All the pictures from the tournament on the 24th

A tutorial kinda thing

Picture tutorial. So easy even a caveman from beyond the stars can do it! And so can you!

Model primed flat black.

Drybrushed metal.

Drybrushed a lighter metal.

Face base coated them lightly washed with ink.

Armour washed black. (This is also my primer.)

Let dry.

Skin layed lighter skin tone and washed some blending.

Magenta makes the scars pop! 

Wash and flood fill to darken the armour more.

Add in heavy spots of black paint and wash again as needed.

Let dry.

Texture base with course texture jel.

Let dry and add more as needed.

Paint base.

Let dry.

Take pictures!

Realize this guys unit is like 400 points or something...

Sad face... Oh well.

So give it a try if you would like too!

And.

This is one of the first pictures I can remember seeing way back in 1996-ish.

Long ago when I was just getting into 40K.

It's stuck with me for years.

This is my attempt. I realize it's not exactly a copy and that the armour is black and not green.

I ordered a bunch of Space Marine heads just to find this one, which isn't all that far off from the one I remembered.

Thinking about Youtube and the blog.

Like many on Youtube I received the Youtube partner program Email.
My channel is no longer able to monetized as of February. I lack the 1000 subscribers. Which means of course I haven't had the 4000 (I think it is) of viewed content.

This got me thinking about Youtube. And I think I have been doing it wrong.
I never set out with any goals or a plan.  In a lot of ways I have missed the boat.

I'm in the process of forming a plan of action and looking for a sustainable means of channel growth as well as questioning what content I could make that I would be willing to post on a very regular schedule.

Over the years I have noticed that I will start a thread on a forum and it will easily blow up in views, posts and interaction. This has mostly been my work in progress threads, which I enjoy and other people seem to like. So, I'm thinking that will be my largest area of growth for gaining any audience to my channel.

Attention span. How long are eyeballs actually on my videos and how can I maximize their limited viewing time, attention or interest.
This has been the larger question I have been thinking about.
What I have come up with is I need to keep the videos short. I need to limit the video to three minuets or less. I need to post at least every other day. I am able to post pictures at about that speed and some times I post pictures more than two or three times in a day, though not often.
To me this seems reasonable. I ma looking for an easy format that needs the least amount of editing.

The first goal is simply to gain a larger number of subscribers and keep their attention.
How do I do that?
I know I need to be on several platforms and posting/updating about my activity.
I need all of my content to be related and in the same direction, hobby related, miniature related.

After I have gained the audience I can then deviate from my established format. By which I think that could be slightly longer more involved videos.

Monetizing. Is there any reason not too. I don't know. The important thing I think is not to have any adds get in the way of the content and not bother the audience. Which is stupid, adds are suppose to be where the money comes from but I don't even watch adds so why would my viewers.
Which leads me to funding from the viewers. So, we're right back to growing the audience.

More information coming in and slightly unconfirmed. Seems Youtube wants each video to get 1000
clicks before they allow it to be monetized. I've heard conflicting reports.

Last year my channel had a little over 16 hours of watch time. But I put no effort into videos last year.  I uploaded all of 3 videos last year. (2017) 30 hours in 2016. 33 hours for 2015.

Not to sound down on myself but what I haven't done is.
I haven't plugged my channel. I haven't asked very much for likes, shares and subscribes.
I haven't uploaded on a schedule or very frequently.  (frequently enough)

Wow that turned into a long one...
And it's not over yet. 

That's a lot of youtube stuff but what about the blog?
Well, I plan to continue posting work in progress pictures and flood pages in pictures like I have in the past. I do think things will get a little more regular as both the blog and the channel will become more closely related in content and updated at roughly the same time. 
I actually expect the blog to be a little more in depth than the videos. The videos will be intentionally short.
Which leads me to ask. What kinds of articles would you, my dear readers/viewers, like to see here on this blog?

And that wraps up this rant.
Please comment.
Thank you for reading this wall of gibberish.

Ending 2017

I'm ending this year with some work in progress.

My first legion project is again on my table and I hope to play some 30K next year.

Happy New Year!

Just checking in.

Not a whole lot going on as far as miniatures, hobby stuff and games goes. And that's fine.
It's near the end of the year and the silly season is upon us.
I was sick for nearly 2 weeks, thankfully his doesn't happen every year.
I've been doing things for the house that we've had come up or that have needed to be done for a while. 
I've had plenty of time to read forums and am getting sick of them again. the attitudes are... Well. I don't care for a fair bit of the posters on a lot of the forums now days. Nothing is ever good enough for some people and they seem to enjoy crying about it. It's always bad on Dakka Dakka but I feel like it's creeping over to Da WAAAAAGH as well. so much bitching and moaning about nothing.
I've left the Warmaster and deleted my account there. I hardly watch my Youtube subscriptions now as well.  I just signed up with Vid.me.  And a few weeks later it seems they are shutting down. I was ready to move platforms completely and reboot my channel but it seems I missed the boat. I'll be looking for the next platform to move to. I want to remove my Youtube channel completely but still want hosted video.
I just got to watch Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and it was a lot of fun.
I've started cleaning out my workshop again. I am still trying to get it sorted out.

That's about it for now. I still live and am looking forward to finding my next project. Looking forward to finding time to paint.

Finished Arrow Boys!

It's taken me way too long to get these done. I finished Sunday night.
I want to say this completes the tribe but there might be bitz for one more mob which should be 10 more Morboys but as of now everything assembled is painted. I expect that if I happen to find those bitz I'll build and paint 10 morboys.  but until then I also feel I can call this project done.
I might like to do just a bit more to the bases but I'll have to look for the flock and tufts of grass I ant to use.  My bases are always a bit bland  and I'd like to do a little better about that.

here's a quick look at the last arrow boys.

I'm planning a nice picture shoot when I get my hands of a better camera.