While contemplating what to do next and filling the odd half an hour, I started sanding a few more rods for my Tau Drones. Looking at my stacked trays, it seems that I had partially completed another sixth drone! *sigh* With the amount of prepared Drone parts, I need to re-sort my two stack of components (top tray used as a lid) to make way for my Drone parts. Amongst my components are a whole load of engines, Ork tool box and tools still unpainted. Along with a lot of green cog/wheels, security cameras and fire extinguishers I made for my HQ. Last my thousand skulls challenge that I havent made any progress for some time now. |
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I thought starting off with some shield Drones would be easy... I was wrong. The 4mm "Super" Styrene rod is immune from the melting effect of my liquid glue that I use, although it did mean I could melt my plastic shavings easily to fill the hole in the middle. The next part was trying to add the different layers; a 3.2mm followed by a 1.6mm and another 3.2mm. As I have a problem with detail, I was trying to get this perfectly aligned in the middle. Then I had the problem trying to rotate it due to the uneven surface and trying to balance the over all layers so it wasn't lopped sided. This was a very bad idea :( And a picture of my sanding disc plus ~22mm in diameter that I used to curve the edges of the Drone discs and the steel brush I used to get the plastic off it.
It's almost a month and I've still not fully recovered. Seems I have an acid inbalance in my stomach, causing me to vomit. At least I finally got myself to the doctors and get myself some medication. So a month of no activity, both in this hobby and life itself :( Well at least I found myself some PECO scenic landscape replacements. I originally had two, a plain sky and mountain lake. However I left these out and the sun had faded some of the colours. I've been meaning to replace these, but never found them at a decent price. Now I have five of these all for less than £14. If only they did sci-fi themed backgrounds, or a desert background for my Orks. I just need to get well enough to use them.
I was still painting this Ghaz in three parts which made painting easier, but also meant needing to handle it gently so that I don't rub the paint off. Worse yet, at this stage of painting, I was making minor Cuts so the backpack would fit better and modification to the bottom of the torso so that it would mount on the legs without being unbalanced. I was still reluctant to squeeze the bottles of paint, trying to use the paint at the tip of the bottle and also the paint that had overflown down the side of the neck. This was more Paste than a liquid paint and became increasingly difficult to draw the fine black lines I wanted. I eventually decided to squeeze some paint into my paint tray and managed to get a droplet of decent black liquid paint out without it all flooding out! Although despite trying to use it all, there was still some left that had dried too quickly for decent line painting. I've had this paint tray for years now as evident of the thick layers of dried paint. I guess some of us still recognise where this came from?
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