Started stripping the badly primed honour guard, found a left handed replacement Boltgun to replace the missing one.

My last batch of bases & bitz has arrived for my goblin re-hab project. So Fri/Sat, more attaching bitz/basing/priming....

Probably going to start working on my second Hirst arts project, the larger temple i’m Going to make for Sol invictus teclis, and practice making some elvish runes on the temple floor so it doesn’t look so plain.

Here are some pics of the practice temple though, which I think looked very good with the granite grey dry brush, though I think some of it went on too wet on the pillars.

More work on Necromunda terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Chugging along on 2 Morat Sogarats and Kornak.

I have an old Metal Karl Franz on Deathclaw mini I have sitting in a box that I'm probably never going to use. So I figured I'll use him!

Going to begin the long, arduous process of filling and pinning so I can use him as a General on Griffon for my Cities of Sigmar army. Just got to figure out the base as he is significantly smaller then the current plastic model.

The Deadlands RPG KS is still on, so it's time to continue more Deadlands figures!

Figure on left is Reaper Bones : Savage Words : Bone Fiend 91007. Mold lines were a pain (though kinda average for plastic), and not as many details as I would have liked. However, it was easy to paint and if you backed Bones II, you should paint it to add to your skeleton collection!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/545820095/deadlands-the-weird-west/?ref=kicktraq

Drawing a hex grid on an A3 paper

Having a relaxing, work free afternoon evening reading ‘Ere We Go with a few quiet Beers.

Painting brass trim on Berzerkers. So much trim...

Probably going to paint up a pair of ancient Goblin Leadbelcher cannon now that they've been stripped & primed.

Hopefully finishing a primaris captain later.

Assembled a hospital, house, and a church in O scale for a big multiplayer game of Walking Dead AOW for an event in June at our FLGS. “It’s NOT the End of the World as We Know It!”

Working on my Beastlords as part of the Bot War painting challenge, working through adding gold to all of them at the moment.

 Aesop the God Awful wrote:
Drawing a hex grid on an A3 paper

Too small On to A2.

More work on Necromunda terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Procrastinating.....

Gawping over these for inspiration for the paint challenge

Building the last Varanguard for the next part of my Old World Everchosen project. Getting some paint onto Gotrek finally.

Built four shed/outbuilding/ shanties and four more trailer homes for our big Walking Dead AOW table.

Finished the vulture I bought over 2 years ago.,
Feels good man

working on one of the giants from mantic, doing a bit of greenstuff work to add some facial hair on it

Assembling the last of my Endless Spells - the Purple Sun.

Who the &**$% designed this thing? It's all sharp & spikey in every area where you'd need to apply any pressure on!
On a more serious note, I think I got one of the supports in wrong or something as it's not quite lining up. I'll probably have to tear it apart & start over....

Putting dinosaur armour, gaps between soldier's arms, and camo netting onto las cannon(had excess putty and it'd be a shame to waste it), kitted heavy weapons teams out with pouches and personal weapons and primed metal parts on these miniatures such as entrenching tools and some pouches and weapons with Mr Metal Primer, will prime manpad team, whose metal is already primed with Mr Metal Primer.

Latest order of minis arrived, so I built them all up. 5 Malifaux models, 4 Batman and 1 Bushido and almost all of them are ninja-esque- I feel like I have a type

Had almost finished my eleminators when I tried to stop my youngest from urintating on the floor. Long story short, I knocked the pieces over and the wet paint got everywhere. Spent yesterday doing paint repairs and cleaning them up. Should be back to the metallics and technical paints this evening.

Rather than moving on from the drudge work of the Morats I was working on I started it on more of them!

I've started to paint up some ghostly guys.

Magnetized a Canoness, quite pleased with it all working out.

What else...more work on Necromunda terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Painting up a sprue of ages old (3e?) orc/goblin shields.
There's a couple of shields that I really like on it. But the odds of finding enough of that sprue out in the wild.... Not to mention the cost (I could probably just replace every goblin cheaper) & time (my goblins might never all get matching shields)....
I also considered making a resin mold. But that's more time & effort than is warranted for goblin shields.
3d printing? I can't find the shields I want/like.

So the plan is to stick the finished sprue on the scanner, edit myself an entire page of my preferred shields, & then print out as many card stock sheets as I need. (the test turned out nicely btw)

Started work on the stuff that arrived in the mail today. So far I’ve cleared out roughly $1300 worth of stuff (I kept track) and got in the mail today: 1 gaunt summoner, 6 Blood Warriors, 1 aspiring Deathbringer, a Mindstealer Sphyrinx and a SC Slaves to Darkness box. I also ordered 2 Greater Daemons: KoS and BT (and a unit of Untamed Beasts) and got in a Darkoath Queen that I’m turning into Valkia. And despite all that brought in...over a grand already turned into $$ for my son’s future college account. Makes for good investments after it’s run its course.

Today...I assembled the Chaos Lord on Karkadrak!

Cringing while dusting over enamal with acrylic spray

Worked on my drilling platform, almost finished. Photos in my Necromunda log.

Cheers,

CB

Finishing up a Primey Captain and starting a Dread

FINALLY! The red on the latest batch of Morats is done. Now to start on the fun parts of painting them.

... and dreading the next four.

The updated Deadlands RPG KS is live, so I figure I'd *still* use it as an excuse to paint some Deadlands mini's in the queue - some as far back as 1997.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/545820095/deadlands-the-weird-west/?ref=kicktraq

If you don't have a copy of Deadlands, pick up the Helping Hands bundle, for a free starter copy of the previous edition. : https://www.peginc.com/product-category/free-downloads/

Putting the finishing touches to my Prime Captain:



Apologies for the terrible lighting.

