Getting some work done

 

  Everyone in the game group is comfortable with their gangs.  They remember the names of the fighters, have ideas on which weapons they like versus the ineffective ones, and their questions focus on esoteric actions rather than basic rules.  We've hit the point where a campaign may be in order...

  If we're going to begin the goal of taking territories from each other and building a narrative for the bloody action in our dome, I should probably leave my 'ringer' role behind and join in.  Four of the six houses are already claimed by the rest of the group, leaving me to choose from the Cawdor or Van Saar.  My son plays the Redemptionists already, so the techies are my guys!  It is time to get assembling and painting...

  The Van Saar gangers are TINY!  The models have an average of 16 parts per dude and they're so tiny that my skinny tweezer-fingers can't even hold them (my carpet seems to love the taste of plastic bits).  Building these guys was not fun, but the results look awesome!  Tiny and awesome...

  A little primer and it was time to kick off the paintbrush activities.  I started with the bases so that could glue down the models while I worked on them, but I wanted to quickly paint them first.  A basecoat of Doombull Brown for that reddish undertone and an overbrush of Zhandri Dust makes the bases very much match the game boards.  Goal accomplished!

  Now comes the fun stuff- their armour!  Much like the Eldar from 40k, these guys have very detailed plated armour that gives lots of panels to highlight and shade.  To cheat (and the fact that I only have four days to get these done), I simply played the Drybrush game.  First came an overbrush of Caliban Green, followed by a drybrush of Warpstone Glow, another drybrush of Moot Green, yet another drybrush of Nurgling Green, and finally a liberal wash of Biel-tan Green was added to fade the colors back together and blend the current highlights.  And they already look awesome!

  My next steps are to paint the pipes black, the metal bits silver, and then finish the highlights on the green armour.  Let's see how fast I can get this gang done...

Happy Hobbying!