Quarter 2 Week 9 Update: Who’s in Charge Around Here?

Hello fellow Warhammer mini painting, accountability and productivity nerds! Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly Warhammer mini painting, accountability and productivity blog in which I, Mick, try to paint all of my 25 years of accumulated tabletop wargaming minis before robots from the future come back in time to assassinate me. As we come to the crescendo of another six months of fantasy model painting, I only had one model to paint this week, but he was an incredible character model who was deserving of quite a bit of attention.

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Another green week this week. I’m like a bloomin’ Swamp Thing up in here! With only one (admittedly quite detailed) model to paint, there was really rather little risk of going off track. This made it a nice respite from the last few weeks of down to the wire painting! 

It wasn’t a week entirely without hiccups. I left the printing and pre of the banners rather later than I should have and there was some missed prep work on the Lord model that will never not bother me, but all in all, a pretty successful and stress free week!

THIS WEEK’S MODEL

Another fabulous Fabelzel model this week, this time a lord! This model has a bit of a backstory. The sculptor, Fabelzel, has a contest on his discord for his patreons to design the next character model. The winner was a user by the name of Herzuull, who designed a cool looking lord whose body was slowly turning into rock, or magma.

A little while later the sculptor did a ‘young’ version of him, without the magma hand and with a cool sword and shield. This is the version I decided to paint for my army, although I did 3D print both versions before I made the decision. 

He is such a cool, characterful model who fits in beautifully with the rest, while clearly being the leader.

I used the standard Chaos Dwarf lord back banners from the army book, which I printed out, gave two coats of ‘ardcoat and one of stormshield, then soaked them in PVA and applied them. Since I left it so last minute to do this, they are still a little wet in the photos!

There were lessons learned this week. Since this model was entirely new to me, I managed to miss two of the supports from the 3D print when I was cleaning him up and curing him. I didn’t actually notice them until well into the painting process. I think I’ve managed to hide them well enough as a pouch and as part of the decorative elements of his armour, but I will always know they are there! I suppose this is the 3d printing equivalent of painting a mould tag or missing mould lines!

All together they are looking pretty spiffy! A bunch of angry little boys dragged out into the sun where they don’t want to be! Just like me!

Thanks for reading this far.

See you next week for either a half painted or full painted Lamassu!