1/3rd of my current to do pile is done! On to the next batch, going to dedicate my weekend to finishing the next group....unless I get caught up playing CK3 again.
I'm about to start painting a couple of Stormboyz and a few grots I had lying around. It's the first thing I've painted in years, and I've got to admit; I'm a little worried! Hopefully it will all go well, though.
"Built" myself a flat pack dice tray out of XPS foam. Nothing fancy, just a few slot joints to hold it together. Looks a bit rough, but should hold up for a couple of games around my regular gaming buddies house.
Went and got necrons, assembled heavy destroyers and doomstalker and continued with elves. Once these are done can play 2k without teclis and can switch painting necrons.
Green stuffing the unsightly gaps in some plastic wargs and messed around with some contrast paints for the fur.
After a wash with some Army Painter soft tone and a bit of dry brushing to blend it all together , am pretty happy with the look.
Should make painting the other 17 Wargs a bit easier and quicker .
Completed(around 0:15 midnight) 15 stone guard and stone mage. After over 2 months painting only elves now they are put on hold painting wise and work on necrons instead.
Did some small changes to my Lineage Highborne conversion (made from the standard Avatara kit from the Conquest: the Last Argument of Kings) - mainly changed her glaive for a shorter one.
Finished the last rank of a unit of 30 Common Goblins for WHFB. Managed to match my old paint scheme rather well even though it had been 5 years since I worked on the unit. Not much to it, just a base coat and wash so they finished pretty quickly. Would normally spend more time on them but I'm just glad to have finished a unit!
Aiming to finish my Zipp and Jakob Lynch core boxes for Malifaux plus the last 3 Crossroads Seven models (Wrath, Gluttony and Sloth). Once they're done starting on the last 2 units for my Legion Rebels.
Doing a bit of bits organizing, building 2 Myphitic Blighthaulers for my future Death Guard army, then building as many Chaos Space Marines with heavy weapons/special weapons as I can(I've got 40 marines and 6 boxes worth of Havoc extra weapons)
Almost got 10 lmmortals, heavy destroyer and doom staker done. Lot different to paint than elves. Getting the models i plan to paint for now shouldn't take month like elves.
Hurt my back getting a very heavy box of old metal Skaven miniatures down out of a cupboard. I’m pretty sure this is not the first time this has happened, and as I then put the box away in the same place, will undoubtably happen again.
Had thursday and friday day off so what do I do on friday? Wake up 4am to watch tabletop titans battle live while continuing painting necrons and ogres.
Hoping to maybe get some paint on my scratch built Ork Stompa, it's mostly primed now, and I have been making a WHFB O&G army list in my spare time (Undeath shaman spam).
Got my last 23 Frost Wyrms infantry effectively done! Just a coat or two of black and the bases will be done and I can take a break on them for a while and work on a DIFFERENT black/blue/steel army.
Tiny Furniture's "Dungeon Garbage" is a seven-piece miniature set of heaps of garbage and medieval junk. The miniatures have excellent detail, with an assortment of garbage suitable for dungeons, city states, and villages. Each heap pile is a collection of smaller distinct items, so don't underestimate the time you should dedicate to painting these miniatures. The miniatures are based on molds from Lady Sabelle Designs. If you're familiar with Hirst Arts, think of Lady Sabelle Designs as molds for accessories, rather than game tiles and buildings. I tracked down these miniatures to Lady Sabelle Designs' "Mold #3 – Rags and Riches", if you have experience with resin and plaster molds.
The contents and a description of the garbage piles are:
* Random: smaller pile of wood, fabric, and pottery.
* Treasure: medium pile with wood barrel, axe, and book.
* Treasure: small pile with urn, skull, and small chest.
* Random: small pile with urn, boot, and wood.
* Residence: medium pile with pitcher, plate, bottle, bread loaf, and wooden chair (?).
* Random: medium pile with plate and wood.
* Gears: medium pile with large gears, ox idol head, and bottle.
