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Let there be priming weather!

So finally the weather has started to be in my favor and I can get some spray priming done outside. Actually seeing as how we have large portions of the garage emptied out the weather will soon no longer be a factor as I can just prime in there out of the wind and rain.

This is good news as like everyone one else, all I have been hearing about are these new contrast paints. Unlike poor Chapter Master Valrak my painting schemes (not like I have any) are not dependent on GW’s glazes and coloured primers so any colours that might be going away soon are not that big of a concern to me.

Now I do want to get a few things out of the way.

Yes this blog has been quite of late. I truthfully haven’t been working on anything lately I shelved a bunch of things to get them off my desk as I was not making any progress with them, this includes my one Chaos knight that was being over taken by plants, the details on were just not coming together on anything.

The result of this is that I have been able to start on some newer kits that I had been ignoring well I didn’t work on other things.

Things we are either looking forward to or will be working on “soon”.

Contrast Paints (obviously) I am planning on getting then entire thirty colour range as from the moment I saw them announced I wanted to try colour shifting with them. As we know they are made to be use with contrast primers which are basically just white and grey, and that they are somewhere in between a glaze and a proper paint. IF you haven’t seen it check out this video by Pete the Wargamer where he experiments with the contrasts over a metallic base.

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The fact that you can now do a quick Alpha Legion legion paint in two steps in great as it was taking me 4-5 steps to get similar effect using Vallejo’s Blue Metallic and Biel-Tan green shade over a black base. Unfortunately I have a very large number of classic marines that need to become sons of the hydra and it was taking a longer time to paint them then I was liking. Actually I have a picture it seems.

I really want to see how the contrast paints work with opposing colours, things like bright reds and yellows with darker blues and purples. Sadly I don’t have a picture but my HH Ahriman was based in a red and then shaded and worked with thousand sons and ahriman blue on the limbs to show him changing over to the post heresy colours.

Speed WAAAAAGH!!!! So I did buy the speed freeks box when it came out, but other then priming them with leadbelcher and doing a few red panels I didn’t get very far with them as I bought it at the same time as my Stompa and Renegade Knight box. My Speed Waaagh currently sits at one Giant Meka-boy, the Stompa, two classic GorkaMorka trakks (they actually came from the GM box when the game was released), the two buggies from the SF box, 6 bikers, and a full dozen of the plastic dethkopters. I just happened to get 9 unpainted one day at my local shop recently. Unfortunately the three DK I already had no longer had flying bases so since I didn’t think I would be getting more I put them on 60mm round bases and have them flying over debris. Now unless I wanted to be a massive ass having 12 60mm round bases moving in a single squad might be a bit much. So I might need to put them onto some oval bases or get a lot more junk bits for the rest of the squad to fly over.

New Paints, at christmas I added a cheap airbrush to my tools and since them have been playing with various acrylic inks. I highly recommend the Liquitex range but I also suggest if you do make sure to get an airbrush that is easy to clean as I seem to spend as much time cleaning my airbrush as I do using it.

I need to see about ordering paint sets from some of the other companies as I am lacking in a seriously vibrant green. I keep seeing people get some really crazy bright greens and nothing I have seems to be the right base green to mix that way. I think it might be one of the P3 greens,

Necromunda, currently on the work table are 20 gangers to proxy various cultists. They are the main reason I need the green actually.

Up next is either my WAAAGH or since I found them my classic Flesh Hounds. I currently have two variations on Flesh Hounds and if I can get some cash rounded up there is 3 boxes of them at the local shop plus a box of Wraith and Glory.

I think that is everything.

I don’t expect this blog to suddenly become very active but now that the weather is in the priming temperatures again I can get back to painting.

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