Putting the finishing touches on my Militarum Tempestus Kill Team:
Still have some tidying up to do, along with the bases, but overall I'm quite chuffed with how they've turned out, given my complete inability to hold a brush properly, if at all.
Did the little details on the sternguard and managed to highlight the red on two of them. Three more left and the squad is done for painting and I can pick a new project
CSM now sprayed gold, sorcerer in metal found on the bay of eeee and ordered, also first pass at paint removal from Ahriman, just need a way to get it off my fingers now.. back in acetone to get the rest off before assembling.
Onwards to tomorrow night and the Tamiya clear red...
Currently at work, dead bored haha
Been working on painting up my 40 group of stormvermin. Had 10 complete ages ago and had 5 done yesterday minus washes n highlights.
Working on another 5 tonight hopefully 10 though depends how motivated I am the end of the night.
I am feeling better doing groups of 5 than groups of 10 it makes me feel like I am getting more done quicker that way for some reason
I've been putting together the contents of Lost Patrol. The scouts are assembled, and I've done 3 Genestealers so far. I probably won't paint them for a while, though.
Painted two dreadnaughts from BaC. One Imperial Fists, one World Eaters. Pretty good models for painting, although more than a couple would get a bit stale.
Painting a few characters from Silver Tower while the wife and baby are asleep: have started the Doomseeker (after watching the Warhammer TV guide) and trying to finish off the Skaven guys.
Packing my Team Yankee Soviets for a trip to Janco Toys tomorrow in the peoples democratic republic of South Yorkshire for the launch event of the British.
Hopefully N. Blokov will do better than his last outing now he has some anti aircraft support to call on...
toasteroven wrote: Working on making a hill. Pretty much every game needs a good hill, right?
Hills are good, I've got the stuff here to make some, indeed its in the same place its been the last five years just waiting.
I for one admire your ability to get on with it
Yeah, I've been meaning to make some hills for... quite some time. Right now I'm just doing a basic thing of posterboard (i think that's what it is) and paint and a little sand for texturing.
Compel wrote:I did some scary maths today.
I own 72 Batman models.
I have used 14 of them more than once.
I have used 28 of them once.
I have never used 30 of them.
I have finished painting 5 of them.
14 of them are partially painted
As one gets older one must come to the realization that, when engaging in sports you simply cannot expect to be able to dive or roll as well as one could when they were younger. I should know this by now, but it is a fact I keep forgetting
As a result I manage to dislocate my arm....again....for the 5th time.
It is my painting arm to boot! So my plan of continuing to get all my terrain painted is now on hold until it heals enough I can use it without a stinging pain.
That being said my Frostgrave rulebook came in the mail! I'm excited!
leopard wrote: Packing my Team Yankee Soviets for a trip to Janco Toys tomorrow in the peoples democratic republic of South Yorkshire for the launch event of the British.
Hopefully N. Blokov will do better than his last outing now he has some anti aircraft support to call on...
Well went north with them, brought the resulting debris back in a sponge bag...
Two games, two utter wipeouts, both great fun though, utterly brutal game
Today, I'm hoping to get a lot of stuff done, including:
-Completely finish the skin on my first 4 Kroot
-Get the other Kroot primed (may not happen, depending on weather)
-Assemble some of my Start Collecting Space Wolves stuff
-Play a game of 40k with a friend this evening
Kinda Hobby related, I cleaned my entire room just to make way for the ungodly amount of models I have now. My dream is to own a house with a garage for my models, lol.
Seriously though, I stripped some old Sternguard I converted, than gave them new bitz from the new kit. Gave them some FW heavy flamers, and now I have all I need for my flameblade strikeforce army, bar the 6 droppods, but those are in transit.
Finished building a 3-man jetbike squad converted to Harlequins (head and arm swaps plus mask bits from the starweaver). Got 'em primed and am playing with color schemes.
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timetowaste85 wrote: Painted two dreadnaughts from BaC. One Imperial Fists, one World Eaters. Pretty good models for painting, although more than a couple would get a bit stale.
Sounds cool. Hope to see pics.
Are you/have you actually played the B@C game itself?
If not, I highly recommending giving I a go. Very nice ruleset.
Finally starting the Tzangors from Silver Tower. Just those six to do and the set is finally finished. Wanted to start them yesterday, but just couldn't get in the right frame of mind for it.
So I have to get my AoP stuff done by Thursday morning, as I am working through the whole weekend and won't be able to spend any time on it at all.
Still left to do, in no specific order
Troops
Dire Avengers
Finish heads (plumes and face plates)
Gold up the heads and gems
Finish robes and tabards
Assemble, seal, base
Guardians
Finish face plates
Start guardian bodies
Do gems and accessories
Assemble, seal, base
Vyper
Do canopy trim
Finish pilot
Nebula spray on gunnery platform
Start gunner
Exhaust steel
Assemble, seal
Wind riders
Spray riders bodies
Finish controls
Exhaust steel
Do gems on riders
Assemble, seal
Wave Serpent
Repair turret
Scenery
Statue
Spray bronze
Zenithal gold
Zenithal silver
Oxidize
Do plinth
Seal
Walls
Assemble bravo and charlie sections
Prime both
Airbrush dark grey from below
Drybrush light grey
Paint lights black
Seal and superglue to board
Buildings
Tower
Spray from below with black
Drybrush medium grey
Nuln wash
Spray floor in copper
Agrax wash
Seal
Clear mask from lights
Shrine
Repair damage
Spray medium gray
Spray floor in silver
Spray eagle in gold
Agrax wash everything
Seal
Clear mask from lights
Board
Nuln oil road joints
Nuln wash any other odd joints
Fix gold within shrine
Finish skulls in shrine
Pigment
What gets done tonight, and what gets done tomorrow night is the question. I have about 10 working hours to get it all done, need to think about how (suggestions more than welcome!)
