Another Blog fallen to the wayside

Sigh. A poor blog was here, it was posted on infrequently. but now its advertising for Durne

http://durnekell2k.blogspot.com/2011/08/grey-knights-progress-part-2-out-of-9.html

Go read. comment.

Sally

go durne go

lookie here http://durnekell2k.blogspot.com is due to update on time in 5 hrs. lets all go take a peek, he did work hard on it. :)

Mew Mew

http://durnekell2k.blogspot.com/2011/07/working-on-it-gah.html Oh look Durne put up a nice blog post, we should go read it and comment on it

Well I'm not missing in action

Durne here. Nope not missing in action. just posting on my blog. shhhhh don't tell anyone, but I think Sally forgot about this blog. so come on down to http://durnekell2k.blogspot.com/ and read my latest posts.

we are not missing in action...

:) Durne Kell here.  I thought I would post on Sally's blog as she has post 50 due on my blog and due to circumstances beyond our control, well she hasn't had time to post it. But as a quick update, Sally and I are in a relationship now. Yay us. Not too shabby for 2 painters who have a lot in common. so I thought I would log on here and make a quick post of what I am working on.

Yes, my one weakness. the dreadnought. I have a nice venerable dreadnoughts going on here. I hope it meets your approval dear reader. Yes I play Space Marines, no one else up here does.. they are all 'nid or tau players. I put my watch beside this, as a friend didn't believe the size. I have magnetized both sides of the coffin so I can swap out logos, and the tomb front as well. Also, I made him so he can spin on his waist too. I had planned to make it so it was wading in a stream, but I can't seem to do it right, so plan b is to make him awesome.

I plan to letter all its banners with a nice gift to Sally, well she will have to come here to see it mind you. I might post another sneak peek here soon enough. Hopefully Sally will have blog post 50 done for my blog so I can post 51 which is a nice post of my army I have been working on for the last year or so....


TTFN

Durne

30-Day Challenge: 7 Days In

  Hullo! Today is Day 7 of the 30-Day Challenge between myself and Durne Kell. Pardon my lack of updates over the last few days, but I have been very busy with work, taking a day-trip with my brother and trying to catch up on lost sleep. I have failed, miserably, at the last...staying up hours past my bedtime, poking around on twitter. Note that I did not say anything about pushing on with finishing my Necron Warriors.

  In three days, I have glued arms and heads onto scrap sprues as preparation for the next steps of priming and base-coating them. Only two out of four sprues have been completed.


  This step was (temporarily) hampered by me losing one, very tiny arm. This was unacceptable, as the deal was that *all* parts needed to be ready for final painting.

  I never found the arm, but I have a friend who has been kind enough to give me a completely built and primed Warrior. I will, of course, be tearing the arms off of the mini, smoothing lines to meet my quality standards and re-primimg the entire model. Or maybe I'll just use the arms...

  The only other advancement I have made between the last post and this,  was to assemble 21 out of 28 minis to pre-priming level.

  Curious as to how far along the competition was, as he had also been lax in posting updates, I was soon to receive this in my inbox.

He was even so thoughtful to add the caption, "You will look good wearing green nail polish".

  After a few moments of throwing some profanities regarding how gently something could be done with a chainsaw, I was almost ready to admit defeat.

  Then, lo and behold, I received another picture...

This one being titled, "Reality".

  I was so relieved when Durne Kell informed me that he had hurriedly propped up the pieces of his Land Raider Achilles in order to make me feel the heat. The man is evil, I tell ya.

   But he may gain a huge amount of ground on me tonight...I haven't slept in 27 hours, and can not muster the energy to work tonight. Meanwhile, my evil friend will most likely work on his tank for another 6+ hours. Tonight might clinch the win for him.
  Zzzzzzz....
 

30-Day Challenge: Update

  With only 27 days left to the 30-Day Challenge, I thought I'd give an update on where I am in the progression of things. Not very far along, at all, I'm afraid.

  I already had 14 Necron Warriors cleaned of mould-lines and half-assembled. Half-assembled means that the torso halves are glued together and attached to the leg segment, which is in turn glued the base. Also, I already had 14 Gauss Flayers fully cleaned and assembled.

  I do not consider this as being an advantage to me as my opponent, Durne Kell, had already informed me that the parts to his Land Raider were already cleaned, and a couple of pieces had already been primed.

  Today I finally got cracking on filing off every line my scrutinous eye could find. This is a slow process for me to begin with...slowed down more by me being busy at work and only being able to work on minis on my 10-minute breaks.

  Here is the approximate progress made during my first break of the day (there were already 4 or 5 pieces done from the other day):



  And here is what I managed to finish by shift-end:


  This is what my opponent accomplished today. And he claims to have 11 more steps of painting needed to complete the track. Now, he's been called out for a job, giving me time to work on all these bits of plastic.:)