@cannon_fodder: There probably won't be much progress on the bommer til around Xmas. I just bought a house and will be moving in a week. As for the grots.... there will be plenty of grot goodness on the underwing bombs
Slow and steady wins the race, right? I must be winning something!
I've put in about 5 hours over the last two weeks with a bunch of piddly stuff on the stormboyz. straps and buckles, control boxes, and a couple of weapons. I find that I'v egot the NMM for small and round things down pretty good. The larger, flat open spaces need a bit of work. Here's some detail shots before I did the reds and hoses for the weapons on four of them - the ones with the under-slung sluggas.
Getting a little better at where to put the white highlights and how much - hands are still a little shakey though.
And at the end of the night, a little conga line left and right. I still have the bolt on spike/blades on the one to finish and I'll call these four done for now. I'll move on to the other six stormboyz and do their weapons as they're all pretty much the same combos of knives and sluggas. Then I'll go through and do all the shoulderpads. After all that I get to figure out what to do with all the rokket packs!
I also wanted to introduce you to my painting buddy. His name is Rowdy and he lives up to every letter in his name. When he's not raising hell around the house, he's the cutest damn thing. Whenever I do my modeling, whether painting or creating stuff, he always parks himself within a couple of feet of me and sleeps. Never in my lap, always a short step away. He gives me a good excuse to wake him up every once in a while to take a break from whatever I'm doing. I know, he looks a bit strange here but he does this all the time. Not just lying on his back all stretched out but craning only his neck up and looking at you weird like this. I see it every morning while I'm ironing my clothes for work.
Rowdy's wierd too.
It will probably be while before my next post again as my wife and I close on our new house (yay!) on Monday. Two weeks, at least. Under three if I can get enough stuff done and my painting hutch unpacked sooner rather than later. We'll see.
Later!
