So I've gotten some work done over the past week or so, including today.
For much of the past week, work has focused on painting Baldur the Stonesoul, a Gallows Grove, my unit of Woldstalkers, a Sentry Stone, and of course, the Celestial Fulcrum.
As of today, the druids guiding the Fulcrum are finished and sealed. The Fulcrum is very nearly finished, aside from some minor things to paint and clean up. After everyone's very positive reactions at the FLGS and my friends, the same comment I keep hearing from everyone when I tell them it's not yet finished are groans of disbelief ("Only
you would say that," eloquently sums up one person's comment for everyone).
Having given some serious thought to something another painter mentioned to someone's post on the PP forums, I've decided to take it to heart, too. Effectively, the advice was: You're done. The model is finished. Put it down and move onto the next one, and consider anything and everything you do and don't like about the model to have been a learning experience to apply to the next one down the line.
He's right - if I keep at the Fulcrum until it's 100% as I want it to be, it'll never be finished. It looks good, it's certainly above tabletop quality, and I did indeed learn quite a bit from painting it (Lesson #1 was, "Never buy and paint this model again!"). I've repainted the thing 2-3 times now - time to put it to rest. I'm hoping to get it finished and sealed tomorrow evening.
I also bought and tried out GW's new 'Liquid Green Stuff.' So far, it's served quite well. I still need to learn how to use it a bit better, but it filled in the large gap on the Fulcrum with no evidence it was ever there. A lot simpler to instantly use, that's for certain.
Baldur and the Gallows Grove look great thus far. I've particularly enjoyed trying out some new instructions for painting the green magical glow of the Circle Orboros runes - Folha Seca from the PP forums was kind to share them with me after we exchanged a couple emails (he also does some fantastic work).
Most of today, however, was spent finally prepping my unit of Wolves of Orboros. They're now based, primed, and waiting to be painted after waiting patiently for a long while - it was getting embarrassing to be fielding a bare unit alongside everything else on the table. Most of their weapons are not yet attached - that'll come after their bodies are fully painted so the spear shafts don't get in the way. The only thing that bothers me is the very likely propensity for the spear heads to snap off once they're fully assembled. I wish their spears were sturdier like the Wolf Chieftain's. At any rate, tomorrow should see some gold paint slapped on them and possibly the green enameling as well.
Oh, and last but not least, tonight was mostly spent painting Feral Warpwolf #2, practicing the two-brush blending technique. One thing I've definitely learned - I need another good brush if I'm going to do it properly, but I'm quite happy with the results thus far.
(Almost forgot - both Argus models as of earlier today are now treading water in a tub of Simple Green. I'll be repainting them both, using a lot of the newer techniques I've learned. It'll be nice to get them finished... they're the only models left from the original battlebox I purchased that aren't finished yet).
