Quarter 2 Week 10 Update: This Website is Currently Under Construction

Hello there fellow accountability, productivity and warhammer mini painting enjoyers. Welcome back to week 10 of Quarter 2(2024/2024) of Hammer the Backlog. No new finished models to show you this week, but that’s not as bad a thing as it seems. Join me for a look at this week’s scorecard, a look at the work in progress and some behind the scenes looks at how I’m taking my retro photographs.

SCORECARD

Well, the obvious thing this week is that we have a big, red zero in the models finished column. That is not to say that I slacked off this week, I very much didnt, but the lamassu is definitely a 10 pointer, and I got about half of him done this week. So I did 5 points worth of painting, but just got nothing finished.

If I finish the lamassu next week (week 11), that gives me one week for the sorcerer (week 12) and one week for bits and bobs. It also means I will have a week without painting commitments to get the quarterly review written up and filmed for the Youtube channel. 

So all things considered, the big red zero isn’t as bad as it seems!

THIS WEEK’S WORK IN PROGRESS

This week’s work in progress is the absolutely stunning Lamassu model from Fabelzel. The print turned out very nice indeed, very crisp and detailed and with minimal issues. He wasn’t the easiest model in the world to glue together, with the tolerances between the printed parts being very, very tight. Unavoidable with the nature of the technology I think.

I am going for the classic lamassu scheme of dark black skin with bright, comical red beard and hair. The face and body are painted in my usual black scheme, with a simple extra step near the beginning for smoother transitions on the larger surfaces.

Base	Wraithbone Spray
Basecoat	Black Templar Contrast
First very broad highlight	Dark Reaper
Blended highlight	Thunderhawk Blue
Edge Highlight	Fenrisian Grey
Spot Highlight	Fenrisian Grey / White

For the wing membranes I’m going with the same dark red as I used on my Bull Centaur bodies, to tie the whole thing together. And the beard and hair is going to be the colour I have used on the scale mail for the warriors. Maybe they paint their armour this colour in honour of the Lamassu?

Realistically, he’s actually closer to 70% finished this week than 50%, but let’s not haggle!

TAKING PHOTOS

I’ve had a few questions over the last few weeks about my photography set up. What better week that a week without finished models than to take a look.

My “photography studio” is a very well lit garage with daylight panel lights and clean white walls that make it have very few shadows.

I also have two photography lamps on tripods with 5500k daylight bulbs, which I set up in front of the models and slightly off to each side.

Finally, I have a standing lamp with another 5500k daylight bulb that I use for a top/backlight. This may be a fire hazard.

I have two set ups that I use. For my real “oldschool”  4th edition style photos I have a piece of plasticard that has been pva glued, sanded and painted warboss green, with a drybrush of averland sunset. This is great for reproducing early 90’s box art.

For bigger shots I have a large sheet of flocked paper and some simple scenery. This looks great for army shoots, and for the more “realistic” photographs of the late 90s boxes. It looks like a lovely gaming table, but in reality it is far too small to actually play on.

For both I have a large, matt blue gradient background that appears in most of the photos.

Well, thanks for reading this far!

See you next week for a completed Lamassu!

Good eggs!