Thank you for joining me again at the midway point of quarter 2 of year 2 of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer miniature painting, accountability and productivity blog. You join me this week for, very much, a project in flow. Models are getting painted, to-dos are getting ticked off and everything seems to be, for the moment, on track! Every week at Hammer the Backlog, we take a look at the weekly scorecard, then we move on to the painted models, and finally look at any other areas of the project that have seen movement (or not!).
SCORECARD
So as a reminder for old readers, or as an introduction for the influx of new readers being attracted by the Chaos Dwarfs, each week I use this scorecard to gauge the overall health of the Hammer the Backlog project. The way I look at it is, if I am getting 5 Hammer the Backlog points worth of models painted,6/7 social media posts, no hold ups and the blog done, then the project is going well. If one or two things go red for a single week, it’s usually no big deal. But if something stays in the red, I need to look at the process and figure out why to get back on track. Again, as a reminder, this is how I break down Hammer the Backlog points:
| Infantry figure i.e a man, a goblin, a lady | 1 |
| Cavalry i.e knight on a horse | 3 |
| Monstrous Infantry i.e Orges | 3 |
| Character i.e a general, wizard | 5 |
| Character on Mount | 7 |
| Character on Monster | 15 |
| Warmachine (crew count as infantry) | 2 |
Having said all that, here is this week’s scorecard.
As you can see, all good! I am counting each of the bull centaurs as either cavalry or monstrous infantry. The distinction doesn’t matter, as they are worth 3 HtB points each. That means 6 points of models painted this week! Nice.
THIS WEEK’S MODELS
This week’s models were two of Fabelzel’s brand new Bull Centaurs. While the first Bull Centaur that he did is definitely the model that made me fall in love with this range, these new ones were also super exciting to start working on.
First, the bad side. And this was entirely my own fault. My 3D printing set up had sat idle for nearly 8 months, as there was no 3D printing to be done until the start of this quarter. When this quarter was coming up I had to relearn 3d printing again. And I relearned with the 3 new Bull Centaurs from this batch. 3D printing is far from the most difficult thing to do in this hobby, but there was a bit of a relearning curve, and these models suffered for it.
When I sliced the models, I made the supports too big and too few. At least, I think that’s what the problem was. They meant that some parts of these models are a bit rougher than they should be to do the glorious sculpts justice. They have a couple of large poc marks where the too large supports are pulled away, and a bit of rough detail. Thankfully, almost all of these issues are located on the back or underside of the models.
The biggest victim was the back of the champion model’s hat and scale mail. Luckily, there was nothing that a little bit of sanding and filling, as well as careful paint application, couldn’t fix or hide. In many ways it reminded me of the very rough finecast Green Knight I painted last year, but to a much lesser extent.
I painted these guys in exactly the same way as the first centaur last week. If you’d like some info on the colours used in the process, click back to last week’s post by clicking the link below!
If I had one complaint about Fabelzel’s models, it would be that they are a bit of a nightmare to rank up on small 1994 style bases! Now, this is also true of many of the actual figures from that time period, so it is quite fitting! I had to mess around with these guys for 15 minutes to find a way to line them up that made sense, looked good and actually fit. I took this photo so I won’t forget!
WEBSITE UPDATES
Just a note here to say that I haven’t forgotten about the website update part of this quarter’s meta target! I have something underway which should be very cool, but I can’t spoil it here just yet!
Anyway, thanks for reading this far. I will see you again in 7 days time for the last two Bull Centaurs.
Good eggs!
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