Company Master Remiel and his Company Vets!

Primed and began painting my IG box as well as dry brushed my new Zone Mortalius bases and stuck my Angels of Absolution minis on them (25mm as it's easier to navigate Mantic terrain with smaller bases) Also put more put White tack in the connecting holes of my Mantic walls. Tried to get the white tack out of my test wall, and was harder than I thought it'd be so that's going to be fun to do after I prime them etc lol

Thinking up new orky/grot conversions.

See, in our ongoing Crusade games, when i win a game my grots loot defeated enemies.
So if the opponent had some cool vehicles or other techy stuff in thier force, & I kill the unit & win the match, then I incorporate that stuff into my own force.

Last night I obliterated an Admech force.
This yielded all sorts of cool tech/bitz....
Notably a Dune Crawler, Kataphrons, & a unit of those winged Skitari guys.
So now I'm pondering what weird stuff I can make using these kits.

More work on my IG minis; five out of ten are finished; they just need basing. I am looking forward to finishing them as I feel having an IG option for potential people at my potential skirmish gaming club is pretty important. And I dunno; when I finish them, it feels like it'll be a milestone for me as I finally have some IG painted. I've always loved the faction due to the Gaunt's Ghosts books (which I still have yet to finish as well, lol).

I also made a list of my pile of shame. It's still long even after my obsessive work on it for the past few weeks (38 different items, at least, including numerous different squad units and two Wave Serpents, this is excluding the crap-ton of terrain I've got to do, as well), But this hasn't phased me at all, which is cool, I suppose.

I’m making progress painting both my first Ad Mech Electro-priest and my first Glooming Lords Plague Marine (black w/ green trim color scheme).

After doing next to nothing yesterday due to being unwell, I knuckled down and completed (mostly) My IG, and I'm pretty happy with how they turned out, next on to my Traitor Guard from the Blackstone Fortress box. Just gotta base them (my least favourite part of the hobby, but it's an important one). Speaking of basing, I also based my Adeptus Custodes today. Here are some pics; I think the bases might need a little something extra, though. Any ideas? The Custodes with the open arms was inspired by the cover of the HH short story collection The Imperial Truth, where one of the Custodes is talking with another and gesticulating animatedly, except with a very different colour scheme (been listening too much to Lovecraft audiobooks lately, lol) It also kinda looks like he's going 'Come at me!'

 SilentScreamer wrote:
So what are you are all doing today for games like WH40k, WHFB and other war games? Me, I'm planning on making a Skaven army list and talking to my friend a bit more to try and convince him to purchase a dwarf army he's interested in, how about the rest of Dakka?

Having a bit of a writersblock (not literally, apparently.. because I've been writing a new chapter in my second book of 'the journal of Leopold Helveine' again.. after half a year hiatus) after finishing the Tyrannofex (see my blog)..

Have three Raveners on my table but low-motivation to work on them.. also still 10 gargoyles and 10 minespores to finish up painting..

Also still got 4 harlequins and an eldar support weapon to paint standing on it.. and a head (for my wraithknight) to sculpt. (rest of WK is finished already though, fully painted).. thing is .. I kindof wanted to do some Orks again but once you start that its hard to stop and I've got like 7or 8 unopened Ork boxes, Morkanaut included so that would swamp me. Better to first finish what's on the table. Right? Thing is.. I need to alternate to break boredom working with the same hue's all the time..

Today's job - adding new PDFs to buildinstructions.com and learning how to post new Articles on Dakka Dakka whilst I wait for my new latest purchase to arrive in the post

Just launched buildinstructions.com last week, which is an online library of Free to download PDF Build Instructions for all of the various Warhammer model ranges.

You can read more about it here in my first ever Dakka Article: Where to Find and Download Free PDF Build Instructions Booklets

Definitely not thinking about starting a lizardmen army.

Its why I'm absolutely not doing research on Sagebrush and Western Fence lizards and the blue flairs on their bellies.

https://www.deschuteslandtrust.org/news/blog/2018-blog-posts/western-fence-lizard

https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/sagebrush-lizard.htm


The sagebrush has an easier pattern to paint on the back scales, and the color dimorphism between males and females on the belly could easily lend itself to different types of lizards in the army.

Started the first five Guardians( and weapon platform ) for an Ulthwe army. Also begun painting the third and final armiger for a combat patrol.

Began working on my Traitor Guard and got all but four finished. I also began basing my loyalist IG; I'm still happy with how they turned out, even if I frigged up the faces of a few due to the angles and awkward spaces, but they're just meant to be 'table ready', so I'm not fussed. What surprised me was that I painted their armour Castellan Green then edge-highlighted them with Warpstone Glow (one of my favourite Citadel paints) And it turned out quite well!

Been taking a break from my Thousand Sons and got back into scale modelling.

Bought a 1/350 scale battleship, and a set of photoetch brass upgrades...because I hate myself that much...

This piece in particular is a stepladder, which has to be folded from a flat brass sheet, and each, individual step manipulated into place with tweezers.

Finishing up terrain for tournament i'm running on saturday.

Edit: valkyrie. Good to know never get into scale modeling

I finished my Traitor Guard, batch painted the final four which wasn't much fun. I batch painted my 14 of 15 Chaos Cultists from Assassinorum: Execution Force a while back and I don't know how I did it lol. I think if I'm doing a squad I'll do them one by one and maybe batch paint the final two (which I did with my last two IG which I'm still basing)

I began work on an Apothecary for my Dark Angels and my new Scale 75 white paint is making it much easier than GW white paints.

Working on my ever growing GK army, and trying to find the best way to deal with the changes that came out in Arks of Omen.

I've had two small games already, and it's not exactly as bad as I thought it would be.

Finished my DA Apothecary, and he turned out okay. He has the legs of a DA veteran, so it's a cloak, but I'm not sure if it suits him. Oh well.

I also finally started to work on my Gaunt's Ghosts minis in earnest again! Batch painting them, but I don't mind batch painting them for some reason. Probably because they're Gaunt's Ghosts and not some random traitor guard lol

Going to try the boardgame Nemesis later today.

When I get home in the evening ill:
*build another single figure from my backlog
*and then begin work on squad #2 of my HH Iron Warriors.

My 30x22 Zone Mortalis mats arrived today from Skirmish Mats, along with a whole lot of other things, because my town was stranded due to a few slips that happened during a recent storm. So I had a game of Space Station Zero with a 30x22 mat instead of my Necromunda tiles which were 25x25; it worked a bit better, so I might begin a new single-player campaign with 30x22 (I have the mats from both Octarius and Nachmund, but I wanted immersion of a floor that looks like it's in a Space Station rather than ground) I rolled a lot of critical failures, like five times or something, with three in a row or so, but managed to win without any real casualties.

Also did quite a bit more work on my Gaunt's Ghosts. A little happier with how they look so far.

played, and lost, a game of The Barons War, and lost by an epic margin.. not worked out a decent counter to cavalry yet

also assembled a Demos Predator for priming tomorrow, did consider magnets, however its got a specific role and will likely always be in one configuration so just assembled as that for now. local group not too fussed on weapons not being as modelled so not a huge thing

nice kit though

Not too much today, I mostly finished my Gaunt and began freehanding tattoos on the Tanith, first trying it with Corbec as a test, and he turned out okay. I also did it on Bragg. Tried to do Rawne's famous starburst tattoo on his face but frigged it up, so painted over it. Hopefully, my next try will be better!

Building an American platoon for Bolt Action.

I've nothing on the schedule for today, so I should be able to complete the whole project (build + basecoat) in one go.

Oh, and knocking out another random single figure kit from the backlog. This time a 40k Primaris Ancient.

edit: @$&* I'd forgotten just how fiddly plastic Bolt Action figures are to build....

Continued working on a Canoptek Reanimator.

I really thought that the colour scheme for our Necrons (silver and red) would be super fast to paint until I got to the bigger ones and having to do multiple shades of silver to break up all the bigger areas takes way more time than I thought.

Also let my 8 year old and 3 year old paint 2 of the free Stormcast Hachette sent.

Assembling Mantic marrionettes.

Detailing two Ryza-pattern small ruins/barricades, reviving my plog, and buying a metal Eldar Bonesinger on eBay.

Mostly finished my Gaunt's Ghosts today and began basing them. I took the plunge and painted their tattoos, and they look pretty good. I built up my courage and even did the camouflage patterns on their camo cloaks too which I was very hesitant to do. I hopefully will have them finished by tomorrow!

Almost finished basing my Ghosts, including glueing on grass tufts. Still, I realised that the paint was scratching off the bases, I must not have primed them on the bases when I first assembled and began painting them way back in 2019, so I went over them with Stormshield varnish, being careful not to get it on the tufts.

Churned out these ekranoplans for Dystopian Wars today

No turrets cause I'm waiting for a different gun than what's in the box

Would you believe that I'm STILL building that Bolt Action US platoon I started on Sunday?
I've been reminded exactly why some years ago I built my Germans using as many metal pieces as I could.
BA plastics are sooo tiny, spindly & fiddly to assemble....

I've got 12 more arms/guns to attach.

Yes! Finally mostly finished my Gaunt's Ghosts. I began way back when they came out! I just want to fix up Gaunt's hair and paint the stuff hanging from the trees on the bases green. Tried as best I could to keep them to how I see them in the book. The hardest part was painting the camo on their camoleoline cloaks, not freehanding their tattoos lol I am so proud of how they turned out! They're great minis; painting them was a bit up and down in my enjoyment. Besides the gap of years between finishing and starting them, some parts just made me stop and scratch my head again and again. But I forced myself to keep going!

With almost finishing my Gaunt's Ghosts, I took a bit of a break today before finalising them, I think? Lol

I then began finally working on my Shadow Seer and Death Jester that I'd bought, assembled and primed months ago. I also used Scale 75's Birch paint instead of GW's Wraithbone for the beige bits, and it worked way better only took two or three coats instead of five or six. I'm happy with how he looks. Might one day take a few photos of my Harlequins. I'm pretty proud of the colour scheme; it has no motley diamonds, so it's easier to paint; it's quick and easy, but it still looks good. And, of course, I make sure to use a lot of Warpstone Glow, lol

Finished (mostly) my Shadowseer and Death Jester, and now I have all four of the Harlequin Special Characters!

Finished my Shadowseer and Death Jester today, then I knuckled down and finished stuffing white tack into the holes of my Mantic wall parts or the ones I wanted to do so far, then primed most of them with Leadbelcher on both sides, ready for putting a wash on tomorrow!

Building Mantic pathfinders to be a crew for Space Station Zero. Hopefully also other generic Sci-Fi roles.

A little more military looking than I was hoping for, but they'll do. Nice kit with a fair number of options and a cool sniper.

