I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' itself.

So I knocked out some models this week. It was my birthday and I took the day off. I painted up the remaining 8 Guardians. I took Mechrite Red for the body. I had tried previously to do Mechrite Red, with white highlights followed by a Chestnut Ink, but that ended up looking horrible. After the failed Chaos Black->Skull White highlight -> Chestnut I decided that trying for a wash on these guys was a waste of time. I like the texture, but I don't think I can get the colors I want. I think should have used a White basecoat for these guys, but it's a bit late for that now. So my final was Mechrite Red for the body, Skull White for the helmet, Shining Gold for the visor. I'm going to do Mithril Silver (or maybe Chainmail) for the gun followed with a Shining Gold highlight (it looked good on my test model). It is very satisfying to actually get a unit done and table ready.

I also spent some time trying to get my unit of jetbikes table ready. Buying them used was an interesting experience. I've had to put multiple layers of a foundation paint on to cover up. They were a dark green and I'm covering with a red, so yeah multiple layers is a requirement. Luckily the drivers were mostly white so the mechrite red actually looks very nice on them. The unpleasant part was trying to get the broken off clear plastic base mounts out. I ended up having to drill through the material and just create a new hole. Yeah, little bits of plastic dust were all that remained. Now I have to actually buy the blasted small flying bases. It cuts into the profit of only paying 50% of the cost to buy the models from GW, but it is definitely more hassle. Oh, I'm also missing a few arms on my drivers. I guess I can claim they are "converted", but it's just minorly irritating. I'll keep that in mind for future used model purchases.

After that I started trying to glue together the Banshee models. I hate these models. The sword arms never want to stay on. I think I'm going to have to do pinning, but trying to drill a hole into a pewter figure with a hand drill isn't fun. Especially without a vise grip to hold the arm in. At least I haven't put a hole in my hand yet.

I also assembled a Destroyer model. That was very satisfying. Overall it was a pleasant experience actually getting some models into the table ready state. I'll need to decide on priming my Reapers/Farseer/Warlock/Weapon Support platform. All I have is black spray primer (whee!) so I'll probably only cost units that I plan to base in a dark color (like the red or black). Those stinking banshees with either have to be primed by hand or wait until I get my hands on some white spray primer.