youwashock wrote:Good job! The lightning on the halberd is a very cool detail.
Cheers youwashock, it is pretty decent and something I’ll try again
endtransmission wrote:The freehand and gold both look great to me! Having been attempting freehand this week as well, I can totally sympathise with the challenge
Thanks, it’s pretty nerve wracking worrying about having to redo bits
Slinky wrote:Awesome, well done!
Love the completed Possessed too, horrible in a good way
Thanks, those possessed were a good little project too
Olthannon wrote:Wow that's bloody marvellous! Really nice work on that mini. Love the halberd blade, that's a awesome idea for a power weapon.
Thanks Olthannon, though the lightning idea was borrowed from the GW box art
youwashock wrote:Conceptually, I think you are good. The upper body is looking right, but I think you are correct in revisiting the legs. A different pair might sell it a little more.
Yeah I’ll see how it looks with different legs and post back. Cheers
Olthannon wrote:Definitely a cool pose, I'd maybe tilt the bolter and arm further down so it looks more at rest/ clearly not in use. Love the concept, some dynamism in otherwise static heavy looking minis should look great.
Thanks, I’ve tried for dynamism with most of my Terminators as the Space Marine Heroes ones were the seed for my first company. I don’t think I’ve managed that level but this one might get close. I’ll see about lowering the Bolter arm, as I think the pose is a little off still.
Switching from building to painting I made some progress on the first terminator squad last night, though it was only slapping on metallics. All of the mechanical gubbins and most of the skulls got a Boltgun/Leadbelcher mix, then the trim got gold in the form of Retributor Armour.
Clearly I was very messy throwing these paints down so there will be plenty of tidying up to do with both black and purple. I’m thinking purple helmets ( ) with gold stripe like my Sternguard/Company Veterans had. It worked on them and similar with the crimson fist terminators I did ages ago
So, Purple Helmets it is! Finished tidying up the black armour (the new Vallejo Game Colour Black is really matte, and lovely smooth coverage) though I now have some silver and gold that needs work! then it was on with blocking in the purple bits: shoulder pads and helmets
I’ve also been faffing around with my printer as I’m only a couple of shoulder pads away from 5 squads of Terminators. Having updated the slicer and the drivers it seems to have fixed the shifting layer problem and I think I can print a decent pad now. I’ve also created an icon template to see if it can handle them. Test prints look decent, but need to get some paint on them for the real proof
Captain Brown wrote:gobert,
Made a couple of exalts on the previous page.
Cheers,
CB
Thanks Cap, I’m pretty pleased blue the last few projects have turned out
youwashock wrote:Oh, yeah, those guys look cool. That assault cannon model is so good.
Yeah, the Space Marine Heroes minis are a step above i think and the assault cannon lad is probably my favourite of this batch too
Olthannon wrote:Shlurple the purple! Looking excellent!
cheers!
theCrowe wrote:Your Panthernators are already looking excellent. Looking forward to seeing you crisp them up like roasties in the oven.
Panthernators has a good ring to it. Sadly the oven was set a bit low thanks to getting this bad cold that’s doing the rounds to the roast plastic will take while
Saying that, I have made some solid progress on Terminators. The first squad got their gold neatened up after the purple was done. Then they got a wash of Nuln oil and I’ve got the Boltgun metal underway on the first couple of them.
I’ve also been plodding my way through fixing up the other Terminators I have… which is seemingly approaching a Demi 1st company! After the first squad I have a Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield squad made mostly of SMH guys
There’s also a Lightning Claw squad with a couple more SMH chaps
The last SMH guy is the Cyclone Missile Launcher in the second regular squad
I’ve also got a regular squad with an ex-Chaos Heavy Flamer (thanks Ragsta!) these guys all have chain fists, 2 of which were converted. The chap I was asking posing questions about is also here. I stuck with the running pose and made it more of a shoulder barge pose than originally planned. I think he looks cool.
I have another squads worth of regulars, but I’m short a few bits and pieces. So I ordered some Deathwing components from eBay that should be with me by now, but Royal Mail only deliver fortnightly of late for some reason (the new Warhammer Heroes was at the Bristol depot for 2 weeks and declared lost by RM before it randomly pitched up on a Sunday! ). I’m kinda regretting not ordering a Deathwing plasma cannon, but I might convert the Assaul Cannon for these guys in to one… I have about 6 regular ones left after all!
I also have another squad of Lightning Claw marines in bit and on sprue
So that’s 7 squads in total and I reckon I might be able to build an 8th with a few arms. Together with the Sternguard I did recently and the box of Vanguard marines that would be a full Demi 1st company… at this rate I might as well do a chapter right!?
The eagle eyed amongst you will have spotted the array of dreadnought weapons too. Well they’re for these 2:
The little guy only came with one foot, so I replaced it and the missing one with matching 3d printed versions. His missile launcher I think is from the Venerable kit, so might be a bit big for him. I reckon it’s close enough though.
That's a lot of heavy armor. I look forward to the day they all stand together for one of your excellent army shots. Really excited for the Dreadnoughts. Stompy robots rule.
youwashock wrote:That's a lot of heavy armor. I look forward to the day they all stand together for one of your excellent army shots. Really excited for the Dreadnoughts. Stompy robots rule.
It really is and it was quite a bit of accidental acquisitions the big horde of plastic I got had 4 squads worth of terminators and a totally unadvertised dreadnought!
Cheers Gwyn, I now realise that the pic I posted was from the front and its proportions are only off from the side . I’m happy enough as it looks cool either way!
Slinky wrote:Looking good, that's going to be impressive once they are all done!
Yeah, I’ll need a new display board too, good job the kids got rid of a book case recently!
Not Online!!! wrote: What do you mean Gobert? There's atleast another 40 missing no?
Great job on them and the dreads.
Don’t tempt me! ? *goes and checks eBay for old terminators*
Been plodding on with the Terminators, 2 of them have their metallics fully highlighted, and the others aren’t far behind.
I’ll start work on the purples including the purple highlights on the black next.
I then took a detour from Warhammer in preparation for Christmas. We were talking board games with the kids the other day and they hadn’t played Cluedo before (think I’ve only played it the once!) and Mrs Gobert said she loved it. Then when doing the supermarket shopping I spotted a version with miniatures, so they was a family present sorted, and a quick hobby project for me!
Similar to the Bill & Ted minis I did a quick job. Grey prime then zenithal white focussing on the front a bit more. Then it was a variety of Speed and Contrast paints. All were done in a single day, which is a first for me, especially to get a box done within 2 days of purchase!
The minis are a bit of mix, some have great details and designs and others are a bit muted. Here’s individual mug shots Miss Scarlet
I particularly love her hair, and the dress turned out pretty nicely too.
