{"id":79,"date":"2009-11-21T09:03:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T09:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/partridges.org.uk\/?p=79"},"modified":"2009-11-21T09:03:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T09:03:51","slug":"speed-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/21\/speed-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Thursday evening. I had planned a gentle potter in the study, possibly aiming to clear the tray of half assembled figures on the tray on top of the printer so that I can actually print stuff out again. Instead a friend of mine IMed me in the afternoon looking for some Tau fire-warriors with pulse carbines to use in a competition at the weekend. Never wishing to let a friend down, and since I did vaguely remember having some undercoated sprues of the aforementioned warriors in the garage, I leapt into action once I got home (via a brief interlude unblocking my parents-in-law&#8217;s sink).<\/p>\n<p>A brief expedition into the further recesses of the garage located the sprues in question. A rapid tally of the parts revealed that I could only make 9 warriors with pulse carbines from the sprue, and even then only if 3 of them were actually lobbing grenades and just holding carbines in the other hand (which is a slightly strange posture since the pulse carbine has an underslung grenade launcher begging the question of why you would throw a grenade when you have a machine that preseumably can do it for you much better).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I quickly assembled these and undercoated them with Shadow Grey. I painted the various bits of hardware (carbines, backpacks) with Midnight Blue and drybrushed them lightly with Shadow Grey. The bodies I then quickly painted with splinter camouflage in Space Wolves Grey, Ice Blue and Fortress Grey and then gave the whole thing a quick blue ink wash.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a very poor photo of them &#8211; I would take a better one but they have already gone off to battle. I suspect a better picture will just show up the deficiencies of the paint job though. Originally I was going to do Tau in a red\/brown colour scheme &#8211; these are blue\/grey to fit in my David&#8217;s army better, but I actually think I prefer the blue\/grey colour scheme.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/20112009041.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80\" title=\"20112009041\" src=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/20112009041-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"Quick painted Tau fire warriors\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/20112009041-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/20112009041-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/20112009041-1024x537.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/20112009041.jpg 1547w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quick painted Tau fire warriors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Thursday evening. I had planned a gentle potter in the study, possibly aiming to clear the tray of half assembled figures on the tray on top of the printer so that I can actually print stuff out again. Instead a friend of mine IMed me in the afternoon looking for some Tau fire-warriors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/21\/speed-painting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speed painting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wargaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}