{"id":290,"date":"2009-11-21T09:03:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T09:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/partridges.org.uk\/?p=79"},"modified":"2009-11-21T09:03:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T09:03:51","slug":"speed-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Speed painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting Thursday evening. I had planned a gentle potter in the study, possibly aiming to clear the tray of half assembled figures on the tray on top of the printer so that I can actually print stuff out again. Instead a friend of mine IMed me in the afternoon looking for some Tau fire-warriors with pulse carbines to use in a competition at the weekend. Never wishing to let a friend down, and since I did vaguely remember having some undercoated sprues of the aforementioned warriors in the garage, I leapt into action once I got home (via a brief interlude unblocking my parents-in-law’s sink).<\/p>\n

A brief expedition into the further recesses of the garage located the sprues in question. A rapid tally of the parts revealed that I could only make 9 warriors with pulse carbines from the sprue, and even then only if 3 of them were actually lobbing grenades and just holding carbines in the other hand (which is a slightly strange posture since the pulse carbine has an underslung grenade launcher begging the question of why you would throw a grenade when you have a machine that preseumably can do it for you much better).<\/p>\n

Anyway, I quickly assembled these and undercoated them with Shadow Grey. I painted the various bits of hardware (carbines, backpacks) with Midnight Blue and drybrushed them lightly with Shadow Grey. The bodies I then quickly painted with splinter camouflage in Space Wolves Grey, Ice Blue and Fortress Grey and then gave the whole thing a quick blue ink wash.<\/p>\n

Here is a very poor photo of them – I would take a better one but they have already gone off to battle. I suspect a better picture will just show up the deficiencies of the paint job though. Originally I was going to do Tau in a red\/brown colour scheme – these are blue\/grey to fit in my David’s army better, but I actually think I prefer the blue\/grey colour scheme.<\/p>\n

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An interesting Thursday evening. I had planned a gentle potter in the study, possibly aiming to clear the tray of half assembled figures on the tray on top of the printer so that I can actually print stuff out again. Instead a friend of mine IMed me in the afternoon looking for some Tau fire-warriors … Continue reading “Speed painting”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}