Iron Painter Round 3 - Wednesday in Regression for 27 Apr 2016

Wyrd announced the theme for round three of Iron Painter on Monday. The theme is "Wyrd Science". We have until this counter reaches zero to submit our entries. My partner for this round is Neveroddoreven. You can find their round one entry here, and their round two entry here.

First Shame Post for February 2014

I would say that I have not touched my paints or a paint brush in two weeks, but that simply is not true. I had to touch them to move them out of my way a few times over the past couple of weeks. Abuela is the same as my previous post and was the last model I have worked on.

I do not feel bad about not painting, but I am mindful that I have not blogged since sharing the in progress pictures of Abuela. To remedy this, I will share some pictures of stuff that is either in the middle of painting or done.

 This is thirty five points of Khador. The league will finish out at fifty points, but this will see me through the next couple of months. Pretty much everything pictured is on the Kanban board.

Here is a picture of my Kholdun Lord. I finished him right before working on the War Dog. Yes, I both started and finished the model during the short time I have been keeping this blog yet failed to share it here.

I messed up an H and have been too lazy to fix it, but the client requested "Ho Ho Ho Bitches" after I told him NO on a woodland scene on the cloak. Sometimes we have to compromise with the client if we want to get paid.

I am heading out tonight with my paints in tow. My bag has a bucket full of Bones and some Space Marine Terminators primed in white. I might share if I do happen to accidentally get some paint on any of them.

We Can Kanban

One of my favourite hobby podcasts is the Independent Characters. They have been discussing for a while using a Kanban board to organize their hobby projects. A local player, The Professor, has also talked about it to me a bit. This post on the Independent Character’s blog finally pushed me into setting up a board.

Here is my board as it stands right now. It includes everything I either own or am likely to own for Deadzone over the coming year. It also includes projects that I am in the middle of as well as uncompleted models for my Khador forces. Everything is colour coded by game system with purple being a default colour. Since I do not foresee any Deadzone beyond what is already on the board, and Mordheim is not something I expect to see much play any time soon unless I run a campaign, they are in the default purple. The Privateer Press models are in red, Malifaux in orange, and 40K in blue for now. 40K is a pretty low priority for me right now, but one model has some paint on it and a couple of models are cleaned and primed.

I have entries organized with priority going to the models at the top of a column and going down from there. Playing around with the board I like the ease of use so far. I can see where the board will be helpful. I think I will be more likely to copy an existing entry in a given column rather than drag an entry straight over however as while subtasks are entry specific right now I am finding myself assigning the same subtasks to multiple entries in the same column and clearing out the subtasks from previous columns. It’s easier to delete the old entry then copy and rename an entry from the new column rather than copy the old entry over and change all the subtasks. We’ll see how this goes in the future.

If this sounds like something you would be interested in, then I encourage you to check out the blog post on the Independent Characters. There are some good tips to get you started. You can find Kanban Flow here.

Here Puppy, Puppy, Puppy

I just finished the War Dog for my Khador army.

Here are the colours used on the dog itself.

Arcane Blue P3

Bleached Bone DGW

Coal Black P3

Hammerfall Khaki P3

Ogryn Flesh Wash DGW

Scorched Brown DGW

Vomit Brown DGW

DGW = Discontinued Games Workshop Paint

P3 = Privateer Press Paint

I started with a basecoat of Hammerfall Khaki and Vomit Brown. There was more Vomit Brown then Hammerfall Khaki. Maybe 5:2. It was definitely between 1:1 and 1:2 ratios. I then blocked in the underside of the model and up into the chest in muzzle with almost pure Hammerfall Khaki with just a touch of Vomit Brown and a little bit of blending into the rest of the body as my photo references had the underbelly, chest, and muzzle area lighter and more desaturated than the flanks and top of the body.

The muzzle was done by mixing the base mix (well, eyeballing a fresh batch) with some Scorched Brown, blending over to a pure Coal Black, then hitting parts of the nose and edges of the moth with a mix of Coal Black and Arcane Blue. I realize the muzzle should be kept warm, but I was hoping to inject a bit of contrast. I did the same process for the skin around the eyes.

The body had a lot of back and forth. I ended up dropping the Hammerfall Khaki part way through the painting process and using Bleached Bone instead as I felt there was not enough saturation in the highlights. The only colour listed above that was not used in the flesh aside from the muzzle and eyes is Arcane Blue. The Ogryn Flesh Wash was used more for adding warmth back to the model than for true shading.

I used some Reaper HD Winter Blue and P3 Thamar Black in spots on the body while working on other parts of the model to try and tie the model into the rest of the force. The rest of the model used what has become the standard for my Khador force. The exception here is the leather straps which was just Thamar Black and Hammerfall Khaki.