I made some headway towards finishing a little mobile painting tray thing to try to get some extra hobbying in during unexpected downtime whilst watching the kids at home.
Today's goal is to drill out gun barrels for 10 terminators. Then I need to go through all the pieces of tank parts I have and make sure that I get everything I need primed. Lots of small parts in baggies.
Painting some tank crew...finding it a problem as they are not fixed to the tank anymore and holding them to corks is proving difficult due to the size.
Worked on Ares Lictor II's base some more. The sand is looking pretty nice and the dead wraithlord is now painted blue with some yellow detailing on his head. Stopped partway through the sand though since I was messing up spots I had done when I was adding more glue. I'm going to wait for it to dry so I do not wipe as much off when I handle it.
Also, sold Eldrad! I'm glad someone else liked his paint-job. I may have to find that box of grey knights floating around somewhere and paint them up too... and maybe the orks.
Quick question: what are the really common paint schemes for grey knights and orks?
Been painting 3 jetbikes converted as Harlie jetbikes. Used a micro pen for the first time to draw my diamond template. It came out decent for my unit leader but nothing to write home about.
Finished up Ares Lictor II and tried to fill in all the holes in an old set of resin Harlequins. It kind of worked, but they are probably going to look a little odd no matter what I do. At least their were no bubbles on their faces
Planning a small Ork army based around a Big Mek and his 'Big Shop', including Gretchin floor assistance, the 'acquisition team' of a few Deathskull boyz in a tow trukk, the badmoon meganob 'financial backers' and so on.
I then remembered I have an IG army still awaiting assembly. Started looking for the final pieces I'd need to begin assembly, leading me to the temptation of running it as GSCs...
Cultists...
Oops! I need to finish my Black Crusade army I started two years ago! I have a Daemon Prince with only one foot! Did some sculpting work to begin rectifying that so I can get some paint on these last few models!
Today is finishing up accessories for 4 rhino/razorbacks and 2 predators. They are all magnetized, and some how my heavy bolters and the magnets in the piece that holds them don't want to line up, despite being attracted to each other....
And as always, if time permits, more base coating black on the last few items. Maybe see if I can rig up a paint shaker to see if my old GW paints are still good.... they are still liquid after 3 years, but have some separation.
Put in an order on ebay for some DE bits to Corsair-ify my Skathach Wraithknight and a Farseer model to paint up as Bel-Annanth.
Also, figured out my Harlequin paint scheme - a modified Frozen Stars. I dislike the gold masks, and I intend to paint each model with a different accent color (the orange).
Spoiler:
I'm not entirely sure what I want to do with my elites (Troupe Masters, Shadowseers, Death Jesters, and Solitaire) yet. I was thinking of either doing a bunch of nebulae or starscapes on the coats, loincloths, etc. But I also have this idea to paint up each as the representation of a different Eldar god or goddess - kind of in just the paint scheme with inclusions of particular motifs or designs (chains for Vaul, leaves and greenery for Kurnous, etc.). The biggest problem I run into with this one is that the 40k Eldar gods are not very fleshed out, so I feel like I would have to pull from a lot of odd sources for it.
Otherwise, doing the little paint scheme image gave me the motivation to start painting some Harlies, even if it was only the base coating for where the white will go.
Red_Ink_Cat wrote: Put in an order on ebay for some DE bits to Corsair-ify my Skathach Wraithknight and a Farseer model to paint up as Bel-Annanth.
Also, figured out my Harlequin paint scheme - a modified Frozen Stars. I dislike the gold masks, and I intend to paint each model with a different accent color (the orange).
Spoiler:
I'm not entirely sure what I want to do with my elites (Troupe Masters, Shadowseers, Death Jesters, and Solitaire) yet. I was thinking of either doing a bunch of nebulae or starscapes on the coats, loincloths, etc. But I also have this idea to paint up each as the representation of a different Eldar god or goddess - kind of in just the paint scheme with inclusions of particular motifs or designs (chains for Vaul, leaves and greenery for Kurnous, etc.). The biggest problem I run into with this one is that the 40k Eldar gods are not very fleshed out, so I feel like I would have to pull from a lot of odd sources for it.
Otherwise, doing the little paint scheme image gave me the motivation to start painting some Harlies, even if it was only the base coating for where the white will go.
That is a super cool paint scheme. Really liking it!
Well my arm is feeling better after about a 2 weeks break from anything Hobby related. Hopefully I won't dislocate it again anytime soon.
I planned on basing some more models but, of course, any time I have free it starts to rain and it's far too humid for that so I guess I'll work on some stuff I have lying around my painting station.
It's s bit of a pain to figure out where all the colors go on the old resin models. (I was all excited to work on them, but I forgot how awful GW's resin is. There are holes and miscast everywhere! Did my best to fix them, but it still looks awful. Thankfully I only have 13 ish of them before I get to work on the plastics. ) Still I got something done - blocked in the base coat of the rest of the black and white and started blocking the gold and accent color on one model. He's going to have blue since I had some of that left on my wet pallet.
Sculpting feet for the previously mentioned Daemon Prince.
I'm turning spare head/chest/arms/tail from a DP kit into a second 'free' DP.
It s sad when converting a pair of arms into a pair of legs they are more hulked up than the stock legs are :S. So now, he is still skipping leg day occasionally, but at least isn't skipping leg day every day!
edit: then again, I suppose once you have wings, where you're going you don't need legs!
nareik wrote: Planning a small Ork army based around a Big Mek and his 'Big Shop', including Gretchin floor assistance, the 'acquisition team' of a few Deathskull boyz in a tow trukk, the badmoon meganob 'financial backers' and so on.