Gonna paint up some Arco Flagellants and some Crusaders

I spent about 90% of April not painting. I'm in a but of a lul and otally not motivated. I might just take that as a reason to work on other projects and build some terrain.

Actually had some fun on my current batch of Morats and primed a couple models for my totally not just a bunch of Speculo Killers masquerading as Yu Jing/Haqqislam/O-12.

managed to get the bulk of the work on a terrain piece i've had in the back in my mind for a long time done today, if it dries enough i may try and prime it

The WHFB/AoS Goblin rehab project continues.
Now that all the replacing of bitz/bases/missing models, stripping & priming is done? The true work of getting the hoard painted up can begin.
So I've started with a pair of ancient Leadbelcher organ guns & a Skull Crusher trebuchet. I'll work on those here Fri/Sat.
Then I'll divide the hoard in 3rds & paint about 73 models each week. 10 or so/day.
The goal is to be finished by the evening of June 4th, so any I miss on the weekly goal can (hopefully) be picked off May 31st - through 3pm of June 4th.

Higlighted the trims on the Titanicus WArhound I'm painting.

Built my new Keeper yesterday, building the Bloodthirster today.

Started working on some Necromunda scatter terrain to place on the tower, other platforms, and the floor as well.

Cheers,

CB

Still managing to avoid clearing my actual backlog by making bits of scatter terrain.

Painted up 14 zombies for Walking Dead game. I just lack the final dry brushing of dusty tan and applying liberal areas of gore. Will start the survivors tomorrow!

Ripped out an old Guijia TAG way quicker than I expected!

Going through my ork stuff looking to sell it

Painting a dread. That is all.

Sorting my WHFB/AoS goblins into 3 equal batches to be painted over this & the next 2 weeks.
If all go as planned? I'll have a few stragglers to pick off come the first week of June

Finished the current batch of Morats! [degenerates into mad giggling]

Went to a dollar tree store and picked up these:

https://flic.kr/p/2iZNdv4

https://flic.kr/p/2iZNedM

https://flic.kr/p/2iZLDJ8

Thinking of using them as bases for my necron army in training. The sand is too red and cartoon colored, might mix it with some ochre colored sand i have.

The glass crystal look like they will generally fit in with the necron theme.

Working further on my sisters of battle force. Crusaders and Arco Flagellants

Beginning serious work on the goblin hoard.

I need to paint 13 models/day to make my goal of finishing in 3 weeks.

First 6/90 for the week done.
5 of those took quite awhile as I reinvented the wheel trying to match a paint scheme that some of the goblins already sport.
What I ended up with is really close & I can replicate it fairly fast - probably at about 10-15m/goblin. So I'll be able to crank out 20+ goblins this evening.

finished and based my first 3 wraiths.

https://flic.kr/p/2iZRZnB

https://flic.kr/p/2iZPhWs

https://flic.kr/p/2iZRYkS

https://flic.kr/p/2iZTyp2

https://flic.kr/p/2iZTxUj

https://flic.kr/p/2iZRWRK

Working on a big pile of CSM. Turns out I should have just enough Phoenician Purple to see me through base colouring them, so I can stop worrying when my GW order is coming.

Today, and the next few days, im going to be working on doing airbrushing of alot of models, Custodes, knights, Space marines, all that jazz
Wo when i have time to work on them, i can just bust them out for a bit and put some paint on them with the hair brush.
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Shard of the Nightbringer. I ended up going with an aged gold skin and teal clothing. I put some teal washes into the flesh and gold highlights on the cloak to give the impression that it's a magical creature. It's the same scheme that I used for my deceiver, and that model turned out great. Both my C'Tans are metal, which means heavy and the paint rubs off easily on the edges, so I need to be careful where I hold it. I will be happy when I am done and I can clear coat it. Once again, enjoying the big old metal models tho.

Still just airbrushed a bunch of stuff.
HAd to stop after some bad vertigo during the middle of it though.

Once work is over, crack on with the Mortek Guard.

Got 40 with Spears assembled over the last couple of days, and 20 with Sword all sprayed Wraithbone.

Aiming to get at least all the bone done on the Sword unit by this evening. If I wield a brush with malice over my lunch break, I may even have that done sooner.

Also need to root around the paint collection, find something suitable for the base trim on the first 20.

Oh, and as I do each new colour, double check the first 20 I finished for missed spots.

Really, really wishing I hadn’t glued the shields on the first batches, but you live and learn. Just makes it super awkward to get at the necessary parts.

Painting goblins.
So far: 44 finished out of the weeks goal of about 90.

I'm slightly ahead of my daily goal thanks to a handful already being painted & only needing some touch ups.

Apart from tuft for some finished 20 easterling warriors. Next anotger group and dragon knight

Still working on painting a massive batch of Chaos Marine stuff.

More work on Necromunda scatter terrain.

Cheers,

CB

I'm painting up some 6mm Greek medium spearmen for my tiny scale Alexandrian (or successor) army,

I am painting some ogres, each in a different skin color. And by that i mean teal, pink, blue, and green so far.

 amazingturtles wrote:
I am painting some ogres, each in a different skin color. And by that i mean teal, pink, blue, and green so far.

I like it when ogres are painted in inhuman skin tones. Makes them seem more Destructive and inhuman, as they should be.

They need green skin and a healthy amount of miniature onions at their feet. Oh, and talking livestock in place of sabertusks

Assembled fellbeast. Just the mount. For rider I plan to carve horse out of Khamul on horse to have him on fellbeast for one awesome combat ringwraith.

More work on Necromunda scatter terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Dread’s coming along:

Actually painting 15mm soviets...painting in sets of 16 minis. So far a couple done, one more to do tonight.

