Might be a while...again

With personal drama rearing its unwelcome head over the weekend, hobby action is on hold until I can hold a brush steady.  In the meantime I have pictures from my last painting session. 


First, primed marine.

Grey. For now.

I tried out the Vallejo Game Color "foundation" paint, Heavy Red in their terminology, and it worked pretty well.  It was very light on the palette and when I brushed it on, but as it dried it darkened quite a bit.  It still had the slightly milky look that Vallejos seems to have, especially on the palette, and I thought I would have to repaint it with a darker red, but in the end I think it will work.  I was going to stop with the red, but I had more time than I expected, so I went ahead with the GW foundation yellow on the helmet as well.

A start.

Progress will come when it comes, but I do have a game plan in mind so I won't be floundering around when I get back to work. 

In other news I found a link to an article about making a cheap "light tent"/"soft box" from a 40k blog that I sadly don't remember at the moment and so can't credit.  I have most of the materials on hand and should be getting the rest today, so the next batch of pictures should look better than they do now.  I plan to take WIP shots as I paint, which will be the usual make-do pictures like the primed mini up top, but the more staged ones like the basecoated picture should improve.

In other other news, I made my way back to the Spartan site for the first time in a while and saw all the new US ships they have coming out.  The ID troop transport caught my eye, which should come as a big surprise to no one, and it looks like things are rolling along in general.  I'll be back to US after school is done, which is both very close and still distant, and it looks like when I return there will be plenty of new goodness waiting for me, which is nice.