I put wash on my Mantic wall parts, then over-brushed and dry-brushed them, so that was a big step toward getting them done. Just have 12 bits to prime and wash, and over-brush/dry brush to go.

I also began finally painting my Autarch Raloth Arlyandor mini for my mini diorama. I finished base painting him, and he isn't looking too bad already!

Tonight - Tue must be dedicated to getting at leas 1k pts of HH era Iron Warriors table ready.

Shouldn't be too hard, right?

ccs wrote:
Tonight - Tue must be dedicated to getting at leas 1k pts of HH era Iron Warriors table ready.

Shouldn't be too hard, right?

Good luck with that, dude! I hope you manage that!

Back OT, more work on my Raloth Arlyandor mini; he's almost finished. I even painted a new head for him, using one of the Eldar heads from W Artel I bought months back, and it looks pretty good, I think. The mini of the Autarch with swooping hawk wings, power sword, and fusion pistol is such a great model that's a joy to paint. Soon gotta start painting the Emperor's Children Chaos Marine that was decapitated for the display base.

Well after finishing my command tercio and command unit for my SA count as...
time to build 2 rifle sections and artillery crew.

After that i should probably build my cardboardbox of shame full on legion units.


jut another 70 ish models for the SA and 2 preds, a sicarian, 2 proteus, 2 predators and a scorpious...

boy at this rate this feels less like a hobby and more like work

Went back and repainted my Necron Lord to match him up with the Skorpekh Destroyer Lord I finished a few weeks back.

I tried to get the White Tack out of the connection holes of my Mantic wall parts and found it...much harder than I had hoped. So my father suggested I get the Dremel he gave me, get a part the same size and use that to push it out, which I did; it took a while but not anywhere near as long as it would've if I tried to do it manually. Thank goodness.
I also pushed more white tack into a few more things, then primed more wall parts with Lead Belcher ready for washing.

Then, I worked more on my Raloth Arlyandor mini, on his power sword and back banner, and began painting the decapitated Emperor's Children mini for the diorama base. Bright pink will be an interesting colour to paint, I think.

Work continues on the HH IW project.
1 tac squad completely finished & based.
Only about 850pts to go....

I put wash on my Mantic wall sections and did quite a bit more work on the decapitated Emperor's Children Marine for my Raloth Arlyandor display base. It's looking not bad at all, actually. Maybe too good, so might distract from Raloth a bit, lol

Working on building some cherub bits to make a model.

Cheers,

CB

Almost finished a mini diorama I began building months ago of my OC Eldar Autarch Raloth Arlyandor of my homebrew Craftworld (or Craft Fleet?) Dalorsia. The basing is based around the war the Eldar of Dalorsia fought to defend their home from an Emperor's Children invasion (that's why it's an Emperor's Children Chaos Marine that's been decapitated). Essentially, it's Raloth leaping off his jetbike to fight in a melee killing a veteran Chaos Marine on the way. I researched Emperor's Children for the mini and decided I'd paint the edge highlighting gold instead of silver to make it look more senior than a normal EC Marine in the photos. I just have to do a few small things, including Raloth's back banner, which I might freehand to be the Craftworld's symbol, so I might sketch up a few concepts; I made the Craftworld like seventeen years ago and still don't have a symbol for them and only made a colour scheme for them a year or so ago and Raloth's gems. The head is from the W Artel "Eldar" head kit.

Finished painting a frog/slann team for blood bowl.

Amassing the kits for US and German forces in 15mm.

Due to it pouring down with rain today, so unable to work outside, so did quite a lot today. As I posted before, I practically finished my Raloth Arlyandor and his diorama base. I finished dry brushing my Mantic walls and finished them. Then sketched concepts for Craftworld Dalorsia for Raloth's flag, and I found one and began freehanding that. Pretty happy with how it's turned out!

Installed new firmware to my ender 3 pro after dad noticed new motherboard was 4.2.7. No surprise it didn't work with 4.2.2 firmware. New version from same zip file for 4.2.7 got printer working again but...

Finally got my Knight patrol finished, at least to the point where small hidden details can be done at a leisurely pace.

Significant progress with a Harlequin Voidweaver, which still needs more work but the majority is at least done.

Ulthwe models for both 3rd edition and Kill Team 2018 are proceeding at a decent pace. With a golf-course base, I consider a model done.

 Adrassil wrote:
Finished (mostly) my Shadowseer and Death Jester, and now I have all four of the Harlequin Special Characters!

As a fellow "Clown" player I admire your lovely collection. Well done!

SamusDrake wrote:
As a fellow "Clown" player I admire your lovely collection. Well done!

Thanks! I'm happy with how they turned out, and they were fun to paint.

Uhh, I did a bit today. More work on my Mantic terrain stuff and on Raloth. Freehanding the symbol on his flag. Here are a few photos of my progress. Gotta fix it up a bit more, I think!

Spent the day playing Warhammer Quest. My Pitfighter nearly died after getting surrounded by Orc Boyz.

The Elf Ranger had to save my life (ick!).

A scribe has Ascended to Cherub status.


Cheers,

CB

Continued my D&L terrain, SF-ground floors got a wash, hopefully drybrushing them tomorrow so I can go on with the wall tiles next.

Played Space Weirdos (first game) and the first campaign mission of Undaunted:Stalingrad

Not too much today. Mostly worked on my Mantic terrain accessories and a bit of work on my Attelus Kaltos mini's powersword as I might place him into a local painting competition. Doubt he'll win, but nothing ventured as they say.

Well after being out of the hobby for a long time and sorting my painting tray and brushes out, iv got a new painting handle arriving today with the wire hand rest to help me keep more steady while painting.
And after finding loads of boxes and models that I accrued over the years, I'v got enough to keep me going for literally years of building and painting.
I'm looking forward to getting stuck in again and hope to have something I can show you all eventually.

I'd initially planned to devote today's hobby time to more work on my Iron Warriors project.

Instead I'll be running a couple of low point 40k games at the shop fir some new people....

Quite a lot today, a lot of work on my Mantic building parts, more wash application and a lot more overbrushing and drilling out white tack from the holes and finally did a bit of work on my plastic Dark Reapers that I bought and began months ago. I didn't enjoy painting them, and I dunno, didn't like them much. But now beginning to warm to them, also heard they're not very good on the Table Top, but I'll more likely use them in One Page Rules than 40k.

I also did quite a bit more painting on Raloth Arlyandor, fixing up highlights etc. and trying to fix the freehanded Dalorsia symbol on his back banner.

Almost finished my Dark Reapers, began basing them and applied Astrogranite Debris on the bases of numerous other minis as well. I did a bit more work on Raloth, trying to fix the lighting on the green of his armour. Then on a whim, I began working on my Faye Valentine mini, fixing up her pale skin, and I'm pretty happy with her now!

Built my FW Squiggoth today. It's the second one this month, had the Kromlech one on the table some weeks ago.
Waiting for good weather to give them a primer

Trying to find a good paint match for the old Boltgun paint. Either stock or a mix.

Boltgun seems to have been discontinued at some point.
And my last pot of it is all but petrified.
This is a problem as I'm trying to add a few new things to my ages old generic CSM force and I used BG as their base color.

Leadbelcher is to flat/dull.

"Iron Warrior" is a bit too dark - looks fine on my new 30k IW project.
But it stands out a bit next to my general CSM force of yesteryear.

Wasn't feeling well today, but I did some work on my minis. Based my Dark Reapers so I'm going to say they're finished now, even though I could do more work on them. I did a lot on Faye Valentine, slowly layering up the shaded bits of her pale skin and re-did her...bikini? With a new yellow paint from Scale 75, which is almost an electric yellow, I think it is closer to the yellow from the show. Almost finished her!

Today I am going to be working on painting up some Space Hulk genestealers for a mate who is terminally ill.

A Blackstone Fortress expedition for the community-narrative campaign, in the Specialist Games section.




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 Gen.Steiner wrote:
Today I am going to be working on painting up some Space Hulk genestealers for a mate who is terminally ill.

You set a good example for the rest of us in the wargaming community. Nice one, mate.

Going to work on some Rampart Eternal Cathedral terrain.

Cheers,

CB

 Gen.Steiner wrote:
Today I am going to be working on painting up some Space Hulk genestealers for a mate who is terminally ill.

That's really awesome of you! Wishing you and your friend the best of luck!

My new 3d printed Angaran Chronicles minis arrived today, including an awesome D&D Void Spawn that I plan on using as a Jaroai for my Angaran Chronicles TT Skirmish game. Began painting them. Mostly finished Jelcine and began on Wilom. Looking forward to playtesting my game with them and hopefully soon! I'm thinking of having the game use 2d12s rather than 2d10s as it might add a bit more nuance to the game and might make the higher modifiers not be so overwhelming against lower modifiers!

After finishing (mostly) my new Angaran Chronicles minis I began playtesting the TT Skirmish game trying out 2d12s and the new initiative system and, well, 2d12s seem to give the hordes a big advantage over individual characters with my horde rules, well, maybe. As there is a much higher average roll compared to 2d10s. I also kept forgetting things as my brain wasn't working well for some reason and I wasn't feeling well.
I tried another game with 2d10s and it seemed a bit more balanced but I should've tried it with the same layout of terrain, but I added some more so that helped my five-man elite team a lot against the 27-man horde team so I'll try it with 2d12s with the same layout as last next.
My mind was also better able to keep track of things due and so it was much more fun.

Painting ghost-larping grotz. Finished half of current wip batch.

Starting to round up bitz and have found my unopened box of Perry miniatures Prussian infantry. The green stuff is on order. Tracking says the arrives some time tomorrow.
Going to set these models up as more imperial guard infantry squads.
Just looked at my blog to check, haven't worked on any models in nearly a year.
Hopefully I still have some unused 25mm bases. Guess I will be trying to find those today.

Began writing down the rules for my Angaran Chronicles TT Skirmish game today. Rules that have been rattling around my skull for a couple of years now. Feels pretty good to get it down on paper. I have done the character creation rules but not the gameplay rules themselves until now.

Played two games of Space Weirdos.

Typed more of my rules up for The Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game (working title...maybe? lol)

Did quite a bit of that then did some work on my miniatures and did a concept mini for my 2nd bunch of fifteen Cultists that I'm going to use as proxies for playtesting the skirmish game. Looks pretty good. Did more work on my Void Spawn which is going to be a proxy for a Jaroai for the Skirmish game and the Reaper Shoggoth I bought ages back that represents the token for the summoning of the Jaroai.

Fixed up the face of my Raleas mini from the Angaran Chronicles and did a bit more work on the power sword of an Attelus Kaltos from Secret War mini and a little fixing of his face.

