models during the whole of 2013 yet I must have painted and repainted my Astral Claws to death and planned half a dozen other armies. This evidently is quite an unproductive method! He popped round to use my airbrush and was visually assaulted by the sheer chaos that I call my office, again he was reduced to gibbering madness!

So with time to reflect and evaluate during this festive period and the pressing need get something done in 2014 I've decided to whittle my projects down from 14 to 8 and if I'm being truthful this will probably drop further. I've also resolved to buy as few models as possible (A small hurrah from my finance and raised sarcastic eyebrow to suit), the exception being the rumoured new IG/Steel legion kits and probably a handful of forgeworld bits but nothing major.

What have I learnt this year? Preparation is everything, airbrushes are not magic and that practice, practice and a god dam load of booze is the best way to paint, well maybe not but practice is something I need to stick at. The important of a clean and concise workspace is paramount especially if your like me who has bits and half done models everywhere. This coming year I'll be utilizing a laser cut mdf workstation to focus on one thing at a time, Project wise this means I'll be restricting myself to know more then two at any given time.

I'll be outlining my 2014 projects in the next post but it's safe to say this year has been a write off!

Happy Christmas

Prototype Helghast Shock trooper

Blimey

6 months on and nothing complete! 2013 has been a year of waiting & planning but 2014 will be all action. I have broken down my projects and now attempting to setup a manageable system to complete several projects. In the near future I'll post up a plan so I can keep track of progress and keep myself motivated.