Photographed my entry to Dakka's Painting Challenge last night:

That's gorgeous, Tyranid Horde! I'd say it seems likely you'll win to me!

Uhh, back on topic, practically finished my Not-Lelith pwning Not-Lucius diorama. Fixed up Lelith's hair giving it more depth and a few other things, might post photos tomorrow. I also began working on some Chaos Space Marines I've had lying around for ages. With them done, I'll have a ten-man squad. Thinking of beginning work on my Daemon Prince, too so if anyone at my club wants to play a Chaos Army (or "Havoc Brothers"), They can have more options and might be able to fill out a 2,000 point list eventually

Today I haz been mostly..

Loosing at Middle Earth as my Mordor forces managed to blend those of Gondor, but that caused the game to end, which meant they had won on points.. Grrr

then three games of Judge Dredd.

Mistakes were made if I'm honest

Doing research on Marvel Crisis Protocol - how to build teams & the models available.

Played 500 points of Bolt Action and 2 missions of Undaunted: Stalingrad

More work on my Chaos Marines, trying to make them all in line with each other; I've almost finished them (and also began thinking up fluff for them as I worked).

Also, photos of my finished diorama of Not-Lelith pwning Not-Lucius.

Finishing up a Lord Discordant, only minor tidying to do, the banner on his backpack and his base.

Finished a Phobos Lt as well.

Finished a Cultist Squad as well recently.

Cut 20 spears off my Mantic skeleton sprues to convert dwarf ironclad into bulwarkers for my all Mantic KoW dwarf army.

Pretty much finished my Chaos Marine squad so I finally have a ten-man squad of Chaos Marines (or Havoc Brothers for Grimdark Future) I have them, the Chaos Sorcerer in Terminator armour (which is still an amazing mini even though he's like twenty years old now) Fifteen cultists and twelve Traitor Guard finished, so enough to play a small game of Grimdark Future. Their fluff is they capture enemies (especially enemy Marines) and torture them until they break their enemy into joining them and they flay off the flesh of their broken victims and wear their flesh as leather dick towels and make it into belts etc. So one Chaos Marine might be fighting alongside another who has his skinned flesh hanging off his pauldron lol. Haven't thought of a name for them yet. They also paint their armour with the blood of their enemies.

I got a bit stuck on what to do next even though I promised myself to begin painting my daemon prince. But I decided to finish assembling my Morrigan from Dark Siders statue so I might begin painting her and my Samus Aran statue while I'm going through my backlog.

I wanna be in the cavalry.

Jokes aside, i did my 2 squads for my 30k militia army that has some big metal friends to launch a surprise sneaky on mostly enemy bekaies.

have a game of Adeptus Titanicus next weekend so today finishing off, well to the point of game usable, some Questoris knights, one largely done, one has trim on the body done, legs to do and one needing all the trim doing

Finally attached 20 more Skaven Plague Monks to thier bases.
(I assembled the rats the other night at the shop
- but I'd forgotten the pack of bases at home!)

Working on an Eldar Falcon still.

Cheers,

CB

Painted a Crimson Fist flying guy with the autocannon. Cant remember for the life of me what the unit is actually called.

 Adrassil wrote:
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.

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To me, there is just something enormously fun about a palace coup. Whether that palace is in Valois France, Caligula's Rome, Gondor, or the Grim dark grim darkness of the grim dark future (did I mention it was grim and dark?) this palace fills the bill.

I'm hoping to run a 40k universe fight in it next weekend. Looks to be fun!

Thanks a lot, Napoleon in space glad you like him!

I primed my Morrigan Aesland and Samus Aran statuettes and I forgot how annoying it is priming larger things. But eventually managed it and I've begun painting them. It'd be nice to get them done after they've been sitting around my hobby space for months now.

I'm painting things red! Red everything.

Building more Warspawned Kroxigors!

 Adrassil wrote:
Thanks a lot, Napoleon in space glad you like him!

I primed my Morrigan Aesland and Samus Aran statuettes and I forgot how annoying it is priming larger things. But eventually managed it and I've begun painting them. It'd be nice to get them done after they've been sitting around my hobby space for months now.

Really, very cool indeed. I have to confess that the face had me thinking that the knight was a lady in armor. Joan of Arc, maybe? But regardless, really a fine piece of work, IMO!

Working on an Eldar Falcon still.

Cheers,

CB

Finally got these three usable



Questoris Knights for Adeptus Titanicus, my own house colours, House Leopardus, chosen because I like purple but haven't yet really used it for anything other than a trim colour

Edit: does the picture load for anyone? I can get it with right click and open in new window, no idea why it doesn't post here other than its hosted on my own site

Starting work on a 2nd Plague Furnace for my Skaven.
Not sure I'll ever truly use two of them beyond display.... but I've got a spare Bell/Furnace kit so....

 NapoleonInSpace wrote:

 Adrassil wrote:
Thanks a lot, Napoleon in space glad you like him!

I primed my Morrigan Aesland and Samus Aran statuettes and I forgot how annoying it is priming larger things. But eventually managed it and I've begun painting them. It'd be nice to get them done after they've been sitting around my hobby space for months now.

Really, very cool indeed. I have to confess that the face had me thinking that the knight was a lady in armor. Joan of Arc, maybe? But regardless, really a fine piece of work, IMO!

Yeah, I can understand that misunderstanding.

Had the game night again tonight. We played Grimdark Future: Firefight 2v2. I played as the not Harlequins, my young ally, not Chaos Marines, and the other side was not Dark Angels and not Custodes. Was fun, we couldn't finish on time, but I took photos to set up the next week. Managed to take out a Dark Angel marine with my Harlequin with only a CCW due to some very lucky rolls.

ccs wrote:
Starting work on a 2nd Plague Furnace for my Skaven.
Not sure I'll ever truly use two of them beyond display.... but I've got a spare Bell/Furnace kit so....

the only real reason to have two is because you do not yet have three

need to did my rats up and get them on the table again


anyway, today I is mostly supervising a 3d printer making some buildings for Adeptus Titanicus, game at the weekend and it occured to be I only have a few small Battletech buildings which will do for knights but are hardly up to the job for titans

leopard wrote:

ccs wrote:
Starting work on a 2nd Plague Furnace for my Skaven.
Not sure I'll ever truly use two of them beyond display.... but I've got a spare Bell/Furnace kit so....

the only real reason to have two is because you do not yet have three

Honestly I'll never use 3. There's just too many things in the Skaven book I like running to sacrifice enough pts for a 3rd furnace. Maaaybe 2 on occasion. Definitely not 3.
And the only reason I have the 2nd is because a local shop had one of the old Start Collecting Pestilence boxes marked way way down. It was cheaper to buy that & convert the rats into censor bearers than a get a 2nd Plague Claw + the actual censor bearer box.

Finished putting the first layers of varnish on my first painted Eru-Kin (Diehard Miniatures' Space Slann.) Pretty happy with how its turning out.

ccs wrote:

leopard wrote:

ccs wrote:
Starting work on a 2nd Plague Furnace for my Skaven.
Not sure I'll ever truly use two of them beyond display.... but I've got a spare Bell/Furnace kit so....

the only real reason to have two is because you do not yet have three

Honestly I'll never use 3. There's just too many things in the Skaven book I like running to sacrifice enough pts for a 3rd furnace. Maaaybe 2 on occasion. Definitely not 3.
And the only reason I have the 2nd is because a local shop had one of the old Start Collecting Pestilence boxes marked way way down. It was cheaper to buy that & convert the rats into censor bearers than a get a 2nd Plague Claw + the actual censor bearer box.

you'd never use three eh?

I see where you are going.

its four right? or maybe five of them...

has to be said I don't think there are many models in the range I don't like, even the old plastic rat ogres with a bit of green stuff are decent enough

Bought some wmh and minicrate stuff recently for a song thst I am painting up.

10 winter guard riflemen and a berzerker are the central.core. trying to get the scheme right.

Going to paint some warhammer underworld's squigs, and try and finish Psylocke for MCP tonight at FLGS.

More progress on my Morrigan Aensland and Samus Aran in Zero Suit statuettes. Samus, especially, painted her hair with a yellow from the fancy acrylic range by Scale 75 as I bought a big box set when it was on special on gap games. It's easily the best yellow I've used so far, covered so nicely. For the base colour on her suit, I used a Lite Ultramarine Blue from the box, it's a very nice looking blue, but it's taking quite a few layers to cover properly, but it's a dark colour over a light grey primer so that makes it a bit harder. The blue is perfect for her suit, though.

Waiting on Amazon to deliver these guys

https://www.amazon.com/Humans-Aliens-Monster-Action-Playset/dp/B0747QDHGV/ref=sr_1_1?crid=AKSO4I3VL50U&keywords=humans+vs+aliens+space+monster+action+figure+toy+playset&qid=1686222469&sprefix=humans+vs+aliens+action%2Caps%2C143&sr=8-1

For 25 bucks, they are about a quarter a piece, or fifty cents if you want to throw the humans away, and just use the aliens as 40k warp entities. That's my primary purpose, but I'll put quick paint jobs on the humans and use them all in a horror game too.

