Quarter 1 Week 6 Update: Even in Death

Hello there. Welcome back to week 6 of quarter 1 of year 4 of the Hammer the Backlog project. It’ll be a brief one this week, as I am away on my summer holidays in the south of France. Nice!

SCORECARD

Well, despite being away most of the week, I still managed to get some stuff finished. In fact, I managed to finish off my first 10 point model of the quarter, the space marine dreadnought from Assault on Black Reach. Being 100% open and transparent, he probably was actually a five point project in the end, but since the last two weeks have been bookends either side of a holiday, it worked out nicely.

You’ll, once again I hope, pardon the use of a plain old excel spreadsheet while we work on something more fitting in the background!

THIS WEEK’S MODEL

So this week’s finished model is my first ever Space Marine dreadnought, despite 30 years in the hobby. You’ll remember that last week I basically got all of his base coats down, so work this week was pretty straight forward.

First of all I used mithril silver to highlight all of the metals, but only after using seraphim sepia, mangos purple and leviadon blue to simulate the muzzle burn on the multimelta.

Lenses were picked out in green, using my usual recipe.

And decals were added, a bit fiddly, but nothing really to report, and he was based in the same way as the rest of the army. 

He looks pretty nice mixed in with his friends.

In 1998, this would have been a whole army. 

Paiting him has been great fun, and has really given me a degree of confidence with airbrushing that I didn’t have working on historical and modern models. My only slight negative this week is that I think he is held back from greatness by my refusal to get involved with weathering.

Maybe next time!

OU EST LE CENTRE DE GEORGES POMPIDOU

The reason that this week’s blog is a little shorter than usual is that I’ve been having a great time trying to stay out of direct sunlight in 34 degree heat in the south of France.

Can’t visit a new place without a visit to the local space marine pushers, can you?

The lads in GW Nice were so nice (obviously) and they even humoured my rather poor attempts to speak to them about 40k in French. Good eggs. Or bons oeufs, to use the local parlance.