And uhh, yeah, sorry about my over-description of the things I did lol

I saw a picture where someone used the carapace of a Blight Hauler in place of the regular carapace on an Armiger Knight to make it more Nurgly.
That's a really good idea!

So today I'm copying them.

Worked on some burnt tree terrain while I am waiting for some flying buttresses.



Cheers,

CB

More typing up of my Angaran Chronicles: Skirmish game rules and finally began painting my Lelith in earnest.

I took a break from painting and began assembling my Orlock gangers and I'm happy to say they're perfect as proxies for my Angaran Chronicles game. The powerfist aside their load outs seem to work well with Diesel Punk technology. They'd be perfect for a veteran gang warband (coincidentally lol) They're also an easy and fun kit to assemble and the detail is excellent.

Want to assemble my Krieg vet guard next as they would make for excellent proxies too, too bad about their lasguns though.

I started running a pathfinder campaign with session 0; prepped some stuff for undercoating, and am now about to write an expanded army list for my Grand Army of Wissenland

Worked on some scatter terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Not much today, but with my cousin's P&P RPG game being on today, I decided to do a bit more work on the Hero Forge mini of my PC, and he's looking better, not finished, though. I did a bit of fixing and such on other minis, including my new Hero Forge mini of Raleas Effernetti, and realised the way I painted; I accidentally made her look a bit like the singer Dua Lipa, lol

Organised the third hobby evening for the club I've (re)joined. Edge highlighted some aggressors and drew camo on my phobos Libby.

Cutting the tiles for the ruined floors. Then gluing them in place.

Cheers,

CB

putting some gloss varnish on the wet bits of my last handful of nightstalkers.

A bit more work on my Lelith today she's looking okay. Uhh and the Hero Forge mini of the villain of my novel The Angaran Chronicles: The Underside, Kalthasin, whom I'm declaring finished because frig it. Also took a few photos of the recently reassembled team of my Angaran Chronicles main characters. From left to right it's Emilia in Werewolf form, Emilia, Raleas Effernetti, Anargrin, Jelcine and Wilom. The new minis are Jelcine, Wilom and Raleas. And does Raleas look like Dua Lipa? I think she does lol

Edge highlighting the details of my aggressors and potentially starting some freehand.

Conclusion to a custom Blackstone Fortress expedition, for the "Revenge of the Specialist Games: Narrative Campaign" thread.

By far the most exciting thing I've taken part in since returning to the hobby six years ago, and honestly enjoying the reports provided by fellow players. Highly recommended!

Assembled my new printer(anycubic kobra). Darn quick and not bad result out of box.

Too bad changing fiiament mid print doesn't seem possible

Today I will be assembling & base coating Angron.

My goal is to have him on the table & fighting early Sat afternoon - stealing our dedicated WE players glory by a few hours.

I work 3rd shift... So tonight I will be finishing up a squad of 5 Heavy Intersessors, 3 Aggressors and a Leviathan Dread.
If I get them out of the way fast enough (minus decals) I will move on to my second squad of 5 Heavy Intersessors. Once they are complete I will have finished 1000 points of Imperial Fists since the new year.
The next chunk will be a second Leviathan, another 5 Heavy Intersessors, 5 Hellblasters, 3 Eradicators, 3 Eliminators and a Chaplain on Bike. I'll start posting pics once I reach the 1000 point mark.

Nice work Adrassil.

Continued work on my ruined cathedral.

Cheers,

CB

Opened the Primaris Outriders set to build it. Saw that it has zero additional options and the Sgt has no helmet. Given every model in my army has a helmet this is beyond irritating so back in the box they went until I can go through my bitz box to remedy this.

Thanks, CB!

I played a game of The Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game today. Was a lot of fun and I think I got some good data!

Finished a small Ulthwe army for 3rd edition, tabletop ready at least, and also a Shadowseer for my modern 40K patrol and skirmish games.

More work on the Eternal Cathedral.

Cheers,

CB

Assembling a box of the new World Eaters.

More playtesting of my Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game. It was fun and I learned a bit more.

I also painted a demo mini for my Orlock gangers. Pretty happy with how he turned out!

Built my Kroot Kill Team, now deciding between building Breachers or the terrain.

Building a new unit of Chaos Terminators. These will be dedicated as World Eaters.
Building a Sherman V for Bolt action,
Base coating a section of boarding Action walls,

Adding material to my Rampage Eternal Cathedral.

Cheers,

CB

More work on my Rampage Eternal Cathedral.

Cheers,

CB

Due to the road to my town being cleared after cyclone Gabrielle I got my parcels today! Quite a few things, more Mournfang Brown as I seem to use a lot of it a Custodes Combat Patrol box and a Blade Champion and some Orlock Wreakers for proxies for my Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish game. So I did a bit more work on my Orlock gangers and decided to try out the grey Speed Paint I ordered to paint my 2nd lot of Chaos Cultists from my 2nd Assassinorum: Execution box, but it turned out I had some black Speed Paint instead which I already have as Black Templar contrast paint. I was sure I ordered grey, but just checked my order and nope, I did accidentally order black Speed Paint instead, my bad lol


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More work on my Orlock Gangers base painting them with batch painting, which wasn't too bad. Then I began assembling my Blade Champion, I think he's a pretty cool mini.

Almost finished my Orlock Gangers I'm just going for table ready so not bothering with eyes or edge highlights, maybe one day will do that. Also finished the base of the Outside Spawn D&D mini I'm going to use for one of the Eldritch Abomination antagonists to my Angaran Chronicles series a Jaroai. Will have to playtest the scenario where one side is summoning the Jaroai while the other side is trying to stop the summoning ritual. That has to be one of the most fun scenario I've played in my system so far.

Finished the Orlocks! And moved on to one of my Hero Forge Jaroai priests and began painting an Attelus mini, but I think I frigged up his face a bit :(

After a few games of LotR yesterday I have finally finished* the Rohan side of the Pelinor Fields boxed set..

these sorry models have been waiting, near complete for a few months but have finally seen the base texture added and the paint to hair and facial hair on the 12 infantry and 12 riders

also repainted Theodin's horse so the hair wasn't bright yellow..

* I say finished, the bases need a wash & drybrush then the rims doing and tomorrow will see varnish added to stop the contrast pain rubbing off when there is movement within a radius of about a mile of the models

Primed some Kroot and KT game tools. Assembling Breachers today as I avoid the Into the Dark terrain.

Practically finished my Jaroaian and Jaroaite priests for my Angaran Chronicles skirmish game which is a bit of a milestone for me as they're pretty important for playtesting the game and I've wanted to paint minis of them for ages.

Also a photo of one of the main antagonist eldritch abominations a Jaroai (which may or may not be its true form as they can shapeshift)







My friend drew a picture of one ages back and I loved it despite how different Jaroai looked in my head this mini, a D&D Void Spawn, looked very similar to his interpretation which is down here. He drew this based on a scene in an as-yet unpublished Angaran novella I sent him. It's so awesome!

I did a tiny bit of gold on my Sister. Kinda proud of myself, haven't done anything for about a week.

I'm building a ghost ark for my necrons today.

Begun painting a Frostgrave warband, using models from Warhammer Underworlds "The Godsworn Hunt".

Painting this for upcoming tournament.

Finally finished and boxed up the Rohan from the Pellenor Fields box

made a start on a metal Aragorn I have had primed for the best part of two decades, nice model actually, just need a few to actually go alongside him

building a Sherman V/Firefly for Bolt action.

I've finally come across what I need to build my Malleus Inquisitor.
Adding her to my build order for what's next on my GKs list. 12 Interceptors, 14 Pergation and 9 more terminators.

I also have flyer that needs to be assembled, but not sure what I want to build it into. And I've got a custom built Draigo that I really want to try some new paints on.

Finally began painting my 2nd horde of Cultists from my 2nd box of Assassinorum: Execution Force. Finished five total, so ten remain; they've been sitting around primed for ages; I guess they could be classified as my hobby, "White Whale", as the 1st lot I didn't enjoy painting at all, but it isn't too bad so far.

I did the finishing touched to my pack camels. While doing so I knocked over a pot of contrast paint for the first time. I've seem the jokes about doing that online, but the pain is real :(.

More progress on the Rampart Cathedral over the long weekend.

Cheers,

CB

Finished ten out of fifteen of my Chaos cultists/Jaroaite or Jaroaian extremists for my Angaran Chronicles Skirmish game (I forget which group is which, which is the point of the joke, I suppose lol) Would've liked to have done more but I had my cousin's P&P RPG on tonight and had to do work on the section.

I finished my Cutists (yay!) Just gotta base them (boo! lol) Once that's done I might do a battle report here on Dakka Dakka of an Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game (working title) Could be the one where one side it attempting to summon a Jaroai while the other side is trying to prevent it.

One thing I might include in the scenario is that if the Jaroai is summoned (which is likely as the side preventing it has found it hard to stop in playtesting so far) If the side defending the summoning has mercenaries they will turn and try to kill it (if they aren't driven off by seeing it, or frozen in terror) Finally seeing the horrid creature they had no idea they were fighting to allow through the wall from "The Dimension Between Dimensions", that could be pretty cool.

Started adding and layering the rubble.



Cheers,

CB

@Captain Brown, that looks cool, mate!

Finished basing my Cultists/Jaroaian Extremists so that's a big part of my Pile of Shame done, now!

Also almost finished my newest Attelus Kaltos (who I've decided is the version of him before he was enhanced and before he was given his power sword by Karmen Kons) He could also be used as a mini for the Angaran Chronicles Skirmish character Alathis Setrin (who's basically a shameless rip-off of Attelus lol) I fixed up his face after frigging it up before so I'm pretty happy about that.

A few minis arrived today one of Berrk Ballacat from the Angaran Chronicles, Dellenger from Secret War and another version of Anargrin the latter of which I base painted ready for layering tomorrow, maybe? I dunno lol I was going to work on Berrk first but, naaahhhh lol

I varnished the edges of the bases of my Cultists and based my Orlock gangers before varnishing them as well, so they're ready for a game. I also did quite a lot more work on my new Anargrin and I'm very happy with him so far! Still gotta finish his shirt, shoes pants, and sword.

Thanks Adrassil

Now I have to figure out how to paint them in freezing temperatures.

Cheers,

CB

I assembled my Spiritseer and Daemon Prince, who has been sitting around as sprues for ages, especially the Daemon Prince.

I pretty much-finished painting that Anargrin and began basing him. I also realised that I needed to paint four more minis (D&D ones) for the minis performing the ritual to summon the Jaroai for that scenario and looked at them a lot, trying to get myself to start them, but failed miserably lol.