Not the greatest figures in the world, but some neat sculpts for all that. Some are quite fitting for the 40k battlefield.

I'm adding a lego otter to a base. The trick is to find the right base.

 amazingturtles wrote:
I'm adding a lego otter to a base. The trick is to find the right base.

Way above my head, sensei.

Slowly getting my Valkyrie I bought for terrain built. One or two more days and I'll be ready for gap filling and priming.

 tauist wrote:
Slowly getting my Valkyrie I bought for terrain built. One or two more days and I'll be ready for gap filling and priming.

Definitely looking good so far.

Got to play a mission of Undaunted: Normandy with a buddy. Really love the game engine

Made a bit more progress on Samus Aran; she's nearly finished now. I'm finally happy with how her skin has come out.

game of LotR, where the evil forces of Mordor dominated over the forces of Mordor..

I won which is the important bit.. not used to winning, feels wrong

then a game of Adeptus Titanicus where normal service was resumed

Finished painting 5 mortain tanks. Am painting 3d printed mudguards for THE BANEBLADE! And starting detailing a pair of macharius vanquishers.
A very tank heavy day today.

I think todays hobby time will be spent continuing my on-again/off-again quest for the correct shade of Grey.

I was going to do an assembling spree today, but I had to help my dad after he got his car stuck. I assembled a Howling Banshee exarch and the elf chick from the Blackstone Fortress box. I did a bit more work on Samus Aran too!

I managed to fight the urge to begin another assembling spree and started old miniatures that have been sitting around for ages. Another Hero Forge version of Attelus I intend to use for a diorama I plan on starting and a Hero Forge mini of Inquisitor Azakir Halgriv from my long-term sequel Rogue Trader campaign that's set 100 years after the "current" big arc. I also worked a lot more on my Zero Suit Samus Aran, and I'm finally very happy with her now! I fixed up my Autarch Raloth Arlyandor and his scenic base a bit. Need to give him a coat of matt varnish to protect him from further damage in the future. I also clipped off his flag and turned it so it looks like it was blowing back behind him as he lands on the ground. Might post pics later!

Edit: Oh! And I began working on a flier for my tabletop gaming club!

As the Space Wolves were my 1st 40k force waaay back, I always give them the honor of leading the charge into the next edition.

So I'm about to download the Space Wolf cards.
Then I'll be digging out the SW case & getting everyone sorted for 10e.
Too bad the pts aren't available yet.

More work on my Falcon.

Cheers,

CB

Build a bunch of characters - Gravis Captain w/cool chainsword, Gravis Captain w/Heavy Bolt Rifle, Primaris Apothecary, Primaris Librarian and the best Primaris unit: A Savage Orc Warboss.

Wait...

I've pretty much finished my Zero Suit Samus Aran statuette, and I'm happy with her; she's the main character of one of my all-time favourite games (Metroid Prime), and I hope I did her justice. Also photos of Autarch Raloth Arlyandor from Secret War on his scenic base!

picked up the Book of the Outlands for Necromunda, and a few paints plus the dirt down rust & moss effects stuff to try out

would have gotten another copy of Hive War and more walls etc except the floor tiles are all out of stock, wanted for the weekend, if its going to take longer I may as well print them

Had the game night last night. The kids had fun we continued the game we went halfway through last week with two new kids who weren't there last time so I gave one the Harlequins (which I was playing last) and the other one played half of the "Havoc Brothers"/Chaos Space Marines. The Harlequins and Chaos had a resounding win slaughtering all but one of the Custodes/Dark Angels team where they only managed to kill one cultist. It was sad, but fun lol

Finished the content of Shadespire this past couple of days

-Threw my laptop out of my house(not literally, figuratively) to do a tech-detox (still using a laptop at family adress for online stuff as I'm doing now, the laptop at home was internet-bricked to begin with, and I have no internet at home anyway) because it was screwing with my energy levels (went to bed too late etc a few times and during summer light at 5 in the morning that is not a good thing).. I'll live without tech till september then get back to work (documentaries etc) So that also means photographing warhammer figurines will be a bit riskier considering I cannot see the photos before I'm @ family adress laptop.

-My wood-elf knights (kitbash from vampire knights) are starting to look smashing, only need to still do bases and some details like swords and trinkets. Even managed to make the big dragon flag look epic (made the dragon look like my actual dragon figurine (dark elf black dragon, which I made into a green dragon)

-Still waiting for my (new) order of a rotation-platform for making rotational movies of my (bigger) mini's. (a store ordered it for me because I don't ever use internet for shopping, but the order has been postponed twice now.. sigh)

-Finding out that when you accidentially hit a white drapery on a mini with a color and try to fix it with apocethary white you end up with some awesome effects which I decided to leave on the bit.

A bit more progress on my diorama of Attelus and Adelana vs Cultists. My cardboard base is pretty much ready for more. My dad suggested I coat it in epoxy resin (which is called "West System" to him, as that's the brand). I'd like to do that soon, but I must wait for the Imperialis Ruins I bought from eBay (which I'm going to be waiting for a good while as I bought them from a guy in Germany, the Cultist proxies even longer as I ordered them on Etsy from a company in Ukraine). I would like to use some of my bountiful Deadzone Mantic terrain (as it is in the photos below, but that's just a placeholder), but I have too few classic 40k things in the diorama as Attelus and Adelana are Hero Forge minis, and the Cultists are proxies from Etsy (again, the GW ones are placeholders). I've also made it a bit more complicated. For Attelus, Adelana and the surviving Cultists, I plan on having holes for their bases and the bases magnetised on the diorama. We plan on using a circle cutter to cut holes for them, which is one of the reasons Dad suggested covering it in epoxy resin to harden the cardboard so it doesn't get torn apart by the drill in the process.

















Don't know if using cardboard as a base was a good idea, but it's too late now. Might begin a thread blogging my progress when I get the stuff I need. Just gotta be patient lol

Got my Sicaran Venator and Cerberus built.

Really nice kits, with nothing overly fiddly.

Updating my shopping cart with Alternative Armies, for my next buy.

Always something else I just can't live without.

Unexpectedly busy for the past few days, so just now getting around to downloading the datacards for Xenos & the pts, & tallying up some of my forces.

Then later tonight I'll build a Conoptek spider for my Necrons.

Assembled my Harlequin Solitaire, Fuegan and Maugan Ra proxies I bought from Etsy today. Man are they beautiful minis and really hardy for resin minis. I'm not a big fan of the new Maugan Ra mini by GW, this one is just a really nicely updated version of the old one and it's much better than the GW one in my eyes.

More work on my Falcon.

Cheers,

CB

I did a bit, primed my Maugan Ra, Solitaire and Fuegan proxies and a Howling Banshee Exarch. I was so happy to have the awesome Maugan Ra, but of course, it fell off its tactical rock and on the concrete step outside of my hobby room when I was taking it inside after priming. The head exploded off and landed somewhere, either under my house or lost among the debris nearby. I looked and looked, but it was pointless, so I gave up.

I got dinner, and that helped me get over it. Then, I began painting my Solitaire, and he's a frigging joy to paint.

Still working on the Eldar Falcon.



Cheers,

CB

getting to grips with resin printing, so far we have 2x five man Recon squads for heresy in Mk II armour, plus bases, and ten legs/torso/backpack intended to be the start of a breacher squad

so far going nicely

also running the FDM printer making terrain for Adeptus Titanicus

Making a few 40k 10e lists for tomorrow night.

The time has come to paint some graves.

Primed a 3d printed atlas mech from battletech. Dropped it accidentally and lost an arm. Pitched it while thanking my lucky stars that I didn’t follow my impulse to get an entire army in the material.

Almost finished my Solitaire proxy. I'm pretty happy with him so far! My simple, quick paint style doesn't do it justice. I also began painting my Fuegan proxy, using a similar style as my Fire Dragons, side lighting then going over with Contrast paint.

Fixed up my Solitaire proxy a bit, and now he's practically finished. I got to do his gems and the gems on practically all my Eldar minis. Just gotta find a quick easy was of doing it like I did for power swords.
















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Just a few fix ups.

Finished bar the decals my test print Mk II recon squad, currently printing a test Rhino.

and waiting for the IPA to turn up

I began finally assembling my Chaos Space Marine Kill Team and my Chaos Lord in Terminator armour. I also assembled my Karandras proxy and would've assembled my Jain Zar but couldn't find the instructions.

Pre-ordering 10th edition goodies

Prepping for tonight's D&D game.

Returned my lightbox/photostudio after watching a guide on miniature photography explaining why you shouldn't use those.

Bought some dark cloth at the market today and will be setting up a proper two spotlight lamp photospot for my upcoming (already finished) challenge thread entry.

