creating my own model snow and applying it to a base (for which Ron Saikowski’s post over here was, once again, invaluable).

painting black armour - well, or at least: cheating my way to something that actually looks like properly painted black armour.

using a pigment liner to create some very fine detail (cheers again to Jeff Vader for providing the idea!).

In additon to the finished models, I have also managed to learn a couple of new techniques, such as… So, as you can see, it has been a pretty successful hobby (half-)year so far. Granted, I’ll admit that these mostly fall into a similar design mold (on account of being mostly based on Dark Eldar Wyches), but at least it’s a start, right? 😉 As you can see, four members have been finished so far, the bitz for a fifth member are currently on their way to me (at least that’s what I hope), and there could be two more members after that.Īpart from that, I also had a bit of fun with two slightly more humorous projects that served as shout outs to popular nerd culture - like my repaint of an old 80s Boba Fett action figure:Īnd my recent Primaris-based conversion of Solid Snake, one of the protagonists of the Metal Gear series:Īnd I am also really happy to have completed a couple of female characters for my INQ28 collection: This is one of those projects that…just happened somehow, when the original plan was simply to build and paint one archetypal, 2nd edition influenced Space Marine. I’ve been a big fan of Dreadnought-sized models for a good long while now, so it was clear that I would also have to paint some new killer robots 😉 One is the scrap-robot Worker #9 you can see in the picture above, the other was a second Contemptor for my 30k World Eaters:īoth happen to use the same head - an OOP World Eaters Dreadnought head given to me by Augustus b’Raass when I visited him in Amsterdam last summer.Īnd the most recent warband I have been working on: Truescale Deathwatch Killteam based on Primaris Marines: And I also snuck in a pretty blatant shout out to a pretty well-known literary character from fairly recent pop culture.Īfter a predominantly red and a predominantly blue warband, I next turned mit attention to a …predominantly yellow gang of models - weird how this strange colour dynamic only became obvious to me in hindsight…Īnyway, I also completed some models for my Road Crew, a relatively long-running project at this point, and basically managed to complete the warband - at least for now: Orlant’s interrogator is actually a shout out to PDH’s own Inquisitor Inson (it’s the same guy during his younger years). This project is particularly dear to me, both because it features my spin on fellow hobbyist PDH’s concept of the Ordo Scriptorum and because it features several homages and shout outs: Redactor Orlant himself, his astropath and the Bureacultist accompanying the warband were all directly inspired by pieces of artwork from the late Wayne England. Still motivated from my breakthrough with Arslan’s little band of misfits, I pushed onwards and (mostly) finished yet another Inquisitorial retinue: Redactor Orlant’s Ordo Scriptorum warband: I am pretty happy that the team still managed to come together into a coherent – and very quintessentially Ordo Hereticus – collection. This retinue took shape over several years, with some classic metal models finding their way into Arslan’s service. So here’s what I have to show for my troubles:įirst up, Inquisitor Arslan’s Ordo Hereticus warband:

Special focus was given to making a dent in my – rather substantial – backlog of unpainted INQ28 models: I’ve been converting warband after warband for years now, so it was finally time to actually get some of them painted. I have to admit I am a bit proud of myself 😉

That’s over thirty painted models - and quite a bit less unpainted plastic. Take a look at the models I have managed to finish over the first half of 2018:

And by the look of it, this at least seems to have worked. When talking about personal hobby output, I am actually really happy with 2018 so far! Some of you may remember that my entire output for 2017 consisted of these twelve models:Īnd while I still like each and every one of those models, twelve wasn’t exactly a number to be proud of, so I really wanted to finish more stuff this year. Hey everyone, a bit of a retrospective for today, as it was my birthday last week, and we also already have the first half of 2018 behind us - what better occasion to take a look the first half of my hobby year, right?

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