Senlue, fellow guardians of Ulthuan. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the weekly mini painting, stress, productivity, stress and accountability blog. Why all the stress? Well, have you ever painted High Elves to a self imposed strict deadline? Have you? Then you would know! No, it’s fine, I promise. I even have some sneaky plans to make it easier for myself.
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Despite all my whinging, another week fully in the green. Five highly detailed and intricate Seaguard painted to a standard I’m happy with. It’s funny that these are going in the rear rank of an existing unit, since they are probably better painted than the front rankers. Despite having a day off of work this week, these still went down to the wire. I reckon they are about 4 hours of painting time each, the little buggers.
I’d like to give a huge shout out to Past Mick, who had the foresight to write down a recipe for painting his High Elves in this blog more than a year ago.
So that is for swordmasters, and the sea guard are even more complicated, with sea colours and dragons to paint too. Luckily I also wrote those colours down in this blog.
With all of that painting going on, I had basically zero time to get the Assault on Black Reach battle report edited. In fact, I didn’t even sort the footage, I was so stuck to the painting table.
One of the advantages of being stuck at the painting table was that I got a bit more work done on my 3D printed old style Wave Serpent. I know I said I had not time to do anything else, but since this was a mercifully simple paint job I was able to do it during drying stages on the sea guard, where getting up and going to the editing station wouldn’t have been worth it.
I’m going to be leaving this model at this level of done, since it is going off to join my friend Doc’s Eldar army. If he wants to paint on some specific colours of soul stones or apply decals that match his army, more power to him!
This was a very fun little side project to have on the desk when I just needed a mental break from the elves, and it was very nice to get 3D printing, masking, airbrushing etc all in one neat little project.
Lookit, next week is going to be a fairly busy week getting the video edited. I definitely don’t have another week of painting these in me at the same time. Luckily, I found a set of half painted Phoenix Guard from more than 15 years ago, who are basically good enough to be considered base coated by my modern standard. But that should cut the painting time in half if I do them next week, letting me get both projects done.
THIS WEEK’S MODELS
This week’s models were, of course, 5 more Sea Guard. I’ve already shared the process and paints I used above, as well as the time they took.
So here, please enjoy a small, almost wordless gallery.
It is very nice to have a solid block of 15 of these now. 15 would have been a very sizable unit in the old 5th edition army books I grew up with.
I think I’ll break the remaining 5 down into smaller blocks of 2 to give myself a bit more time to work on them. 5 of these a week is tough going!
Well lookit, that was quite a lot out of me this week. I hope to see you again at the same time next week for 5 painted Phoenix Guard and a battle report video!
Best of eggs!
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