Well, well, well, it appears that you have come back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly warhammer mini painting, productivity and accountability blog that is all about my effort to you small business target setting and accountability processes to clear my 25 year backlog of unpainted tabletop miniatures.
It has been a relatively quiet week at Hammer the Backlog central this week, focussed mainly on painting and catching up on scenery making. Let’s start the week, as with any other, with a quick look at the weekly scorecard.
SCORECARD
Another week in the green, with all five models painted, social media commitments met and progress on both of the core rocks for the quarter. Although on paper the battle report rock is still lagging behind, I am now in a position to take all of the scenery and models into the studio on Saturday and get both videos filmed. This will take a huge chunk out of the lagging targets for the quarter and bring us mostly back on track.
THIS WEEK’S MODELS
For sir’s and madam’s delectation this week, may I present five more of Leopold’s Leopard Company. These were painted exactly the same way as last week’s models, using my normal dark metal for the armour, my normal gold for the embellishments, my normal light wood colour for the pikes etc.
The most fun and interesting part of painting these guys is obviously the leopard heads. I think I have hit the nail on the head with the light yellow colours, especially with the dark orange/brown shadows. These have been a lot easier to do with access to Iyanden Yellow and Nazdreg Yellow contrasts.
I’ve added another brown to this week’s models, so I now have a darker greyish brown and a lighter red brown for a bit of variation.
The trickiest thing about this week is the models holding their pikes forward. They have some pretty muddy areas of detail on them between their bodies and the pikes due to being cast as single parts. When I was painting the Lost Legion a few weeks ago, they didn’t have this ‘deadzone’. I tried a little bit to scoop some of the ‘dead’ material out with hobby drills and knives, but in the end I think I made the one I did it with look a little bit worse rather than better, so I defaulted to the old fashioned method of painting anything unidentifiable as shadows.
Next week’s models are the last four of the Leopard Company. I’m quite excited about painting them as they are the only models of this set that have full leopard pelts as cloaks. It should be fun painting as realistic a leopard pattern as possible on such a small canvas!
OBSESSED WITH PAPERCRAFT
The other thing that I have been working on this week is scenery. At the time of writing I have four of the six bases of woods painted up, with two to go.
But my real obsession this week was with card or paper stock buildings. The 5th edition box set obviously came with a house, tower and shed, which I have two sets of, one attached to bases and the other freestanding.
I also managed to get my hands on a decent scan of a cool Empire house and shed from a scan of an old white dwarf, print it out on some nice card and base it up. Here it is in progress. While it looks plenty nice on the battlefield, my brain knows that it is not quite as vibrant, satin or thick as the original.
That’s why my biggest struggle this week was not going on eBay and buying every piece of Warhammer cardstock terrain I could find. Here is a great (and mildly obsessive) video on the topic by one of my favourite new Youtubers 90percentgeek
Building The Old World – A Brief History of Warhammer Terrain
SOCIAL MEDIA
Finally for this week, and after a long slog through the Blackstone Fortress era, the Hammer the Backlog Instagram account reached 3,000 followers!
Thanks for reading this far. See you next week for some real progress on the battle reports and the final four leopard companies.
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