Proof of Life

Oof. Where have I been for nearly a month?

To tell the truth, trapped in a psychological pit of apathy and self loathing with a dash of Imposter Syndrome, watching other people have success and loathing my own self and my failures as a result. Not good.

But that's not the point of this post. As it says, the point of the post is Proof of Life. i.e. I'm here, alive and doing stuff. Hurray?

First up, a Black Legion update. Slow moving, but we're getting there. As I originally set - Character, then a unit representative of their followers. This seems to have become a model from a unit...with my skittish and erratic attention span going back to the rest later.

As you can see, there's been progress. Still WIP, hopefully to be mostly done by later today, but more skulls, more gunmetal...the 2nd edition style scheme works well on Terminators at least. The weapons have been started, they just need the initial basecoat and highlight on the covers/plating and then the wash to start the weathering proper. I need to also focus on that Space Marine helmet...whether to have it as a normal Blood Angel or to do either a white stripe or laurels around it. Keeping it battered and weathered of course. My concern was that it would be too much red on the model but I think it works out as is.

Special mention to the skulls. I've enjoyed painting these up, weathering them and ageing them to look yellowed rather than bleached - keeping them as suitably grisly trophies. Yes, I actually googled this sort of thing. Buried bones tend to darken, bones left out in deserts bleach and trophies tend to yellow. I suspect because trophies aren't cleaned so much so what you get is a bit of decay from the residual blood and muck tarnishing it....

But that's not all for today. For there is also the start of the Beastmen warband for Mordheim. In particular, the conversion work for the Leader that I just want to show off. 

I do want to take up commission painting. I tried setting something up a few years back but...no one bit. Nothing happened and it just disheartened me. As a result, my variety is going to be a bit all over the place the next week or so, with Mordheim Beastmen, some Daemons, more Renegade CSM (I'm thinking Dean's Skulltaker Terminator is a decent example of tabletop standard...what about you guys?) and my own Black Legion. Plus a spare Lizardman Skink character.

Good example of Tabletop Standard for Comissions? Let me know!