Warhammer
March 15th, 2010 by Missy
Well, it has been a while but it would appear that we are back to painting Warhammer. I’ve finished 20 ghouls over the past few days (a record for me on painting speed, surely) and have 30 more waiting to be done. Well, 10 assembled and waiting for green stuff (which seems to have taken a walk..) and 20 in boxes wishing that they were assembled and waiting for green stuff. Hopefully Dan will pick up some more green stuff on the way home from work today and I can get these ghouls prepared. I should probably assemble the other 20 who are waiting in boxes and just green stuff them all at the same time, but I’m having more fun reading Empire tactics at the moment.
Ordered an Empire brigade from The War Store today, but I swear I’m not going to even open it until the Vampire Counts are finally done! I’ll post up some pics of the ghouls later, btw. Too lazy to bust out the camera at the moment. I don’t love them, but I don’t hate them either. I am.. content (..?) with them, I suppose. I can’t think of anything better to do with them, in any case.
Ah yes, and I also finally finished the Varghulf! I ended up going with black fur. Can’t recall why I didn’t want to do black fur before? It looks nice. I’m waiting on an out of stock base to come in from The War Store before he is officially finished, and I suppose I should probably go over him one more time and just brighten up his skin highlights a bit. And, of course.. repaint his freaking talons and wing tips AGAIN before varnishing him. Along with the base from The War Store, I shall also be receiving a few VMCs that I am missing (namely turquoise and emerald green) and then I can get going on the Grave Guard. I’m hoping to have all of the ghouls finished before the new colors come in (depends on how long my base is backordered, I suppose). If I finish them with enough time before hand, I’ll probably get started on a corpse cart. Then the Grave Guard. Then..? I’m not really sure. Perhaps the 5 other dire wolves that I have assembled and primed (bringing me up to a unit of 10, should I so desire) and then I guess I can start working on blood knights and characters. I have a gorgeous limited edition CMON mini that I’ll be using as one of my vampires who I’ll either be saving for last (or second to last, after my BSB).
I suppose I’m feeling very energized (which is a nice change of pace from my recent state of the blahs which is, unfortunately, still in effect so far as exercising goes) and excited about painting. I know that I still have the vast majority of my army to paint, but getting the ghouls done is so refreshing. They aren’t fun, there is no paint scheme for them (that I’ve seen / can imagine) that I LOVE, they’re finicky and horrible little models, they hate ranking up, etc, etc, etc..
So yes, feeling like they’re moving along quickly (and thusly, will be done quickly) makes me excited! Once they’re done, it is just fun stuff, right? Grave Guard are annoying and a bitch to put together with their stupid little spindly skeletonness, but at least they look fantastic. I absolutely adore the thought of verdigris on the armor and I am happy to have them coming up soon. I still haven’t figured out if I’m going to paint them the blueish that I like, or go with a more traditional red. I love the blue, but I think they might end up just looking out of place? Not that I know what color I am painting the Blood Knights either. I was thinking blue for them too, but I saw some blue BKs on ebay that were painted well and I didn’t like them at all.
Ah, choices, choices..