Red Scorpions

Well, I managed to sneak this in just before the end of the month so I count as having TWO updates for September. (This whole updating in a timely fashion thing is terribly difficult.)

So, as mentioned in my last update, I painted a figure for a guy named Jim on Bartertown for his donate a model army. He knew I painted Red Scorpions so he requested that I do one up for his project. I agreed. It was good because it got me painting some more of my own Red Scorpions as well. While I painted his marine I also managed to finish up two of my own at the same time. So, that's what these pictures are. I didn't take a picture of Jim's marine before I sent it off because it wasn't based and one of the shoulder pads was missing. (per his request as he has special bits of his own to use to finish off the figure.)

And before I go, do you think my Red Scorpions look like the models from the IA books? I think my paint jobs are spot on. I tried to submit the Rhino picture below to Forge World for use on their site and got into a long discussion with one of their customer service guys. He told me my Red Scorpions aren't actually painted according to the fluff. He says the painted examples on the website are correct and the pictures in the IA books are actually *wrong*!! Those are his words, not mine. That got me pretty pissed. If anyone's interested I'll post a review, (transcripts included of course,) of the conversation where the Forge World employee tells me his company can't properly represent their own models.

So, it's been a while since I've updated this blog, but, lo and behold, here is an update! I painted this model for a blind vote painting contest so I didn't post it up here before now even though it's been finished for a few weeks. I managed to get second place in the contest which made me pretty happy. (Who am I kidding? I thought I deserved first! ;) )

Anyways, the premise of the contest was that people would submit models to be painted and contribute $5 per model to the prize pool. From that pile of models individual painters would then submit requests to the organizers for the model(s) they wanted to paint. Once the deadline came around all the models were posted on the website with a poll where visitors could vote for their two favorites. The top 3 painters then had the cash divided up amongst them. It was an interesting format, although I was rather disappointed in the administration of the contest. My big gripe was the picture quality. The set of pictures you see here is what I submitted to the contest, but when the organizer hosted them on ImageShack they became heavily pixelated like they were being viewed on a cruddy old computer monitor.

Now I'm on to paint a couple more Red Scorpions as I agreed to paint one for another gamer's army. Hopefully I'll have some updates to post more quickly this time.