Stop! Hammer (the Backlog) time! Don’t worry, you don’t have the unforgiven chasing you down across the length and breadth of the known galaxy just for reading Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, accountability and productivity blog. No, you have them chasing you down because of that other thing you did. You know the thing.
Anyway, unlike the first legion of the Adeptus Astartes, we don’t have all day to stand around being vague and slightly threatening. We have a weekly scorecard, rock updates and painted models to look at!
SCORECARD
A scorecard as green as a Dark Angel’s armour (completely green). A decent week of painting time this week, as well as a well worn grove of two feudal lads and a space marine lead to pretty predictable outcomes, just like I like it.
We are now at 4 out of 11 Space Marines painted, and 8 out of 10 of the Bretonnian Men-at-arms. The slight issue is that I have been doing the less complicated space marines first, leaving either bigger (terminator or biker) more complicated (the two models with jump packs and the heavy cannon) and more detailed (librarian and chaplain) models left to do. This was kinda on purpose, as now that I am in a grove the learnings and schemes I’m working with are cutting down on thinking time, leaving more time to paint black armour.
A little wrinkle! I forgot to paint the servo skull when I did the Iron hand marine a few weeks ago, I didn’t realise it was part of his kit, although I clearly should have. And I also have to remember to paint the teleport homer when I paint the terminator in a few weeks!
THIS WEEK’S MODELS
As I said, we are really in the grove with getting the lovely feudal boys from Merlin’s Miniatures painted now. I originally intended to do either the banner bearer or the drummer this week, but in the end the call of the last two remaining normal derps was too strong.
Nothing really to report on these lads, they are both duplicates of models already in the pack, with slightly different arrangements of blue and white on their clothing, but otherwise identical. I think these might be slightly, ever so slightly, more recent shields, but when they are all painted up it’s impossible to tell. One regret I have is that none of my batch have the slightly more ornamental shield that pinches in a little before flaring out at the top. You know the one I mean!
Look at them in their little gang! You just know the guys on foot are grumbling about the ponce on the horse.
Sci Fi was brought to you this week by Zameon Gydreal of the Dark Angels.
He was a funny one to paint, with his distinctive pale cloth and burgundy robes covering most of the black armour, and therefore making him feel much more like I was painting a normal dark angel. Or maybe a heresy era Dark Angel?
I went for what I felt was a more “painterly” face on this guy than other models, aiming to create the same impression as the card art, rather than painting every detail like I usually would. I used greens, greys, purples and blues to shade the “shadowed” part of his face, and only focussed the highlights on the nose and chin. Pretty spiffy I think, and saved me from actually painting in his tiny eyes, hooded under the cowl.
I painted a full force of Dark Angels from roughly the same era just a few months ago, and was lucky that most of the colour schemes and techniques were still there in my ancestral memory, just waiting to come out.
The deathwatch overkill models really are a major step up from the Dark Vengeance models though, both in terms or details and posing.
Well lookit gang, we’ve got a red weather warning in Ireland tomorrow, which means no commute, which means much painting time tomorrow! I might just be able to make decent inroads into next weeks models!
See you next week for the last two Bretonnians and the heavy weapon space marine!
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