Colonel Mustard
He took the contrast paints really well and has loads of character. He’s probably my favourite sculpt of the bunch
Chef White
Her box art is cool, but the mini didn’t turn out that great. I was a bit sloppy on the buttons and I didn’t hit her with enough white zenithal (now isn’t that ironic?).
Mayor Green
He’s just a bit bland and has a wierd face. It might’ve been better had I remembered his goatee Solicitor Peacock
Another full model, but I like the colour on her blouse. Quite a bit of the blue ran on to bits it wasn’t meant to be, which is a shame.
Professor Plum
Seems a bit cool for a professor, and the sculpt is a bit minimal, but the sculpted texture on his jumper rescues him a bit.
They were fun little diversion and hopefully they’ll be fun to play with on Christmas Day.
That’ll probably be my posts done before Christmas itself, so I hope you all have a great Christmas and Santa brings you some hobby goodies!
The Cluedo minis are looking great. Nice work there. It reminds me that I had intended to do this exact same thing this time last year, (though my set are different figures).
Looking at these makes me think I need to get on this. Nice one gobert.
Painting up the Cluedo set was a great idea and they've all come out really nicely - wouldn't have guessed they'd been done as quickly as that.
I've got a lot to catch up on, but the latest BSF minis are fantastic - the green really pops on the possessed, and the cloth and halberd on the Watch master are really well done.
Your minis are looking amazing even in super close up shots - which you're also taking really well lol - the photography is great in here and the way you light/backdrop really sets the minis off. Love when there's an in-game looking shot after all the white backgrounds.
I'm sure I've commented on them before but the BSF tiles are super clean and evocative with the OSL - well done mate.
You've been accomplishing so much, I'm having trouble visualizing how big your forces for the Void Panthers are. How many models have you painted for your chapter at this point?
Tommygun1918 wrote:Very nice. Colonel Mustard is living up to his name too.
Cheers, he really does look like a nice dollop of mustard doesn’t he
youwashock wrote: Nicely done, gobert! Have fun solving the mystery!
Cheers, it’s gone down really well with the family, so a good choice it would seem.
Olthannon wrote:Love the Cluedo minis Gobert and good luck with those Terminators.
All the best for Christmas mate!
Thanks Olthannon, I think I’m gonna need luck with the mountain of Terminators
Not Online!!! wrote:Good job on the cluedo minis and happy festivities!
Thanks NotOnline!!!
Captain Brown wrote:Nice themed project Gobert.
Happy Holidays.
Cheers,
CB
Thanks Captain, ‘tis the season for murder most horrid I suppose!
theCrowe wrote:The Cluedo minis are looking great. Nice work there. It reminds me that I had intended to do this exact same thing this time last year, (though my set are different figures).
Looking at these makes me think I need to get on this. Nice one gobert.
Cheers, I’m not sure the painted figures added much to the family’s experience but I was pleased with myself . They’re quite a fun and fast project when done with contrast/speed paints
tzurk wrote:Merry Christmas mate!
Painting up the Cluedo set was a great idea and they've all come out really nicely - wouldn't have guessed they'd been done as quickly as that.
I've got a lot to catch up on, but the latest BSF minis are fantastic - the green really pops on the possessed, and the cloth and halberd on the Watch master are really well done.
Your minis are looking amazing even in super close up shots - which you're also taking really well lol - the photography is great in here and the way you light/backdrop really sets the minis off. Love when there's an in-game looking shot after all the white backgrounds.
I'm sure I've commented on them before but the BSF tiles are super clean and evocative with the OSL - well done mate.
Thanks for sharing!
Merry Christmas tzurk! Thanks for taking the time to go through the plog, it’s been a decent hobby year. You and a few others were the inspiration for the action shots, so it means a lot that you like the pics! I need to print off some more BSF stuff but as I’m unlikely to play maybe I’ll just save the stls, but they were fun so who knows!
Syro_ wrote:You've been accomplishing so much, I'm having trouble visualizing how big your forces for the Void Panthers are. How many models have you painted for your chapter at this point?
Thanks Syro, there are surprisingly few Void Panthers painted at the moment
25 Tactical Marines
10 Assault Marines with Jump Packs
3 Bikers (7 more in various stages of construction)
1 Land Speeder
5 Sternguard (DA Company) Veterans
1 Stormtalon Gunship
1 Chapter Master
1 Land Raider
But then I have the rest of a regular Company and a Demi 1st Company. Of which the WIP pile is;
5 Regular Terminators
On the primed pile I have:
5 Tactical Marines
1 Rhino
1 Command Squad
1 Captain in Power Armour
1 Captain in Terminator Armour
9 Devastator Marines
1 Librarian in Power Armour
In the built pile there are
9 Tactical Marines
5 Assault Marines with Jump Packs
1 Devastator Marine
10 Regular Terminators
5 Thunder Hammer & Storm Shield Assault Terminators
8 Lightning Claw Assault Terminators
1 Venerable Dreadnought
1 Regular Dreadnought
1 Razorback
1 Tech Marine
1 Stormraven Gunship
1 Stormhawk Interceptor
In the not started pile I have
21 Tactical Marines
5 Assault Marines with Jump Packs
10 Devastator Marines
4 Regular Terminators
7 Lightning Claw Assault Terminators
Phew! That turned in to a post of its own! But it was good to get it all written down. I don’t think I’ve forgotten anything. I’ll try to do a year summary when I get the chance. In the meantime here’s the instagram version
With how much progress I have seen, I admit that's less finished and painted Void Panthers than I expected, but still a good chunk of finished guys. And wow, that's a lot prepared and in progress. Looks like we'll all get to enjoy your progress on them for a long time.
Syro_ wrote: With how much progress I have seen, I admit that's less finished and painted Void Panthers than I expected, but still a good chunk of finished guys. And wow, that's a lot prepared and in progress. Looks like we'll all get to enjoy your progress on them for a long time.
Yeah I was surprised when I counted up recently to compare the quantity with all of the dreadnoughts painted by ListenToMeWarriors (@celestiallion on insta)… it was a close run thing but the Panther just about had more. I’m happy at the projects to come and complete. Probably back to regular marines next.
Before my first proper post of the year, here’s my 2023 in review (apologies that it’s a bit late but I enjoy doing them!)
January I started the year finishing off the mega Necron project
February Wrapped up the Necrons
Bonus pic because it looks cool!
