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I'm Back!

Posted by Equlan , 29 January 2012 · 869 views

After a much too slow Fall I've finally started painting properly again, and so I've decided to start updating this blog again.

I'be been thinking about changing the "format" to regular postings - perhaps bi-weekly or even weekly (depending on how things go from here). I probably won't have finished things for each posting, but in those cases I will probably just update with whatever I have got done since last post. For this post there are both finished and wip stuff :)
If anyone should have opinions on those thoughts on the format, I'd like to hear them.

Oh and I've got a ton of non-dwarf minis I want to get painted besides my kinda dwindling amount of unpainted dwarfs, so it'll probably be a little less "Equlan's Stunties" and a little more "a bunch of stuff" I'm afraid - hope no one lynches me :pirates:

So, since last posting this is what I have painted:

34 Night Goblins with spears and 16 night goblins with bows (they look mostly the same as last time I posted pics of greenskins).

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I got the first layer of skin on 5 orc boyz.

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I held a "terrain-building day" with my gaming buddies and started painting a watch tower - still very much wip.

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I FINALLY painted my last Avatars of War character models - the grey guy is supposed to be a statue, eventually I hope to put him on a big stone as a unit filler. I'm very happy with the dual-wielding dwarf's beard, much less so with the pistol-toting one's...

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I painted the White Dwarf! In person his beard has quite a bit more depth - I'm pretty happy with how this guy turned out.
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And for my birthday my friends got me a Tau Battleforce - my first 40k figures (more or less). I've assembled them so far, and basecoated the tau and drones a dark green. I'm going for a mostly dark green/camo green paint scheme inspired by these guys in part: http://www.dakkadakk...17722&m=2&w=800
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Snugg Thistlehammer
Jan 30 2012 09:01 AM
Yes! I must admit I've been slack with blog updates myself. I keep telling myself that it's because it's too hot to do any painting at the moment, which is true, but I still have a couple of updates worth of finished work I could post.

Anyway, good to be reading your blog again! I won't be upset if it's not all dwarfy - just try and keep a few of the bearded lads popping up for us...
I'd love to see what you've been working on!

I was a bit worried you and Grabgold would be gone by now (like I more or less was), I'm happy to see you're still around :)
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Snugg Thistlehammer
Feb 03 2012 11:49 AM
Ya, I'm still here. I don't really post in the forums anymore; I've become a bit dissatisfied with them. But I still keep my eye on the blogs!

I promise I'll get around to an update this weekend - how's that?
Sounds great :)

I've been thinking about shifting to Warseer, or just running a plog over there alongside this one. I could be wrong, but I just have the impression that activity here has slowed down a lot. I think I might share your sentiment really, heh
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Grabgold Thunderbeard
Feb 10 2012 01:39 AM
Welcome back!
Don't worry I'm still here but I don't often bother logging in. And like Snugg I don't really bother trawling through the forums that much anymore. I guess it just seems like the same old same old most of the time really. Like the old crew have moved on and been replaced by a new lot who re-ask all the stuff we've already discussed.

And don't even get me started on painting, I don't think I've even picked up a brush in at least six months if not far longer! :(
I'm hoping to get back into it now though, since I have more time again.

I'm looking at getting some of those avatar of war dwarfs, are you happy with their casting etc? Are they plastic, metal or what?
Grabby! Yay!

I guess/hope things will pick up on the forum when (if) we ever get a new army book and/or new army choices. Some day...

Regarding Avatar of War: I love them, it's been a while now, but I don't at all remember them having many mold lines or flash. The character models in this post and the slayers I posted way back are metal. Their slayer regiment i plastic, though. I've only assembled one of those, though I've started on 19 more. That seems like a very nice box though.
Their character models are a joy to paint :)
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Snugg Thistlehammer
Feb 10 2012 10:25 AM
Maybe we're just grumpy old dwarves who look down on the beardlings and grumble about how nothing's as good as it was in the old days?
Snugg, "just" has no place in that sentence. Tsk tsk...
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Snugg Thistlehammer
Feb 14 2012 11:49 AM
Hmph! Young whippersnappers. Now back in MY day, we knew how to show proper gnollengrom. Bah! Mumble mumble....

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