Painting started. Got in trouble as I used the garage to do spaying with the vehicles out...but it still stunk.

Cheers,

CB

1) tracked down a Gellerpox Infected Kill Team the other day.
So assembling & base coating.

2) assembling & base coating Cypher + a box of mk4 HH marines.
They'll be my Fallen in our upcoming Crusade/campaign.

Got to play two games of space weirdos and two games of undaunted stalingrad this weekend. Lots of fun.

Took a break from painting 15mm US for ww2. Built two wargames atlantic ogres. Really cool figures.

I began and pretty much finished the four D&D minis just gotta base them and did a bit more work on Anargrin.

He's made a bit more progress since I took these photos. Happy with him so far!

Took some photos of the Rampart Eternal Cathedral.

Cheers,

CB

In preparation for my eventual Battle Report of a game of The Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game (working title, maybe?) Of Anargrin and his team trying to stop the summoning of a Jaroai and it was close and fun. Anargrin’s team failed in stopping it from being summoned. And they almost killed it but they mercs who were hired to stop them saw the Jaroai and as I planned for the scenario turned against it. Despite the odds, the close combat horde passed their WP test to not run away and managed to finish it off under a deluge of pistol fire which definitely was against the odds. I also playtested the mechanic of 'charging' by jumping off an elevated position inspired by the part of Fellowship of the Ring when Aragorn jumps down on two Uruk Hai. That was pretty cool.

Freehanding chapter iconography this evening.

Gathering parts to make some scatter terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Built some new releases for Infinity and Malifaux. Planning on priming them later along with the crew for my Hooch Hauler.

Organized my unpainted terrain to work on soon. I've got two huge painting projects looming overhead that I really want to get and complete first though.

If I have time I'm going to start building my first League of Votann model. Start of my second army. Hells yeah.

I began painting my Blade Champion and I'm enjoying it, each time I've painted my Adeptus Custodes it's been fun. They're just nice minis to paint in my opinion even if I could paint them in a far easier way (Eg: Prime them gold, wash them with Seraphim Sepia or Reikland Flesh Shade, then dry brush sliver, then paint the cloth and other stuff red)

I also high lighted Anargrin's hair and fixed him up a bit more, yeah, here's some photos, I suppose. I frigged up, though. Dumb old me didn't prime his base so the paint chips off pretty easily on the edges, I was hoping that applying varnish would protect it better, but nope! Live and learn, I suppose (HANGING ON THE EDGE OF TOMORROW! Sorry, some may get that reference, I guess lol)

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Freehanding chapter iconography this evening.

This was a lie, instead I put paints on a palette and got distracted sorting out the club's terrain cupboard. Tonight's work is detailing Space Marines.

Later this afternoon will see my Beasts of Chaos vs <???> (no idea what the other guys bringing).

Then comes the shops orgizational meeting concerning our upcoming 40k Crusade/campaign.

Began an old metal Dark Reaper Exarch.

Cheers,

CB

FLGS for painting - finishing Logan and Green Goblin for MCP.

Fixed up Anargrin's base and went over him and his base again with matt varnish.

Did the base for an old metal Dark Reaper Exarch.

Cheers,

CB

These days I alternated between painting the first squad of two of Artel W not-Fire Dragons, as well as working on a scratch-built building for our Fallout Wasteland Warfare games.

The Fire Dragons are mostly Contrast paints so are somewhat simple, which is nice.

The building (a 3-story apartment building) is mostly completed now, putting some detail work on the outside staircase, and then should be ready to put some mix of paint+glue+sand on it for some light texturing and help seal the foam used on it. Then should be ready to paint!

Priming before the rain starts.

CB

I primed a bunch of models black.

Unfortunately, the 20 models I primed tan were victims of a bad can, are sitting in paint stripper and for me to go to the store for primer tomorrow.

A bit more work on my Blade Champion. Dropped one of his pauldrons on the floor and it disappeared into the aether where fallen miniature parts go to drive you insane like a Lovecraft protagonist in the fruitless bid to find them until the aether spits it back out weeks later for you to find it in a place you missed by the barest margins while you were searching for it (or in the most illogical place possible) I'm thinking of writing a short story about a shmuck like me trying to find a dropped miniature piece one day.

Sorry about the rant lol so I found a sprue of my Custodes Guardians and used a pauldron from that instead. He's quite close to being finished. The big part is his helmetless head which I'm always nervous to get started (I didn't start it today as I was too tired to paint skin as it's always a challenge for me even when mostly awake lol)

Finished building a box of HH MkIV Tactical marines.

Painted US 15mm WW2 rifle company in khaki. Pants are next. Then faces. Then weapons and equipment belts.

More work on my Blade Champion, began painting his face which I'm pretty happy with so far.

Completed my Blade Champion! A mini I really enjoyed painting. I might be a naysayer against GW but when I like what they do, I like what they do and the Custodes minis I've liked a lot so far! Although, I don't know why they decided to put him on a 40mm base which is over kill if you ask me. I was tempted to put him on a smaller base as if I ever get around to playing it'll be more likely One Page Rules than 40k but I decided just in case if I begin playing 40k again I'll put him on a legal base (he's super glued on so should wobble off if I ever want to change the base anyway)











Also begun painting my Spiritseer which is looking nicer than I thought it would in my Dalorsian colour scheme


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Practically finished my Spiritseer and began to assemble my 2nd Custodes squad which is a Custodian Guard squad.

Found a place for all my gaming stuff after moving.

Finally began playing my Angaran Chronicles Skirmish game for the Battle Report. Having fun but it's harder than thought it'd be, having to take constant notes and photos is doing my head in a bit lol

I finished playing out the game for the Angaran Chronicles Skirmish game today. It was fun even with constant pausing to write notes and take photos. Just trying to figure out how I'm going to format it and stuff. It might take a while before I get it posted.

Building 1 squad of WE Exalted 8bound & 1 squad if regular 8bound.
I plan to use them as my primary Boarding Action patrol in Our upcoming Crusade/campaign.

Today I 'ave been mostly discovering that my years-old apoxie sculpt does not want to cure.

Typing up the battle report for my Angaran Chronicles: Skirmish game and having fun with it.

Stepping in last minute to run a 5e D&D game at the shop this evening.
So a little bit of light prep work.

Did a bit more work on Ka'Banda. Not a fan of the gimpy-looking tiptoe Bloodthirster so planning to use him as a proxy.

Decided to go with Ultramarines on the base instead of the traditional BA, adds a bit of contrast. Also didn't realise his upper jawline is a separate part which was almost certainly lost by that point, had to do some emergency dental work using GS and sharpened sprue so he wouldn't appear so gummy.

Our new 40k campaign kicks off this Wed. So today I'm putting the final tweaks on the list I'll be using. And also building a unit of WE Jakkals I'll be needing for the 1st battle.

Finished my converted old metal Dark Reaper Exarch.



Cheers,

CB

Dorf.

Painting mekboys. You can never have enough.

Working on some chipboard loaded pallets for scatter terrain.


Cheers,

CB

Been slowly but surely working on writing up the Angaran Chronicles Skirmish Game Bat Rep, been battling chronic fatigue for days now so everything's been 10x harder. And having to look after my dad after he had to go through radiation therapy. So, yeah. Just began writing the 4th turn finally.

Today I'm building:
Exalted 8bound x3
WE Beserkers x10

Played two more games of Undaunted: Normandy. So 40% of the campaign completed

Finally, mostly, written up my Bat Rep and now onto the fun part...editing it, yaaay.

Also, just looking at a photo of my mini of Raleas Effernetti and I still can't believe how much she looks like Dua Lipa.



A complete fluke, but a good fluke nonetheless lol

Began writing up the Thread here on Dakka Dakka for my first Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game, here's the link! I hope you guys give it a look and enjoy!

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/809375.page#11506110

Here's the Intro story.

Anargrin materialises from the shadows and, keeping low, looks into the lighted cavern the enemy had taken as their base of operations. It’s an ancient dwarven city broken by time as much as the battle that’d surely waged through it, but still quite intact even after millennia of breakdown, a testament to dwarven architecture. High above, the Dwarven lights had long ago died, but the new tenants had replaced them with their own. Anargrin could hear the chugging of diesel generators echoing through the close-knit streets. It wasn’t hard for Anargrin to locate where the enemy was due to the highest concentration of light. Not surprising as they didn’t know Anargrin and his team had caught wind of their plan, so subtlety wasn’t a high priority for them; this didn’t prevent them from hiring the aid of a gang to protect them.

Their plan, their damned plan. Anargrin couldn’t believe it; they were trying to summon a Jaroai. Bring one of those terrifying creatures into this world. And even if it wasn’t true, they still had to look into it. Anargrin had encountered one of those horrid things three years ago and fought one three years ago. It and its disgusting peons the Shalazquai, only briefly, but if he’d fought it, he’d have died alongside the six Hunters and the vampires he’d fought alongside. Only Anargrin, Emilia and Raleas had survived.

The thought of Raleas made Anargrin start; she’d lost her mind just by looking at the Jaroai before fainting away into sweet darkness as she laughed with insane glee. She hadn’t joined them then. She was a prisoner Anargrin had captured, a strong-willed soldier who was not mentally prepared for such a sight. Raleas knew their mission and insisted she was ready to face that horror again. But Anargrin couldn't help but doubt it, and he hoped, he almost prayed, they would be able to stop the ritual before its completion.

But he doubts it.

Swallowing, Anargrin pushes away such thoughts and slips into the shadows again. He had an enemy base to scout.



Raleas sighs as she sits on a rock and looks at her prized sniper rifle, fighting the urge to dissemble and reassemble it again. She shakes, and no matter how hard she fights to control it, she just can’t. Then her foot starts tapping on the floor.

‘Quit it, Raleas,’ says Jelcine; she sits with her back against the cave wall, even barely lit by the electric light, but her red dress and hat stand out. ‘You’re such a pain in the arse. You shouldn’t have come on this mission.’

Usually, Raleas would tell the Hunter to shut up but finds her throat almost clamped shut; she just looks at Wilom and Emilia. Both of them are uncharacteristically silent, their eyes fixed on the ground. Emilia wears her beautiful white dress and purple beret, both of that will soon be torn to shreds when she inevitably transforms into her werewolf form. Her golden hair is plaited and gorgeous; if Raleas cared about such things, she might be jealous.

Wilom, in his brown trench coat, seemed to shake even more than Raleas, his close-cropped red hair was usually impeccably combed and lacquered was messy, and from what little Raleas could see of his eyes, they were wide and dilated. Despite the Hunter-apprentice never encountering a Jaroai before, Raleas supposed that with all the propaganda about the Jaroai, the Hunters had told him he was bound to be terrified.

