Back to the paintbrush: What Orlygg did next?

Hello and welcome back to Realm of Chaos 80s. I have been gone awhile (and not just from this blog, it seems) and I am pleased to be back. Since the unholy combination of work, work and more work has stayed my hand from the painting, or indeed collecting, table and I lament the terrible absence of any actual progress.

That is correct; I have painted nothing, collected nothing - done nothing!

In truth, I was in that downward spiral that all of us must combat from time to time. The painting lethargy that sees the collection gather dust, and with each mote that falls, a further decrease in the drive required to work.

Such woes, for woes they are, were further enhanced due to the destruction of my scanner, which paid heed to my idea for a picture round of my festive pub quiz. Still, I can save that for another year. ICT troubles weren't further, with the email account linked to this blog dumping loads of emails from fellow enthusiasts into the spam box where I failed to notice them. Apologies if you are one of the many who went without reply, I shall attempt to clear the backlog as soon as I am on holiday.

Ahh, talk of the holiday. As I teacher, I have over two weeks off over the festive period (starting 3pm tomorrow) and I hope to spend most of that time either painting, gaming or collecting. So you will be reading a fair amount from this site in the coming days.

So I rise, pheonix like from the dusty embers of my paint station to illuminate this small corner of the internet with old school Citadel goodness, or something like that anyway...

I knew that I needed something special to get me motivated, so I opted to restore a paint a model I have wanted to do for years, namely the 1980s Realm of Chaos Chariot. I bought one from eBay a few months back in a truly shocking state and I have managed to clean it up.

Here is what I have so far achieved...

What are a kit! A classic Perry sculpt!

Obviously, the chariot is going to be a multi-assemblage job. I intend to build the chariot and paint that up first, minus the scythes, quiver and banner pole. These will be added last. Next, I intend to work on the horses to create an actual chariot before painting the crew and placing them inside. Keen eyed collectors will probably notice that the champion lacks the mace arm... I have been unable to locate one, so intend to use the halberd arm in its place.

No saddle!

The previous owner of the horses filled off the saddle detail, leaving some rather irregular markings. I'll probably be filling them down a little more before I paint them.

Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones!

As you may recall, I was unhappy with the finish of my last chariot (the undead version above) so look forwards to completing a decent model before Christmas Day. I don't want this chariot to be overtly chaotic, so with a minimum of mutation of wild colour schemes. With that in mind, I am going to treat the actual vehicle as corrupted wood, rather than a living thing as I have seen in other examples of this model.

So I suppose, I better get gluing. Oh, and I have finally finished off my final interceptor for my copy of Dark Future, and I hope to get a game in before the end of the holidays. You can follow this on my Dark Future blog here.

Speak soon,

Orlygg.