Working on my endless amount of Dark Angels tacticals

Painting more kataphron breachers...hoping to finish them and move on to basing for the cult mech army.

Putting the finishing touches on my first Alpha Legion CSM squad and assembling the second while paint dries. I found some awesome third party scaly space marine bits and they've came out really well, I'm thrilled with them.

Practised airbrushing on an old urban mammoth hexagon plastic scenery kit I found in a cupboard. Then stabbed myself in the thumb with the nozzle reamer. Because idiot.

Well, I made a few contributions to Cryx at battlecollege.com notably Deneghra1.

putting together some kits i've had sitting in the drawer
i'd forgotten how much i dislike the plastic storm guard kit, and i'm glad i shouldn't ever need to fool with it again

Rexieved a whole batch of paints for my DW army. Unfortunately I seem to have forgotten to order Nuln Oil...

Prepping 20 more round rock resin bases to rebase dwarfs to duardin. And assembling skitarii ballastarri, or probably more likely another sydonnian dragoon (with tazer this time).

 wuestenfux wrote:
Well, I made a few contributions to Cryx at battlecollege.com notably Deneghra1.

As someone fairly new to both the game and Cryx, thank you sir

Just sprayed some watered down white glue/pva onto some terrain to seal down some flock.

Writing missions for our BattleTech campaign.

Edited the entry of Goreshade3 at battlecollege.org.
See http://battlecollege.org/index.php/Goreshade,_Lord_of_Ruin#Basic_Info

Thinking about redoing my old Crimson Fists army. It counts as doing something hobby related, damnit!

Between real life work :( reading Praetorian of Dorn

Adding the final few bits to my Blood Bowl pitch (once the "twine" is in place I just need to add a couple of blood splatters, a few vines and plants, then perhaps a couple more skeleten bits.

An achaeological site at a jungle temple where the previous inhabitants were a little more un than dead, and the banner of my Amazonian team - The Poison Arrows.

That board is great! Would love to play a few games on some super themed tables!

For me it's back to work on a display board for my Necrons. Finishing off the drybrushing on the earth and then painting the Aegis lines.

Shameless plug for my build blog: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/699619.page

Painted Madelyn Corbeau (Mercenary solo).

Trying to paint with burn blisters on my fingers.

Don't do that.

Created the page ''Sturgis the Corrupted'' at battlecollege.org.
See http://battlecollege.org/index.php/Sturgis_the_Corrupted

I'm making a concentrated attempt to break the back of painting my Xmen starter set. They've basically been in some half finished state of painting since the first couple of weeks they were released.

Building a few Deathwatch power-lancers out of a few old bikes and some spare parts.

Created the page ''Deneghra, the Soul Weaver'' at battlecollege.org.
See http://battlecollege.org/index.php/Deneghra,_the_Soul_Weaver
Not yet finished.

Building Drycha and finishing off the second set of familiars from silver tower.

Captain Brown wrote:
Painted the drilled barrels on my Sisters of Battle.

CB

And some of the fruits of my labour:













There is also a Command Squad, Dominions and Retributors in my gallery as well...all having their weapons drilled with a pin vice.

Cheers,

CB

Ooh fancy SoBs.

Working on punching out my second battle systems block and assembling all of the scatter and items.

Popped in to a nearby GW and picked up Start Collecting: Tau Empire. God help my soul.

I didn't quite finish painting my Xmen but it's pretty close. They didn't photograph well though.

I broke my wallet. Bought a Spartan, and a bunch of Dark Angel upgrades, and a couple characters from FW.

Unloaded a serious chunk of my 40K collection to pay for this. Looking forward to the assemble/paint part of the acquisition.

I bought my first battlefoam bags, I bought the skimisher pack(432 and a 352) and a 216 with the paint pack. I have been going through a couple of sabol bags to get my CSM and ork troops into the Battle foam bags so I can use the sabol bags for transporting vehicles for now. I also have been washing drying a bunch of resin khador models getting ready for a journeyman league that we starting in our local gaming group. There are also some winterguard on my painting queue with some jacks.

Finally finished the 4 Tau pathfinders I was working on, plus the two Deathwatch Overkill jump guys. Tomorrow I plan to work on some Tau stealth suits, as well as continuing to assemble my Cyclopian Cabal.

Primed several Cryx models. Now they will be ready for play.

Today I am working in The Games Den (like I do most days!), and then going home to run a D&D game for my partner and our friend, and then if I am still awake, I will try and finish repainting my Eldar Falcon grav-tank that I've had since I was about 13.

Edited the entry of Bile Thralls at battlecollege.org.

Gonna pop by the local library today for its monthly game day. Probably end up playing/refereeing some x-wing or a remote chance of dnd or some random boardgame.

Also continuing work on punching out and assembling my bags systems stuff.

Working on some CSM. Going to reserve the new White Dwarf tomorrow, which should be great.

Working on the only ultramarine I have ever painted with more skill than dunking it in a vat of blue paint.

Did an intro game of Star Wars Armada today. My newbie Rebel player learned a very important lesson of frigate against Star Destroyer in a head-on collision doesn't end well for the frigate.

Boooom!

I took a mishmashed Scum list of whatever I could find in my hastily assembled box o' ships in a 100pt 3 way battle today at the library thing. Something like a properly kitted Kavil, Sarisu with a laser cannon (I know, but I wanted to try it lol) and a mini swarm of Zs against 3 rebel ships and a gaggle of Tie-whatevers. Managed a fairly solid victory, thanks largely to Kavil for one-shotting both of the tie interceptors out of his arc (like a boss) and properly prioritizing shots against the most damaged ships. The Z's were basically pathetic but they ate up shots, I won't complain.

Gonna try to paint something up before the end of the month...

Sounds like Z-95's were doing what they were doing best.

Finished the entry on Bile Thralls at battlecollege.org.
See http://battlecollege.org/index.php/Bile_Thralls

Today I am working at The Games Den for a few hours, then going home to paint some Eldar and play a wargame with my wee lad I think.

Praetorian of Dorn, rebasing for AoS on Hammerers or Longbeads, painting that FW praetor with great weapon they sold in GW shops for a weekend only--to join my Death Guard 30K.

Today i have magnetised a leman Russ demolisher so I can use it as any of the three variants from that kit with any combination of hull/sponson weapons. I think I worked out that there are 36 possible combinations so I've saved myself a few dabloons there

I am now painting up some guardsmen. They're long overdue and I aim to finish at least two of them today. If I don't get fed up I'll do more, if I do get fed up I might paint some terrain.

Ed

Painting up a buddy's WK in exchange for a 10 man squad of Mk IV marines (from the calth box) that are still on sprue....


Also, assembled and gonna prime Ulrik the Slayer here in a bit.

Sat staring at those Eldar waiting for motivation to kick in...