 Leopold Helveine wrote:
Returned my lightbox/photostudio after watching a guide on miniature photography explaining why you shouldn't use those.

Bought some dark cloth at the market today and will be setting up a proper two spotlight lamp photospot for my upcoming (already finished) challenge thread entry.

A lot of photo setup depends on how much you want to spend and how much space you've got to setup and often leave it up. Lightboxes are popular because the commercial ones pop up and pop down very fast. So you can just get the whole thing up and used and down and packed away pretty quickly.

More lights, backdrops and more tend to take more room up and are slower to setup. Ideal if you can take your time/have space to leave it up.



Heck a lot of my photos just end up being snapshots with two boxes pushed together (one base one backdrop) and then firing the flash at the wall.

Built & primed a bunch of single blisters from my backlog tonight.
Mostly Warlord Games special editions/LEs.

And another Canoptek Spyder.

Started putting together the models from the Leviathan box set.

Assembled Jain Zar, a couple more Chaos Marines, and a new Felarch, and I've gotta say; I was damned impressed with Jain Zair. Her level of detail was amazing, and she wasn't too busy either. Her parts were assembled very well; I look forward to painting her.

Now, I'm making rules for the Eldar Corsairs in the Army Forge Studio app for Grimdark Future and having fun with it. I like the rules, but they might be a tad OP, lol.

Started work on the Leviathan miniatures. Got two Dreads built (very nice!), two Neurotyrants (very small), the Screamer Killer (very fiddly), 4 Neuroloids (very squiddly), and both the Terminator characters (very chunky) done.

A buddy essentially gave me Terminator the miniatures game so I built and primed the figures today

Built another Warpsmith for my IW/generic CSM.

No one came to the TT Skirmish game night, so I had a game against myself. It was a Grimdark Future: Firefight "king of the hill" game of who has the most units in my big white Mantic Deadzone building. "Harlequins" vs "Chaos Marines", and despite being outnumbered almost three to one, the "Harlequins" won, with none of them dying. It was fun. I used the measurement rules meant for the 4x4 board on a 25x25 board (One Page Rules have "Kitchen Table" rules that effectively halve all measurements), and it worked well despite the smaller size. It was fast and furious; it's much more fun than using the "Kitchen Table" rules which just slowed the game to a crawl in my experience.

When I got back home, I painted a test miniature of my new Corsairs, and I'm pretty happy with him. I was going to paint them like my first squad, but the colour scheme, while I think it looks good, it makes me think too much of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It's similar, but I plan on replacing the red. I'm trying out black, so I'll see how that works out.

In the midst of some rather agonizing real-world-work, I'm taking breaks using the quite excellent tables crafted by Zinderneuf, along with my contribution of the court ball, https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/493584.page#11536744 and having some stress relieving fun with my Apprentice Navigator Ulysses Selakhos Kubernetes, flying through the Helstrom Sector.

Presently, he's landed on the hiveworld or Sulcoit, where he got into a who-can-be-the-most-snotty-to-who match with Squire Hewalt Hezal. The bureaucrat wanted to shake him down for money. Ulysses lost his temper and challenged the fop to a duel. They agreed to go settle it quietly, but it turned out that the squire was only trying to get him into a quiet place, where he could have his guards murder the Navigator.

However, Ulysses, though rather average in other respects, is an excellent hand with a blade, and was gifted with two power axes of surpassing quality by a local Squat Hearthlord (a friend and ally of his father). So much so that each counts as a following fire weapon (if he kills a combatant with the first blow, he can keep attacking as long as there are other targets adjacent to him).

Still, four average human guards with ordinary swords against one very skilled combatant with a couple of very excellent weapons is no sure thing, and though he won, it was close-run.



The Navigator then forced the bureaucrat to provide him with political leverage and they essentially entered into a partnership of' "you can trust me as long as you don't turn your back..."

All worked out quite nicely from these tables. I think it has been a really nice story telling stress reliever.

There are times when even a half hour of jeet-kun-do doesn't get it. Today, I just needed to delve into some sci-fantasy fun!

I put a dead Praetorian on one of my Kill Team Gallowfall autopsy tables.

A bit more progress on my Corsairs. The test mini is looking better and better, much to my happiness. Also finished my custom-made Grimdark Future and Grimdark Future: Firefight rules for Arlathan's/Enandra's Inquisition faction from Secret War. I hope they ain't too OP lol

Finally got around to getting a case & foam trays (mostly pluck foam) for my Skaven.

So I'm currently watching some late night TV & plucking foam to fit my rat-men units.

 Adrassil wrote:
A bit more progress on my Corsairs. The test mini is looking better and better, much to my happiness. Also finished my custom-made Grimdark Future and Grimdark Future: Firefight rules for Arlathan's/Enandra's Inquisition faction from Secret War. I hope they ain't too OP lol

Curious to see this guy. Got any pics?

Took an army shot of my Excoriators now they're finally out of storage:

Those look amazing Horde!

 NapoleonInSpace wrote:

 Adrassil wrote:
A bit more progress on my Corsairs. The test mini is looking better and better, much to my happiness. Also finished my custom-made Grimdark Future and Grimdark Future: Firefight rules for Arlathan's/Enandra's Inquisition faction from Secret War. I hope they ain't too OP lol

Curious to see this guy. Got any pics?

Yup, just took a few, so here he is!

Finally began work on a new SM project - an armored column of Predators.
In order to get the most hulls in the list I had to give in & make it a BA force.
So, atm, 1,170 pts worth of Predators are sitting on the end of my hobby desk:
Baal x3
Annihilator x3
Destructor x3

Other than a SM character & a Rhino, I'm not sure what I'm going to fill the remaining 830pts with to bring it up to 2k
I was hoping that the Deimos pattern Predator would be included in the FW HH Legends. You know, since it has a nice new plastic kit & all.... But nope.
So now I'm hoping it'll have gotten mixed into the rest of the Legends stuff.

I'm also pondering converting a Stalkers guns to be turret mounted so the tank looks more like a Predator variant than an AA themed Rhino.
But I've got 7 more tanks to build before I need to worry about this.

Made more progress on my Elf Space Pirates, and comparing them to my old ones, illustrates how much I've improved over the last year since I painted my first squad. Using magnifying glasses has aided that improvement a lot, I think!

priming the orc side of the Osgiliath box following three more MESBG games, two wins over Dead of Dunharrow with Mordor then a crushing loss to Rohan with the same list.

also priming some Mk 6 Breachers for my XIV

finally test print of a Zone Mortalis wall section to see how well it comes out

As well as working more on my diorama, I did quite a bit more work on my new Corsairs, mostly my Felarch, and he's almost finished.





Decided to make the fabrics black on a whim, and I'm glad I did, as it didn't turn out too bad at all!

printing some wall sections for Necromunda, also for a Zone Mortalis Heresy game coming up.

the GW kit is good and actually not a bad price all things considered, however it lacks enough actual walls, a box of just the wall sprue with the long wall and the short wall, just that sprue, in multiple, say four of, in a box would be wonderful

since thats not possible.. 3d printing it is

Printing the Necron sheets & pulling the minis I'll need for a game tomorrow afternoon.

I made more progress on my diorama, which I'll elaborate on in the blog I recently began. I also painted more on my Corsair Felarch and the dual swordsman. Layering up his armour etc., and started on a Howling Banshee Exarch, base painting her.

printing the 5th long wall section for Necromunda, also priming some 8mm scale Land Raiders to see how they come out as a test

hopefully also later today painting more on Gothmog for my Mordor forces

I did a bit today. Made more progress on my Corsair Felarch, blades dude and the shuriken cannon dude and began basing them. Also painted gold on the trim of one of my Chaos Marines. Man, when painting the god trim on Chaos dudes, it seems to stretch on forever. I should've been working on them instead of my Corsairs so the kids can have more options for them.

I also primed my diorama base black too!

Getting ready to teach both 40k 10e & sigmar at the shop this afternoon.

More work on my Corsairs and more progress on the Chaos Space Marine (most particularly the smirking one with the sorcerer flames off his hand and knife from the Kill Team), And have begun to work on the main leader of the Kill Team as well. Painting his golden trim.

Yesterday marked the start of a new project a friend has asked me to do:

I knocked out building the head first, as we're waiting on a replacement part for the torso(received duplicate left upper torsos instead of a left and a right).
The head is, of course, magnetized to allow for the crew to be visible:

I assembled one of the new Nightstalker butchers.
Mantic models have gotten good.

40k index cards arrived today and I'll be building my TSons DP at the weekend.

I am repairing four old metal Harlequins missing arms or weapons.

Cheers,

CB

More progress on my Felarch, swordsman and the Chaos Marines. Felarch is almost finished; the swordsman needs a bit more work. The bottle in the background is water with a Berrocca-like tablet in it.

