I paint... I fucked up something! - Brigade Model 6mm vehicles - Proxy Dropzone Commander UCM

The events chronicled in this post actually happened last winter... It took me that long to be able to face it and blog about it!

I don't enjoy the painting part of the hobby (did that sounds GWish, or should I say the Hobby™?) and don't have any ambition to become an expert painter... I just like playing with painted (not to mention based and taken out of their package) minis and don't have the disposable income to have them painted.

It looks even worse in real...

So after a lot of research (cough procrastination cough) I went with Army Painter and their "basecoat your mini directly in its primary colour without an airbrush", "paint everything that's not that primary colour in bright uniform patches" and "dip the mini in Magic Goo™ that shade and highlight all the right parts of the mini without any work or talent" system...

I painted something! - Brigade Models Power Armour

It's been on a shelf for a couple of weeks now, awaiting a varnish coat and to be photographed (procrastination settles in at all stages!) but I painted something for the first time!

That is except for a 1/72 Blue Angel Phanter and a 1/720 French SSBN (painted entirely olive drab) when I was like 8, and most of (some part are very difficult to reach, you know) my house more recently. But I mean I painted my very first miniatures!

My brother has been painting Space Marines for a dozen years. He must have a couple of chapters worth of Raptors by now, a crapload of tyranids and then some Imperial Guard (I bought those, never did anything with them, didn't even open the boxes, they've got a better home now) and orcs... I mean orKs, sorry. And everything is IMHO (I mean, humility isn't my forte, but as far as painting go, with my 12 minis painted, I can muster some) beautifully painted. And he agree to teach me some basics!

I went with Brigade Models Power Armour not exactly because I wanted them painted, but rather because I had them laying around (bought them together with the PacFed vehicles), wasn't quite sure what to do with them and they seemed not overtly complicated to paint. Great practice fodder! Sorry if I didn't do them justice; they're actually great minis, that was just my thought process while selecting them for this endeavour.

After this lengthy introduction designed to highlight my (lack of) painting background and muster some sympathy for my (primitive) painting skills: drum rolls and... Cymbal!