Then I moved on to some Assault Marines with Jump packs
March Saw slow progress on the assault squad thanks to a dodgy right arm (still not feeling great but manageable) and I managed to finish them before the month was up
April Started with a building splurge
(Sorry if they’re too small to see)
After which I re painted a Tiranoc Chariot
Which also happened to be the final mini in my High Elf Army, so here’s a gratuitous Army pic
That inspired me to get my Void Panthers display board finished
And I even squeezed in some Necrons to finish (or so I thought) that army
May Got off to a bang with painting the inside of a Void Panther Land Raider
Quickly followed by the outside
Keeping on the Panthers kick I kit bashed some Dark Angels Company Veterans to make some Sternguard Veterans
June Saw me do some Khorne lads on a 3d printed movement tray
And I did some building of colonial marines and Xenomorphs from Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps
July Finished off the Khorne lads
Then I got 5 marines done for a Void Panthers tactical squad done
And made a start on the Sternguard for the Panthers
August Saw me splurgeon a massive pile of plastic to expand the Panthers from a Demi company to a full Company and it seems half of the first company
But I managed to finish the Sternguard
Finishing up the month with the Techmarine in a Stormtalon
September Started with a bunch of Xenomorphs including the Queen
Then there was the Void Panthers Chapter Master and work starting on the outside of the Stormtalon
October I finished off Chapter Master Inanis
Then the Stormtalon
Chaos crept in at the end of the month with a pair of Greater Possessed for Blackstone Fortress
November I think the flouro paint on the Possessed Marines turned out ok
I also painted the Deathwatch Watchmaster from the Sons of Orar Chapter for Blackstone Fortress too
December Was about Terminators mainly, but with trips and family visiting I didn’t manage to finish them
Partly because I speed painted the figures from Cluedo 2023
All in, a pretty good year I reckon. I’ll post later with the finished Terminators and my next projects too
Thanks for looking and supporting throughout 2023. Here’s to plenty more hobby in 2024!
youwashock wrote:Nice recap, gobert. Bring on those Terminators and 2024.
Cheers, ask and ye shall receive
As trailed in my last post the Terminators are done! Though of course seeing the pics there are bits that I’ve missed (like the writing on their parchment). I have to admit that before the second edge highlighting went on the black I was questioning the scheme. Now they’re done though I’m glad I stuck it out… only another 30 to go!
Without further ado, here’s Terminator Squad Adrastus of the Void Panthers Chapter
As usual, here are the individual pics, starting with Brother-Sergeant Adrastus himself.
Spoiler:
He’s a bit of a kitbash, with the base, body, legs and head of Brother Aramus from the Space Marine Heroes Series 2 collection with Brother Phaello’s right arm and a standard Terminator Sergeants power sword. His base had a few bits filled in to avoid it matching too much. I think he looks pretty good (especially in the last action shot below!)
Next is Brother Astelan
Spoiler:
This guy is just a regular terminator although his stormbolter is from the Dark Angels firstborn upgrade sprue, with the dark angels bits removed
Here we have Brother Feurran
Spoiler:
Feurran is the first of the true Space Marine Heroes, with no modification from the standard. He’s a pretty cool model with a nice pose astride a broken imperial eagle! What more could to ask for in a mini!?
This chap is Brother Phaello
Spoiler:
Phaello is another Space Marine Hero, probably the most basic sculpt, but he has a cool base!
Finally here’s Brother Dyrael
Spoiler:
Finishing up the squad with another Space Marine Hero sculpt without changes. His servo skull is pretty cool as is his scope on his gun.
And I can’t finish some panthers without action pics
I love that last one!
So that’s the first completed project of 2024. I’m already working on 2 and 3, pics to follow
Those guys look rad! Excellent job, gobert! Not a bad way to kick off the year. Only bad thing is it makes me want to paint Marines, and they are pretty far back in the queue.
Great recap, gobert - thanks for sharing. Lovely to see them all again - that Necron army is absolutely gorgeous, and the High Elves on their display board are juuuuust right.
You're really nailing the scheme on the Void Panthers too, picking out different combos of the black/gold/purple and lovely tertiary colours like the different shades of green.
Those termis are beaut too. Love the face stripes and the basing in particular and agree that that last action shot is awesome - White Dwarf worthy!
youwashock wrote:Those guys look rad! Excellent job, gobert! Not a bad way to kick off the year. Only bad thing is it makes me want to paint Marines, and they are pretty far back in the queue.
Thanks, Termiantors are almost always cool aren’t they?! Sorry (not sorry! ) for disrupting the paint queue system!
Syro_ wrote:Woohoo! More Void Panthers! A great way to start the new year.
Yeah! And loads more to come
tzurk wrote:Great recap, gobert - thanks for sharing. Lovely to see them all again - that Necron army is absolutely gorgeous, and the High Elves on their display board are juuuuust right.
You're really nailing the scheme on the Void Panthers too, picking out different combos of the black/gold/purple and lovely tertiary colours like the different shades of green.
Those termis are beaut too. Love the face stripes and the basing in particular and agree that that last action shot is awesome - White Dwarf worthy!
30 more...???
Bring it on!
Thanks mate, there were quite a few highlights what with having 2 Armies completed (gonna be a while until the next completion I think!). White Dwarf worthy has to be highest praise on this forum right!? And yeah 30 more, here’s some pics now I’ve built them all (they still need shoulder pad icons though)
That last squad has some interesting builds. The chap on the far left is slightly reposed by bending his legs and he’s stepping down off a square slotta base . That plasma cannon isn’t the Deathwing version (would’ve been sensible to have bought one when I got a load of Deathwing bits to finish the rest of the squad ). Instead his right arm was originally carrying an assault cannon and was too strongly bonded to his torso, so I cut it off and got to cutting up a Devastator Plasma Cannon. He was also reposed quite a bit to be stepping up on to a platform.
(Pre leg glue)
He’s pretty cool and makes me want to repose a few more regular marines
My 3d Printer has also been busy printing up a kill team board. It’s a paid set of files called Harbinger of Damnation with a bunch of modular walls, doors, pillars and floors. There was lots to print so I used pretty low quality settings as I’m hoping to hide much of the lines with a heavy rust and stippled paint work. Here’s the stages I’ve done so far
As you can see I had some failed prints as the filament ran out. Thankfully I managed to measure the pieces well enough to print extensions and most fit together really well. After this pic I primed everything with some body shop primer that has a fairly rough finish in the hope of hiding the layer lines a bit before covering it as best I could with Colour Forge’s Hyrax Brown. I then got some super cheap acrylic paint from mr bezos and stippled the brown liberally hoping to hide a few more layer lines
It looks quite yellow in that shot but drys quite flat brown. Next I stipled on some red
Which dried much more subtle than this pic looks. Next will be some orange before I do a metallic dry brush all over. Then it’ll be picking out panels with a smaller stippling brush and finishing up with picking out some of the details.
Amongst all of that I’ve done some work on the Colonial Marines from Aliens: Another Glorious Day In The Corps (AGDITC). Basically I’ve tried to recreate the costumes used in the movies. They look quite different under normal lighting conditions than they do in the movie.
