Week nine already? Those weeks are really flying by! Welcome back to the home stretch of quarter 3 of year 3 of Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. Despite the fact that the end of the quarter has snuck up on me, you join me this week deep into a long stretch of fully green scorecards, with not a missed weekly metric in nearly nearly two months. Will we be able to keep it up this week? Only one way to find out!
SCORECARD
All in the green again!
In fact, take a look at this!
I suppose that this is an indication that I have really hit a stride this quarter, with a really strong balance of motivation, achievability and consistency. From the start this quarter was a slightly weird one, with 11 “mini” characters to paint (the deathwatch marines) and 20 fantasy models. Maybe the variety and the relatively low model count is the key to success? That bodes well for next quarter, right?
Once again, I powered through the fantasy models first this week, getting both company of honour halberdiers finished before Sunday bedtime, and then spent the rest of the week painting the space marine. Unlike the raven guard last week, this week’s blood angel had waaaay too many additional details to be able to take a night off, so I spent an hour or two an evening on him.
Only 3 full weeks left to go in this quarter, with 3 space marine heroes and 6 halberdiers left to paint. We are deep into the busiest marines now, with only the Salamander terminator, Blood Ravens librarian and Casius himself left to paint. It’s much of a muchness which one I will do next week, they all have lots of little gribbles and grobbles to paint, so I don’t think there is an “easy” one.
For the halberdiers, we are into the weeds of getting the command group done, and freehanding a fairly complex image on the banner is looming over me. I think I might paint up the banner bearer and captain next week, but leave the banner bare, and then do the image in a less busy week. Mad? Or reasonable?
THIS WEEk’S MODELS
So two more Altdorf halberdiers were first up on the menu this week. They were painted exactly the same way as last week’s models. I really enjoy painting these, but I think the model choices let down the colour scheme a little. With the halberds held across their bodies the way they are and the mismatch between the heads, arms and legs, they don’t quite come together for me.
Like me, however, they do look great from behind. With less stuff in the way you can actually appreciate how nice the colour scheme is.
Ever since I started working on these, it has been my lifelong ambition to paint up some classic monopose empire halberdiers in the same scheme. I think the open, static poses will show off the scheme a lot better. Luckily, I don’t have any!
One thing you can say about old mate Antor Delassion here is that he is much more of a Blood Angel than a Deathwatch marine. I might be wrong. I probably am. But I thought in the old lore that when marines joined the deathwatch they put aside everything identifiable from their previous chapter except the right shoulder pad. Then they keep the deathwatch left shoulder pad when they return to their chapter?
Antor here is absolutely festooned with Blood Angels stuff. He has as much Blood-angeldry on him as one of the old Sanguinary Guard models. I’m only semi complaining. He was basically exactly like painting a first born Blood Angel, just black. So Death Company, then? Well yes, I suppose.
Add in the bare head and the bleach blond locks, and he was a very different challenge from the Raven Guard last week!
Well lookit, that’s pretty much all I have this week. I know that these smooth weeks tend to make the blog a little less interesting, but they also make my life much more straightforward!
And hey, if you are here for the drama, it’s only three more weeks until I have to paint an entire Genestealer Cults army in 12 weeks!
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