I then remembered I have an IG army still awaiting assembly. Started looking for the final pieces I'd need to begin assembly, leading me to the temptation of running it as GSCs...
Cultists...
Oops! I need to finish my Black Crusade army I started two years ago! I have a Daemon Prince with only one foot! Did some sculpting work to begin rectifying that so I can get some paint on these last few models!
More piccies in the paint galleries but happy enough with them for now, obviously a lot of weathering still to do, really love the tamiya clear red though
Played Betrayal at the House on the Hill with some friends with the new Widow's Walk edition. First round went great, but it was one of the older haunts. We had not played it before, but we wanted to get a new one.
[Start Rant] Second round, we procked one of the brandy new haunts... and... wtf?!
I mean, references to movies and gak are ok, but damn that was the most blatant rip off of the Harry Potter series ever. So, if the person who wrote #68 is lurking about, your haunt writing is bad and you should feel bad!
I mean, at least try to fething be original. And seriously, had you ever even played Betrayal? At least try to make gak balanced. [End Rant]
Don't hate me for this honesty please But...while waiting for premier of The Walking Dead I'm:
Assembling remainder of Burning of Prospero box for my Death Guard and weapon options for looking cool more than use in 40K rules since I'm waiting for 30K rules in WD next week.
Checking out Blood Bowl box and beginning to assemble for review and practice games.
Doing some touch-up detail on Fyreslayers for high-end hobby tournament in two weeks so I look far less gakky compared to these artists than I already do - lol
Broke out my WIP WWII Russian infantry for Flames of War that I hadn't worked with for months and finished all the faces and hands. Now I just need to do helmets, boots, and any applicable touch ups, and then I can dip them and base them!
Today, I got some stuff primed. 2 Thunderwolves and their riders, 8 Kroot, and a bunch of stuff for my Chaos Imperial Knight. I'm also putting the finishing touches on the first 4 of those Kroot (that I primed at the beginning of the month), as well as finishing up my first squad of Stealth suits. For me, that's a productive day. I'm really wanting to get as much stuff primed as I can before winter sets in hard. Hopefully I can finish up the Chaos knight and get the subassemblies for the loyalist one put together so I can prime it before winter.
Finished painting six goblins. Got six orcs and two mawbeasts lined up to do next. Two more figures than before land all a bit larger...but surely doable.
And the test model is done. Overall I am quite happy with how the colours have turned out, good bit of contrast between the armour and uniform underneath, unlike my previous Auxilia squad, whom have grey uniforms and boltgun metal armour. Chances are I'll do the Auxilia flamers in the same colours as well at the very least, to denote that they belong to the same Tercio and prevent people from being confused about it.
I am painting ten Salamander terminators for a friend. The super-special shoulder pads from forgeworld arent here yet but I am getting the models ready anyways
I made a Daemon Prince out of spares from an old plastic kit.
The legs are actually a spare set of arms! The feet I am still working on sculpting, I think they need quite a bit more work, but I feel the model is coming together.
I've also been playing with a new camera and effects.
Here's an Iron Warrior Aspiring Champion with Combi Melta I captured while the sun was strong.
I am giving Vallejo primer another chance. It does not want to stick to any GW plastic, so I paint stripped second hand Devastator with las gun and I am giving a try with the airbrush.
Lately I have been finding myself bouncing from project to project a lot which makes hitting mile marks rather difficult. I guess that is the price you pay for using inspiration as motivation while being ADD
Yesterday evening I found myself converting the Cataphractii Captain character from the Betrayal at Calth box into a regular Captain with new weapon (an axe but just using the rules for a TH), storm shield, and a new head. Had to cut down a Grey Knight Terminator arm to replace the entire chainfist arm so I could give him the Storm Shield.
Today ill either work on the kit of Lychguard for my son's (turning 8) birthday gift or assemble the 5 cataphractii terminators still on sprue from the Calth box. Today is the 40k day for the week at the FLGS so output will be limited.
Painting tomorrow morning before work, had some goofy double shift it feels like.
Trying to wake up around 5 tomorrow and finish some more DZC Tanks. I have a blog up - it's 200+ hours working on terrain... and like 10 hours working on my army lol
Sticking together the models from both Infinity starter boxsets (Icetorm/Red Veil) in preparation for our first playthrough tomorrow.
Possibly more One Page Rules games over the weekend of 40k, maybe their racing game too.
Late last night I finished assembling a squad of Grav Centurions (minus the heads, which will be painted separately), so I'm hoping to get some primer on them either today or tomorrow. They will be painted in Blood Ravens markings. I also am going to try to do a whole squad of something today. Now I just need to figure out what I really want to paint!
Finishing off a few bits on the bases of some chaos, but also finishing the cleaning up of three old metal models, now rebuild, an Ahriman (just in time for the plastic one to arrive later this week), and a pair of chaos sorcerors to lead some Thousand Sons once painted.
Also washed and scrubbed (again) a land raider have got rid of hopefully enough of the dusts to be able to paint the thing...
Today is investigating some paints. I want to order some paints so I can keep working on my BT. And I need to get a paint set to paint my Dreamforge guys (thinking an APC for the challenge next month)
Wasn't ever planning to paint my Mansions of Madness stuff but I thought I'd try an experiment I'd been pondering for a while. The results were a little disappointing but a) it's still an improvement on raw plastic and glue and b) they were pretty quick to rattle through so I'll claim victory.