And Raleas knew that all of that propaganda was true.

She shuddered and glared at Jelcine; surely she could be more sympathetic? Surely-

Raleas’ train of thought is interrupted by Anargrin emerging from the darkness like he was being birthed by it. Raleas doesn’t flinch or raise her rifle; she just stands, she is used to his tendency for such an appearing act. His large, hazel almond-shaped eyes stared at her, and they watered with what seemed sympathy or, knowing him, empathy. His long brown hair is pulled into a ponytail allowing Raleas to admire his sharp, sculpted features easily. He seems even more pale than usual, even in the warm glow of the electric light. Like he saw a ghost or a-

‘Is it true?’ said Wilom asking the question they all needed to know. ‘Are they actually summoning a Jaroai?’

Anargrin doesn’t take his eyes off Raleas, but he answers. ‘Yes, I’m afraid so, Wilom.’

Raleas can’t help reel as a gasp escapes, but Raleas couldn’t know from whom. Maybe it was herself?

‘H-how?’ said Wilom. ‘How is that possible?’

Anargrin finally takes his gaze from Raleas, and it falls to the ground; he shrugs. ‘Who knows? With all the knowledge we’ve gathered over the centuries, there are still things we don’t know. Or will never know.’

‘How do you know it’s true, then?’ said Jelcine.

‘Because I saw the tentacles emerging from some sort of portal,’ sighs Anargrin. ‘We’ve seen those tentacles before.’

‘By Jaroai,’ gasps Emilia, unaware of the irony of using such a curse in this situation. ‘What are we going to do now?’

‘We stop it,’ says Jelcine.

‘B-but what if we can’t?’ says Wilom. ‘Y-you killed one, didn’t you, Anargrin? Five years ago? How did you kill it exactly?’

‘I didn’t kill it,’ says Anargrin. ‘There was no way I could. It died only after I manipulated the artillery barrage on its location, a barrage that lasted two hours. We were just lucky it was in a war zone.’

Raleas would've liked to tell him it wasn’t lucky because that war zone was in her country. The nation of Zathar, but she couldn't even think straight as her head was spinning too much.

Wilom hisses through clenched teeth and runs his hand through his hair. ‘So, if we fail-’

‘We won’t fail, Wilom,’ says Jelcine. ‘Now, we are wasting time! We have to attack now! What are the forces lined up against us, Anargrin.’

Anargrin nods. ‘For once, I agree with you, Jelcine. We’ve got ten Jaroaite Extremists with sub-machine guns, a Priest, and ten locally hired thugs, five with pistols and combat knives. Five with submachine guns.’

Anargrin looks at Wilom. ‘Will you be okay, Wilom?’

‘Yes, I think so,’ says the Hunter-apprentice with a rapid nod. ‘I can do this.’

Anargrin studies him for a few seconds before nodding back. ‘Alright, you three get moving. I will talk to Raleas.’

Wilom, Emilia and Jelcine all turn their attention to Raleas, much to Raleas’ annoyance.

‘Go, guys,’ says Anargrin, and the trio hesitantly moves. ‘Wait at the cavern entrance, and we’ll catch up soon.’

Anargrin approaches Raleas, locks his eyes with hers and places a palm on her shoulder.

‘Raleas, you must realise you will be looking at that thing through your rifle’s scope, and this time you won’t be able to faint away. Are you sure-’

Raleas grimaces as anger eclipses her anxiety, and she snatches up her rifle. ‘I am sure!’ she says. ‘I will be fine, and don’t you dare ask me that question ever again!’

Anargrin seems to become lost in her gaze as Raleas becomes lost in his; a few seconds pass, but it feels like hours before a small smile crosses his face. ‘I see you are, and I won’t. Let’s go, then.’

He turns to walk away, but Raleas calls out his name, making him halt and look back at her.

‘I never thanked you for saving me from the Jaroai back then,’ says Raleas. ‘You had no reason to save me and-’

‘Raleas, I had plenty of reasons to save you besides it being the right thing to do. You have proven that ten-fold since we started working together. And you have no need to thank me, now come on! Time is wasting away.’

picked up the Osiligath box, plus a Minas Tirith battlehost box and some extra knights...

managed to assembled and prime all of the "good" side except the characters and have assembled the ruins, which are beautiful but take some assembly, lovely modular kits and when they are (finally) released outside the box will likely get some more

aim is to get the primed models painted tomorrow (the beauty of a model that is basically all armour with one cloth colour showing)

Started working on another two pieces of scatter terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Been assembling a squad of Custodes and while painting them is pretty fun, assembling them isn't quite as fun lol

not quite managed to finish the Osiligarth boxed set, the terrain took way longer than expected, however the Gondor side, plus battlehost and extra knights are just about table ready, characters excepted.., ok old sculpts but still quite nice

Finished building my Eldar Weapon Platform (one plastic, two 3D printed) and a Vyper. Still not all glued because I need to paint them in sub-assembly, so will have to wait to prime them all before start painting.

Hobby related.. stuck up six 4'x16" storage shelves in the cellar, sized to take the 4l & 9l Really Useful Boxes, up to five along on each shelf and 5 of the 4l boxes high or a pair of 9l and a 4l...

with a bit of luck this will mean I will be able to see the floor again and shift about 30 odd boxes from various locations to one set of shelves.

space for three more 2' lengths if needed (they will be)

mesahates drilling holes 4" off the floor in the cellar

Still working on another two pieces of scatter terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Finished assembling my Custodes and began painting my mini of one the antagonists of my novel The Angaran Chronicles: The Underside, berrk Balacat. He's a real psychopathic bad guy and ultra double douche so I thought about how I could paint him to convey how much of douche he is so what's more douchy than one of those black t-shirts with a white bow tie and white where the buttons are? Well, I tried it with his real bow tie and it actually doesn't look too bad, dammit lol.

Almost finished, Berrk. I was thinking of making his blond hair blond, but I'm keeping it Averland Sunset. I'm happy with how evil and douchey he looks, lol. I glued my recently assembled Custodes to 40mm bases, as GW says so; even though my Wardens fit well on 32mm bases, I guess I have to rebase them. It's my fault for neglecting to keep the bases with the minis when I assemble them. I also began assembling my Proxy Wars version of Baharroth and Swooping Hawks. Really, really nice minis. With them and the Proxy Wars version of Fire Dragons, I'll have all of the Aspect Temples except for the Forge World one.

Couldn't do too much today but I did manage to assemble six of my Proxy Wars Swooping Hawks, though (it was the same with my Artel W Warp Spider minis). It's great as there are six minis in each pack so five Aspect Warriors+Exarch so if you want to have either two squads of five or one squad of ten including an Exarch in each it's easier than if you get five total including an Exarch. So eg, if you want to run a ten-woman squad of GW Howling Banshees you have to make one of the ten an Exarch and the nine remaining as normal Aspect Warriors or you magnetise one of the Banshees to change her into an Exarch for two five-women squads each with an Exarch. Jeez, sorry that was a roundabout way of saying that. I wish GW sold boxes of six minis for Aspect warrior squads. It might even make the 105 NZD Banshee box a little more worth the exorbitant price lol

Finished the scatter terrain.

Now working on improving the paint job on my Eternal Cathedral.

Cheers,

CB

I primed and zenithal highlighted my 2nd Squad of Custodes. I'm painting them...gasp! Silver! With Blue decorations. I also dry-brushed them and finished mostly a test mini, and he doesn't look too bad—a much easier paint scheme than my black and green Custodes. I finished assembling my Swooping Hawks, also. But most importantly, I talked to a lady who runs a local community building, and it seems I'm going to start a Miniature game club in my home town! Wish me luck!

I'm planning to finish painting my third Sentinel for Marvel United and get moving on this big three headed Tyrannosaurus Rex that a friend gave me for Christmas.

Also, I just got an undead shark from Privateer Press that I probably need to work on

Practically finished my Custodes and just began basing them. Also primed and zenithal highlighted my Swooping Hawk proxies; they're amazing minis, but they can't stick together well; the arms and wings seem to fall off at the lightest touch. Would pin them, but their arms are so tiny. I think I've finally managed to get them properly together, though. Here's hoping.

This evening I made 20 easy-to-read pin counters foe Bolt Action.

Even dry brushing the tiny #s on the official BA pin markers white, they were still too small for me to read.

So I mounted those pin markers on 20mm Litko life counters.
Problem solved.

I began painting a test mini of my first six-man Swooping Hawk squad (splitting them into two different temples for skirmish play), and the mini has been a joy to paint so far. I was tempted to write a whinging review on Etsy about how much trouble I had assembling them, but I decided to wait until I painted them and am glad I did now, as it'll be a much more balanced review!

Mostly finished another two Swooping Hawk proxies, and again, they are damned nice minis to paint. Keep falling off their bases and stuff, though. Happy with how they looking so far!

Got a base coat on some Bolt Action squads this afternoon.

This has been my past few weeks.

Being a Patron of One Page Rules, I've been playing with their new Army Forge Studio in a bid to make Inquisitor Enandra's Private Forces from Secret War, and it's been pretty fun. I'm not a big fan of the "Human Inquisition" faction they have and endeavoured to make them more like how I see the Inquisition. I made Attelus Kaltos, and he's so expensive! Like 480 points, lol, but the stuff I gave him fits him well. I really look forward to giving the rules a go when I can!

Generated a shipping quote for items.

Cheers,

CB

Finished my last pair of Swooping Hawks, so onto the Exarch, which has been base painted and is now being layer painted. I also primed and washed a whole lot of connectors for my Mantic terrain. I'm not sure if I have enough terrain for the TT Skirmish game club yet, so will have to begin working on that soon!

Opened a package delivered this morning, now have 02 Hundred Hours, with the Defenders of Facility 9 expansion.

stuck together the 8 German sentries for the first mission and primed them, aim is painted for Saturday.

nice models, only minor quibble being how the SMG magazine pouches really don't fit well on the bodies at all, flat on the back where they needed to be sculpted to fit individual bodies. No real harm though, just left them off. otherwise very nice, easy to assemble and thoughtfully places sprue connections

Finished my Proxy Wars Swooping Hawks and began overbrushing the terrain stuff I primed and washed last night. But I finally managed to finish the Army Book for my Secret War Inquisition Faction for Grimdark Future and Fire Fight without the mistakes from before, which I'm actually really proud of it. Can't wait to give it a try!

Did two old metal Heavy Support Platform weapons.

Shadow Weaver and Vibrocannon.


Cheers,

CB

PS: If anyone has two of these unused sitting in a bits box I would be interested in acquiring them.

Working on a kind of an interesting project. I'm putting together some flat vinyl terrain and flat vinyl tokens for a top-down version of 40k. Lots of fun, really.