Snipped out the chassis of the chaos rhino, boxed up the heretic bits ready to be sold on, did some more layering on my retro ultramarines.

Also opened up the sealed fire prism

working on some northern alliance stuff for kings of war vanguard

Painting my telemon dreadnought. I learnt how to do glaze highlights on order to layer up the enormous pauldrons, and I'm very happy with what I did.

Finishing up the last seven goblins of todays batch.

I’m starting to paint my first of two questoris knights. They are both magnetized and sprayed silver, so now it’s tine to start adding the house terryn colours. I really enjoy painting knights.

Just managed a little bit of time doing a wash on some scatter terrain for 40K/Necromunda.

Cheers,

CB

The painted goblin hoard has grown: 54/88 done for the week.
Including one of my favorites - a chainmail clad, 2h axe wielding in a charging pose by Ral Partha (so a bit smaller than GW) from '89/90 (according to his base).
He ended up being a tad darker green than I'd intended, but he looks good & is still one of my favorites.

The Fri./Sat. groups are going to be more fun as there's champions/banners/musicians in them.

Finished 5 pieces of scatter terrain for Necromunda/40K, now started 5 barricades.

Cheers,

CB

 amazingturtles wrote:
I am painting some ogres, each in a different skin color. And by that i mean teal, pink, blue, and green so far.

I did that way back with some ghouls for vampire counts. It gives them an imp-like vibe.

Same thing, different day.... Painting another 17 goblins....
Added a few to this batch so that I could get all crew for my war-machines done at once.

 Future War Cultist wrote:

 amazingturtles wrote:
I am painting some ogres, each in a different skin color. And by that i mean teal, pink, blue, and green so far.

I like it when ogres are painted in inhuman skin tones. Makes them seem more Destructive and inhuman, as they should be.

That is my goal! Also i just get bored painting things the same after a while. And I like weird.

I am now painting a giant chicken.

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Primed my first two Thunder warriors. The smaller one is a sergeant and the other is Ghota, right hand man to Arik Taranis. He counts as a captain.

Just built some interceptors and now gonna paint the dreadnaught.

Built a couple old Yu Jing Invincibles, and putting some paint on to some Zhanshi of the same vintage.

Well, later this evening it's either going to A) pizza & a small game with a buddy, OR B) Netflix & paint up another 13 goblins, getting jump on next weeks block of 90-some.....

After painting 96 goblins over 6 days this week I'm hoping the pizza & game plan is a go.

Decided to make my own Sergeant Harker from some spare bits lying around. All my Guardsmen have the Hostile Environment setup, which fits well with the Catachan theme, but Harker's actual model would look a bit out of place amongst the rest. After a couple of hours I came up with this.

The painting could be a bit better but with the current financial situation my resources are becoming more and more limited. Pretty happy with how he turned out however, I was close to giving up until I noticed the Hotshot Volley arms were in the exact pose I needed.

That’s an excellent bit of kit bashing! Very well done.

Making green cork flock

Loving the Harker.

With so much available nowadays, it's like the noble art of converting is ebbing away.

Just finished my 101st goblin in 8 days.

finished 2 rohan watchtowers sans ladders

+ 13 more goblins....

I might actually sit down and paint something tonight. Taking a hiatus on models and going to work on Terrain.

Building my own Necromunda barricades.

Cheers,

CB

Building the last of my currently unopened marines.

Along with my take on Sergeant Harker, here's my attempt at Iron Hand Straken

Building a vindicator, using mk1 parts on a mk2 chassis which should look awesome when done, just need to get some plasticard.

I finished the head, helmet and the bit of armour above the helmet on my first knight. I'm hoping to get the top carapace done today as well. So far it looks really good.

Another 13 goblins (archers) finished.
Plenty more to go....

Painting my own Necromunda barricades.

Cheers,

CB

Finished roofs for 3 buildings and started painting 4 sections of walls.

Finished another 18 goblin archers (plastics from the WHFB 3rd ed starter box).

The old WHFB 3rd ed starter box goblin spearmen are OK, & those goblin archers paint up quickly enough, but man those archers are nowhere near my favorite sculpts. http://www.solegends.com/citcat1996usfb/c1996usfbp0095-02.jpg
I just have a crap load of them from back in the day as you could pick them up dirt cheap....

Ordered the placticard strips in 1mm thickness,

Filed out the rear hatch on the rhino chassis to fit the original metal hatch of the Vindicator mk1.

Also adding more paint to my also adding more paint to my competition entry.

Painting a penitent engine and I’m starting to build up the layers on the skin. Enjoying this model but need to finish crusaders and repentia this month too.

Finished painting my own Necromunda barricades.

Cheers,

CB

I've started painting the Sisters of Battle box. I had one of the battle sister's arms fly over the edge of the apartment balcony during priming so now I'm trying to mod an oldmarine bolter arm to fit the model.

Finished the current batch of Morats, now to get a solid core of Yu Jing done before I order more Morats.

Only 16 more 3e goblin archers to go in this weeks portion of the hoard!

I'm making mutants and aliens

worked on a somewhat large terrain piece on and off today

Decals on my scout car, details on Rheboks, just got to paint some stowage and it's decals for them too, finally.

Final got back to working on my metal Jain Zar for the Monthly Painting Challenge.

Cheers,

CB

finished the bits of Gardens of Morr the magazine came with initially. Also Mrs L was tidying up and has found the big bag of 1p coins I base historical stuff on, so I know what I'm doing next week

Finishing up 10 goblin wolf riders.

Filling some gaps on plasticard with LGS.

