Quarter 3 Week 6 Update: How Do You Say Jason Statham in German?

Alright governor, roll your old mince pies over this week’s update for ‘ammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. After a tough but rewarding couple of weeks painting up some Reiksguard Knights, the now traditional winter flu left me reeling this week and desperately scrabbling for somewhat of an easy project.

SCORECARD

Alrighty, despite being in bed most of my free time this week, I managed to keep the scorecard in the green? How, one asks? Well, to put it simply, by cheating a bit.

This week’s model was orginially intended to be fully stripped back to bare metal and repainted, but, with a bit of a closer look I was actually pretty happy with a lot of the base work that I’d done 15 years ago, so I decided to forge ahead rather than start from scratch. 

So I didn’t actually put in 5 Hammer the Backlog points of effort this week, but I did end up with a finished model that counts for 5 points. Noice.

THIS WEEK’S MODEL

It was very nice after the last few months of mid-2000s plastics to get a good, old-fashioned, human sized metal character in my hands. I think the last one was the Blood Ravens Librarian way back at the start of year 4.

Once I decided not to strip him, he got a gentle clean with warm water to clear away the dust and residue that he had accumulated during his attic years. He turned out pretty nice, with a very nicely shaded red base coat for the robes, almost complete metallics, and a decently, if roughly shaded skin tone.

The first step was to highlight up the red with wild rider red, and a dab of tau light oche. Then the skin was painted following my normal european human man style, cadian, kislev, flayed one. Since I caught a slightly skewed look at him and saw a passing resemblance to noted hard man Jason Statham, I decided to give him a dark grey stubble on his beard and head. Eggs of the world unite.

The most fun part to do was the repent parchment on his back. Compared with the pretty clean cut and pristine warrior priests in the Uniforms and Heraldry book, this guy seems pretty hellfire and brimstone.

In keeping with that I borrow the design for his back parchment from the flagellents section of the book.

Since this guy was painted on a plain black base, I had to be a tiny bit more careful than usual supergluing on the sand and painting it up, but nothing to worry about.

With two units of infantry, a unit of knights and an independent character, this is starting to look like a small army now!

Well, that’s it from me for another week. The decision for next week’s models will have to wait until this headache has subsided.

Until then. Best of eggs.