Hobby Update - Progress, Regress, and new techniques.

Man. can't believe how much time has gone by already. First, I'll apologize for not posting more. But after our Hot Water Heater went and poured water all over, we had to get it replaced. While we were attempting to replace it, we found out that we had a bunch of "bad" mold. This clean up involves bagging your entire house, having walls completely taken out, and then to our dismay, we found out that the mold had spread under the house, so it involved floors too. Needless to say this can put a huge cramp on any hobby time (being barred from your home is never fun), but more importantly to me, I have two young daughters (1 and 3!) so their health and safety has kinda been my number one priority. We have a few more minor bits, but the mold is gone and dead now....at least the guy in the devo suit told me so. Too bad he did not look like Doc Brown, it was more of a Butkus look to him.

Anyway, I also had the fun of my camera dying. (well being dropped at a soccer game). So I am going to show some WIP shots of the Ruglud's. I've tidied them up a lot from here (and had to learn the new inking technique. - Note to self - try to get some advice before exploring a new technique). These are very rough, and with the old camera before it got bounced down a bleacher. So I'll follow up with some more shots later.

The green starts going on - Just curious, I was always told to paint models like you dress them (at least with brushes and not airbrushing). Is that how you paint them? I know a few who paint all the metal first, and then anything opaque. So what is your method?

Believe this is the first extra layer of green, little more ink added on these.

In a row, just easier to paint, glass case of minis (one of them) to the right....

Amazed at how chalky these look in this photo, not too happy with the green so far, but at least progress....

First bit of metal, applied liberally....

After bit of metal, one last green before I start in on the yellow....

 So at least they are coming along, though incredibly slowly. Having small kids can be a challenge to get some time for hobby, but with the help of my better half, I tend to do better on that regard then most. Unfortunately, I had to pack up a lot of my gaming desk (just about the only thing I have in the house for gaming) So progress has been incredibly slow.

But I should be unpacked and ready to go again, so look for more hopefully this weekend....