So I got around an hour to paint last night, and finished the bronze detail on my Grath minis!

 

Once I do their guns, they're ready to go!  The only extra detail I might try is some "bar codes" on their skulls - that's how the example picture is done, and it looks pretty cool.  Maybe I could use a fine-tip sharpie to get very thin lines...

 

I've been going back and forth about how to paint their guns.  Usually, I just go for the cheap and easy "paint the whole gun in gunmetal silver" approach, but these guns are so large that they deserve a bit more detail.

 

Since the Grath are pretty low-tech for a scifi race, I'm going to keep the barrel and stock metalic, but paint the body and magazine in some other color.  Maybe blood red, just for contrast?  Grath aren't too worried about hiding and camo, so they'd probably go for something like that.

Monday night - no more progress.  I'll be working late tonight on our iteration, so I won't "count" that time against myself.  Likewise, Thursday and Friday are booked, so if I'm going to get any painting in, it will have to be tomorrow.  We'll see if it happens.

No painting done this weekend, what with Mother's Day and all.

 

Tonight I'm hoping to wrap the Grath, though I may be working late again.

 

We'll see.

I didn't work on the peasants any last night, but I *did* make some good progress on my 10 Grath figures.

 

I decided that it would be cool to make their armor plating bronze color, and I got the first undercoat (Citadel's "Tin Bitz") painted last night.  It's not much, but the plates are somewhat detailed work and slow going.

 

Next up is the bronze coating.  Then, once I get their guns done, they're ready to go.  (I've already painted their skin and body-suits.)

I DID IT!  I actually got the basic paint jobs done on all 20 peasants last night, and some drybrush shading on almost half of them.  One more evening of detailing (belts, beards, shoes) and they'll be done.  As it is, they're already "tableworthy" with no unpainted parts.

 

Tonight I'm probably working late, and Friday is never a good night for hobbies, so I'll have to pick the project up next week.  But I'm heartened that I may actually finish a "unit", considering that I only have one other actually finished "unit" for my Dark Ages gaming.

 

If I may be so bold as to plan (it's a risk - I've failed more hobby plans than I've succeeded), I'll finish off a nearly done Viking unit next, then finish off my nearly finished scifi guys (Grath, Hishen, Razors, Xeogs - all mostly base coated and shaded, but with no details painted yet).