The descriptions are just approximate. Certainly you can find whatever you'd like your players to find in these piles. My only nitpick is that the "gears" miniature seems a bit out of place, since most dungeons and medieval settings, other than maybe a mill or clockwork tower, wouldn't have a pile of large gears as debris.
Completed 6 tomb blades with gauss weapons(rest will be painted later) up to point 'till I need to get the magnets I ordered for both weapons and for bases.
Think I'll paint some ogres for now. Was planning to paint 2 triarch stalkers but desire to paint some hungry ogres grew too much.
Did some drybrushing on some Age of Sigmar ruins last night. Started on basecoating the gold effects but got tired. Will endeavour to do some more later.
Got a kit of plague monks yesterday that was meant for a 40k project, but due to my current lack of interest in 40k (should be over in a few weeks) I ended up converting a bunch of Skaven, so I'm hoping to put paint paint on my new grey seer, plague priest, censer bearers and the others.
Note to everyone: check which can of varnish you are using before you start spaying! Accidentally used a can of gloss rather than satin varnish on some Arcadia Quest minis. Now I have a pair of very shiny orcs
I've been given some advice though that a flat/matt (Testors Dullcote) will help bring them back, although apparently have to give it a couple of days otherwise the 2 varnishes can react and do something horrible to it..
That worked for me on terrain I had given a gloss varnish to protect the work that will be marched over...then applied Dullcote to give it the plain matt coverage. Although there was a little bit of shine still, it was much reduced. I also applied only a single very thin matt (additional application might have removed the shine completely).
Worked on some of my scratch built Necromunda terrain and stripped some old metal Eldar Support Weapon Gardians (complete with tremendous sideburns and duster coats).
That worked for me on terrain I had given a gloss varnish to protect the work that will be marched over...then applied Dullcote to give it the plain matt coverage. Although there was a little bit of shine still, it was much reduced. I also applied only a single very thin matt (additional application might have removed the shine completely).
Putting opposite varnish does work. Also sometime varnish goes awry and ends up misty. No problem. Just put gloss over matt or matt over gloss and problem solved. Good to keep in mind
Painting some foam scenery that's been sitting in a box, pink, for quite some time now. Looks like I have someone who is going to play some Gaslands with me IRL so I have to through a table together . . .
Painting crusader tanks, and valentine turrets, put coms kit on my baneblade, dug out my neglected Pig Iron system soldiers, cleaned them up, based them, primed them and have started to put a camoflague pattern together on the first mini.
Got to play Pulp Alley using Necromunda minis and terrain yesterday.
Today I finished up this trial tower/stairs thing that Black Magic Craft has on his channel. I went very small with mine to see how it would work but it was pretty easy to chuck together as a concept. Next one will be larger.
Commodus Leitdorf wrote: Burned through a bunch of Minis I had based but not painted, Including these classic boys
Love those classic guys, great work on them!
Myself been working on building my Coronus Grav-Carrier all weekend, hopefully putting a few finishing touches later tonight, then it'll be ready for priming.
Working on Honeypot for Malifaux, finished Kitty Dumont and getting there on the rest of the keyword. Depleted will be finished tonight, the rest later in the week
Painting my Pig Iron system troopers. Finished their armour camo pattern(splinter camo, I like using this on body armour, it works quite well) and visors and lights.
Making a movement tray for a unit of 3 Ogre Bulls I'm using as mercenaries in my 6th Edition Empire list/Dogs of War army. Don't really need them but I had these guys lying around unused and I figured I'd continue cleaning out my pile and paint them up.
In addition my order of 32mm bases came in from Greenstuff World. They are not as tall as GW 32mm so i'm not too sure I want to use them for rebasing my Sister of Battle army.
I'm currently working on building some 28mm Victrix Spartans. Cleaning up mold lines and gluing them together. Not for any game in particular but just painting them for fun.
Rygnan wrote: Working on Honeypot for Malifaux, finished Kitty Dumont and getting there on the rest of the keyword. Depleted will be finished tonight, the rest later in the week
All finished now, just last touches on basing to go and they're ready for the table tomorrow
Just primed another unit of my old 1st edition plastic Imperial Guard (with some head swaps I did recently) to cover the teenage paint job, plus a couple of the Squats I bought from Macrocosm a while back.
