Citadel Ryza Ruins: Hatches (Season of Scenery ’24)

Citadel Ryza Ruins: Hatches

No, I’m not dead (yet). I’ve just been busy. Got called back to Azeroth for Pandaria Remix (if you know, you know) and I’m good. The war room got so overwhelmed with junk over time that I couldn’t even photograph my monthly round-ups on the table anymore – especially with that game of Pandemic set up for three weeks. Combine that with work… and more recently a pretty intense week-long clean-up and rejigging/upgrade/clean out of the war room (still tons more boxes and crates in there to sort out, but the table is like 90% clear and we even got a rank & flank game in last weekend!) Anyway, I’ve been checking in on the odd blog post when I can, and in Faust’s latest post that I was reading yesterday, he mentions that Dave Stone’s annual Season of Scenery challenge was on again – which I’d missed due to not being super active.

Citadel Ryza Ruins: Hatches

A couple of hours later, while moving some stuff from one place to another, I spotted these five hatches in a litlte plastic tub along with some other stuff. I might ave separated them in order to have them for glue onto other pieces, or another project (typing this now I think I might(?) know what I’d intended to use them on….)

Anyway, I had that “I could paint these quickly” thought, blu-taced them to a spray stick, sprayed them in three different primer colours, let them dry, sprayed them in “proper” base coat colours (Desert Yellow, Gunmetal and Copper), gave them another hour or so, and then just worked on them on and off over the rest of the evening while farming bullion ingame, ending with spray varnishing them around 10:30pm in the cold outside. Nice to have that “started and finished in a day” feeling – even on something as simple as these pieces.

I figure I’ll be back posting regularly in a month or so (maybe two). Still got lots on to do in Azeroth, and getting my posts between the previous one and now in order will take a bit of time to figure out (that I don’t really have). If and when I finish more terrain stuff, I’ll just try to post them up as they come. See you then!

Warhammer 40k Frateris Militia Pt.1 (1997) (Paul Muller?)

Warhammer 40k Frateris Militia (1997)

I mentioned a few posts ago that as part of getting to painting again, I grabbed a bunch of figures out of a tub that I’d originally intended to paint simply and quickly with contrasts, until that didn’t happen and painting them at all didn’t happen for a couple of years (after the plan – all these figures are WAY older!) This pair are the final ones of that batch. Turns out I didn’t manage to get any more of them painted in February, so these ones get posted now because who knows when the others might get done? Much like the Hobbits and Ruffians, I went for a muted and semi-naturalistic palette, though these being 40k figures some blue denim pants were fine to add in.

Warhammer 40k Frateris Militia (1997)

Typically when I paint models like this I’d just go with red for the armbands, but in this case I went with yellow instead for …no particular reason. I also tried to give the bald guy a rough leather look to his coat, but it’s kinda hard to see. As always with low-stakes models like these, it’s very easy to try something a bit fdifferent on a whim to see if it works, because even if it doesn’t… who cares? These models date back to 1997 and the original Sisters of Battle Codex, from 2nd Edition 40k. I’m not sure if these are still part of any current 40k force, but that hardly matters to me. I got 2 blisters of these figures, and now I have 2 figures painted. Only 8 or so more to go – which whenever I get around to them will no doubt be mixed in with some more hobbits and some more ruffians to help attempt to keep some interest… They are also my final little batch of models for Dave Stone’s current Paint Whatchoogot Challenge for 23-4.

After checking with former GW sculptor Adam Clarke (Black Scorpion Miniatures) these may be Paul Muller sculpts.