Hello and welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the painting, productivity and accountability blog. You join me at about the 25% mark of the last quarter of year 3, with one last big project (the genestealer cults side of Deathwatch Overkill) well and truly underway, and the enormous potential of year four just enticingly over the horizon.
Let’s take a look at the scorecard, this week’s models and then any other business.
SCORECARD
This week’s scorecard is as tinged with green as a genestealer cultists blood is tinged with heretical xenos taint. That is to say, totally green.
The genestealer hybrids continue to surprise me by being both fun to paint and considerably less of a butt pain than I was expecting. I think it might be because, xenos taint aside, they are surprisingly uniform. So I’m not having to come up with new paint schemes or colour placements for each model. I think the apprehension I felt approaching these models came from the chaos cultists for Dark Heresy last year. Those models were a lot more individualistic, needing a lot more thinking time per model, and looking less cohesive as a group.
Not much else to report on this week, five more models done!
In all the excitement of getting these models done, I still haven’t managed to get the recipes written down. They are not exactly rocket science, so I will get them done before next week!
THIS WEEK’S MODELS
So, the last four 3rd generation hybrids and the first 2nd generation hybrid done. You can see the difference in generation by the completely different skintone, being much more purple like a purestrain genestealer, as well as the slight suspicious addition of an additional arm.
The earlier generation hybrids also have a little more visible chitin around the arms and legs, so I put a little bit more effort into getting a nice scheme for them with Kantor Blue, Alaitoc Blue and a final highlight of Hoeth Blue.
I’m hoping this scheme will carry over nicely to the purestrain genestealers in a few weeks, as well as the broodlord.
I was planning to paint the more genestealery parts with a paint scheme by Duncan Rhodes on the official GW Youtube channel, but it seems like they took it down on the very day I went looking for it! Classic!
In the end it was the classic trio of warpfiend, deamonette and slaneesh grey, with magos purple wash that did it. I used a little bit of pallid wych flesh to just add a tiny hint of humanity back into this model, but that will be gone from the purestrain genestealers.
RIP FAT BLOKE
I was very sad to hear of the passing of Paul “Fat Bloke” Sawyer (not a nickname you could get away with in modern GW!) this week. Fat Bloke was the editor for the first few years of my White Dwarf collecting, starting with the Black Gobbo issue 229.
He was the editor when white dwarf felt a little less like a catalogue, although it still obviously was one to my adult eye, and more like a madcap gaming journal with actual personalities.
SOCIAL MEDIA AND YEAR 4
So, to no one’s surprise, social media growth has started to slow down during the genestrealer cults project. Hardly a shock for 8 year old models, not new and exciting and not old enough to be retro or even nostalgic yet. For me, these are still new models!
That has got me thinking with great excitement about year four. I already have between 3 and 5 potential projects in mind for next year. I can’t wait for June, getting to put them all on trays and have a new, fresh start for the year.
The only problem is, a lot of them are buried deep in the pile of shame in a state of terrible disrepair, or worse again, still on sprues. I’m going to need some time to get them build even enough to include them in the end of year video. Such fun!
Thanks for reading all of that, see you again next week I hope for the next 5 hybrid acolytes.
Best of eggs.
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