Recalculating my Skaven list for the shops Sigmar League.
It was all set to go & then GW drops one if their balance updates & all my pts changed - literally a day before the battles began.

Stripping a number of old metal Harlequins.

Cheers,

CB

Painting checkerboard patterns.

Those are some very good checkers boards.

Painted this bones reaper figure. Not exactly a fan of the material so this will probably be the only one I ever buy.

Finished glowing up my 3 push-fit Black Reach dreads from 2008 for use in Horus Heresy

Had to print new Legion-compliant weapons and a pair of feet that got lost

Absolutely chuffed to bits with how this looks

I did quite a bit more painting today, and I am having fun with it. Began painting a Crusader mini proxy I bought from Etsy. I've almost finished my Chaos Sorcerer dude from the Kill Team and got a bit of the way through the leader. For me, Chaos has always been the most "edgy" faction for "edgy boys" The kid who introduced me to 40k was a very edgy boy, a VERY edgy boy, and he loved Chaos, most especially Black Legion. For this Chaos faction, I've tried to truly embrace my "edgy boy" side, as mentioned their fluff a while back of them always trying to capture and break other Astartes loyalists or not and torture them and flay them into joining them; then when they manage to break the victim, they use their skin to make their leathers. So I decided to make this guy have his head and face skinless. I winged it, and it didn't turn out too bad.





I decided was a former Word Bearer who was "converted" after a long while.

Almost finished my Corsair swordsman too!









Him having white eyebrows on such pale skin is kinda weird lol

Taking a short break of my Leviathan models to paint some Christmas models for our now annual Christmas big game! We usually play a big scenario during Christmas with around 6 players, and we have some custom models and units in play at that time (Santa Claus and his army, plus Christmas themed daemons that join the fun).

Currently working on the new Khorne addition: a unit of Bloodcrushers (3 models). Green and gold Juggernaut with a red Bloodletter on top, these are gonna be some jolly fellow!

We only had Khorne models so far, and were missing the Bloodcrushers so this should complete the Khorne side. This year we gonna introduce Nurgle in the mix so we gonna have them next on the plate to work on!

Painted my volcano cannons.

Built an Elimiator squad & their best buddy the Phobos Librarian.

Right now their lascannons are attached by a single point of glue on the wrist joint.
Once I get small enough magnets l be able to swap between LC & sniper rifles.

Began assembling a Mokoto "The Major" Kusanagi statue and fixing a few old broken miniatures with a new superglue I recently bought.

Built my Haruspex.

Really fun kit to build, and for those inclined super easy to magnetise should want it dual build as an Exocrine. Heck, given the head is main thing you need to swap, old fashioned pinning might even suffice.

Ideally you should swap the big claws for the small stabbers, but I reckon most opponents would mostly be concerned with the beasty’s main weapon as the identifier.

Tomorrow, probably the Tyrannofex. I built one years ago when they first released, and I remember the spindly legs being a sod. But fairly sure I buggered it up somewhere.

The worst one on legs is the Toxicrine kit because they have these little inserts that look almost the same but only fit one leg setup for either variation. Woe betide you if you pick the wrong ones!



But yeah I want to get an Exocrine kit or three this year!

Trio of Haruspex is my ideal.

Eat the woooooorld. Let them know it’s breakfast time! Eat the woooooooorld! Let them know it’s breakfast time!

Also top tip for building the Haruspex? The instruction tells porky pies about the side vents, as it’s got the part numbers mixed up. Those listed for the left (front on) go on the right, and vice versa.

No no no you've got it wrong! You don't consume the world, you blast it at range into oblivion!


Though seriously if GW gives us new biovores I want to do an artillery focused force! Exocrines and biovores and sporemines and all!

Finished a game with my friend of The Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game (My own TT Skirmish game), And we had a blast. I played as Anargrin's team, which consists of five highly elite operatives, and my friend played as Jaroaite Extremists, which came to a warband of twenty-two total, so a side using mostly chaff units. It was close, but I managed to get the win by controlling more objectives. Although, I lost Anargrin and Raleas. But Raleas got charged by a bunch of cultists and managed to fight back exceedingly well, holding out for two rounds and killing a cultist. In fact, her holding well won me the game as it prevented those cultists from moving on to secure another objective. She also sniped the priest leader, so she easily got MVP. Anargrin dying was...because of some terrible luck.

My cultists and ruined walls arrived for my diorama so I've been working on that a bit too.

58 hand written pages into my 40k novel. I doubt it will ever be published, but I'm having lot of fun.

Working Title: The Helstrom Navigator

A young, apprentice Navigator, Ulysses Selakhos Kubernetes is on a trade delegation from his father's House to the Hearthlord of Anoumbla, a Squat world (yes, it is very much 1st ed). He is along as the only noble member of the House attending the delegation, and is under strict orders from his Father to keep his mouth shut and learn.

All goes well until an assassin tries to take him out, and kills the senior member of the delegation instead. The remaining delegates, not wanting to lose theirlord's firstborn (and their heads), pack him aboard a warp-capable cutter, and sending home in secret.

He finds out soon enough he's being tracked.

Managed just a single layer of Burnt Umber on the bases of a dozen old metal Harlequins. Ended up only having ten minutes of free time.

Cheers,

CB

I put my 5 Oathmark light dwarf infantry (to br "thugs" in Frostgrave) on 20mm square bases.

Also finished reading "Faith Aligned", one of the newer KoW lore novels.
I enjoyed it.

I plan to build another squad of SM Eliminators later this evening.

I'm planning to do some panel lining and add some details to my Crimson Hunter before I leave it for a week.

Managed two levels of highlights over the Burnt Umber on the bases of a dozen old metal Harlequins.

Cheers,

CB

I primed and zenithal highlighted the cultist proxies and the ruined walls for my diorama. I also began painting a couple of the cultists, pretty happy with them so far!

Assembled my Tyrranofex. Second time I’ve built one, and this time I got it right.

The Rupture Cannon was a bit fiddly, but I got there in the end. Next up is my second set of Leviathan, by which point I should have something I can field. In terms of next purchases? Hopefully I’ll find out at 2pm when we get the preview.

I've been putting together a little cult style guy.

Made a list of my "few models" for fantasy skirmish games or RPGs.
There are 65 of them. Some of them are small and simple (like rats), but that's more substantial number than I am comfortable with.

played a game of Horus Heresy, and got wiped out while managing to kill a total of three models

yeeeesss..

also picked up a combat patrol box, faction I've never owned and only played once.. everyones favourite space communists

whoever designed that ghostkeel was a sadist

Tallied up a 1k pt Deamon (all Khorne) list.

Managed to mostly finish painting five of the ten Cultist proxies for my diorama of Attelus and Adelana from Secret War ambushing them, and they're a joy to paint.

Primed the T'au combat patrol, the space commies look decent in white

then stripped the primer off half of them, they were sprayed in two lots and for some reason the first lot came out like sprayed chalk, the second lot fine.

it cleaned up ok just odd

Built the limited Primaris Captain (w/Fist) and limited Primaris Lt (Sword'n'Board), along with the Primaris Techmarine and Gravis Techmarine. Plus a unit of 3 Aggressors. Now I have to go through my big box'o'Primaris Marines and figure out how many Aggressors I have left to build. I think it's just 3, but it could be 6.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Built my Haruspex.

Did you have any issues with the head and where it joins the body? I've built two, and in both cases it didn't really slot in well. I had to put a good amount of glue and hold it for a few minutes to make sure it wouldn't move.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Tomorrow, probably the Tyrannofex. I built one years ago when they first released, and I remember the spindly legs being a sod. But fairly sure I buggered it up somewhere.

I've built 3 so far, plus two Tervigons. The legs that go in the middle are always the most annoying. They only just fit insides the confines of the base, and if you just glue them and hope for the best they'll lean or sag and end up at odd angles.

Building a 5 man squad of Assault Intercisors(?).

Push fit, no instructions & no bases. Came as part of a dirt cheap lot I picked up last year.

Not much; due to not feeling well, I only base painted and painted the skin of one of the cultists for my diorama.

Finished up those Assault Intercisors (now with bases!) from last night.
Then built a Primaris Apothecary that's been sitting in the to do pile for too long.

I finished off a Power Armour Raider for Fallout. Did a small conversion on it (didn't like the standard head, so got this 'diving helmet' bit from Zinge Industries). I really tried to make the armour look personalised and just very old and weathered, so used a few different decals and did some free-handed motifs.


More pics under the Spoiler tag. I used the original head from the above model with the 'sole survivor' miniature from the starter set, was trying to do a vault dweller-gone-bad type Raider gang.

Finished my Cultists for my diorama. Pretty happy with them.

I did all sorts of things. Practically finished a Howling Banshee Exarch that was helmetless to practice faces/skin; she turned out not too bad—then, assembled a Farseer proxy I bought from Etsy that I finally managed to assemble properly, thanks to my new super glue and painted her up a bit more and a few other things, too.

