Learning by accident... / Aprendiendo por accidente...

Twentysomething years painting figures and I still discover and learn new ways of improving things... by accident...

10 minutes ago I was giving the final touches to the Space Wolf armor of LG2.0 when I decided to try something different and apply some rust and weathering effects with paints rather than with pigments.
I remembered that sometime ago Neil Green taught me that a good combination to do rust is Scorched Brown, Vermin Brown and Fiery Orange (sorry, I do not know the new cool names of the new Citadel range for these colors).
While I was applying the glaze of Scorched Brown on the chipped metallic areas of the armor I started to realize that this color is actually a cool option for shading the Space Wolves armor .... and I did not realized until now!!!

Visiting a GW store one year later / Visitando una tienda GW un año después

It has been a long time since I last visited my fellow friends from the GW stores. But yesterday afternoon I was doing some Christmas shopping in the city center and I decided to make them a visit to check the new releases.

I brought Nico (my son) for the first time there and he was overexcited about all the blisters and colourful boxes displayed all around the store. He was pointing to every single corner with his eyes wide open saying "Ete! Ete!..." :-)
And I am a proud father...

Finecast(TM) sí, Finecast(TM) no...

Como muchos ya sabéis desde hace unos meses, nuestros amigos de Games Workshop (GW) han empezado a distribuir una serie de figuras de la denominada línea Finecast™. Básicamente estas son figuras que en vez de estar fabricadas en metal están hechas en resina. 

Y esto ha suscitado más de una polémica ya que parece ser que la calidad de las mismas no es del agrado de todo el mundo.

Yo ya las he probado, de hecho el proyecto en el que estoy trabajando actualmente (denominado L2.0 del que ya os hablaré más adelante) incluye única y exclusivamente piezas de figuras de Finecast™. Mi opinión es que GW ha acertado con esta idea de pasar de metal a resina, si bien quizás la han puesto en marcha cuando aún quedan ciertos cabos por atar…