More Aquila Wreckage

Technically, it's the same wreckage since this is one of the pieces from a few days ago. I decided that I wanted to go ahead with that alternate color scheme I has mentioned. I quite like it. Unfortunately, the picture is kinda dark so you can't see the desert (for lack of a better term) sands around it too well. That and it's a little darker than I had hoped but that's just because I quit keeping bad moon yellow on hand a number of years ago and went to golden yellow exclusively. Heck, to get this light a sand color I had to layer and drybrush quite a bit (snakebite leather, yellow, bleached bone, yellow, white, yellow). Of course, I'm reminded that GW actually has a desert "yellow"(that is really more of a brown). Maybe, at some point when I have disposable income again, I might pick some up. I'm also thinking that this piece would look a bit cooler with some weathering. I may check out some sites and get some weathering ideas. If I don't, well, it could be just recently crashed. And I must admit that I like this look much better than the DA green, black and boltgun metal of my old pieces.

Short term goal for the week: I want to paint those walls I made a couple of weeks ago. They're just sitting in all their reflective white glory, shaming me into guilt. Might as well paint that building I made for the foamcore tutorial while I'm at it.

Long term goal for the coming month: I'm going to start making more foamcore two story buildings for desert terrain. A two story building makes a decent cheap bastion and I've got tons of ruins already for when any gets destroyed. I intend to have 5 done by mid-month (which isn't an outrageous plan since I could make that over a weekend if I had some time and minimal distractions.

Of course, all goals are subject to change, whim and the general availibility of time and whatnot.

Final thought: I have yet to play a Planetstrike game. I haven't been able to go to the local game stores (Austin's two best game stores are both within five minutes drive) and my normal group is on a bit of a seasonal 40K downswing. We play a lot for a while, then real life gets in the way and we don't play so much, wash, rinse, repeat. But soon, I hope...