Primed some15mm Romans and cleaned flash of their fortifications while I waited for them to dry.

Painting Storm and Voodoo for marvel crisis protocol.

Packing for painting night at FLGS tomorrow evening after work.

 Commodus Leitdorf wrote:
Mostly prepping models but also managed to finish a few old school Rats.

I have a bunch more rats on the way as well! Warband should be complete soon. Just need some Stormvermin and a few more Slaves.

Love those Skavens! Well painted, and characterful sculpt!

On my end I'm painting my Maleceptor. Doing some extra effort for him as it's for a competition on the Tyranids Discord (for fun, nothing serious), so taking a bit more time but still going well. Only the (magnetized) arms left to do!

My finished and photographed old metal Redemptionists.



Now working on some terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Have to:
*paint up 3, maybe 4, D&D figures tonight.
*complete building 5 kannon for my 40k Grots.
*fully paint 10 40k grots - they earned their glory (IE paint). Using an Aquilla Vortex Missile Strongpoint, they nuked the Silent King OoLoS just shy of dead turn 1. They didn't kill him, but this pasting kept him hiding for most of the battle while he regenerated. This no doubt saved many Grot lives. Sadly they missed him on turn #2. And then their Vortex Missile silo was blown to bits by a lot of reeally angry Necron fire. 3/10 grots died in the explosion, & 1 more ran away (to tell the tale!) due to morale. The remaining 6 were shot down next turn. But by Gork/Mork did they earn their paint in that 1st turn.

More Rats on my painting table. Finished 2 Gutter Runners and have 7 more rats on deck. Warband is looking good so far!

However I'm not sure happy with how these guys came out...but they are done at least. I'll try and do better on my next batch. Hopefully I'll have them done tonight

Trying to organize a game this weekend but I also want to play video games

Finishing the gloss on some Tyranid Warriors and fixing teeth/eyes/small details. Then finally adding grass tufts and finishing!

It's time to paint a little centaur.

The reaper centaur is rather tiny, really.

Battlewagon assembled and primer'd, but it's going to sit for a bit while I work on infantry. Finished up a couple Stormboyz. Looking at a couple Tankbustas next.

Painting terrain and some dok

Made some mushroom growths for the Necromunda underhive.



Cheers,

CB

I intend to spend today watching Netflix & painting minis.
•40k - more grots & grot tanks/gunz
•AoS - Slaves to Darkness Marauders
•AoS - Stormcast. I need to at least clearly differentiate a few too similar looking units. Color coding bases or such at a minimum.
•D&D - several characters & a few animal like monsters.
•D&D - I also need to draw a few maps, make some landing boat templates, type up a few npc character sheets and finish building a goblin crewed Viking ship....

We'll see how much of this to-do list I get through.
And I swear, I am NOT going to answer any calls to battle.....
Since I plan to be home this evening I might poke my head out of my hole in order to pick up a pizza from my favorite shop (they don't deliver).

It's a rainy miserable day, which means it's at least a good day for painting.

Painting skeletons, in this case. Have to match the mood.

Gold. So much gold. Endless gold.



Thankfully the hard part is over. It's washes from hereon out.

Built a mini that I will use as a follower in Lasting Tales.

Started on another piece of scratch built terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Started a conversion from a GW troll to an earth elemental.

Should be able to finish off the Tankbustas today, then it will be on to more Boyz.

My Hobby space is an absolute mess. It is my defacto gaming room and it is littered with boxes and models as well as random assortment of hobby supplied. Especially terrain supplies and stuff I either found or horded with the plan to "Eventually" make Terrain out of it.

Anyway I got zero painting done over the weekend but started working on storage for my Empire Army. First step was to magnetize and make bases for all my loose regiments in various states of completion.

Take some artist animation board I got at the art store, balsa wood and tin sheet metal I got at the hobby store and BAM movement tray.

Rather than buying new stuff I've decided to tidy up some of my older, often stripped stuff that's been bagged and neglected for too long for various reasons (including couldn't figure out a nice paint svheme).

On my to do list there is:

About twenty infinity figures - a mix of pan-o, ariadna and yu-jing.
12 doom reavers (khador/warmachine)
10 tharn bloodtrackers, a than white mand, 4 ravages and a ravager chief.
5 sm scouts for my a Minotaurs.

Strongly thinking of appropriating the tharn for our 'not-warcry' game.

Almost finished my earth elemental.

Spent all afternoon finishing up my taxes.

Wait, how's that hobby related your wondering?
Well....
A) that time would've been better spent painting more grots or whatever,
B) every dollar I send of to the Government is a dollar I can't spend hobbywise.

Finished building my Earth Elemental for the Lasting Tales solo/co-op fantasy game. Tha basis for it was a GW Rockgut Troll.

I tried making some platforms for an old printer I cut up...but it was not very successful...to many cuts in the chip board.

I will try again later.

Cheers,

CB

Working on terrain.

Painting orcs of various kinds.

In preparation for the Imperial Knight codex dropping soon I've been painting up random nobility models and checking how many partially built and painted Knights I've got laying about.

Too many.

I'm painting up some more Rohan

Later today I will;
*Assemble another two Stormdrake Guard for AoS
*Paint another 10 40k grots
*Write up several encounters for the next D&D session.

Finally started the six old school metal Redemptionists.

Cheers,

CB

It is now the day to paint some plague guys.

Maybe even all of them.

I bought a few boxes to store my 6mm historical stuff and ended up with a bunch of plastic dividers the I'm not going to use for that.

They fit together, so I'm painting them up like rusty steel to make portable Gaslands terrain,

Continued work on 6 old metal Redemptionists.

Cheers,

CB

Been painting these plus other terrain.

And today I shaded the gold on all my buildings...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
And today I shaded the gold on all my buildings...

how many are all?


I am painting deffkoptas.

All the in progress ones. 4 Fronteris Hab Blocks, dish, control tower, landing pad, two sets of stockade walls and two fuel tanks and pipe sets from the 9th Ed default terrain.

Taking a break from English Civil War pikemen and musketmen. Warlord Games plastics.

Hands are absolutely shredded by sharp metal spearpoints (I used brass rod).

Still not as bad as a few weeks back, when I was replacing 50 spears in an Anglo-Danish army with metal ones. I drilled the hands out and I think I had 5 plasters covering blood-gushing drillholes in my fingers by the end of the day.

Those were Victrix minis - pretty nice figures, but the plastic weapons are really thin and brittle. I had more breakages just assembling and priming those 50 figures than I've ever had on a project.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
All the in progress ones. 4 Fronteris Hab Blocks, dish, control tower, landing pad, two sets of stockade walls and two fuel tanks and pipe sets from the 9th Ed default terrain.

Question, how much space does your terrain now cover? Do you use cubic meters now to meassure your terrain?

anyways, koptas soon finished.

Not Online!!! wrote:
Question, how much space does your terrain now cover? Do you use cubic meters now to meassure your terrain?

I do measure it in tables.

This is probably around a quarter of it:

Putting some base colours to additions of weekend(sc's going away got 2 while i could...)

Continued work on 6 old metal Redemptionists.

Cheers,

CB

I spent this evening converting the last 5 of my Delaque gang into skitarii rangers. I had a lot of fun and I'm really happy with the end result. Will post photos tomorrow!