Gluing together some Tau firewarriors.

Punched and assembled the last city block, now I just have to do 4 more sheets of extras for that and 7-10 sheets of misc add-on sets and I can look into my 4x4' city build.

Attempting to finish some stuff for a Kill Team game tomorrow.
Eldar are fiddly little blighters.

Wrote out a Deathwatch themed Kill Team list for next weekend, when I'll hopefully pick up both a box of veterans and Kill Team itself.

Played that little wargame with my son (he's 7). He won. My five Iron Warriors and their Champion were felled by his cultists and plaguebearers!

Very simplified 40K rules, but the basics are there.

Bought an Exocrine yesterday, built yesterday and got the base colours on today, decent model really more or less fell together, wash coats would go on tomorrow.

Upgrading hive fleet turnip for an APOC game later next month.

Also got some fighters for Star Wars Armada painted up

I'm reading through the 3rd edition Guard codex I recently came into possession of and lamenting just how far the army has fallen since those golden days

 War Kitten wrote:
I'm reading through the 3rd edition Guard codex I recently came into possession of and lamenting just how far the army has fallen since those golden days

Is it the one with the picture of the Cadian troopers in the trench system on the front cover, or the later one with the Doctrines?

Yesterday I finished that Iyanden Falcon that had been annoying me for a few days. Today I have begun to paint up the Guardian Defenders I have, and have popped back into The Games Den. I am hoping to finish the Guardians today and also update my Army of the Imperium plog.

Trying to paint my Icebrow Hunter and not snap my brushes since I am having a hard time painting the flesh colour I want. ARGH!

Finally finished all the Dungeon Tiles I got from the Dwarven Forge Kickstarter I got two years ago. I still have 4 boxes from the Cavern set that came out after but for now I'm happy I have a dungeon I can use my minis on:

I learned that Eldar Dire Avengers really do not like SM Scouts with Landspeeder Storms, paired with Heavy Bolters. Played a 200 point KT game, inflicted 1HP against the marines, and was tabled on T3.

Drive-by scousers...

 Gen.Steiner wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
I'm reading through the 3rd edition Guard codex I recently came into possession of and lamenting just how far the army has fallen since those golden days

Is it the one with the picture of the Cadian troopers in the trench system on the front cover, or the later one with the Doctrines?

Yesterday I finished that Iyanden Falcon that had been annoying me for a few days. Today I have begun to paint up the Guardian Defenders I have, and have popped back into The Games Den. I am hoping to finish the Guardians today and also update my Army of the Imperium plog.

I picked up both of them, but I'm referring to the one with the doctrines

Basing a few Stormcast ready for a tournament coming up.

detailing runes on Fyreslayers and touching up some terrible paint jobs.

Painted Goreshade3. One of the best assassination casters in the game.

Getting some slow progress on the armour plates of my knight. Really should learn to airbrush, would make the yellow a bit easier..

Ooof yellow over black, well it looks quite nice but I imagine there was a lot of work to get it that way.

Finished popping out battle systems stuff, scatter is all assembled, I just need to build the buildings now. During the downtime that I was using to clear the sheets I'm now filling in the edges of some of the scatter with cheap markers to help disguise the fact that it's all card. And occasional superglue strengthening.

I must concur... I've done 4 House Hawskshroud knights now, and building the armor up from white is, IMHO, a much easier task than building from black....

One thing that has helped me immensely in that, is as the layer paints begin to dry up on the brush, dip the brush into your water and hit the armor again turning the paint almost into a wash. It'll take an extra coat or two, but keeping the yellows thin and moving is key to brushing something that large.

 War Kitten wrote:
I picked up both of them, but I'm referring to the one with the doctrines

Ah. Technically that's the 4th Edition Codex.

I didn't finish the Guardians, but I did at least get the base coat of yellow and the Agrax Earthshade wash done, so now I "just" need to do the helmets (blue-blue ink-blue), armour highlights (Averland Sunset), guns (black-grey edging) and various details (soulstones, etc)... and the bases.

Oh, and I did a bit more on my two Warlocks.

Edited the entry of BLT at battlecollege.org.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
More entries edited: Reaper, Warwitch Siren, and Soulhunters.

Working at The Games Den this morning, then a game of 40K or two this evening at the local club in their weird homebrew campaign involving Primarchs and Daemon Primarchs in the 42nd Millenium.

Working on getting the custom foam storage for my Riptide to stay together.

CB

Armies on Parade work

Scrambling to paint up a few last orcs and goblins for a game of Age of Sigmar this weekend.

Dear Bob, please, please I sincerely hope that is my X-Men starter set finally, finally finished being painted...

I was flocking the base tab tonight, then it's tidying up the base and, finally, maybe just maybe done.

Magneto is on the list, then I'll have my first standard game sized painted force of, well anything, since my Deadzone Plague Strike Team back in March 2014!

Edited the entry ''Scrap Thralls'' at battlecollege.org.
Painted Warwitch Deneghra (Denny2).

Today I'm going to go and pick up an eBay purchase of a Sister of Battle Imagifer, and probably make a start on painting her. I might even get some more done on the Iyanden Guardians...!

This thread is such a good idea to motivate doing even a lit bit of hobby each day

More detailing runes, and touching up Fyreslayers today.

Edited the entry of Goreshade1 at battlecollege.org. Not finished yet.

Picked up the Imagifer. Going to clean her up and undercoat her in a bit.

I'm hoping to finish off my squad of Chaos marines that I've been working on. Just started with the hobby, so the going has been slow as I'm changing and improving my techniques as I progress from model to model.

Finally decided on my next project. I have a bunch of Terrain I want to get painted up to clean out my closet....for more terrain, naturally.

Contemplating getting a Knight to fight alongside my Guard

Not painted anything for ten months, so when I painted these three I was pleased to see I still got my mojo.

Henry - those are some awesome paintjobs!

Yesterday I managed to paint the helms of my Iyanden Guardians blue, and did a bit on the Farseer, and I also undercoated the Imagifer. Next... let's see if I can paint the Eldar Guardians' body suits yellow! Wooo...!

I'm so out of the zone for painting I can't even watch the Bob Ross painting show...

Gonna work on making some extra floor and roof bits for my battle systems stuff.

i Purchased some natural hair brushes and started using them. Holy crap did they hold their point better. Which made it so much easier to control where the paint went. I am working on some khador models for a journeymen league that starts this weekend. On a side note I am still learning to control the water in my wet palette.. next time.

back to painting red.....

I spray primed my Chaos bikes, including the three that will be for my Cyclopian Cabal. I'm gonna brush prime some of the parts of those, though, as I'm painting them separately.

Today after work I am going to continue to paint my brass scorpion for my black legion. I was nervous at first but I am thinking the black armor plates and gold trim is going to look pretty bad *&#. Maybe I'll get the bodies tangled in the wires done today.

