077 A Pop Fuss!

Found a little bit of time this week to work on something a little different and I finally put some colour to Prince Apophas.

I started off with a black base coat and then built up some ancient ancient Dark Angels green, and some washes of the new green wash whose name escapes me completely...

You can even see I used the pop as my model holder this time round :-)

I went for green colouring to the scarabs just because it seemed a suitable colour for the bugs.... right up until my wife asked me what they were and when I said scarabs she said "well why didn't you paint them blue??" hmmmmm a quick google shows yes, most of the world and the 'Eavy Metal team chose a blue colour..... Oh well

I have started with a bronze colouring on the details of the head and shoulder. Not sure yet if I am going to pick out more colour or stay with a all bronzy/gold with some degree of corrosion.

076 Disappointment - Codex and Army Books

This is a short post which I think I will come back to a few more times in the future about the quality of the "newer" codexes(i?) and army books.

Now I don't mean quality in terms of the rules or how they play but about the quality of the book itself.

I have been gone many moons and while some of it is rose tinted nostalgia for days gone by I do still think that the quality of the books is poor compared to how they used to be.

The Art

There is some great stuff in some of these books and by no means am I suggesting its all bad or that I am any kind of artist but I think overall the art is regurgitated and bland theses days. I don't look at any of it (or very little) and feel myself magically drawn into the place and time. I don't find my mind wandering off thinking about the setting and growing it.

The Writing

I love reading, I devour books.

The current novels being written are good (some are awful) and I wont knock them but in the codexes? No, no no. Get your writers working harder guys.

Dull. Limited. Repetitive.

The Fluff

This is a catch all of everything else missed above and while some of it is still great I do feel that more and more is really just page fillers and doesnt deserve to be in on its merits...

What do people think? I am I just a old grump who has got cynical and picking in old age?

075 The Boy done good

Those boys at Perry have done it again and shipped my more plastic joy in a box!

And they don't just give you a ridiculous amount of miniatures for your money, oh no! They also give you history!

Notes about armour, weapons, shields and helms!

About archers and their clothes and equipment!

And even more than that they give you banners and details of who fought and died where during the period of the box set!

Cant wait to get a few of these out and going, also liking the look of the upcoming french army which will be definitely joining me when its available!

074 A few tweaks

The necromancer got a couple of details finished off today, not a massive update but a little WIP.

073 Bulking up the 30th

So I found a little time to slap some red across the next few of the 30th Cambridgeshire Regiment.

You can see them here all ready and waiting to get their bread bags and straps whited up.

I have also put in an order for some more wonderful perry mini's and am waiting now for some war of the roses items to arrive :-)