I don't want to see another bottle of purple!

Well, not soon at least. The good news is I won't have to since the boyz all have got their purple paint coat on. The bad new is by the time I've finished putting the gunmetal on them I probably don't want to see another bottle of gunmetal.

Especially since the gunmetal tends to act up badly.

I've decided to dispense with the GW painting guides - they paint freakin' eyebrows on the guys - and go with this one instead. It focuses less on using the entire Citadel paint range in one model to make it award winning, and more on getting them table ready. On the one hand I see myself taking home twoscore gold awards, one for each of my boyz, but on the other hand, we all know that's not going to happen, right?

I've decided to first undercoat them all in black, then paint on all the green, then all the purple (which is what I just finished) then paint on all the gunmetal, and then all the fuchsia. Then I'll repeat the process with a detail brush. And then I'll do stuff like teeth and eyes, and washes, and drybrushing. Whew!

And once all that is finished, there's all the nobz to do. And the stormboyz. And... and... and...

My poor starter brush is looking like I am feeling - frayed. It's missing a couple hairs too. So am I.

I keep thinking if I played Eldar I would be done painting long ago. I would have a dozen finished models, either of which could annihilate my entire warband in turn one and costs 16 points each to field on the table (20 if you also want to make them completely invulnerable, unless you have an HQ unit on the table as well, in which case the upgrade comes free).

I think I'm gonna finish all the boyz first before I do the nobz. I want the nobz to look better than the boyz will. They are, after all, nobz...

Most of the boyz are undercoated with the undercoat black which came in the starter paint set, and not chaos black spray. It gave them a very glossy black finish and the paint doesn't seem to look as good on them.

Oh, well. They'll be table ready at any rate.