Painting 15 resin Blood Angel cataphractii termiators for 30K.
And cleaning and magnetising more arms for them.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:
Question, how much space does your terrain now cover? Do you use cubic meters now to meassure your terrain?

I do measure it in tables.

This is probably around a quarter of it:

Spoiler:

On one hand, massie inspiration, on the other hand, that is a huge pile of shame

Anyways finished koptas now building kommandos.

It's weird. You can't tell from the pic, but the buildings on the top are painted.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
It's weird. You can't tell from the pic, but the buildings on the top are painted.

No, those did look painted to me, i meant more the Necrons and other army (ies?) aswell as the middle section which looks primed but not yet finished.
Certainly would make for a nice city map with a defense perimeter and the rural areas outside of it ?

This week: Need to build another two Stormdrake Guard for AoS - my "all dragons" PtG force just keeps rolling along victory/Glory Point wise....
Soon: Also need to build a set of the Stormcast endless spells.
Within a few weeks: After that I need to build one of the named dragons.

Continue painting khaine/dwarf models and packed models for 6k game in wednesday.

It's all about zombies. That's all I've got to paint.

I've got zombies on the brain.

I printed a shuttle!

Continued work on 6 old metal Redemptionists.

Cheers,

CB

Wyldwooded up 30 Tree Revenants today.

Finished my Dreads a few weeks ago, have had mixed results on the table.

Got inspired (thx to Guerilla Miniature Games) to rebase some OLD Old old Terminators to use strictly for Space Hulk. They are now all on 32 mm so the bases fit the board squares. I'm part of the way to finishing the paint on all of them.

Bought a box of the current GSC Hybrids to use as Genestealer Hybrids for some Space Hulk games. Found 3 sprues of the original Hybrid arms in the Pile O' Shame; was gifted the ancient plastic Chaos Missile Launcher, Autocannon, Conversion Beamer to arm the Hybids; found a 1st ed. Laspistol; then built the Hybrids as the 10 options that can appear in the game.

Priming tomorrow.

Finally having a play with the Army Painter Speedpaints.

Put a layer of polymer on some scratch built cactus-ish alien plants. Bought basing material for trees and scatter terrain.

Finished the six remaining Redemptionists.


Cheers,

CB

You had better believe that it's still zombie painting time. Population: Me

 Captain Brown wrote:
Finished the six remaining Redemptionists.

Two of those are Cawdor imposters!!!

They look ace though. I like the choice of brighter colours.

Rattle-can primed the GS Hybrids, black. Zenithal spray of white to be applied later this morning.

Trying to design platforms for the old printer I have striped and positioned vertically.

Cheers,

CB

I had fun building this Serberys Kettenkrad, an idea I had in my head for nearly 2 years and finally got some parts 3d printed

Zenithal spray applied to GS hybrids.

Reviewed paint-schemes and think I have a good one with the paints available in my collection.

I'll have to rehydrate a bunch of the paints but this is not a problem. With perseverance I should have the minis painted by Sunday evening.

Off to FLGS tonight to paint 15 resin cataphractii terminator bodies and if time, some arm clean up and drilling and magnetizing for them.

Wyldwood applied to 30 Dryads today.


Most productive I've been in months. It's terrifying.

Sadly, today my hobby skills are not being used to build or paint, instead I am patching and sanding walls the puppy has scratched.

Cheers,

CB

Completed GS Hybrid test-mini, pleased with the result. Begin the rest of the creeps tomorrow.

Have planned the paint-scheme for my Questor Mechanicus force, a variation on House Vulker.

Finished up recess shading and washes on the Battlewagon today. Hope to start on highlights tomorrow.

Digitally kitbashing an ash wastes crawler


(original track by Geargutz)

Working on cauldron of blood for sunday game.

For a change of pace, painting up some french napoleonics.

Then, back to zombies.

GS Hybrids completed to an acceptable table-top standard!

Now for the Genestealers - these should paint up much more quickly. Need to prime them first, but the weather today means that will have to wait.

I think I'll begin constructing some Armigers and a Knight in the meantime.

Finished first 5 blood sisters, continued work on 2 cauldrons, continue 23 fyreslayers and went to buy dok book and sc.

Built an Armiger (warglave) knight today.
And 30 minutes after finishing it was helping win a small battle vs some SM.

Built the Russians from the Dystopian Wars starter

Making some winter trench bases for my upcoming Death Korps

Those winter bases look great @carlos13th !

I'm going to build another couple of my kettenkrads.

Calling my 8th ed Goff horde complete. Might maybe still convert a couple 'Ard Boyz into Tankhammer Tankbusters; they're pretty funny and the mortals are nice. Today I'm breaking down the boxes, clipping unused bits from the sprues and doing some organizing.

 Olthannon wrote:
Those winter bases look great @carlos13th !

I'm going to build another couple of my kettenkrads.

Thank you

A friend depressingly pointed out how few points the heavy weapons teams that will be on them will take up. Gonna be a long old slog this army but I am having fun. Even with the bases which have felt like a chore in the past.

Finished the shading on my Sector Fronteris terrain!

Continuing to crawl around the floor looking for the resin lightning claw blade I lost off one of my cataphractii arms last night.

Also drilling arms for magnets.

 Waaagh_Gonads wrote:
Continuing to crawl around the floor looking for the resin lightning claw blade I lost off one of my cataphractii arms last night.

Keep searching. I had part of a Necron Lychguard go missing in the carpet for a week.

Nothing got constructed, but today I primed black, then zenithal primed white the Genestealers - will begin painting them properly tomorrow.

Putting paint on this, 5more blood sisters and terrain.

Procrastinating.
My PtG Stormdrake force is now completely built & primed so should start actually painting it.
My Grot mega-tank needs some repair/mod work done + a base coat.
I also need to write up some stuff for our next D&D session.

Instead I'm just sitting here in my office, all work done, surfing the internet....

 Olthannon wrote:
I had fun building this Serberys Kettenkrad, an idea I had in my head for nearly 2 years and finally got some parts 3d printed

I like this a lot. Cant wait to see it painted.

No painting started on the 'stealers, for reasons. <cough>

Such as correction of a number of small issues found on the Knights I purchased from a friend:

I repaired a damaged Autocannon on a Helverin.

I carefully hack-sawed the left Avenger Gatling Cannon from the double-Gatling Questoris, at the "pivot" on the left arm, so that a Gauntlet can be attached instead [the Gatling Cannon will be retained as an alternate weapon for my Paladin so that it can transform into a Crusader when the mood hits me].

The "neck" armor of the Questoris was missing making the "head" awkwardly exposed. So, I have trimmed the armature that positions the "head" so that it can be moved upwards to sit neatly beneath the carapace armor.

Next I need to find bits in my copious supply from my Ad Mech to jury-rig an armature so that the Tilting Shield can be installed.

I continue to ponder the paint-scheme, but it is certain I will create my own so that the models are House-agnostic for maximum diversity of play-options.

I’m working on a cardboard thunderhawk just to test my skills working with cardboard and I think it looks nice

Painting stargrave guys for use with other rules.

Painting some Prussians. For... something. I mean, I'm sure I'll find something to use them in.

Working of Death Korps of Krieg. Mix of 3d printed and FW

samus-gaming wrote:
I’m working on a cardboard thunderhawk just to test my skills working with cardboard and I think it looks nice

That's a cool project! Wishing you luck on it!

