Hello there! Thank you very much for coming back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly table top mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. In fact, welcome to the most normal week of Hammer the Backlog we’ve had in ages! No deadlines looming, no big video projects, no Christmas break or flu! Just a normal week of normal painting of normal Warhammer models to my normal standard! I know it probably feels like a big rug pull is coming and I am going to reveal that something crazy actually happened this week, but there isn’t! Everything was just normal!
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A totally normal week of everything in the green! There’s really very little to say this week. I’ve fully recovered from the flu and my painting time wasn’t interrupted or divided across multiple projects. Once again I had pretty much finished the Bretonnian men at arms by Saturday evening, leaving Sunday to get the base coats on the space marine and then the rest of the week to get his details and highlights painted.
At the time of writing this I still have a little bit of tidying up to do on the ultramarine, but I have no doubt I will get him done on time, and I might even have a little time on Thursday evening to get some undercoats and basing done on next week’s models!
I’m really enjoying the variety of having two projects on the go at the same time, and I even think they look great on the painting table together!
THIS WEEK’S MODELS
Another mixed week of fabulous fun models this week.
First of all, the next two of my mid-nineties metal Bretonnian derps sent to me very kindly by Merlin’s Miniatures. I painted them in exactly the same overall scheme as last week, although I went for solid blue rather than halved blue and white on the clothing. I’ll be painting them all with slightly, but only slightly, mismatched clothing. I like the idea of them being at the start of the historical concept of a uniform.
Obviously the shields will all match though, even if they are all slightly different shapes and sizes. I accidentally gave one of them a real traumatised thousand yard stare look. I could have fixed it pretty easily, but I think it suits him.
I love these models, but they really start to look the part as more models are added to the unit, and even more again when they are placed with their knightly lord. Ten of them together are going to look fantastic.
Don’t these 90s, almost true scale normal men make 2010 Space Marines look suitably large and intimidating?
The sci-fi project of the week was Deathwatch Ultramarine sharpshooter Vael Donatus.
I am much happier with his edge highlights than I was with The Iron Hand last week. I think the issue was I was working from a pure black undercoat this time, as opposed to a black templar basecoat, which is really just a very dark blue. So that made the fenrisian grey look less stark when I used it on, for example, my black legion.
Anyway, he was pretty fun to paint, much more fun than Iron Warrior last week. I feel like I’ve found a bit of a rhythm this week.
I’m looking forward to getting on with the rest of this project now! Two more men-at-arms next week, and I might just treat myself to a Space Wolf from Deathwatch Overkill!
Well, as I said, not much to report on this week other than painted models! So thanks for reading this, see you next week!
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