Painting.

I actually got up before midday today, since I intended to head back to Games Workshop again today in order to get more painting done. I wanted to finish up my Spyrers because then I'd be using a complete and fully painted gang when playing games - always a bonus. I was, at first, going to paint them almost exclusively in back, and have the chameleonic Yeld wings blending into grey to match the board my mate and I play Necromunda on. However after doing all that and carefully highlighting the 'stealth suits' I really liked the look of the wings, so painted the rest of the armour plates the same way on the rest of the Yeld models, as well as the Malcadon. After adding small details like the metalwork and sights, scopes and lenses, I ended up with a team that blends into the board well, and looks very nice indeed. I was quite happy when people were complimenting the paint jobs. Unfortunatyely I don't have a digital camera that would do the models justice, so the closest description is that the macadon look like the Blood Pack vampire ninjas from Blade 2. Yeah, seriously cool in other words, heh. Painting all 5 took 4 hours, which wasn't bad going really and probably due to the fact that they were predominantly black and shades of grey. Still, it took a lot of blending.

When I did get home in the evening I was almost immediately taken out by my dad and step mum for a family meal. We haven't had one in ages, so I guess they wanted to just get out and have a meal in a restaurant for a change. That ate up some of my time, and when I finally got home (again) it was past 8pm. Thankfully I didn't have much anime to watch anyway, so there wasn't any problem at all fitting that in. In fact I only had 3 episodes of Binchou-tan to watch, and each is only around 15 minutes, so it was like watching a single normal episode. As such, not very draining on time. At all. As such for the rest of my free time I re-read a few issues of the Fanatic magazine, published by the Specialist Games section in Games Workshop for about a year then discontinued in favour of internet articles. There was a few interesting Necromunda pieces in there, but some I'd already read on the site. Oh well, guess I'll have to hunt a little more extensively for more Spyrer goodness. I reckon my custom-House gang, using Vostroyan models, may be left behind in favour of Spyrers. After all, each one is deadly cool, can be treated like a character as there are so few in a warband, and they seriously kick ass after a few upgrades. Nifty. Tomorrow I have the long work day, but afterwards get to see my girlfriend again which I've definitely been looking forward to. So then, till next time.