Uhh just looked at my Eldritch Omens box that arrived today. Maaaan, the new Autarch looks so cool on the sprue!

After finally finishing the last of the mobs for Massive Darkness, got to move onto a couple of the monsters, a troll and a naga type thing.

Been working my way through the base box on and off for a few months and its so nice to finally stop batch painting tiny dwarf/goblin/orcs and get onto something a bit more unique and significantly larger!

I mean, I still have 3 expansion boxes and then the entire gigantic Massive Darkness 2 collection to work through, but it's looking really nice to have the main box almost all done.

Off to the FLGS this evening for 3 hours of painting HH resin cataphractii terminators (squad of 10) and drilling and magnetising arms and weapons for them.
Will watch movies on ipad whilst doing so.

Paused work on Knights.

Painting Genestealers - going for an approximation of their original Space Hulk look. Carapace has been painted blue, now am painting a lighter base of Celestra Grey on their flesh before adding the next colors, am thinking Rakarth Flesh before a drybrush of pink.

Working on some lab tech guys for Deadzone.

Preparing for tournament i run tomorrow and painting dok models.

Attempting to paint some lights and meters on chest rigs for Death Korps

I've put some paint on my Sicarians and also on my big old tech priest.

Building the core set miniatures for Forbidden Fortress. Finished painting my final star grave miniatures earlier today.

tneva82 wrote:
Preparing for tournament i run tomorrow and painting dok models.

Love how colourful these are

Running tournament and assembling huge pile of models while at it

Off to play in a so-so D&D game & then some 40k/Sigmar later this evening.

Hoping to magnetize bases from the Arena of Shades box.

Built an Ogre Tyrant, 4 Ironguts, an Ogroid Myrmidon, Hrothgorn and his kitty cat friend.

Building some Nighthaunt Banshees

Tweaking a Treelord to be a very distinctive Spirit of Durthu.

Painting up some wolves. Wolves need to be more colorful.

Today I need to paint up more of my Grot force. They've earned it.

Will be painting even more daughters of khaine once I get home. 20 witch elves, 5 khimerai and invocation to finish off for 2k painted up

One more weekend day was needed to get them done for wednesday game but should be pretty close to done anyway.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Tweaking a Treelord to be a very distinctive Spirit of Durthu.

Here's the "mostly finished" product. Can't decide what to have summoning up in his hand.

Have considered just sourcing a squirrel or some other small creature to have him appear to be a bit more "Guardian of the Forest".

Trying to clear off my bench. At least I can paint Grey Knights rather swiftly if I'm not distracted.

I bought a job lot of 2nd-3rd edition Orks and Grots, plus three random metal Terminators, so I'll be working on those for a while. This is my first greenskin project, so I'm enjoying painting nonhuman flesh tones, as well as trying to go for that classic old-school Goff color scheme with a lot of vibrant red to offset the black.

Finished last models for 2k painted dok army, just in time for game tomorrow.

Also moved 3d printer to storage room to reduce noice issue. Now just need to figure where to put boxes i had to take out of that room to make space

Assembled three plastic Cherub models...one was missing the censor, so I improvised with some sort of relic sword.

Cheers,

CB

Need to highlight the metal and finish the backpacks but 3d printed Kreig Heavy weapons team is mostly finished.

More 30K terminator painting. Hopefully this week finish the last 10, then wait for the new 30K transfer sheets for markings.

Finished the Genestealers to 'an acceptable tabletop standard' (tm).

Discovered too late that GW Fulgrim Pink goes over Reaper Ocean Blue very well without any need for a lighter color as a preliminary base. Could have saved a "day" of painting.

Now I return to my AdMech! The plan is to finish the equivalent of a squad a week (10 infantry models, or one vehicle, or an approximately equivalent surface-area) to 'an acceptable tabletop standard' (tm).

If I can, I'll simultaneously try to paint one Armiger per week until I have 3 for a Patrol force to begin educating my friends and self in their small Knightly ways.

Primed two plastic Cherub models. Saved some cardboard cutout backing to use with granny grating for a terrain project.

Cheers,

CB

Finished building the Nighthaunt half from Arena of Shades, hoping to get it primed this evening.

Re-priming some Hellblasters after stripping, due to multiple failed AP SpeedPaint tests.

A post from the future:

I am reviewing videos about water-slide transfers, a technology I have never before used.

Started on the bases of the two plastic Cherub models.

Cheers,

CB

Took a few weeks off - might actually finish a test model for some Blood Pact casts

Just moved to my newish place and have managed to set up my new room, so began to work on my hobby stuff. Assembled my Eldar Skyrunner Warlock and began converting my "High Elf" assassin for my War Cry Warband. He's looking pretty cool, I think. I'm having a great time lol

Worked on some platforms for scratch built Necromunda terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Played remote battletech alpha strike with one of my friends. Also slowly painting my way through shadows of brimstone forbidden fortress. Currently working on three oni monsters.

Painting dok, dryads and skaven.

Removing mould lines from FF Northmen weapons/heads/shields.

Began assembling my Void Scarred Corsairs, finished mostly my Felarch and the Way Seeker but without their heads as I'm waiting for the Guardian Box I ordered from Mighty Ape as I wish to use the nice helmetless heads from that on my Void Scarred. It should be pretty kewl.

I put together two Commonwealth support squadron sets for Dystopian Wars

Threw some test paint at a Doomfire Warlock from the Arena of Shades box. Hoping to knock out the stabby-elf side of things fairly quick.

Built some archers and spearmen.

Re-stripping some marines.

Finished the sumo wrestler hero for FoFo. All that I have left for projects are:
2 FoFo heroes
13 FoFO enemies
1 NOS Necromunda Outcast box that I don't want to even mess with.

FLGS tonight for 3 hours of painting cataphractii terminator arms, finishing 10 resin cataphractii bodies and finish 2 savage orcs.

Not today, but yesterday I was pretty productive. Got my Eldar combat patrol box so the awesome Eldar Guardian heads and looked through them finding one awesome one for my Corsair leader, so I rushed out to prime then and my Hero Forge minis but got bubbly parts on the models but I'm not sure if was due to humidity or if I hadn't shaken the can enough after it'd been sitting around in my old house for months without usage. I also sprayed the head too much for my Corsair leader so I've had to strip the paint off it. I stopped out of frustration but did the new Hero Forge mini of Attelus Kaltos and go no bubbly bits so it mightve been due to not shaking it enough as I'd shaken the frig out of it before spraying him.

Then I mostly assembled my Corsairs legs, torso, it's a bit of a shame how mono pose the Corsairs are, but it seems I can put any weapon on any of then and it will work, so that's pretty cool.

Finally bit the bullet and sold off my Ossiarch Bonereaper and Nighthaunt armies, spending about 2 hours drowning them in bubblewrap and posting them off to hopefully better homes. I really need to stop buying armies off ebay while bored at work, despite my good intentions they mostly just sit under my bed for months until I feel enough shame to sell them.

On a completely unrelated note, the plan for the day is putting together my new Ork 40k starter force, hopefully prime a squad of boyz and get a layer of paint on them.

This morning I built another Big Gunz Lobba for my Grots.
A lobba is essentially just a mortar on a 3"mv/T5/3W vehicle chassis.

I used a Bolt Action WWII Universal Carrier (mortar - you can see the sculpted ammo), added 3 guard mortar tunes & a grot head to the drivers sculpted torso.
Two more grot crew are needed & I may add some more details.