Also picked up some boxes of old stuff from my parents at the weekend, so went through those and had a pleasant surprise tucked away in one of them: various WHFB figures. Just odd figures I'd picked up, only really enough to make a small unit each of orks/goblins, dwarves, skaven, and humans. However, the big prize was to finally track down my IG's Rhino and Whirlwind. They're in pretty good shape considering. I forgot the Whirlwind was painted as a medevac vehicle
Primed , base coated and highlighted a warlord games panzer 3. Just as a rubicon models package arrived, containing a far superior panzer 3 kit that they’ve just released.
Soon be ready to take on the red tide at Stalingrad.
Based up 8 Pig Iron System troopers. Had a general poke around with my ongoing projects and readied the next infantry force for completion.16 regiments commandos, from anvil.
Made some good progress on the highlighting of the 5 High Elf archers I'm working on. Almost done...need to finish their belts, hair, jewels, and bases.
Spent the evening trying to salvage a scrapped rhino chassis with a current exorcist top I got for cheap.
Results were.... disappointing. And I still need some track.
With more $ & too much effort I could re-hab this poor thing. But I've simply got better projects to work/spend on.
So I'll just turn it into terrain & eventually invest in a whole new Exorcist.
Painted a Bear APC for DZC, played the Glymmsforge dungeon crawler co-op game from GW page. Very fun if simple. I plan to expand on it, cause co-opAOS is way more fun than "competitive"
Cleaned up and/or assembled two regiments of Mantic ironclad and a handful of the old metal ironguard.
Going to keep the iron guard on separate bases, I don't have enough for a unit and they're characterful old school sculpts that'll be great for Vanguard, Frostgrave or D&D.
Over the month of October I managed to paint 32 models and clear off the bulk of my "To do" pile. Only failed to get to 3 models but they are now next in queue.
After that I have 14 Orcs I need to paint to finally finish a complete unit of Boys I technically started in 2003. A bit late yes, but so close to done!
Finished a few random models - an Escape Pod from SW Legions, a WHFB Giant from 5th/6th ed, and a Rocket Bike from Bombshell Miniatures from 2003.
The latter two were found in a box as I was cleaning/moving a shelf the other day. I was like "What's in this old box?" Bunch of misc stuff/bitz & these two long forgotten minis MIB. So onto the projects desk with them!
I don't remember buying either of these minis.
The Rocket Bike? It's a cool mini. Very nicely done. I can easily envision myself seeing it at GenCon, having that same thought, & picking it up.
The giant? .... It's not that cool of a mini. Not now, not then. It's not reject-it-from-my-collection-bad, but not something I'd pick up as "Oh cool".
And even back then it had a price tag that'd rule it out as an impulse buy ala the Rocket Bike. And I know I already had several better giants that didn't see much play at the time this thing was made. So no "use". So how/why this thing wound up forgotten in a box on top of a shelf in my hobby room....
Maybe the Gremlins traded it to me in exchange for a PF book that went missing years ago?
Anyways, the giant is a quite timely find as I just built one of the new Mega-Gargants for AoS & two of the current Aleguzzlers.
I fielded an AoS Gargant army the other night - 1 Mega & 2 3x units of Guzzlers. The units consisted of the two plastic Guzzlers & a D&D Storm Giant in one group & the two WFB Albion giants + the original WHFB giant in the other. As I was playing I was thinking "The Storm Giant looks out of place (right size, just looks). I should track down another GW giant for that 1st squad. I was thinking of a 3rd Guzzler.... And then I moved that shelf Tue.
So now I have my 6th GW giant! And the army looks like a GW evolutionary scale.
The new UK Lockdown has seen some of my work dry up so i'll probably be prepping some scratchbuilt scenery for a lick of paint and claiming the kitchen table for my son and me to start work on his Tyranids - Having managed to aquire 30 genestealers and a broodlord.
We'll be testing out ideas for hive fleet schemes.
Prepping a small Necron force for action this evening.
