Picked up a boxed set of Cadian Heavy Weapons teams with my TradeMe profits and discovered this interesting article regarding creating 15 heavy weapon teams from the boxed set and some extra Cadian plastic parts. May have to try a few of these – in particular I’d like to do Autocannons, Heavy Bolters, Missile Launchers and Lascannons in that order. Over the years I’ve played IG I’ve never actually tried Autocannons. They seem like a good deal at S7 AP3-4? Heavy 2…a nice compromise between a Lascannon and a Heavy Bolter.

Second Terminator auction actually reached the reserve which is surprising considering the lack of action on the first. Possibly people like the dynamic old Librarian? Closes this Saturday so we’ll see how it goes.

First mold for the heads was a failure. Vertical molding of detailed surfaces is just a recipe for trapping air bubbles in the mold. Rebuilt two 2-part molds for an old IG body and the two heads. Interestingly enough the ’1.5′ side molds for arms worked out fairly well. Three of the four arms are castable with some application of a toothpick while resin pouring to get bubbles out. Hope to get a few casts out this weekend and start building some updated heavy weapons teams (prone guardsmen on large round bases). Might grab a Cadian Heavy Weapons box and mix and match that or just scavenge a few Chaos Heavy Bolters.

Made my first trade on TradeMe. Grabbed a couple of old style Cadian Liets for half price from Phil – the guy that used to work at GW in town. Small world eh?

It also occurred to me that I could sculpt the Tau sitting statue from Klean Klay. The only problem is I don’t know how much detail I could get from the klay and it wouldn’t be robust during sculpting and I’d destroy the master after the molding process. I really should make some progress on this sculpt but have something of a artistic block at the moment…

Damn, turns out I should have been painting over wash years ago. I think I’ll continue to wash with chestnut ink for the Mordheim figures as it gives them a nice dark grimy look that seems appropriate. However for 40k I’ll start using ink wash over the base colours and then highlighting with a bit of light blending. Those Basilisk tankers look much better already :|… Crap. Time to repaint my 1800 points Imperial Guard army.