Finished the details on a pair of macharius, next onto chipping and finally a bit of weathering.

I practically finished a mini of a character whose design was obviously inspired by the bouncer chick out the front of the Mox's club in Cyberpunk 2077 (or it could've been the other way around). She's very fun to paint and was excellent practice for light skin. I ordered her and another from Etsy ages back. I also fixed up the face of my older version of Anargrin (the one with the pistol rather than the sword, if anyone remembers). His face looked a little off for ages, and he seems much better now, so much so now I'm not sure which version I like best, lol.

Edit: Here he is...

chipped and weathered my pair of macharius, sealed(testors dull cote spray, and then gloss over all the glassy bits) turrets and magnetised weapons. Will seal the chassis in the morning.

Did some free hand on my imperial knight. I had previously promised myself after the chainsword no more checkers. But indeed now it has checkers on a foot plate.
Have promised myself absolutely no more twining vinework.
See how long that lasts. LOL

Pulling out stuff for a Flames of War game tomorrow.
Now the only question is wich edition 3e or 4e) are we doing....

Did a bit more work on Anargrin, really happy with him now. Fixed up his skin and shirt which was chipped up a bit.





Also practically finished the Cyberpunk chick and managed to get a splodge of yellow wash on her right arm, which I've got to fix.

Began the 2nd one, and I'm going to base her on Panam Parker as the miniature's hair is similar to hers.

I'm putting wings on things that don't normally have wings.

Began painting the 2nd Cyberpunk chick, and it's been a challenge to try to replicate Panam Palmer's skin tone, but it's been quite fun—a good experiment.

Trying to fashion a spherical cloaking shield for my Ghostkeel. It seemed like a good alternative to painting an active camo, which I did on my Eliminators, or to casting part of the model itself in clear resin.

Practically finished my 2nd Cyberpunk chick; trying to replicate Panam Palmer's skin tone was a real challenge, but I think I did alright.

Gluing even larger rats to bases.

These are going to be Wolf Rats in my Skaven army.
No idea how big the actual FW Wolf Rats were, but according to Whahapedia I've got the right size bases, so Reaper Barrow Rats will have to do.

Last night I finally found some time for painting and spent about two hours on some old metal Harlequins.

Cheers,

CB

Only did a little due to being tired as frig. Fixed up my Custodian sword dude's face up a bit and began painting the face of my Farseer proxy but she fell off the paint handle and broke, so had to fix her up yet again (luckily I found it easy to find her broken bits) I also found the sword arm of my earlier mentioned Inquisitor Azakir Halgriv Hero Forge mini that I knocked off my desk because I hand my magnifying glasses on and couldn't see him when I reached for something, that was like a week ago. Of course, the arm and sword flew a good metre and a half away in a direction I'd have never guessed, but it made me pretty happy to finally find it!

Finally re-Organized my FoW Team Yankee (USA) stuff. It's needed doing for awhile....
*discovered that I'm missing the weapons for all 6 Humvees. :(
*Need to add a pack of dice + a cheap tape measure to the case
*Found 2 notes to myself in one of the trays. Both notes are from Jan 2020:
....A) reminding me to pick up a small Infantry section & a unit of MLRS. The MLRS unit I know I can do tomorrow at the shop. The infantry???
....B) reminding me to make new, better flight stands for my (die cast) A-10s.

Despite being horribly, incredibly tired, I made myself paint as it's a good way to keep myself awake (as if I go to sleep too early, I wake up around midnight and can't sleep again for hours, it suuucks). I worked on a model which, quite frankly, seems cursed. A Farseer proxy I bought on Etsy months back that's obviously based on Farseer Macha from Dawn of War 3. I keep dropping her and having to reglue her. She's also made of resin and is very damned fragile. Because of this, I gave up trying to do anything with her until recently. I managed to almost finish her, and I'm pretty happy with her. I accidentally made her look like Emma Watson; whether that's because of me or the sculpt, I'm not sure. I would post photos, but if I am too tired, I might later.

Finished these two old metal Harlequins.



Cheers,

CB

I did indeed manage to pick up the Team Yankee units I needed this afternoon. + a cheap tape measure!
So now I'm assembling:
*a MLRS unit
*a small infantry section

The shop didn't have any USA specific dice, so a bunch of generics will have to do for now.

My friend came over, and we played another game of The Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game. Playing a scenario I made of the cultists of Jaroai summoning a Jaroai as Anargrin and his team desperately try to stop it (which was the scenario my BatRep was based on). I set up the map, and I played Anargrin (the dude in the blue shirt) and his merry five-man band of misfits, my friend, the cultists (and his daughter too, but she was only seven and lost interest quite quickly and wandered off). We had fun, but the way I placed the terrain left me at a huge disadvantage; I also lost the deployment roll, which prevented me from having Emilia transform into a werewolf before the game (so she has to use a turn to transform) and stopping Anargrin to go into infiltration mode. It's been a bit of a slog. I already lost my sniper, Raleas. We only managed to finish two rounds, so he's going to come over another day. I have four rounds to kill the summoners, then the Jaroai is released and there's a fifth extra round so the attackers can either run or try to kill it.

Here's a few photos.

Painting another commissar for my Imperial Guard army. This one is number five, because I count Lord Yarrick. We won't talk about how many more I have still unpainted.

This commissar is about 2/3 finished. Waiting on his washes to dry.



Gaunt is next since I bought a Gaunt's Ghost kit.

Began painting that earlier mentioned Inquisitor Azakir mini and enjoying it. I'm quite happy with the edge highlights on his bodyglove and skin, but his eyes need a little more work. They look crazy, but I sorta did that on purpose as he's a real "Blood Knight" enjoying a good fight to a huge degree. I'm also beginning to enjoy edge highlighting now. Which is a sentence I never thought I'd type, lol.

Put together a 2nd Alvis Stalwart from empress miniatures, because in the grim darkness of the far future you can't expect to go far without robust, all terrain logistical capabilities. Over coated the cockpit of my gloster meteor(grimdark heavy fighter/ground attack craft) with elysian green to get that zinc green finish. Fitted pilot into cockpit and partly assembled him(as of yet he is still unarmed, but I finished work on his mask and flight suit).

Now that I've properly sorted my Team Yankee USA stuff, I'll do the same for my TY Soviets this evening.

Made more progress on Azakir, and now he's almost finished. I also did more work on my Aspiring Champion or whatever he's named for my Chaos Marine Kill Team; he's almost finished too, now. He's been sitting around primed and somewhat base-painted for a while now, so it's good to finally work on him. I haven't ordered many minis for a while now, so I'm hoping to get a good amount of my Pile of Shame finished before I buy anything more.

Trying to kitbash a mutant. I need more tentacles.

Going to try and work on the next three old lead Harlequins.

Cheers,

CB

games night, had a run at 40k 10th, 1,500 with my Death Guard facing youngest's Blood Angels.

neither list overly optimised, fun game and managed a second win for the Death Guard for two from two now, this won't last

also picked up some pathfinders for the slowly expanding Tau force I hope to start seeing the table next week in a local escalation league

all good fun, and then the plague spreads

Had the miniature gaming afternoon with the kids today. Had a lot of fun! A game of Grimdark Future: Firefight. It was 250 points of "Havok Brothers" (Chaos Space Marines) and Ork Marauders (Kommandoes) Vs Human Defense Force (Imperial Guard) led by Attelus Kaltos and High Elf Fleets (Craftworld Eldar)

We couldn't finish so will have to finish it next Wednesday.

Started working on the next three old lead Harlequins to complete a troupe.

Cheers,

CB

Made a Chinese toy unimog ambulance into a IG signals truck.
Someone has to route calls for firesupport to the right batteries.
Made a 2nd one into an ambulance. Minimal conversion required.

Trying to diversify the options for the kids for playing Chaos for the game night, so just finished painting the earlier-mentioned Aspiring Champion and the two Chaos Psykers from the Blackstone Fortress box. I also did some fixing of more mostly completed minis such as my Farseer proxy, that's Farseer Faleaseen from Secret War and the Failcast Lelith Hesperax's face, which now looks much better now.

Continued working on the next three old lead Harlequins to complete a troupe.

Cheers,

CB

Today I started building Italians for Bolt Action.

I never envisioned starting the Italian project off with a heavy Artillery tractor/truck (by Perry Miniatures), but....

Look very closely at the tires. They're marked "semi-pneumatic" & "Perrlli".
More clearly on the inside of the tire, but there on the outside.

Played Pulp Alley after several months of not playing it. Really solid game. Wish we played it more often. Also working on stargrave figures to get the new scavengers built

Began assembling more Chaos Space Marines, one with a flamer and another with a meltagun. Frigged up and used a few of the wrong arms on earlier Chaos Marines, but it wasn't hard to adapt.

Cleaning and ordering the ole manufactutorium floor. Painted up my meteor pilot.