Finished my 1st squad of Proxy Wars Swooping Hawks, and I'm very happy with how they turned out! They were an absolute joy to paint. One of the things I decided when I began this Eldar army was that along with them having bases depicting their war against Slaaneshi invaders of their craftworld is that they all are side lighted from their left.













And began painting a demo mini of my 2nd Swooping Hawk squad; this one is roughly based on the colour scheme GW has for their minis.

Built a bunch of Nurglings this evening.

I've almost finished my Proxy Wars Fire Dragons and having fun experimenting with 'Slap Chopping' zenithal highlighting from the side and using Contrast paints, most specifically Flesh Tearers Red and Blood Angels Red going over the dark side with Flesh Tearers and the light side with Blood Angels and wet blending them together where the coloured meet and it looks pretty good. It's quick and easy, but I do prefer using classic acrylics, in all honesty.

I also did some more experimenting, trying to develop a quick and easy way to paint power blades that looks good, as every technique I've seen online requires a lot of glazing and such. So far, my "technique" is that I paint the Caledor Sky, then blob on a lot of Drakenhof Nightshade, then free-hand lightning with white paint, but now I'm trying dry brushing and to works well on the swords like the Custodes ones. So, uhh yeah.

Finished my Fire Dragons, so now I have all the Aspect Warrior temples all painted up! Here's a pic.



I then went and worked on the power blades of minis that I'd mostly finished with, a technique I've been refining for a while now. Pretty happy with them so far.

My Troupe Master


Attelus Kaltos






Corsair Kurnathi



Corsair Felarch



Autarch Valkian Aralian

Got around to building a more recent kit from my backlog this evening.
Hexbane's Hunters.

Nice models, some cut up into really strange pieces.
The odd thing about them is the plastic they're cast in - a light Grey that's softer than virtually any other GW kit I've built in recent years. Detail on the figures is ok, but also not quite as crisp as other recent GW stuff.

With all my Aspect Warriors finished, I became a little lost on what to do next. I was tempted to assemble my Chaos Space Marines but remembered I needed more terrain, so I began assembling my Necromunda Gangstronghold. Mostly because I couldn't find my Octarius Terrain. Need a lot of it if I'm able to potentially run five Grimdark Future Firefight games at once at my TT Skirmish games club.

put the base grey on a 28mm Sarissa Radar station, still trying to work out what colour to paint the chateau it came with

also adding lights to model railway buildings and pondering if it would be worth the effort to do the same to some WW2 28mm gaming buildings for a night time/low light effect where the on table lighting is enough to play by

Finished assembling my Necromunda Gang Stronghold. It's a pretty cool set up.

I assembled my Kill Team Octarius terrain today. Now I've gotta start priming it...yay lol

Recovering from getting hammered in 02 Hundred hours yesterday, and to add further insult it was my own SAS models doing the hammering to my poor innocent Germans

today the SAS are being rewarded with their paint job being completed so they can look better as they repeat the favour next weekend

Yusss primed my Kill Team Octarius Terrain and Zone Mortalis Gang Stronghold terrain. I sprayed them black, then Zenithal highlighted them with Leadbelcher, and it looked good. I also enjoyed doing it, which is weird as priming is my least-liked part of the hobby, especially priming terrain. It's already mostly done, so I'm pretty happy!

I had a playtest of Grimdark Future: Fire Fight playing a scenario where one side besieges my big Mantic building. Using recently made rules I did in the Army Builder app on the website of Attelus Kaltos from Secret War and a few of his team (Adelana Helgen, Karmen Kons and Marcel Torris) they have to survive 4 turns before being extracted by Guncutter. The besiegers were made up Chaos Cultists Led by a Chaos Marine. Attelus and his team came out smelling roses, Attelus being the only one wounded due to being lodged in Close combat. I had both sides at 300 points so I might try to balance it out with the siegers getting up to 500 points that might balance the scenario a bit more. I decided if I'm going to use Grimdark: Firefight as my main game at my TT Skirmish Club (for now, atleast) I have to learn the rules first lol.

Also made eight 300 point Grimdark: Firefight lists for the games next week. I hope it won't be too hard to teach several people playing games at once. Wish me luck!

Spent the evening assembling 50-some Skaven, mostly clan rats, from the old WHFB Isle of Blood (or whatever the elf/skaven starter was called) set.

Judging by the contents I found in a shoe box, it looks like I'd traded/bought 2 complete Skaven halves at some point around 2017*
Combined with a handful of other misc Skaven stuff I have, I'd guess I can now field around 1500pts.

*2017 was a really bad year as Dad spent much of it critically ill & dying in Hospice. And then there was dealing with the estate.... Over the past few years I've found several other hobby projects that were started, shelved, & forgotten about in all that chaos/grief/etc.

The good news is that my 2023 project of finally building a proper Skaven army just got ALOT cheaper.

Been working on building my 2 boxes of Raveners. Once they were done, I took some greentsuff and bitz to get the leftover pieces into two extra Raveners. Some Nids kit are great to get extra free models!

Finished a boatload of jungle terrain that will be staying at the flgs. Great for Pacific island campaigns and lizardmen.

Oof, I typed up my proposal to Osprey Publishing for The Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game and just sent it today. Fingers crossed! Wish me luck, everyone!

 Adrassil wrote:
Oof, I typed up my proposal to Osprey Publishing for The Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game and just sent it today. Fingers crossed! Wish me luck, everyone!

Wow that sounds great! Good luck on that!

On my end I've continued my my Nids backlog and working on some Genestealers. Built 6 so far, doing 4 more to have a full squad of 10 (at the moment, curious to see if that changes in 10th). I hate the mould lines on them

 Skywave wrote:

 Adrassil wrote:
Oof, I typed up my proposal to Osprey Publishing for The Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game and just sent it today. Fingers crossed! Wish me luck, everyone!

Wow that sounds great! Good luck on that!

Thanks, dude! I'll need it!

Anyway, I started working on my Young Arken mini I got from Hero Forge, enjoying painting him.

Been teaching myself Grimdark Future: Firefight with a scenario I made myself of characters being besieged. I made rules for a few of my Secret War main characters in the Army Builder app from One Page Rules. I ran the scenario a few days ago, with both sides having 300 points. This time the Attackers had 500 points. Still, it was much more one-sided for the defenders despite the attackers outnumbering the defenders by a considerable margin. The defenders are Attelus Kaltos (the dude with the powersword), Adelana Helgen (the redhead girl). Karmen Kons (the Blonde and a psyker) and Marcel Torris. It was fun; the defenders had to last until the end of the fifth turn, and it was hard yakka for the defenders. I lost Attelus due to some very lucky rolling of the attackers and never passing a Regeneration roll (which is OPR's version of a Feel No Pain/Invulnerable Save). He did manage to take down a Chaos Space Marine and several Traitor Guardsmen and Cultists before he went down. One particular Guardsman had incredible luck, working to take a wound off Attelus and Karmen despite hitting on 5's and 6's, respectively, having a single shot and no AP on his rifle. He was the MVP of their side, that's for sure.

On the fifth turn, I lost Karmen due to a lucky meltagun shot (or a "Fusion Rifle", as it's called in OPR). Only Adelana and Torris managed to survive and escape (luckily, Attelus is a Perpetual, so he'll be back, but Karmen, well, this can't be canon as she isn't immortal, and it's set between Secret War and Secret War: Upon Blood Sands and she's alive and breathing, and Attelus didn't "die" between three year time skip either so...lol. Had fun! Might play a more traditional game of Grimdark Future: Firefight soon too.

Today will be spent teaching BattleTech & then running a 5e D&D game.

After seeing those photos of Attelus, I decided to fix him up a bit.



I also played another game of Grimdark Future: Firefight, this time using the standard rules. It was "Elf Fleets" (Eldar) vs "Havoc Brothers" (Chaos or Chaos Cultists led by a Chaos Marine).







With the Eldar being outnumbered more than three to one, I thought they'd get wiped out, but the game was a complete curb stomp to the Eldar. They suffered no fatalities and won, having more objectives at the end (doing the straightforward scenario of whoever owns the most objectives by the end of the 4th turn wins). The "Not-Warp Spider Exarch" was MVP, as he slaughtered at least five Cultists single-handed.

I also did a bit more work on Arken's new mini. Dotted the eyes, so to speak lol.

Picked up the Lion from my FLGS, and got him into subassemblies for painting.

Played another couple of Grimdark Future: Firefight, both being "Eldar" vs "Chaos Cultists", the same teams again. The 1st was an absolute walkover for Chaos. They completely overwhelmed the Eldar, the only survivor being the Autarch. The mistake was keeping the Autarch in reserve using his "Ambush" trait until the 3rd turn. The 2nd game was a strong victory for the Eldar, but it didn't help the Chaos Marine leading them died in the 2nd turn, being reduced to 1 wound by the "Not-Fire Dragon" and then being slayed while he was down by the Autarch with his "Fusion Rifle that's looks like a Fusion Pistol because there's no option for Fusion Pistol in the High Elf Fleets faction sheet". The Eldar only lost one Guardian, while the Cultists lost most of their men, some to failed leadership tests and ran. But they did manage to kill the Not-Fire Dragon before losing with a lucky shot. The game seems quite well-balanced, might try it again with a couple of different lists next.













I think I'm getting a hang of the game, and it's so quick and easy.

Had a go at trying to paint up a worn out, beaten up vehicle. Still need to do something about the wheels, but other than that, quite pleased with how well it turned out so far.

Going through my collection of 15mm odds and sods and discovering thst I have half a Carthaginian army.

I made the canon Gaunt's Ghosts minis in Grimdark Future and GF: Fire Fight with the One Page Rules Army Forge Studio. It was fun! I made sure to give the options of Veteran Infantry, Fearless, Regeneration and a few other things only to the characters who survived the Gereon mission and the option to give Gaunt the Sword of Hieronymo Sondar. They all have Stealth because due to their camoleoline cloaks.

I also had an idea to make four GFF lists at 150 points each so the kid can play half a list each on the same side in one game on Wednesday, so it'll be easier to teach them instead of two games running at once.

Paint and assemble vampire army.

Planning a big game this summer to end 9th edition (3v3, 2k per players), and I decided to gear up for some gunline-type list with my Nids (I expect movement to be clogged up fast so I could just sit back and shoot whatever).

With that I realized that a lot of my (big) shooty unit are not painted. So I'll have to crank it up and start painting!

I did some last minute modification to my two Tyrannofexes. The guns are magnetized, but hard to swap (easy when not painted and rubbing everywhere). So I modified the bases and magnetized the model itself to the base, making everything much much more manageable! Plus the base and the underside of the model will be much easier to paint too!