Painting my comp entry

Decals and names on Rheboks, Mammon and Mammoth 2nd Platoon Bravo Company

Going to fall short of my 13 goblins per day goal for Sat.

But thats an acceptable trade off for the local shops Path To Glory campaing being able to pick up this evening.
(albeit with masks, limited people, etc - the important thing is that my round 4 opponent can make it)
So 11 goblins get bumped onto next weeks painting queue

I've been painting a fox blue

Gluing the Vindicator together, forgot how heavy the metal is

Weathered(chipping wear and tear and dust) police vehicles scout car and Rheboks, waiting for this to dry to give finishing cotes, dull for most and gloss for lenses (on top of bieng painted to look shiny)

Gotta paint about 15/15 goblins this evening.

In-between groups of 5 goblins ill also build a box of Dark Age Irish Warriors from War Games Atlantic.

Finished metal Jain Zar for the Monthly Painting Competition.

Not a great sculpt by any means, but one that lasted over twenty years before a recent replacement.



Based to be fielded with my army.

Cheers,

CB

I finished the marking on my knight's pauldron. I need to do all the weapon options next and then I'm almost ready to varnish and start the decals.

After far, far, faaaaaaaaaaar too long...I finished building my Crassus Armoured Assault Transport.

Wrote up a battle report for my Round 4 game in Call to Arms.

https://www.kowforum.com/t/darkblacks-call-to-arms/1298/14?u=darkblack

Does clocking in 25hrs worth of Total Warhammer II over the weekend count?

assembled some Warlord Napoleonic French from the Black Power 2 starter

They're an impressive looking unit!

I've been working on a diorama type thing that i've been working at on and off for a bit, it's going to be an alienish looking farm that will hopefully work for both wargaming and model trains.

Green-stuffing robe seams for the last 50 Skitarii. Wooooo?

Working on a Charlie Foxtrot models mdf house for Normandy, also base coated my army of the dead from pelennor fields and will itwas nice and hot managed to put some filler on a couple of rock outcrops for my Rohan terrain collection.

 amazingturtles wrote:
They're an impressive looking unit!

I've been working on a diorama type thing that i've been working at on and off for a bit, it's going to be an alienish looking farm that will hopefully work for both wargaming and model trains.

to be fair its actually two units plus an officer...

or if you play Sharp Practice is the bulk of your army

Stuck in limbo waiting on some stuff to finish a few models, so I built a base for my Hurricane air support from some bits and bobs. I'm not sure what else I can get into today without some things in the post.

In-between painting batches of goblins today I managed to assemble a box of Dark Age Irish Warriors from War Games Atlantic.

Fairly nice models, 30 per box with plenty of weapon & shield choices, but very fiddly little bits compared to GW stuff. Especially the heads. In addition some of them have a little nub & socket on the weapon arm/shoulder & others don't. So if you decide you want this weapon on that torso you have to trim off the torsos shoulder nub.

They're also cheap enough that another box (+ the existing shields I didn't use) will provide enough extras to completely outfit my goblins with small round shields.

Waiting on grass...



Also, building fences...and based this Easy Model 1/72 plane for my Battlegroup - it's out of scale, obviously, but as a flying plane I don't think it matters so much.

Stocktake of my 40k models to prep for the new edition, finishing off the last of my League of Assassins for Batman, starting the starter set Batman model and 3 Terracotta Warriors for Malifaux

Did terrain of course.

Cheers,

CB

Modelling up my beloved roos with tons of guns.

Making terrain tiles for a hex map and flicking through Osprey's Dux Bellorum.

Finishing up at least 37 goblins (3 separate units), trying not to fall too far behind my weekly goal.

started painting the two regiments of French infantry, primed, flesh tones done, trousers & boots done, greatcoats have a mix of browns and greys applied that will get washed and highlighted tomorrow.

then the detail bits start that take an age, still its not like I'm going anywhere

also pondering combining the electronics and micro controller pile of stuff bought for a slot car project but that has 'spares' with the Repulsive that came with the magazine series. Blinkenlights at least

Finally dipped most of the undead that have been waiting for decent weather, like we’ve had a month+ of now.

Working on some more terrain that could be used for 40K or Necromunda.

Cheers,

CB

Baneblade fitting blood and skulls centralised turret plate, and extending turret + milli-put for cast finish.

Space marine HKs and sentinel rocket pods magnetised for the Kangas.

I need to get at least 12, and preferably 24, goblins finished up today.

And then this evening I have an AoS Path to Glory match to play in the shops campaign.
My Beastmen vs the Sylvanith. One of us (the Sylvanith) is going to lose their undefeated status tonight.

:( Although I mauled the tree folk they squeaked out a 1pt victory at the last moment thanks to being able to teleport a unit between awakened woods & steal an objective from me.

 amazingturtles wrote:
I've been painting a fox blue

Love this.

I'm basing my Bagpiper for the painting competition, weathering, and more terrain for the LoER competition.

More terrain work and painting.

Cheers,

CB

Finishing up some 15mm fences, gooping/basing a few squads of Soviet infantry, and assembling some field guns. Might work on another two squads as far as painting goes...trying to make genuine progress so I can play fully painted as normal.

Furiously building Word Bearers while the false hope is still fresh.

Goblins. More goblins.

If all goes well today I'll have missed my goal of getting all of my goblins painted up by June 1st by about 50 or so. That's about double what I was anticipating.

Fortunately though the earliest I'll actually need them all is the evening of June 4th (although that's unlikely) - so I've got a few extra days to pick off those stragglers. Still, time-wise, I can't afford to have this project incomplete come the 7th as 1) I have another project slated for that week & 2) each passing Thur = an ever greater chance of needing the goblins on the table.

