Please ignore that smell. Welcome back to Hammer the Backlog, the filthy weely mini painting, productivity and accountability blog. With the Plague Marines from Dark Imperium finished last week, it was a slight change of gears this week to picking out the next project. Did I go ahead wand start the 20 Pox Walkers like I said I would? Or did I do something else?
Let’s take a look at the weekly scorecard, the overall project progress and this week’s new models.
SCORECARD
We are double in the green this week with 10 points worth of models painted. It was probably a bit overly cautious giving myself 10 points for the Foetid Bloat Drone, in the end. I know he is the big “centrepiece” model of the Dark Imperium set. The dreadnought equivalent. And I have usually given myself two weeks for those in the past, including the dread from Assault on Black Reach and the Hellbrute from Dark Vengeance.
However, with the model fully built and already basically undercoated, there was a lot less work to do that there would have been starting from scratch, so I managed to press through and get it done in one week.
The good thing is that this allows me to adjust my plan for the quarter and actually have a down week to squeeze in a holiday. The sheer luxury!
| Week | Date | Models |
| 1 | 17/09 | 2 Plague Marines |
| 2 | 24/09 | 3 Plague Marines |
| 3 | 1/10 | 2 Plague Marines |
| 4 | 08/10 | 3 Plague Marines |
| 5 | 15/10 | Blight Drone |
| 6 | 22/10 | 5 Pox Walkers |
| 7 | 29/10 | 5 Pox Walkers |
| 8 | 05/11 | 5 Pox Walkers |
| 9 | 12/11 | 5 Pox Walkers |
| 10 | 19/11 | Plaguecaster and Blightbringer |
| 11 | 26/11 | Lord of Contagion |
| 12 | 03/12 | Plagueburst Crawler |
| 13 | 10/12 | Plagueburst Crawler |
THIS WEEK’S MODEL
So this week’s model is the Foetid Bloat Drone and demon engine affectionately known in my house as Rud Beag.
There isn’t actually a huge amount to say about him, to be honest. I painted him exactly like a slightly larger Plague Marine. He’s probably got about the surface area of three marines, with wider flatter surfaces that let the contrast paints do their nurgley things.
I’m pretty pleased with the horrible yellow, magenta and purple flesh with the yellow pus filled buboes. His flesh was a good test bed for how I’m going to make the poxwalkers fit in with the rest of the armies look.
I think this flesh recipe is going to push the poxwalkers a little more into graphic and cartoony than I would normally go, so they won’t fit in with the rest of my “standard” style pos walkers, but I am learning to enjoy picking a palette and style for an army and sticking to it, instead of trying to make everything “work” together across my entire collection.
Does this mean that I could potentially get the Plagueburst Crawler done in one week too? Looking at it, it is actually a less complex model than the drone, lacking as it does a biological half. Maybe?
The most fun thing about this process is that I am very happy with the final models, and they are very much more to my liking, but they don’t look all that different at a distance from the tabletop quality they had before. A good advertisement for table top quality for army painting, if I’ve ever seen it.
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In the meantime, Jim managed to get the finger out and finish his Custodes Double Phallus tank.
It turned out, if I do say so myself, fabulously. It really is a very nice job for what is this guy’s first ever model kit. I wonder if he is going to continue down this root of goof tabletop level painting, or end up becoming one of the all time freak display miniature painters.
Well, if one thing can stop him, it will be trying to get these assholes to stay on their flying stands.
By the by, Jim and I have been on a Hammer the Backlog discord, hassling each other to get things painted. If you have any interest in joining us, here is the link.
That’s it from me for another week, see you next week for what I think will end up being week one of the tank!
Best of (rotten) eggs!
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