Steel Phalanx Painting Challenge: FAILURE

Well last night I admitted defeat. With a completed Ajax, Thrasymedes and a couple of Myrmidons well on the way to completion, the full awfulness of the colour scheme hit me hard. 5mins later the whole army was sitting in an inch of Fairy Power Spray.

There is a good reason people don't paint their ALEPH models bright purple or turquoise.

Also I have a comfort zone when it comes to painting, and this was well outside of what I am capable of. I always, ALWAYS prime with black and go from there. This time I primed grey and tried to pull off a super lurid colour scheme I didn't have the skills to do justice - at least not to the standard I expect of myself.

So it's now confirmed, Ariadna for the tournament next Saturday. Which is a shame as I utterly love the Phalanx.

Steel Phalanx Painting Challenge: Day Eight

I think I've broken tha back of this one. Two full days of painting ahead of me this weekend, with a couple of games on Sunday night. Should make a big inroad into it by Monday. Seven days remaining...

Steel Phalanx Painting Challenge: Day Five - A New Colour?

Update on my stupid Steel Phalanx painting challenge! Well the purple didn't last long. I played a game with the basecoated/shaded models on Sunday and didn't like how they looked. So, came home and grey primered them immediately and went for my Plan B colour: turquoise.

I would say my crappy phone camera makes them look grey in this photo. Believe me, it's a lurid turquoise!

At this point I've rationed myself to just the models I'll be taking to the tournament, so dropped six models - the Rebot is still not included in the photo as the bases arrived yesterday so is still bare metal.

Nine days to go. Crap.

Steel Phalanx Painting Challenge: Day One

I've set myself the insane challenge of painting a full army of the Steel Phalanx to compete in a small tournament in Sheffield, on March the 8th. That gives me exactly 14 days (possibly 13...) to complete all of the models required for my two lists. At this moment, I have absolutely no complete models for this army so it's going to be a bit crazy to try and meet the deadline... but I'll certainly try.

Today's progress? Not great. Sorted out a few basing issues, and some minor reassebly which took an annoying amount of my time up. Then a simple light grey airbrushed primer coat to cover over most of them having the original grey scheme and the bare metal new comers.

There are seventeen 25mm based models plus Ajax and Penthesilea, and the unbased Zayin Rebot (still waiting for bases to arrive!) is still bare metal. Out of that lot, I'm using probably between twelve and fourteen models but I still haven't settled on a list yet!

My plan is to do all the airbrush work on all the models initially, then finish off the tournament models by hand/brush. This at least means I can go back to the rest later without having a different colour scheme on them.

Next: basecoat and shading.