New responsibilites

I have been given a new charge.

I now hold the title of Organiser of the UK Deathwatch Dakka Community Challenge.
In other words, I'm getting people to make and paint 10 GW Space Marines at the best of thier ability to enter into the 2011 Games Day competition. I think that this would be a nice community spirit entry, rather than a Medal Winner.
Check the progress here.

Also, forgive my late entry to the world of Hot Snakes, a truely shinging example of a band. Really, give them a listen.

Well, Holidays soon, whether or not i do much has yet to be debated. I may take the week just to chill and not think about anything taxing.

Take care.

Return from 'the 'Nam'

Here I am, back from the Essex MVT show relatively unscathed.
Apart from a fair few skeeter bites, I think I got off pretty well. Had a member of the group hurling everywhere, and a couple of the guys re-creating the scene from Platoon with Pot being Smoked through a Shotgun. I'm reliably told that the taste of gun oil improves the taste of Weed.

If you say so.

On to the post's main news, I've painted two models. Shock Horror.

Step-by-step here:

Step one: After a black undercoat, drybrush on a Orkhide Shade basecoat

2: After the Orkhide has dried, drybrush on a coat of Dark Angels Green.

3: Next on the agenda is a drybrush of Snot Green, to cap off the greens.


Now that that is over, we give it some dimension, wth the addition of Warlock Purple.
I apply it to the lower leg armour and to the elbow pads and to the hand plates, which can be seen in this pic

After that, details are applied. I paint the lenses and "laser rangefinders" in Blood Red. The Leathers recieved a drybrush of Graveyard Earth followed by anoter drybrush of Snakebite Leather. The magazines for the Bolt Pistols were painted in Boltgun Metal and the skull in the centre of the breastplate was drybrushed the same. The base was topped off with a drybrush of Codex Gray and some GW snow.



I also painted this fiesty Mister. A past member of the Ordo Xenos Deathwatch Teams.



Well that's all from me folks. Take care.

Just a quick note.

Not too much to report today, apart from a rather nice day out Miss Friend A.

Confidentiality you see.

Also, I have discovered the joys of Streetlight Manifesto. Years behind the game I know, but the fact that I got there is all that matters. The album Everything Goes Numb is filled with that wonderful Ska/Punk which I love. Especially the track Point/Counterpoint.

Also, I am packing all my gear for another weekend "in the 'Nam." I forgot how much I actually have.
Astounding.
So for now, that shall be all. Take care and have fun.

Another day, another blogger.

So here we all are.

Now I know that you are all probably bored of such once viewed blogs these days, and I really couldn't pick a single topic to yap about all day long.

So I have decided to roll all of my hobbies/blogable activites in one handy place.
I'll treat this more as a introductory blog to start.

Hello.
I am S.A.Thomas. I'm 17, and I partake in a number of activites that may interest some of you. Namely, Novel writing (very slow progress), model making/painting, Photography, Living History and Music.

So lets actually chat about something, no?

Music
Today I have been listening rather intently to Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves premier album. Now I know that this has been around for quite a while, but I'm slow at getting into these sors of things.
Now, I have to say that it is a album of wonderful oppurtunity. It is delieverd with such greatness and clarity of song that I instantly loved it. The greatest track, in my opinion, is The High Water, a great track full of upbeat livery.
I recomend you check it out here.

Photography/Living History
Well, technically these are not photos done by men, but I have been given express permission to make use of them and, frankly, some of them are of such a quality I had to show them to you.
They are of the United Kingdom Air Cavalry, a Living History group of the 7th Cavalry in Vietnam.
Odd for an Englishman, I know, but I am deeply interested in the background and the history, and I have a great time taking part.
These photos are of the War & Peace Show a couple of weeks ago.

Our wonderful Trench. 4 Days in that in heat was an... experience.

And there I am. Living it up.

The boys of 2/7.

Modeling
I brought a box of Warhammer 40,000 Space Marines yesterday. Not really for my own enjoyment, but as a part of this.
No photos due to crappy lighting here, so updates when I can.

Take care now all of you.