u/Rasples1998

Painting my blood angels Jovan, I've had him for a while but didn't get around to painting him until now. I've never painted an ork before so I'm saving that til last. I'm also trying out a new scheme which is black primer, dry brush of Vallejo metal colour airbrush silver, and the new baal red contrast on top. The silver really makes the red pop so I'm happy with the result, I'm just disappointed it doesn't work like this old blood angels red did because it feels more like a base paint than a contrast paint, I still found myself needing to fill in the recesses. This is also much brighter than the darker slapchop dark angels I painted a couple years ago, but i thought it would be a crime to not make the Blood Angels pop so I tried something different.

Overall this has taken me just over 4 hours. I've had to take breaks in this UK heatwave because it's uncomfortable trying to paint intricate details like the face when you can feel the sweat squeezing out the pores on your forehead and dribbling down your nose, so I may have rushed a little. I'm usually good at faces (the Lion's are my best) but this is probably on the lower end, I'm happy with the hair but the face just doesn't look good to me.

This is taken after another one of my breaks in this heat so it's not finished, I put some black panel liner on which takes a while to dry so I might finish for today and do the edge highlighting tomorrow. Maybe I'm just not happy with it because it looks so flat, the edge highlights might fix that.

I'm a fine artist so have years of oil paint built up on my old wooden palette, I love a dirty palette because it shows usage and is a work of art in itself. This is my acrylic one for warhammer which is on a glass cutting board, there's probably 3-4 years of paint built up on this.

You get bonus points if you can guess which founding chapter of space marines I paint.

It's blackbird fledgling season so a baby blackbird flew on my window and stared at me. It came in and knocked a bunch of my models over in a panic before flying out but I can only post a picture.

Shittiest of shitposts.

I don't think foreigners really appreciate the humidity we have to deal with in the UK because we're an island. I've seen people compare the UK heat to Houston Texas or Florida because of the proximity to the ocean, which people from other drier parts of the world won't understand. It sticks to you, you can't escape it, and it's just as hot indoors as it is outdoors. We also don't have AC because we'd only use it for like 25% of the year. It reached 35°C in some places which is unusually high for the UK and clearly a sign that climate change is getting worse, and it's not even summer yet.

The heat was unbearable, I would just lie in bed almost naked with a wet flannel on my head just trying to cool down. There was no breeze and we bought some ice cream and ice lollies, but they literally all melted after an hour. It would go quiet in the evenings when it reached the peak temperature because the birds wouldn't sing, the wildlife couldn't even handle the heat.

Luckily we had some rain and thunder last night so it's starting to cool down, thankfully.

I can't understate how bad our heat is, because it's not just hot; it's oppressive. The air turns into a wet soup that you have to wade through, you can feel the sweat squeezing out of your skin and the moisture in the air sticking to your body. For like 10-20% of the year, the UK turns into a tropical rainforest. I'm hoping the Irish and the french on the coast will know what I'm talking about because it's so uncomfortable, it's not a heat you can bask in and enjoy.

We've started to develop a meme called the "foreigner humbling" where people think we complain too much but then come to our country and finally realise what we're all moaning about when they feel the heat for themselves. Experiencing a heatwave in the UK is a humbling experience.

It's just full of racists, homophobes, and misogynists now that isn't being regulated or policed. You have fascists just openly proclaiming their hatred to the world and nothing is done about it.

I don't know why they even bothered to include him because he's hardly integral to the story and he's just a regular unpowered dude, there's nothing special about him. Like the typical line attributed to batman and ironman "without the suit you're nothing"; he literally was nothing. His entire character could have been given to someone else to fill whatever pointless dead-end narrative they were trying to achieve.