Not Quite Ready to Give Up on Yellow – Yet
Yellows – Round Two! I’m not ready to give up yet on yellows – grrrr. After picking up a couple of new paints I tried out another idea that many use. Going from Iyanden Darksun base to layering the new…
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I Hate Painting Yellow
Yellow – the bane of nearly every mini painters existence. I wanted a few panels in yellow as it a great accent color for all the reds and whites across this model. So I started where I always start –…
The Whale Back on the Bench
So this whale is back on the bench Now it’s down to the details; pick one, knock it out and move on to the next one. Pretty soon I should be done. The metallics took for ever and it’s not…
More Blasta Bommer Work – Gunna Get It Dome Someday!
So I’m back in the saddle for a time, we’ll see how long it goes 😉 I’ve actually been working on and off on this monster for about three weeks and the only thing I’ve accomplished has been the metallic…
Stenciling the Blasta Bommer
So, I’ve been chipping away (hehe) at the paint job on the blasta bommer. I was almost finished with the initial outlining of the metallics when I realized I hadn’t added any larger painting details like the checks or glyphs…
Slow Work on Ork Blasta Bomma
Just proving I’m not sittin’ on my haunches this break… Blocking out the metals by going over them with Badab black first – always base your metals with black, there’s a very good and scientific/optical reason why they look better…
Dakkajet Pilots and Blasta Bommer Paint
Wrapped up the pilots for each of my three dakkajets last night, presented here 🙂 And he doesn’t look too bad nestled in the cockpit. Just need to finish the widscreen and base it. In other news, the blasta bomma,…
Grot Gunners and Dakkajet Weathering
Paint. Paint. Paint! Sadly, only enough for the little grotty gunners 🙂 Finished up the grot big shoota gunner turrets and realized I’ve run out of Evil Sunz Red so the main painting of the bomma will have to wait…
Completed Canopy on the Ork Blasta Bomma!
Sometimes you get stuck, you come to a roadblock that you can’t blow through with ease, something that stymies you for a good long time. That was the canopy for the blasta bommer for me. I’ve had time since I…
Ork Blasta Bomma First Fight (Flight)
Hi folks! Got to field the blast bomber this weekend at a local Apoc game. It was fun but didn’t really do much except wow the other players Apoc has definitely changed with the adoption of 6th Edition. In our…