Interviewing/recording podcast, test models for Space Wolves, begin unifying painting touch-ups w/30K Death Guard now that inventory after BoP reveals over 150 models... o_O so airbrush, take me awaaaayyy!
Finally got back to painting after spending a week on the SO's costume for the Halloween party. Finished up all of 1 Harlequin, the blue one. Now all I have to do is base him, and he'll be up in the Painting Competition thread by tomorrow, hopefully.
Trying out a red, sandy base for the Harlequins. Hopefully that will work well for them. I might go to a blasted dark brown color since that should work better with the myriad of colors they will have. I figured the green and white of the snowy swamp bases I do for my Craftworlders probably would be too loud and buse for Harlies.
larva_uk wrote: Wasn't ever planning to paint my Mansions of Madness stuff but I thought I'd try an experiment I'd been pondering for a while. The results were a little disappointing but a) it's still an improvement on raw plastic and glue and b) they were pretty quick to rattle through so I'll claim victory.
Those look awesome! Simple, but effective. The spotlight effect on the base really sells it. I painted an entire set of Mansions of Madness for a friend, and it is quite a big project (even if you're only doing tabletop standard), so I appreciate not wanting to go the long way around. I haven't worked up the energy to paint more than a couple of my own set (which is annoying because now it's started, yet unfinished). Nice idea!
If I may make a suggestion... I think the effect works on most of the figures (the girl clutching the book looks great), but I think the cultists look a bit empty. Maybe if it were something on their body, or their face masks, that carried the red, it might fill them out a bit more.
I think the effect works pretty well as it is, but it would also be a great base, which you could expand upon later, maybe with some gentle glazes (for hints of muted shadowy colours in the dark). So it's not like anything is lost, it's diffidently a victory.
Slowly working on the contents of Death Masque. I don't play current 40k but will use the DW marines it includes for DW Overkill characters introduced in September WD.
The Harlequins will be my matching force from the 3rd edition rulebook. There's a fight between Andy Chambers and (? Was it Gav Thorpe?) with a small SM army versus Eldar. That's what I'm partially replicating with the harlies.
But goodness I hate how delicate they are to assemble.
Picking up some Citadel bases for Stormcast Eternals I'm painting on commission, then sitting down to finish sculpting my flying Mature Angel for Maelstrom's Edge, followed by painting my Karist Praetorians for the same.
Prosper arrived here today as well, in English, so many bits in there - dropped a thread on the 30k forum to ask for suggested way to build it that work nicely in 30k so as not to end up with wonderful models I'll never use for anything else.
Otherwise not managed much this week other than getting the gold on some more chaos models
Finished. Better than raw plastic and became a little better at controlling the airbrush in the process. Also, nice to be able to blast through something quickly for once. If I ever get round to assembling the piles of plastic undead I have as a KoW army I may revisit this for pre-shading.
I shall now return to faffing about with normal brushes and 15mm resin motorbikes. And magnifier ring lights, because I can't see a damn thing these days.
D4V1D0 wrote: Paintin up a Terminator Captain. It's the limited edition "store opening" model so trying my best on it.
So far I'm very pleased with the face, but the armour, not so much...
Hehe... On my working place as well... But because I don't like unhelmeted Marines I'm still undecided whether to use the head or scavenge my bits box for a helmeted one...
Started on my Lord Celestant on Dracoth - I think it's going to turn out pretty good now that I finally got to see the turquoise wash on the dracoth's skin/scales.
Also finished putting together the rest of the Stormcast side of the AoS Starter set - some neat models!
Played Arkham Horror with some friends. Bad draws and bad luck led to us getting owned. Oh well, Ithaqua can win this time. Just comfirms that I never again ever want to live in the frozen north.
i am painting the space marines from the kill team kit and I am painting them blue but they are not ultramarines. There are other types of blue in the world! This is cerulean blue. They're the Ceruleamarines. Except not because that's a terrible name.
One thing i had forgotten about when it comes to painting is much a like the color blue, on everything.
Ashenwyte wrote: Just got my copy of the Burning of Prospero....but it's in French. Great. :(
I thought all you European types were fluent in like, 18 languages??
That sucks, but I would suppose it could be worse, my local shop's copies of two different board games were completely missing a sprue (One was Silver Tower, which I guess was a company wide thing, the other was Death Masque which was missing one of the Quins sprues... and bases)
Almost finished 5 goblin wolf riders for my orc army for age of sigmar. Got a big game against my brother, but have got to paint the warcaster, warboss, 7 black orcs, 10 normal orcs, finish the giant, fix the wyvern I dropped and broke in bits, 20 goblins and a spear chucked for Xmas, oh and 5 more boar boyz .
I went to the FLGS today and picked up one of those lovely Raging Heroes Toughest Girls in the Galaxy figures. I'm going to use her as an Inquisitor. I've already got some servo skull models and bits sitting around doing nothing, so I thought "why not?" I'm also putting more paint on my Centurions again after not doing much with them over the past week.
Finished up another Harlequin. Red this time. Figured out the basing a little more - added some little black crystalline rocks so I could use less of the pre-made grass tufts.
Picked up my copy of BoP as well at the FGS about 45 minutes away.
Also ran three gamers through the first trial of the new Warhammer Quest and they all got their characters killed. Hoping to visit the store a couple times each month now that I have an idea when folks are out and about there.
More Weird War stuff; finally getting around to starting some SS to go along with my regular Heer. It'll be a leap if anyone can source the donor kits (my crappy paintjob aside).
Wyrmalla wrote: More Weird War stuff; finally getting around to starting some SS to go along with my regular Heer. It'll be a leap if anyone can source the donor kits (my crappy paintjob aside).
