Painting Summer 2016

Here we are again. Seems like about every other year I get distracted by life and skip updates on my painting progress for about a year or so. This time I moved and my light box for taking pictures ended up packed away for a few months. Yay life distractions.

A huge part of my painting tool box comes from joining the Facebook group 1houranight. I joined last year in January of 2016 as part of the Independent Characters hobby progress challenge. Basically every month you submit a painting commitment via posting a picture of your unpainted commitment to a pinned post started each month. You reply to your comment with a picture of your completed commitment. Gain raffle tickets win prizes at the end of the year. Yay loot! More importantly, keep hobby going all year round. So having moved I missed one deadline then finished it and the next move nuts the following month. Other than that I had painted a unit for every month. So far this year I've done better. Sometimes doubling my goals.

So where I left off I was painting up a trio of scout squads. Painting 8 for 1 month then 7 the next. (Finishing the lot of them the second month sadly). Painted them up as three 5 man bokter scout squads from the Ultramarines chapter. Wanted to do something fairly generic as part of a 7th edition Battle company formation.

Once I finished up the scouts I then painted a pair of HQ's. A captain of the Second company of Ultramarines and a Chaplain. Both are equipped up with magnetized jump packs. Meant to go with an assault squad. I submitted the chaplain in a local annual painting competition and took second place with it in the single figure 25-32mm category. Did some zenithal highlighting on the plates of these two via airbrush. Wanted a good clean look without putting a horrendous amount of effort into them. Think they came out great. If only I had an army for them.