Building the Redemptor Dreadnought from Imperium. Just have the right arm to go.

Built 9 Termagants and 5 Barbgaunts.

Had a serious drop in my mental health the past few weeks, so this is a bit of a recovery milestone.

Yesterday afternoon I ran another Miniature Gaming session with the kids. Six this time, the most yet playing Grimdark Future: Firefight two games running at once one being two vs two one being one vs one. Most of the. Didn't know the rules so I had to race from one table to another to give advice, teaching rules etc. Was very tiring but it went well. The kids had a good time which is the most important thing. No other hobbying last night, far too tired lol

And the other unit of Neurogaunts done.

With the weather brightening up, should soon be suitable for spraying soon.

I made a few new lists for the kids at the club to choose from Grimdark Future: Firefight at 300 points. I also worked on the bases of a few of my minis and painted more of my Baharroth proxy.

Building my Elven Woods kit.

Priming some old metal Ork Meganobz to start a b-day present for my bro.

bit of painting, T'au drones, then a 750 point game which the buggers in white & purple managed to win against Grey Knights

so far have lost every game of combat patrol (2) and won every game of actual 40k (3)

A bit of repair work on some ages old Tau stuff.
And making a list of replacement bitz needed.

Finished building some trees.

This evenings hobby time is once again dedicated to repair work on some vintage Tau.
This time: 8 Crisis suits & 7 Broadsides.

I've painted 3 Wizkids "crawling claws"; they're zombie hands like Thing.

Had the miniature wargaming club with the kids, and while only two kids arrived, we had a good time. Finished the game from last week, and the kids drew characters they want me to make in Hero Forge. We'll have them 3d printed eventually. One was easy enough, a robot in the garb of an Imperial Guardsman. The other one...is like a half-monkey, half-duck man with a sword and a shield. So...I don't know how I'll make that one, lol.


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That last post was meant to be posted yesterday, but I forgot to do it before I went to sleep. We had a day off today, so I was able to do some hobbying, and I finally worked up the courage to begin painting the newest version of Attelus Kaltos for my diorama. I managed almost to finish him, and I'm quite happy with him!











Because I frigged up and made him have his parting on the left rather than the right, the scar on Attelus' face is revealed to the world lol anyone have any good ways of painting scars? It's a huge, rough ugly scar on his left cheek.

Continued working on the next three old lead Harlequins to complete a troupe.
WIP:


Cheers,

CB

Now that the repairs to the Tau that I can make atm & the needed bitz ordered....

Attention turns back to the SM Predator force.
Time to build (another) Predator.

Assembled and primed four heavy weapon Chaos Marines.

Magnetising a dracosan and two malcador defenders, made tank commanders for each of them too. They will of course be able to lay down even more dakka from their pintle weapons.

I'm going back to my roots, painting an otter and a marine.

Procured a second Leviathan, which I should have built by the end of the day.

Continued working on the next three old lead Harlequins to complete a troupe.

Cheers,

CB

Finally managed to finish a game of my TT Skirmish game, The Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game, that I began with my friend a couple of weeks ago. The Jaroai Summoning Ritual scenario I did in my first and so far only BatRep I posted here:https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/809375.page.

I lost by a very small margin, but we had a ton of fun. The Jaroai was summoned, and despite the best efforts of my remaining characters and the mercenary gangers who switched sides at the sight of the horrid eldritch abomination, it survived the fifth extra round. So yeah.

Then I began base painting two Chaos Marines.

Finally, after a long time finding a collecting all the models I wanted, I have completed my Frostgrave Warband!





Servac the Blue Wizard and his crew ready to steal stuff and rob tombs! Models are a mix of Official Frostgrave minis, Bones models, old GW Brettonians, Dungeons and Doggos as well as an Oathmark Dwarf.

Now to continue on another Warband....


Oh, also 1000th post!

They look great, Commodus! And congrats on the 1000th post.

Anyway, back on topic, finally, we got the drill press and drilled the holes for the bases of Attelus Kaltos and Adelana Helgen's from Secret War bases into my diorama base! Something we've meant to do for a month? A long while now. Then glued the magnets in the holes and on the bases of Attelus and Adelana, and it turned out great!





I did a few other things which I will elaborate more on in my blog.

I then did a bit more work on my Chaos Marines, which wasn't as fun, lol.

I've been reorganizing my space for hobby things. It's bigger now! More room to mess up in.

Finished the next three old lead Harlequins to complete a troupe.



Cheers,

CB

This afternoon some of the replacement Tau bitz I 'd ordered arrived.

So tonight my Pathfinders got their rail-rifles & I've built the shield drones for my broadsides.

More progress on my diorama and mostly completed my two Chaos Marines, and began painting the next pair.

Had the weekly game afternoon with the kids today. They played The Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game and it went well! Here's some photos.

It's another Warlord Wednesday!

Nice Adrassil.

I am working on some camouflaged cloaks for my old metal rangers.

Cheers,

CB

Reading through the Bloodbowl rules.
And building some BB figures.

Made a bit more progress on my diorama and more work on my Chaos Marines. They...just aren't fun to paint, in all honesty.

Continued working on some camouflaged cloaks for my old metal rangers.

Cheers,

CB

Either working on the base of a screamer killer or finishing the skin of 3 von ryan's leapers. Maybe both if I get the time...

Practically finished my new pair of Chaos Marines, and I also practically finished my diorama! Here are a few photos—more details and such in my blog.









Very happy with it now!

It's Axis & Allies day! Finally.
We've been trying to get this game coordinated for over a month now....

Assembled and painted an MDF paint rack to make some more space at the working desk. Also sprayed the Models and Minis Hornet down with Army Painter Skeleton Horde and Desert Sand for a quick and dirty desert camo scheme with bluetack doing the masking.


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Assembled and painted an MDF paint rack to make some more space at the working desk. Also sprayed the Models and Minis Hornet down with Army Painter Skeleton Horde and Desert Sand for a quick and dirty desert camo scheme with bluetack doing the masking.

I took the big step and super glued the Chaos Cultists to the diorama. It's almost finished; so proud of it now!



























Oh, and I also mostly finished my Chaos Marines. I might've done more but have been super achy, especially in my fingers after working a lot, prepping a room for painting in a 150-year-old building. So much scraping and blah blah blah, but I digress lol.

Today we wage Waaaagh!

The Red Gobbo has reached an agreement with a newly formed Ork warband to lend them armored & mechanized support.

The deal: 1st dibbs on scrap/loot.
The plan: use the stupid Orks as a meat shield/distraction as we grab the loot.

2k pt game.
1k pts of Orks + 1k pts of my Gots vs 2k pts of Imperial (SM + ?)

Finished some small conversions to my Archon's Elven Woods terrain kit.

Finished building the College of Fire team for Dungeon Bowl.

Painting a tzeentch marked iron warrior with chaos icon. First time using a wet palette.

Despite my aching limbs I made a bit more progress on my Baharroth proxy mini but I also made a promise to myself that I would complete all the assembled, primed and base coated minis before I begin to assemble any more which comes around to about 25 minis excluding Baharroth.

Would like to work on other things but I think it's about time I got that stuff done first.

More grenadiers, for more 30k

Painting a Wizkids earth elemental as a bit of a break from 15mm Romans.

Finished five old metal Rangers who have had a facelift...or more exactly a cloak upgrade.



Cheers,

CB

Went through a pile of Old minis I bought a few months ago to finish planning out my Dwarf Army. Needed to figure out what I have vs what I still need.

Good news is I'm almost done my collection. Just need to get 9 more older metal Dwarf Warriors and Hammerer command units and I can get to work putting it all together.

Also building plastic Dark Elf Spearmen from 6th edition.

Got way to much marvel Terrain to build, been working all day and still only in the first box of buildings.

I am actually so excited to start painting these.

Well, built another 5 grenadiers for my milita, and did some size comparisons to make a 30k dark mech force potentially.

I'll be busy building tonight.....

ccs wrote:
I'll be busy building tonight.....

Well, that was the plan.
And then storms knocked out the power afternoon through until very late in the evening.

So all I got done was some repair work on a Tau Firewarrior squad & some drones.

Almost finished painting my Baharroth proxy, and I began painting a...police chick? And a pirate chick mini which are both metal and both may or may not be Reaper miniatures. Can't remember. I'm painting the police chick as a vampire air hostess, as I'm planning on using her as a mini to represent a character that need to be protected for a scenario that's an escort mission for Anargrin's team to protect her, a newly sired innocent vampire from a horde of Jaroaite extremists trying to kill her.

Did another five Ranger's cloaks.


Cheers,

CB

I have begun assembling my Konflict 47 British Automaton mmg infantry.

After completing 3/20? What a pain in the ass.....

It took me two years since getting the box set (a shameful period in the pile of shame!) but I've finally finished a unit for A Song of Ice and Fire. Got a unit of Lannister I'm working on over the weekend, which will hopefully get finished a great deal sooner!

