Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Imperial Fists?

For years, and I mean for years, I've wanted to actually create a force and learn how to wargame.  I've painted sporadically for a long time and that is where my interest lies, but I've thought I'd actually attempt to field a force.  I have some Cygnar Warmaching models that I'm glacial at painting, and I've decided I would attempt a Space Marine 1500pt force.  I'm going with the Sample Drop Pod force found on GW's website.  So starting out here's two random Space Marines that I'm "practicing" on to get the technique somewhat down.  Unfortunately, they are those that have been primed and stripped multiple times, therefore they may have lost some detail.  Also, I'm working on my Camera-Fu, so, hopefully that'll improve as it goes too.  Without further ado, these have been primed with The Army Painter's Daemonic Yellow; and I'll post pics as I go with this WIP.  This is my first use of TAP's color primers and while I love the color, I'm not sold on it yet.  It's slightly runny and had a difficult time covering other primers as well as it pooled a bit obscuring some detail.  I know, I know, it's yellow, but I don't have this problem with white spray primers I've used in the past...the runny/too thin part, that is.  I've used GW, P3, The Armory, and Krylon.  Practice'll make perfect though, I hope.


Turns out, I should've been a bit more patient. Thin and multiple coats works well.  Right now, this is one model, the other is taking a bath in Simple Green.  I'll have it's primered pic up by Friday hopefully.  I think I'm sold on The Army Painter's Primers.  Those of you who know, this marine has a jump pack, las-pistol, chain sword, and what's with the beak-like helmet?  Am I correct in this?  (Really need to get a codex....
at

2 comments:

  1. WargameStudiosFebruary 22, 2012 at 4:48 PM

    The marine has a Plasma Pistol, and Chainsword. No jump pack however and a MKIV Corvus Helmet.

    TAP is definitely a good product, I use it to paint my Tyranids and it works wonders. It will speed up painting especially because your painting yellow, which is arguably the hardest color to paint a miniature

    ReplyDelete
  2. J.Rat. or AnnabelFebruary 22, 2012 at 10:20 PM

    Thanks for setting me straight on this fella's equipment. I'm sold on TAP now. I'll put a little lining on him tomorrow and get the other practice mini primered up too. I hope.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Follies with Spray Primers

  • Imperial Fists?
    For years, and I mean for years, I've wanted to actually create a force and learn how to wargame.  I've painted sporadically for a l...
  • Imperial Fist Dreadnought WIP
    So I'm finally getting an acceptable yellow down.  Here's the quick run-through:  The Army Painter Daemonic Yellow primer over a P3 ...
  • Drop Pod-Theory not in Practice: Primed
    Once again, I'm attempting some "under-painting" with my primer to get some built-in shading.  First, I primed it all white wi...