I then glued the sand on what was needed: the aforementioned Tyrannofex base, a trio of Warriors, and one metal Carnifex, 3rd edition one. Went out tonight and primed the Tyrannofex base, the Carnifex and one Warrior. It was getting cold at this hour and still raining, so did wanted to push my luck more for tonight.

Finally got the Archon "Elven Woods" and "Deuslair: Sample Pack" miniatures painted.

ObPlug: 48 hour mark for the Archon "Dungeon and Laser 5: Deuslair" KS. You can get their previous terrain through the KS, though have to take the Deuslair core.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/archonstudio/dungeons-and-lasers-v-world-of-deuslair-5e

Threw in a few Reaper figures and Battle Systems "Village Set" cottage for scale.

That's so cool, ced!

Anyway, had a few games of Grimdark Future: Firefight playtesting the Gaunt's Ghosts rules I made in the One Page Rules Army Forge Studio. 300 points of Gaunt, Rawne, and Bragg vs Ork Kommandoes. No matter how strange and rare, such a matchup is just that one short story in Ghostmaker (one of my favourites in the book). It'd be pretty cool Was a lot of fun.















I also painted a Chaos Aspiring Champion to lead the "not-Chaos" team in the Grimdark Future: Firefight game(s) which starts tomorrow. I am happy with him, the model was so old school, and the way I painted him makes him seem like he'd be on the front of an issue of Inferno!

Two versions, one that just had Nuln Oil sloughed all over it.



The other with red painted back over it.





I'm actually preferring the one without the highlighted red, but that's just looking at the photo.

Started off looking for several misc Skaven pieces I KNOW I have. Ended up properly sorting out another box of mixed minis. Still haven't found those ratmen, but....
Later on this evening I'll be building a Screaming Bell.

Painting some alien trees.

Cheers,

CB

Dropping more MCP models at my FLGS for the display I have there.

Then painting Sexy Strange, Honey badger and X-23 at said FLGS.

Also putting my name down to pre-order the new underworlds set.

I played a couple more games of Grimdark Future: Firefight, this time using the custom-made faction for my Corsairs vs Not Chaos Cultists, this time on 44x30 board, and it was fun it worked well on 44x30 board.

Continued painting some alien trees.

Cheers,

CB

Finishing priming some Tyranids (magnetized arms, Tyrannofex), as well as painting some 3rd edition Carnifexes (that will need those afformentioned magnetized arms ).

Wrote up a battle report for Kings of War.
https://www.kowforum.com/t/tales-of-the-fools-hold/3963/6

Hopefully building a unit of Stormvermin later this evening.

Dull coated my final ww2 infantry, at last
Now only 2 pak40s and 11 tanks left to go

Assembling some more Mantic/Deadzone terrain for my TT Skirmish gaming club. An excellent way to callus and harden your fingers, lol

Finished the alien trees.



Cheers,

CB

I did my least favourite part of the hobby, priming, especially priming terrain. My Mantic/Dead Zone buildings are primed, and I began washing the big ruined one that I tried to make it look like a ruined mansion recently converted to be a temporary defensible position.















This one is a pill boxy/mini fortification.













This one is sorta a ruined vendor, which I was meaning to make into some sorta prison, but it ended up, well, not being a prison lol

I began applying washes to the buildings in my last post and finished two of them, the ruined mansion and the pillbox, but the vendor wasn't quite done; for that, I used Reikland Flesh Shade, and it worked well. It looks like it's in a desert or something. I would've done more, but it was very humid today, so drying time on even acrylic paint was very slow indeed. I then plugged in the dehumidifier, which helped a bit. I also cranked out the airbrush for the first time in ages and, again, would've done more, but the battery ran out, and I couldn't find the recharge cord. Maaan, I wish I was more tidy and organised some of the time...hell...wish I was most of the time lol

Finished painted my 2 Carnifexex and my Tyrannofex.

Might move on to a small squad of 3 Warriors to get my 1500pts list of shooty Nids all painted.

Finished washing my buildings today and began dry brushing. I did some airbrushing too, but like a dumbass, I dropped an essential piece down the sinkhole while cleaning it. We had to take out the S-bend to retrieve it. Making sure to put the plug in next time :/

Actually managing to tackle some models as of late. Working my way through some of the new AoS swamp orcs and Xandire's Truthseekers

Got my battle banners mailed to me from Dragon Trove. I'm a busy little bee cutting them apart. I thought the spaceship one would be difficult to figure out, but it's pretty intuitive. These are going to be fun!


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Got my battle banners mailed to me from Dragon Trove. I'm a busy little bee cutting them apart. I thought the spaceship one would be difficult to figure out, but it's pretty intuitive. These are going to be fun!

We had the first game night playing Grimdark Future: Firefight, and it went really well! The kids were great, and they had fun. Now I'm exhausted, though lol

Had to take the cat to the vet unscheduled.
They said "Bring her in & they'll work us into things."
This translates to come on in & ..... wait.

So I'm sitting here at the vets with the cat, drinking coffee, and alternating between reading the v2 Warcry book & browsing the internet. And waiting.....

Built and finished 10 necron warrior flayed ones for a flayed one necron dynasty I'm making, along with also assembling a plasmancer and neocyte.

Overall pretty satisfied with the progress.

A couple of minis delivered I bought from Etsy a few weeks back. A Lelith Hesperax proxy mini that's part of a diorama of her stabbing a Chaos Space Marine through the chest. The second is a proxy of Eisenhorn, and it's an excellent mini better than the GW version of Eisenhorn. The only problem being is his mouth is very undefined. I primed, and Zenithal highlighted him, and it helped a bit. Also rebased Attelus and his team onto Zone Mortalis bases instead of Infinity ones, as they are from 40k. As well as re-glued a few things.

I tried chipping for the first time. I used chipping fluid on a very damaged Japanese Zero I did a while back but the fluid has it's pros and cons. For this 1/48 Challenger 2 I decided to paint the chips by hand. Was helped by the fact that this modern British tank wouldn't be as chipped as a WWII Soviet machine for example. I sponged on a lighter coat of the basecoat then filled them in with Vallejo Dark Rust.

The overall effect is pretty impressive in person, I hope the camera managed to catch it.

We set me up more shelves in my hobby room for my minis and such. I also began base painting my new Eisenhorn mini

Recalculating all my Warcry bands to the v2 compendium pts values.

Then I've got 16 more Stormvermin to build.

Edit: Well, tonight during one of the most boring D&D sessions I've played in in a looong time, I got 11 of those Stormvermin completely built.

Just finished building my 5th Raptadon Hunter. Next up are going to be the 5 Lancers!

Building the 2nd half of my Stormvermin box.

More progress on my Eisenhorn proxy, and despite him having almost no mouth, I think he's turning out pretty well.

Building Raptadon Chargers. 1/5 down!

Built the contents of Warhammer Unddrworlds Shadespire late last night. Looking for a clear day so I can prime them

Finishing up building a Skaven Plague Furnace.
I may also start on a FW VerminLord & a box of Gnawholes. Or maybe those'll be tomorrow....

Either way, the "build & basecoat" phase of my 2023 Skaven project is nearly complete.

Finished building Raptadon Hunters, now this happens:

Primeasaurs!

Finished a squad of 3 Tyranids warriors and played a game last weekend, and since I've been prepping the rest of my Nids backlog.

Glued sand to some bases, and primed a bunch of models. I did 16 Genestealers, 1 Warriors, 3 metal Raveners, 8 Plastic Raveners, 1 Tyrannofex. After the primer I base-coated them all black to have the surface ready, that was a lot of black!

Have a few more models left to do that same way, but that's a nice chunk done and ready to paint whenever I want now!

Still suffering from a back injury, so painting is not something I can do for long stretches yet. So I've decided to try and fiddle about with contrast for a bit, touching it up after with drybrushing to see where I wind up. These are both test models and well, haha, cannon fodder destined to die in the first scenario of a campaign I plan on running later this year. Also still work in progress, need to do the bases, weapons and the hair in case of the leader of the gang.

Preping bases for 2 more obligatory Armigers.

Today I will:
● finish building a Skaven Plague Furnace
● make movement trays for my various Skaven units.
•• and pull together the mechs & sheets & maps needed for a BattleTech game later in the week.

I've been pretty slack with miniature stuff lately, but I did a bit today. Assembled a Farseer proxy mini I got from Etsy and then began painting the bases of Attelus Kaltos and company, then fixing them up, as well as my GW Lelith and began painting the Hero Forge mini of Dellenger from Secret War; Using my new pair of magnifying glasses I bought from Neat and Handy with the 3.5x magnification glass and a mounted flashlight that'd arrived a couple of days ago and boy oh boy it makes a huge difference it helped me fix eyes and parts I'd missed earlier easily. Really happy with them.

Well the plan was to build a Plague Furnace, make some Skaven movement trays, & pull/print some BTech sheets....

I ended up painting an Urbenmech.
As in fully painting it, not just hitting it with a base coat. 2nd model to be fully painted this year.

More progress on Dellenger; his mini looks pretty much exactly how I imagined he looked like. I also realised he looks like Archer from...well...Archer. Should make Dellenger start saying DANGERZONE from time to time, lol. I also fixed up an Attelus Kaltos mini that I'd frigged the face of earlier with the new magnifying glasses. It allowed me to fix him a lot. Too bad he fell off my painting handle and broke on the floor pretty badly. I glued most of him back together, but there are a few slivers I can't find.

Also assembled a few more minis.

I haven't been doing much at all for a while! But today I set myself the task of painting a bug warrior (Some sort of dnd mini) and I also finished that goal.

I wrote a battle report for Kings of War:
https://www.kowforum.com/t/tales-of-the-fools-hold/3963/9

I liked how my Urbanmech from last night turned out well enough that I decided to paint up a random lance mate for him.
A Scorpion mech.

The Urbie just happened to be in a bitz box I'd been sorting. It & the paint were both present on the work table at the same moment.
The Scorpion? That I had to intentionally open the BTECH cases for that one. Of all the unpainted mechs I own, I've NO idea why I selected a Scorpion....

In the coming days I will paint up 2 more random mechs in this scheme for a complete lance.

Almost finished Dellenger and began another old Attelus mini that's been sitting around for ages, mostly his face. But I dropped Attelus while painting him and broke his sword, and couldn't find the blade no matter how much I looked. Made me demoralised but then I got an idea, so I clipped off what remained of the blade and replaced it with the blade of a power sword from the Dark Angels veteran box, and I'm happy with how it turned out, much closer to the sword Attelus wields in the art I drew of him. Then I did a bit of base painting on him.

