User blog:TheRedScorpion/Ancient History...

A long time ago...
In a galaxy far far away (Sheffield around 1999) a young wargamer painted not quite his first model (which I'm still looking for) and attempted to learn the dark art of shading, highlighting and non metalic metals. Looking something close to an embryo, he painted his first propper squad. (Having previously never realy go past the "ooooh" that special character is awesome, stage, or "Bleh painting models is hard" )

Jumping Forwards...
In 2005, still in the army, our young wargaming finds his skills have rusted a bit, and contents himself converting and repainting models he's already got. Finaly, during convelescent leave, he manages to finish his first army! (Or... 1000 points atleast), they had... exactly... ah... three... colours. No wait four! My grey knights were... somewhat, uh "basic" in that regard, and I didn't "quite" get around to basing them. Come to think of it I actualy gave them to a mate of mine who repainted them and based them finaly so they actualy never got finished realy... ahem anyway...

"That" phase...
Yeah, this... this is that bit of your life you write poetry and post pictures of yourself on blogs (oh the irony) and... well atleast being a student meant I had lots of time to paint! (woo) and plenty of time to act like an utter utter moron. So, more repainted mini's, a brief phase of painting elves... because... hey elves are cool? A... phase of wanting to be Drizzt, yields this...

Which, to be fair is starting to look somewhat neater. I mean, the younger me even manage to use more than three colours. Which, considering how much of a massive IDIOT he was is impressive.

I swear if I bumped into him today I would shoot him... Long haired hippy...

On the plus side, complex painting and edge highlighting had come a fair way. I'd even learned to spend that extra few minutes neatning up all those mistakes.

Along comes a Scorpion.
And finaly, beard neatly trimmed down to grade A hero stubble, and hair back to regulation length, our wargamer finaly realises that drybrushing is not a dirty word, washes are not explosive and that basing your models might require more than just a layer of lumpy sand.



The First of Many...
I'll post a picture of my very first model when I can find it.