Once the sun comes up they'll get a coat of primer & an initial base coat. After that they'll have to earn their paint through play.
And in the coming week I'll properly magnetize the Tomb Blades weapons.
Built a few random minis from the backlog tonight.
40k SoB - Canoness Veridyan
SoB - Sister Superior Amalia Novena
SoB - Sister Tariana Palos
SoB - The Geminae Superia, Sisters Genevieve and Eleanor
SoB - 3 cherubs
SM - Lexicanium Varus, Terminator Librarian
SM - Primaris Chaplin on bike (my 3rd Primaris model ever built)
SW Legion Bosk
C-3PO & R2-D2 (came with the escape pod I built awhile ago)
it is really fancy, but also, SUCH A PAIN:.... 8 hours and 3 attempts and i am far from a novice at building difficult or unconventional stuff....
thankfully i now only need plastic warriors and a dex... if i ever bother to go through with that side project
Keep on doing my ogors. These 2 and i only have terrain piece to paint before reinforcements arrive. Smaller order should come within week, bigger one from 30.10 still pending, all items in stock. grrr
it is really fancy, but also, SUCH A PAIN:.... 8 hours and 3 attempts and i am far from a novice at building difficult or unconventional stuff....
thankfully i now only need plastic warriors and a dex... if i ever bother to go through with that side project
8 hours!
Assembly wise (not counting cleaning up mold lines) mine only took 1 attempt & a few minutes. 1/2hr, 45 minutes at most. And I pinned mine with brass rod. A bit of cutting of rod, a bit of drilling, add glue, remove rhino horn, clean up excess glue. Finished off with a hit of primer.
Painting took longer, but then I'm one of the worlds slowest/least committed painters....
Built/kit-bashed a box of Necron Immortals/Deathmarks.
Deathmark torsos, Immortal heads, cut the cables off the Immortal guns....
And as an ongoing project I'm going to experiment with magnetizing the arms/guns so that I can switch between the 3 weapons.
Tiny Furniture's "Old Woods" consists of three upright broken trunks, and one fallen one. Each trunk is a single-piece cast. As expected from the Tiny Furniture line of miniatures, the details are impressive, including mushrooms, shrubbery, grass, fallen leaves, knotholes, making these miniatures well-suited for not just rpg and miniature gaming terrain, but dioramas and displays as well. The three upright trunks fit on a 2"x2" area, and the fallen one is somewhat wider than 1"x3". The models have no sprues and no mold line preparation. The miniatures are available unpainted and painted.
I'm doing touch-ups on the base coat on the final squad in my 2,000-point Blood Angels army, Squad Caedes. (Also my first 40k army ever!) Since there's nearly 100% color overlap, I've also got a bike squad, Ariete, on my table to use up spare paint; they're fully based and partially painted.
Another ~5-7 hours and Squad Caedes should be done. Probably not all today.
Tonight I have to;
1) type up my Crusade sheets into something legible....
2) magnetize the weapons on my Tomb Blades.
3) build another Anihlation Barge.
4) write up a 25pl SoB force.
Happily guarding my recently glossed hive tyrant.
Conceptually planning Decimator -brutes, because A: screw GW mail order prices and B: I prefer the malovelent Machine esthetique more then chaos spawn Roleplaying as Dreadnought.
Impulse-bought an Aradia Miniature yesterday at the local store . . . Dzhur-Ghul. Gonna probably assemble him today, or at the very least clean him, then drill any areas that need pinning and attach those. Ideally I complete assembly today but you never know.
painted 12 ARC troopers, Fives, Echo, 25 3d printed phase 2 clones, a 3d printed Aayla and a 3d printed delta squad. Also started on my padme and a 3d printed thrawn.
Tonight I assembled some Manufactorum terrain pieces, primed half a mob of Ork Boyz...and finished painting the last squad in my Blood Angels army list.
I have to paint up a unit of Necron Deathmarks by next Sat.
They lvd. up in our Crusade game tonight.
And since I've declared that thats the only way anything in this force gets more than a base coat....
Gotta earn your paint.
