Quarter 2 Week 8 Update: I’m a Matador

Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer miniature painting, accountability and productivity blog in which I hope to paint all of my 25 years of accumulated unpainted tabletop wargaming miniatures before environmental destruction renders the earth uninhabitable. This week was an interesting week, with two very fun models to paint, but very busty work and personal scheduling making it a very tight run thing. In fact, I have started writing this on Tuesday evening, safe in the knowledge that it’s going to be a tight one on Thursday night! You might be seeing this at midnight!

SCORECARD

Look gang, listen. This might be a lie! As always on super busy weeks, I’m actually writing this before I have 100% finished the models. However, I do know for a fact that they are currently painted just about enough that I could call them done if you pointed a gun at my head and made me decide. What I mean by that is that there is no undercoat left showing! Just the bases and faces left to finish to call them actually done. Should be plenty of time.

Everything else looks nicely on track again this week! It’s good to have a nice solid run of green weeks!

THIS WEEK’S MODELS

This week’s models are my last two Bull Centaurs *cough* for the time being *cough*. One of them was another repeat of my current favourite model, Fabelzel’s first Bull Centaur, and the other is one of his newer efforts, the model I call Angry Evil Bull Santa. All of these models go through a brief Santa Claus phase when I am painting them in this scheme, and I love it every time.

The big question on my mind this week was uniformity vs chaos. In the classic Chaos Dwarf army book there was a much bigger variety of application of colours in this army. My army is these colours:

Bright Red

Dark Red

Blue Black

Blue

Gold

Silver

Dwarf Flesh

That’s it. That’s the whole list. The classic Chaos Dwarfs had a few more colours, in particular a smattering of yellows, greens, neutral blacks and warm creams.

I couldn’t decide if I wanted to stick completely to my scheme, or if I wanted to add in some of these other colours, so I asked the hive mind (aka Instagram).

Sticking with blue absolutely smashed the other colours out of the park. Poor old yellow only got a handful of votes. And one absolute madlad wrote in Purple! What a world! So, far be it from me to go against the hive mind, blue it shall remain.

Look, I’m going to say something here. These models make me look like a much better painter than I am. The process for painting them is so simple. Undercoat a light colour. Lash a shitload of contrast paint on. Two or three layers of highlights where the contrast shows you to paint. It’s like colouring by numbers. If the resin itself was just a bit more sturdy and pliable, these would be the most beginner friendly models in existence. Kudos to Fabelzel for his sculpting, which is deep and distinct and characterful, without going over the line into caricature. Great stuff all together.

With these two done, the unit of 5 cavalry for my imaginary start box is done! Very few models left to go in this quarter now, despite the fact that there are 5 weeks left. I think I’m going to spend next week focussing entirely on the leader of this force, my Chaos Dwarf Lord on foot, then the last few weeks giving the Lamassu and Sorcerer the attention they deserve.

Well look, that’s pretty much it for this week. I have to shoot off now and actually get these buggers finished so that any of the above actually makes sense! Thanks for reading this far, see you next week for our first Chaos Dwarf Character model.

Best eggs!