a n00b's 40k blog: Humble Beginnings

So Last Night on Earth (Flying Frog Productions) is a very awesome board game that I picked up last July. It's a blast. I haven't played Zombies!!! or any of the other undead-related board games out there, but I've been told by others who've played them all that LNoE is a little more interesting than the others.

My friends and I spent a few weeks over the summer playing the game as much as we could. My only real qualm was that the hero miniatures (there are 8 grey plastic individuals on the side of the living) were almost indistinguishable from any distance, which was annoying while playing the game. Since I had recently observed my first few 40k games, I guess I became "inspired" and decided to paint the heroes. My stepdad, Jason, had some Testors oil-based paints to paint model planes, so I first tried with some of his stuff.

FAIL. The oil-based paints seemed to react with the soft plastic of the minis and would not dry; they remained sticky. I tried to let them dry for a few days before I decided to take the paint off with paint thinner. So after a tiny bit of research, I decided to pick up this cheap acrylic Testors paint set. Please realize that I had no clue what I was doing!

So I painted the heroes, mixing any color I didn't have (including the flesh tones) and spending a long time fixing mistakes since they are so small (half the size of 40k minis) and I had never really done any painting at all before.

As you'll see, I painted in solid colors with no shading, no fine details picked out (eyes, etc). Oh, and by the way, GLOSS ALERT!