Compared to heroic scale they’re properly dainty, but still cool. Some of the details are hard to read, and the camo doesn’t make that any easier! They’re progressing pretty quick, mainly just the skin tones to go now
I made some more progress on the Colonial Marines tonight and some of the other characters got some love. Basically just blocked out their skin and other light coloured areas with bleached bone before adding contrast skin tones
Here’s a close to better see the camo
Guardling wrote: Neat camo on the marines!
Also looking forward to seeing how those Kill Team floor tiles come out
Thanks Guardling, the camo turned out better than I expected which is an unexpected surprise. I’ve managed to sneak in 30mins here and there and got the rusty under layers done on the Kill Team scenery. But now I have colour choices to make and figured dakka could help:
Here’s the bare wall;
I like how it looks but the silver dry brush makes the layer lines really prominent. I’m thinking the frames will stay this colour and bits of the pillars too along with any grills or vents etc
Next is light grey
Both are strong contenders for corridor walls and floors respectively
Pale Yellow
Is a bit too patchy I think and I don’t fancy 2 coats
Blue
Has good coverage and could be a contender
Pale green
I like the colour, but it could be a it much for corridors.
The guy that designed the stls has each compartment painted differently so that’s an option but I’m unlikely to set it up as lots of individual compartments. I think the greys could be good for floors and most walls, but beyond that I’m not sure. I have some habitation areas that will get sinks and showers, maybe they’d be good in light green? There’s a gun compartment that could be quite cool in red? Some escape hatch floor tiles in white and red? There’s almost too many choices! What say you dakkadakka?
I like the grey's, but have you tried sponging silver? It could diminish the effect of making the layer lines stand out and look cool where the underpainting shows through. You could do a few passes, light and dark, really get some depth going. Also, the colonial Marines look rad.
I'd say the light grey has the best background feel
Although if it was me and I wanted a bright colour on one of those, I'd do a layer of grey to help with coverage and leave some exposed to give the appearance of the Primer being exposed by wear and tear...
Thanks all, grey seems the most popular, so that’s what I’ve gone with. I’ve done a bit on the floor tiles and decided to go with dark grey for trim and I’ll do light grey for panels. I might need to do a bit of highlighting now as it’s a bit flat. My other thought is to add lots of stains with some old paint water based wash. Probably a few random colour stains and of course some Blood For The Blood God here and there I like the silver idea so might do some scratches/scuffs and probably a few bits of primer showing through
Olthannon wrote:I get why everyone is saying the light grey but that pale green looks excellent. Great work on the Colonial Marines and floor tiles.
Cheers Olthannon, I’m thinking an Avocado bathroom suite would be a good theme for the ablutions unit on the ship
Captain Brown wrote:That floor/deck is going to look great gobert. Cheers, CB
Thanks Cap plenty more to do, but it’s good easy going painting so far. Perfect for midweek quick sessions
Not Online!!! wrote:Aye, this will look great!
Cheers, I hope so, I have a few other ideas too
No more progress on the Harbinger, but the Colonial Marines got hit with a few paint sticks. It’s been really fun doing their details tonight, searching the internet to check what colour things could be. Annoyingly I now realise that my main reference doesn’t match every one else’s camo pattern. Still I’m not about to redo it as I think they look pretty cool. The Biggest changes have been getting colour on straps and weapons, but the biggest difference was the athonian camoshade. Whilst it looks good and brought all of the shades together it was all of the extra details it revealed. Helped me spot quite a few areas for improvement! Here’s where they are now;
There’s a few details left to do, like a few patches, base rims and names (need to see if I can find a match for the pale blue on the ALIENS logo). I also did a good bit on the Ripleys, Newts, Bishops, Burke and Gorman. They have a little more to do, but will hopefully complete next session too. I kind of forgot about Power Loader Ripley, so she’ll have to be done when I do the power loader itself.
I’m away this week with work, so might start something else, probably block in some Void Panthers.
Lovely work as usual gobert. The grey looks good though I am partial to the green myself too! Now that you mention it though Nan had an avocado bathroom growing up and I always thought it was fancy
Love the way the marines are coming along. Athonian Camoshade is one of my favourite paints for a reason.
Won't be sad to see more Void Panthers on the horizon!
Olthannon wrote:I get why everyone is saying the light grey but that pale green looks excellent. Great work on the Colonial Marines and floor tiles.
Cheers Olthannon, I’m thinking an Avocado bathroom suite would be a good theme for the ablutions unit on the ship
Eee god that takes me back. You know there's something strangely 40k about a massive battleship flying through space having something as vile as an avocado bathroom
Fantastic stuff on the Marines. You are definitely out here building better worlds (in miniature)
Captain Brown wrote:gobert,
Good work on those Marines.
Cheers,
CB
Thank you Captain! They’ve been pretty enjoyable in the end !
Meer_Cat wrote:Great figures- incredibly recognizable from the movie! The camouflage pattern you've done is terrific.
Yeah, they’re pretty cool, I think the Ripleys are the closest facially. As for the camo, I poured over the pics of Frosts uniform and bought a German camo set that had most of the colours, then stippled in what looked like the print order. It was good fun!
youwashock wrote:All the quotes playing in my head. They look super cool, gobert!
I know, it’s a properly quotable movie, and I love that they named the game and expansions using them too!
Meer_Cat wrote:"Yeah, but it's a dry heat...."
Hudson
I’m fond of “What The Hell Are We Supposed To Use, Man? Harsh Language?” Frost.
tzurk wrote:Lovely work as usual gobert. The grey looks good though I am partial to the green myself too! Now that you mention it though Nan had an avocado bathroom growing up and I always thought it was fancy Love the way the marines are coming along. Athonian Camoshade is one of my favourite paints for a reason.
Won't be sad to see more Void Panthers on the horizon!
Thanks for sharing
Cheers, you’ll be pleased to hear that the bathrooms will all be fancy avocado! . Athonian Camoshade might be my new favourite wash
Tommygun1918 wrote:Great looking Marines. That camo must have been a pain to do at scale?
I was worried, but It was actually quite fun and straightforward, just picked the order of laying colours and the rough patterns and went to town stippling
Olthannon wrote:I get why everyone is saying the light grey but that pale green looks excellent. Great work on the Colonial Marines and floor tiles.
Cheers Olthannon, I’m thinking an Avocado bathroom suite would be a good theme for the ablutions unit on the ship
Eee god that takes me back. You know there's something strangely 40k about a massive battleship flying through space having something as vile as an avocado bathroom Fantastic stuff on the Marines. You are definitely out here building better worlds (in miniature)
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only Avocado Bathroom suites . I also got a few Waylan-Yutani crates to paint up too
Not Online!!! wrote:Looks great Gobert!
Thanks Not Online!
