What a crazy last two weeks it has been!

I live in the godforsaken state of Michigan right now. And we had this wee little ice storm. 

I lost power the Saturday before last and just got it back on yesterday!

So as I move the family back into the house. I believe it is time to start thinking about painting again. 

First thing I am going to have to do is see if a 9 days of below freezing temperatures has ruined my paints. 

Anyone ever had an issue with this? 

So next week I should be back to normal and posting crappy pictures of decently painted models. 

Till then lets all just pray the power stays on. 

Keep warm out there. 

Well hello good people of the internet I am still deciding on what to work on next. I think its going to wind up being a single 28mm figure probably the Mercenaries War Caster Broadsides Bart, or maybe Damiano.

So while I play eeny, meeny, miney, mo. I cleaned up my painting table and got most of my stuff organized. I used Vallejo and P3 mostly which makes having just one solution for paint storage nearly impossible.

I found a solution that I really like. I found The Iron Bow on Etsy.com, He has some great laser cut wooden paint racks I got this one for my Vallejo and Reaper dropper bottles and a large stand one for my P3. The larger one also has the bonus of paint brush storage. Sadly as of typing out this entry the larger pot version is no-longer being sold on his site.

The assembly was pretty easy on these and even though they are laser cut MDF they are quite sturdy.

So hats off to Kelly at The Iron Bow, If you need paint storage go check out his stuff (no I am not a paid or sponsored sales person, just passing on what I found).

If you're anything like me you tend to have paints all over the place by the time you are done painting something and I find that this helps greatly, also helps you keep tabs on what you have and what you need. Don't be like me 3 years ago and buy the same bright orange 3 times in 3 trips to the store because you cant keep your paints strait.

So yea that's my rambling about paint storage.

Here is a picture of the Dropper Bottle Storage

And this is the one that I use for the P3 pots.

Now you know, and knowing is the half the battle......

Well now that the Galleon is done it's time to work on a new project. Only problem is I don't really know what to work on next.

Should I go Warcaster, Jack, or a unit?

So help me out good folks and vote for one in the comments.

I am your humble puppet, make me work for your entertainment.

It's done! It's finally done. After all this time the Galleon is finished and I gotta say I think it is by far the best model I have ever completed.

So no more words here it is in all its "glory"

Second update in two days.... Things are getting crazy around here.

So I was able to get the oil wash on the Galleon. The first coat of brown weathering powders was added, and black oxide has been applied to the silver on the smoke stacks to knock the shine down and give it a good dirty feel. I still have a few more layers of powders to add and the model will finally be done.

Oh and he is finally on his real base.

Yay Progress!

Finally had some time to sit down with the Galleon. He looked lost and alone sitting next to my painting table. Poor little guy was just begging to be played with.

So I was able to finish painting him. and started ruining his perfectly good paint job.

First things first, I grabbed an old toothbrush (Spider Man in fact. Don't judge me). I then applied a liberal amount of water to the areas to start loosening the hair spray under the paint.  Working in sections lets you control how wet and how much paint comes up. When it looks good to you, blot it dry with a paper towel so that more water doesn't seep in and weaken the paint any further.

Now he is all assembled and drying so that I can apply a heavy dusting of weathering powders this will let me blend everything together. After that he gets a gloss coat to seal all the juices in...er I mean seal the paint job and fix the weathering. Then on to the oil washes and viola the Galleon will be done.

The chrome is still really shiny but that will get fixed with the washes.

Enough talk, here are a few pretty pictures.

Quick update time.

My new Badger Patriot 105 came in the mail today! So very happy until I went to put it to work and realized I had the wrong darn connector. So I am happy and sad all at the same time. So off to Michael's I go later to get the right stuff. Pictures of the new spray and how awesome I hope it will be soon. For now here is the unboxing.