Round Three: Top Ten Music Finds for 2013
2013 was not quite what I expected it to be when I reviewed my audio lists compared to my memories. I spent (what I thought) much of it in study for classes and class prep for classes I was teaching.…
Why Should I Base Metallics? A Tutorial.
Why Base Metallics? That’s a good question! Some may not even know the technique exists but it’s a very easy thing to do to make your metallics “pop” better – and it’s based on science! The stuff in paint that…
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…
Work, School, Work, and Hobbies
Wow, almost 8 months since I touched this thing. Sad really, I miss it a lot. That’s what getting a second job and going back to school will do for ya With the break in school over the holidays (I’m…
Dakka, Dakka, Dakka!!!
Worked on the metallics today. I remembered a long time ago, Tamiya made a Gun Metal Blue that was really good looking for gun barrels. I figured I’d try to duplicate that on the many, many barrels these dakkajets have.…
Dakkajets getting new paint!
Need to slowly work back up to speed. I missed my workbench! These are three dakkajets I purchased and built for the local Apoc back in January, haven’t touched anything since then. I wanted to start painting the blasta bomma…
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…