I've had some time here and there so I'm trying to fill it in with useful projects.
I have a few more of those arena pieces done and some others in various states of being painted. I'll try to get pictures this weekend - no promises.
I also realized that I had a self-imposed goal of finishing up those Crusaders this month. I happened to look at the calendar and saw there isn't much of the month left. So I picked up my paintbrush and finished up the sergeant. There wasn't much to do, honestly.
Then I put the basecoat on the monster/Guardian Beast/Doom Kitty. I'm going to do a slight experiment with colored metallics in that I'm using the dark blue metallic as my darkest 'silver' and working up from there. It's looking good so far but I can see that at least one wash is going to be needed to blend the transitions a little. The dark blue metallic paint left a bit of a gloss finish.
I was thinking about putting small wires into the bases of the models so color-coded beads could be used to track various effects and damage. Yeah, that's out the window now. It's an interesting concept but more complicated than I want to do and it has the potential for being too delicate. I'll stick with the tried-and-true methods of tracking.
This morning before work I glued together two more arena floor tile sections for my arena. They aren't glued to the foam base but they are in the required 6 inch by 6 inch section. I saw at least one more of them sitting on the bar so I'll have to poke around and see if there's any others waiting for foam. I know the ones I did base only have the darkest color of paint on them so it will be easy to catch up. In total I need 36 of these floor tile sections to make a 3 foot by 3 foot arena. I don't remember how many I have but I know it's not nearly 36.
Now that I've done some more casting I can make the rest of the arena pieces, start in on my challenge build, and work on another build I was doing for another project. Yes, I've been putting off building things.
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