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.
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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?
Not much difference, but it feels better. I removed everything from my table top and gave it a clean, wiping away years of dust and little bits of plastic. The first Citadel Metalic Paint, potentially purchased when they were first released, went into storage as I've not used them. Two bottles of solidfied paint thrown in the bin and I didn't even attempt to salvage the droplet bottles. I don't have anything planned for the New Year other than breaking out a new paint brush, but it feels good to have a clean area to paint and make stuff.
Not sure if this is a step up or down from my Bulldog Clips. These were less tight in comparison so they didn't flattened the tube as much. Although a bit more difficult to keep in place as they tend to slip off. Did it's job, but I don't think I will making this a common feature in my HQ.
I was planning to make my own Gamesworkshop Thermic Plasma Regulator when I remembered about the bottles of Super Glue may be perfect. Digging through my box of scrap, I dug this lot out and was suprised how many I had. In total, 14 bottles! Although I'm sure a few of these dried out before I could use the whole content.
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