GD entries progress

So another sad morning!!!
All the good weather that happend in May has drained the fun out of June :-D
To add some more grief our Neighbour died yesterday...I didn't know him very well(I just moved in 2 years ago) and for him it was the best solution( 83 years old and since almost a year he couldn't move/speak/take care of himself). However It's very sad for his wife and family....Why am I mentioning this. Honestly, I have no clue. The sad morning light brought me to it.
Anyway, I tried to take a decent picture of my current GD project in the same sad morning light, with my under-archieving camera on my mobile(Hey, I was rushing to work, bear with me).
Feel free to tell me what you think of them:

It's a very old hybrid metal-plastic kit of a Dark angels tactical squad. I might have explained before, but it seemed like a fun challenge to paint these "vintage" models to a high standard(or at least try to ;-)).
They will be arranged on a kind of glass plate that a good friend is making for me.....connections, what would live be without it :-D

This will be it!!!
Hope they like it in Colonge.
.....Or one of the other entries :-D

Done!!!! Now GD Germany preparations

Not the hobby progress that I was hoping to report but still something I'm quite proud off(and this archievement will free up some time for GD stuff). Remember the post "the other hobby".
Well I can proudly announce that as from last night 23:00 I finished the room that I completley stripped and rejuvenated since the end of February.
I took some snapshots this morning.

And here I hope to deliver some mini-masterworks ;-)
On a side note, my hobby efforts haven't been reduced to 0. I've been able to make some progress, but yesterday during the moving in of my stuff I realised once again that I need to start finishing things. I have like 10.000 projects in different stages of progress. At least 4 of these projects I should get finished before the 7th of August. Let's hope that that incentive is strong enough....because I have another mini-exchange coming up and a Forge world army to paint for a friend....What am I getting myself into :-P

Massive update :-D part 2 (with decent pictures)

Hi all,

I spent this great sunday afternoon painting with some friends. One of them (http://dimsgalleries.blogspot.com/) puts my photographic skills to shame....How hard can it be ;-)
Anyway here are some pictures that I showed last week, but then better :-D
Without much further ado:

Raider

A damsel totting some serious firepower

The original models to test the colour scheme. Some flashy scorpion green freehand sstill need to be added as spot colours.....and bases of course.

A test skaven, still very WIP,but I'm liking my progress so far...Doing the skin wil improve the impact.....that's next on the list ;-)
And finally: "Mein Ehre heisst Trau":

Just for the record. I'm painting SS, because I like the dual challenge: colour scheme and hard to play(outnumbered and outgunned, that's what you get for being "elite"). Absolutly no nazi believes for me...just enjoying a wonderful game called FOW...BTW next army is gonna be allied and I opted for the 4th canadian armored division. I guess I'll be learing to paint a yellow maple leaf on scale 1/100th=> sounds like fun right?
Enjoy the post and keep your eyes open for some future pics....this quality :-D I promise!

Massive update :-D

Finally hobby picture time:
During past easter weekend I finished the room that I'm refurbishing.Now I have to wait for my girl and mother to hang some wallpaper before finishing up the whole deal=> paint, floor and electric stuff.
That means that until the girls meet up and do their thing(7th of May), I have some time to spend with miniature soldiers :-D me happy, big time!
Further complications in the continuation of this blog were the loss of my camera(just misplaced, typical :-/), and the busy working days. However updating the blog can work a wonder when motivation is down.....so yhere we go:
Picture time :-D
I've been playing with the idea of finally painting up a warhammer fantasy army and the steampunk-tech style of the skaven spoke to me(the fact that i'll need 200+ models brings a shadow of a doubt :-P). But here are some pictures of an assasin that I've been colouring :

I've also been working on a Flames of war force on and off.
Finally finished my SS-recon platoon with an upgrade to tank hunters(4 Schwimmwagens to go....but those will be my first airbrush experiment).

Yesterday evening I was finally finishing my last strike cruiser for my Dark angels battlefleet gothic fleet. The rest of the force is green, but I liked the idea of a ravenwing dedicated strike cruiser :

A little sneak peek at some projects/conversions for golden deamon Germany( in August)-feeling the stress allready-

That's Valkia the bloody and a early-heresy world eater for you :-D
Finally the big project: The Severed
Some progress on the first squad of warriors and my first raider. Now it's time to start the edge highlights :-D

Have a go at it.
.....and remember, maybe one day I'll be able to take at least some decent pictures :-/

The other hobby!

As every homeowner will testify, the job is never done :-D
The previous owner gave a good start by installing a roof. However they refurbished the 1st floor horribly.
And that's where my other "hobby"-or call it time-drain- comes in.
Last year was dedicated to the master bed-room and now I'm doing the rest of the first floor.
1st room of the 2(+ hallway) is moving along  smoothly......the denizens of Commoragh are moving a lot slower ;-)
Cause and effect
But here's a picture of a couple of weeks ago:

In the meantime all the gyproc-plates have been mounted and I'm drywalling the seams @ the moment(after work)

I know.....all this is quite off-topic in this blog. However I'm covering the silence :-D

On the bright side:
I won the painting competition der lage landen in the GW-store in Amsterdam. In the category Single model 40K, I won first place! The Commisar of Krieg posted earlier brought home victory for me, and now he's off to the cabinet of a friend of mine.
I will however get some "professional" pictures and I'll post them ASAP. In the meantime the high from the win pushes me on in my motivation for golden deamon Germany.
Busy, busy at work so that's it for now