Can't help with the arms or head, but the torso and legs is from the Mantic Games Corporation Marine kit. (Those are old, and finding them is getting progressively harder.)
Wyrmalla wrote: More Weird War stuff; finally getting around to starting some SS to go along with my regular Heer. It'll be a leap if anyone can source the donor kits (my crappy paintjob aside).
Can't help with the arms or head, but the torso and legs is from the Mantic Games Corporation Marine kit. (Those are old, and finding them is getting progressively harder.)
Head's from Dust, and the arms are Wargames Factory. I think everything there's either OOP or soon to be OOP.
I didn't know that Mantic stuff was hard to get. I've had that set unbuilt for years after being given it for free, but others have commented about a difficulty in sourcing it. :/
More Alt-History stuff as usual is what's sitting on my painting table. Whilst I ponder on how to turn a Tiger II into an APC for some power armoured soldiers, I remember that most of the countries in that war were lucky to outfit their guys with civilian trucks or horses...
I'm making a tourney list that is scaring even me, my friends and I planned a TINY tourney( the point is battles in under 30 mins) so I quickly tried to find the most OP list I could ( don't hate, that was also agreed upon, we want to see the cheesiest cheese that matt ward can deliver) so I found skitaari vanguard gave the best damage, I built a quick 500 point list and tried it out against a few of my other possible lists so far W6 L0 D0 and in those 6 wins, 5 tablings, I went WTF and tried it out against a 800 point space marine flying building list, smashed it, tried it out against a proxy OF 100 PRIMARIES PSYKERS IN DIFFERENT UNITS!!!, beat it too, please help what have I done?!!?
I just played in a local ITC tournament today. 14 players showed up, although two of them dropped out after 2 rounds for different reasons. I went 2-1, which is good for me (I'm usually 1-2). I ran Dark Angels with Ultramarines allies, and my opponents were Genestealer Cult, Raven Guard Marines, and Orks. The GSC kicked the crap out of me, I soundly beat the Raven Guard, and my closest game was against the Orks, whom I beat mostly by sweeping them a blob at a time with my RWCS deathstar. I usually struggle against Orks (oddly enough), especially with my Dark Angels, but with the help of some very lucky dice rolling I came out on top.
I'm playing on an Armada casual tournament today. Played two out of 3 games so far, won them both. Basically because people keep on giving the Liberty advanced gunnery
Started building BoP. Gonna paint up Fell Hand and give him to the game store to use as a prize for...whatever the owner wants. Hate space wolves, so the imperial half will be Imp Fists. Gonna use my Sigismund model with Fell Hands rules to play. The rest will stay as is.
Today I'll be complaining to my friends about GW re-releasing the Diaz Daemonettes this passed weekend and devaluing my collection by a few hundred dollars.
All the positive things that GW has done lately had gained much respect from myself. Now I'm back to square one and I hope the company fails and the building burns down with everyone in it.
Finished off painting a third Harlequin, so now I have one red, one blue, and one green. I think the next one will be purple, but before I can get to work on that, I am goin to try to get through my entry for the Painting Competition - a Blood Angels Terminator Captain.
(How can the rest of you get so much hobbying done? I feel like I'm over here twiddling my thumbs to only be finishing one infantry model every week or so; while I see people finishing off tanks in a few days left and right on here.)
DeffDred wrote: Today I'll be complaining to my friends about GW re-releasing the Diaz Daemonettes this passed weekend and devaluing my collection by a few hundred dollars.
All the positive things that GW has done lately had gained much respect from myself. Now I'm back to square one and I hope the company fails and the building burns down with everyone in it.
Sorry for your loss, but can you appreciate the happiness of all those who are not going to be gouged buying oop models ?
I can't wait for them to completely shatter the price on the metal Eldar Bone Singer.
The gaming mat I won for coming second in a Star Wars Armada tournament yesterday. - It was so big that, since my gaming board isn't set up, the only place I could lay it out full was on my bed!
I also picked up an X-Wing Squadron, Leading Shots, Admiral Ackbar and MC80 Assault Cruiser alternate artwork cards. There had been a couple of tournament kits gathering dust, so first and second place got plenty of things to go home with them. - And the rest of the players too!
Using the Gangfight Skirmish rules to finally wrap up some ancient fantasy skirmish projects this holiday weekend. Rebase a bunch of Warhammer Orcs languishing from years past (several, several years- it has the plastic Orc Arrer Boyz from about 4 editions ago in it !) for a warband and give them the final touches on paintjobs, and maybe base/basecoat a dozen or so Skaven models for another warband that have been sitting on my to-do list since I made a run on the Toledo Bitz guy's awesome giant bins at Gencon both this past summer and the one before that.
Probably assemble a box of 5 Stormcast Liberators with various weapon loadouts for the same purpose as the above- if they arrive before Thanksgiving.
Edit/posting podcast interview with Aaron Dembski-Bowden, rearranging 30K Death Guard into different troop/elite units to paint, reading some super secret review stuff, preparing for podcast interview with GW's Phil Kelly tomorrow re: his Damocles novel (& other work), and window shopping CSMs as I read the new FAQ and my willpower slumps
Right now I am trying to get back into painting. i find it too easy to get discouraged when i just can't get something to go on right, or when paints end up too thick or when I say, drop the guy i've been working on all day and he breaks into many sad pieces...
amazingturtles wrote: Right now I am trying to get back into painting. i find it too easy to get discouraged when i just can't get something to go on right, or when paints end up too thick or when I say, drop the guy i've been working on all day and he breaks into many sad pieces...
I have to just keep trying.
Check your paint. Compare it to other paints that you know are smooth, some paints have a certain graininess to them even if you water them down, usually when they've been dried out before.
