This time last year I was cramming miniatures for the 40k friendly. This time I am not cramming miniatures and looking forward to a restful Christmas break instead.
Continuing a trend that I can't seem to keep myself insulated from, which is, ooh, I might paint some of those miniatures for a game system I either rarely play, or tried once and either didn t like, or didn t like enough to consider replacing 40k.
Which makes sense, because 40k is the game I will always keep coming back to, because it s what I played since I was ten years old, and whose local community I am most incorporated into.
But I digress.
Today I finished up actual infantry in 6mm scale. I haven't done this before, even for 6mm moderns, because most of that time was spent painting and playing with AFVs, and no-one cared that my infantry weren't finished.
I say infantry, but Elementals are to infantry what Terminators are to Imperial Guardsmen. A man-portable lascannon and a hydraulic power claw beats the hell out of a berk with an assault rifle.
When painting these dudes, I challenged myself to undercoat them without having my airbrush clog. Something which I kind of succeeded with, by turning the pressure up, and adding more flow improver. I certainly met with fewer clogs, but still had some, which turned a quick thirty minute job into a two hour slog.
But everything else worked like it said on the tin, and I was met with a very positive result:
This means that my initial outlay for Clan Ghost Bear is complete - meet my ad-hoc Supernova Binary:
I m very happy with these guys, as they're my first major force completed post-baby, and challenging myself to get undercoating and varnishing right paid dividends, which I can then use when I go back to painting green marines.
Which should rock around soon I have one smaller project to complete, followed by some assembly for my lizardmangs, and then it s back to green and black.
Catch you next time,
Vulkan
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