Tangible progress

After a dreary past few days I had an opportunity to prime my latest creation.  I used a technique I saw on the interwebs somewhere: taping the mini to a stick.  I wrapped some masking tape around the end of a paint stirrer and then stuck the marine to the tape.  The result was simple and effective.

Gravity is no match for ingenuity.

Priming was nice and easy.  I usually prime infantry in stages: standing, laying on the back, laying on the front.  The result is mostly satisfactory but time consuming.  I did this marine in one go and covered at least as well, and probably better, than the old way.  We may have a paradigm shift here.

As for the mini itself, it's a standard footslogging assault marine. 

I even drilled out the bolter muzzle.

The DC bits are so detailed I wonder how this lone marine will look amidst a squad of standard troopers.  I'd love to be painting right now, but there are many things to do and little time to do them.  I wouldn't even be blogging if I couldn't multitask it in, but fortunately I can.  Hopefully things loosen up over the weekend and I'll have a chance to try out the new Vallejo Game Colors.