Friday 25 September 2020

Dark Angels - Deathwing Land Raider Redeemer - RED!

Afternoon #warmongers and #warhammercommunity I've been #paintingwarhammer Dark Angel Deathwing Land Raider Redeemer. As you can see it's very much lighter than it used to be and I've been adding in the red highlights.


Now I surprised myself with these pictures, they are starting to get where I want to be with this... Except it does not stand up to close scrutiny, I'm far from happy with the result with the bone drybrushing.

 
Now I know that with a bit more shading, some extra line highlights and the eventual weathering and damage it'll all be OK. However, despite trying to slog through this I don't think I have the motivation right now to persevere with it. 


I believe in both going with the flow and perseverance when it comes to the hobby. The path of least resistance is usually the most effective but once in a while slogging through with a project, reaching that tipping point where you overcome the obstacles and it just progresses.


Unfortunately, that is not this time. I think I'm just going to have to chip away with it little by little. Hence why I did the red, which I'm at least happy with. Next up will be to tidy up some of the bone and maybe then I'll feel happier with it...


The unexpected side effect of lack of motivation is lack of energy too. I've been really tired at night but mostly I've been going to bed at an earlier time, which is good. I've also been spending time with the boy, we've a little under 2 weeks now until he's off to Oxford so hobby really isn't a priority. On top of that the new blogger interface...😱 Yeah, this is not a great experience, adding images from my photo albums is really clunky and woe-betide you add the wrong one and have to go back into the album of 250+ images and view them in batches of 40, starting with the oldest! 😓 

Anyway, I've some content to add so I may have a few weeks of posts to write up, if I can get over my blogger hang-ups.




6 comments:

  1. LR looks nice so far, and yes I too detest the new blogger interface. Why they removed the legacy option I don’t know?

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    1. They claimed it was outdated and incompatible with newer software. But you look at Google docs, that interface is significantly better and more familiar. Why not have an option to write your article in docs and publish to blogger?

      I'd keep sending feedback, maybe they'll do something with it.

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  2. Yeah, new blogger interface can kiss my arse. I like this raider tho. I'd be tempted to call it done.

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    1. If only I could see my pictures as I edit posts on my work PC it'd help. Their IT policy is still blocking them. I also noticed with the new interface an issue with adding pics from Google Photos. I create an album, roughly for each quarter and add my WIP pics in as I go along. When it gets to about 300 images I create a new folder. Anyway, blogger only shows you the first 50 or so in the album. You then have to click to see more, where it adds another 50 and so on. Unfortunately it showed the oldest first, which meant I had to click, wait to load, click, wait to load etc. Until I got to the new pics. Then I accidentally clicked off the ones I wanted, selected just one I didn't want and double clicked so only placed that wrong pic. After deleting it I had to go through the same rigmarole!

      Anyway, one fix was going back to the album in Google photos and choosing to order the images newest first. Now the order in blogger is more helpful, but if I still need images from earlier in the quarter it's still a ball ache to get them.

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  3. The Land Raider looks ace. Dry brushing on such a large surface is always tricky.

    That sucks on the interface, I fondly remember when Stepping Between Games was on Blogger. Nowadays I am using Wordpress.

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    1. I considered it, even tried to transfer it over but the images tried to copy over too and I filled up the free storage almost instantly. Annoying it doesn't parse the image links from the google photos URL. Couldn't find a solution or a straightforward way to make it work so I gave up.

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