As predicted I got the Marines and the other humanoids finished last night. The bases were the main thing left to do, getting a black rim followed by a Hoeth Blue drybrush and a white over brush before being finished with a bit of a tidy up of the black. Other notable additions was a wash of white-screaming skull mix for Broken Bishop (that’s his name in the game ) and here they are;
Here’s the non-Marines
And the Marines
All in a fun project. So much so I’ve also started building the latest expansion and the token set plus the 3d printer is part way through an stl for the Bugstomper APC. Sadly the printer has broken, so I’m hoping a replacement stepper motor I bought fits and works so I can finish it (including some LEDs and magnets to lift the roof and interior bits).
I also did some more work on the Harbinger stuff, just a quick pic
Guardling wrote:Outstanding! Nw all we need is a deck of cards!
Cheers, but it’s asses and elbows to paint up the Harbinger of Damnation stuff now.
Ezki wrote:That was a great recap! Lot's of good stuff in -23.
Terminators are definitely looking the part!
You seem to have your work cut out for you with the rest of them.
Thanks Ezki, there were some fun projects last year for sure and Terminators are still the coolest minis in 40kimho!
Not Online!!! wrote:The walls look amazingly done.
Cheers, you’ll like the chaosy ones even more then!
Meer_Cat wrote:Game over, man!
Maybe we could build a fire, sing a couple of songs, huh? Why don’t we try that?
muette wrote:Looking great!! Generating the need in me to rewatch the movies!
Do it! I’ve watched it a couple of times whilst painting them! It’s still a stone cold classic!
A bit later than planned as I’ve been applying for a new job. I was chuffed to get through the first sift, but didn’t get invited to interview. There should be another one coming up in about a year that I should be a better fit for, but we’ll see. I’ve done a bit more on the Harbinger, but first, here’s some pics of the Bishop minis
I love how they also give you a post alien attack Bishop, and even more that they called him Broken Bishop!
I’m quite pleased how the robo-guts turned out, a decent replica of the sickly fluid of the movie.
Pics of the Harbinger terrain inbound later in the week with any luck
Captain Brown wrote:Ouch...that is going to hurt.
Cheers,
CB
Nah, he’s a robot, he’ll walk it off!
I did a few bits on the Harbinger of Damnation terrain. Having blocked out the colours on everything
And added a few nasty stains to the bathroom tiles. I got a bit of sponge and mixed up some reddish brown and went to town
Next will be to paint some details like signs and skulls. Then I’ll add a few more stains and maybe some rusty streaks. I’ll then finish up with a bit of dry brushes OSL I bought some flouro paint recently so I might try my hand with those
youwashock wrote:To think they used to say milk does a body good...
He'll be fine. At least until the next movie.
Terrain is looking quite good. Can't wait to see your models running around on it.
Sorry your printer is down. Just in the last couple days got mine to print semi-reliably again. Twitchy things.
Yeah, the start of Alien 3 was a bit of a kick in the guts for the survivors! I’m liking how the terrain looks as a whole, individually it’s all a bit shonky, but it’s cool together I think
mcmattila wrote:Lovely work on all the Aliens minis! The camo works beautifully and that goopy Bishop is awesome!
Thanks mcmatilla, the camo was great fun and dead easy too!
Here’s a few more Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps pics. First up is everybody’s favourite corporate sleaze ball; Burke
I think he’s the real bad guy in the movie,
Next up it’s Apone, from whom the game gets its name as he declares it’s Another Glorious day in the Corps!
All right sweethearts, that’s enough pics for today. In the background I’m plodding on with the Harbinger stuff, should get it done enough by the weekend
Yeah buddy. The patterns of the flannel shirt and camo look brilliant, and I'll echo the praise for milky Bilbo Baggins.
have you gotten around to playing the boardgame yet? If so what are your thoughts? The internet makes it sound like a fun co-op but maybe a little blurry on some rule interactions
tzurk wrote:Yeah buddy. The patterns of the flannel shirt and camo look brilliant, and I'll echo the praise for milky Bilbo Baggins.
have you gotten around to playing the boardgame yet? If so what are your thoughts? The internet makes it sound like a fun co-op but maybe a little blurry on some rule interactions
Thanks tzurk, though I think Bilbo was Ash in Alien we actually played this weekend. We started a bit late so it wasnt as enjoyable as it could be. First impression is that it was a bit complicated with all of the cards and not knowing what everyone does. We’ll probably play through the campaign but as individual missions rather than losing resources as you should do. I think we need more than one person who knows the rules too.
Not Online!!! wrote:Amazing work! Looking forward to the chaotic walls.
Thanks Not Online! The walls are coming along, pics below
Continuing the Aliens showcase here’s Ripley
Definitely one of the coolest minis in the set, as you’d expect for the main hero
Next is Newt
A cool pose for another great character
Finishing todays showcase is both Ripley & Newt in one mini
And that’s the full set of iconic poses from the movie. I might do the Marines in a single post later in the week, though I’m not feeling the motivation to post them right now.
I’ve not been idle on the painting front, but doing such a big terrain project is slow going. The Harbinger is getting there, with all screens now painted and most details underway. Last night I spent the evening painting lights using Artis Opus’ OSL method. Not sure I nailed it, as it went quite chalky when I added the white. Using water on the dry brush is a great tool and saves clogging the brush with dried paint though. The flour I used was more like a glaze so didn’t take well to dry brush, so I ended up using it as a glaze on the bits that had gone chalky. Here’s a few examples from some still WIP pieces
Wierdly that shutter goes nowhere as the other side is a blank wall! I think my biggest mistake with the OSL was not going far enough away from the source with the early colours. That was semi intentional to avoid “light” hitting pillars and floors. It definitely looks better in photos than real life, but overall not a bad experiment.
I only have a few details and a couple of other colours of OSL to do. Thankfully they’re only on a couple of pieces each so it shouldn’t take as long
Yeah, Sir Ian Holm played Ash in Alien. Altogether a less likeable little fellow. You are really nailing the look on these. Excellent job translating the costumes down to miniature form.
Slinky wrote:Fab! Burke in particular is a v good paintjob
Cheers Slinky, glad you liked him
youwashock wrote:Yeah, Sir Ian Holm played Ash in Alien. Altogether a less likeable little fellow. You are really nailing the look on these. Excellent job translating the costumes down to miniature form.
Yeah, very much more the bad guy where Bishop is was pretty decent overall.
So last night I finished up the Harbinger of Damnation 3d printed terrain from Watcorp Designs, and tonight I had my very first ever game of Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team. I played with one of my work mates who revealed himself as a mini painter at our Christmas do (the other one had to get home to oversee building works). It was both of our first games and we had to look up most things we were doing, but it was good fun and I don’t think we went massively off-piste. Saying that there were definitely a few bits we got wrong, either getting rules not quite right or forgetting to do some things. The most obvious being forgetting the scout sniper had a bolt pistol after finding out his sniper rifle counted as heavy. That left him to face down my Sergeant with a Plasma Pistol and the Plasma Gunner
We took a few pics but I should’ve done one after each turning point and at the start, but to give a flavour here’s one part way through the second or third turning point.