Edited the entry of Goreshade1 at battlecollege.org.
He's a very playable caster.

Going to finish up my Fireprism and Farseer on Jetbike. Just got to do the gems and some of the weapons.

Started editing the entry of Goreshade2 at battlecollege.org.
Not a bad caster.

Got 4 missions ready, plus all the record sheets and all the miniatures and all the map sheets ready for the second session of our BattleTech campaign.

Man getting this stuff organised is exhausting!

I'm slaving away on a WWII British Airborne army that I need for a big scenario our club is playing in a couple weeks. I've still got quite a bit to get painted up so I'm figuring on using the upcoming 3-day weekend to do nothing but paint.

Going to cast some tank parts for conversion work.

CB

Ran some Imperial Assault skirmish demos at the Milton Keynes Sci-Fi con. Many stormtroopers were defeated.

Aww poor stormies. I need to break my set out some time...

Rogue's ankle broke just as I was basing her. I've tried to salvage here as best I could buy it turns out even a 1mm drill bit was too big...

So I've done a shoddy greenstuff job... Anyone asks she's tripped and her ankle's swollen... Really rubbish though. All that time painting and she breaks at the last hurdle.

Aside from that my Xmen Starter just needs a few rocks painted and I'm done.

Planning on playing through the Dungeon Saga campaign over the course of 3 nights tomorrow

I don't think I have posted on this thread yet but I'm rather excited with my current Deffwotch project. I actually made the last 2 Frag Kannon boyz since this picture and I'm in the process of brainstorming how to make an Orky Drop Pod (probably scratch built to have a real Orky Ramshackle feel to it). After they are all painted up ill make some crude looking face masks for them (think of the masks the Spy uses in Team Fortress 2) to complete the disguise.

Apologies for the shoddy image quality. Camera on my phone is gak at focusing.

Deffwotch! I love it.

I'm struggling to make headway on these blasted Guardians. I just can't seem to find a way to make highlighting yellow interesting.

Bought the Cryx box yesterday. Gives me some work nexttime.

I've been doing a lot of yellow recently for my X-Men. It was weird basically all my attempts at highlighting the yellow somehow merged into a single colour so you can't tell they're highlighted all.

Building Heresy Word Bearers and getting the first paint onto 30ish Plaguebearers and Heralds.

Assembling third skitarii sydonian dragoon, more Fyreslayer touvh-ups, reading AoS Godbeasts for podcast recordings

Finally got round to finishing Oily Jim. I've been doing far too little painting, and far too much shooting super mutants in the face.

Updated my Army of the Imperium plog with my Sisters of Battle!

Finished painting a Boromite Heavy Frag Borer weapons team for Gates of Antares.

Finished up the bikes for my Coherian Host.

Once the two troupes are finished, my Harlequins will be done for good!

Some more casting of tank parts.

Cheers,

CB

Edited the entry of Satyxis Raiders at battlecollege.org. Not yet ready.

Built the contents of the Kill Team boxed set, the free White Dwarf mini (big bastard he is!) and dug out my spare Tau bits so I could build some more special drone types.

 BrookM wrote:
Built the contents of the Kill Team boxed set, the free White Dwarf mini (big bastard he is!)

Yeh, he's enormous. Towers over the Sigmarite Stormcast, and they make Space Marines look titchy. I'm not quite sure what to make of that to be honest.

As for me, I've started highlighting the Dire Avenger's armour plate instead of the Guardians. It's just as tedious, except in blue. Bah!

No gak!

I like him though, nice and big, makes for an excellent centre piece or boardgame piece indeed.

 BrookM wrote:


No gak!

I like him though, nice and big, makes for an excellent centre piece or boardgame piece indeed.

It's just a bit... odd. I mean the scale of him! He's like a 12' mega-giant! Unless of course AoS is more like 35/40mm figures nowadays.

As for hobby work - still struggling with Dire Avengers and Guardians.

Finishing up a color proof for a friend - Canoptek wraith in the Nihilakh Dynasty colors. The gold ended up rather amusing; if I hold the model upside down, it all looks the same color of copper. But if it's rightside up, the shading is more apparent, and it is clearly gold. Strange trick of metallic paints I guess. Going to wait until she is around to finish off the turquoise, so I can show her how to do that.

Otherwise, shading up the red on a Blood Angels Contemptor Dreadnought. I cannot believe how simple the model is. He's going to look really plain if I do not do a bunch of freehand on him...

 Gen.Steiner wrote:

It's just a bit... odd. I mean the scale of him! He's like a 12' mega-giant! Unless of course AoS is more like 35/40mm figures nowadays.

As for hobby work - still struggling with Dire Avengers and Guardians.

AOS isn't differently scaled... it's just that the heroes, such as this Khorne guy (and Khorne in particular) are sculpted in such a way as to suggest that they are all brawn and no brain

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 Gen.Steiner wrote:

It's just a bit... odd. I mean the scale of him! He's like a 12' mega-giant! Unless of course AoS is more like 35/40mm figures nowadays.

As for hobby work - still struggling with Dire Avengers and Guardians.

AOS isn't differently scaled... it's just that the heroes, such as this Khorne guy (and Khorne in particular) are sculpted in such a way as to suggest that they are all brawn and no brain

That chap is so big that he is now hefting an old Minotaur Lord metal double-headed axe without looking particularly bothered. Which is... disturbing? But pretty cool too, I must admit!

Built my first Death Watch Kill Team (40k). 2 shotguns, 2 frag cannons, and a combi-melta/chainsword sergeant.

Cleaned, dry fitted, sub-assembled, and primed my 2nd UCM Ferrum.

Also assembled Ragman and Stryker 2 for my Cygnar, as well as fixed a Stormcaller that I finally found the parts for.

Primed the models in the Cryx battle box.

Finishing a Chimaera for a friend and beginning to build a bunker for my Mechanicum.

Hopefully finishing up my buddy's Wraithknight tonight/tomorrow... then on to my newest project: Charcaradons!!

Started painting the models in the Cryx Battle box. Mk3.

Writing up a solo battle report for my Old West game, Shoot N' Skedaddle.

 Elbows wrote:
Writing up a solo battle report for my Old West game, Shoot N' Skedaddle.

Nice set of terrain! That game actually sounds like fun!

As for what I'm doing today, I'm working more on my Cyclopian Cabal and my Chaos Knight.

Trying to nail down the finer points of a Warlock for D&D 5th editon. Want him to start as a cleric or fighter and come upon his warlock pact on accident by level 2. He'd slowly get more distant, cold, and alien as he furthered his pact with a great old one. Problem is I can see three or four good starts/paths that appeal to me and each of which would not insignificantly alter the early to middle game playstyle and at least the initial personality.

Meh its fun to tinker but none of the mechanics are really making any one build stand above the others, and most of the back story stubs I've considered are interesting (to me).