Scrubbed up my kangas for priming, finished painting missile launcher teams, and heavy weapons teams and gluing heavy weapons teams to bases.

Should be putting together army lists, but as I'm not feeling it at all I'm making river tiles for the hex map instead.

I've been painting up some little barrels which is oddly soothing to me

Furiously trying to finish my painting competition entry.

Painting a primaris librarian.

Finished up panting my first Yu Jing list.

Primed and will work on some of my field guns, finishing up half a platoon of infantry...slow simple grind. May work on some emplacements as well.

Getting my next model ready for next month's paint competition

Primed and 1st colour on my Kangas(light stone going for classic matilda Cauter scheme light stone, slate grey/silver(Ill do one of ech), dark slate grey) finished heavy weapons teams, painting basing sand.

Started building a Rhino transport.

Cheers,

CB

Avenger gattling cannon all done. Other weapons are base coated. I'm going with red and blue stripes on one set, and just blue on the other night. I'm really feeling the knights lately. Terryn is such a sweet scheme. That Kantor blue is also so easy to work with.

Finish basing heavy weapons teams and missile team, spraying Kangas as well.

Finished my battle sisters and arco-flagellants. Ran out of prmer, so I guess I'll finally be getting back to these D&D character cats I've been putting off painting.

Deleted.

This evening I've got to:
*prime 7 oop goblins (5 squig hoppers, 2 misc archers)
*paint another group of 10 oop goblins (5 archers, 4 standard bearers, 1 musician) - primer to finished.
*finish the details on 10 oop goblins (4 spears, 4 standards, 2 musicians)

Pachow(ski).



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Sticking together mid 2000's GW goblins. So many mold lines...

Impressive Elbows.

Did some painting and shipped some bits to another DakkaDakka member.

Cheers,

CB

Preparing for the second wave of my cursed.

Tidied up masking errors on Kanga no 1, made sure all lines were nice and crisp painted guns and mantles.

starting on a new terrain piece today

Finished another ruined building.



Cheers,

CB

Painting a Deathwing Ancient

Later this evening, the same thing as always (or so it seems) - finishing another block of 20some goblins.

I've also got to paint up a Druid miniature and spend a few hours on prep work for tomorrow evenings D&D game.

Painting kanga no2 2/3 Tamiya J.A Grey and 1/3 Humbrol 31 -slate grey. Happy with results.

Finished assembling sister rhino and sorted out magnets for the triumph. Now I can remove the relics as they get removed. No book keeping. Strong enough that I can flip the base upside down and strongly shake it up and down and the models don't even flinch.

Bless you magnets! Took quite a lot of greenstuff to do it but at least it works.

More work on terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Writing a battle report for Call to Arms 4.

Goblins. More goblins.

Although I did find out today that the earliest I'll need them all done by is the June 25th. So I've got 18 days to finish up the last 20some misc. goblins.
Yeah, I think I can handle dropping down to a mere 1.5 goblins/day.

Working on Serephim now. Not certain they'll see much table time - they seem a little underwhleming, but at least the backpacks are fun to paint.

For the first time in months, and now that the COVID restrictions have been relaxed, we're gathering to play Black Crusade.

Yay!

More work on my replacement of original Necromunda Terrain.

Cheers,

CB

I am trying to paint up mutant dogs

I wrote a battle report for Call to Arms, an online Kings of War tournament.

https://www.kowforum.com/t/darkblacks-call-to-arms/1298/17?u=darkblack

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Details on my Kangaroos, then started weathering just before I remembered I had not put the decals on yet!
Now marked Vehicle 501 and 502 HQ recon troop 5th company(so probably 2nd tank battalion) of the 76th Armoured Division. Need a regimental badge now and some nice names for them.

Working on a Voidweaver and kitbashing a Death Jester.

The Weaver just needs painting now but I need a Dark Lance for the DJ, which is using a left over Harlie from the Weaver kit. A box of Kabalites is in order methinks!

All decals are on, vehcicles mostly detailed, and will be lightly dusted. No point over-weathering a nice paint job.

Working on some lord of the rings terrain, army of the dead, Rohan minis also some gripping beast vikings. Some pagan love going on today. Only thing I’m missing is some mead. Lol.

A game of Kill Team later on; Nids vs Harles! Will the gaunts be having a take-away or will the clowns have the last laugh?

Stealing my wife's craft supplies for modelling.

Finished off the army of the dead using Luke’s Aps base ready range. Fantastic stuff, lay the glue on the base, dip it in the basing material and job done.
No painting and dry brushing sand then flocking the bases. One hit and the jobs done.

Going to have a stab at speedpainting another unit of skeletons. Between Contrast and ye olde drybrush, these guys only took a single morning of work.

Building out a pair of nice cute little conquerer leman russ battle tanks to go with my tallarn tank commanders, using conversion bits from the IG starter box kits.


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Awesome. pics?

I picked up 3 more Arco-Flaggelents. I have nine of them know and some part of me wants more...

Started the first one and added stlit legs that turned out to be longer and heavier than the rest of the model. Going to have to add weights.

Started painting the second Questoris knight. Really enjoying them.

More work on my replacement of original Necromunda Terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Finishing up the details on some Squig Hoppers, Fanatics & Doom Diver "ammo".

Working away on my Delaque and Batman, aiming to get those 2 ticked off my backlog by the end of the week

Finishing Arco-Flaggelent 8 and 9. Then it'll be the Repentia next.

I don't think I'm ever going to pass through this pile of shame

Primed some more infantry, and re-painted the "pre-painted" entrenchments I received in the mail.