My tactic was to go for each objective with 2 Marines: Double Plasma down the middle, Regular and array Grenade Marine to the bottom left and Auspex/Heavy Bolter to the top right. Here’s the Sergeant bursting through the door to take out the Missile Launcher Scout;
And the Grenade team taking up position in the bottom middle room
The Sergeant took full advantage of over watch to hurt the scouts in the central room
Clearing that room made a massive difference and the sergeant went on a rampage and got the scouts heading for the bottom left objective! Auspex Marine didn’t want to be outdone so he picked a fist fight with 3 scouts on the top right objective
The scout he’d punched fell back and he didn’t last very long when the Heavy Bolter Scout opened fire at close range
By the end of turn 3 the Sergeant and Frag Grenade Marine had ganged up on the last scout heading for the bottom left
We didn’t finish turning point 4 as the result was beyond question but we did resolve the Hewvy Bolter Fight in the top right room:
I won the initiative and fired at the HB Scout. Thinking about it, I probably shouldn’t have been allowed to target the HB Scout, but it was kinda funny. My dice rolls deserted me and the scout survived the took out the Heavy Bolter Marine
A heroic last stand to end the engagement seemed fitting for a Space Marine Heroes mini! Even if he was from Space Marine Adventure in the UK.
Fun was had and we agreed that beers should be included next time! It was also cool having a fully painted game board, and it got a few cool pics out of it as well. What was clear is that I needed a few more pillars and door sets to be able to complete the boards. We probably could’ve been more efficient with the wall placement, but a few more would make life easier. We might try playing on the Starter Set terrain next time and adding Tactical and Strategic ploys. I’m tempted to try another Kill Team too as I seem to have a few I could field from the Compendium, plus a few others if I paint up a couple more minis (looks at primed Poxwalkers)
Not Online!!! wrote:Amazing work done on the chaos walls and the terrain for the table looks amazing!
Thanks, the chaos stuff is definitely the coolest in the set
youwashock wrote:Fantastic shots, gobert! The terrain looks really good with minis scurrying over it.
Cheers, the action shots really do improve the look I think!
Tommygun1918 wrote:I like the classic red bolters on your Scouts. I have been trying to decide if I want to do that on the scouts I have coming.
Cheers, but those are painted by my mate @coleface40k over on insta
Olthannon wrote:Great updates Gobert! The terrain looks great, looks like you had a fun game.
Yeah, it was good fun, just need to find somewhere in Bristol to play and have a couple of beers!
My mate also printed out a few resin icons for my horde of Terminators and I spent a bit of time applying them over the weekend
I had to file them a little to get the icon square to the shoulder pad, but it was MILES quicker than cutting out card or casting them with GS.
I also got the paint sticks out and since I’ve recently being doing batch painting I fancied something individual. Looking in my primed box I found the Librarian for my Void Panthers. He’s originally the Blood Raven Librarian from Kill Team Cassius but with most of his iconography removed (his shin still has a blood drop as I liked the wings and couldn’t figure out what else to do as It was too big for a skull and eagle heads would be too tricky to get right.). I went with classic blue armour and yellow tabard as I wanted a bit of variety and like that the characters have different coloured armour
I’ll paint the metallics next before tidying up the armour. I might go quite faded yellow on the tabard to see how that looks. I’m also thinking his helmet less head might get a bit of corruption in it’s complexion. Mrs gobert is away with work this week so hopefully I’ll get some good progress then.
Well, I got a good bit of guilt free hobby done tonight and finished off Librarian Natorian. I decided to go volumatric-ish with his armour and I’m pretty pleased how it turned out. His skin got a light purple wash for a bit of corruption with the main colour being dwarf flesh, then subsequent layers getting some white. I included Green Flouro in his plasma, sword and eyes. The pale yellow tabard was pretty fun too, nice and easy with just gradually adding more and more white.
I think this next pic is his best angle as I like how the highlights on his legs turned out
I’ve gotta admit, he was fun to throw together and I love how quickly painting a single miniature can go. The painting with blues was really nice as they seem to have awesome coverage! Maybe I need to paint some more blue stuff?
Not sure what’s next. I have made a start on the second half of a 3rd Tactical squad for the Void Panthers but I quite fancy using Death Guard next time I play Kill Team. For that I need at least 2 more Poxwalkers and I have 10 primed and ready to go. I’ll see what takes my fancy on Thursday when I have a day off which will likely involve at least some hobby… I’m hoping it’s mostly hobby!
Nicely done! Quick turnaround, too. Very colorful without being gaudy. The purple pops so well, and that green is money. Plus, I appreciate a model that looks good from the back.
That killteam stuff looks neat! Hope you are enjoying KT21, I like it a lot except for the most recent season, which I have no interest in as it seems super bland somehow.
ph34r wrote:That librarian is great, very intense colors and good highlights. The Ripley is spot on too, great work!
Thanks ph34r, I wanted to push the light values quite a bit and I’m liking how they turned out. Thanks for the reminder on Ripley, I have another one to show off when I take the pics.
youwashock wrote:Nicely done! Quick turnaround, too. Very colorful without being gaudy. The purple pops so well, and that green is money. Plus, I appreciate a model that looks good from the back.
Indeed you do like a model that looks good from behind ! Cheers, I kinda got in the zone with him and went with it, but didn’t want to add too much to the Panthers palette
Not Online!!! wrote:Very fancy! Sword, tabard and plas pistol are looking great. Well done Gobert!
Cheers, that tabard has grown on me, it looks better in the proper pics I think
muette wrote:Great updates gobert, the librarian is looking amazing!
Thanks muette, I’m please how he’s turned out
tauist wrote:That killteam stuff looks neat! Hope you are enjoying KT21, I like it a lot except for the most recent season, which I have no interest in as it seems super bland somehow.
Thanks the Kill Team stuff was fun and looked good on the day. KT21 was fun and hopefully I can get another game in soon too
No updates, but here’s the fancy pics of Natorian
All in all, I’m pleased how he’s turned out. And it would be a finished Void Panther without some pics from the display board. Here’s a couple of Librarian Natorian alongside Chapter Master Inanis
And here he is being backed up by the Stormtalon
I’ve actually got today off, which I’ve decided is a hobby day. Here’s where I got to at lunch time
I’ll take a pic when I finish too
JamesY wrote: Great pics of the librarian; you've done a great job on him.
Thanks JamesY, glad you liked him.
Well my day off got plenty of hobby time to progress the poxwalkers and last night I managed to finish them off. Here’s the family pics;
And here they are with their cousins from the Blackstone Fortress
As the previous bunch they were pretty fun. I mostly used washes and speedpaints apart from the orange. I ended up going normal paints on that as the speed paint didn’t look too good. I then had some fun with yellow spots, Blood for the Blood God and I even popped to a Warhammer and picked up some Nurgle’s Rot to drip from burst boils. Lovely!
