It's been a few days I've noticed since my last post. I've been mildly tied down during that time doing different stuff. My plan from the last post didn't happen exactly as I wanted it to. I noticed I'd lost some of my hobby tools, most notably a file to shave off mold lines, and so I didn't really feel like putting together a fresh model and painting it if it were to have lines. I did however find a normal Chaos Space Marine model I put together a couple of years back. So I started to work a bit with it.
I should perhaps let you in on a well kept secret (well not if you knew me then it'd be a very poorly kept one), but despite owning more than ten thousand points worth of different models for different Warhammer systems, I have painted very few. STAGGERINGLY few to be exact. Well to be honest I've painted a fair few, but only a handfull have ever been fully painted with most models being painted to a completion rate of thirty-ish percent. And to make matters worse it is easily 4 years since I painted even a little.
I inform you of my lack of painting because as I've now been sitting painting my wee Marine I have realised a couple of things. (1) Red is a hellish colour to paint as it takes a couple of coats to not look complete sheit and (2) it is better to not fully assemble a model if you want to be able to paint the model proper. When it comes to point number two I am primarily thinking of not attaching bolters to hands in the future until the latter stages of painting.
As is I've come some way with my single Marine and I'll get pictures up sooner rather than later. Its been nice to test out painting although I'm not certain of which colours to progress with. But once this one model is done I plan to make the rest of the Chaos Space Marine squad.
No comments:
Post a Comment