Been a few weeks since my last post. Since time may be running out on my blog, better get to posting!*
I have been reading Best of Heroic Fantasy 3, and been very happy with it, except for one major non-story issue. I’ll have a review…soon!
Been doing various writing jobs that have taken up most of my time, between the research and the standards and formatting. Hope it leads somewhere.
I have finally started painting my Dungeons & Lasers Xeno terrain. This is from the first campaign. In the second campaign, I got the exact same order: starship terrain (seen in the Flayers’ space station) and the Alien-inspired xeno stuff. The xeno stuff will be Mind (Id) Flayer and Beholder terrain. In Greywater, it will show up as terrain that the Nilithids are xenoforming.
I sprayed it all in gloss black primer:
The I tried three different dry-brushes. Top left is metallic brown, under that is metallic green. Top right is no dry-brushing (for contrast), and under that is a pale metallic blue.
I think I got too much dry-brush on the brown and the blue, as they are kinda dulled out. I think the metallic green looks the best, anyway. The gloss will be restored when I hit it with the gloss sealer spray. I’m probably going to do them all with the green.
I really wanted to get the atmospheric luster from the second movie, Aliens, when the marines were down in the transformed tunnels. A kind of wet, bluish look. But I kinda like the subtlety of the lightly dry-brushed green.
There’s other stuff going on, but I’ll leave it for a couple of days from now. Don’t break your seats as you hover on the edge waiting for the next update!
*My renewal for Bluehost is due Mid-June, and the special is up. They want to charge me $18 a month, plus $34 a year for my domain name and ssl certificate, and another $10 a month for various other stuff. I am not sure where they are getting these figures, as as I don’t even see them on their billing page, and I do not have an option to renew at a lesser fee. They want me to call, which I will, but I am thinking of going with another host entirely, as I have not been completely happy with Bluehost. But moving the site has to be a pain in the booty, so…I’ve got some decisions to make. Toss in my shattered dreams of having the site pay for itself, and, well, we’ll see.