I’ll probably do another few Void Panthers to finish my third Tactical Squad next.
Really nice work again Gobert! I think my favourite thing is the orange boiler suits. It could just be a normal hazzy suit or it could some weird skin! Who knows with Nurgle? All very gross and horrid.
Not Online!!! wrote:I love em. Absolutely perfect bunch of zombies! Front left is especially outstanding imo!
Makes me wish for a modular kit of them though
Thanks Not Online, a modular kit would be superb, I’m certainly tempted to get some more. I’m also eyeing up some Gellerpox infected too, but might settle for some cheapo Poxwalkers
muette wrote:Those poxwalkers look great! They look so happy with their sickness.
Thanks muette, they certainly are pleased with papas taint
Olthannon wrote:Really nice work again Gobert! I think my favourite thing is the orange boiler suits. It could just be a normal hazzy suit or it could some weird skin! Who knows with Nurgle? All very gross and horrid.
Thanks Olthannon, in my head cannon they’re definitely boiler suits that were wholly unsuited to the environment the poor souls were sent to. the boiler suits were quite nice to do, even though I had hoped to Speed Paint them and call them done.
Slinky wrote:Nice work!
Cheers slinky
I seem to be on a hobby roll at the minute and made some good progress on the second half of the 3rd Void Panthers tactical squad. I got the metallics done and have tidied up the purples and blacks ready for highlighting next time.
I also finally took some pics of the latest Aliens AGDITC mini, probably the coolest which is Ripley in the Power Loader
That’s the last one for now, though I have a few more xenomorphs, a couple more marines and a few hazards and assets. Most aren’t primed so I guess there’ll be a break for a while.
I made a bit more progress on the tactical marines, getting the blacks and purples highlighted ready for greens and other details… not that you can see the progress in the pics. As you can see I’ve been getting the next lot of Panthers ready for painting:
I had tried some Colour Forge Gauntlet Gold rattle cans but I don’t know whether I did something wrong or the paint just is a bit on the dull side. It’s certainly nowhere near Retributor armour as claimed. So I decided to have a bit of a clear out and got the airbrush out for a bit of priming. The Tactical and assault marines top right are still a little dull, I think the ratio of paint to thinner must’ve been off for them, but the Devastators on the left and Command Squad shined up well and are ready for painting. The Devs will see me finish the Demi Company, so they will be the next Panthers, then I’ll paint the Command Squad and a bunch of characters to celebrate.
Whilst I had the airbrush out I put some silvers on the Guardian Drones and some old Necron Warriors I won on eBay ages ago and swapped in some modern gun barrels
The airbrush was struggling with the Mithril Silver, and I found a hard bit of paint when I cleaned the brush. It was probably time to put a pin in it for the day. I might put another coat on the dull tacticals and assault marines before I pack up the airbrush tomorrow.
AustonT wrote: Gobert; your stuff is great as usual.
I think I have the same Ripley in Power armor that always gets bumped down in the que.
Thanks Auston, Ripley is one badass, but yeah, the Aliens AGDIGC minis took a while to make it to the head of the queue.
I managed to sneak a bit of painting in today. I had hoped to give the airbrush another go, but gave up trying to get over the splatter. I ended up buying a new brush in the hope it fixes things. I went for a proper one from harder and steenback so fingers crossed!
Instead I did some more on the tactical marines. I got on with their green lenses, cables and seals, getting them pretty much done (just white dots on the lenses to go). I also put some bases layers and a wash on their parchments
Not Online!!! wrote:Wow, What a nice squad of golden boys there.
Theres just a charm to the firstborn that the Primaris lack imo and you made these here really pop.
Thanks, I think you’re right about their charm, but some of the latest Primaris stuff is cool too.
Tommygun1918 wrote:Tactical marines are looking good. What chapter are they?
Thanks Tommy
ShadowsAndDust wrote:I believe they are the Void Panthers.
Thanks ShadowsAndDust, you’re correct, they are Void Panthers, my own custom chapter
I’m happy to report that the 3rd squad of Tactical Marines for my Void Panthers is complete
The rest of the squad also came out to play
So that sees me 1 Devastator squad away from a full Demi-Company so they’ll be my next Panthers project I think. With that I placed the Tactical Marines on the display board
I quite like the top down shots so took a few more
tac Squad 2
Fast Attack support
Air Support
Assault Marines
tac squad 1 and Leadership
Plus a few low down shots
I now realise that I forgot the sergeants black stripe on his helmet And an oldie from tac squad 2 as I love this guys positioning
I have also started another project, some test schemes for a future Orcs & Goblins scheme, but no pics just yet
Meer_Cat wrote:What amazing group shots, thank you for posting so many! The work is excellent, the board a great display piece and the photography top notch.
(Tongue firmly in cheek) I must admit though, the unit blazons make me hear "Thunder, THUNDER! Thun'nercats- HO!!!!" Really good work and very enjoyable to scroll through and see.
Thanks! I get a bit carried away with all of the pics, hopefully it didn’t rinse through anyone’s mobile data!
I might also think similarly every so often with the thundercats! Speaking of thundercats, did anyone see the reboot? It was really good!
Syro_ wrote:It's great seeing more Void Panthers, Gobert
Cheers, Plenty more where they came from!
Indeed, here’s the next batch now that I’ve stupidly decided to paint the whole Devastator squad in one go! Doing so has highlighted a few that are missing things like purity seals, so I need to fix that.
Seeing some paint on it, the converted multimelta looks pretty good imho. The back pack is a bit weedy, but I can live with it. Some of the Bolter marines are a bit caked up with paint but I’ll crack on anyway and hopefully they won’t look too nasty once completed.
Separately I’ve put together a scout squad. I wasn’t planning on adding them to my army, but I bid 99p on 3 bodies and won. Together with the random bits I’ve collected over the past couple of years I managed to put together a squad of 5. No idea whether their load out is legal or not so if anyone knows please comment
I think they’re from a bunch of kits, but the sergeant is the most interesting one. I think his legs and torso are from the Land Speeder Storm. His pose was kind of similar to someone running, so I cut his legs off at the groin so I could rotate his but and get his torso more upright. I used a good bit of sprue goo to hide the cuts and it worked pretty nicely. The tabard helped too! . His head is actually from one of the Space Marine Heroes series 2 Terminators, I think it works quite well even if it is slightly bigger than the normal scout head! The back of his head had its leg hole filled and reshaped with more sprue goo as well. The others were just using whatever bits seemed to work. I have 4 more torsos so I might pick up a few bits to build another squad if the right deal comes around.
youwashock wrote:The Void Panthers continue to be an exercise in visual excellence. Bring on those big guns!
