Rook End | Painting, Programming and Other Odd Corners

Still some work needed on this guy, but was enough for contest entry.  A good continuation to my Imperial Fists army, whenever I start in on that for sure.  

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  For the first time in more than four years, I'm gonna paint some 40k.  There's a contest over on reddit and since I've cleaned out my office I've had a chance to catalog everything in m...

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Alexis Polux is one of the models that arrived in my Forge World order.  This is perhaps the cleanest model I've ever seen out of Forge World; there's almost no mold line to speak of and ev...

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Woo hoo!  My Forge World order arrived and I dug right in: breaking down my 10 Breachers.  I always break down models that will be easy to assemble.  It gives me a first chance to look ov...

http://www.rookend.com/2016/01/daily-pic-jan-31.html

I love Harebrained Schemes' work on the Shadowrun games and I was excited to see what they were going to do with a miniatures game, so I was interested in checking out Golem Arcana.  Sadly, ...

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Here's the only thing I've started painting on my Warmachine Mercenaries force.  After this, I lost interest.  They're still up on my painting shelf, though.  Maybe one day...

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I don't think I've ever posted these before, but since I had it out I decided to snap a few pics of my Mice & Mystics heroes.  Mice & Mystics is a fantastic board game, good for kids 8+-- ...

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I feel dirty doing this.  I normally carefully clip, trim, clean and assemble each model before I prime it.  Usually I will leave parts separated for easier painting, but every piece is fr...

http://www.rookend.com/2016/01/easy-three-colors-and-daily-pic-jan-27.html

Yup, that's three colors.  Except that Vindicare guy.  WIP Skitarii and Plasma Obliterator.

http://www.rookend.com/2016/01/daily-pic-jan-26.html

"Order: Dispatched"... ah, the best thing you can hear from FW.

http://www.rookend.com/2016/01/daily-pic-jan-25.html

Courtesy of finance.yahoo.com Well, the pound is pretty low compared to the dollar right now, so you know what that means...

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It's the weekend!  More progress on the IF Fire Raptor.  I'll be needing this one for the Heresy tournament on the 20th, so not much time. This piece was a pain to fit-- it was actual...

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Here's my most recent WIP.  I'm not getting enough contrast on the robes, so I paused work on him.  I just couldn't bring myself to use the silly hat head, so he got the plain-jane robes. ...

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The great thing about having a dedicated hobby space is that you don't have to clean up your project when you're right in the middle of it.  If you finish working for the day, you just ...

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Made some progress on this thing.  Lots of hot water baths before things lined up like I wanted.  Truth be told, these sides of the fuselage where wonky and really discouraged me from start...

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Here's my Heresy bits box.  Sadly, there are no Rapier crew in here.  I must have traded them.

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And then there's this guy: Fire Raptor Gunship.  I can't remember if I washed this yet, but I don't think so.  Or maybe... some of the pieces are cleaned and trimmed.  But I put it back in...

http://www.rookend.com/2016/01/daily-pic-jan-18.html

Hello, Rapier Laser Destroyer.  Where are your crew?  Did I trade them?  Hmm...

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And here's my project for 2016: get rid of this overflow table.  The blue crate are my Orks-- I gotta do something with them.  Sell, sell and paint, or just paint-- something.  The clear c...

http://www.rookend.com/2016/01/daily-pic-jan-15.html

So I helped move some furniture and didn't get anything done today. This is the Nothing Box.  It is empty.  It represents no progress.

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My hobby area.  This is a great armoire I got from my sister; it has tons of storage and that "keyboard" shelf pulls out and makes a great place to store paint.  The nice thing is that it c...

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Here's my cabinet of armies.  Lately, this has turned into my cabinet of Marines.  What isn't shown are my Orks (crated up), my Skitarri and my Black Templars-- those got cleared out when I...

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Not very exciting, but progress getting the wash layer down on all the Assault Troops and ten Support Squad guys.

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Bad phone pic, but some progress on the base coats for my HQ. This is the first time I used the Army Painter primer and I'm sold.  It is really smooth and clean, even in sub-optimal con...

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This might look exactly the same, but now this guy is cleaned and glued together.  I'm going to try the dark primer for him, instead of light primer+yellow+wash.  He'll get the dark primer...

http://www.rookend.com/2016/01/daily-pic-jan-8.html