Did some more painting of the police chick, then played a game of The Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game with my friend. Playtesting the earlier mentioned scenario of Anargrin and his team protecting a newly sired vampire from Jaroaite Extremists. This time, I played the Extremists and my friend Anargrin and his team. It was close; it ended in my loss, and we had an absolute ton of fun. Wish I'd remembered to take photos, though lol

Doing a drybrush and wash on 3D printed dwarfs to make statues and getting going on some of the new Mantic butchers for my nightstalkers.

Nice Pacific.

Working on another batch of old metal Rangers to detail their cloaks.

Cheers,

CB

ccs wrote:
I'll be busy building tonight.....

we love Konflikt '47. It's such a cool theme.

Made quite a bit more progress on my Police Chick, the Pirate Chick and the Baharroth proxy. I also began trying to green stuff the muzzle flair on my Adelana mini's shotgun for my diorama. Which was quite a bit harder to do than I thought it would, lol.

Put together some Karsk Assault Grenadiers(one of my homebrew regiments), figured now they have some transports being put together I actually need more than 5 soldiers.

Also started work on some Fallout NV 11th ACR guys (just becasue that game is just the best).

So it's been big coated, heavily armoured bois (both varieties toting anti material rifles of course) all round this weekend.

Did another five old Eldar Ranger cloaks.


Cheers,

CB

Those old Rangers look great!

Many years ago we invented a bunch of Eldar special characters, and that Ranger with the Power Sword became a kind of Eldar Assassin type. He was lots of fun.

Take pictures of my latest finished Screamer Killer and last dry brush layer on 20 termagants and a tyranid prime, then start painting their bases.

Also I really need to have another cleaning round in my games room as it is cluttering again...

Made more progress painting Baharroth and my Pirate Chick mini. Also, more work on Adelana's muzzle flare.

Finished the Leader of my Gnoll Warband and, subsequently, finished my Warband!.....mostly.

I do intend to add more to it. Infact I picked up a 3d printed Shaman I intend to add as well as a Manticore and some Hyenas. However its not a priority now and I'm calling this phase of this warband "done".




Complete Warband shot (So far!)



Now I'm going to paint some Deathwatch Space marines...because they are half painted on my desk judging me.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Those old Rangers look great!

Many years ago we invented a bunch of Eldar special characters, and that Ranger with the Power Sword became a kind of Eldar Assassin type. He was lots of fun.

Thanks H.B.M.C.

Working on the last unit now.

Cheers,

CB

Put together a couple of plague marines that I’ve had sitting around since oh… 2020 or so.

Practically finished my Baharroth Proxy, and I'm pretty happy with him.









I tried to replicate the colour scheme of the real Baharroth. Kinda reminds me of Angemon from Digimon.

Also began painting the muzzle flare on Adelana's gun. I had to use quite a few layers of yellow paint as my brush-on primer is black.





I'm much happier with it now. It goes to show that before it's painted, how bad the green stuffing seems lol

I didn't get to do too much today (besides running the TT Miniature Gaming day, which went well despite the kids being a bit...frustrating today lol) But I did go over the green stuffed muzzle flash on Adelana's gun, and I'm very happy with how it turned out.







And here's the diorama overall now.

Finished the last five.



Cheers,

CB

Finished up these, castigator, 2 immolator and rhino. Next up to tyranids

Painting a small shark for a D&D game.

I ordered a Inner sphere urban lance. All of 'em are gonna be painted up as Northwind Highlanders.

Adjusting my T'au to shift from 750 to 1,000 points in an escalation game, today seeing some XV-8 Crisis suits printed after setting them up in Blender to make adjusting the pose easier

Had a couple of Grimdark Future: Firefight with my friend today. Had a lot of fun! Forgot to take photos, though lol

Last models for tyranids(these plus 10 termagaunt and 11 neurogaunts) being prepared for codex.

About to start assembly on my new Cities of Sigmar box.

Began assembling an Inquisitor lady proxy I bought from Etsy ages ago. She's one of the minis that's been sitting around assembled and primed for months. I decided to paint her as Inquisitor Jelcine Enandra from Secret War even though she wields a plasma pistol and a power fist, and the lady Inquisitor has a bolter and a cane of sorts. The armour is probably a bit too elaborate for her, and no Ordo Hereticus Hat! But oh well, it'll be nice to have a mini of her, and she could lead a Grimdark Future: Firefight team in the near future. In all honesty, she's playing a much larger role in Secret War: The Annihilation Plague than in Secret War and Secret War: Upon Blood Sands, and she's becoming one of my favourite characters to write.

Today my hobby activity is sadly throwing away a bunch of half-finished and unassembled models as I try and slim down in preparation for my house move.

RIP, King Ghidorah Heldrake that I painstakingly spent ages sculping cables for, only for the project to take so long that Death Guard lost the ability to take Heldrakes in the meantime

RIP, trio of Greater Blight Drones that I modelled to look like Octabrains after seeing the Duke Nukem Forever trailer. I will probably recreate you at some point

RIP, recast Mk2B Land Raider whose sides never quite fit right

RIP, 3D printed Imperator head that warped a bit and severely needed gapfilling, but taught me how to use colourshift paints through an airbrush & use masking fluid to make metallic trim not make me want to tear my hair out

I will probably attempt to recreate some or all of these in the future, perhaps using 3D printing, but the originals are consigned to the trash. I leave them here to mark their passing

Small conversions to make few pieces of otherwise identical plastic terrain look a bit different.

Pretty much finished my Inquisitor Enandra mini, and she does look decent. I also made a not-Gaunt's Ghosts faction for Grimdark Future and GF: Firefight and made a GFF list for it. I made a Grimdark Future "dream list" based on my Indendant Inquisition faction, which is basically Inquisitor Enandra's forces from Secret War. It'd be so cool to play. One day, maybe. One day lol.

https://army-forge.onepagerules.com/list?listId=1693716049875&upgradesOpen=true

I gave a space marine a new shoulder and a new friend (Frog)

Starting on my Freeguild Marshal...playing with some metallic shenanigans.

Created a new piece of terrain by joining/converting two Archon's hills, and adding a tree on top.

Played heroquest with my friends yesterday. We used the app and i was the baddies. Also painted the first figure on a commission for an admech force. It’s an hq guy with a dozen tentacles under his skirts. It makes me appreciate non gw models’ simplicity. A skabillion little doodads festoon the miniature.

Spectre Slayers!

Practically finished my Inquisitor Enandra mini and began working on my Karandras proxy. Also ordered a bunch of minis online and made a couple new lists for not-Chaos for Grimdark Future: Firefight.

Painting 104 men.

Actually over 50% status done.

We're celebrating Labor Day with a big multi-player Tau vs Imperial game.

Right now it's 2v2, 1500 pts per person.

Edit:
So it ended up being 3v2 (3 Imperial vs 2 Tau), 3k pts total per side. The Guard + Knights attacking the Tau (though the Tau saw it coming & got 1st turn).
Many models died on both sides. The Imperials were tabled. The Tau won on VP.
Oh, and much food & drink were consumed with a good time being had by all. Even by the Knight player who after getting wiped out top of 3 was consigned to Grill & score keeping duties.

Started some classic Necromunda towers, replacing the cardboard with plastic card.

Cheers,

CB

Almost finished my Karandras proxy and quite happy with him so far and began my Jain Zar (who's the only proper GW Phoenix Lord I own) as the wash on Karandras was drying.

Also made and printed out a few more Grimdark Future: Firefight Chaos lists for the game day tomorrow.

More work on the Necro towers. On one of them I am starting to think I will keep the cardboard...but reinforce it underneath and then add bit and paint.

Cheers,

CB

With my Tau out of storage & put back into successful fighting form, my attention now turns to my Eldar....

Inventory:
Hmm.
36 Rangers (why do I own 36 vs 35 or maybe 40?? Was this intentional on my end?)
30 Fire Dragons (with Exarchs)
15 vintage Wraithguard
3 vintage Wraithlords - no heavy weapons
2 Farseers
3 warlock/spirit Seers
3 Wave Serpents (star cannons + shuriken cannon) - missing cockpit canopies
1 Falcon (Bright Lance & Pulse Laser) - missing cockpit canopies
9 Vypers - all missing their gunner, seat, & heavy weapon, 6 missing cockpit canopies - not terribly pleased to see that in 10e Vypers are solo units. So only 3/9 will see play at any given time. :(
2 Avatars (1 OG metal, the other FW with spear)
1 vintage War Walker - missing weapons
3 Characters (Eldrad, Assuraman, & Fuegan)
a small collection of loose metal heavy weapons (not nearly enough to equip all the Vypers/WL, & Walker, let alone optimally....
and a handfull of misc bitz & a few random Guardians

Oh, and an Armorcast Phantom Titan.

Definitely not the current Meta units....

