More goodiness added!

Too long away from the hobby does not stop me from it. So here's a list of what I have been doing for the past few days.

I bought the Warhammer Visions at a low cost at a hardware store. I at first did not wanted to buy it because of the price, but I looked at the price and man the price was too good to miss. Though they are about a month late, but the price is worth.

I am starting to like this book, especially the Golden Demon Award pictures. Those miniatures are painted so well that my army looks like a part od it's shadow only.

Next, I have been working on the Prospero Burns novel of the Horus Heresy series. It has a very cool story line and the more I read it, the more I start to like the wolves.

I finished my Imperial Fists terminator a while back but what caught my attention was the colour difference between the normal marine and the terminator. The colours are obviously way apart although I used the same yellow. I am going to figure that part out. In the mean time, The pictures of the terminator. Time to think of an awesome base for it!

(front)

(left)

(back)

(right)

See y'all soon!

Winters

How long has it been?

How long has it been already? Coped up at home just to finish up the Imperial Fists terminator sergeant. On the last count, I have already spent 16 hours on it already. Finally, here is the final product.

Before looking at the pictures, just to let you all know that I forgot that I have already used up my glue. So the pictures are the bits and pieces of the terminator after it is painted. Once I get my hands on the glue, I would show my fully built sergeant again.

(body and shield)

(bits and pieces)

(head)

So I chose a helmeted head for the sergeant, since he is going to post with Lysander and I don't want him to steal all the light. Plus I am bad at painting skin.

After thoughts now. I am going to stop painting yellow for the time being. Took me a whole 10 layers of yellow just to finish up the armour. Lots of repainting, drastically lowering the quality of my terminator. The eyes are actually green with a white dot at the top middle of the eye. Why? Well I was hoping for it to be at the edge like light but my brush dotted it in the middle and it is beyond my ability to change it. My brush is sacrificed. Yes, the fifth brush to meet it's fate while painting this guy, thus the many repainting.

Overall, it was a cool guy to paint. I was hoping to finish the squad but I guess I would stop it for a few days, let my eyes rest and also get my glue. So see you all soon!

Winters

Finally back after so long!

Sorry guys, was kind of busy of the past few days (or weeks, I can't remember). Was caught in examinations and camps. But fear not, for Winters is finally back with awesome new awesome posts!

First up, I am working on the terminators with the thunderhammer and storm shield. These guys are sort of like the test specimens for my colour scheme to the ultimate final terminator, Darnath Lysander himself. Which in other words, these are going to be Imperial Fists termies and I am going to work on them soon.

Forgive my poor priming. I was working on a new way of spraying the primer on and failed badly. These are already considered the best of the group. (Looks at the marines and sighs)

As you can see, I have some chaos terminators too. Those guys are for the later parts of an upcoming project right after I finish Lysander and his team.

Coming back to the Guards, I have also primed my Officio Perfectus Commissar, not too bad a priming, but still a little damaged. Sigh. Ah well, I will see what I can do about it. I have also done an unboxing video for it. I hope I can get it up to youtube soon once I am done looking through it again. Yes, again. Hearing it makes me laugh, I was so nervous when I did the unboxing. So when the video is up on youtube, try not to laugh.

That's all in today's news. I have already done my shopping for paints, so I should be able to finish up my Imperial Fists in the coming days. See you all later!

Winters

Astra Militarum Updates #3

Remember from this post: http://the-last-season.blogspot.sg/2014/05/astra-militarum-updates-2.html that I have said that I would probably regret not getting the 2/2 web exclusive miniature? (Or was it the next post) Sidetrack a bit, check out that post to view what I got with the 1/2 web exclusive miniature.

Back to topic, I finally got my hands on this 2/2 web exclusive miniature. As a collector, I could not hold myself back from buying this miniature. The parcel juts arrived yesterday and I was pretty happy. Though tired, I still managed to open and have a look at it. Adrenaline from excitement gave me fresh strength.

Why would I just specially ship this exclusive miniature when I can still order other things. Hence, the first thing that came to my mind was this Commissar (Yes, it is another Commissar). For loyal follwers who have read my previous posts, I have been getting quite some Commissars. But this was one of my favourite. Unlike all those Commissars fighting in the thick of the battle, this one reads from a book, giving the men fresh strength to smash the foes of the Emperor. The raised powerfist looks like is is about to crush the enemy's head but yet never faltering in reading on, boosting moral.

Last thing that came with the parcel is Captain Darnath Lysander. I am currently also working on my Imperial Fists 3rd Company. So this is a great boost to my armour. Plus I had my eye on this model for quite some time but never got down to buy it as it was now in finecast. Knowing my chances for buying a metal one is slim and probably way over budget, I decided to just settle in for the finecast one. The first thing that came to my mind when I say it was "Look at those details". Which is a fact. There are so many small details that I am really glad I got it.

In other news, I finally put myself down to work on this chaos cultist from the 5 men box set. I painted him as I needed a techpriest for my armour unit and he is the most suitable choice. I wonder why I always never bought the actual model from the Games Workshop site, but that is probably because I always missed him when looking through what I want. Time to mark the techpriest on the to buy list!

(Front)

(Rear)

In some more exciting news, I made a Leman Russ Vanquisher out of unwanted sprues.

Why you ask? Well, two reasons. First being that I have too many unwanted sprues lying around that I really want to get rid off. Though they make good bases for the miniatures, but do I really need that mush sprues?

Secondly, My army lacks a vanquisher and with the new release Astra Militarum with the tank commander as a HQ, I find a vanquisher a suitable fir for him. Hence I got down to build it.

