Sunday, November 30, 2014

Lost and Found Rohan Rider, a Couple Nappies, and Some Space Marines

Hello Exceptional Gifted Viewer,

A fairly mundane post without many minis, but I've been prepping models for the 5th Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge.   http://thepaintingchallenge.blogspot.ca/

Last time I posted Rohan minis, one was mysteriously missing.  I found the missing warrior stolen by my cat Cthulhu.  It was not an easy find.  First I had to team up with a ghoul, go on a confusing boat ride through Kaddath, and eventually I found my mini in the paws of said cat.  I was going to kill the feline using the Viking eagle wings torture technique, but I was in Ulthar, where no man may kill a cat.  Instead I fed him tuna.





Here's a couple Frenchmen, I repainted over.  I don't mind repainting damaged used minis, as it's brain free coloring.





I painted a Space Shark terminator.  He's standing in front a tiny homemade mini-mine field.  The engineer must have been an idiot.  No one is going to miss those obvious tilt rods and if they're anti-vehicle, why aren't they surrounded by anti-personnel mine?  They're made of sprue pieces and bits of wire.

The dud dumb bomb is fairly small, maybe a 250 pounder.  I forgot to add lugs.

Now we have five red Space Marines, done in my quest to have one model from all 1,000 chapters.

In order, left to right:  Angels Encarmine, Red Hunters, Exorcists, Red Talons, and I don't know.  The Rogue Trader marine I picked didn't have a free shoulder pad to paint; I'm going to claim he's a Blood Angel.  I forgive myself for the quick somewhat sloppy shoulder art, I have to finish a thousand before I die.

With 16 different marines, I am 1.6% done with this project.

Here's about half the crap I have decided to paint next.  There'll be Rohan, Prussians, Frenchmen, Cthulhu monsters, Doom game monsters, Tuetonic Sergeants, centaurs, and Perry mercenaries.

till next time, love
Baconfat

13 comments:

  1. First, great painting, I really like your style.Secondly kudos on having a cat called Cthulhu, what a great name....I'm tempted to get another kitty so I can call him Nyarlathotep. Always thought Ulthar might be a suitable place to retire too (apart from the Zoog problem).

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  2. "Brain free coloring" is a classic! Too good not to use again.

    Great results on your painting and the figures in the painting queue are an eclectic mix. Love the Space Marines!

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  3. My compliments on another fabulous array of work.

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  4. Great painting dude! That's some paint queue you have there.

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  5. Great brushwork all around, James. I see the Terminator pulling hazardous duty for you in the minefield!

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  6. Your definition of "not many minis" needs adjusting, I wouldbe more than pleased with sucha productive output. Cat-thulu needs sending to the outer planes.

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  7. An eclectic collection indeed! I can see you're going to be busy during the challenge, good luck! PS give the cat a flick behind the ear! ;-)

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    1. Thanks Scott,

      consider him flicked, but I'll tell the all powerful extremely evil cosmic entity you made me do it.

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  8. Great paint job and great pictures too!

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  9. You always paint old miniatures and i think its great :)
    Great work again.

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  10. What a neat idea for the Marines. The forum DakkaDakka.com has a Space Marine Swap thread where people paint up a space marine for someone else. Even if you don't get involved, the thread is still very inspirational for painting Marines

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  11. Great stuff, especially the Rider.

    But the 1000 Marines project? That is seriously bonkers and definitely 'one to watch'. Good luck. :)

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