Holy crap. Been a long time. I guess I havn't posted on here in a really long time because I havn't really had anything to post that anyone would find even remotely interresting. Now I do however... I guess.
Ok, so recently I have gotten into warhammer 40k. I don't meen the PC game, though. I'm talking about the proper table-top wargame.
If you've never heard of it, well it's basically a table-top game played with little metal or plastic miniatures, which you buy, glue together and paint. It's the painting side of things that is holding my interest right now. But I figure If I'm going to be painting these things, I might as well work on some sort of army so that if I fancy getting into the actual game side of things I'll have somewhere to start.
So right now I'm working on witch hunters. Why? Because they look freakin' sweet! I've bought an inquister with his retinue and a troop of battle sisters to start me off. I've got the basics down on one of the sisters and and have just started on the sister superior. I figure I'll get all the basics done first, and then I'll go back and shade them, put in more detail and just generally clean them up so they look a lot neater.
As you can see they look very rough at the moment, but they'll do for now. I've gone for the Order of the Bloody Rose paint scheme. Looked the coolest on paper, however the blood red paint is a bit bright. I don't know. Maybe I'll change schemes or just switch to scab red or something.
Here's a photo of them with a few other miniatures I've painted over the past few days.
A Space Marine Commander and a few Chaos Space Marines. All with very basic paint jobs.
The commander was my first bash, and it turned out better than I thought, although halfway through painting I realised I had stuck his flag on the wrong way round and had to reglue it.
Hopefully I'll have the sisters done in a week or two and can get started on the inquisitor. I look forward to that guy, especially some of his henchmen.
In regards to metal miniatures; I can totally understand why people hate them. You need super glue for them, so you run the risk of glueing your fingers together, you can't really change thir poses easily, you don't have a a good choice over how they look, and they have tonnes of nobbly metal bits you have to file off before you can even think about starting. But at the end of the day, I prefer a finished metal miniature than a plastic one. Mainly because it's heavier. The plastic ones just feel a little cheap for me. If I'm going to spend all this time painting them, I want something that feels like it's worth the investment.
Peace.
PS: My photos were taken with my N95 incase your wondering.
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