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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.

 privateer4hire wrote:
That is a super cool paint scheme. Really liking it!

Thank you!

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 work on my new 40k chaos forces,



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

I had my first go at working out a Dropfleet Commander list.

I made an example fleet today.

Flag Group
Commodore
New York Class Battleship
2 Strike Carriers

Vanguard Group
Avalon Battlecruiser
2 Lima Frigates

Line Battlegroup
San Francisco Troopship
2 Strike Carriers
2 Aegis Frigates

Line Battlegroup
Berlin Class Cruiser
2 Toulon Frigates

Line Battlegroup
Madrid Cruiser
San Francisco Troopship
2 Aegis Frigates

Pathfinder Battlegroup
2 Osaka Light Cruisers
3 Taipei Frigates

So, 1 Battleship, 1 Battlecruiser, 6 Cruisers, 15 Frigates.

Naturally I think I'll end up with only 12 frigates so I'll need to some more thinking

Breaking up a striped model to the separate parts.

Cheers,

CB

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]

Built Capt Artemis from the Death Masque set.

Scrubbing dust from a land raider built and primed two years back for Mrs L. That I've got round to appropriating...

Has been in the kitchen all that time, zenith highlighted by dust.

Coming up nicely back to flat black but take by an age with a stiff paint brush

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.

Started work on this one yesterday, prototype to see how to best paint up a whole Tercio of them:

Painting hybrids.

Industrial saw dude done.

Jaws of life dude in progress...

Started striping down a second tank with simple green.

CB

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.

Painted all the helmets on my Flames of War Russian SMG platoon today. Boots will be next, then the dip.

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

Been working on my Black Crusade.

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 like the unnecessariness of the scope!

Broke the second tank I striped down to it's constituent parts.

CB

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.

nareik wrote:
Been working on my Black Crusade.

I made a Daemon Prince out of spares from an old plastic kit.

Why is it every time I see this mini, I swear it's giving us the finger?

Because it's giving us the finger?

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.

Runes on Fyresayers, test models SWs, Assemble more mk3 Death Guard and some alt models for KoW abyssal dwarfs (hopefully)

Striping the third tank of it's paint.

CB

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

Broke the third tank I striped down to it's constituent parts.

CB

Ordered the General Wade model so I can start using a Broadsword for my UCM.