Spider-Woman

To keep this blog alive, and prove to you all I'm not lazy when it comes to painting, I've decided to branch out a little (read - had my arm gently twisted) and start showing some of the other projects and things that I've been working on.

So, I bring you Spider-Woman:

The model is a repainted Heroclix figure. I've painted a few more previously and quite a lot of the time, I like the actual models, its just sometimes the paint job that they came with (especially on the earlier models) doesn't give them justice.

The figures don't usually take too long to paint either as they tend to only have a handful of colours. I also only really have the characters that I know about (and are Marvel) so its quite an interesting change from painting troops and aliens.

I'm not using them to play Heroclix with though. Whilst Heroclix is by no means a bad game (and the clix mechanic is kinda cool), the rules are a little too light for me. Instead, I use them to play a game called Super System.

If I remember, I might fish out some of my older models that I've painted.

Oh, and before I forget, I've also got this to paint:

Excalibur are probably one of my favourite Marvel teams and this team base makes for quite a nice display piece. Might have to bone up on my painting skills for it though.

Watch this space.

The Hydra

Ok so I've not been updating this blog as much as I'd like and thought I'd just share a few thoughts on it.

Firstly, I initially set this blog up to showcase work towards my Genestealer Cult. At the time I set this blog up, the only wargame that I played was 40k and even then, I played very few games. Since then however, I've branched out a little into a couple more systems - namely Super-Heroes and Pulp (of which I've set up a separate pulp blog here) whilst both of these systems involve painting, I didn't want to muddy up this blog with non-Cult or even non-40k content. Additionally, I started playing a lot more 40k of which there hasn't been any updates to Genestealers for a good few editions (the last official codex rules probably came out about twenty years ago) so I've been playing mainly with my Imperial Guard. Because of this, I've been expanding my guard force slowly.

Which leads me to the Hydra - my painting backlog. It seems that for every model I paint, two more take its place. Its far too easy to just see something on eBay and place a very small bit on it, only for it to be accepted and when places like Hobbycraft have been selling off some of their stock recently. Also, the past month had the Triples wargaming show and my birthday, which only increased my overall model count. Finally, throw in the fact that I occasionally feel the need to repaint some of my older figures it seems like I have a never ending stream of models.

However, I must point out that I do really enjoy painting (though sometimes the painting itself may seem like a chore, the end result is usually quite pleasing).

Another problem, which doesn't help towards reducing my painting backlog, is the summer drought. As probably evident through my posts over the years, the summer period is when I tend to paint the least - probably due to the nicer weather. In fact, I'm only just getting back into painting after close to a month off (and I think its quite an early return this year).

So I'll try and get more of my Cult (or stuff that can be used in my cult) painted, but I can't make any promises.