Hello and welcome back to the final week of quarter one of year 3 (!) of Hammer the Backlog. A bittersweet week this week, with all of our panting targets for the quarter hit and a couple of great armies completed, but at the same time a rock killed this quarter, the stress of learning how to make a new video type taking its toll and a project I would love to have finished languishing half completed!
Read on, gentle reader, for the final update of quarter 1.
SCORECARD
Well, would you look at that! A little bit of red in the ledger this week, as with the Besiegers banner bearer finally painted (thanks mostly to Emiel from Thanquol’s Lair swooping in and sending me a shield with one week to go!), only one complete model done.
However! With the model done, my childhood Dog’s of War army is now 100% complete! All nine box sets and the mounted general blister pack finished! This has been a labour of love over the last two and a half years, and it feels deeply (DEEPLY) satisfying. It was so satisfying in fact, that it convinced me to make a “Completing my childhood dream army” video, which I now deeply regret!
WE ALL HAVE REGRETS
Making the video, which included a bit of history, a bit of a model showcase and some painting, was a huge learning curve in a week. I will be completely honest here and say that it is only about half finished as I am writing this, but since I am writing this on Wednesday this week rather than Thursday, there should be plenty of time to get it finished. You will know more than me, by checking to see if it is linked below.
Give it a watch there, sure why not? It might be a bit of an abomination, but sure look, what’s the worst that can happen?
THIS WEEK’S MODEL
This week’s model is, finally, the last model from my most beaten up Dogs of War unit, the banner bearer from Brazanga’s Besiegers. This poor guy lost his shield and his banner over the attic years.
To replace the pole I drilled and clipped out what was left of the original banner pole and replaced it with a length of 1mm brass wire. In retrospect, this is probably slightly too narrow, 1.5 mm might have been closer to the original.
The original banner top was a tower, long since lost too. I replaced that with a wolf’s head from a spare Empire Knight Model. Wolves at the gate indeed!
And finally the shield. After weeks of frustration, Emiel appeared with one in his hand and said “Are you looking for THIS?” It arrived on Monday evening and got a bit of a speed paint, to be honest, to be done in time for the end of quarter.
With him done, the Dogs of War (or at least the childhood ones) are fully done.
The disappointment of this week was that with all of the time I spend on the video planning and shooting this week, I didn’t have time to finish the other model that Emiel very generously sent me. Although, he does look pretty damned dapper in pure white with just his metals painted!
QUARTER ONE REVIEW
It was a mixed bag of classic metal models for quarter one of year 3, all presented here in one place for your delectation.
Well, that’s it from me for another week and another quarter. Please do join me next week for the quarter two planning, and the decision on next quarter’s targets. Will it be High Elves, Space Marines or Genestealer Cults?
See you then, best eggs!
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