Necromunda The ballad of how I lost my mind and decided to paint a ton of stuff
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So, another year over, a new one just begun. Don't worry, I am not outing myself as a Beatles fan, though I did spend my first day of the new year with something classic.
I wanted to paint something I could get done in a day, to give me a little hobby boost, starting the year off right and all, so I finished a dwarven machinist from the Battle for Skull Pass set that I half-painted right around 2006 when he came out.
This in turn made me get off my cybernetic butt to organize the dwarves I chucked onto a shelf when I moved in, along with my old Dark Elves. After I was done it looked like this:
Very nostalgic, made me revisit a few things and walk down memory lane. After all, my dwarves were my first WHFB army, I started this collection somewhere around 1998, really kicking it off around 2000 with 6th edition and the fact that I was 14 and had enough pocket money to actually afford more than 1 model every couple of months. I created a backstory for my guys, and even painted them a fancy army banner:
I picked out some old favourites and rarities, with the plan to finally paint a few of them, like my Queen Helga, or the Dwarven Lord on Shield conversion I never finished:
I also found this guy, who is the original Hero Quest Dwarf, afaik. I wondered about that, since I never owned HeroQuest, then I remembered I promised to paint this guy for our ongoing D&D campaign more than a year ago. Oops.
Anyway, I looked over my assembled bearded horde and was a bit puzzled, as I was missing some things. This lead to what would surely have been a hilarious montage where I opened more and more boxes, crates, bags and other containers, finding more and more dwarves, which made a lot of shelf management and the eventual evacuation of my Dark Elves to another shelf a necessity. After about an hour of sorting I wound up with his:
And that's the assembled stuff, there's also this box:
At least now I know why I never picked up smoking as a teenager. This is...a lot of dwarves. And for having spent most of the time between 2008 and 2025 in various storage arrangements, it's remarkably complete too.
Maybe...maybe I have a project for this year. Let's see.
I wanted to paint something I could get done in a day, to give me a little hobby boost, starting the year off right and all, so I finished a dwarven machinist from the Battle for Skull Pass set that I half-painted right around 2006 when he came out.
This in turn made me get off my cybernetic butt to organize the dwarves I chucked onto a shelf when I moved in, along with my old Dark Elves. After I was done it looked like this:
Very nostalgic, made me revisit a few things and walk down memory lane. After all, my dwarves were my first WHFB army, I started this collection somewhere around 1998, really kicking it off around 2000 with 6th edition and the fact that I was 14 and had enough pocket money to actually afford more than 1 model every couple of months. I created a backstory for my guys, and even painted them a fancy army banner:
I picked out some old favourites and rarities, with the plan to finally paint a few of them, like my Queen Helga, or the Dwarven Lord on Shield conversion I never finished:
I also found this guy, who is the original Hero Quest Dwarf, afaik. I wondered about that, since I never owned HeroQuest, then I remembered I promised to paint this guy for our ongoing D&D campaign more than a year ago. Oops.
Anyway, I looked over my assembled bearded horde and was a bit puzzled, as I was missing some things. This lead to what would surely have been a hilarious montage where I opened more and more boxes, crates, bags and other containers, finding more and more dwarves, which made a lot of shelf management and the eventual evacuation of my Dark Elves to another shelf a necessity. After about an hour of sorting I wound up with his:
And that's the assembled stuff, there's also this box:
At least now I know why I never picked up smoking as a teenager. This is...a lot of dwarves. And for having spent most of the time between 2008 and 2025 in various storage arrangements, it's remarkably complete too.
Maybe...maybe I have a project for this year. Let's see.
More painting, more dwarf. This time a true classic, Queen Helga herself! I have no idea when I got this model, but I do know her husband has been serving as a generic Thane in my army for several decades.
More Dwarf, this time in space. After a long and admittedly needlessly torturous road (choice paralysis is a female dog) I finished the Sagitaur. Which has allowed me to enter the small exclusive club named "has to deal with clear plastic by GW" along with Eldar players.
Lots of people do the gold visor effect from Nasa spacesuits, that also looks good. But it'd be a shame, the pilot looks so cool.
Last week before semester's end is always a doozy, what with me still nominally being at university and the kids all having their tests. But enough of that, I finished a test model for the first unit from the combat patrol set, and as is tradition, it's the unit champion:
I'm still a bit on the fence with the shoulder decal, it's visible enough, but I'm wondering whether painting a white stripe over it and reapplying the decal would be better as it'd improve readability.
I'm still a bit on the fence with the shoulder decal, it's visible enough, but I'm wondering whether painting a white stripe over it and reapplying the decal would be better as it'd improve readability.
How about a yellow stripe? Red stands out well against it and it ties to the yellow warning triangles, whilst you haven't used white anywhere else.
I think the same hazard stripe yellow would be a bit overpowering, as I only used it as a tiny spot color in two places, but a pale yellow might work.
On the other hand, I'm kind of used to it already, think I'll paint up the other nine squaddies to the point where the decals go on and think again then.
On the other hand, I'm kind of used to it already, think I'll paint up the other nine squaddies to the point where the decals go on and think again then.
Slowly and steadily I paint on. It may have taken all of February (and technically a part of March as I finished the bases this morning) but I finished the first unit for the Combat Patrol:
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I like the not-so-grim colour scheme. The red guns will always remind me of 2nd edition.
It is a bit of a throwback to the Ultramarines I painted when I was 12.
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