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2018 Year in Review

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Warning: I'm a numbers guy... there's a lot of that in this post! Well, I posted a few months ago that I had already completed my resolution to paint 365 minis in 2018. At that time I set myself a stretch goal of 500 minis!!! Soooo how did I do on that one? Well... I didn't paint 500 minis from scratch in the year, but I completed 511 minis in 2018 and another 45 smaller pieces. A really healthy total I think. I feel like this year has taken me a long way toward getting back on top of that lead mountain. There is still a lot to do but I honestly think that I could be realistically on top of things by the end of 2019 if I continue with the same mindset. Carry over: (22 + 11 small) Space Hulk:  6xTerminators Mansions of Madness:  2xShoggoths, 2xCthonians, 1xDark Young, 1xDunwich Horror Blood Bowl:  Wood Elf & Chaos Apothecaries, Ball Marker Warhammer Underworlds:  Reaver 5xSpiteclaw Lady Morrigan Wander: Tank Misc: 10xBarrels Completed: (4

Warhammer 40k Conquest magazine - Ultramarines

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As you may know, I have been working on the models that come with Warhammer 40,000 Conquest magazine. You can follow my work on the Space Marines in  my new video series . This article is to accompany that series to provide folks with the steps in written form to allow them to follow along at home. As I called out in the show - it's important to keep detailed notes of the steps taken in order to be able to reproduce for later units. Basic shopping list: Paints + Brush - GW Set (includes Clippers) £25/$40 / Army Painter Starter £25/$30 (Clippers - Army Painter Side Clippers £10/$12) Spray primer - GW Chaos Black £12 / Rustoleum Painter's Touch Flat Black Primer ~$4 Baking Parchment (Parchment Paper US) / Morrison's Baking Parchment (UK) Reynold's Parchment Paper (US) ~£2/$2 Kitchen Towel - Get the better thicker stuff ~£1/$1 Cheap lunchbox/tupperware container ~£1/$1 Water cup ~£1/$1 Spray varnish - GW Munitorum £12 / Army Painter Anti-Shine £11 / Testo

Warhammer 40,000 Conquest Magazine - Poxwalkers

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I have been working on the models that come with Warhammer 40,000 Conquest magazine. You can follow my work on the Space Marines in my new video series . In order to keep pace with the magazines, I am doing the Death Guard outside of this series and using a few more advanced tricks to see how quickly I can paint up a cool looking army. This post is going to track what I've done with the poxwalkers. Partly to help others but also so I have a clear record of what I did for when more of them come in future issues (I think there will be 32 to paint in total). Assembly: (1hr) Clip parts off of sprue Scrape mould lines Assemble and glue Airbrushing: (2hrs) Prime with chaos black primer. Airbrush zenithal with Kislev flesh. (I used Army Painter barbarian flesh with these models but Kislev Flesh is a good proxy.) This should be a generous zenithal rotating down to almost perpendicular with the model. Add inks to patches of skin. This is what really  Drakenh

Dwarven Slayers Strike! (Part 2 - Strike Harder)

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Last month I left you with this picture: ( in this post ) So the next step is of course to cover all that work! Why? Well because I wanted to get the weapons done and like with the helmet - there was enough risk of overspray that I wanted to protect the rest of my work on the model. This was my first real effort at NMM through airbrushing having done a bit more of a hand-waving effort with the helmets (see last week). The weapons really needed to read like metal so to get this I started dark and then brought the colours up lighter and lighter: Started with a coat of VMA Black With VMA in the cup I would add some Stynylrez white Each pass would see more White introduced for about 4 layers The final layer was a very light grey rather than 'white' this allowed me to go in and do a final highlight by hand of the brightest points. Do get a metallic sheen, Highlights were often done as radial streaks on the curved weapons by moving the airbrush quickly back and fo

Getting into Minis on a Budget - Episode 1 is live!

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The first episode of my new series is live and up on my YouTube channel! Check it out and if you like it, then give me a follow! - Raggy, signing out

NEW Weekly Livestream: Getting into the Hobby on a budget!

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Hi everyone! I wanted to announce a new weekly YouTube Livestream I will be doing over on my channel . Weekly Live Stream Thursdays 8pm GMT / 3pm ET / 12pm PT The idea of the show is to go through getting into the Hobby from scratch with as tight a budget as possible. I will be looking at where you can cut corners and where you can't and I'll be painting a few models holding myself to the same restriction. As this will be a live stream - I'll be answering questions as I go which will hopefully help people with specific issues and capture elements I haven't considered. Basic shopping list: Paints + Brush -  GW Set (includes Clippers)  £25/$40 /  Army Painter Starter  £25/$30 (Clippers -  Army Painter Side Clippers  £10/$12) Spray primer -  GW Chaos Black  £12 /  Rustoleum Painter's Touch Flat Black Primer  ~$4 Baking Parchment (Parchment Paper US) / Morrison's Baking Parchment (UK) Reynold's Parchment Paper (US) ~£2/$2 Kitchen Towel