I worked on a group of five figures I am calling 'loose change'...finishing some extra models to add to Necromunda gangs and a pair of Cherubs.

Still a WIP.


Cheers,

CB

Built a Haruspex. Such a perfect kit except for the fact that the head doesn't fit properly. I've never had to hold something being glued by plastic glue for that long...

And now setting up 3 (!) tables for tomorrow.

Built some FF Northmen archers.

Planning to finish these Doomfire Warlocks and start on Khinerai Heartrenders.

Not expecting to get any actual gaming in today. So it'll be a perfect time to build some improved carry/storage trays for my Grot army.

Also working on re-gunning the turrets on a 2nd hand Grot Mega-Tank. It's going from the random mix/mess its former owner equipped it with to all rokkits.
3/5 turrets finished so far.

edit: Well, none of that happened.
Instead I got to play afterall!
Maybe tomorrow evening for the tray building....

Had a bunch of people around to play, and set up 3 tables.


Got through a turn and half of my game in total because I was so busy fixing everything for everyone else. *sigh*

Next time if they show up without a list, they're just not playing... I can't keep doing everything for everyone.

On the bright side my Hieodule not only made it into combat (and ate a Chimera), it didn't instantly die to return fire during my opponent's turn.

Been pretty productive-ish today, mostly stripping paint off some minis I'd frigged up a bit before finally painting proper. Almost finished my newest Hero Forge version of Attelus Kaltos which I'm pretty happy with him so far.



I also began testing a paint scheme for my Eldar Corsairs and I'm quite liking the colour scheme I would post pics but it's late now and the lighting isn't good. It's green and some blue and a little red. I love green too much, I tried to test it without green, but failed miserably lol. Not sure about the red parts, though. Having fun with it.

Haven't done any serious hobbying in over a month! This weekend though I sat down and finished another tree stand That has been half-done on my desk since February.



MDF base I bought from a local company that makes them. The trees I got over Christmas at the Dollar store. They are mostly for Christmas village displays, so I ran them in hot water and scrapped off the snow then glued and flocked them. Bit more labour intensive then just buying hobby trees, but at 1 dollar a tree you cant go wrong.

Painting skaven. First 20 done, another 100 to go. For a start toward 2k...

Finished the three Necromunda gang models and the pair of Cherubs. Now I need to take a photograph.

Cheers,

CB

Got the base layers down on my 23 Reptisaurians for Massive Darkness. Massive pain in the neck tbh, the mobs are far too big in this game, it's very tedious to batch paint this many at once. Luckily MD2 went down to 7 man mobs, which I am looking forward to painting a lot more than the 23 Ratkin and 23 Barbarians I still need to do for MD1.

Just damn near killed a can of Wraithbone priming some terrain, think I also nearly took out my roomie.

Got started on the Sisters of Slaughter from Arena of Shades.

Trying and failing at getting my Corsair's Felarch's head right. I'm using one of the helmetless heads from the new Guardian box. And more work on the concept Corsair mini. Pretty happy with the color scheme.

Well, I've been painting some AdMech - two each of a Dominus, Manipulus, Engineseer, and Datasmith. Both varieties of the Dominus and Manipulus, then all the other guys because they are there.

I've also painted a Solar Auxilia Strategos - actually a version of one, printed by a friend in one of his marathon printing fits. He couldn't use it for anything so I got it because I like the mini. I will use it in my AdMech as a proxy Technoarcheologist: it is distinct enough that it won't be confused for anything else in my army, and I simply can't find the official model anywhere for a reasonable price.

Next I painted 4 Kastellans, and soon I will be painting 4 Dragoons.

[Everything is just getting their main colors blocked in at this time, and I'll continue doing this for my Troops and Elites, until I have the entire army in its colors - only then will I begin applying transfers: I figure I should become efficient with the process by focusing upon it.

Then back to finishing the painting by unit.]

Finishing assembly of Mysterio for MCP
Starting assembly Carnage for MCP

Packing gear needed for painting of BA terminators at FLGS tomorrow night.

Doodling about the bitz box(s) kit-bashing a custom Grot Bomb.

At its core its a Tau Piranha with repositioned engine pods.
I still need to find/craft the right wings for it, add orky bitz, add a bunch of missiles/rokkits/bombs.
And of course a pair of grot pilots.

Been working too much and not had time to make much progress, managed to at least finish the base layers on my reptisaurians and managed to get a wash/contrast on top before work this morning. Now just need a day off to start the real painting.

Yesterday I managed to get the first of my ork boys primed. I used Greenstuffworld black primer for the first time and I'm pretty shocked by how black and hie matte it is, they look like they are made of charcoal, its really weird! Very smooth coat though, it'd gone on lovely.

Successfully sold my goblins army while at work, making that 3 armistice and about £600 worth of shame removed from the pile!

A bit today, more on my Corsairs and finished an old Harlequin mini I'd assembled and primed, frig, a good three or four months back. I found my Corsairs sorta missed something, so I painted lead belcher on thins such as belt parts and such (despite deciding not to paint metallics on them) But it made a huge difference. It also dawned on me how much work I have in the pipeline as I sorta wish to begin a Kill Team club in my new town. Wanna finish my Custodes Kill Team, my Veteran Guardsmen, my Ork Kommandos, my Chaos Space Marines (both from the Nachmund and Eldritch Omens box) As well as all of the terrain from said boxes. As well as the Eldar Rangers, Guardians and Storm Guardians so anyone wanting to play an Eldar Conpemdium KT has more options (if they're a bit nutty as Eldar seem to suck but them's the breaks)

It'd be very cool to have all of the teams ready for any one wishing to give the game a go!

Photo of the most recent finished models.



Cheers,

CB

Painting a little reaper cultist that I picked up somewhere and somewhen.

Painting scratch built turrets for Gaslands.
Not the greatest thing I have seen, but it's clear what they are.

Finishing bases for the last 13 models for forbidden fortress.

That leaves the following projects in the queue.

17 void 1.1 figures to build and paint
12 NOS necromunda outcasts that I don’t even want

Was able to put more work into the Sisters of Slaughter. Hopefully enough that I'll be able to wrap them up tomorrow.

Did quite a bit more on my Corsairs. Almost finished my Felarch and the swordsman dude I can't remember the copyright-friendly name of. Then when I'd almost finished the swordsman, I realised their armour is a similar colour scheme to the Ninja Turtles, you guys be the judge if this is true...

TOTALLY RADICAL DUUUUuuuuuDDDDEEEE!!

















Also, managed to spill most of my Drakenhof Nightshade while painting, total bummer DUUUUUDE. Also, decided once I've finished my Corsairs will begin working on terrain. Once done with that I can get people to play 2018 Kill Team as it's easier to use my original assortment of minis to have games while I work up the minis for the bespoke teams in Kill Team 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Built an Exocrine and 7 Slaangors.

Bought my friends old Dark Elf army and have started stripping paint off of them. Fortunately the models he has help round out my current Dark Elf force nicely.

Finished blocking color on my 4 AdMech Dragoons.

Just finished the High Gladiatrix and with it the Daughters of Khaine half of Arena of Shades.

Built 3 Sepulchral Stalkers.

Made some counters from cheap Amazon beads for Lasting Tales!

Stick with double-sided tape onto index cards. Cut out. Done!

