Project has been put on hold...

Unfortunately my Empire project has been put on hold for the next 6-12 weeks...

This is why...

I came off my bike last week and cracked my scaphoid bone. The doc has said that it could be a long term injury. but hopefully not too long. Being right handed I cant hold a paint brush or any tools. so there will be no progress till further notice. :(

Finally put brush to plastic

I finally got a chance to start painting over the weekend. Undercoated a unit of greatswords and worked out a colour scheme.

Its still quite rough, but once I get the colours sorted out i will tidy it up...

Another part of the collection ordered

I put in an order for 4 boxes of Demigryph knights last night. These things are awesome minis...

This picture is taken from the games workshop website. Each box has parts for 3 knights. which is very rude because i paid $78 per box...

I also ordered an Army painter mega paint set, which has a range of paints from the Army painter range and a few brushes. I needed to buy some more colours to be able to start on the empire painting and the Mega paint set was the most cost effective way of doing it. lol

Ill post some pics of the work in progress so far when the order turns up.

Alternative Creative Focus

My Empire project has been put on hold this last 2 weeks, I had a friend ask me to design her a tattoo (ive posted the design at triggazart.blogspot.com). So ive been working on that this weekend. Also had another friend who is a photographer ask me if I would be interested in doing some body painting for an upcoming photo shoot she is doing. So I did some sketches up for that as well.

My Empire project has been moving along slowly... Havent done any painting yet, but ive been assembling a lot of the minis in preparation for paint. Ill take some work in progress photos soon. :)

Back from Canberra

Ive arrived back from Canberra in one piece and after playing cricket yesterday in the D grade grand final (which we lost, the game was called off due to rain halfway through our batting innings and due to our run rate, we lost.) I am a little sore after copping a ball that was hit at a great rate of knots in the forearm, lots of swelling and bruising... lol good times.

I am on night shift for the next 2 weeks and hoping to get a little painting done. Ill post an update once I start putting brush to plastic.

Plastic overload!

I had a productive weekend cleaning up the multitude of miniatures that arrived last week and started assembling some of them. The problem that I have is that a lot of miniatures are obscured once fully assembled, arms across chests and other such nonsense.

Ive assembled as much as I can without obscuring anything. However it is going to be difficult to paint the other parts as is. A lot of the parts are very small. Im going to have to look at engineering a fix to allow me to hold the various parts to enable easy painting. Going to look at that tonight. Ill post some pictures tomorrow of the work so far.

Finally Arrived

With all the weather around, my order got delayed in transit. But it finally arrived today!

Here are some pics of the order during the unboxing. Im going to start cleaning up the minis and assembling tomorrow...

 

The Empire Boxed set is huge. Its going to take a bit of time to go through and sort everything out. Should be fun...