Friday 7 January 2022

The Horror...The Horror...

I'm having a bit of a deja vu experience. 

Around this time last year I finished painting some Pink Horrors and it snowed. As I take my photos outside, I braved the weather in inappropriate footwear and ended up dumping said Pink Horrors in the snow.

Guess what happened today...


Admittedly, there isn't as much snow, and the models were caught by the wind rather than me falling on my arse, and it was actually in February, but still...

...cool story.


So, I'm starting the new year by returning to some models I began back in November, before getting sidetracked into Heroquest shenanigans.

If I'm honest, I allowed myself to get sidetracked because I was annoyed that I'd not gone to the effort of ensuring that I undercoated in white like last time. I used Grey Seer before base coating the Horrors in Flesh Tearer's Red contrast paint.


As Grey Seer is the proper undercoat for contrast paint, this had the totally predictable outcome of me ending up with a dark red base coat rather than dark pink, meaning that after drybrushing, this set of Pink Horrors were a totally different colour to the others.


This meant going back over every model and highlighting the raised areas of each model. This meant each and every leg, arm, tail, tentacle finger and eyebrow - of which there are far too many.

And this was before I had to do the far too many bits of jewellery, far too many claws and far too many teeth on each model. I'm not keen on batch painting at the best of times, but the amount of times I had to go back to fix things I'd missed on the first pass was just embarrassing.


Having said all that, I am happy with how they've turned out. They are still a slightly different colour than the other Pink Horrors, but that will help with unit recognition on the tabletop (I've done the tongues a different colour too).

I'm also happy to have got them done. I deliberately did them first from amongst the Start Collecting box as I knew they'd be the biggest chore to get done.

And so the progress for 2022 has begun in earnest, but so have the acquisitions. I found myself in a store with back issues of Imperium magazine this week, and although I am proud that I resisted the urge to inexpensively start a Necron army, I did come away with a GW crate sprue containing barrels and boxes, which somewhat lessens the head start.

Acquired: 8
Painted: 10

However, in other exciting news, I've decided to take part in the Benji's Hobbies 2022 Hobby Bingo which, like other endeavours of this type, sets a range of tasks to achieve during the year.


However, unlike others, this one isn't limited to a single company or game system and includes a few things massively outside of my comfort zone. There's also a Facebook community group to join, which is a nice touch.

The only slight glitch in the matrix is that I personally think that 'bought' is a bit too narrow, so I'll be sticking with my 'acquired' tally as it allows me to benefit from selling stuff and 'generously' giving my crap to people, whether they want it or not, whilst not allowing gifts to slip through this legal loophole.


And so I've ended up with a new set of challenges to aim at, and able to cross off one box already as the Pink Horrors were left half done in November.

It will be fun to see how well I do on this.







2 comments:

  1. So we have you to blame for the horrendous weather today! Great job on these though, smashing work.

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    1. Thanks. Personally I think it's Tzeentch's fault.

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