They're only 5 months late

Finally finished the first group of my Pax Arcadians. There are still a lot more to be done though. Though now I can focus on some mass painting techniques more than I would've been able to before when I had them on what was supposed to be a regimented schedule.

Anyway, the pics

The obligatory group shot

From DRM

The Supreme Commander and subcommander stands (I haven't worked out a TO&E for these guys yet so nomenclature isn't quite there yet)

From DRM

And the infantry

From DRM

Weapons teams

From DRM

Chupa-thingies

From DRM

and four Jackhammer IFVs

From DRM

Here are some Silent Death ships finished a couple weeks ago

Spirit Riders

From Silent Death

Darts

From Silent Death

And finally, blatant theft from another gamer. These are storage/shipping containers made from bottle caps. Here we see the Imperial Guard showing what is probably not the best decision making in regards to choice of cover.

From Terrain

Four More

Four more Silent Death fighters done, Darts this time. Too humid to spray the sealer on them though.

Ooh, just noticed this puts me very close to having finished one per week on average. I know that doesn't seem like much, but given how much painting I actually do, it's significant.

Four More Fighters Done

Title pretty much says it all. Four more Silent Death Fighters done, Spirit Riders to be specific. They went from primer coat to clear coat in about an hour and a half. It's really rough painting though. I plan on painting more this weekend, so I'll take pics all at once so I don't have to keep setting up the light tent.

Some (much delayed) Photos

OK, I've been promising photos of stuff since the beginning of May so here goes...

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First up, reshoots of the Gladiator II, and Silent Death fighters I posted a while ago...

From CAV

From CAV

And a little mechenbooty...

From CAV

and the reshoots of the Jambiya fighters

From Silent Death

and the Djinns

From Silent Death

And now for all the stuff I've been painting, almost all Silent Death fighters

Blizzards

From Silent Death

Salamanders

From Silent Death

From Silent Death

Thunderbirds (no not those Thunderbirds)

From Silent Death

Pit Vipers

From Silent Death

From Silent Death

And some projects that have been severely derailed for one reason or another

First, a Centurion that was started last year, but the colors didn't come out right and I haven't been able to bring myself to fix it yet

From WIPs

Sarah the Seeress for my wife that got derailed by my being gone for three months

From WIPs

And some samples of what little progress was made on a 6mm force of DRM's Pax Arcadians, also derailed by my trips, the army was supposed to be done at the end of April.

From WIPs

enjoy!

Crazy week

It's been an interesting week for me. I started out the week being annoyed that Warlord is getting a printed 2nd edition and CAV still languishes in life-support mode. I'm mostly over it but it still aggravates me. The flip side to this though is that I'm cautiously optimistic about actually using my Warlord minis to play Warlord rather than keeping my shelving system from floating away. Then Ed Pugh, the guy that owns Reaper, comes clean on CAV and basically states that CAV will continue to be produced, but only as far as producing models for existing datacards. Interesting thing to note from all this though is that they *may* finally do Imperator as a noncollectable prepaint game. Damn them. Then I came to the conclusion that between being exhausted from work, the number of hours I spend there, and me not being around next year that I needed to withdraw myself from moderating the CAV boards. So I send a message to their webmaster, who was very understanding, and after a short conversation I received a very generous gift the next day. I'm not going to go into details, but it was waaaaay more than I expected. Thus continues my dilemma with Reaper, I get frustrated with them as a game company, but the people that work there are great people that I hate feeling frustrated with. I did get the pictures hung, even hung my plaques from previous units. I haven't hung them all in quite some time, I've mangaged to amass a decent number of them. Still waiting on the bookcase though. The the length of time it has been taking to receive that item is making me not want to order from IKEA ever again.

On the painting front, I got a bit of an urge to paint earlier this week and got the two Salamander fighters for Silent Death done. I need to get pictures of all those. I really need to buckle down though and get some serious painting done.

Speaking of pictures, I'm going to start migrating my pictures to Flikr. Some are already there from this blog. It's nothing against Photobucket, but I can access Flikr from work and I can't access Photobucket.

I'm on a roll

Got six more Silent Death fighters base coated and the main color drybrushed on four of them. They paint quick if you're not being fancy with them.

Crappy Pictures

I'm going to need to set up the light tent for these as the colors do not want to photograph very well. On the Glad II the green is too close to the gray and the fighters are mostly metallics. These will give you the general idea though.

Gladiator II

Djinn

Jambiya