Castle Ravenloft, second quest which was for the Icon of Ravenloft in the Chapel.
Brother was the Cleric while I was the Fighter. Draws of the encounter cards, and rolls for the monster attacks played out like this...
...but we solidered on with our healing surges depleated and cleared out the Chapel of trouble makers. We were occasionally distracted by Back To the Future Part 2 on the TV, so I'm pretty sure the monsters seized the opportunity to cheat...
Moving more stuff to my revamped hobby room and undercoating some Circle Orboros Wold warbeasts.
Also need pack for warhammer underworlds at FLGS tomorrow night
Found a SM Terminator Librarian from 1993(!) MIB in the bottom of a random storage box on one of my high shelves.
Built him & hit him with some primer when I did the Necron Deathmarks.
ccs wrote: Found a SM Terminator Librarian from 1993(!) MIB in the bottom of a random storage box on one of my high shelves.
Built him & hit him with some primer when I did the Necron Deathmarks.
The one with a helmet? Much prefer those than the ones going forward.
ccs wrote: Found a SM Terminator Librarian from 1993(!) MIB in the bottom of a random storage box on one of my high shelves.
Built him & hit him with some primer when I did the Necron Deathmarks.
The one with a helmet? Much prefer those than the ones going forward.
You'll have to show us once he's painted.
No, his face is showing.
On painting him: Well, since it took me 27 to assemble him.... Could be a while.
Finished painting the Skeletons form the Bleak Falls Barrow set and trying to figure out a way to put snow on the base that actually looks good.
Equal part mixture of white glue, white paint and snow flock should be okay, but every time I try to add it it looks more like melted snow then SNOW snow.
Tried out using ultra-fine arcylic sharpies on a battletech mini. It fit between the cracks on the new plastic pretty well and looks good, but now I've got to clean up all the places where my hand slipped out of the grooves
Working on last batch of stormcast for 2k painted army(nothing competive, fairly random group of models but it's a start). Already on levei where could enter painted model only tournament i think. Just small details left.
Working on the new Blood Bowl boxed set miniatures, what a cracking entry point for the game. Also making the Necromantic horror team, Grak and Crumbleberry and finishing painting my final three of my human team.
Painting my winter tiger 2... after putting the enamel track wash on last night , I’ve come down to the kitchen to find the wash is still wet in places... mind you it was 5 degrees this morning as the heating never kicked in... ah well il keep an eye on it today.
I worked on terrain this weekend, and tonight I got the outer wall of this Manufactorum ruin almost finished (just needs rust and chipping). I'm new to painting terrain; Warhammer TV tutorials have been a huge help.
It's looking good! I'm going to start some of these this weekend, I like the colours you've used/GW used but I think I'll go with a dark grey for the walls, some industrial hazard colours on some of the doors/panels and trying to decide on what to use for the bulkhead doors and the piping.
Horla wrote: It's looking good! I'm going to start some of these this weekend, I like the colours you've used/GW used but I think I'll go with a dark grey for the walls, some industrial hazard colours on some of the doors/panels and trying to decide on what to use for the bulkhead doors and the piping.
Thanks! Hazard markings would look awesome on this terrain, I might try that on a couple of pieces. I hope you'll share pics of yours as it comes along!
I ordered indomitus off of Amazon because apparently there was some in stock and a not too crazy price. So now I'm having to plan where I can work on painting that up in the new house..
My indomitus box arrived today, having a little flick through the rulebook. I notice they've gone all out on the classic artwork which really bigs up the universe. Need to have a flick through properly and try to have my first game of 9th.
Building a Void Dragon C'Tan.
Not really because I want to, but because our Crusade game has survived to the point where fielding such things is about to become practical. And several people have such options 1x TSons, 1x Deathguard, another Necron player, & to some degree an Ork player with Grazz.
So if I draw one of those players I'll be able to match their monster piece....
Draw anyone else? C'Tan stays in the case.
I have been coming dangerously close to actually have all my Black Legion infantry battleready.
