Yes, I’m Still Here, Just… Busy

In the parlance of the old forum days, it’s time to resurrect this thread… Yes, January 6th was my last post, and this should be considered dead enough to need “resurrecting”. That said, not all was shelved as I was…

In the parlance of the old forum days, it’s time to resurrect this thread… Yes, January 6th was my last post, and this should be considered dead enough to need “resurrecting”. That said, not all was shelved as I was…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Put some time in on the bommer this week. Spent three hours doing rivets on the tail before doing the final attachment. With this in place, it’s time to finish the tail section, blend in the tail wing and start…
Small spurts of progress, doesn’t look like much but wrapping plastic around a fuselage with compound curves is tough! I’ve got more of the transition between body and tail. It needs multiple layers of pcard to get it where I…
Sheeze, three days back on the bench and it shows me what for… Did something today I haven’t done in nearly 20 years – drove an exacto deep into my finger. One of those stupid things where two seconds before…
OK, as with every Thanksgiving weekend, I took a full army shot as well as assessed my army in total, painted and unpainted. Here’s the entire painted portion of my army… This is roughly 6,800 points – without pushing wargear…
All right, got some work done last night. No, I didn’t do any work, I got some done last night… I’ve been threatening to get this done for about two years and finally pulled the trigger. Turned out better than…