This will be a bit of a preview post and a reflection on my night, as well as the introduction to a recurring post. Every Monday night my friends come over with some stuff and we all paint and talk and be merry. We call it Mans Painting, because we paint tiny mans. I plan on recording my work each night and posting it here for future reference and inspiration.
Tonight I worked mostly on the Skarlock I mentioned earlier. The model doesn't really feel finished to me yet and I'm not quite sure I'm happy with it. I loved painting the green soul that wraps around him and I think I put more effort into painting it's face than the Skarlock's face. I experimented some more with glow effects and reflections after having a good time on pAsphyxious. I decided to paint the Skarlocks exposed bone in more of a bleached bone color as opposed to white because Sarah said the bone on my bonejacks was her favorite part. I also feel like if living skeletons were real they would be offended by all the things that portray them as clean and glistening white. Overall, it's pretty good.
I really wish I had a camera, but unfortunately my Motorola Q is packin' a legendary 1 MP camera. It's pictures look kind of like what happens when you squint after yawning and your eyes are all teared up. Only blurrier. Anyway, I'm going to try to find a camera to use tomorrow so I can get some picures up and record a step by step of a one Bane Lord Tartarus. I have some ideas for him...I was never a fan of the swirly water base type thing, whatever it is. To me it looks like water. Anyway, seeing as Tartarus himself is a tortured and demented soul, I think I'm going to paint that swirly base as a swirling storm of souls. I'm excited for how it will come out, but that's for tomorrow.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Here we go
Hello dear readers. I'm starting this blog after being inspired by my lovely girlfriend Sarah, who just started a blog of her own.
I'll be using this space for multiple purposes. Mostly, I'm going to use it to chronicle my progress in painting models for Warmachine/Hordes. Warmachine is a tabletop game that I started playing a few months ago with a couple of friends. If you weren't aware, I'm a huge nerd. Anyway, arguably my favorite part of the game is painting the awesome little models, so you can expect lots of pictures of my progress, and maybe even a few tutorials. There also may be some posts on my endeavor to get my girlfriend to play Warmachine with me. That should be a real treat.
I started off playing Menoth(praise fire) and have collected quite a large force. Unfortunately, Menoth's shiny gleam has worn off for me, and the Dragonfather calls. Cryx has always been my favorite army, and I'm kind of confused as to why I never started with them in the first place. Ohhh yeah, thats right; I figured they would be the most common faction and I didn't want to be a copycat. Sucks for me, since after I bought a ton of Menoth stuff some people at the Toy Soldier(LGS) yelled at me for being "another" Menoth player. Oh well.
I've started up on Cryx with the stuff I already had after a short hiatus from war gaming in general. I recently painted some bone chickens and pAsphyxious, along with a reaper. My Skarlock is up next, and you can expect pictures shortly.
I'm also interested in Legion of Everblight. I have yet to play Hordes aside from dicking around with the MK.II playtest rules a while back, where I proxied a few games as Skorne and Trollbloods. Legion has some really cool looking models, but I'm really only interested in a select few of them. Actually...I say that now, but if i were to look through all of them right now I'd probably want at least 2/3 of them. Either way, a few months from now I may consider starting a nice small army of Carniveans and eThagrosh and Scythean's galore. One of those nifty all-beast armies appeals to me.
Now, aside from Warmachine and me being a huge flaming nerd in general, I may occasionally blog about other random crap. My interests include my girlfriend Sarah(#1), cooking, and teaching myself Japanese. Who knows where I'll go with this.
Thanks for reading
またね
I'll be using this space for multiple purposes. Mostly, I'm going to use it to chronicle my progress in painting models for Warmachine/Hordes. Warmachine is a tabletop game that I started playing a few months ago with a couple of friends. If you weren't aware, I'm a huge nerd. Anyway, arguably my favorite part of the game is painting the awesome little models, so you can expect lots of pictures of my progress, and maybe even a few tutorials. There also may be some posts on my endeavor to get my girlfriend to play Warmachine with me. That should be a real treat.
I started off playing Menoth(praise fire) and have collected quite a large force. Unfortunately, Menoth's shiny gleam has worn off for me, and the Dragonfather calls. Cryx has always been my favorite army, and I'm kind of confused as to why I never started with them in the first place. Ohhh yeah, thats right; I figured they would be the most common faction and I didn't want to be a copycat. Sucks for me, since after I bought a ton of Menoth stuff some people at the Toy Soldier(LGS) yelled at me for being "another" Menoth player. Oh well.
I've started up on Cryx with the stuff I already had after a short hiatus from war gaming in general. I recently painted some bone chickens and pAsphyxious, along with a reaper. My Skarlock is up next, and you can expect pictures shortly.
I'm also interested in Legion of Everblight. I have yet to play Hordes aside from dicking around with the MK.II playtest rules a while back, where I proxied a few games as Skorne and Trollbloods. Legion has some really cool looking models, but I'm really only interested in a select few of them. Actually...I say that now, but if i were to look through all of them right now I'd probably want at least 2/3 of them. Either way, a few months from now I may consider starting a nice small army of Carniveans and eThagrosh and Scythean's galore. One of those nifty all-beast armies appeals to me.
Now, aside from Warmachine and me being a huge flaming nerd in general, I may occasionally blog about other random crap. My interests include my girlfriend Sarah(#1), cooking, and teaching myself Japanese. Who knows where I'll go with this.
Thanks for reading
またね
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