I’ve taken some time off work to combat ye olde burnout (because that’s fun), and I’ve gotten a little bit of painting done.
Arriving on the done pile today is this unit of Iron Hands Veteran Breachers to accompany a Centurion on boarding actions:
It’s just five dudes, but they should pack a punch and they look cool.
I’m increasingly happy with my formula for Iron Hands armour - which is now revised to a coat of Army Painter Rough Iron followed by a single coat of diluted Grim Black Speedpaint, and a final wash of Marine Juice after all the non-bright bits are done.
It’s a shame I really hate painting metallics, because these guys look great when finished. I’d love to see a full 3000+ point army of them but doing more than the 1500 I have in mind might polish off what’s left of my sanity.
I also took some time over Easter to finally get some spraypaint over my Zone Mortalis tiles and terrain:
This took most of a can of black, and most of a can of brown spray paint. Even with my very simplified colour scheme, this is going to take aaaaages to finish. I decided to paint the tops grey to bring them in line with the concrete bits in the walls and floors, and only then realised that my grey primer is very different from my concrete grey. So that’s going to be fun.
I’ll probably run out of my brown highlight and concrete grey colours, so I’ll order a couple pots of each of those before I venture out into finishing this lot. Looking at them all laid out like this makes it actually look like a smaller project, so maybe that will motivate me to get this lot finished this year - these walls and tiles counted as 60 onto the pile when I added them (before assembly) so will make a big dint in the pile if I can get them done.
That’s down the line, though. It’s only five off the pile for this update.
BATG Score: -6