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Quite a bit more on my Corsairs (I didn't do any work on them yesterday as I needed a break from painting minis and played the hell outta Fallout: New Vegas instead) I'm on the end road for most of them, but I'm not looking forward to painting their heads. I'm hoping to maybe finish them tomorrow, not sure if that includes my heavy gunner that's still only primed. Then on to terrain! Never done terrain before. Maybe it could inspire me to start making my own, there are some awesome terrain-making channels such as Eric's Hobbyworkshop.

Got too many projects on the go, though lol

Trying to felt line a dice tray

Finished blocking color on 6 AdMech Kataphron Destroyers.

A bit more on my Corsairs today, didn't manage to finish them (Which is always the case, am I right? lol) But have come pretty close, I'm intending on finishing their bodies and beginning their heads tomorrow, so hopefully will mostly have them finished then (Barring basing and their power swords which I'm thinking of doing with the proper power field look, which takes a lot of time)

Still working on the "Rise of Abominations" scenario, in which the bad guys attack the villagers, while the good guys rescue them.

Civilians seem to be tougher to kill than I thought...

More: https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/98521-song-of-blade-and-heroes-scenarios-for-juegorama-miniatures-undead-and-aberrations/#comment-2074163

Got quite a bit done today on my Vodscarred. Not as much as I hoped but still a bit. The Kill Team is almost finished I have to begin my heavy gunner in earnest, though and she's still just primed, but 9 out of 10 (which is a full Kill Team if that hasn't been changed) Are like...90% done. Very kewl lol

Hmm, let's see.

Todays choices are....

1)Do the "adult" thing & take care of some yardwork when I get home this afternoon?
2)Or accept a game from someone posting on the local shops page?

Broil myself in 90 degree (32 Celsius) heat? Or go play with toy soldiers in a nicely airconditioned shop?

Got started blocking color on 6 Kataphron Breachers.

Painted a viridian marine squad from void 1.1. I have 6 syntha troops and 4 junker legionnaires left to complete the project for grim dark future firefight

YUS! Finally almost finished my Voidscarred! I'm pretty happy with them, one, in particular, is the dual pistol chick, I chose her head from the Guardian box as she looks cute in the official GW art, but I made her look angry and like Dee Reynolds from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia lol

Assembled my Kill Team: Nachmund terrain and had a ton of fun doing it. The crane was a bit of a doozy (lol only Warhammer 40,000 would have a skull on a crane, never change 40k, never change) And primed most of it. Did some fixing to my Corsairs and began basing them, but the basing paint and the base coat was taking too long to dry so I stopped. Will prime the rest of the little terrain parts tomorrow and maybe assemble my Kill Team: Octarius terrain as well.

I might make the 2nd bespoke team the Ork Kommandos. I'm planning to make them a part of the Bloody Skullz an Ork group I introduced in my ongoing Rogue Trader (they're from the scenario inside the RT core rule book) But I decided to expand on them a lot. The scenario claimed these Orks were different due to living near an alien artefact, but they seemed to make them pretty much the same, so I made Warboss Dakkdreff who's an atheist materialist who wants to be 'da biggest baddest ork dis side 'o' the sectah!' He's essentially a parody of myself and he's so fun to RP even if his voice destroys my throat. The PCs like him a lot because he promised to ally with them after Inquisitor Azakir Halgriv defeated him lol.

The buildings are also of the Orks under Dakkdreff and the graffiti is going to be things like: 'Logik and reason above all!' and 'Der ain't gods or kings only da WAAGGHH!' lol

A bit more work on my Corsair's bases, decided to go over the Astrogranite on them with Astrogranite debris due to them not looking good, it's much better now. Also, assembled most of my Munitorum armoured crates I bought earlier this year, hoping to add them to my Nachmund terrain. Would've done more but had to help my dad fix a leak in the roof which took up most of the day. Hoping to assemble my Kill Team Octarius terrain tomorrow. My writing has fallen by the wayside but been doing a weekly writing sprint with a friend that's helping me do some bit by bit. It would be cool to get people into the hobby in my town!

Enjoying midsummer holiday but putting some paint as well.

Just built 12 Beornings and Grimbeorn.

Mostly finished my Corsairs, based them and fixed some parts I'd frigged up. I'm pretty happy with them, might post pics tomorrow. But here's my Felarch now.



Damn, just realised his base looks like a chocolate cake lol

Planning out a Heresy force.

(This evening) finishing building my custom carry/storage trays.

(In a few hours) My grots will dismantle another SM force in a 2k pt game.

Building Dragonspite Lancers...

I realized, belatedly, that this kit seems to be dropping some serious hints of Kurnoth related releases. His rune is one of the two banner variants and one of the musician variants is a hunting horn!

Back with a few minutes of free time, started painting my printer tower.

Cheers,

CB

Painting 15mm legionaries and reading up on Roman shield designs.

Also putting a clear coat on some rough but hopefully serviceable stuff for Gaslands; painted mostly in a quick and dirty attempt at rust effect on metallic.

Working on some Bladegheist Revenants and Chainghasts. Did some tidying and started applying shades.

Finished assembling my Ork Kommando team (I really think the little Solid Snake Shadow Moses Island scuba gear Gretchen is too awesome) and decided to for the first time, properly use my Contrast Paints as I only have to Saturday to finish them when my friend comes over and I hope to have a game of Kill Team 2: Electric Boogaloo. I primed one with my grey spray and tested him out, and it looked pretty good, quite a bit faster than the layering method I'm used to. I'm gonna keep them simple. Then primed the rest of them grey too, except for the shadow Moses Island scuba gear Gretchen I primed him black with the brush on primer I bought a few weeks back.

Wish my luck in getting my friend into the hobby! lol

Glueing small pieces of styrene dowl to my sub-standard up ebay macharius to restore some rivets and building up the level of detail up to what it should be. And of course adding some upgrades like a spotlight, smoke dischargers (panzer mk3 or tiger style) and a name plate for the back of the turret.

Continued painting my printer tower.

Cheers,

CB

Cutting Sheet metal to help with the magnetizing of my Dark Elf units.

Once done I can finish basing and get a unit of 18 Black Guard started.

Managed to get total of seven Ork Boyz "table ready" five of which I started today including the Squig.

I'm a bit torn on contrast paints they look good and all but painting in white/light gray makes any bits I miss stick out like sore thumbs. I had that same problem with my cultists from The Assassinorum: Execution Force cultists. Due to priming them light gray as I wanted to use then as proxies for Jaroaite/Jaroaian extremists for the tt skirmish game I was making for my Angaran Chronicles series as the colors of that religion are white and gold. But changed my mind because I also wanted to use then for Execution force so painted then dark gray and with beige cloaks. It took along time to get rid of white spots etc by the end I couldn't even be bothered painting high lights lol they are just cannon fodder after all and they look okay.

Also decided on the fluff of my Orks while painting them today. They aren't The Bloody Skulls but the Gold Toofs because due to some reason their teeth grow gold and so other Orks are trying to kill them for their rare teef. So the Gold Toofs pretty much hate other Orks and above all else love 'crumpin'' 'em. Going so far as sometimes being hired as mercy by other races to fight other Orks. They also value gold above all other colors and der nobs always are blinginger that the rank and file Boyz. But the warboss is always da blingiest lol

Almost finished the painting the printer terrain piece...at least to a level for the Terrain Comp. Need to take some photos before the end of the day.