I've been painting up one of the rat ogres from the old island of blood set for a Skaven blood bowl team. My boy stayed playing the game with me when we went into lockdown, he's keen to see how they fare against the orcs.

More work on my replacements of the original Necromunda cardboard terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Putting together a cavalry dismount section for my kangaroos. Western Desert style just like their mounts, tommy guns from maxmini and rugged up in greatcoats to keep that desert wind out.

Drawing an A4 square gridded map. I'll probably stick with hexes in the end, I just need to get this out of my system.

paint up a batch of ebay salvaged orks to add to the rpg model box

Completed another unit of Boinggrot squig riders & a unit of super oop orc boar riders.

Only three Battle sisters models left - the Repentia sargent, the penitent engine and the hospitallar.

Gotta appreciate the fact that my canoness is around 4 pieces and the hospitallar is around 35...

I am enjoying the Flaggelents. Digging up a lot of mod bits for them.

Chopping up spartans and skeletons to make aegean themed grave guard:

Battling a shipwreck golem and insanity.

I am fixing things after a disaster called "yeah i just stepped on a bunch of tiny men"

Finished painting the last of the terrain for Souldrain Forest for Warcry.

Remaining project items:
1 box Necron warriors (NOS)
15 Oathmark wolf riders (NOS)
25 Oathmark goblin infantry (NOS)
2 Giant Eagles from deep cuts (primed)
1 Catapult from deep cuts (primed)
2 Bolt Throwers from deep cuts (primed)

Going to finish the Pentient engine today along with the Repentia Superior. I'm really annoyed that the flesh bits of the engine are tied to so much of the metal bits. I was tempted to clip the pilot right off s the frame so I could just basecoat the entire machine in iron using a spray.

I should get back to Space Marines after that, but all these Chaos models are begging for a conversion

Hallelujah, I have FINALLY hit upon an orangish/red blend that I'm happy with for my squigs!

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Scrubbed mold(just from humidity) off untouched MDF check point and glued it together.

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Our D&D/PF group is picking up a PF1 campaign that got put on hold over a year ago.
So dusting off my PF1 book & reviewing the mechanics behind my Summoner character.

And working on finishing some remaining goblins.

I was building Chaos models but then they just announced an ITC in my area - so back to marines.

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Fixing up some warped terrain.

Worked on some more Necromunda replacement terrain.

Cheers,

CB

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Just finished putting together my 90s Necromunda gang roster. My brother and I, both grown adults, are starting a Necromunda campaign to help pass the pandemic by indulging our inner teenagers. My Redemptionists versus his House Orlock.

Finishing some Tyranids swarms. Just scrapping the bottom of the barrel of already primed mini I have around! Been out of primers for months now and just digging in the pile of unpainted minis!

Tomorrow we might go on an adventure to the game store and get some primer though, so I might get more stuff to paint!

Completed my wolf lord, started putting together my two sets of wolf guards.

Finishing up some stuff for the League of Extraordinary Riveters Contest (https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/787913.page)

Working a bit on taking an inventory of all my minis.

 ChaoticMind wrote:
Working a bit on taking an inventory of all my minis.

Ouch, I'd dread doing something like this, seeing the obscene amount of minis I have Let us know it it goes for you!

Finishing off misc goblins from the tail end of my Goblin Project.

I've been painting up a hut, or perhaps a shack. Or maybe even a hovel! It's one of them things

Traveled to a FLGs two cities away. Finally was able to get some L shaped polystyrene, some metallic paint, and Burnt Umber. No black or washes though.

Cheers,

CB

Whee..more Intercessors. Then it looks like I'll need Inceptors to finish this list.

Working on baneblade hull and turret, and also some stowage an tarps on my rheboks. 1st coat on my pack of allosaurus.

Finally went back to my Monthly Painting Challenge entry and did some work.

Cheers,

CB

had a 2 week break where I barely did anything. Had a hard reset

Finishing a sicarian tank and some lads to go with it

Building a squadron of necron destroyers that arrived yesterday. Picked them up in case the new destroyers replace them. Not really a fan of the green tubes going away.

Finishing carapace on the second questoris. I need to decide on what helardlry I am putting on the shoulder next.

I'm painting up some tiny frogs, for use in anything a tiny frog might be used in

Decided my soldiers should have their bases marked with their rank marked, as it was getting hard to distinguish(I don't truck with an over-proliferation of melee weapons outside assault teams or irregulars), decided that sergeants and lieutenant was not over complicated and over thought enough so I have lance corporals, corporals, sergeants, master-sergeant, and a lieutenant(I have about a platoon and a half of riflemen).

Next step is to see who in my specialist teams, and special forces teams also deserves promotion.

Worked on turret exspansion on baneblade turret with putty. Worked on rheboks with putty, camo netting, a minor repair on my hellhound, on a whim I put a block of putty on the rear tank of the vehicle and pressed a magnet into it, will magnetise a sign with a Flammable Hazard sign and a Corrosion Hazard sign, to easily switch between Hellhound and Banewolf (becasue why have 2 different projector cannons when you can have one and a hazard sign) and sealed paper tarps on them with testors dull coat.

Painted a bit on my dismounted imperial knights. 5 power armoured knights with heavy melee weapons and heavy stub rifles(or battlerifles chambered in .50cal Browning machine gun for the layman), oh and 1x automatic grenade launcher.

Put together my cultist/zealot command section for my militia I got from anvil ages ago, anvil's bolt action rifles are a bit chubby for my liking, got some 3d printed ones that I like better.

Also more noteworthy; Cleaned the work area of my desk!

Started working on these. Been waiting since they got released.

Lots of skin tones to a) create realism b) reduce clone trooper effect

Damned gremlins....

