Tuesday, August 13, 2013

BFS; 9 1/2 weeks and counting

Getting up to speed in the new job has been taking up a lot of my time lately, but I've still been getting work done for my Battle for Salvation army, just not as quickly as before. 
Like Cobra Commander exchanging his ceremonial hood for his battle mask in anticipation of the climactic fight (as seen in Marvel Comics' GI Joe #1 true believers)  I have exhanged the chasm and waterfall terrainscape of my gaming table with the unadorned plywood worktable top before really getting down to business

The main reason for no recent updates is that I haven't painted anything else, having been primarilly concentrating on the sculpting and assembling. 
Since my last update:
  • Finished sculpting five more Masters of the Universe villains for the wracks/trueborn
  • Started sculpting the final wave of characters
  • Assembled the last raider and the first of the three ravagers
  • Repaired the old school raider I had gotten on ebay
  • Ordered the final two ravagers from the local Hobbytown
  • Magnetized the two old school raiders being used for the wracks
  • Made new bases for the two old school raiders with sculpey and a coat hanger wire that will be eventually obscured by a plume of hot gasses from the volcano

  • Finished sculpting the roton pieces and created the molds I'll need to create three of them to use as my venom transports for the trueborn units

  • Begun planning out the Snake Mountain display base
  • Purchased on ebay the snake head piece (for 8 bucks - woot!) from the original Snake Mountain playset that I'm going to incorporate into the display base





Right now my plan is to have all of the sculpting and assembling (save for the display base) completed in the next two weeks so that the final 8 weeks before the tournament are just painting and making the display base.  Without wishing to jinx myself I feel like I'm in pretty good shape compared to how I usually am with big army projects before tournaments.

More to come