Cheers,

CB

Finally just about finished painting the Reptisaurians for Massive Darkness. They were looking terrible for about 90% of the process, but thankfully the top layer of skin turned them around and I'm actually quite pleased with how they've come out, considering the quantity of them and the level of squishiness in some of the details in the boardgame plastic. I'll be happy to move onto a different project though, batch painting 23 models is not my idea of a good time.

I've been messing around with an old squad of space marines I had lying around, trying to find a nice colour/scheme to do the HH miniatures when they arrive. I had planned to do Emperors Children, but I just couldn't get a purple I liked to spray on easily, the only way to get it "acceptable" to me involved far more effort than I'd want to do for every single mini. So instead, they'll be blood angels as I found an incredibly easy way of doing them and getting very satisfactory results, including on vehicles after giving it a go on a random Eldar Falcon I have had laying around in a box for about 25 years ago

I managed to get all the Orks of my Gold Toofs Kommando team table ready. Just have the Solid Snake Gretchen and base them to go. That's two out of four of my bespoke Kill Teams finished now have Chaos Marines and the Veteran Guard to go. Chaos Marines next, as I think for my Vet Guard, I might have to do some heavy conversions. Dunno if I'll be able to play with my friend tomorrow as I don't know the rules well enough. I didn't have time to read over the book at all.

I still have a huge pile of shame to get through, though. Blackstone Fortress, my many Eldar units (it'd be cool to finally have a proper 2,000-point army for the first time, ever) And my High Elf Dragon would be awesome to finally paint. Getting through it all bit by bit.

Tallying up my Drukhari & reviewing their rules in prep for a game tomorrow.

Small conversion of FF northmen warrior.

Began basing my Orks, but didn't get far. I managed to get the astrogranite debris on them but very little paint. My friend didn't want to play which was a bit of a shame, hoping he'll want to next weekend.

Been painting some more Indomitus marines

Hopefully I'll finish up highlighting the Nighthaunt cloaks I've been working on, then it looks like I'm going to wait on Brian Queen Chill for the spooky bits.

Well, today's planned 40k (Drukhari vs New Chaos) morphed into me teaching Sigmar 3e (my Slaves to Darkness marauders vs the Daughters of Khaine).

Also picked up the new Sigmar mission pack.
So now I'm re-tallying my StD, Stormcast, CoS, & assorted Undead.

Played two games of Gang Wars from One Page Rules. Really a lot of fun.

Preparing to play the test scenario of Five Leagues from the Borderlands 3rd edition, to see if I like the rules, and if I will want to buy a hardcover rulebook.

Priming 10 old metal Repentia figures.

Cheers,

CB

Still stripping paint off my friends old Dark Elves, have an idea of a basic list and am in the process of putting everything together, basing and magnetizing the models I'll need.

However I got distracted and started painting another mini that's been sitting on my desk primed.



Minotaur of Nurgle! Wasn't sure at first about the colour but it came out fine once I had properly highlighted it.

I did one color (and one color only) on the bases of 10 old metal Repentia.

Cheers,

CB

Gotta get something written up for our next D&D session.
I got lucky this past week & the chaotic nature of the group (players) derailed the session enough that I could skrimp by just making gak up/RPing some NPCs.
But that won't fly this week.

Haven't updated for a while but been quite productive. Assembled and primed my Death Jester and Shadowseer as well as a few Chaos Marines and a squad of Rangers from my Eldritch Omens box. Began painting my Warlock on jetbike I got for Christmas and finally began assembling and priming my Autarch from the Eldritch Omens box. Decided to make him modular and plan on doing that with Blu Tac as I can't be bothered magnotising or pinning him. It took me a while as I couldn't find his torso part but found it which made me happy. Primed the equipment on the sprue.


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Base painted most of my old guardian squad that I primed...frigging months ago now, as well as my new Autarch batch painting them but it's going pretty well. I realised I focus too much on my HQ minis and need to knuckle down and finish my troops, especially now because Dire Avengers are in the Elites slot so my three squads are no longer the troops I needed them to be. Also more options for Kill Team too. Next, maybe? My Rangers, yeah, both boxes of Rangers.

Building bases for my Horus heresy models. Trying to get the dreadnought into a cool pose with a foot up on a dead chaos marine. Do t have him fully assembled yet, but I like that the legs are posable.

Now properly-ish finished base painting my Guardians and Autarch. I'm doing the normal Guardians as a part of my Craftworld Dalorsia (which is in Secret War) the helmets of normal Guardians are black with a white face plate and more specialised Guardians such as the ones who control the heavy weapons platforms with white helmets and black face plates (which doesn't make sense from a tactical standpoint, but oh well) and I'm very happy with how the ones with black helmets look. I'm having fun with them, despite how undefined and tiny so many of the details on the old school Guardians. I'm looking forward to assembling the new box I have and painting them, but Rangers next!

Added two more colors to the Sister Repentia squad.

Cheers,

CB

Almost done stripping as much paint a I can from some Dark Elves.

Soon I will be re-building them, but first I need to get a bunch of terrain painted thats taking up too much room.

Did a wash and two more colors to the Sister Repentia squad.

Cheers,

CB

• I've got to cut some dividers for the custom storage trays I made for my grot tanks/gunz.
Nothing fancy/complex, just a # grid to keep things from rattling around too much.

• Then I need to cut a foam tray to fit my Wazbomb.

Finally found some time to get on more basecoat on the Sister Repentia squad. Shifted to doing the nine Repentia first and then the Mistress after that.

Cheers,

CB

Mostly finished painting my old Guardians, too bad I realised afterwards their bases were too small, but oh well. Assembled my 2nd box of Rangers and one of my boxes of Guardian Defenders. I decided to focus on troops choices first (excluding my 2nd box of Guardians as I'm making them Storm Guardians, mostly for KT) and once they're painted and ready, I'm doing Fast Attack starting with my new Shining Spears, (as Fast Attack is one of the things Eldar are known for) Then when they're done, Heavy Support then my Wave Serpents before coming back to my unfinished HQs and Elites as I've got so much of both of those it isn't funny. I hope making that plan will help me knuckle down and finally finish my Eldar into a legal 2,000 or so point army (even though I plan on using One Page Rules rather than the official rules)

Started the red and golds for the Sister Repentia squad.

Cheers,

CB

Started painting the first gaming minis I've done in over 20 years.

Primed my 2nd squad of Rangers and 2nd squad of Guardians. I did a demo model of a Ranger colour scheme and I'm so happy with how he turned out, he was also a ton of fun to paint, the new Rangers are very nice minis. I began base painting two more Rangers as well as doing touch-ups on my old Guardians, the Autarch from the Eldritch Omens box, my oldish plastic Farseer and my Skyrunner Warlock, his jetbike mostly.

I was going to batch paint both my ten Rangers and Guardian Defenders at once but decided just to do the Rangers for now. I batch painted fourteen of the fifteen Cultists from Assassinorum: Execution Force and that was bad enough so just doing the Rangers, for now, they can also fill two troop slots, unlike the Guardians.

It feels good to get things done!

Painting this and preparing for tournament i'm organizing tomorrow. I even get to play first time(9 guys shows up so i even up numbers). Khorne will be happy. Well first game not so. Up against ghosts. No blood, no skulls...