The turret is rotatable but only till about 150 degrees facing the front, since the sprues are all uneven and it is really a miracle it can turn. 

I had a heavy bolter mounted front sponson made from unwanted sprues too. No side sponsons as I don't want too much points on one Russ, but with the improvement of the points cost for every Russ, sponsons may be one of the things I want to add in my army when I have point to spare. I don't want to have too many big points vehicle lumbering around and drawing attention too much.

I left the sides and part of the rear empty so that when there is a need for me to add more things or to support the structure (which is unlikely), I would be able to do so with ease. Better than me cutting the entire thing apart just to add more sprues to it.

That's all for today's post. Do let me know your views on this Leman Russ that I did. Leave any suggestion if you have. Also let me know what kind of things you hope to see in this blog more often (Videos is something to look forward to at maybe around June).

Winters

A buy from the past!

Got all this from an awesome guy named Steven. He got all these out of production stuff that I actually wanted to collect and paint them up. Sadly I missed some pretty awesome stuff like the all metal landspeeders and the chaplain on bike. But I managed to get my hand on some items:

This is an overview of what I got from him. The ultramaines and death company(red one) box set is from 1993 and the honour guards and the other death company box from 1998. Look at those dates!

Within the ultramarine squad is 10 metal bodies of the marines and metal space marines. Though the arms are missing, I should be able to get my hands on some of them soon. Not a bad buy, since I love metal models and this is a pretty awesome collectible item that is already OOP for a long time.

The blood angels honour guard is actually just plastic assault marines. But what is so special about them is that it contains metal parts for you to build an assault marine that is an apothecary, a veteran sergeant with power sword, a techmarine (Yes, it includes and axe with the mechanicum sign too), a standard bearer and also a plasma gun guy.

These death company guys are the awesome ones. They are mostly metal with cool poses, plus two chaplains. The best part is one of the chaplain is Lemartes, an awesome guy. The poses of some of these guys are very nice and have the combat feel in it.

Last but not least is the Mephiston and Iron Priest (It is the Iron Priest as it is what is said at it's base tab. Plus the date printed behind was 'C GW1992') A great buy along with two awesome bits. Mephiston actually comes with the sword but I somehow missed it from this picture.

All in all, for the cost of $140, I think this is an awesome buy. I don't know why Games Workshop stop production of these awesome kits now. They should bring them back. I had some friends giving up this hobby because the models and rules are now worse than what they used to be. But I guess I have no say in this except to give my humble opinion: Bring back those kits that are really cool from the past.

That's all for today. Hopefully I can finish building them up and start painting them. But I guess the majority of this project will most likely be done during the term break, since my examination is already nearing and I have to start my revision.

See you all in the next post! 

Winters

Adeptus Custodes Scratchbuild Update #2

So with the increase in work to do everyday, exams to study for. I decided that this project would currently be put on hold until my term break, which is only about another month or so. But that does not stop me for updating the most recent portion that I have stopped at.

My work so far has led me to the lower part of the body with it's torso. This leaves me to only details left at the belt, waist, front and back armour plate, helmet and arms with their shoulder pads. The build so far seems pretty ok until I did a size comparison to my marine and this happens:

I must say the torso was also kind of badly done, but I should be able to fix it up. Back to size comparison, the body without the head is already as tall as a space marine on it's base. It's legs are also quite open, which means that my Custodes was built way too big to fit into the marines. This being said, I shall now proclaim it true scale Custodes. Not exactly but it makes me feel better. 

So far this is the progress that I have made. Though it was hard work, I believe it will be well worth it in the end. This update would mark the pause of this project until maybe a month later.

In the mean time, I would get back to painting during the spare time that I could squeeze out of my already tight schedule.

See you all in the next post!

Winters

Star Wars May the 4th be with you loot!

So today was the May the 4th be with you Star Wars day. I heard that there was a Star Wars event just at one of the local bookstore. So I decided to go down to take a look.

What disappointed me was the event was already over by the time I got there. It was said to me that it was yesterday and today was at a different location, somewhere far from me.

But this does not stop me from buying awesome Star Wars items. Plus, being a free comic book day, I got 20% off for everything that I bought in the store. So here is what I got:

Commander Cody collectible. I seen this for a long time but I have never thought I have owned one at all, since I am always running on a very low budget. 

 

This does not limit me to only Star Wars. I got these three books. Two of which being the Dungeons and Dragons books that I have missed, the other being part of the x-wing book that I haven't gotten. I am currently still looking for some of these books in the series but I still got it. Would not want to miss it.

What! How can you not buy a Star Wars Comic every time you see one? That's right. I got one right here that I found was pretty awesome! 

Lego was the first thing that I got for Star Wars, also it is what got me into Star Wars. So this is the new thing that got me pretty excited about. Since it too consist an exclusive miniature. I am quite a guy who likes to collect stuff!

Ending it off with a card game, I didn't see this snywhere else, so I thought I should get it, since this was also the last piece available in the store.

To side track a little, the warhammer 40k order that I received, if you remember, came with a black classified envelope. I opened it and guess what, it is a code for me to order another limited edition figure that cost 18 pounds. I really wanted it but it is just a normal marine captain and it looks almost the same as the first one, except with a shorter sword and a different weapon loadout. For that price, it put me to think twice about getting it. Since I have already crossed my budget, I guess I should just give it a pass. But I have a feeling that I would remember it someday again with a tinge of regret in it.

To end it off, prepare to receive and update on my Custodes soon. The work starts to look worse as I go on. But I guess I should still be able to save it. But it is way off scale. You would get what I mean when I post up my update on it.

See you all later!

Winters