Hobby Streak Day 1 – Tau Devilfish and Eldar Scorpions
For months now I have been incredibly lazy at the hobby and well virtually everything else too. My youtube channel is sadly neglected with no new uploads in an age. I have had no shortage of time for it thanks to current events (coronapanic!) but somehow that seems to make marshalling the motivation harder not easier. Weird eh? I suppose knowing I will have time available later means I can procrastinate in comfort. What I need is an artificially induced time constraint, a deadline. So then I hear about #hobbystreak which is doing the rounds on social media. Thus a solution presents itself.
#hobbystreak Definition
A quick definition of a hobbysteak for those new to the concept. It is:
The determination to do at least 30 mins of hobby time every day for as many days consecutively as possible to create the longest possible streak of active hobby work.
Any streak has to start somewhere so mine starts today. Perhaps as I get some momentum going I can renew making uploads to my youtube channel too. Projekt Mork certainly wants more luv, init?
Tau Devilfish
Today I worked on a Tau Devilfish that I bought on ebay. I bought it already pretty well assembled and primed. So what I did today was to airbrush some black ink to the underside as an anti-zenithal and then airbrush some white ink to the top as an zenithal highlight. Then I threw down a layer or two of Army Painter Dragon Red pretty much all over as a basecoat. The engines want a few more layers but that will be for another day.
I went with this red because I am looking to assign it to my Farsight Enclaves army. It will be the ride for some Breachers to do some drive by shooting.
Eldar Scorpions – Oldhammer
While waiting for layers to dry on the Devilfish turned my attention to some old skool metal Eldar Striking Scorpions that I also picked from Ebay. I had already done a fair bit of work done on them before today. I had already painted their lightmap and put some colour down on the helmets, armour and bodysuits. Today I put a basecoat to their weapons and armour grills using a dark bronze colour that I mixed from a transparent dark umber acrylic ink and Army Painter Greedy Gold.
These minis are the first generation of Eldar Scorpions that GW produced. They are quite nice for old sculpt. I had half a mind to use them as Storm Guardians because they have the same armament and the sculpt is not quite as dramatically Scorpiony (not a word) as later iterations. In the end though I went with painting them as Scorpions in metallic green instead of Craftworld colours as Storm Guardians.
Time please
I am not sure how long I spent on the session as I did not think to time it. I am pretty sure it went over half an hour though!
So that was the first day! A modest start but the real question is how long can I keep it up?