Well that sparked some memories and after a quick look through my stash, I found five painted legions of Ultramarines. A horde of Bad Moon Ork metal wagons/tanks and Gargants. A bunch of Imperial Titans painted as Ultramarine colours! A legion of Imperial unpainted Tanks. Boxes of spures for all the epic armies except Tyranids as I used them all. I even had a box of painted Squats and their war machines! Finally found what I was looking for on display with my other WIP. I guess I didn't get as far as I thought I did with this piece. Well that was all my painting time wasted. |
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Now do I want to start an Imperial Guard category? Or even post the few painted Imperial Guards that I have with the hope one day painting my small horde of Imperial Guards... Unlikely, until I have anything decent. Hmm... I can't even remember where I stashed them along with my custom epic Commissar Yarrick.
One of the two Gundams didn't come with any weapons and my son kept pestering me when I would make it some weapons. I eventually succumbed and got around to making a sword and weapon. I used the left over sprue bits for the entire sword as it would be much stronger than the plastic I had. The sprue doesn't bond using the plastic glue I had, so using a T shaped piece, I found a plastic tube that it fitted into and encased it with the plastic I normally used. I guess the only logical next step is to make an entire Gundam from scratch!
I think these were my nine year old son's Christmas presents! I cleaned up the parts (clipped even though you didn't need to) from the sprue while he assembled them. Only a few parts he struggled with getting together. I'd really love to get into this Hobby again as I think I started making these around nine too. Nice memories of going back to Hong Kong and hunting through the back alleys for that Toy Shop selling these the cheapest. With money pulled out from my Lucky Red Envelopes and not realising how much a $500 dollar note was. I was just escstatic that I had several boxes of Gundams to build. Although everything so expensive now. I just need to get my Tau Riptides the right proportion and I can probably start scratching building these!!
I believe I'm finally recovered after 28 days laster! Although I've barely started and getting a little tired, so potentially this will not get very far. It's the Easter week and I need to save my energy to keep the two kids entertained. This little project is based on some other models I've seen and although out of place along my various Ghazs, it puts the "P" in CaPCon (Cosplay and Prop Convention). The Commisssar for reference of size and I'll probably keep the shape of that random piece of plastic from my bit box.
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.
Other than this blog, the rest of this site is falling behind with a mounting pile of updates I want to do. The WIP Parade will have lots to update as well as photos I still yet to take to showcase my Tau Battlesuits. So instead of working on any of these, I've cheated and just re-posted a photo I always wanted to bring out amongst the rest in Models on Parade. Hopefully it will give me some inspiration to do more, before I start on a new project or try and finish off my current one!
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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