Will Vale Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Hi all, Sorry for the delay, I've been rather absent over the last month or so. It doesn't help that I haven't logged into BM on my 'phone so quite often I'm checking the forum in the form of a ghost... Last year has been a bit of a mixed bag of stuff, with quite a lot of figures but less than I thought overall as there are several new unfinished projects for the shelf of doom. In January I caved to peer pressure and did a bit on my Dune diorama by painting up this Cthulhu Wars monster as a sandworm. It's a hard vinyl figure with nice detail but the seams are always a pain to clean up as you have to pare them down with an ultra-sharp blade rather than scraping. The start of the year was rather taken up with organising and marketing our Scale Models Expo again, but I got these skeletons finished by the end of February I think: They're pretty fun - fiddly to build but I enjoyed the painting although as ever the details seemed to go on forever. Here are a few close-ups: I made my daughter a custom Nerf gun in March so she could dress up as a zombie hunter at our local comic-and-stuff show - she has an ID and some zombie samples which I think I did the year before? The week before Scale Models Expo I had time to put two of these ships together in about 48 hours. I broke the other one slightly and it needs a repair and dusting so it never got photographed. They're more Bandai 1/1000 Space Battleship Yamato 2199 kits. Like everything Leiji Matsumoto does they're really pretty. May and June saw some experimental Necrons which I think came out really well. I finally seem to have made my peace with lighting effects on minis The Immortals above were pretty quick to do, the Wraiths below took a lot longer: They look pretty cool together and I really should paint some more, but then Soul Wars came out and distracted me pretty badly... At the end of June I also did another Nerf gun for L's birthday, which was a super-quick two day job in terrible weather. Not my best work but it's not terrible and she was really happy. I did a presentation box with satin lining and custom foam, using the graphics from the Photoshop image. July was mostly building Soul Wars figures, and I managed to paint some test ghosts: Since there were duplicates I did some simple conversions like this Chainrasp who has an empty hand instead of a weapon - he looks like he's going to fetch someone such a slap! I painted one of the Endless Spells at the same time - a Suffocating Gravetide, which was really fun. There was a bit of a gap in finished projects then (see below) but at the end of September I had a great time making a couple of Hotwheels/Matchbox cars into wargaming pieces for a game called Gaslands: I want to do some more, but stripping the paint is quite annoying. In October I got talked into entering Armies on Parade again and painted more ghosts (all in a week!) this guy isn't really finished yet but he's quite close... Since it was Armies on Parade I had to make a display board, which had to happen in five very busy days. Just made it in the end: My daughter got involved too and painted several Tau to add to her existing Pathfinder figure: After that madness I went into a bit of a decline (plus it's videogame release season!) but managed to finish last year's Pteras for our club competition. I even did a little bit of extra work on it in December to fix some things I didn't like. I was rather pleased with the figure, who came out quite well for 1/72. And that's the lot. Except it isn't quite, because at the start of the year I finished off this beast I've not been talking about it/showing it since it's supposed to be for a book, but I haven't heard anything from them for a year so I reckon I can get away with posting a pic or two here: I was expecting great things having built the excellent Viper, but this is a different beast altogether. Soft detail, bad mastering, some very good fit and some bad. I ended up doing an awful lot of work including a scratch interior and cockpit louvres plus the lighting stuff. Still, it's a very big model and not terribly expensive, and it's much better than not having a studio scale Raider kit I also had a couple of good works-in-progress which I need to pick up again: All in all not a bad year. I need to dust the Raider and take some proper pictures of it really as I've made a very fancy Perspex stand which looks pretty cool. It's just so stupidly big that it's hard to photograph. Cheers, Will 12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaddad Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 orsum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsaircorp Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Stunning work !! Is'nt the Playmobil castle ?? If yes !! Congratulations !! You really customize it ! Sincerely. CC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Moore Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Fantastic collection Will. I'm still amazed you created the graveyard base to such a high standard so quickly! Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaStix Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Well, as always, I am so utterly impressed by the stunning quality of your models as well as how many you build and paint so superbly in a year!! A truly awesome collection for the year. Kind regards, Stix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Vale Posted January 22, 2019 Author Share Posted January 22, 2019 On 1/4/2019 at 5:33 PM, spaddad said: orsum Thanks! Catching up with lots of missed posts over Christmas, bear with me On 1/4/2019 at 8:43 PM, corsaircorp said: Is'nt the Playmobil castle ?? If yes !! Congratulations !! You really customize it ! I hadn't thought of the resemblance but it does look rather like it It's actually a 28mm scale plastic kit from Games Workshop, with minimal customisation so far. On 1/5/2019 at 3:28 AM, PlaStix said: Well, as always, I am so utterly impressed by the stunning quality of your models as well as how many you build and paint so superbly in a year!! A truly awesome collection for the year. Aw, very kind. It's not as many as it seems to be as the similar figures get painted in sets so they only really count as one model. But they look good in a big heap. On 1/4/2019 at 10:29 PM, AndyRM101 said: Fantastic collection Will. I'm still amazed you created the graveyard base to such a high standard so quickly! Thanks Andy, I think I'll try and leave myself more time next year (if I do it next year) though. I'm currently wondering about picking up my Z gauge layout this year - it's based on the Höllental in southern Germany, and has been sitting in my cupboard for about five years as I need to cover it in many many trees, and also build catenary and other hard stuff: Actually scarily it's eight years, I suspect I may have to battle spiders for possession of the tunnels... 🕷️🕸️🕷️ The motivating factor being that Märklin have a whole line of themed (re) releases this year, so I can pick up some rolling stock without needing to trawl ebay.de. And I haven't played trains for quite a while. Food for thought. Cheers, Will 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Quite a varied, interesting, & eclectic collection. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Vale Posted February 11, 2019 Author Share Posted February 11, 2019 Thanks! I think varied might be my middle name... W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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