My wife snapped and picked me up a GW paint station last night. Over-priced for what it is of course but I was never going to get around to making one. At least now all my painting crap can be transported to and from the garage/dining table quickly and easily. I snapped and picked up a copy of the Flames of War rulebook last night from Historic Games in Newmarket. Looks interesting but I have vowed to not purchase anything until VC BP is complete as well as the Mordheim Coach House AND the Gothic Church. Hopefully that will motive me enough to finish these two terrain projects. Some minor progress on 2 more Zombies last night as well.
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May 122004
+2 Ghouls. VC Border Patrol is 80% complete. That makes my BP Ghoul unit complete – so it’s just 8 Zombies left to paint and I’ll have 500 points of BP ready to play. I’ve also completed another movement tray for the Zombies and started painting the Coach House ruins. Also whipped up a few simple ‘raising’ bases last night with a mix of Zombie + Skeleton parts and some spare Hydrostone gravestones I had. Speaking of which apparently Petra Ceramics have stopped selling Hydrostone which is a total bastard as this stuff is great. Top Mark sell 22kg of Ultracal 30 for almost exactly the same price…so I guess I’ll have to try that out and hope it’s as good as Hydrostone.
May 072004
+1 Ghoul. VC Border Patrol is 74% complete. Also primed the second wrought iron fenced movement tray. The final 2 Ghouls have got their base coats down…just two more coats + details and the 7 Ghoul skirmisher unit will be complete. I hope to use these guys to provide a bit of cover from Griff’s Brettonian Archers while the VC advance. Itching to do some more Mordheim terrain work strangely enough. Coach House must be finished! It’s sooo close!
May 052004
+1 Ghoul. VC Border Patrol is 71% complete. Another Ghouls is almost complete and two more are queued up for the next coat. Discovered that highlighting with a Teracotta/Pallid Flesh/Bleached Bone mix makes a much nicer final paint job so will go with that for now on. Detailed another movement tray for the VC as well, but need some more black spray primer. Put together another Mordheim 1′ floor tile and did a fair amount of casting over this long weekend (for me anyway). My baby boy helped in the garage a couple of times as well while sitting in his exer-saucer. ‘Help’ meaning bouncing up and down like a maniac while eating water crackers. Almost out of Hydrostone but I figure I might as well use it up because it’s been a bit exposed to moisture in the garage as our clothes drier is in there as well. Some light detailing on Mordheim Coach House. Second floor is almost ready to be base painted.
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