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It Came from the Lightbox: Bushido Minimoto
I finally got around to painting the second wave of Minimoto models (and a couple of ronin available to them). Most of them have been assembled for, uh, most of a year and boy were they frustrating in a really surprising way.
I got some new glasses a few weeks ago and it is very clear that I really needed them when I built these models. Every time I looked, I found a new mold line that I’d completely failed to notice and address when I put them together.
Hopefully the new specs keep there from being a repeat.
Unrelated to Bushido: I printed off some Chronomantic Cogs and painted them up in a minute.
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No New Minis July – Failed
So, that was a huge failure.
I really thought I could do it, but then Crimson Stone went up for preorder only during the month of July. Lunar went up for preorder as well: I’ve been looking forward to that for a very, very long time and since I’d already failed thanks to Infinity…
I did paint more than I bought, and I did sell more than I bought (I’m trying to unload some projects I’m not going to get to on Reddit)… but I failed to go the full month without buying new minis.
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It Came from the Lightbox: Monsters
Kragnos painted up in like a day or two. Very satisfied with him.
These Skaven bastards are what had me jammed up for, like, a month. I bought and built them ages ago when the kits were first released (during WHFB 8E) and never got around to painting them. Decided to do them on a lark, to go with the Saga Skaven I’d painted last year and boy was that a mistake: I had to paint an army of Morats to find momentum on them again.
It Came from the Lightbox: Heavy Gear CNCS
These guys got pretty frustrating to me pretty quickly. The kits are pretty straightforward and modular, but I kept running into places where I just had to trust that plastic cement would hold a weapon in place… only to be let down. Even worse, as I painted them, I was constantly reminded that I built these models before getting my new glasses: there was an upsetting amount of flash and burrs that I should have and could have removed but for whatever reason was still present after being primed and basecoated.
But, they’re done, and with a simple scheme: basecoat, highlight, then everything got oil washed. I’d have liked to do decals but the CNCS decals just didn’t work for me and I wanted to get these guys done.
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Hugely productive weekend; need to get the lightbox out. Finished my Heavy Gear and Kragnos, made some good progress on some other unfinished stuff. No complaints!
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Heavy Gear is varnished and waiting for oils and, maybe, decals. So on to the next thing.
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Can you believe I seriously thought I’d finish all this over the holiday weekend?
I’m almost highlighted up on a third of them. The largest third, so it should be downhill from here, but still.