Unfortunately not - tried a brushing and didn't solve it.

Annoyingly I've now got a skin condition on my hands so I can't do any of the paint stripping as it'll absolutely kill (made the mistake of changing baby the other night when it wasn't as bad and used the alcohol hand wash by mistake which absolutely killed).

cerebros wrote:Everything from my Island of Blood set (plus the couple of additional units I'd bought elsewhere) and the Sanguinary Guard I bought to practice NMM on all show signs of the temp being too cold when I undercoated them.

I had some work to do on a few models and had to spray undercoat in the heavy snow last week, so i popped the models on the radiator for a few minutes along with the spray paint can - let them heat up and they sprayed up fine. Might be something to try next time

I think the issue was more that it was very cold in the shed where I was doing the spraying - prior to spraying the models and spray paint had been inside in the warmth.

Anyway, I'm going to borrow my parents' shed today and try spraying in there - I'm going to try heating it up first which should do the trick. I would try that in my shed but my dad the electrician still hasn't got round to hooking the electric back up to the shed (I'm still not sure why he disconnected it in the first place).

Well turns out using my parents shed does work. Wasn't quite sure with the test model I'd done as the finish on the model wasn't quite as smooth as I thought it had been when things were working properly but I painted it up and couldn't see any problems so I've sprayed all the models I'd stripped today.

Also think in light of this that I may have been too overzealous in assessing which models needed redoing so I don't think I've got more than another 10 to redo. Unfortunately I think I could have gotten away without redoing a good portion of the ones I have.

Anyway, still need to decide if I'm going to try for the extra 5 painting points for basing my war machines that are available in the Bad Dice Masters Open rules. Actually bought some 50mm bases that could be used for this (40mm are just a bit too small for the bolt throwers I've got) as well as some regiment bases for when I get round to starting to assemble the Clan Rats from my IoB set (if that proves a success I'll be doing the same with my Clan Rats from the Skaven Battalion set I've bought but still not opened)

A bit of a New Year update.

At the moment I'm concentrating on painting the four Sword Masters and converted Ellyrian Reaver musician I need for my army list for the Bad Dice Masters Open. Still haven't got round to looking at mounting the Bolt Throwers on 50mm bases for this, although as I've no idea where the brass rod I use for pinning has got to it's not like I can start prepping the bases for painting anyway.

For Christmas I got three GW scenery sets: the Arcane Ruins, Dreadstone Blight and Watchtower. I'd actually only asked for the Arcane Ruins which the wife was having difficulty finding so she bought the Dreadstone Blight kit and then I found out the local independent store had the Arcane Ruins in and she decided to go ahead and get that for me and then bought the Watchtower on a whim. (I got her a Cauldron of Blood and two sets of Black Guard RnF for her Dark Elf army).

After having to take the Dreadstone Blight back to GW to swap it for a box with all the pieces (mine arrived without the bag of floor bits) I've been removing mold lines from the pieces off and on all week in between painting and family duties.

As we were round at my parents' today for lunch I took the last batch of WFB models needing re-undercoating to spay after lunch. Unfortunately I appear to have been a bit too vigorous when brushing off the last of the first undercoat as I'd split the pipe on the Skaven Warlock Engineer from the IoB kit as well as half splitting off the bow of one of the Ellyrian Reavers from the kit. I seem to have fixed the Skaven with the application of some plastic glue but don't appear to have had any success using that on the Reaver and I'm not sure if I'll have any joy if I just break the bow off and try gluing the whole thing as it's rather thin where the break is.

Actually that's something I've found with quite a few bits from the IoB box - the parts are so small or joined using such thin bits of plastic, that they're prone to breaking. The obvious example being the Sea Guard's spears where the nubs that stick out from below the spear head were attaching to the sprue frame. I've had to lop off a number of the other bits due to their mirror parts breaking off.

In other news, I've sent off my army list for the Bad Dice Masters Open today. Luckily I decided to check the rulespack this morning as I'd got the submission date for lists down as next week so I could have hamstrung my chances of not being bottom before I'd even started. Unfortunately it means I've not had a chance to playtest the actual list I'm going to be taking, which is always the base for a stellar performance I'm sure...

Dont worry ive never played a game with my masters list before I submitted it (although its not a million miles away from what I have been playing with...)

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Dan Heelan wrote:Dont worry ive never played a game with my masters list before I submitted it (although its not a million miles away from what I have been playing with...)

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Yeah, but you're a good player while I can count the number of game wins this year on one hand and still have spare fingers...

Yeah, but you're apparently/supposed to be a good player

Fixed that for ya

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Dan Heelan wrote:

Yeah, but you're apparently/supposed to be a good player

Fixed that for ya

D

Good spot. Had to admit I was wondering how you managed to con your way into the masters

So today was supposed to be the big painting day, finishing off my Sword Masters and Ellyrian Reaver musician to a basic level and a quick check through all my other stuff for any painting repairs needed. So of course that didn't happen.

I think I managed about an hour and a half in total. Ended up having to touch up the bases of about 10 models who I'd somehow got tiny bits of blue paint on (and not noticed despite having taken them to two tournaments) plus some chips on metal command models from my Spearmen block, which is annoying as it just reminds me that I need to get the models finished and find a decent varnish to try and protect them (either that or just flog the metal command on ebay and kit bash some stuff together, which would be a great idea if I were using the current Spearmen). Also needed to patch up the Great Eagle's beak.

On the new stuff there were a couple of black areas I got base coated on the Sword Masters but the model needing the most work is the Reaver musician. Frankly he looks a bit of a mess at the moment even though I'm trying to go things as neatly as normal. I'm hoping I can sort him out quickly tomorrow as I want a reasonably relaxed week if possible.

Aside from that, I'm discussing with Nick the lists we'll be taking to the Rushden Rumble doubles. Given the time left and the fact that the Skaven aren't started yet, it's going to be a Lizardmen & High Elf team up. I had hoped we'd be able to do Orcs & Goblins and Skaven so we'd still have something that looked like an army on our side of the table but there you go. Trying to make a legal army out of 800 points certainly serves to reinforce that you don't get a lot of Elves for your money, especially as it looks like the High Elves are going to have the spell casting duties which means a Mage sucking up most of the 200 points available for Heroes.

While I'm on the subject of Skaven, I picked up the latest White Dwarf in WH Smiths today. While I hope to have fun reading the battle report (as well as spotting the inevitable errors made by the people who really should know better), the main reason was for the Skaven clan colours bit in it. As my plan for the joint Skaven army the wife and I are doing is to paint it to look like there are two clans who've joined forces, I had been thinking about getting the Uniforms & Heraldry book when it comes out to give us some ideas. However, I'm now hoping there's sufficient stuff in the White Dwarf for us to pick a couple of schemes we like that we can use.