On the plus side he'll need a custom model, not a lot of medium-heavy armored mage types armed with a shield and staff just floating around

Painting my stealer cult from Deathwatch Overkill.

Just the rank and file left to do now...

Tried "Carson Paint Killer". Worked like a charm :>

The discussion about plastic Battle Sisters has inspired me to pull some of the old metal ones out and see if I can't get them presentable. My white armour technique is actually working quite well, will post pictures later.

 AnomanderRake wrote:
The discussion about plastic Battle Sisters has inspired me to pull some of the old metal ones out and see if I can't get them presentable. My white armour technique is actually working quite well, will post pictures later.

More Sisters of Battle players can only be a good thing!

Today I finished my two Warlocks and yesterday I finished my Iyanden Guardians. I'm hoping to finish the Farseer or make headway on my Dire Avengers tonight.

I'm plotting out my Kill-Team for my friends Deathwatch Campaign (inspired by the one that Miniwargaming did a few months back)

I'm putting a bunch of work into my Chaos Knight, as well as my Chaos Sorcerers. Having a day off sure helps me get some paint on stuff!

Gathered my Cyriss army for purchase. The value is about 860€. I'll try to sell it for 430€.

Planning to get at least some paint on my Dire Avengers and/or the Farseer...

Extracted all Cryx armies from the lists of the WTC event.
See http://www.discountgamesinc.com/blog/category/wtc/

Repainting five tharn wolf riders (circle of orboros; WMH).
Repainting six iron fang pikemen (khador; WMH)
Repainting an ogrun bokur (WMH)
Painting and converting a full squad of iron fang pikemen (khador WMH).

This will put me up to 95% painted!

After this, I have the battle at calth box set and one of my mates was clearing out her sons closet, found a huge box of space marine stuff. And passed it all on to me. Guess I have a 40k army again!

Managed to finish the Dire Avengers' bodysuits and got the Farseer to about 75% finished. I want to get them done soon so I can justify getting the Start Collecting: Eldar box.

Oddly, Gen. Steiner, I just received some Spellcrow bits so I'll be starting to modify my Eldar jetbikes into Shining Spears (the bikes came in the Start Collecting box, not bad or $64!)

Pulling apart a glued model for some detailed painting.

CB

Two and a half hours spent searching for some Chapter pads and Wolf Guard Terminator bitz. No success.

Did find:

1. Spare Furioso Dread on the sprue.
2. An extra two boxes of Sternguard.
3. 15 vanilla Terminators, off the sprue, in a bag.
4. Unbuilt Lizardmen Blood Bowl team.

And I think it's officially 'too much' when you find not just a shoe box in your hall cupboard labelled 'Misc Forge World', but when you find another one labelled 'More Misc Forge World'.

Yikes...

 Elbows wrote:
Oddly, Gen. Steiner, I just received some Spellcrow bits so I'll be starting to modify my Eldar jetbikes into Shining Spears (the bikes came in the Start Collecting box, not bad or $64!)

Spellcrow, eh? Will have to look at them.

I finished my Farseer.

Today I am at work, then going home to finish the Dire Avengers and have a long hard think about how I'm going to do my Fire Dragons.

I keep my poor finished mars attacks guys in their carry case because they take poor photos on their stock bases, so today is like to get them off of those and onto some clear acrylics.

I'd also like to arrange my battle systems into a 2x4' stretch of road and buildings, and then maybe get some zombies and survivors out for some photos. We'll see though.

Bought two copies of the September White Dwarf. Been making color copies of the cards it included for Warhammer Quest, Deathwatch Overkill, and Betrayal at Calth.

Starting to paint the vehicle crew I pulled apart.

CB

Preparing for Betrayer/Butcher's Nails interview while assembling some skitarii.

Cleaning mold lines from Citadel Woods kit. That kit's a nightmare.

Been looking at the DMsCraft/DMScotty stuff in YouTube. Trying to decide what kind of dnd scenery I'd like to make.

Finishing up the guns on a WK... then diving even more full bore into my first 2 squads of Charcaradons

Debating the merits of a Deathwatch army and working on a kill team for a Deathwatch game

Finished up making copies/cards for B@C, Execution Force, Warhammer Quest and DWOK. Built one of the two slaughterpriests (2 copies of the SEP WD).

Seriously considering building the second one w/o Khorne iconography and doing some conversion to make him my plague lord for WHQ. I've got the card from a recent WD.

Picked up some metal rings to use for smoke clouds and Siege's Fox Hole spell for my Warmachine.

Going to make a big push on my Dire Avengers, try and get them finished today.

Waiting for new mini's to be shipped... I know it's stupid early on a Monday morning, but I want them to get here so badly so I can lavish all the attention on my new corsairs...

Still painting the contemptor otherwise, ans thinking of doing a librarian next to enter into the september unofficial painting challenge. Hm... now the question becomes will I have the time finish an HQ model up to standard in all of 1 or 2 weekends...

After work I will be painting the remainder of a skeleton horse unit and their multibase, which looks like a desert with a broken Ramses II statue jutting out of it.

Selling a huge seraphon/Lizardmen collection, and assembling/priming new unit of skitarii vanguard

Mailed a Dakkite some bits in trade.

Cheers,

CB

I have started getting more involved in the hobby again after a short hiatus.
I just finished some models that had been lying around my desk unfinished for a few months.
Ended up finishing 8 Byzantine warriors for SAGA, 5 Kislec horse archers and a few models for my frostgrave warband. I can safely say today was a good hobby day!

Building and painting two Slaanesh Hellflayers. After finishing building the second, I realized I can only run one in Killteam. Crap.

Finished off the contemptor. Stuck a whole load of transfer to him to make him look a little more interesting. If anyone is thinking about avoiding the text scripts from Betrayal at Calth, they are awesome. Pretty easy to snip into appropriate sizes and get to lay nice. Also, who knew those white wings from the Imperial Knights would work to blood angel-ify a contemptor (those giant greaves were too big to leave bare)?

I keep thinking his name should be Hermes for those wings.

I have had a really busy year and not been able to get any under coating done. Meanwhile, the plastic legions have grown. Today I made use of what might be the last day of English summer to catch up on all the under coating done...

- aprox 35 storm boyz - plus the leader
- 5 lootas
- aprox 40 boyz
- aprox 50 grots - hello Kill Team!
- entire contents of Deathwatch Overkill
- some Nurgles with swords
- some gaunts
- Imperial Bastion
- 4 battlewagons
- Aegis defence line
- two sets or Ork barricades
- Weirdboy
-Ghazkull
- Ork Kommando boss- forgot the name
- the Tau from Kill Team

I normally collect Orks so am super-excited about collecting KT size forces from other codexes

This will set me up for lots of painting..all the way through to next summer hopefully.

