As Promised, Again With WIP Poxwalker #17

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Ann

As promised, I offer a couple of pictures of where work-in-progress poxwalker #17 stands since the last time I turned my proverbial painting lens on this worthy zombie.*

PW#18 waits with undead patience in the fuzzy background.

I still have a bit more work to do, though I’m getting close to the end stages now. The purple tentacles used to be blue, but I decided they were far too pretty in a wow-that-looks-like-it-would-look-great-on-a-blue-horror pretty and not poxwalker pretty so I hit them with some purple shade. Upon reflection I might have hit them too hard and maybe I should have used some medium and/or tried blue shade or a blue and purple mix. I still can, but I’m undecided. I might leave them more or less as is and just highlight them a little.

Inertia and all….

After all, they are just a couple of belly tentacles and not really worth too much thought in the scheme of things. Are there not whole regiments of guardsmen in the world who are still painfully bereft of the Grandfather’s multifarious blessings?

What kind of maggots to go with this time?**

I still have a few decisions to make such as what kind of maggots, and what kind of pox to go with this time. Maybe Emerald Pox. I’ve only done that with one other poxwalker, (one of the dreaded beach boy twins) so it isn’t overdone with this mob.***

I’m probably not going to rust up the mechanical arm too much. Maybe a few Rhinox Hide patches and the like.**** I am thinking of busting out an old brush and the bottle of AK Interactive engine oil and experimenting with that. I tried glossy Nuln Oil for a bit of fresh oil look, but that didn’t really work for me so far.

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Next time I will post some pictures of the fully completed poxwalker #17, a work in progress no longer. I’ll know it is done by my usual tried-and-true method, which is when my fiddling seems to make things no better and maybe even worse. That is when I know it is time to stop with many things in life, miniatures and writing both.

* “Promised” should be construed to mean a non-binding echo of a glimmer of a reflection upon said Humble Narratrix’s part to maybe put up some pictures of WIP-PW#17 if and when it is convenient to do so before becoming distracted by less important things.

** It is a very good sign when you type “maggot” in the search box for your site and a whole bunch of pages come up!

*** I haven’t forgotten about my idea of having countless hordes of poxwalkers, plaguebearers, etc. and identifying each mob with a different disease.

**** Perhaps the mechnical arm was in good working order when PW#17 was gifted with the blessings of Nurgle rather than the usual state of affairs, which of course is that the rust and falling apart look is in fact a wonderful magic that makes the mechanism in question work at least as and probably better than when it was right off the forge world assembly line.

Death Guard Symbol 125 wide

Cthulhu Pie and update on Organic Ink

Posted on November 11, 2019 by Ann

My husband has been on a pie making kick lately for his vegan/plant-based weight loss Youtube Channel. I’ve been (not surprisingly as a confirmed omnivore) enjoying the fruits of his labors. He sent me this jewel, which though he didn’t make it he said he sure wish he had. I’m sure most of you reading this can see why and I’m sure glad he sent me this picture. It’s Cthulhuicious:)

“In his pie at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu dreams for whipped cream.”

I had more than I wanted to share, but as it turns out I burned most of my time today working on my Wattpad writing and composing a little promotional doggerel to put in a section of the chapbook I’ve spent most of October and some of November working on: Thirty-One Days of Darkness with the idea of having one offering for each day of October.

Someone suggested that I ought to shoehorn in a small advertisement for Organic Ink Volume Two so I did. Actually I forgot but then was reminded when I was reading someone’s poetry collection in Wattpad and ran across an advertisement for their print chapbook.

So I typed up the usual sort of promotional stuff about pre-ordering it on Amazon, the release date being December 30th and so on, but thought that was kind of boring. I kicked around a few ideas and then settled upon beginning with the lines:

I am one of the authors featured in this anthology

it’s far more interesting than a text on gnathology.

and goes from there for another nine or ten lines. If you’re interested you can read the rest of it in my aptly titled, Organic Ink: Shameless Self Promotion, which I’ve sandwiched between some micro fiction concerning a superheroine’s first night alone on the job and a haiku involving tentacle fingers.

Click image for Amazon’s pre-order page for the Kindle version.

Finally, I did a little more work on poor, long-suffering poxwalker #17. Alas, I don’t have time to take and post any pictures of my worthy zombie, but that will give me something for next time, hopefully before the weekend. All I will say is that need to redo its violet belly tentacles because they came out too pretty by half. Slaanesh will be making my poor poxwalker into an honorary daemonette if I’m not careful. Oh, the pain, the pain!

Poxwalker-in-progress and more Wattpad writing

Posted on October 15, 2019 by Ann

So I spiral out the long, sad task of painting my mob of twenty poxwalkers into late 2019. I would say, “I’ll finish the lot before 2020!” but we all know that probably has as much truth in it as a short, sharp fit of sneezing meaning nothing but continued perfect health after putting in an eight hour shift driving around a bus full of sick people.*

Here we have Ole #17, who is one of my current works-in-progress. I gave this poxwalker some attention this past weekend, sketching out the base colors on its belt and loin cloth as well as beginning a little experiment with purple tentacles. I also put some paint on the Death Guard symbol. Still a lot more work to go, as you can see, but it’s coming along.

Unfinished but only semi-forgotten!

So far as my Wattpad adventures go, here is what’s been going on there for me lately:

I’ve been sketching out the next section for the Gabby novel. I’ll certainly post here when it goes live.
Another user, Microbytes, who puts out little anthologies of collected work on Wattpad, used a drabble I wrote in August, called “Survive to Swim” in their Micro-August Anthology.**
Microbytes struck again, this time notifying me that they are doing 30 days of writing prompts called “30 Days of Spooky Tales.” I came to the party a bit late, but I am going to make an attempt to complete all 30 prompts and make a little Wattpad collection/book/whatever out of them. Right now I am up to three done and collected under the dubious work-in-progress name of “Thirty Days of Darkness.”

For next time I am hoping for more progress on the aforementioned Ole Number Seventeen, and I might play around a bit with some Plaguebearer Flesh contrast paint I picked up last week. I can always tell I haven’t been to the game store in a long time when I see a new staff member and she gives me the Welcome to the Store New Customer Speech!

Also plan to work on more of the Spooky Tales prompts and of course Gabby. Hope everyone who managed to read this far has a good week. May you make good progress on your varied projects, both mundane and multifarious!

* I was going to say “we all know that would probably be a lie” but I thought it best (for my own continued good relations with the Grandfather if for no other reason) to stick to a Nurgle-based (and rather familiar situation, to your Humble Bus-Driving Narratrix) rather than a Tzeentch-based figure of speech.

** A “drabble” is apparently a 100 word short story. I didn’t know this until I stumbled upon this tidbit in Wattpad. I found some interesting information on the subject over on Wikipedia.