#HobbyStreak day 1319:
More work with #OilPaints on my #MurderTurks project. Did more green cloth, a ton of lazy boi NMM and a few turbans and a hijab.
It's also hilarious that this trench crusade thing is an incredibly gritty, dirty and nasty setting and that I happen to own the cleanest warbands.
Hummel pin washed, cleaned up, then chipped and after that again dirtified wit different brown oils like fresh and old rust and just "mud", and all gently blended around. So much fun.
When all that had dried up, I matt varnished the whole model. Tomorrow I'll use some mud pigments and a graphite pen for final highligts and call the Bumblebee done.
Today the calendar did indeed behave, and allowed me to play with the sepia oil wash. Having given the mess some half an hour to dry, I went back to clean excesses away. Normal surfaces were nicely simple, the no-slip floors noticeably less so. But I knew that already.
Now I guess I have to let it dry for a day or two before oiling more. The next step might be installing wheels and tracks, which also need some oils before I get to more weathery things.
I gave the kraut krew a diluted wash of black grey to make them less Spingy. Result'll be better seen tomorrow.
Then I jumped to a subprocess that gives me infinitely more joy than failing at painting humans: oil washes! I gave the exhausts and track armour some of Abteilung's Fresh Rust. All the wood bits and the combat compartment got a serving of Brown Wash. Like I said: so much more fun and motivating! 😄
I may never get used to the "gifts on 25th" after 30+ years of "Yule Goat visits on 24th"... Anyway, the beardy one brought us stuff, I got three books from the SF Masterworks series to feed my #scifi #reading habit.
* Hard to be a god
* Roadside picnic
* The shrinking man
And for other hobbies a less-gothic-fonted-than-before set of #Abteilubg502 #oilPaints for aircraft. Maybe this is a sign to give a 1:32 scale WWII plane a go 😄
Not complaining of the new style of Abteilung products 😋
This evening's 45mins of hobby time revolved around pin washing with Abteilung's Sepia, and cleaning excesses. On this mini the earlier gloss varnish (or clear coat, whichever) made a huge difference for the better.
Now the thing is drying in the sauna, hopefully half-safe from dust. Maybe I have to give it more than 24h before a matt varnish. The weapons aren't 100% accurate, but I don't mind that much.
Hah, I managed some 45mins and got the bases covered in Vallejo's mud and the Jade Falcons pin washed, with Abteilung's Sepia.
Now they wait in the sauna for a few nights, at worst until the first full week of May.
Erik
Hailey!
Gay Curmudgeon
ISD
Hanna Maarit Jauhiainen