Quarter 1 Week 3 Update: Paint Everything Green!

The road, as they say, goes ever on and on. Welcome back, fellow hobbits, to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer miniature painting, accountability and productivity blog that uses an entrepreneurial operating system to make me sit down and paint every week, by hook or by crook.

A very busy real life week made me very happy to have just five little hobbits to paint, all in very familiar colour schemes. 

Let’s start this week as ever with a look at our beloved scorecard, one of the beating hearts of the Hammer the Backlog project.

SCORECARD

Another week in the green, just like the halflings themselves. Nothing particularly startling or surprising to report this week to be honest. A good start on Friday meant that I had pretty much all of the clean-up work, the basing, undercoating and half of the main colours blocked in by Friday evening. A stark contrast to last week. 

In fact, I was on such a roll that I even got a lot of next week’s models prepped in the drying time for these five. I will be able to get rolling on next week’s models pretty much the moment I press upload on this week’s blog, hopefully leading to another uneventful and productive week. This new garage set up, where I can do everything except wash models, is really helping with productivity so far.

I do still need to get the paint pots sorted. I have ordered a nice looking set with space for 264 citadel paint pots, but I am still waiting for it in the post. I fully intend to build it with wood glue, spray it white and mount it on the wall behind my paint station. In fact, that’s probably the thing I’m most excited about doing over the next few weeks.

No further progress on the battle report rock this week. I now have all of the models I could possibly need, it is just a matter of cornering Jim into learning how to actually play 5th with me!

THIS WEEK’S MODELS

The remaining 5 members of Lumpin Croop’s Fighting Cocks joined the completed Dogs of War army this week. I suppose, technically, if I were to include Asarnil the Dragonlord, who I painted 2 years ago before I started Hammer the Backlog, they are now technically the second fully completed unit of Dogs of War. I am disinclined to completely rebase Asarnil (again) to match this current basing scheme, but I might just repaint his base rim at least to match the rest of the soon to be army.

Again, these are great fun little models. The greens and the skin tones on the big, wide, colourful faces were a particular favourite to paint up. I went for an off white undercoat on the faces, with a base of Guilleman Flesh or Fyreslayer Flesh. I glazed this back with Cadian Fleshtone, before highlighting it with Kislev Flesh. I then applied a very thin glaze of Screamer Pink around the cheeks, nose and lips and a wash of Darkoath Flesh into the deepest recesses. I also washed the lowest parts of the face with a mix of a green/blue colour and Naggaroth nightshade. Finally I highlighted the whole thing back up with Pallid Wych Flesh.

It might be a bit of racial stereotyping, but there is not one of these agrarian little buggers that doesn’t remind me of an uncle or cousin of mine.

Will I tell you what models I’m going to do next week now? Or leave it a surprise? Let’s leave it as a surprise.

NEW TO-DOS

As the blog grows into year 2, and as the Youtube channel subscriber count climbs ever so gradually upwards, I think it is time to take a look at the rather basic website homepage. Over the next two weeks I hope to add some reach facility, and maybe something of a gallery layout to the homepage.

Well, thank you very much as always for reading this whole thing, and see you next week for what is hopefully a good start on the next Dogs of War unit.