I also need to get a lot of the stuff magnetised. The elites and stormboyz are all done but there is a lot to do - especially the fragile models.

After that, I want them table top ready.

Terrain! I finally finished my Eternity Stair, I have to finish painting up my GW Woods which I have been neglecting for awhile.

In addition I have some MDF board, Polystrene and Foamcore I've slowly gathered up so I can try my hand at some scratch built ruined buildings.

Oh and waiting for a text re: possible game on Sunday.

wow didnt think this thread was still going.

Building an imperial knight commission for a family member

I've been caught out by rain and having nothing primed...may try to find some modeling to do...

Sorting some Nids out for an Apoc game on the 24th, will as is traditional make the list on the 23rd.

Tonights job was adding dilute PVA to the bases to soak and seal them, after putting the mixed herb scatter on last night and assembling on Saturday.

Hopefully Friday night will see priming and Saturday the other base colours and wash, just the bases to paint and the dry brushing to do next week on a fair few of them...

- Tyrant (forge world arms)
- 10x gargoyles
- 4x warriors
- 12x ripper bases
- 3x forge world big spore mine thingies
- 1x lictor

Sadly the extra Raveners won't make it in time, nor will the zillions of spore mines..

Fun little models really

Primed a Taurox(Man, is that thing ugly...) and painting a Castellax and a LR Vanquisher...
(The bunker is on hold till I find suitable bitz...)

Trying to sell my High Elves to make room for and finish buying up what I need for Orks.

Packed away all the undercoated stuff from yesterday, well most of it.

Decided to start getting paint on some Orks. I have loads of boyz done already so I thought I would start on some of the bosses.

Got a base of Waaagh! on Ghazkhul, Boss Snikrot, Boss Zagstruk, a weird boy and 5 storm boyz.

Hopefully tomorrow I can get on some Leadbelcher and that will make them table ready!

Starting to get back into Salvage Mogul and trying to figure out how to unload years worth of GW that I have in a room taking up space.

Necrons, I loathe painting the Monolith and I have 2 of the bastards.
In my 15 years of playing 40K I've never actually played Necrons or really even painted them.
Uncharted territory for me.
Army is playable but I want one of those Lord tank thingies.

Going to play some 500pt 40K with my Eldar and also pick up a copy of Daemonifuge and maybe some Eldar.

Cleaning up the room where all my gaming stuff is I found a box that a friend of my mother's had given her from some old stuff her son had. I'd never really looked at it but decided to take a peek inside. Interesting things to note:

1. Old plastic/metal hybrid Predator with all the vehicle accessories stuck to it. Painted black with flames. I thought that was odd, but it will become obvious why in a moment.
2. The original Captain Tycho, as in the "Blood Angel Captain" because he became Captain Tycho in White Dwarf 166.
3. A few random assault Marines (the old lead ones!). Again, black and flames.
4. The original Legion of the Damned Tactical Squad.

I was floored by the last one. Always wanted one, never got around to buying it ('cause I was a kid when it came out around the time the Ultramarine's Codex came out). All the painting is awful, but the minis are there. Sadly no Sergeant Centurius, but the old Vet Sergeant was in there.

Arrived at work to find a parcel containing paints (for KT Tau) and a sonic jewel cleaner waiting for me.

I have accumulated a stack of second hand painted models from ebay so it will be interesting to so how well it works on the plastic and metal minis in my 'strip the old paint and start again pile'.

Finished stripping the Dark Elves for my wife - for some reason the primer I used gave them this weird sandy texture.

Might poke away at my Sanguinary Guard for a friendly painting competition some friends and I are doing - but god do I hate painting gold.

Pinning tank crew for painting as painting them on the tank has not worked.

CB

Got the OK to keep the bitz from the Taurox-kit. Still painting the LR-Vanquisher....

Endless toiling with the brushes painting my renegade knight. Great kit, but it's been a real time suck to paint. I can almost see the finish line at this point, but every time I come back I see
More things to address.

Edited/posted Watchers in Death interview podcast, built 5 more Auric Hearthguard for a formation.

Trying to find some sci-fi looking things... Not going well.
Writing up ideas and especially fluff some a (very comedic) space pirate game I had tossed around in my head.
Haven't come up with a good name for space cocaine yet.

Had to get away from painting Necrons.
I loathe the Monolith and I have 2 of them.

 CT GAMER wrote:
Endless toiling with the brushes painting my renegade knight. Great kit, but it's been a real time suck to paint. I can almost see the finish line at this point, but every time I come back I see
More things to address.

Yeah, IKs are a pain in the back....
My Paladin took 5 days(had to be finished in time for a 30k-game...).

Posted a Dakkaite some bits in trade, finished building the other half of my 20-strong Guardian Defender squad, and am now about to take part in Friday Night Magic.

Might even finish my Fire Dragons when I get home.

painting Fyreslayers

Assembling a unit of three crisis battle suits. I'm magnetizing all the options and drilling all the barrels. It's about as much fun as it sounds.

Been running a Summer Campaign and needed 10 regular Chaos Marines. So, dug through the bit box and found 10 really old (1998?) plastic ones. You know the ones. Those old flat bottom torso ones! Painting them up Word Bearer style!

They have been sitting so long because I dreaded painting those oop models, but powered through...now attaching the bolters for final stretch!

While waiting for the base coat to dry on some citadel trees I decided it paint one of the Bones minis I had prepped but not painted yet....then, of course, those damn trees.

Painting some 15mm ultra modern spetsnaz operators for GRUNTZ.

I got 2 games of Warmachine in for my journymen league. I went 1-1, man I rolled bad during the loss stupid Kozlov... Now to some assembly and painting while I listen to the rain.

Finished the battlesuits. It went mostly well except for the barrels are oh so slightly off center. I hate that my eye is like a magnet for that.

Assembled a Vyper and a Falcon... well, as far as I can while leaving all the spaces accessible.

Otherwise, still trying to convince myself to paint the librarian... it's not working very well. I do not know what it is about this mini, but I just do not want to deal with it.

Painting Deathwatch veterans. I have 4 done, just need to finish the squad Sgt. Next up is a couple terminators. I've got a DW th/ss and a SW 2xLC guy on the block, with the Deathwatch pads.

Working on my Slaughterpriest and building some skeletons. Trying to finish the sword and the flesh parts of the Slaughterpriest today.

Still painting the Tank...
Its getting old....

Bought the Circle starting box. Now assembling...

Primed slaughterpriest.
Put flock on my WWI gaming mat.
Picked up a box of 3 elder jetbikes I plan on converting to Harlequin bikers using Death Masque bits.

EDIT: Slaughterpriest painted and based.