More progress on the new Attelus; I'm quite happy with how he's turning out.

working, slowly, through the contents of the Judge Dress starter, have the skin tones done and even have the blue on a single judge

work also progressing on a pair of Contemptor dreadnoughts for my XIV

Planning to get some more work done on some misc Skaven stuff this evening.

There's some Frostgrave going on around here, so I figured out a 2nd ed warband using my handful of nightstalkers (illusionist seemed appropriate) that I based individually.

Weather has cleared up, so I have a pair of macharius, and 4 of mortian medium tanks and a Mortian battle tank to prime and spray.

bit more work on a few MegaCity one judges and the contemptor pair, base colours on them two largely done, just metals to add now, then the weapons to paint

I've pretty much finished Attelus, I'm very happy with him. Also did some work on Dellenger I repainted his cameleoline cloak to match the base (grey with Nuln Oil and light grey dry brush).

Finished Attelus I just put a matt varnish on him a while ago. He could use a little more work but right now just leaving him for a while. I assembled (mostly) my pair of Warlocks and I'm a little annoyed with the kit as it makes it you have to give one a Witch Blade and one a Singing Spear, would've liked to been able to give both either, especially because it's such an expensive kit. So if you want two with Witch Blades or two with Singing Spears you have to buy two boxes at $114 NZD. Luckily Gap Games sell it for $69.99 AUD. Though I might go to Etsy for similar models, I think. Still nice sculpts, will give the one with a Singing Spear a bare head to represent Klrith from Secret War.

sorting space in the cellar to stick a new 3d printer mostly

Contemplating wether or not I need to cancel this evenings D&D game at the shop.

Wed/Thur I injured a knee.
I can (mostly) get around the house. I can drive.
But can I survive the walk through the parking lot to/from the gaming table? That is the question.....

ccs wrote:
Contemplating wether or not I need to cancel this evenings D&D game at the shop.

Wed/Thur I injured a knee.
I can (mostly) get around the house. I can drive.
But can I survive the walk through the parking lot to/from the gaming table? That is the question.....

Oh no, dude. That's frigged, hoping it heals soon!

My father and I moved stuff around my hobby room today and it's a much better layout. I then tried to reassemble broken parts on minis (which is VERY frigging fun, indeed!) and a few other minis including trying to finish my Warlocks and...I don't know who designed how they were assembled but they did a bad job. The legs are glued on a little indent with a nub inside the cloak skirt and...when one doesn't glue properly it's crazy annoying how hard it is to stick back on when the mini is mostly assembled.

I did some priming and fixed a few resin mini-bits with boiled water. Then began painting a Farseer proxy mini I bought from Etsy; she's fun to paint, but, frig, she's a bastard to assemble.

I also haven't been happy with the face of my newest version of Attelus for a while; it's all scaly and lumpy underneath a particular light source. I did some research, and it might've been because I didn't wait long enough for the last coat to dry, so that the next one might've torn into the last one. So, I took a blunt knife and very carefully scrapped off the lumps and the scaly bits and much to my surprise, it worked! It's much, much better just gotta go back and fix up Attelus's face a bit. Quite happy about that.

Sitting around sidelined from doing most anything more usefull/entertaining thanks to a knee injury....

So I'm passing the time by color coding the bases of 120+ Skaven clanrats/Stormvermin/plague monks.
Each unit is based in a different district color - blue, green, red, etc.
This is temporary fix to solve sorting, units blurring together in play, etc. Once a unit is fully painted the base tops will be properly finished, leaving just the color coded rims.


The unit champion of each group is picked out with a Retributor Gold base top. (So as to avoid accidentally pulling them as casualties & screwing up issuing commands)
I'm not sure how I'll denote them once actually finished, but for right now I need them easily identified.

I'm not doing anything. My parents on the other hand are at Warhammer World.

Lucky them.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I'm not doing anything. My parents on the other hand are at Warhammer World.

Lucky them.

I've still never actually been, yoof has wandered that way a few times, its only about an hour to hour and a half from here depending on traffic, just that whenever the local group wandered there for a game I was doing this time consuming thing known as "work", largely due to very poor planning

yoof says its decent

I fixed up Attelus' face after massacring my boy yesterday, and...he looks great! Although...although! He kinda looks sad; he's standing on a big tactical rock...so anyway, he started BLASTIN' his autopistol with his trademark inaccuracy, but he looks like he's going to cry rather than looking badass. He's probably sad because he sucks at shooting, and no matter how much I try, he still looks like a sad boi :/

My Scale 75 "Luxury Collection" box arrived today, and I began using the wet palette inside it and boy...I love it; so much better than my makeshift one—just a joy to use. I also began painting one of my Warlocks too! And dark blue and dark green shouldn't work together, but it seems to...somehow. The sculpts are a joy to paint.

leopard wrote:
yoof says its decent

My Dad sent me a photo of my Mum posing next to the big Space Marine statue, with the double-headed eagle in the background.

Adding some paint to Rogue for MCP and packing for my evening of painting at FLGS tomorrow evening,

Working on Nachmond terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Scratch built a Skaven Grey Seerer this evening.

Had the games night with the kids, and boy oh boy, was it crazy noisy and intense. We played Assassinorum: Execution Force, and it was fun, but a girl began hitting herself after she killed a cultist as the Callidus Assassin (I had my new Attelus as a stand-in as the mini broke and I couldn't repair her, unlike the Callidus he can go "invisible" due to Farseer Faleaseen's power), which I didn't know what to about, but she stopped, eventually.

Working on Nachmond terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Finishing my third and final scratch built tyranid mini tower, of three. Made from stacked 1” foam with hot glue slime and each mounted on an old CD.

Going to probably donate them to the flgs terrain collection since they will likely be used for the new edition games

If time permits I'm aiming at getting a basecoat on some Bolt Action stuff.

had a 1,000 point Middle Earth game, I hate that Elf on an Elk

my Wraith's Fell Beast ("Mr Flappy") however thought he was very tasty

omnomnom

Over the past few days, I've been organising and cleaning up my hobby room. It's much more tidy now, and my paint pots are in a drawer rather than dominating my desktop. I also did some green stuffing on minis that refused to be glued together and broken off bits. I've also worked more on my Warlocks and Attelus, who I think I'm finally happy with. Took some photos.

Got a really good deal on the oop Start Collecting Skaven Clan Pestilence box yesterday.

So now I'm building a 2nd Plague Furnace & a 2nd Plague Claw catapult.

Finished some Nachmond terrain.



Cheers,

CB

I did a bit today; tried to use my airbrush to prime a couple of models using an airbrush primer paint, but the airbrush kept getting blocked; it's because some of the paint had hardened to little bits around the nozzle and maybe inside the bottle too. Also, more progress for my Warlocks; they're almost finished, which is cool.

Now sealing some Nachmond terrain.


Cheers,

CB

I painted a frog. I may paint another.

Unpacking and repacking.

Unpacking miniatures that were still wrapped up from our last move.
Then reorganising my hobby cupboard.
Packing up projects that are not happening anytime soon. Then getting the projects that I want to work on next accessible and keeping the project that I'm busy with at hand

Did a bit today, and I made more progress on my Not-Lelith Hesperax vs Chaos Space Marine (who is now obviously Not-Lucius the Eternal) diorama I bought from Etsy ages. Not-Lelith Hesperax is a beautiful mini, better than any of her GW counterparts, I think...

















I used Black Templar Contrast Paint on her bikini and Flesh Tearers Contrast Paint on her hair; it took me ages to paint using Contrast paint, much longer than normal acrylics, but I think her hair looks great! Since taking these photos, I dry-brushed her armour and bikini and fixed a few other things.

Am I allowed to lowkey vent a bit?

Hugely annoyed that a friend of mine who agreed to build me a rotation platform (for shooting videos with my big camera) now suddenly backed out..
I don't want to buy anything online because I don't trust the quality nor want to have to go roundabout refunding if its not what I ordered..

Flipping hell man, i just finally finished my custom sculped wraithknight head and glued it on the WK being now finished and was looking forward for making my first rotation-video (with that new platform) with that unit ASAP..

And now I gotto wait till tomorrow to talk to him again and insist that incase its the material costs .. IDC about paying double triple or quadruple the otherwise online cost, I just want that flipping rotation platform (again) ASAP..

Aaaargh!!

Also on a different note and tone..

Kitbash of my super special brawler HT is looking good, greenstuffed his wings to the upper back-vents (removed) and put some Fleshborer hives on his lower arms and will put the whip and big blade (most likely anyway, couldn't find anything else that really fitted this bash tbh, would've preferred the rifle looking gun but the tube arm no longer fits over the shoulders of the bottom arms ayyy) aaaand the head will be very special, kitbashed aswell suprisingly connecting with some parts I never imagined prior.

Lastly (almost forgot) I FINALLY have a good lightbox/photostudio with internal lightring so no more photography problems thank the Sun!

Pulled out the box with the Falcon in to make certain I have all the parts to build it.

Cheers,

CB

Had the Tabletop gaming night today. We finally finished playing Assassinorum: Execution Force which ended in the kids' victory; thanks to my advice Attelus went invisible behind the sorcerer and the Vindicare Assassin (who was being proxied by Larkin as I'd accidentally left the Vindicare Assassin mini at home) Hit him in the back for two out of three resilience then Attelus backstabbed the leader, missed. But the girl playing him used a poison blade token to re-roll and managed to kill the sorcerer. This was by the 10th turn, which is a quick game of Assassinorum. The kids had fun, which was the most important thing.

I did a little more work on my Lelith diorama and have been trying to siv the primer, but it hasn't been working well at all. Will try it another way later.

Going to teach a friend Classic Battletech tonight.

More progress on the not-Lucius the Eternal for the diorama. He's actually quite fun to paint was hesitant to start at first, unsure how to paint his armour, but I just lunged into it, and I'm happy with him so far. I also got sick of trying to re-glue my Callidus Assassin back on her foot, so pinned her on instead, and it looks okay. Might try to readjust her a bit; she is my 2nd favourite of the four main temples, so deserves more work!

painting more street gang members for Judge Dredd, game on Saturday, doubt they will be fully painted, indeed I know they won't be, but aiming for at least base colours

Not too much today began painting one of my Chaos Marines (yay, bronze trim lol, so much more on the newer Chaos Marine minis). I also managed to almost finish my Not-Lelith vs Not-Lucius the Eternal diorama, and I'm very happy with it! If anyone deserves this horrid fate, it's Lucius the Eternal, lol, although he's probably enjoying this. I was glad I got some GW Blood for the Blood God Techincal paint from a hobby shop a few months back. It's an excellent paint.

Doing this is inspiring me to start making another diorama of Attelus and his allies fighting on the surface of a dead world against cultists.