A week or so ago, JE discovered the clear plastic storage box containing the Necromunda game, the box of which is decorated with savage looking punks with bright red mohawks wielding very BIG Guns. Guns deserves a capital G because they have really BIG Guns.
Being 6-years old JE immediately wanted to play with this fascinating looking game, unfortunately many of the pieces are missing, on account of me leaving the game in the care of my 6 year old nephew for 6 years. I don't blame the nephew, I left it for him because he'd always wanted to play with it but I knew exactly what would happen if he did, and I left it to him anyway. The plastic models were also mostly unpainted on account of me being a lazy bastard, and Eccy and I didn't really care about them being unpainted, we just had fun playing and arguing and spending quality time together.
Today I bought new paints (on account of the old ones being dried up, after 5+ years of non-use ;) and just spent over 2 hours painting 6 models. And the following pics are the results of my 2+ hours of concentration. Not fantastic, not bad, but not great work either. But then all I wanted to do was get a few models painted for JE to play with, and he's not going to care about a slap dash job, he just wants to play with them.
Aah, Eccy. Those were the good old days. When are you next coming to visit us? It's only a 15-hour plane ride ;)
Here's the best of the pics. One of them is not so hot, but it shows 5 of the 6 models I painted, all together. The pics are clickable and will blow up to Epic Proportions if you do so. Fairly warned be thee, says I.
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3 comments:
Ahh. Now thanks for the memories.
A great game, all the GW stuff is great.
I've still got the short lived naval game.
Those look good. I don't have a steady enough hand for that. I had picked up a pewter/lead/something dragon years ago because I thought it looked cool. I couldn't even get the glue to stick.
Dusty, I don't really have a steady hand either. A lot of times when painting I have both hands on the table, touching each other for extra support. For gluing together the pewter models I recommend Super Glue or Crazy Glue. Just apply a small dot of glue to one of the two areas to be glued, press together and hold for several seconds in the desired position.
The Games Workshop dragons do look awesome but boy are they expensive. Apparently GW is one of the few US Retailers that provides even their p/t workers with health benefits and regular raises, so their product prices are higher to cater for this.
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