Progress Report #9: Mad Doks

Once again I feel disappointed at my lack of recent progress but once again real life gets in the way. Right after I got back from my vacation I had a visit from the Mad Doks AKA I went to the hospital for a week.
That kinda screws with any plans you might have and getting painting done hasn't been on my list of priorities as of late.
I won't bore you with any of the grizzly details but I will say I'm disappointed I didn't get to keep my kidney stone as it would have made an incredible bit for a Dark Eldar torture device...

I've decided to throw out all my current zeppelin balloons. I haven't been happy with the results from the start so I'm starting over. I had some inspiration from a movie trailer, although the name escapes me at the moment, there's a scene where there is a blimp in the background for 3 secs and it looks exactly like what I wanted to accomplish. Screen shots were taken, google and ebay were researched and now I just need to find the appropriate pre-formed polystyrene parts. I'm close, but the only source I found so far doesn't ship to NA ARRGGG!! but soon SOON!

 I've almost got squad B completed. I'm now in the stare at a fig and ask "Why aren't you done!?" phase which involves touch ups and small detail work.
A couple more hours and they'll be added to the case with squad A for a whopping 170/1500 completely painted lol. (Why do I hate myself?)

Squad C is also on the go. Although I don't usually like to work on more than one squad at once (because it looks like I'm not making any progress) I started these guys because I had alot of downtime on my vacation. By the time Squad A is done I should have most of the busy work (metal, base coating etc) done on this squad.

My Warboss had a bit of an accident during transport. Luckily I had his arm and banner pole pinned in place. But I decided rather than try to straighten them I'd break them off and re-glue them. If I was going to ruin the paint anyway I might as well fix it correctly. Luckily it's only few minutes of work.

I've found myself staring at my vehicles alot more lately. Mainly because I feel like I've abandoned them because progress has been so slow.
The issue of course is that I didn't like the early results for the paint and as I discussed before how the conversion for the choppers roof turned out.
I finally realized my issue with the chopper was the lack of colour depth on the hull so I slathered it in blue ink for the heck of it and sure enough it solved the problem. Now I just need to put some detail on there.