Attempting to find a better way to make the dungeon walls I want to make. Got some hobby supplies too: a 3 foot metal ruler which will be nice for making long even strips of plasticard, some superglue with the brush applicator which will be especially good for sealing some of the more delicate battle systems pieces, some more blue tack because that stuff never goes out of style but it does tend to go missing, and some other miscellany...plus the D&D 5th ed DMG and the starter set just 'cause the adventure sounds neat.

No miniatures, but lots of stuff to give cause to drag the minis out

Played in a local tournament today with my Tau, went 2-1 and ended up in second place based on my scores. My best tournament finish yet! I also picked up a copy of the new White Dwarf (including the SLAUGHTERPRIEST WITH HACKBLADE), a copy of the Black Legion supplement, and a set of the new Heretic Astartes psychic power cards.

Finished painting Reaper, Slayer, and Deathripper from the Cryx starter box.

Painting done!

Painting GS hybrids

Count my Orks to make sure they're okay and start priming them!

Looking to base the Karist Angel I painted yesterday during the Redskins game. Hopefully will finish up the remaining Minnow's tonight as well! Really digging the Maelstrom's Edge mini's, lots of fun.

Finally got through the base-painting on the librarian and started highlighting. He looks a lot less daunting now, but my SO decided that the blue was not bright enough. One more highlight on the blue should not end up too odd... I hope... even though I quite like the spaces with more dense blue as they are. Oh well. Not my model.

Painting camo on the LR Vanquisher.

Debating between expanding my Marines or starting Dark Eldar

On Sunday I had a 2000 Ork v Elder game. He came over at 11.15...we got started about 1!

I used all the models from Stormclaw to make a teleport attack on turn 1, I was hoping to back up with a Da Vulcha Skwad (36 boyz) but they turned up on turn 4, by which time it was all over. Still. good game.

Went to local GW and got a White Dward and some paint and brushes.

Went home, had two beers....ordered more paint, the Imperial Sector building set, and a box of Lootas.

Busy evening this eveing so I spent just an hour super gluing magnets to the bases of Deathwatch and Orks.

Tomorrow, more magnets - need to get Genestealer Cult, Tau from KT and some demons all done.

After some experimentation I managed to 3d-print something resembling a Mars-pattern Predator Executioner turret.

Painted the Imperial Fist Terminator and finished the Dire Avenger Exarch from the Relic expansions. Sealed the Broodlord and did some work on the Daemonette and Berserker. It'll take me a bit longer to finish stuff up, but I intend to have every Relic bust painted in short order. Pretty much letting my housemate run the Terminator any time we play, since the dice rolled against her ALWAYS roll 6 (explode for additional damage). Doesn't matter which die is used, or who rolls it against her.

Tried out some inexpensive primer. Poppy-seed red...it's got a satin finish and I didn't think I'd mind...but god, it looks terrible. Thank goodness it was only one marine.

Lost a 1000 point SM vs Tyranids game. I forgot that Tyranids have their points spread out, while I had only a few expensive units. Got to try out the Chaplain though, and the re-rolls on missed to-hit rolls are pretty good. Might try it with an Assault Squad sometime.
Going to see if we can arrange a rematch. Knowing my opponent, she'll just jump at the chance to win again.

Trying to figure out a color scheme for my Miner 40kers, mining colony pdf using GSC models.

Sketched out and sealed my AOP baseboard. Probably did it wrong. Yay!

Built some more Devil's Run vehicles. Managed to snap a foot off a 20mm resin figure trying to separate him from the sprue and had so much fun sticking it back together...

Drybrushing and sponging the LR....

Seeing if I can work out another trade on DakkaDakka.

Cheers,

CB

Played (and lost) a 500 point game of 40K. Highlight included my Ironclad Dreadnought single-power-fistedly murdering almost 70 cultists before Lorgar smashed it to teeny weeny bits.

Failed to finish my Fire Dragons (but bought more instead).

Still working on my Slaughterpriest for this weekend's painting comp at the local GW.

Sorting through bits and models unearthed from the storage shed a year ago. Some nice surprises, plus the large KoW Abyssal Dwarf army survived and shall next be painted to get some KoW action going on up in this piece. And, oh yeah, the airbrush is back!

Last night I secured magnets on Deathwatch and touched up a whole bunch of undercoated models from my mega-session last week.

This morning I , amazingly, found time to put some flesh base colour on my 3rd/4th gen GSC hybreds. Getting the GSC is the target now....but there is so much else I could do! For some reason I want to wash/shade my grots!

Finished a bunch of nids for a game this weekend, the 'start collecting' box and eight more bases of rippers, have some 15 of them now I think..

Soon glad I went with a quick to paint scheme for the little turnips

im using the AoS Glotkin as a GUO for my nurgle army. I primed it black last night and plan to base coat and dry bursh the skin today. its a giant model! 2.5 to 3 times the size of my nurgle deamon prince. and 1.5times bigger then the forge world GUO.

also have to green stuff my varghiest wings for my nurgle deamon prince. they are the perfect size!


and my Blood thirster came in today. so I might build some of it. but I gotta wait for magnets. will be my first magnet adventure! lol

Inventory models and assemble onager dunecrawler

I just finished setting up a board for a game of Marvel Universe later in the week.




It was mostly a 'random collection of scenery pieces in easy reach' but I think it works as maybe some sort of HAMMER facility?

Just finished painting my Baal Predator, now working on my Tactical Squads.

Painting Fyreslayers Auric Hearthguard

Fixing my assorted X-Wing ships where the peg on the ship has split / fallen off, not sure fixing Vader with magnets is a good idea fluff wise

I have also been becoming baffled and grumpy with my Circle Orboros Nightwitchs, the axe/hand bit being a total monkeys bum of unthinking

Working on another trade on Dakka and uploaded some more photos to the gallery.

CB

Entered my Slaughterpriest into the local GW's September painting contest that's getting judged tomorrow. Might win, there's only one other entry so far!

Sabotage the competition.

I am working on some old sisters for a tournament

No need, it's objectively not as good as mine - thick paint, not smooth coverage, that sort of thing.

Of course it'll probably win.

pouring through old hobby stuff, preparing a Bonegrinder Giant to battle in the Realm of Beasts tomorrow (AoS).

Gonna build me some Deathwatch!

[EDIT]: I found all my Chapter House shoulder pads. And the FW Raven Guard conversion kit I bought ages ago. Now I can really build me some Deathwatch!

Made the podiums you see here, it's part of a rather large diorama of a bizarre doll debate I am subjecting a local doll show to.

 Rainbow Dash wrote:
Made the podiums you see here, it's part of a rather large diorama of a bizarre doll debate I am subjecting a local doll show to.

I was coming here to post what I'm doing, but am now backing away slowly, smiling without showing any teeth, and being careful not to make any sudden moves.

I needed to take a break from Necron Warriors, I have 60 to paint... Something, anything...

