Ok, I finally gave in and am now on twitter too.
http://twitter.com/BIGROBSMITH
Will just be the odd pic and update from here and maybe a few bits and pieces as i am out and about in stores and clubs (if i ever find any! lol)
29 Aug 2009
Twit
Ok, I finally gave in and am now on twitter too.
http://twitter.com/BIGROBSMITH
Will just be the odd pic and update from here and maybe a few bits and pieces as i am out and about in stores and clubs (if i ever find any! lol)
Having been away for a couple of weeks due do a holiday and the dreaded MAN-FLU!! i have started to get back on with these chaps.
I got the production line all done to the point i just need to finish the last highlights on the armour and do the black and metal parts to complete (except for the arms), so with a little luck i should have the rest finished shortly.
On the plus side to being ill, i managed to read all 5 Temeraire books and really enjoyed the lot! can go a bit off the pot and slow sometimes, but is usually made up for later on.
One weird thing reading these, was while at my worst, i had a fever dream in which i could only dream about a small section of ship rigging all night! I woke up screaming in frustration a couple of times as i could not dream or think of anything else! lol. bloomin' nelson and napolean should have had the decency to invet tanks and planes if you ask me!
I got the production line all done to the point i just need to finish the last highlights on the armour and do the black and metal parts to complete (except for the arms), so with a little luck i should have the rest finished shortly.
On the plus side to being ill, i managed to read all 5 Temeraire books and really enjoyed the lot! can go a bit off the pot and slow sometimes, but is usually made up for later on.
One weird thing reading these, was while at my worst, i had a fever dream in which i could only dream about a small section of ship rigging all night! I woke up screaming in frustration a couple of times as i could not dream or think of anything else! lol. bloomin' nelson and napolean should have had the decency to invet tanks and planes if you ask me!
7 Aug 2009
Pics tomorrow
hi folks, been a while since my last post, but i will have some stuff up for you tomorrow.
Been working on 15 bodies and legs in one go, but in the future it will only be 5 at a time so i can do some blogging with progress to show!
will pick what heads i want for them and paint them and the camo tomorrow.
I like painting heads and faces, so should be done pretty quickly, then i just have arms and gear to go on the belts, which wont take long to do at all.
Have been thinking about what i can do for any vehicles i may add, in terms of fitting them to my scheme. I found this Valkyrie (i plan to have a few of these eventually)
Looks fairly straight forward and will tie in nicely i think, although my pin up will be from a weird book i read a month or so ago "Island of the sequined love nun" by Christopher Moore - Not the best book i have read of his (A dirty job) but i like to work book references into my armies ;o)
Have Been Reading LOADS lately, I bought myself the Sony Reader and think i love it as much as my ipod if not more!
In the Last Month I have Read:
All the Dexter books (except the latest which is due in ebook soon) - The killer in the second book is COOOOOOL and what he does to people is gruesome to the extreme! i can't think of anything worse than what he does to his victims! - well worth picking up the trilogy book just for that!
All the Soul Drinkers books - Not bad, kind of loses its point and direction a few times through out, is a bit obvious in places and not going to set the world on fire for originality... ...but, i like them! they are like old ARNIE films, you know he cant act too great and is given corny one liners as if the writers don't trust him to manage a whole paragraph of text! but it just works! it's no brainer fun with a big gun!
A couple of zombie books that were awful, Dead Sea -Brian Keane and Dead City - Joe McKinney. Really wish i hadn't!
Bret Hart's autobiography - which i was suprised with how much i liked it, well worth a read.
And finally i am 3/4 of the way through His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik.
WOW! havn't been able to put it down! Set in Nepolionic times, but with Dragons! well written and easy to follow even though navel battles never really had any appeal to me, and fantasy not being my first choice of genres, it is written in a way that makes them enjoyable and engrossing.
Oh, gone off on a book club rant but never mind ;o) ill do some painting and get some pics up tomorrow to make up for my rambling, i promise!
Until then readers, Eat drink and be Merry!
Apoc
Been working on 15 bodies and legs in one go, but in the future it will only be 5 at a time so i can do some blogging with progress to show!
will pick what heads i want for them and paint them and the camo tomorrow.
I like painting heads and faces, so should be done pretty quickly, then i just have arms and gear to go on the belts, which wont take long to do at all.
Have been thinking about what i can do for any vehicles i may add, in terms of fitting them to my scheme. I found this Valkyrie (i plan to have a few of these eventually)
Looks fairly straight forward and will tie in nicely i think, although my pin up will be from a weird book i read a month or so ago "Island of the sequined love nun" by Christopher Moore - Not the best book i have read of his (A dirty job) but i like to work book references into my armies ;o)
Have Been Reading LOADS lately, I bought myself the Sony Reader and think i love it as much as my ipod if not more!
In the Last Month I have Read:
All the Dexter books (except the latest which is due in ebook soon) - The killer in the second book is COOOOOOL and what he does to people is gruesome to the extreme! i can't think of anything worse than what he does to his victims! - well worth picking up the trilogy book just for that!
All the Soul Drinkers books - Not bad, kind of loses its point and direction a few times through out, is a bit obvious in places and not going to set the world on fire for originality... ...but, i like them! they are like old ARNIE films, you know he cant act too great and is given corny one liners as if the writers don't trust him to manage a whole paragraph of text! but it just works! it's no brainer fun with a big gun!
A couple of zombie books that were awful, Dead Sea -Brian Keane and Dead City - Joe McKinney. Really wish i hadn't!
Bret Hart's autobiography - which i was suprised with how much i liked it, well worth a read.
And finally i am 3/4 of the way through His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik.
WOW! havn't been able to put it down! Set in Nepolionic times, but with Dragons! well written and easy to follow even though navel battles never really had any appeal to me, and fantasy not being my first choice of genres, it is written in a way that makes them enjoyable and engrossing.
Oh, gone off on a book club rant but never mind ;o) ill do some painting and get some pics up tomorrow to make up for my rambling, i promise!
Until then readers, Eat drink and be Merry!
Apoc
2 Aug 2009
All quiet on the Apoca6 front
Have been getting on with my guard (honest!), have 15 legs and bodies together now and all have the blue finished on them. Will take some pictures in a little bit, once i have started the greys.
My hobby fund is in a big time minus at the moment, so i have stuck my marine army on DakkaDakka, Heresy Online, and Warseer to see if i can get some more models or cash.
Not sure what it is about marines, but whenever i get one i paint it and sell it! this is about the 8th big marine army i have had now.
Painted to a pretty solid TT level, there is 3270 points of WYSIWYG and that is before adding options to the vehicles.
Pics are a bit dark and grainy, but get the point across i think
Hopefully I can fund a bit more IG with these (still have 175 odd to do yet anyway! lol), or maybe a bit towards a ps3 ;o) GT5 is out soon!
Will go do some painting now,
Apoc
My hobby fund is in a big time minus at the moment, so i have stuck my marine army on DakkaDakka, Heresy Online, and Warseer to see if i can get some more models or cash.
Not sure what it is about marines, but whenever i get one i paint it and sell it! this is about the 8th big marine army i have had now.
Painted to a pretty solid TT level, there is 3270 points of WYSIWYG and that is before adding options to the vehicles.
Pics are a bit dark and grainy, but get the point across i think
Hopefully I can fund a bit more IG with these (still have 175 odd to do yet anyway! lol), or maybe a bit towards a ps3 ;o) GT5 is out soon!
Will go do some painting now,
Apoc
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