The 500: Day 20

Dec 21, 2014 10:31

Yours truly faking painting. 

Note the beverage of the gods.

Airbrush station I whipped out the old airbrush, mixed a custom basecoat and went a-spraying!

Then some bad news: on closer inspection seems I have either miscalculated or managed to misplace a stick of figures -- there's only 160 figures on the workbench right now.

Oh well, better to notice that now rather than in the final checkup count...

Basecoating the batch of figures took about two hours. PLUS 45 minutes to clean and debug the airbrush. Airbrush is a good tool for some tasks, but I'm really not getting the fast aspect. I basecoated one set of figures with a regular brush and it was just as fast or faster -- and with zero technical downtime.

My HP-C is probably too good a tool and too finicky for the jobs I'm usually doing. Maybe I should get another one with a wider nozzle, 0.5mm perhaps.

Far Future Wants You! After the basecoat had dried, I proceeded to work on two platoons. One will be jungle fighters and the other will be a security detail/SWAT team in blues. I got both of them to the wash stage, though in practice that means a whole lot more progress for the jungle guys.

My initial plan had been to paint them all for the tan army, but this one platoon just gave me such a Vietnam vibe I had to do them in green, and the other guys were very police like -- maybe it was the caps that did it...

In any case, I'll get one or maybe even both of them to varnishing next, and then it's three platoons for the tan army in light brown. Total work time about five hours.

In other news, I've been reading more of Tameichi Hara's book and just finished the section on the Java Sea battles -- a very interesting viewpoint, especially compared to the western ones. Despite the final result, it was actually a pretty close run thing and serious blunders were made on both sides. Western accounts typically also fail to mention that the Japanese commander and his aide were both transferred to desk jobs after the battle -- hardly a reward for superb performance.

Far Future Wants You! Figures remaining: 179

Hours Worked: 89

Total pledges: 30 GBP Red Cross Ebola Campaign

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Recount results maxxon Dec 21, 2014 18:50

Working further on the figures I've come to the conclusion that I miscounted them after all. There's 169 there, some sticks just had more than the normal number throwing my calculations off.

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