Also, go out and get pinning supplies and some Privateer Press brown stuff. Those are all you need to never have to worry about assembly again. Pinning and filling will build your miniatures to last.
And today I am painting up some screamers for a burning chariot.
That is good advice and i will try to take it! It's just a pity that one of my favorite paints is grainy, but yeah, thinking back it totally got too dry once before.
Doing my best to annoy the history buffs by making a WWII-era Soviet APC to face off against my alt-history Germans (...and nothing to do with me having a spare T-34 just sitting there after I bought that kit to cannibalise the turret from to make a T-44 at some point).
Red_Ink_Cat wrote: Finished off painting a third Harlequin, so now I have one red, one blue, and one green. I think the next one will be purple, but before I can get to work on that, I am goin to try to get through my entry for the Painting Competition - a Blood Angels Terminator Captain.
(How can the rest of you get so much hobbying done? I feel like I'm over here twiddling my thumbs to only be finishing one infantry model every week or so; while I see people finishing off tanks in a few days left and right on here.)
First, you're not allowed to post any more until you upload pics of those harlies
Second, I paint only to tabletop standard and I won't play with unpainted models---and to my benefit I don't play any 'systems' other than AoS.
Everything I paint is going to be used in one of GW's board games so there's a definite number (30-50 infantry guys or so).
Vehicles, for my standard, are actually easier to paint than a squad of infantry.
Before turkey food coma sinks in, priming and assembling some *beeeeep* models, reading a *beeeep* book for a review tomorrow night.
Painting demons, especially Tzeentch demons is not only timely but it is great practice as they are forgiving models and so diverse you can do just about anything. Whereas Nurgle models can look great by mistake or dumping too much yuckiness on them, Tzeentch is a riot of bright colors (usually) so keep at it, dude.
Put a bit more paint on the shop bloodthirster today, and got beaten in spectacular fashion in 40k
I was using my Tyberos Sharks list, 1500 points, against a Smurf army of gladius strike force. I was already outnumbered, but the situation was made worse when, on turn 2, the terminator squad which contained the librarian and Tyberos both, decided to scatter into a building and roll a 1 on the deepstrike chart
Converting 30K Death Guard into new units; planning Thousand Sons purchases for when I can afford them, Painting some Space Wolves, recording podcast interviews for a special episode on Reflections: A Decade of Horus Heresy, in a few weeks.
Built both BB teams from the box yesterday. Have the orcs primed black and hoping for a couple of non-rainy days to spray coat (I brush primered the orcs) the humans.
Half-heartedly painting the chaos wizard and SW lord from Prospero. My heart's really not into that, at all.
Giving my Panther II its third rebuild. Its a model which hasn't been prioritised much, so every time I come back to it I have another idea for it.
At this point only the lower hull and a bit of the front and back are from the original kit. The tracks are from the Tiger II, the turret's a resin one (itself covered in plasticard and extended at the back - with an infrared sighted MG42 on the cupola), it has a jet engine in the back and the whole thing's plastered in extra armour.
The end result looks very Predator like actually. ...Side sponsons would be a tad overkill though.
Recording more Horus Heresy interviews, reading Master of Mankind (slowly ), working on splitting up 30K Death Guard into squads/unit types, painting some SW and hopefully a little skitarii, and reading new book to prepare this weekend's review.
Discovered that my glue was still not quite dead yet, so I pinned and assembled my second Grenadier.
For construction, all I have left is the GMCA, and I need it to warm up a little and not be as humid so I can get some priming and then some painting done.
VeteranNoob wrote: Edit/posting podcast interview with Aaron Dembski-Bowden, rearranging 30K Death Guard into different troop/elite units to paint, reading some super secret review stuff, preparing for podcast interview with GW's Phil Kelly tomorrow re: his Damocles novel (& other work), and window shopping CSMs as I read the new FAQ and my willpower slumps
I'll have to listen to that! ADB is my super=fave GW writer.
As for me, I just built this Firestorm Redoubt over the Thanksgiving break, but it's too humid to prime right now. Sigismund is not amused with my lack of progress.
VeteranNoob wrote: Edit/posting podcast interview with Aaron Dembski-Bowden, rearranging 30K Death Guard into different troop/elite units to paint, reading some super secret review stuff, preparing for podcast interview with GW's Phil Kelly tomorrow re: his Damocles novel (& other work), and window shopping CSMs as I read the new FAQ and my willpower slumps
I'll have to listen to that! ADB is my super=fave GW writer.
As for me, I just built this Firestorm Redoubt over the Thanksgiving break, but it's too humid to prime right now. Sigismund is not amused with my lack of progress.
Attempting to paint authentic WWII Winter camouflage on my (fictional) Panther II. Previously I've been lazy and gone for a straight white paint scheme, which was done, but I want to try something different.
The basecoat, followed by the camo, followed by the white wash is a lot more effort though, but I'll see how it turns out. This Panther II's going to be the army centrepiece, so I want to put a bit more effort in (we'll see if it remains the eye catcher though, as I'm also about to pickup a load of other paper panzers too).
Yesterday I assembled four Su-25 ground attack aircraft for Team Yankee - utterly, utterly utterly awful models, nose cones that are too wide, and sanding removed what little warped detail they have, resins that my superglue doesn't like.
Super glue deciding that life in the tube wasn't what it wanted, more leaked than went on the models.. grr.
This morning primed, this afternoon base colours applied, finished the day with the green on the camo layered.
BB Orcs are essentially finished save for tidying up here and there and doing proper basing in addition to the green paint I've put all over the top of their bases.
Human team is about 60% done, as a group. I need to go back and paint metals, leather and do the basing and numbering.
