Cryx Battlebox Finished!

So I finished my Cryx Battlebox a few days ago.  Having been busy with work and the cherry blossoms, I haven't had time to take nice pictures, but for now, these get the point across.  The auto-focus on the camera really loves the OSL, so the they are bit blurry.  As a side note, I finally found orange ink from Liquitex making the this a bit easier int eh future now that I am getting better at the OSL.

More Cryx Battlebox...

Okay, so despite it being 84 degree, sunny and breezy out, I am having a miserable time and hiding indoors.  I am allergic to pear tree pollen and having a heck of a time breathing.  Despite being cheap when it comes to AC, I always run it during this time of the year just to filter out the pollen.  Being 84 is also uncommon for this time for the year.  While in the basement, I decided to finish the pre-sealing work on my Cryx.

I telling a guy I was training, that eventually you just have to stop working on a model and move on-that you'll never really improve my just painting and then correcting the same model over and over again.  Well, that applies to me as well, and I have been doing a lot of experimenting with these guys and that orange glow, and the blue fades for color theory.  Time to move on, or I'll just ruin what i have under layers of ink.  So here we go.

Group shot, you can see I deliberately upped the blue content in the big guy.  Remember I haven' t Photoshop'ed these images, so the blue are much brighter than in person.

Denny's orange glow is coming out really really well.  The finger glow looks much better than expected.  Once the whole thing is matte varnished, hitting that with gloss should make it really pop.

Big Blue, who is not that blue in person, but the orange and blue work really well together.

Now, due to the high pollen count and not having having a nice matte varnish handy since Hobbytown closed, I'll probably airbrush the sealer onto these guys after a quick pass looking for anything  like accidents with white paint or scratches.

Next up, will be matte sealing, then spot sealing with  satin and gloss to highlight various spots.  Then some oils (or gloss and ink mix) to the inner pistons.  After, static grass and and other scenic elements. Then done!

As a side not, I got my hands on USB 3.0 card reader, and boy does that speed up moving the files off my memory card. The tethering cable from the camera to the computer was brutally slow.

Swapmeet observations

So this Saturday I went on the epic journey to Fredericksburg to a gaming swapmeet.  Now, I knew there would probably not be a ton I was interested in since college was we well under way and the economy has been down for quite a while.  I tend to place more of the niche games and really hate stripping model, so it was more of a "something to do on a Saturday" kinda thing.  Also, if I saw an Cygnar, then I would pick it for a friend. 

When I get there, first thing I see is the entire set of Ravenloft from 1st and 2nd edition.  Cool, but I passed.  Saw  stack of Rhulics, which went in under and hour.  Some poor schmuck bought, units of 5 of each kind of bane for Cryx (they are fielded in units of 6 or 10, and no longer sold as blisters).  After that the only PP stuff was a few metal Circle models.

What was left?  Tons and tons of GW products.  Blood Angels everywhere you looked.  Poorly painted Ultramarines as usual and the occasional IG models and grab bgs of 'gaunts (not any particular kind though, since they didn't have arms).  Some guys was unloading Sentinels and mid-sized bugs on sprues.  So over all Mostly it was GW meet, the only problem being none of the stuff was moving.  Now I know everyone and their uncle has more space marines than they know what to do with, but it was really depressing.  No excitement, or "Hey look at that!"

I did walk out with my new hardback FoW 3ed book, but I bought that new.  Oh well.  Back to more painting and LEGOs later this week.

Update on the Cryx Battle box

So I have been slowly chipping away at that Cryx battle box(actually A bad term to use for painting, since chipping is the last thing I want).

Here you can see all 5 models, not particularly in focus.

Family portrait.

Here is a close up of Deneghra's cloak as I start blending up from Cryx Bane Base to to the Highlight and maybe a little brighter (although I am not there yet).

Actually that bone jack looks better in teh picture than in real life...

As I have had a mental block in painting the Slayer, I have been going back and starting some of the foundation work for the bases (get the pun, foundations, bases, I am so ...ummmm lame).

I used piece of square Acrylic sheet (or plasticard if you will) to make blocks, and then for the Slayer, glued them all together to make a platform.  The end goal is hopefully going to approximate weather white marble.  Maybe not, but here is where I am at half way done.

Please turn to the left.

One of those weeks...

Which kind if week?   The kind where Mass Effect and A Game of Thrones (BlueRay) come out.  Actually, I have been doing some work on the Cryx battlebox, getting the bases underway and highlighting Deneghra's skirt.  For the most part, the "model" part of the bonejacks are done with onyl soem clean up work left.  The Slayer has a long way to go, and for reason I am just having an aversion to working on it.  But I am doing good, in that I am not starting any other models until these five are finished.  I might do some priming today, but that is due to it being a gorgeous day to today.  I think changing my brakes is important.  Last time I put that off, I had to buy new calipers and rotors.

Heavy Gear FS finished

Family Portrait

So there they are the Jaguar, 2 Hunters and 2 Grizzlies.  I have to say, that they were more of a pain to build than I thought they would be.  The Grizzly in the back had its left leg broken in two pieces from poor packing.  Additionally, getting the arms to line up nicely on the little guys rather annoying.  I am still not happy with the Hunter in the front left.  It was my first experience with DP9, so hopefully as I get used to their construction, I'll will become easier.  Still, they were better than Nyss Hunters.