But yeah watch out or Clover'll get ya!
Build a wall and such

I'm playing in a Star Wars Imperial Assault tournament...

I've not played the game in about a year. This is not my best plan...

Bought and primed three shifting stones.

Started a game of Relic last night around 9:30, it wrapped up at 3am (counts towards today). I won with the Broodlord.
After waking up, I started painting my Gorechosen models. The game looks fun. And it fixed a MAJOR glaring defect in dice games; when you start having flubbed rolls, your guys get stronger as they get pissed. Missing attacks even has a good result. So I think the game has some pretty awesome possibilities. I look forward to playing it.

Working on some Sisters of Battle.

CB

After two AoS games today I'm considering finally trying to add a GA Order unit to my Fyreslayers for magic, but which ones? Also, paint the excelsior priest and his cute lil' gryphhound. Also, I want more gryphhounds.

Mrrrawwh! R mrrugh 2nd mrrrrggh urff mr Shyriiwook mrrh. Urr mrm brr wrrm mrrrurrmm w amm mrrrm im urrm mrrph!

Finished painting the librarian. Put some orangey gravel on his base and am now waiting for the glue to dry. I'll have to throw a wash on it tomorrow since it looks rather dull and monotone, and then put a layer of thinned PVA to seal everything down.

Meanwhile, put some black ink on a deep strike beacon. Should be finishing that up in maybe an hour whenever I get to sit down to paint again. People are coming over to play a new board game they bought a bit ago. It will be interesting to see how that goes.

Played a game with a newer person last night. He picked the wrong side of the board to deploy on and could barely get his imperial tanks out one at a time. It did not end well. I feel a little bad, but he seemed pretty happy still.

Converted the extra SEP WD khorne model into a plague lord with some green stuff and paint work.

Also played a solo game of Execution Force since there's no local gamers where we've moved.

Yesterday took part in the Kaladesh Pre-Release at The Games Den, today getting everything ready for the third and final Kaladesh Pre-Release, then going home to take more photos for my blog and play some Age of Sigmar with my little boy.

Painting a couple of character bikes for Devil's Run and starting on a pile of stuff I'll be using as plague zombies for Deadzone.

Painted a unit of three shifting stones. One unit is sufficient in a Circle army.

Painted up my Tzeentch Chaos lord converted from the guy I got with the white dwarf.

That's a nice conversion!

I didn't manage to get that game of Age of Sigmar in, homework took priority.

At some point soon I'd like to get my Fire Dragons done...

 DarkBlack wrote:
Painted up my Tzeentch Chaos lord converted from the guy I got with the white dwarf.

Very, very cool. Really like the moon bit.
Funny how that model is getting converted left and right

Worked on painting some more.

CB

Played another game of Execution Force. Got killed again but made it to the chaos lord's ritual part.

Going to start taking photos of my Space Marines for my Plog, and maybe paint some Eldar. Bloody bodysuits...

Assembling FW Death Guard I found unpacking, priming rest of KoW abyssal dwarf army, hoping to do a coat of paint on some skitarii.

I'm working on finishing a wheeled Razorback conversion for my Grey Knights army. I found out that the Chapterhouse Chimera conversion kit works REALLY well on a Rhino as well, minimal conversion work needed.

Using spare bits and an ebay ordered rhino hull it is actually much cheaper than buying a new Razorback as well.

Finally finished building my Knight, only had it since day one when the models first came out.. (have lost one of the shin pads, will be around here somewhere)

Anyway built, primed and first attempt at painting, now abandoned and re-primed as the gold went horribly over the base silver (like painting water colours over wax horrible).

Experimented with Tamiya clear red through the airbrush at 1:1 thinning, hmm, goes on a bit like a filter, also has the same issue as above over the VMA Chrome, but not over other colours.

Meh, more experimentation required, aiming for a clear red over gold for the armour panels on the knight, trimmed gold...

Played a game of Devil's Run. I lost, but then the guy making off with the stash at the end was the only unwrecked vehicle on the road by that point.
Then played the first scenario in 2nd Ed. Mansions of Madness. We won, but I lost due to my insanity making it pretty much impossible to claim a personal win (I'd have had to clear every single search token on the map and there were at least a dozen left which were a bit tricky to get to when wounded, with a broken arm and in combat with a deep one, a cultist and the priest of dagon. My investigative partner managed to get out alive with the evidence (and an insanity which fortunately worked with the small shopload of gear he was carrying to count as a win).

Going to drill more barrels. Yaaayy

Airbrushing as much as I can on Abyssal Dwarfs for KoW and Death Guard for 30K

Taking my 6000 points of Space Marine infantry out of the tub of Simple green they've been soaking in to strip and repaint them. So...much...scrubbing!

Experimenting with Tamiya clear paints, aiming for a warm metallic red so have tried over gold and silver, so far gold is winning but its close.

Have a VMA gold on order so should be able to get a better base coat, currently torturing some 1/100 scale cars as experimental models.

Also repainted some 1/100 model lorries for team yankee, a pair in UN colours a pair of just generic ones

Finished off the teleportation homing beacon and started working on painting some sternguard that were kitbashed together from Betrayal at Calth and a Blood Angels Tac Marine box. Lots of detail bits... I have a feeling these guys are going to take a while

Figuring out the rest of the color scheme for these guys

Had another bash with the Tamiya clear red, just thinned very slightly and it works, some model air gold arrived today as well.

Have just finished priming three of the push fit CSM models to have a play with tomorrow with the golds, an airbrush and zenith highlighting before an overcoat in red once its all cured, likely to be a few days as liquid mask is needed so the base has to cure right.

If I can get it to work though should look decent and while it will take a while overall the time per model will be low enough to make doing these in batches ideal.

Figure a new army for Apoc games.. going with CSM and eventually daemons as must have 3k-4k of them in boxes laying around...

Finished those Sisters of Battle Heavy Flamers.



I'll place more images in my PLOG later.

Cheers,

CB

Despite the fact that I'm on vacation right now, I managed to accomplish something hobbywise: I visited a GW store for the very first time. I have to say I wish there was one in my hometown instead of 2 hours away, as it was a very cool store and the guy working there was very friendly and helpful (no horror story of an overly pushy salesman here!). I bought a Tactical Squad since I am slowly building up to being able to run a full Battle Company for my Dark Angels. The guy tried to upsell me a DA upgrade kit (which I would have gladly bought) but the store was out of stock of them. Oh well.

Raiding the bits crate for bits to make a few mining walkers, as stand in Sentinels

Based the cream-white areas on the sternguard. So many details...

I have my traveling paint box packed up and am heading to the shop after class today.

Knight is starting to get a bit of paint...



See, I do actually have one.. honest guv.

Needs to cure then some Tamiya clear red on the armour panels.

