Part 6: Stressed Steve and Drunk Dave

Stressed Steve

Drunk Dave

"The thing about Drunk Dave is .. Drunk Dave's bloody useless."

Spike.

"Dave, are you drunk?" said Steve, eyeing up a gently swaying Drunk Dave.

Dave's face broke into a broad, lopsided grin. "Is the emperor a vegetable?" 

"Great." replied Steve. "Bloody great!" They were meant to be clearing out the Scaly pens and the last thing he needed was a rat-arsed Dave staggering around and ballsing things up.

"Ah, stop being so stressed" said Dave, swigging from a can of brake fluid.

"I am not stressed!" Steve muttered through gritted teeth.

"Well .. you look pretty stressed, mate."

"That's only cause i'm paired up with you, you useless tit!"

Dave's grin grew even larger. "Come on, mate, you don't mean that?!" He put an arm around Steve's shoulders. "Need a hug?"

"Piss off, Dave."

Beast Mode

Being housebound due to Corona has some advantages and the guys are finally all kitted out and ready for painting. Meet Beast Mode. They're original lead and Fanatic Goliaths, with some new bits added to bring them up to date with N20. It's taken a fair bit longer than planned to get them done - partly due to lack of experience with modding/green stuff and partly due to the discovery that pewter is horrible to work with! There's one guy not shown. He's going to remain secret for the foreseeable and, if I don't balls it up, should be pretty epic.

Now to make them match their finished bros ..

Getting my terrain on

For what seems like forever, i've been working through the Sector Mechanicus scenery.

The first furnace is finished and the recipe for weathering the walkways is settled on with a 1/3 of them done. The rest are close to being finished. The Dark Uprising boxset is still on the sprue and there's loads of stanchions, barricades, pipes etc still to do .. but best not think about that right now!

Slowly but surely ..

Pretty happy with this! (click here for a painting guide)

Rusted up walkways

A snippet of what's to come

Crimbo painting

I managed to get a good few days hobby time over Christmas and finished test schemes for my Sector and Necromunda kit. I'm chuffed with how they turned out and tbh it's a bit of a relief as it's taken a fair bit of trial and error to find a scheme that feels suitably grungy and Necromunda but not too brown and boring. Scenery will now be the focus and there's a shed load more to do!

Muties taking cover!

And few more Goliath to add to the gang.

Goliaths are up next

I was set on Enforcers for the next gang. Had the lists worked out, colour scheme, and then picked up and started painting this dude. You go where the paintbrush takes you! More to come ..

Pigsy

The Great Tidy

For a while now my hobby area has been a depressing pigsty, but no more! My better half bought this handy drawer storage (subtle hint) and an entire Sunday was spent cleaning and organising. This is the result and it feels pretty damn good. Sometimes I just bask in the tidy, order of everything.

No more excuses now. Time to get some painting done.

Smeagol's Forbidden Pool

I love anything Halfling / Hobbit related and fell for this mini straight away. He just looks so royaly pissed off! It was also an opportunity to try something new - a fancy base and some water effects - and  I'm chuffed how it turned out. If anyone's interested, the water is Still Water by Vallejo and it was pretty easy to work with. The main take away is to add layers a few mm deep at a time and to let each fully set before putting on the next.