I needed more stabbing grots than shooty ones so changed some of them their armaments.

Going to see if I can find time to add some static grass to the bases and then seal the old metal Sister Repentia. Then I have to start on the really ugly Sister Superior.

Cheers,

CB

Completed base coating most of my Rangers, except for the skin tones and the metallics. Also began my newest Autarch's base.

Was not done today, but this past Thursday and Friday - I painted 24 Battletech miniatures in two distinct color schemes.

They are from one of the older plastic starter sets, bought for very little cash at a local convention some years ago.

They join 24 others of a different copy of the same set, for a total of 48 miniatures divided into 4 distinctly painted forces, to be used in games of Alpha Strike! So glad for those rules, now games of B'Tech can be completed in a reasonable amount of time, and while fielding multiple lances per side.

36 minis primed today. I’m building a dread and a sergeant. Then need to build the bases of 11 more. Then I’ll have 10 terminators, 20 beak marines, 10 assault intercessors, 6 vanguards, a lieutenant, and a dreadnought to paint.

Finished five of the six Nighthaunt units from Arena of Shades. Just the Scriptor Mortis left.

These five were the first where I've added extra stuff to the bases; in the past I've just done texture, wash, and a bit of drybrushing. For these Nighthaunt I'm adding some autumn leaves on everybody, plus flower-tufts on heroes & unit champions.

Finished the really ugly metal Repentia Sister Superior [Mistress].

Cheers,

CB

Finally got past the base coating of my Rangers now onto high lighting and washing them. I am so damned glad now I didn't try to batch paint them at the same time as my Guardians.

Nuln oil is truly a gift from the E...I uhh I mean Asuryan himself. My Autarch is slowly getting there too, he and his extra bits are on my desk, too and I'd just grab them ever so often to paint them while my Rangers are drying or when I feel like it. I have another Autarch with swooping hawk wings who I'm tempted to give a Fusion gun and Sun Spear too as that seems like a pretty powerful combination. Then one day I'll have to buy some Swooping Hawkes to support him, but they're still Fail Cast so, not now.

Almost finished painting a house to add to my terrain collection.

Next after that...A slightly larger House.

Finished and sealed this unit of nine old metal Repentia and the Mistress Superior.



Cheers,

CB

Looking good, CB!

Today I mostly finished my Rangers! I'm pretty happy how they turned out. Just gotta base them and finish up their faces (made the mistake of giving them mostly unhelmeted heads, but the ones with helmets look much better than the bare-headed ones) Also, almost finished my Autarch. I'm not sure whether I want to begin my next squad of Guardians before basing my Rangers. I'd like to start them, but it might be a bit of a pain basing twenty models at the same time instead of ten. Hmmm...

This heat is hot, but I'm determined to do a bit of painting. So going to continue with my Necromunda Squats.

House done! Next up, more House.

I also realised I have so much unfinished terrain. I had bought it all to make a village of sorts for both D&D and Warhammer/Frostgrave/Rangers of Shadowdeep...basically any skirmish game really.

The whole thing was done with craft paint and homemade wash.

Adding some Stuka Zu Fuss rockets to an old Ork wartrack.

Mostly based my Rangers. Also fixed up the bases of my old Guardians as they were a bit manky because I'd primed them with a Wraithbone spray can. Began base painting my new Guardians, and they are much more defined and easy to paint than the old ones. Much more fun painting them than the original kit so far.

Corrected some not properly primed models.

Got the bases of my old Guardians, new Rangers and Autarch ready for dry brushing with Terminus Stone tomorrow. Also base painted most of my new Guardian squad, except for the skin colours and purples. The ones with helmets almost look table ready already. They're going to be much easier to pain and finish than the Rangers and the old Guardians. Then onto my six Shining Spears!

Assembling 4 mournfangs, 2 beastriders and painting 2 fyreslayer heroes

Started collecting pieces for the LoER bi-monthly terrain challenge.

Cheers,

CB

Finished basing my Rangers and old Guardian squad, I think; for now, they're pretty much finished or "table ready." and pretty happy how they turned out; one day, I'll finish their faces and gems and such. Then I finished the base painting and then began highlighting the new Guardians and enjoyed it a lot. I'm doing as a theme for the Eldar (besides the bases) Is that the light source on all of them is coming from the left, which is a high lighting technique I'm slowly getting better at using my desk lamp as a rough reference. Fun times.

I have two small cardboard boxes and six halves of gum cases to make two plasma regulars, next is the base and then the gluing starts.

Cheers,

CB

Painting hamster riders.

A bit more progress on my Guardians; the new kit is a joy to paint. Also been getting into One Page Rules, and I decided to become a Patron! I tested out the Point Calculator or character/unit creation kit to create Attelus Kaltos, and it's pretty fun. He's expensive, but it's pretty cool to have stats so the mini I got from Hero Forge and painted can play in a game in the future.

Yesterday started work on a Black Coach, assembling and priming everything that will start black. Today i' intend to do the same for the rest of the sub-assemblies, which will be primed white.

Haven't worked for months with 40k. Added some crusade upgrades, did squad markings and started work on more bases.

Painting mantic enforcers

Apparently I am also magnetizing a Black Coach today, because I like magnets.

Practically finished my Guardians and I think they look pretty kewl just gotta paint their bases. Also assembled three out of six of the Jet Bikes of my Shining Spears too.

Putting last step on blood drinkers. Close.

Working on a medium tank ARV from Mortian, I magnetised all the recovery gear so i can pull it off and stick a gun tank turret in and have a normal tank too. And some Thudd gun proxies I made up myself from some different parts including a victoria miniatures gun carriage and a zinge industry rocket pod.


Don't be surprised if you see those same MLRS mounted on a, ah 'civillian utility vehicle' one day.

Mostly finished basing my Guardians and assembled my first three Shining Spears, then primed them; probably going to go with the classic colours; I primed them in white. I found the perfect helmetless head in the Shining Spear kit for my 2nd Autarch with Swooping Hawk wings as he has the vent-like things on his face mask, so it looks like a Howling Banshee mask, and the face also looks damn cool.

Completed firstt 40k models since early 9th.

Planning out a Cities of Sigmar force for a local Escalation League.

Measuring case/foam requirements to transport 3 Baneblades & some misc. as compactly as possible.

Working on the two Plasma Regulators...now at the point of do I maximize play-ability (do I move the gum containers to one side to maximize space for model bases or do I place them in the middle for appearances?

Cheers,

CB

Finished basing and fixing up my Guardians and then began to test my colour scheme on one of my Shining Spears, he's fun to paint and pretty happy how he turned out.

Making a leman russ dozer blade into a dozer shovel for an AEV. Just need to source an excavator arm as well. Might make a fascine as well.

Prepping a late war Flames of War force/list (Russia) & a Battletech scenario for use this afternoon/evening.

Working on the two Plasma Regulators.

Cheers,

CB

Building metal obliterators

Did more work on my Shining Spears, and more concept painting of one of the Jet Bikes and the Exarch. They're coming along pretty quickly, and I'm not having too much trouble painting white. The practice on the helmets on my Autarch and some of my Guardians might've prepared me for them.

Did more work on the two Plasma Regulators.

Cheers,

CB

Made a terrain piece to use with solo fantasy games.

Finished building the two Plasma Regulators. Now I need to prime them.

Cheers,

CB

Later this evening I'll be assembling a platoon of T-34s for Flames of War.

