It's Been One Hot Couple Of Weeks

That's about all I can say there, we've had a little heat wave and I don't do that well in heat.  Surprisingly enough, I was alright up until last weekend.  Brutally hot would describe the weather.  I painted outside most of Saturday and the air conditioning felt good when I came in.  On the plus side, my unit of Burnas is finished, capped off with a Mekboy I gave a looted Doomsiren too because it was fun.  My last Crusader is done.  I got a good start on Ghazdgkull  and the Warp Spider Exarch which has been sitting on my desk for 18 months.  Just finished that one up tonight.  It's good to have it done.

I've been a little out of the photography mood of late, so I haven't gotten pictures of the models yet.  A task for later this week I suppose.  I'm going to take care of a Skull Probe next for a little change of pace and a small project, then I'll start drilling out the torson on the Ork Boss.

Busy Times

Things have been pretty busy since I returned from Waterloo.  Work's ramping up, well still and looking at doing the campaign at Sean's next weekend means that I have to have the campaign booklet done and the appropriate miniatures.  Means lots of front loaded work.  Should be fun though.  Ivan gave me a Magic deck too, which was nice.  Turns out there are a few other cards I'd like to have, so I'll get those, but I should be more than good to go once my little box is filled up.

A Trip To Waterloo

Had a nice trip to Waterloo. I caught up with Sparky and V, did some painting and hung out. It was a lot of fun. Veronica painted up the first batch of my Sisters of Battle for me, which I thought was nice. I think they turned out well, though the pictures don't quite do them justice, the white is very bright and I'm trying to photo to models at night without a light box. I'm using the flash, but it reflects pretty heavily off of the Skull White. I'll try to get some better pictures tomorrow.

Ever find one of those models that just about paints itself?

Well, I did today and it was added to a pretty short list. I've painted quite a bit (well, for me at any rate, I'm sure other folks have done more) and there are only a few models for which I've seen this occur. The old Possessed (what can I say, they're goofy looking and I like them), Boss Snikrot, the Vostroyan Sniper with the funky optic helmet and this Commissar Nic gave me. It's a great model and it got finished in record time. The only real pain in the arse was gluing the right arm on, but for a model this fun to paint, I'll deal.

Gaming and Painting

A bit of an odd Saturday. I slept in and puttered away at my Crusaders. Talk about fun models to paint, they're beauties. I doubt they'll be as cool in game as they look, but I'll field them anyway. If GW ever comes out and does a plastic Inquisition Retinue kit, I'm sure they'd wind up with some pretty cool stuff. Nic gave me a Commissar and an Ogryn to work on as well and they're coming along well. I've gotten the Commissar about half done in the last hour or so. The Ogryn will take a little longer since he's a bigger model and he's getting a bigger gun as well, but that's alright.

Sean and I went to the Gamer's Lair today and played a game through. We drew the game at two objectives each. Sean brought out the Daemons and I went with a thrown together Ork list which worked pretty well considering. Aside from that, Doug mentioned that he's gutting the store in August to be rid of the rat maze effect and make room for more gaming tables, so that's a good thing. He showed Sean and I the drawings and it looks as though the place will be considerably more open when he's done. He's also going to start selling used models and things, which could be interesting. I know I've gotten some bits and pieces from Doug's used cabinet before and they've been descent deals, reasonably comparable to eBay when you factor in the shipping and things.

It's a cool July

So people are saying anyway.  I don't mind it.  Good weather for wandering round.

Work's been busy and getting busier, par for the season.  I've gotten three new trainers hired on and they're doing well, so there should be more breathing room now than before.

I've gotten Nic's Burnas done, which is a good thing.  I hadn't painted in bulk in a while and doing so again was a bit of a departure.  I can still do it, but it takes longer to get back into that groove than it used to.  I guess I've been spoiled by doing too many command units and similar things.  I've decided to work on either a Crusader or a Wolf Priest next, though I think I've settled on the Crusader.  I want to play around with fabrics and see if I can make them look good with a bit of a cross between blending and dry brushing.  If I get too frustrated with that though, I can pull out the Wolf Priest.  Models like that make me wish I was making a Space Wolves army.  Their regular Blood Claws and Grey Hunters are very nicely done and their character units like Rune Pirests, Wolf Priest, Wolf Guard and Iron Priests are just beautiful.  At any rate though, we'll see how it goes.

Hotter Than A Snake's Ass In A Wagon Rut

GMDF, it's been a hot and weird week.

It was after 19:00 when I got out of the office today, but thankfully, there was a nice breeze.  Even with that though, I worked up a sweat walking haim. 

Anyway, a really strange week of stuff coming from the wood work.  I wound up a little jacked up, to the point where I stopped at Scotty's for a read and a pint after work just to be sociable.  I'm not even sure which helped more.

At any rate though, I'm looking forward to a nice, reasonably quiet weekend.  Might even happen.  Who knows.