Historical on holiday.

Currently enjoying some time with the family but that's not stopped me doing a bit of painting.

I've added some metal and eyes to some of the historical gonks. If I can I will try and post some pictures. (if I can still get a signal)

Location : 165 Ridgeway Dr, Bromley, Greater London BR1 5,
Posted on the move. TGM

Slow progress.

I must be getting old!

It seems to be taking longer and longer to recover from shows.  Lack of sleep has been making my eyes itch.

The historical figures have been added to.  I've done the flesh parts now. (This may not seem a lot but there's, maybe three coats of flesh paint over the black).
Flesh colours should be built up otherwise the texture can get a bit lumpy. 

Next up, I'm doing the metallic bits.

Missing the paint.

I'm away until Monday and am getting withdrawal symptoms from the lack of paint licking.

Location : Chieveley, Newbury, West Berkshire,
Posted on the move. TGM

Historical Figures and Life

Have had a week of happenings so have not been able to do what I wanted to do with the latest gonks.

They have have some progress.  I've done the base skin colours and although you cannot see this I have been studying historical clothing.  (Mmm, pretty interesting research really but it does sound like watching wood warp).

Have "mentally" decided the clothing colours for most of the figures but cannot decide on the Greek/Roman gonk.  (Obvious choice would be to have a red crest and kilt but I'm thinking maybe black....)
Suggestions on a postcard, (failing that a post/comment could be good).

Historical Gonks.

I think that these are to be used in an RPG game but am not totally sure.  (If I find out more, I'll let you know).

Anyway, although these figures had already been assembled and primed I still had to remove some of the green stuff/blue tac/mozzerella like plastic stuff from the bases to reveal the bottom of cloaks and feet.  (It wasn't too bad but I had to do it).  Afterwards I "PVAd" some sand onto the base, (leaving the rocks showing on the couple that had rocks on).
Then, in true Gonk Machine style I gave them all a thin coat of black.  This makes a great base colour but also flattens out the sometimes grainy texture of spray paint. 

What's Next?

With the landing of the new tabletop game Cutlass! at The Games Vault I've had to do a bit of a double shuffle in the Black Book.

So, instead of doing two Warmachine figures I'll be doing these seven historic role playing type gonks:

I'll be back on track then.  (I think...)

The Frog Team 17

Well it's been a long time coming - this team of Slann players has been on the holding shelf for longer than I care to remember - sorry Stewart!

But after a big push on the Line Frogs and bases; I am very pleased and proud to present The Daventry Croakers:

If the weather becomes brighter I'll take some better shots.

The Frog Team 16

The Gonk Machine has been doing its thing.  It's almost out of control!
While the sun was setting I took this quick snap of "The Judge" who's the team coach and ex player. He's just waiting now for his base to be done properly.

After I've done all eight Line Frogs, I will be doing a mass basing action.  For that I'll be needing these:

I prepared the bunches of "reeds" earlier by gluing them in the middle.  Now that they're well and truly dry I've cut them in half with my mate Stan and then trimmed them off into reed sized bunches. 

The Frog Team 15

On with the Line Frogs then.  After the green, I've added a cream colour and then washed this with Sepia Wash to try and give some depth and definition to the underbelly.  At the moment the loin cloth looks the same colour as the belly. (Strange that.  It is). The belly will be made much lighter later on. (Once the rest of the gonk is dry).

The Frog Team 14

The Gonk Machine has started to smoke.  Here's the Kroxigor that it's produced overnight. All ready for his base.

What's next?  A whole load of Line Frogs that's what.

The Frog Team 13

I think the curse of the yellow frogs is now over!  They're all ready for the basing to be complete which I'll do altogether as a team to get the same colours throughout.

Next up I've turned the crank up on the Gonk Machine to tackle the Big Guy.

The NAF Cup Challenge Recipe

OK.  For this recipe you'll need the following ingredients:

• 2 Cups of My Coffee
• 7 Vallejo Paints
• 2 Vallejo Varnishes, (Gloss and Satin)
• 1 Pot of Clean H20
• 1 Bright Lamp, (A really rubbish one that burns my head will suffice)
• 2 Sticky Pad Things
• 1 Gonk Machine

Prepartion Time: Three Hours.

Add the above ingredients into the mix and stir continually. 

Get up early, take photograph and present before mattwhile goes to his competition!

The NAF Cup Challenge

A quick change from frogs but still bloodbowl related.

Today is the NAF World Championships at Warhammer World where several of the "Daventry Vaulters" from The Games Vault will be playing.

Several weeks ago I had been asked to completely strip and repaint a couple of NAF trophies for top player: mattwhile.

Well, with the strict order of The Black Book the trophies would have been done by next season, (August/Septemberish) without a doubt.  I thought that I would break the rules, (again) to try and finish the trophies in time for today's big event.

Of course I had forgotton that it was #1 son's rugby presentation dinner which I had to attend.  Several pints and two roast beef dinners later and suddenly it's one in the morning!

I had made a start and this was the state of play:

The Frog Team 12

Back again for another session. Thia time I've spent an evening gluing bundles of dried grass together - all will be revealed later...

 Also, the yellow frogs have been given another go.  I've decided to have a pair with black splodges and a pair without.  They're both going to be nice and bright I hope.

These are the ones that were stripped back to bare metal last week.