Debating on the 2 hour round trip to the FGS for a possible game. If I don't go today I'll try to go tomorrow.
Painted some Rubrics using the new TS paints, watched in awe as 4 Magnus models were worked on around me, reviewed the Traitor Legions book, slogged through the dregs of the Interwebz, won my first game of the new Blood Bowl league somehow with my Norse 4-1 victory over Orcs. Answered courteous internet questions about new GW releases.
Made the 2 hour round trip to FGS only to find MTG as the only game anyone would look at. Finally learned my lesson about going down there on Saturdays.
Sundays are hit and miss but at least there's 'hit' unlike Saturday which has been nothing but CCGs every time I've been there. Boy, I'm slow.
Front two more or less finished, rear two need the light blue panels highlighting, then all to varnish, apply decals, seal and oil wash the panel lines.
Still think they are horrible models to make but have turned out ok so far.
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Wyrmalla wrote: I'm particularly happy about how this one turned out.
Working on my LRC tonight, getting ever closer to finishing it.
Got all the metal base coated and washed, use a micropen to put "text" on the purity seals (work awesome!), and started masking a few parts for airbrushing that I missed the first time around.
Recently bought a few inks from Hobby Lobby so I can make my own washes. Going to attempt to actually paint and finish my BWG gangs this month.
Finishing up some WE war dancers, a WLC and fixing my conremptor. Also trying to revive my pot of dawnstone and waiting for it to warm up so I can prone my TS test models. Also scouting EBay (someone's selling FW castallaxs for 2$ a piece, albeit badly painted) and waiting for more upgrades from FW
Today I'm actually off work, so I'm trying to get some stuff done. I'm starting to assemble a bunch of Tactical Marines for my DA Battle Company project, and I'm also putting some work in on my Chaos Knight. If I have time, I'll start painting my lady Inquisitor as well. Busy day for me!
@leopard: I love those Su-25s! I think they are cool looking planes IRL (fun to use in Ace Combat Infinity as well!), and your models are no exception!
Well! As it turns out, it is not much fun to be trimming a piece out of a sprue, push too hard, and accidentally drive a large sharp piece of plastic under your fingernail!
just a warning in case you might have thought it would be fun.
amazingturtles wrote: Well! As it turns out, it is not much fun to be trimming a piece out of a sprue, push too hard, and accidentally drive a large sharp piece of plastic under your fingernail!
just a warning in case you might have thought it would be fun.
Seriously, ouch man! There's a reason why that kind of thing is a form of torture in some countries. Worst fingernail injury I've ever had was when I folded my middle fingernail over, halfway down the nail. Possibly worst pain I've ever felt.
Making some press molds of a few of the tanks I've made. They're a WIP, but the first few tries will do for wrecks (and'll be a hell of a lot more convenient than having to scratch build those things again).
amazingturtles wrote: Well! As it turns out, it is not much fun to be trimming a piece out of a sprue, push too hard, and accidentally drive a large sharp piece of plastic under your fingernail!
just a warning in case you might have thought it would be fun.
Seriously, ouch man! There's a reason why that kind of thing is a form of torture in some countries. Worst fingernail injury I've ever had was when I folded my middle fingernail over, halfway down the nail. Possibly worst pain I've ever felt.
I cringed reading that! There's something about fingernail injuries that just... urgh. mine is healing up ok, but it's an interesting mixture of colors under there now and the top of the finger is numb. fun times!
Doing green and brown washes on the primed Plaguebearers from last night. 20 mins to do one coat of washes on 15 guys. Let sit for an hour, do next coat, start detail work!
Avoiding painting stuff I need for a game on Tuesday and instead making a AA gun mounted on the Hetzer/ 38t chassis - nicknamed the Kugelblitz whilst it was being designed. I.e. another vehicle which looks cool, but I'll never use in a game.
Hmn, now I need to find AA tank rules for Bolt Action. They must be in the Tank Wars book or something.
Working on a small winter woodland board. It's all ready to go except the pond in the center, the crap I'm using for water is curing. Will require more attention after it has cured too but as soon as I can move the board I'll be able to gear up for gluing down the trees and snowing the whole thing.
Painted a battery of 2S1 and BM-21 for team yankee, not finished yet, have gotten as far as the oil wash. Also decals and the oil wash on my Su-25 to get them ready for a large team game next weekend.
Today, I'm putting some more work in on my Chaos Knight. He's almost ready to be put together, which will mean I can actually use him in games. I'm also assembling some tactical marines for my Battle Company.
I am trying out many and varied shades of red paint, looking for the perfect color. i used to have a wonderful dark red that went on smooth and perfect, but i cannot for the life of me remember the name or how to find it.
Played my first game of BB as an owner of the new game (had only played one learning game of BB with a previous edition). I fielded humans and he brought skaven. I got crushed but it was still a lot of fun.
Started assembling the termies from Prospero last night.
Went to a store opening and froze a bit. Got a swell Ultramarines artwork, a tyranid codex signed by Jes Goodwin, the store captain, another BaC and a VV box. Got my stamp card all filled out for that boss chaplain when they get them in stock.
Good day for hobbyinh, bad day for wallet. Finally have 20 Cataphractii, over a hundred mark 4s, and more contemptors than I can shake a stick at.
Will probably work on turning one into telemarchus and use the others as cortuses. Corti?
The nurglings have not been stated, its to cold to spray paint here. So im stuck writing army lists for my HH 1k Sons and figuring out how im going to get parts from the new Rubric squads without buying the full box.
I finally finished painting Magneto. - I started him back in July!
It also means, I've now finished painting a fully fledged playable X-Men tournament sized force for Marvel. - The first time I've completed something like that for a game since 2014.
