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Quarter 1 Week 10 Update: No Need to be so Curt

Hello there! Welcome back to another week of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly miniature painting, productivity and accountability blog. I have only just noticed that it is week 10 of 13, so the end of the quarter is rapidly approaching, which means a lot left to be done and some rather big (in a small way) decisions to be made.

Let’s get started with the scorecard before looking at this week’s models.

SCORECARD

Nearly a clean sweep this week, with everything green except models completed. And even that wasn’t too bad, with two full big green boys painted. I had intended to paint the banner bearer as well this week, but he just keeps dragging me back. Having said that, with four done this week, the weekly average for the quarter is bang on target at 5. 

Look, lads, it’s time to face the music on the meta rock for this quarter. With all of my focus being on painting classic, metal models and the fabulous feedback my Dogs of War and Lizardmen have received on social media, it has been impossible for me to get excited about making a Dark Vengeance, 6th Edition 40k video. I practically haven’t even looked at the Dark Vengeance boxed set since I finished painting them. On reflection during this week’s weekly meeting, getting a Dark Vengeance video made is no longer a rock in the future of the Hammer the Backlog project, so I have decided to do the unprecedented and kill this rock.

This is not something I’ve done lightly, as accountability and productivity are the bywords of this whole project. I didn’t want to just kill the rock and forget about the Youtube channel, so ‘Ive decided to do a Dogs of War Army showcase in its place. I still have the models, books and white dwarf issues that I bought in 1998, so why not use them?

THIS WEEK’S MODELS

This week’s models are two more of the big green slimy kroxigors. The one on the left is Dave, the one on the right is Matthew. I had originally intended to paint four of the kroxigor in the darker scheme from last week and one, the one who would go with the skinks, in a lighter scheme. But then I took out all of my painted lizardmen and put them on my display table and remembered how much I liked the mixed units of dark and light skinned saurus warriors and decided to mix them up a little bit more. Now I can have a single unit of five, or a big unit of four with one in a skink unit, or any combination in between.

Here are Dave and Mathew with the rest of thier band. I haven’t decided what to call them yet.

This is the recipe, for those inclined to copy it!

Green Scales

Wraithbone 

Warp Lightning

Dark Angels Contrast

Warpstone Glow

Moot Green

Moot green/dorn yellow

Green Skin

Wraithbone

Gutrippa Flesh Contrast x2

50;50 Ork Flesh Contrast:Medium

Orruk Flesh glaze

Ogryn camo glaze

Krieg Khaki highlight

A lovely looking bunch of slimy boys, if I do say so myself.

Next week I’ll be making a start on my brand new Slann Mage Priest on Palanquin. I’m pretty sure I’m going to go with a light green, fairly traditional Slann colour scheme for the mage priest himself, but I still have to decide on what colour scheme to use for the Temple Guard.

FROM THE ASHES

So, by far my most battered and neglected model from my childhood army was this banner bearer. This weekend I finally got my act together and drilled out his broken banner pole and replaced it with a length of 1mm brass rod. The original top was long since lost, so a spare helmet from some empire knights donated this wolf icon. Besiegers? Wolves at the door? I think it works.

WHAT’S LEFT?

With only 3 canonical weeks left in quarter 1 of year three, I have a slann mage priest on palanquin (and therefore 4 temple guards), Lorenzo and the banner bearer to paint.

I also have a Dogs of War army showcase to film, and the quarterly review video to film, edit and upload. It’s going to be a busy couple of months!

Thanks for reading this far, see you next week for a fat frog!

Best eggs!

Lee Handsome

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3 responses to “Quarter 1 Week 10 Update: No Need to be so Curt”

  1. mg Avatar
    mg

    I think it’s fair to kill the 40k BatRep rock if you’re not feeling it – 40k 6/7th edition was a pretty turgid game to play anyway. In future, you can re-visit the idea if you change your mind about filming a game with them, but perhaps play them as 2nd edition forces instead?

    In the meantime, the Lizardmen are looking brilliant – well done! A good team effort from all the Micks, to be sure. 😉

    My only (small, and highly subjective) comment is on the basing… That coarse uniformly-sized ballast looks really odd to me, and doubly so on the green bases. I think if you were to mix it with at least two different and finer grades of grit/sand, and used it as a mix on the bases, they would look immeasurably better and much more natural. As I said though, that’s just my opinion; but I share it here in case it helps you at all for your next bases.

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      Lee Handsome

      Thanks for all of the feedback! I don’t disagree about the bases, especially on these bigger flat bases with mostly green models. When I bought these models in the 90s it was all about flock, so I was trying to replicate the flocked look. My 4th edition models actually use a nicer, finer sand, take a look at some of those to see that I haven’t gone mad!

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        mg

        Ah, the basing grit is an emulation of flock? I see! That makes much more sense now, but I confess they don’t really read that way when you first see them.

        I think if you’re going to paint the basing material, then finer sand/grit (to look like the WD basing of the era) will look nicer. Anyway, as I said before, just a personal opinion, and not something to get hung up on. 🙂

        Looking forward to seeing your next block of fantasy troops.

        By the way, I got the sense that you really like these old 90’s models, perhaps almost more in some ways than the modern plastic incarnations. A drastic suggestion here, but… Have you considered selling off or trading away some of the newer sets in exchange for more of the older 2E/3E 40k or 4E-6E Fantasy? I feel like attuning the collecton to the things you *really* like would help further with hammering the backlog. I understand that everything was just the coolest stuff ever when you bought it, and that sometimes you rekindle that when going back to the models – I’m very much the same. However, I think the truth is that whan I look back over *all* the stuff I own, it turns out that I do have a favourite GW era that never fails to get me excited, and it’s the 90’s stuff.

        It seems for me that it’s not all just nostalgia for 90s models either – I have limited time as an adult, so I prefer having fewer parts, less cluttered models, the ability to easily strip if things go awry, and I don’t really mind pinning since I do this with all models anyway. Modern stuff is amazing, but it takes a long time to assmble and paint, and is often rather delicate in the end, and so much less forgiving all round really.

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