Played a game the other day & discovered a note to self in the case from about a year ago: "Need more T34s x5". ???
Scanning through inventory & army lists refreshed my memory as to why I wrote that. So....

Put together my first model from Forgeworld, a 30k Apothecary. Very pleased with it tbh, after hearing a lot of horror stories, it actually went together very easily, so much so that I took the plunge and bought another, the painfully expensive Captain Raldoron. £55 for a regular sized marine seems insane to me and I'm still on the fence as to whether I should, but he will be the core of my 30k army so hopefully it makes sense!

Also finished putting chain bayonets and accessories on my 10 MkIV marines, to get mixed in amongst my beakies (who have a variety of MkIV helmets and shoulder pads amongst them to look like a rag tag bunch). They don't quite naturally fit, but it's close enough that it looks fine. Mounted the MkIV's on 3mm cork to make them the same height as the VI's and it looks pretty good. Now I just have to paint 30 tactical and 10 support marines, which should be fun I guess?

Just got done painting up my 15 noise marines...mostly. x.x I still have the power packs and heads to go which I'll do probably tomorrow.

Then it's on to painting either the two remaining Oblits I have...or moving on to the Helbrute. No idea what suffrage I wanna deal with first XD

Edit: Fixed grammatical errors. Tired. x.x

Practically finished two of my three Shining Spears. Liking 'em quite a bit. I wanna try finish the 3rd by tonight. Then onto the 2nd box of Shining Spears. Not sure if I want two three man squads or one six man one. Waiting for my magnet kit from the Magnet Baron. Perhaps Hi should wait until I get that. Hmm...

Mostly completed my Shining Spears, a lot of painting white and the first time freehanding in ages.

Pulling together a Cities of Sigmar list for the shops upcoming Escalation League.

Began assembling my second Shining Spear squad, and while they were drying, I began assembling my Shroud Runners, finishing one. I was going to do my Wind Runners but couldn't find them and said, "I'll start the next one I find" so, yeah, an exciting story there, lol

Just finished painting so krieg. There is loads j could do to improve them but I’ve got an entire army to do, so they are done for now

Edit: Wrong thread, whoops

Primed my 2nd squad of Shining Spears and have begun painting the Exarch. I'm painting him much quicker than the last one. I'm glad that painting them is giving me important lessons on how to paint white.

Basing some CSM after work. Using bulk watch parts as gears/small basing details

Primed the two Plasma Regulators. Next job is painting them.

Cheers,

CB

Finished 6 more iron fangs.

Have a tharn ravager chieftain on the go.

Have about 50 other guys from various projects in various states of unpaint and assembly.

95% painted though! Woo!

Making sure I know where I'm going for each of my GenCon events & that I've allowed proper time to:
A) get from one to another,
B) haven't scheduled things so tight that I can't eat dinner....(you laugh, but its happened before)

Packing tonight for a weekend away at a cabin in the bush, reading white dwarfs and painting MCP models.

Managed to finish two out of three Shining Spears of the 2nd squad and began on the third. I also did quite a bit of work on the head of my Autarch from the Shining Spear box. Messed him up a bit but managed to fix it pretty well.

Started converting rank&file model into a captain.

Painting skaven, assembling leviathan and painting dok. Business as usujl.

Managed to complete my last Shining Spear, but I got impatient and frigged up the free-handing on both him and the last one so might go back and fix those up in the future. Began assembling the 2nd bike of my Shroud Runner squad but lost one-half of the skeleton thingy and I had to take ages looking around for it. Also, I stuck the sword hand back on my Wraithlord I'd knocked off by mistake a while back, was more trouble than it should've been. I can't remember the how and the why I managed to knock it off lol

Built some gobbos.

Painting bunch of dreadnou@gts, blood sisters and sisters of slaugher

Getting started on Lady Olynder. Got the Lady assembled last night, hoping to knock out the handmaidens this evening.

Alternating between the old metal CSM Daemon Prince and the Greater Possessed from ShadowSpear.

Finished a couple of needed repairs before the Sat Apoc game at GenCon.

And finally added large bases under my (FW) Warhounds feet.
Without them he's always been a bit forward top-heavy.
But if he's going to spend 10hrs on a table other than at home I don't want him tipping over onto someone else's stuff....

op success, handmaidens assembled and as a bonus the FLGS finally received that fancy new White Scar so everything is primed as well

Finished assembling my Shroud Runners, had some fun with them, and made one of the pilots no-look shooting his shuriken pistol as he's driving. Would've primed them but went to another town with my dad to buy groceries, and now tired, and priming is one of my least favourite parts of the process, even at full awakedness, so I'll save that for tomorrow

Started putting some paint on a Vyper.

Cheers,

CB

In the last two weeks - ending yesterday - I have completed painting and basing (and playing multiple games of Alpha Strike with them!) 12 of the new sculpts of BattleTech minis in an entirely new paint-scheme.

Utterly distinct from my existing collection of 48 minis evenly divided into 4 different camouflage schemes, I intend to add future miniatures in the snazzy new completely non-camouflage scheme for my main Inner Sphere force until I become sick of doing so! They are teal bodies with arms halved in yellow and purple, known as the Teal Terrors. Fear them.

Additionally: I have primed 10 Clan mechs and two units of Battle Armor, to join 2 other Clan mechs received as bonus minis in one of the aforementioned old starter sets I bought cheap, for ANOTHER new paint-scheme. I can't decide which Clan I like the best, so have decided to create my own which I currently refer to as Clan Smoke House BBQ.

(All of the new BattleTech purchases - and about 4 or 5 future lance-packs - was/is made possible by recycling a pile of unused 40K minis and bits into cold, hard cash. So I have that going for me, which is nice.)

Magnetising weapons on and cutting out the inside of the commander's hatch on a pair of 3d printed resin tank turrets so they can carry a tank commander. More carefully after i accidentally cracked the first turret open and had to glue it back together. Will cut turret ring off and install smaller diameter one to mate it to chassis easier.

Primed my Shroud Runners (which is their name, I keep thinking it's Shade Runners for some reason) And began painting them properly. I also primed a couple of Chaos Marines with Mephiston Red over the black I'd primed on them earlier as I wish to make painting them as easy as possible when I eventually get to painting them lol

Last day of GenCon.
I plan to;
1) play demo games in search of New boardgames the group back home might enjoy.
2) see just how much $ I can part with/get home with - two completely opposite objectives.... we'll know in a few hours wich way it went.

So that went well.
Found 3 games.
1 card game about hunting Unicorns, 1 worker placement/resource game of Hurricane survival, 1 game of space exploration/conquest.
The unicorn game was cheap & the other two won't be out of Kickstarter until next year....
Add in another $200 worth of stuff (mostly BattleTech).....
Even including travel/hotel/food? This was a fairly cheap Gencon.

Painting clanrats, rat ogors and heroes, demoing adeptus titanicus and possibly got 3d printer running again.

Finished base painting my Shroud Runners, I accidentally painted one of their cloaks with Corax White instead of Wraithbone (as they're fighting on their Craftworld) I have no idea how I managed that, but it turned out a good thing as it was much easier to paint the Wraithbone layer on top than just on a black primer which is...strange. Corax White base paint covers quite nicely, actually. Lesson learned I suppose lol

Continued working on the Vyper.

Cheers,

CB