Also picked up Dark Vengeance, finally, Chaos stuff assembled, the Dark Angels will have a bit of work with a file to become generic marines, likely to end up alongside the chaos stuff but able to run using the normal book as well if I fancy it - otherwise just filler in a chaos force.

Picked up Traitors Hate as well, seems decent so far as a book, dare say the text is full of logic WTF moments, but seems fun enough for now.

Painting KoW abyssal dwarfs, assembling skitarii ruststalkers or infiltrators

Slowly painting up a squad of Tempestus Scions using the tutorials provided by Warhammer TV. While I'm going at a snails pace, I do feel that my skills are improving.

 BrookM wrote:
Slowly painting up a squad of Tempestus Scions using the tutorials provided by Warhammer TV. While I'm going at a snails pace, I do feel that my skills are improving.

Oh, that sounds cool! You should post a few pics here when finished.

Finished a second trade on Dakka and sent off my part.

CB

Two out of five for this squad done now. Sloooooooooowly getting there!

Well my tablet didn't charge properly last night so I spent this morning writing army lists for Batman on the train the old fashioned way. With a pen. And paper.
I'm pretty sure I've made up some impressively terrible lists too. Ones I'm pretty sure Batman could take out singlehandedly

@Brook good to see them in use

Dropped an old painted model into Simple Green to re-cycle and re-paint.

CB

Finally started painting the ogroid thermatuge From warhammer quest , after finishing ork boar riders.

Been remarkably scared of starting this miniature.

Continuing working on my DV chaos stuff, more or less sorted the Tamiya clear red now, any area bigger than a postage stamp = mask and airbrush, smaller than that and three thin coats with a brush works well enough (thankfully).

Cultists in progress, had tried pre-shading with the airbrush and glazes, gave up on that when it didn't work too well and back to normal painting as yet.

Finishing off my Darkoath Chieftain from Silver Tower. After that moving onto the Knight-Questor and maybe the Doomseeker.

Working on my 30k Imperial Fists and World Eaters out of my BaC models.

Started painting the Circle starter box.

Continued building the GSC from Overkill (while waiting patiently for my latest order with a box of the Neophyte to arrive) and painting on the Magus...

Working on the robe nearly finished (painting purple is nowadays rather easy) and dreading to continue on the next stages...

More terrain! Also I have a Stormcast model I got from that "Start Collecting" magazine thing GW put out a few weeks ago. I think I'll paint him up for kicks.

Working on my Crisis Bodyguard team. If that gets done, I'm going to start on my Breachers.

Picked up Warhammer Quest hero cards pack and two sets of the GSC dice from the local comic store today.

Assembled some mod cubes!

My wife is painting some armored walkers for Konfliked '47.

I am painting a very cool Franken Stien conversion I bought on EBAY for $10usd.
Remember the back patches everybody was wearing on jean jackets in the '80's? I'm gonna have this Frank with a AC/DC back patch.

AC/DC. Get it?

Played an awesome game of Triumph & Treachery AoS and now prepping 30K Death Guard to battle the Emperor's Children tomorrow.

Been packing away all my wargaming related material, in the ligth of recent events in my personal life I find my self without any will what so ever to have these things.

 Trondheim wrote:
Been packing away all my wargaming related material, in the ligth of recent events in my personal life I find my self without any will what so ever to have these things.

I've been there, friend.

 bound for glory wrote:

 Trondheim wrote:
Been packing away all my wargaming related material, in the ligth of recent events in my personal life I find my self without any will what so ever to have these things.

I've been there, friend.

Thanks

Played my third or so solo game of Execution Force last night. I had been playing it incorrectly (drawing room tiles incorrectly and applying damage wrong---both because I was making assumptions instead of reading RAW).

Last night's game, I managed to win without losing any of the assassins in the process. That counts as two 'achievements'.

Has anyone in this thread had experience with Mantic/Deadzone models? Looking at picking up a set of Enforcers, but would like some community feedback first. Been exploring some non-GW options, enjoying Maelstroms Edge currently. Mantic is cheaper than GW, but is there a significant drop off in quality?

Just built my first Games Workshop set in 4 years! Was the space marine command squad and captain box, really impressed with the captain model

Swished a jar of acetone that has Ahriman quietly forgoing his paint on.

Discovered the lid wasn't on right, then discovered how fast acetone evaporates. Also discovered cats don't like the smell, will file that one for the future.

Also assembled 10 Chaos Space Marines, discovering as I did so that I have no fething idea how to equip them.. close combat load out it is then. Will prime them tomorrow, and continue to finish the cultists etc from DV.

grumpy_newenglander wrote:
Has anyone in this thread had experience with Mantic/Deadzone models? Looking at picking up a set of Enforcers, but would like some community feedback first. Been exploring some non-GW options, enjoying Maelstroms Edge currently. Mantic is cheaper than GW, but is there a significant drop off in quality?

The older restic enforcers can be a royal pain to pose (especially the arm/gun assembly) but look pretty good once built. The newer plastics are easier to build but a little softer in detail. Still look ok once built and painted though. The pic below is some raw resin and newer plastic enforcer parts. The other one is some I did mostly with a silver primer spray and black wash (so the detail is sharp enough to hold a wash well).

Yeah, the old restic multipart enforcers are a pain in the rear.

The hard plastic Enforcer sprues are pretty neat though. - I will say though I can never quite decide if I should cut off the front of their neck or not.


The hard plastic Enforcer Peacekeepers are pretty darn great though, I'm a big fan of them.




The guy on the right in this pic is a plastic Enforcer, with resin shotgun and shield. The guy on the left is the restic Enforcer special character for Dreadball

Pondering making this, but in WWII for my alternative history Germans (using a Rubicon tracked Opel Blitz + an obsolete Panzer hull). ...Because I' super sensible.

Working on the BA sternguard more. Gold is highlighted and done, and got the base coat of silver on. Black base coat, some washes, and highlighting left. So many red models...

Contemplating going to pick up a stud finder and level so I can put up the metal organizer shelf for the paint pots. It will be nice to have more of my table open to hold WIPs. The tablet and the unfinished Imperial Knight take up a lot of room

This guy. The armour is a bit gaudy, but Slaanesh.

Continued painting Pureblood, Gorax, and Argus from Circle starting box.

Undercoating a Vyper, Mad Missionary Jacobus, some Rogue Trader Eldar, and a bunch of Stormcast and Bloodbound.

Then I might actually try and make progress on those "*!**£"! Fire Dragons.

CSM primed.. no more due to a meeting overrunning and thus late home.

Also discovered just how badly I need to clear the table of half finished stuff just to make space to have some more half finished stuff

painting and assembling. Reading up for another podcast interview on Death Guard 30K

Trying to recruit each of my players to build two PDF buildings each, for a Mordheim campaign - in theory, this will give us two dozen models.

My actual expectation is that we will have a dozen models, mostly built by three players.

The Auld Grump