Doesn't it feel awesome to complete something?? I had mine complete. Until I got the brotherhood and Jean at the same time. Haha. And Prospero and Calth stuff to work on.
I'm working on some Plaguebearers today. My girlfriend loves them, so I'd be remiss in my boyfriendly duties if I painted something else. Lol
Haha, that does sound like the way to do it TTW, kinda pricey since its KM but still.
I may have actually finished, or at least 'soft finished', my first complete game board in forever. I mean I've had enough disparate terrain to allow for games, but I've been playing off of mats or felt for a long time. It's only a 3x3' woodland snow board, but that's fine for Pulp Alley and a lot of other skirmish if you fiddle with the deployment zones. It would be very easy to add on additional sections in the future too as I made everything very square and sharp (a huge accomplishment for me ) and right at 36x36" with a super easy to replicate height/thickness.
Waiting for the board-wide coat of snow mix to dry...and then we'll see how she looks. Still need to do some game-specific snowy scatter terrain which is why I say 'soft finished'.
GrimDork wrote: Haha, that does sound like the way to do it TTW, kinda pricey since its KM but still.
I may have actually finished, or at least 'soft finished', my first complete game board in forever. I mean I've had enough disparate terrain to allow for games, but I've been playing off of mats or felt for a long time. It's only a 3x3' woodland snow board, but that's fine for Pulp Alley and a lot of other skirmish if you fiddle with the deployment zones. It would be very easy to add on additional sections in the future too as I made everything very square and sharp (a huge accomplishment for me ) and right at 36x36" with a super easy to replicate height/thickness.
Waiting for the board-wide coat of snow mix to dry...and then we'll see how she looks. Still need to do some game-specific snowy scatter terrain which is why I say 'soft finished'.
Well, I'm the nutcase who has 2 Magneto models (one Marvel Now, one regular), 2 Cyclops models, 2 Emma models, 2 Wolverine models and 2 Deadpool models. Granted, only Mags and Emma were purposeful duplicates. But hey. I'll duplicate Nightcrawler in X-Force as soon as Betsy and Warren get made.
If I get my ass off the couch building my Grey Company minis for LotR. Real tempted to put them on round lipped bases. They look really nice on them. Hope people won't object.
Slapping together some MK3 Marines for my Ultramarines, and contemplating the virtues of using my copy of BoP to make a 30k "army" (40k Marine army painted as a 30k legion)
Since it's been cold/wet/rainy here and no spraying is possible I've been slowly finishing up re-basing my 30-40 Old West figures to my new basing style. May start on my second squad of old metal Dire Avengers (running out of primed stuff).
Been a mix of too busy and too tired (possible vitamin deficiency) to do much recently so just dusted my to-do pile and remembered I hadnt gotten around to ordering the FrostGrave expansions yet.
So Ive ordered the 3 espansions that are out so far and also got Dragon Rampant and Rogue Stars coming while I was at it.
I noticed ordering only books feels strangely comforting, guess its the lack of guilt as my to-do pile doesnt get any bigger.
Reassembling some skeleton warriors [not the short lived cartoon from the 90's] that some boneheaded [urg] house breaker smashed. Honestly; all the stuff in my house worth pinching and he/she decides to wreck some tiny skeletons instead
Finished messing about with Greed. Thinking about prepping some acolytes for priming. Or, if I can still find it, turning an old ipad box into a dice tray to go with my iphone box dice tower.
Well, I was going to be going to a 40k tournament today, but there's been kind of an ice storm here so now I can't go. Instead, I'll probably continue working on more Tactical marines, and maybe start working on the weapons for my Knight.
It's warm today, so I'm going to try to get in a batch of priming/basing (when it's cold here I try to batch prime a dozen or more miniatures to hold me through the next good day of weather). Some cowboys, a few more Eldar.
I'm sure I have chores and things I could be doing today but I decided to continue basing and base coating the minis from my Conan Game. Haven't decided what else I'm going to do while I wait for the paint/glue to dry.
Doing the same thing as Elbows; primed a bunch of Tzeentch stuff to tide me over since it's warm out. It's started to drizzle though, so I think the priming is finished for a while. Gonna work on painting up some Screamers (going with a screamer deathstar) and some Tzeralds on discs with em. Maybe a few exalted flamers too.
I'm starting to add the washes to my Necron Destroyers. I'm painting them in sets of 6 because after building 24 of em I need to see something actually be finished. I enjoy the painting a lot more than the building.
Just finished the painting and display base for my Opa's Christmas present. Now just have to mount it and add some water effects around the base to finish it
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Worked on my skyhammer Assault Marines. Im Kinda bummed. Due to some less than optimal bitz, trying some new techniques on them that didnt work well AT ALL, and so forth, they turned out kinda bad IMO, It bums me out TBH. I painted some really good assault marines on foot not too long ago and my friends loved them, I feel like i took a major step backwords. Not to mention, i painted some of them long past being tired.
hotsauceman1 wrote: Worked on my skyhammer Assault Marines. Im Kinda bummed. Due to some less than optimal bitz, trying some new techniques on them that didnt work well AT ALL, and so forth, they turned out kinda bad IMO, It bums me out TBH. I painted some really good assault marines on foot not too long ago and my friends loved them, I feel like i took a major step backwords. Not to mention, i painted some of them long past being tired.
Don't feel bad
For now, they're painted !
And later, you'll get to strip them or improve them.
Congrats on painting stuff - tbh I have someone prepping the bits for me and I barely even have time to assemble them lol.
Thankfully I only have 13 ish of them before I get to work on the plastics. 
), working on splitting up 30K Death Guard into squads/unit types, painting some 