Today I have to re-do work already done.
About a month back I picked up a box of Wargames Atlantics Medevial Irish. Spent considerable time trimming many many small fiddly spindly bits off sprues, mold lines, assembly....
They're nice enough figures once finished, I just found them a bit time intensive.

So then I decided to put them on 25mm round bases - mostly for stability on our tables. And discovered I didn't have enough bases. No problem, just order more bases.
Bases came about a week later.
And since then I have been looking everywhere for the small box of 30 assembled Irishmen. They're.... gone. Last Sat. I gave up & just ordered another box of them. I guess if the gremlins ever return the 1st batch then I'll have 60 Irish.

In the meantime I'll spend this evening trimming many many small spindly fiddly bits off spue, cleaning mold lines, & assembling 30 Irish - again.

Did most of the work on Iron Man, Black Widow, Captain America, Hulk and Thor and started 5 Bushido ninja

Assembling my Cavalry dismount teams, arming them,(put together 2x marksman rifles for the teams and the usual modifications to the guns) and giving some of the female members slouch hats. Sorting a few parcels worth of bits into the meticulously ordered compartmentalised bits boxes. Light prepatory conversion work for some ongoing projects and Kangaroo no3 arrived so made a commander for that.

Finishing up my Necromunda tower.

Cheers,

CB

Wrote a battle report.

https://www.kowforum.com/t/follies-of-fools/1498?u=darkblack

Finished my second Pallas Grav-Attack, the little tank (more like a speeder really) for my Custodes

Finished a 3 model squadron of necron destroyers.

Remaining projects:
12 man necron squad (NOS)
25 oathmark goblin infantry (NOS)
15 oathmark goblin wolf riders (NOS)
2 deep cuts giant eagles (base-coated)
2 deep cuts bolt throwers (base-coated)
1 deep cuts catapult (base-coated)

Gazakull Thrakka. Thats it. just him.

and its enough...

Blinged up a few BFG ships with Dark Angels symbols and finishing off my Avengers before basing

Rush painted terrorgheist + chalice so that it's at least partially painted. Still WIP with tons of work to do but with game on tomorrow(and 40k game today keeping painting time was pretty much yesterday from primed model) figured better at least partially painted is better than nothing.

Primed my cultists/zealot command squad geared up my cavalry scouts dismount teams, painted some more on my dismounted knights, just sort of cycling around on these small projects. Some minor work on one of kangaroo 3's conqueror cannon.

Started gathering pieces to make gantry ways and bridges for old school Necromunda.

Cheers,

CB

Building a pair of land speeders and a venerable dreadnought for a tournament. The land speeders are early, early plastic designs. The first doesn't even have a main weapon in the kit, but that's the beauty of magnets. I'll just slap on a assault cannon from a dreadnought.

Had a NEED to build so I worked on some Mantic Niads that were dredged up while doing inventory. Now to go back to the inventory.

Finished my Avengers bases, working away at Bushido and Malifaux stuff now to finish off crews

Began assembling my first batch of bridges and gantries.

Cheers,

CB

First nest of mini hiding and my desk inventoried! 2 nests to go.

However before that I need to do some repairs and finish a couple things so I'll have space for the next batch requiring emergency services.

Finished painting a scenery piece, then starting my last 2 Custodes Venatari.

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Assembling some Howling Banshees, and a little bit of a review for those considering the kit...

Bit annoyed as they arrived this morning with a bashed box and the Exarch sprue was damaged. Thankfully the actual components are still useble but even still, its not on. But thats the delivery service fault( nothing to do with GW ). Certainly glad I didn't pay more than £25 for the kit as there just isn't enough plastic in the box to warrant it. Jain Zar is a bit pricey herself but at least has the argument that she is a less-common character model.

Looking at the Exarch sprue, there's about 70% pieces left over for a sixth banshee so I will be casting pieces 49, 44, 46 and 3 to get the most out of the kit. Parts 49 & 3 could be replaced with basic sculpting skill but 46 & 44( legs! ) are essential. An additional 25mm or 28.35mm base is required. These could've easily been included in the kit and cannot fathom why they chose that silly maker and "pigtails" helment instead. Its a shame one cannot use the left over Exarch weapons on ordinary banshees for Kill Team as it would make for a more customised team, and the Triskele is an odd weapon to include when it wasn't included in Kill Team...very strange that.

On a more positive note, I quite like the faces they provide and will go with them instead of whimping out on helmets! Gareth Nicholas' Exarch - a gift for Gaku Matsubayashi - is very inspiring and have been practicing the colours for the face.

Sprayed the bridges and gantries I have put together.

Cheers,

CB

Playing with my long awaited gift to myself

I am making chicken based objectives.

Sometime today my primer will come and my last model for this tourney list will be complete over the next couple days.

In the meantime I've assembled, painted and based a set of bolter inceptors that I'm certain will never see table time

Back to working on my entry for the Unofficial Monthly Painting Challenge.

Cheers,

CB

Lots and lots of undercoating with my favourite colour black.

Until it dries. Sadly it loses that lovely wet look.

Sigh.

Currently assembling my two boxes of Allarus Termi, this will complete my Custodes army and bring it to about 2k total! Once done I'll move to painting them, completing a goal of mine, having a fully painted army!

* Getting a base coat of Seriphim Sepia & then some minor details onto those Altlantic Wargames Irish I built (& then rebuilt).
Being mostly NPCs for a D&D game they don't need a complete paint job right now. Just enough to tell two distinct groups apart.

* Then it's on to building both a Mid & Late war list for Flames of War (I'm thinking Russian Churchills)....

* And I'll finish off the evening by reading the new Lumineth Tome (lore only).

