Hello and welcome back to the almost halfway point of quarter 2 of year 2 of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. And what better way to celebrate the almost halfway point of a quarter than by painting the almost halfway creature, the Bull Centaur. But look, we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Before we take a look at this week’s models, let’s start with the weekly scorecard.
SCORECARD
It’s another green week this week, with no hold ups worth mentioning. It was a lovely relaxing week of painting this week, with only three models, each in the same scheme but otherwise nicely different from each other.I also had a bank holiday and an annual leave day off work this week, which made hitting this week’s targets feel almost (but not entirely) trivial. The main thing is not to let this confidence get to my head and keep up the momentum for next week, but I have now finished all of the “rank and file” for the quarter, with only lords, heroes and cool monsters left to paint!
THIS WEEK’S MODELS
This week’s models are done and dusted. Well, not dusted. They are brand new, the dust hasn’t settled on them yet. For this week we had, as a starter, the final blunderbuss warrior. He was painted exactly the same way as the rest of his unit mates, with a dark red surround on the blunderbuss for a little bit of variety.
As an amuse bouche, I painted up this fantastic angry little Chaos Dwarf warrior with a hammer and shield to be the unit champ for my blunderbusses. Fabelzel, just like GW back in the day, doesn’t seem to have been too interested in making a warrior command group and a blunderbuss command group.
Since they are the same type of creatures with the same type of armour, you can use them pretty interchangeably. If he ever decides to go back and make a second standard bearer and maybe a horn blower I will paint them up and add them to this unit. This guy is such a cool, fun little model. He was the very first model I successfully 3D printed, so it’s great to get him painted up.
The main course for the week was my Bull Centaur. As the first of a unit of 5, he was the test for getting their colour scheme figured out. Of course, this was not my first time painting this model. Regular readers will remember that this model was my first ever 3D printed model, which I bought from an online printer over a year ago. In fact, he was my favourite single model of last year overall.
Sadly, one thing I noticed about the original version was that he was a little too small. I think the printer offers old style and new style options and I went for the old style. The other thing I noticed was that people (and cats) kept dropping him and he was irreparably damaged.
It was a fun challenge to go back over a previously painted Hammer the Backlog model and try to meet or beat the standard of a year ago.
The biggest change was that I decided to go for a deeper, richer red this time for the bull body, as opposed to the slightly pinkish red of the first attempt. For my own record as much as anything, here is the recipe I used.
| Undercoat | Mechanicus Standard Grey |
| Base | Flesh Tearers Red Contrast |
| Heavy Glaze | Khorne Red |
| Heavy Glaze over less area | Mephiston Red |
| Highlight | Wazzdakka Red |
| Edge Highlight | Wild Rider Red |
I think both versions have their merits, but I am going to stick to this new darker version for the rest of the unit, and for the inevitable Great Taurus I do when Fabelzel releases it!
SOCIAL MEDIA
It has been a very good week on social media this week. The Chaos Dwarfs are very popular on instagram, easily the most popular thing I’ve painted since the Bretonnains in quarter 1 of year 1. Many of the photos are getting upwards of 800 likes and this will probably only increase as they become a recognisable army. Instagram growth is also on the up again, with probably 3300 follows by the end of this week.
Meanwhile, over on Youtube, my 5th edition boxed set video has well over 6,000 views and growing! Will this be the most popular video I ever put on Youtube? At this stage it is safe to say: probably!
Thanks for reading this far, see you next week for 2 more brand new bull centaurs!
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