And it's done! A few shots before I go right on with the next thing.
I added a few crates to the market stand on ground level to make it look like a humble scrap dealer, and the very last thing I added was a railing on the middle floor, because the tenant living under about 2 tons of badly stored ordnance kept whining about a falling hazard.
So how's your summer going? I hope well, because mine is, I'm already mechadendrite-deep in the next project. After spending about a week brainstorming what I wanted to do next, I settled on a combination of factory and hab unit tile for the first of my two 2 x 1 tiles.
Like all my tiles, it starts with primordial chaos. I carefully position everything where it should go, like the idea, get excited, start gluing and cutting and painting and remember a few hours later I forgot to take a picture of the initial mockup. No different this time:
The point where even I have to admit that "too much detail" is a thing
Yeah, I bought a ton of Sector Mechanicus terrain over the years, and now I gotta use it for something. Which means painting it. Which is, and I admit that, kind of a pain. I do love the insane attention to detail on these things, but trying to do all that detail justice is an exercise in both futility and insanity, you just can't. You have to stick to what the great Duncan said: Pick one or two colors, use them to pick out a few details here and there, the overall effect is much more important than every individual cable.
So that's what I've been doing, picking out little tubes and pipes and dials and all that. A summer well spent.
I should know better by now. I shouldn't announce that I'm gonna do a thing. When I say I do a thing, a thing happens and I don't do the thing. I swear the goddess of inconvenience reads my comp thread.
Spent all of August puttering about without much to show, finally got around to sitting down at the hobby table again Sunday night (I currently have Mondays off, so it's perfect) I scored and cut the base plate, painted it black and...the lights went out in the whole apartment.
Spent an hour isolating the problem first to the kitchen, then to the dishwasher, which has a faulty door seal, which made it leak, which made it throw a breaker every time it went into washing mode, but NOT while operating the pump, which it always does for about 10 minutes before it starts, which meant it took a while to find out it was the dishwasher, time it used to drip-flood most of the space under the kitchen counters. So I spent most of the evening on the kitchen floor, mopping up dust sludge.
After that was solved, I went back to the hobby room and, of course, the MDF had warped into a lovely U-shape, creating a sort of terrain halfpipe. Not wanting to build a skate park, I piled a ton of RPG books on it, and now we wait.
What do you do when your MDF warps? Subject it to the weight of years of accumulated RPG knowledge.
What's that? What else I was doing in August? Err, well, I finally dug out my Votann army box I got a while ago and somehow managed to break two years worth of painter's block. I kinda had "play 40k again" on my list for this year, and I might yet manage to fulfill that resolution.
Started with the Sagitaur, no pics of that, but here's the pilot:
I did hear people moan succinctly note that the Votann don't much match the Squats of yore, but having nothing but hazy memories of pictures in magazines of those, I am free to enjoy the new kind of space dwarf, and I really do like them, so maybe expect more of them eventually.
Oof, not going to lie gents, it's not going so well right now, hobby-wise. I feel I have a ton of unfinished things going nowhere. But enough moping, every now and then I do get something done, just like now:
Still got a few Squat things to build and paint, and I'm slowly but steadily (and very fittingly) plodding through that. It would be faster going if I didn't constantly get sidetracked by conversion ideas.
I went and took the inexplicable heavy flamer bit from the Ironhead weapon sprue, which is a bad and dumb weapon in the N17 rules, and made this:
Proper dwarven dakka, I daresay. Question now, does it look alright as is or does the visible pipe look too small to be a heavy bolter barrel and should I cover that gap up? Because I'm still smoothing things out and covering gaps, but here's a mockup of what that will look like when it's done:
On another note, I'm also building the Exokyn and wanted to prime the head and paint it before glueing the guy up, and I heard good things about Vallejo primer, specifically using the airbrush stuff to paint it on. Well, it came out like this:
Second question: Err...is that right? It kind of behaved like an ink, even after I gave it several minutes of good shaking. Am I doing something wrong, or were the stories of using the airbrush primer with a brush simply wrong?
Finally, I also converted a claim jumper, because the GW mini isn't that special to warrant it's quite steep price:
Remember that rhino I posted a while ago? Yeah, I finished that now after being stuck on painting a rocket launcher tube for several weeks for reasons I cannot quite fathom. This unstuck the whole build and I plowed through it in two days:
What's next? Good question, probably a trip to the lair of the magus medicae, because I appear to have developed a pinched nerve in my right elbow from all the writing on chalkboard I've been doing for the last couple of years, which so far manifested in random episodes of very light pain I usually placated via rest and some stretching, but as of today I can barely hold a mouse, let a lone a paintbrush.
I always knew the flesh would fail me, and now I too long for the purity of the machine.
Those little things are annoying, and eventually can become quite painful! I developed a tennis elbow (don't know if that's the term in English as well...) within the first couple of months of excavation work. Really sucks, and I still have to think about how I work, so it doesn't flare up again.
The tank looks ace, though!
Do you still use actual chalkboards? I think it's all whiteboards here.
I've been struggling with heel pain, likely plantar fasciitis. Particularly annoying since I don't have my own transport (not even a bike, let alone a car) so mostly walk places.
Half my classes have extremely fancy digital chalkboards, the other half still uses the same black-green slate monstrosities that I spent my teenage years staring at. We do have modern projectors in every class, so I do a lot of stuff on the laptop, but I like drawing on the blackboard to illustrate what I'm saying to varying degrees of success.
And that is a pain, my problem very likely stems from fasciitis of one form or another as well. The mechanicum has it right after all, replace it all with chrome...
Second question: Err...is that right? It kind of behaved like an ink, even after I gave it several minutes of good shaking. Am I doing something wrong, or were the stories of using the airbrush primer with a brush simply wrong?
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