Went for 1k tournament with my sisters. Got my ass kicked by tsons though with bit better rolling or not spending 1 CP too much 1st turn could have done better. Then got my ass totally kicked by salamander gunline in scenario that was always going to be tough for my scenario. Finally crushed extremely casual ork army.

Triumph was fun. First game nearly was hero going girl to knight duel bringing(okay so it had taken 13 wounds previously...) it down to 3 wounds. By averages I should have survived 2 combat phases then but he was rolling 5+ to hit like a champion and I whiffed 4++'s like a wimp

2nd game went on another duel vs invictor warsuit and on 3rd game nearly entire ork army(flashgit, weirdboy, gunwagon, 1 turn scrapjet) tried to bring her down but failed which pretty much won me the game.

Also picked up best painted award which was first time ever for me! Albeit only 6 players and level of competition wasn't THAT big but at least every army was painted(tournament requirement).

Discretion truly was the better part of valor today. I realized that after reassembly and touch-ups it would just be easier to start over on a metal mini that had gotten dropped and badly chipped.

So holes were drilled to assemble it properly this time around and it was cast into the acetone to prepare it for rebirth.

Priming original necron scarabs and painting a deep cuts catapult.

Spot of easy mode painting doing the fancy plastic x-wing dials, but given the druids have conjured up some bobbins weather to keep the beaches clear I used the super stinky primer in the garage and things are now a tad fuzzy

Finishing my last 5 Bushido models and working on Leveticus' crew for Malifaux

Building my Lumineth box sets!

I had bought myself one and my brother had ordered me one as an early birthday present, thinking I might not be able to get one myself on the day of...so now I have the makings of an Auralan Legion(I'll have to wait for the Sentinels and Cathallar to finish it) and a barebones Dawnrider Lance.

I'm painting up some skeletons, imagining an idea for a game where skeletons aren't mindless hordes

Finished and posted my Sister's of Battle Rhino for the Monthly Painting Challenge - this month's theme "In a Supporting Roll".





Made from a regular Rhino chassis, with some magnets and some Sisters of Battle extras with some old Bretonnian transfers thrown in.

The long painting war continues...

CB

Assembling a Mega-Construx Viking Longship.

There's nothing quite like the challenge of sifting through mixed baggies of 995 Lego style pieces....

Assembled a Land Speeder and everything went wrong. I mean everything. It looks like the whole contraption is held together with duct tape only I haven't modeled duct tape on it yet. Think I'll take it to the tourney and then Orkify it after.

Painting Chaos as a relaxing technique while I avoid painting more marines

After a...5 or so year hiatus from painting minis of any kind. I got a Wolfy Dreadnaught for Fathers Day so finally, today I got got Bjorn undercoated.

Also got 5 2nd ed generic assault and Blood Angels dudes painted up as Skyclaws.

The Rout is slowly being assembled again.

Back to replacing cardboard with plastic Necromunda terrain and started the third tower.

Cheers,

CB

Damn this Mega-Construx Viking Longship is tedious to build....

After finishing a box of Azyrite Ruins I have another box to assemble and paint. But I'm taking a break and going to work on a Slaughterpriest that's been sitting on my desk for awhile now.

Taken a few minutes to do some more on the tower.

Cheers,

CB

Back from work, finishing backpacks and shoulder pads for the Skyclaws.

Primed and base coating swiftclaw bikers x3 and starting on some odds and sods blood claws.

Played a game of Kings of War on Universal Battle and now for the battle report.

Did some more work on the tower, started scoring and adding the rivet details on the platforms.

Cheers,

CB

Sorted models only to find an older chaos paint scheme I like more than the current one. Tempted to switch back.

In the meantime, more Chaos space marines.Lots of small details on that armor

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Started the obelisk that I've had for a while. It's a very uninspiring model that I hope to get done in a couple of days. So far, I have most of it base coated. I'm going to let washes, necron compound and typhus corrosion do the heavy lifting on this one.

So, quick rant.

I've been working on Light of Eltharion since Monday. I've even been painting. Tonight, I was doing detail work on the helm...and sneezed.

You know those sneezes where you get lift off from your seat? Yeah. One of those kinds of sneezes.

I did what it took Arkhan bloodmagic to do in a simple sneeze. Ended a hero of the Asuryan.

Took a look at my putty box to see what survived sitting around for three, four years. I have a bin full of milliput and magic sculp now.

 Kanluwen wrote:
So, quick rant.

I've been working on Light of Eltharion since Monday. I've even been painting. Tonight, I was doing detail work on the helm...and sneezed.

You know those sneezes where you get lift off from your seat? Yeah. One of those kinds of sneezes.

I did what it took Arkhan bloodmagic to do in a simple sneeze. Ended a hero of the Asuryan.

Ouch, that's always rough. Hopefully it's fixable.

tidying my hobby desk as its got far beyond the "its a mess but i know where everyting is" stage

then finish whatever half-started stuff i find as a result

Packing models and paints for holiday trip. Not sure how much painting time i get from 3 nieces though...

 Egyptian Space Zombie wrote:

Ouch, that's always rough. Hopefully it's fixable.

Sadly, it's not.

That model is an amazingly complex puzzle for all intents and purposes...but it is not easy to repair.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Egyptian Space Zombie wrote:

Ouch, that's always rough. Hopefully it's fixable.

Sadly, it's not.

That model is an amazingly complex puzzle for all intents and purposes...but it is not easy to repair.

I saw it in person at my local GW a few days ago. My first thought was "amazing miniature". My second was "some of those contact points look very weak and easy to break". So Kan, which bit of him did you damage?

Hobbywise today I am painting up some Gauss Immortals and have an eye on starting work on my Doomsday Arc as well.