Quarter 1 Week 12 Update: Why the Long Face?

It’s Thursday night, it’s Hammer the Backlog time. Welcome back to the penultimate update from Year 4, Quarter 1. With the Blood Ravens project well and truly in the bag, this week was an opportunity to dip into the esoterica of the pile of shame and pull out some weirdos to paint. Bits and Bobs. Richards and Roberts. You know. You know!

SCORECARD

Look. Listen. The biggest part of this week was getting the end of quarter 1, start of quarter two video filmed and edited. That meant a weekend trip into the studio with all of the models, a couple of hours filming and double that editing. The video will be up next week for the official end of quarter.

In the meantime, all that travelling around and editing left relatively little time for painting models, so that meant a recognition that I couldn’t do a five point week and a search for something about half the painting of a normal week. Maybe a handful of skinks?

Well luckily for me, I still had two awesome, old-school Chaos Space marines that Emeil (that menace from Thanquol’s Lair) had sent me to celebrate last year’s Dogs of War project. I had got them to an undercoat stage in a similar time crunch at the end of last quarter, so time to give them their dues and get them done.

All the rest, all good!

THIS WEEK’S MODELS

So, two classic early 90’s Chaos Marines this week, who I’ve given the classic European names Why de Longface and Brian.

Just like my pre existing squad I’ve done them as old fashioned Iron warriors. Interesting, despite being Iron Warriors, there was actually very little Iron to paint on these guys this week. Since they have black panels, hazard stripe panels, leather gloves, lots of bronze trim and one of them is wearing a fur, the main colour was probably the fastest to paint.

Nothing else to note about them really, other than that early 90s chaos marines were very chaotic, with pretty much nothing “standard” on them. This makes them a little more complex to paint than Imperial Marines, as you are constantly making decisions about what things are supposed to be, and what colour they want to be.

They look nice and fancy now with a unit of 7 including heavy bolter, flamer and banner bearer. I didn’t notice until near the end of the process, but the banner has a mark of Khorne on it. I think they were much less rigid about which mark went where back in the 90s.

I suppose I need an aspiring champion for the now to call them done. I do particularly have an ambition to make them up to a nice even ten models like an imperial marine squad. It feels a lot more chaotic to have them at random numbers.

I kinda wish I hadn’t painted my aspiring champion with power fist as Black Legion now. 

WHAT’S LEFT?

It should be a fairly easy week next week with just the video to launch and no painting commitments. I am really tempted to get a start on/maybe even finish my classic Jaun Diaz demon prince. Who knows?

See you next week to find out!

Best of eggs!