Now that I have all my regular bolter and chainsword Chaos Space Marines done, I have been focusing on special and heavy weapon options. I am also good on Aspiring Champions now as I finally rebased my Dark Vengeance Chosen. I am glade I waited since i would otherwise remove the slot they were standing on. Instead, I kept most of it and filled around them on the base to give the illusion of those Chosen being roughly the same size as the new CSM.
I built my first five assault intercessors and the captain from the indomitus box. Going to paint them up in my old homebrew chapter colours. Man those primaris models are huge. What do terminators look like now?
Olthannon wrote: I built my first five assault intercessors and the captain from the indomitus box. Going to paint them up in my old homebrew chapter colours. Man those primaris models are huge. What do terminators look like now?
Finished 5 more Orcs. I have now painted the same number of minis I painted last year and I still have 2/3rd of this month to go and 9 more Orcs before I finally finish this unit!
Finished the second sprue of hostiles for Blackstone Fortress, along with Mallex. It was a lot of work to be honest, but I don't need to paint them so I can now put me feet up. Box of cultists are already done with just the Firebrand left to do. Actually, I'm gonna get him done now...
Hobbywise I've been researching bases for indomitus. Found it on axon surprisingly. The GW sector imperialis/mechanicus both look nice but neither has the best ratio.. and buying two sets is a turnoff. Considering alternatives..
Tonight I got 10 Gretchin mostly based. Tomorrow, once the texture paint is fully dry, I can wash and drybrush the landscape -- and then I get to see whether my guess that 10 Gretchin will take about as much time to paint up as 5 Orks holds true.
Martin Ralya wrote: Tonight I got 10 Gretchin mostly based. Tomorrow, once the texture paint is fully dry, I can wash and drybrush the landscape -- and then I get to see whether my guess that 10 Gretchin will take about as much time to paint up as 5 Orks holds true.
No. My experience (with AoS goblins/orks) is at least 50% longer. Maybe double. Yes, they're smaller. But there's double the # of them.
Didn’t get any hobby done so far, but probably going to build some Trolls.
But I did setup a discord dedicated to video painting sessions. Not educational. Not showing off skills. Just a way for disparate hobby fans to have someone to natter to, like in the olden days at GW stores, on those tiny Red chairs.
See my sig if you’d like to join. Mostly U.K. based at the moment though, so bear that in mind. Maybe set up your own one for your locale?
Building yet more Necron Tomb Blades.
4 more to go & then I'm stuck waiting for an order I placed at the shop to come in before I can finish the last squadron.
In my procrastination, I painted up a Blood Drinkers space marine as a speed paint, to see how fast I could get a tabletop quality marine done. Under two hours excluding drying time for this marine, but would be a lot quicker if this was batch painting and it wasn't my first time painting a red marine.
Finished bases on Anakin, Obi-Wan, Captain Rex and a unit of clones and worked through 3 more squads and 2 speeders in various stages of completion. With this basing my Republic will be done for now though
Drawing out painting plans for my 5th Company Blood Angels. Having great fun going through Codexes/Codices/More than one Codex and tweaking colour schemes (can’t do a black shoulder pad for Sergeants and have the black company insignia, going to go with a bone coloured shoulder pad instead).
Gaslands scenery and planning a 'track' for the same. Want an oval but......
Also got Son 2 to finish his 2nd hand Genestealers. Did a sucky rescue job of some really thickly spray primed guys but they are playable and will be the derpy 'first wave' in any battle.
We have primed his broodlord. He has built up enough confidence to start painting him. So will be a stand out commander on the tabletop!
Finishing Void Hunters (and with that my Outcasts are done! Entire faction for Malifaux all fully painted) and starting on the Black Friday Fat Cap model for my Foundry crew and some models for Steel Phalanx to finish off my Infinity
Does pondering what colors to start painting my Indom Primaris come Jan. count?
I'm undecided between wether to paint them up in the Green/White of my Mentors or go with something completely different....
I've got;
Blue marines (UM)
Green marines (DA)
Grey marines (SW)
Silver marines (Doom Eagles)
Green/White marines (Mentors)
Posting some photos from my Lord of the Rings commission
