Models I Didn't Talk About

I keep this blog mostly for myself. I do not think others look at it. Maybe someone will stumble across it, probably not. Its purpose is for me to look back after a few months and see what I've been doing. 

I missed a lot of paint jobs between September and January. I was busy during those months with other stuff, but I did continue to paint. 

Here are just a few pictures of models I didn't post about...just to remind me about them later. 

Crap load of Ork boys. 

Killer Kanz. 

Big Gun. 

Cannot remember his name...Grotsnik?

Morat Daturazi

Since my heavy support PlanetFall box was delayed, I decided to continue with my Morats. I have a few boxes and blister packs to do for my Morat army. I chose to do my Daturazi this time as they are quite different from the Vanguard troops I did just a week ago. 

I decided to keep a fairly similar color scheme to my other units with the Daturazi. They have blue hair and red skin. 

Assembling the models was quite a pain in the ass. Their ponytails were annoying and their tabards just didn't line up very well to the models. This lead to a very frustrating assembly that resulted in gaps and glue marks all over the models. 

I pushed passed that and tried to fix up a few things with green stuff. I then decided to just get to painting them. The models turned out fairly well while painting them and I really only had issues on their tabards. 

This is what they currently look like. I splashed a big glob of blood on each of their tabards to cover up the horrible connections. I figure I can just say they wipe off the blood from their swords on their tabards. 

After I finished these models the first time, I sent a picture to a friend. He encouraged me to add tattoos to them. This was the biggest mistake that I made with these models. I ended up painting horrible black tattoos on each of their arms. I really messed up at this part. I ended up reprinting their arms and deciding not to tattoo them. 

Now, their arms are okay, however, their skin tone is not as good as it once was. 

Here they are individually. 

My next project is to actually clean up all of my paints and brushes. They are a mess!

Morat Autocannon

I painted this guy last night. 

He has been sitting on my shelf since early December. He was my last built and primed model I had to finish. 

He is certainly my favorite Morat model to date. I will be taking a short break with painting as a few great games are coming out soon. 

In the mean time, I think I will get around to cleaning up my paints and painting station.

A few more shots of him. 

Catching Up

I have been painting quite a bit, but not posting. 

I went to Canada for a short trip in December and since returning to Korea, I have been painting a lot of PlanetFall models. 

I started with the Sorylian Core Helix and painted it within a week. 

I then had a couple of games with the models and I thoroughly enjoyed the game. I then bought another Core set and got to it. 

Although I do enjoy the game, the models aren't so great. The big robots and tanks are fine.  The infantry, however, are annoying to paint and their details don't always come through. 

I will be getting the heavy support box later this week. After that box, I am not sure how much more I will buy into this game. 

I then tried to finish of the Morat models I built a while ago. 

I tried edge highlighting in these guys and I am just not sure about it. The models with the pants turned out okay, but I am not too happy with the fully armored guys. (I cannot remember their names)

I have a lot more Infinity to do, since I loaded up in Canada. 

Wolverine

It has been a very long time since I painted something. 

I got a PS4 sometime in the fall and that distracted me for a long while. 

After that, I just didn't have the drive to paint anything. Well, that changed last weekend. 

I was in Seoul and came across a random Wolverine snap together kit. I impulsively bought it and at the time, I expected it to be prepainted. 

Well...it wasn't....

But, for some reason, seeing all those yellow pieces gave me a boost of energy to paint. 

I didn't take many pictures of the process unfortunately. 

I started with the head. Getting the colors for this piece were tricky. The head was supposed to be either purple or red. I wanted it to have a metallic look to it, though. So I bravely mixed copper, red and blue together and got the color for the armor. The face was also strange. It wasn't quite grey. I ended up mixing a dark silver and grey together to get that color. 

The battle damage was the fun part to paint. The model had tons of claw marks and dents. Fun stuff. 

Next, I did the body. This is where things went a little bad. I didn't want to snap the kit together and paint it as one piece as that would be very hard. So, instead, I left the pieces seperate. Since the kit is a snap together, that meant I couldn't put the two halves of each body part together. This resulted in some nasty lines all over the model. You can particularly notice this on the right glove. 

His head and claws came next. The head was tricky. I did the yellow and the skin tone before the black. I used blue tac to cover the yellow and skin and it worked for the most part. I did go a little over on the helmet's yellow. Still, I am happy with it. 

Then I finished up some things here and there and it was done. I think it looks sharp, especially from a distance. I still have to put the decal black stripes on him, but I am not sure if I'll bother...I hate decals. 

I think he looks pretty good on my shelf...in front of my backlog of models to paint. 

Catching Up on my Silvermoon Models

I have been quite distracted recently. I bought a PS4 about two weeks ago and Destiny has owned my life. Prior to that, though, I did manage to paint a number of Bushido models. 

I focused on getting a number of Silvermoon models done in hopes of evening out our Ito vs Silvermoon games as they were pretty one sided with the limited Silvermoon models that I had. 

Hanami was the first of the batch. I decided to use more yellow with my Silvermoon models. I also tried my hand at a flower tattoo on her leg that turned out very well. 

Next up was Old Zo. He is the tax man. I wanted to get him painted as quickly as I could since my friend and I agreed that he would add the most to my current Bushido models. In the game, however, he didn't end up being too effective. I think we just need to figure him out a bit better. 

Sukuratchi and his animals were next. The forums seem to love his pets as they are great for tying up big enemy threats. After my success with Hanami's tattoo, I decided to try out more yellow and more flowers. 

These guys are just some extra thugs. I didn't realize that they were the same models as some other characters I already had. So I just did a quick, basic job on these guys. 

Finally, I painted my new favorite character. 

Oda and Tautola. 

This model can be played two ways. One is the combined model and the other is seperate. 

I used 3 magnets for this. One is under Oda's feet, the other is on his small base rock and finally, the third if behind Tautola's head. 

I also continued with my flower and yellow theme and really went all out on Oda's clothing. 

Currently, I have 4 more unfinished Bushido models. They are 3 mercenaries and the big Ito snake. I am also waiting on a shipment of Bakemono for my third faction. 

But, until that arrives, I think I will be busy shooting aliens in the face. 

Hanami and Zo

I got this beautiful package earlier this week. 

It is the second half of a Bushido shopping spree I had mid last month. 

I bought all of the Silvermoon models (except one that was sold out). 

I let my girlfriend randomly choose the first two to paint. She chose Hanami and Old Zo. 

I really like how she turned out. I decided to put some free hand flowers and a rose tattoo on her thigh. 

I also tried to use yellow again. It went pretty well. I used the GW yellow wash and tried to put some light white marks here and there. This is something I am going to continue to try out. 

I went with a similar color scheme for Old Zo. Zo, however, has a detail I have never encountered, glasses. I looked up some tutorials and finally just went with a bright blue and white over that. 

I have also been into terrain building lately. This is the newest piece that I built. The static grass held on a little better on the stone path than I had intended. 

These guys are next. I went with a new brown primer. Hopefully that works out.