All in all though? Not in too bad of shape repair-wise.
I need:
10x cockpit canopies (4 at the minimum)
11x heavy weapons (5 minimum)
x9 Vyper Gunners (3 minimum)
x9 Vyper gunner seats/weapons mounts - these I'm thinking will be the hard part. Fortunately I only need 3 at the minimum.

The only things I think I'll add are:
x3 wave serpents - this will allow me to have all my Dragons & all my WG mounted. It'll also take care of supplying all the heavy weapons I need.
x1 Autarch Wayleaper - I like the model & his rules.

Had the Wednesday game day with the kids. Grimdark Future: Firefight. Gaunt's Ghosts (which I made in Army Forge Studio) and Dark Angels vs me with Chaos Cultists and Infected Colonies from Deadzone 300pts. Was a lot of fun.

Printing counters for "Bag the Hun" at the weekend, the "common" ones are done, waiting some red and blue resin tomorrow for the player specific ones.

hopefully have the time to spray varnish them for the same feel to the touch

rulebook also printed, the hex grid map and models found.

got an email about Necromunda floor tiles being back in stock locally so have ordered two and a copy of the just rules 40k book

Weather has been super nice so I haven't had time to hobby much. Deathwatch still sitting half painted on my table but I did manage to put together a few models.

Also given all the stuff I have scattered on my hobby room floor I realize I really need better organization...

Built a British Automated Carrier for Konflict 47 this afternoon.
1 more of these + 10 infantry to go.....

I needed more mechs, it’s amazing how much they cost when you are buying enough to last for the year hopefully.

Got my little city ready for paint, hopefully in a few weeks can play zombie games and MCP for some big campaigns on the new modern city.

Space marines are done, going to a new home this weekend.
Been busy this week.

Procrastinating doing useful things in favor of going through the newest 40k updates & re-tallying my current forces.

More work on the Necro towers.


Cheers,

CB

Just polished off my 2nd warhound titan in prep for legio imperalis.

I just had a model published in this month's Airfix mag.

unwrapped my new copy of 40k "The rules", noting its now out of date. meah, still better than the cost of printing it given GW went with dark backgrounds for some pages.

would have paid the same for it as a softback drilled for an A5 binder though

also two more packs of Necromunda floor tiles! woo!

That’s super cool @Valkyrie and looks good! All look good.

Today, I'm watching US football (Go UCF!!! Beat Boise State!!!) and painting up some Kruleboyz. I'm working on getting the Killa Boss on Gnashtoof and 20 troops with skareshields.

It has been a few days since I updated due to being busy with work and some travelling, but I still managed to do some painting on my Karandras proxy and mostly managed to complete him, and I'm quite happy with how he turned out.











He was a joy to paint. The proxy is made by Major Minis on Etsy (which is run by Major Kill; apparently not a big fan of the YT channel, but if it is his company making these proxies, I'm a big fan of them, indeed). Today, I managed to make quite a bit of progress on Jain Zar, now onto highlighting she's finally looking okay with her being only base painted; she looked like she was made of black with tomato sauce and mustard and a McDonald's character but now with highlights and her mane being painted orange she looks much better.

Made more progress on Jain Zair mini. She's now not far from being finished. She's a damned nice mini.

Finished converting another piece of terrain.

Planned to spend all day yesterday finishing some Deathwatch....but got distracted by another idea thats been spinning in my head for a few years. Decided to just do it....well see how it turns out.

Clearing the desk of a few build projects today:
Building another Crisis Suit Commander.
Building another Broadside Suit.
Building a Rendmaster on Blood Throne.
Building another British Automated Carrier for Konflkt 47

As I had to visit a relative in another city, this city being a place with a warhammer store (ayyyyy!!!)..

Ended up buying 250 euros worth of League of Votann because I had to buy something and couldn't buy what I was looking for (Tyranid norn emissary) so yeah, started a new army eheheheh...

Feel free to pity my wallet.

Only basing remains for me to finally have finished my 30k milita army.

Only the bases.

I been looking at minis to paint since very sick, thinking about future projects.

Probably more Marvel!

Had the Wednesday TT Skirmish game day with the kids today, and while I didn't get to play, I had a lot of fun, even if getting the kids to pay attention felt like herding cats sometimes Or Orks . It was 300pts of Grimdark Future: Firefight. Here are a few photos of the battle. It was Inquisition led by Attelus Kaltos and Karmen Kons (with Marcel Torris and Adelana Helgen all from Secret War) and Eldar led by Farseer Faleaseen, also from Secret War vs. Chaos Cultists and Infected Colonies.



















After that, I did a bit more work on Jain Zar and she's so close to being finished it isn't funny. I also did an experiment on a new way of painting gems with my Major Minis Solitaire mini he has two big gems on his scenic base and it worked out well, especially after applying a layer of gloss varnish.

 Valkyrie wrote:
I just had a model published in this month's Airfix mag.

Very cool Valkyrie.

Continued working on my next refresh of the classic Necromunda terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks to the recent pts drop, ive got some space to fill in my Tau force.
So a perfect excuse to add a pair of new models to the collection....

Tonight: Finished building a Tau Enforcer suit Commander.
Next up: a Sunshark Bomber.

With the arrival of the new editions of Grimdark Future and Grimdark Future: Firefight (3.0). I've been updating my lists to coincide with all the points changes, equipment options, etc. Psychic powers have been changed drastically, and I think I've wrapped my head around the new system. I didn't mind the old one. It was simple and easy to understand, although it seemed a bit too rare for psychic powers to work, even the lower-level ones. I also got our old printer working, which prints double-sided without turning the pages over, which my dumb self can't wrap my head around. We thought our new, expensive, fancy inkjet printer would allow for native double-sided printing, but nooo. I used it to print out the sheets for the newly edited teams and the Grimdark Future: Firefight advanced rule book for 3.0, so now we have an easy reference for the game rules. Finally!


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Painted an old push-fit ork boy I've had for years (and I have no idea how I got it) to fight alongside my Kommandoes in Grimdark Future: Firefight. Quite happy with how he turned out and began basing Jain Zar.

Adrassil can I ask is it much of a change to the rule format itself generally? I saw that V3 has been released but haven't yet looked, as I've not long got into the game!

Today in the hobby I have been: Putting final steps to a unit of ASOIAF Lannister guard, and painting some Epic Eldar Falcons and Guardians (courtesy of Vanguard Miniatures)

Yeah, all goods, Pacific. Nah, the game is pretty much the same in its fundamentals. It's mostly a whole lot of changes to things like cover (which now adds +1 to defence instead of -1 to the shooter's attack) and a whole lot of special rules such as Furious, which now doubles the attack for the attacker when they charge on a 6 instead of them just getting +1 to their attacks when charging. That and my earlier mentioned change to psychic/magic powers.


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Also, now there's a 3.1, which seems to have been to clarify things with the rules, etc.


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I finished both my Jain Zar and Ork Boy today. Now, I've taken the plunge and begun painting my Chaos Terminator Lord and Daemon Prince, despite how much I didn't enjoy painting my Chaos Marines. I began with painting their gold trims, and while the Terminator took as much time as I thought, the Daemon Prince was much quicker; he might've been much bigger but had a lot less trim. So, with the hard part passed, the rest won't be a breeze, but it'll be less annoying lol

 Captain Brown wrote:
More work on the Necro towers.


Cheers,

CB

I LOVE the old carstock GW terrain. I have PDFs of them all and between me and my cuz we own all but 1.

I wish they would reprint them.

Mostly managed to finish my Chaos Terminator Lord and Daemon Prince. A couple of good steps towards having a finished 2,000 point list of "Havoc Brothers" for a friend to play Grimdark Future against me one day.

Finished my Daemon Prince and Terminator Chaos Lord today. I'm very happy with how he turned out.







I also thought I'd post some photos of my Jain Zar, as I'm quite happy with her as well!













I'm especially happy with how her power blades turned out, it seems my simple technique I made up for power blades has come to fruition!

I had planned on painting a bunch of other stuff this weekend...but instead I was distracted by this:




My FLGS still has a bunch of the Space Marine Heroes and, on a whim, bought one. Fun to paint....but now I have a Furioso Dreadnought on my desk too so my plan on getting a single project done keeps getting distracted.

My Deathwatch will have to wait it seems....

Painting tyranids and 1st mech.

Worked on the Necromunda tower some more.

Cheers,

CB

Today I'm finally getting around to building (and base coating) the Dark Elf/Skaven Dundeon Bowl team.

tneva82 wrote:
Painting tyranids and 1st mech.

That’s super coool!

Almost finished my Dark Angel Company Vet mini and re-based the Karmen Kons, Marcel Torris and Saderth Darrance minis from Secret War. I'm planning on maybe one day running a campaign of Grimdark Future and GF Firefight based on a wartorn world of Inquisition and allies vs Chaos Space Marines and their Cultist hordes and whatever other faction that wishes to take part. My diorama is also a part of that story. A snap shot, per say.