Thanks, I think I’m getting them to the stage where I can rattle them out pretty quickly (for me) now as well as looking better than the originals.
Not Online!!! wrote:Very great work gobert!
Thanks NotOnline!!!
I did a little side quest the other week and put a test scheme together for some Orcs & Goblins based loosely on goobertowns night goblin scheme. The yellow was airbrushed and turned out quite nice, then most of the rest was speed paints and metallics.
I think for the gobbos I want some greater contrast on the yellow and have it cover proportionally more areas. The purple contrast is also way too dark (and the dark pic makes it even harder to see. The eM4 minis are pretty simple but they took the scheme well as a proof of concept.
Elsewhere the Devastators are making steady progress, having had their colours blocked back in after washes and the weapons even had their first highlight.
There’s also been a change of plan in the lay out of the Company. The Bolter guys will only be temporary Devastators. I seem to have lost one of the missile launcher backpacks while priming so went on eBay and ended up buying a bunch of Devastators for a really good price, almost enough to make a complete squad for each weapon load out. Frustratingly 1 of the Missile Launcher backpacks was missing. So I’m now on the hunt for another squad with a Missile Launcher, Lascannon and a couple of Grav Cannons to complete the set. For now the Bolter dudes will fill out the Dev squad before switching to be Tacticals in the future.
I also looked at how many points of Panthers I have and it seems I have 6500 points worth, though it seems those are 9th Ed points as I have switched my BattleScribe roster.
Thanks for looking
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Captain Brown wrote: gobert,
Display boards are always very nice to see. Figures in actions.
Cheers,
CB
Didn’t see you sneak a post in there Cap! Thanks, I do like an action shot it’s true. At some point I’m going to need to expand my boards to accommodate all of these Panthers too. Best crank up that 3d printer!
This is why whenever I do get pulled into a D&D game, I am always the thief.
Cheers,
CB
Seems appropriate Cap!
I’ve been rather absent of the hobby this past few weeks thanks to picking up a chest infection. Being really under the weather for a good week and having no energy the rest of the intervening time. I think I’m starting to recover now that the antibiotics have kicked in so hopefully will make decent progress soon. The little hobby I have managed has seen me get the gold and silver highlights done on the Devastators.
I feel these guys are in the home stretch now. One thing I’ve noticed though is that the Nuln oil I used has been super glossy. It’s made painting the purple areas quite tricky with reflections to contend with. I might need to find an alternative liquid talent.
I have also begun the expansion of the Company. Whilst looking for a missile launcher back pack I found a good deal on a LOAD of Devastator bits so bought enough for a squad of each weapon… ish… I then bought another squad so I could finish off the Grav Cannons and Lascannons oh well, they’re beginning to look pretty cool I think.
I was pleasantly surprised that the crouching poses kind of work for more than just the missile launcher. They’re a little derpy in that they twist their bodies to quite an uncomfortable pose, but it is at least possible to achieve. I think they add a little variety to the poses too. So I can see what bits will be left to sell I’ve embarked on building all of the Devastators and Heavy Gunners for the remaining tactical squads. To make it work I think I need to switch a Tactical Missile Launcher to be a Devastator instead. I probably need to sort out some more squad markings too
Edit: looks like I missed the pics. Not sure whether it was just for me, but dakka was being mighty slow over the weekend
Glad you're on the mend, gobert. I have seen Nuln Oil in both gloss and non-gloss. Maybe you can rustle up some non-gloss and not have to switch. Have you tried Army Painter Dark Tone? It's pretty flat.
youwashock wrote: Glad you're on the mend, gobert. I have seen Nuln Oil in both gloss and non-gloss. Maybe you can rustle up some non-gloss and not have to switch. Have you tried Army Painter Dark Tone? It's pretty flat.
Thanks man, sadly it’s a lingering thing so I’m still not back to normal, getting there though I think. I’m pretty sure the stuff I have is supposedly no-gloss, but I should definitely recheck the bottle. I don’t think I’ve tried dark tone, just the strong tone. Will give that a go if I’m still struggling.
It was a Grand Prix weekend again
Spoiler:
well done Lando!
, so a couple of evenings of watching f1 and painting allowed me to make good progress on the Devastator squad. I’m pretty much done, just a wash on the bases and some bone colour on the parchments:
I also got a new painting toy, in the shape of a magnifying light. I’m not convinced as yet for a few reasons. I bought cheap and didn’t realise how small the magnifying lens is. That makes it had to focus on things unless they’re right behind it. I also have zero depth perception when looking through it, so I kept splotching paint all over the place. On the plus side some of the highlights are nice and crisp and I got the lens dots on the helmets pretty well placed I think.
Not Online!!! wrote:Very snazy.
Yeah devastors are allways a bit iffy as are any heavy weapon with chainfeeds.
That said, in regards to HW's maybee you could take a look at the HH range if the height difference isn't too offputing or atleast at the weapons
Yep, the chain feeds are properly dodgy, and heavily prone to jams if not designed properly irl. I did look at the hh sprues but a couple of decent eBay hauls and I have enough first born 40k bits with about enough spares to recoup my expenditure on job lots… maybe?
Captain Brown wrote:gobert,
Nice squad there.
Cheers,
CB
Thanks Cap, but don’t look too closely as there are some THICK previous paint jobs hiding underneath the shiny Panther outer layers of paint good enough for my aspirations though!
My Panthers Kill Team got another outing this evening against @Coleface40k (check him out on insta for some cool minis) and his Scouts. This time we played in a board game bar (Chance and Counters at the bottom of Christmas Steps in Bristol, great place, staff, beer & pies!) so could take our time to figure out rules and get things more correct this time round!
This side of the board was carnage, losing my Plasma Gunner and Bolter dude early on to the Sniper that I forgot was there. Sgt Varenus got a few Plasma shots off and did some damage but in the end the scouts flooded the area and a krak missile to the face finished him off before a sneaky scout ran around my overwatching Marine to win the game by 1VP with the final action of the game! Tense stuff!
Here’s the end game with scout hiding out of sight in the corner and the missile scout that killed my Sgt.
MVP was Brother Toriad with a Heavy Bolter, taking out a bunch scouts thanks to Gabriel’s Auspex before advancing to the objective when the last ones on this side of the board ran away!
Great fun was had and probably a few more beers than I should have had on a weeknight but it’s all good!
With this cold/flu/covid/infection thing lingering it’s been slow to finish the Devastators, but finished they now are! First up is the supporting Marines with their bolters
They turned out pretty decently given a few of these lads had at least one painting beneath their primer. It’s obscured a bit of details here and there but I think it’s not completely obvious for the most part. Now I’ve change plan for the company these guys will change to being Tactical Marines when I paint up the next squad.
Next is the Main event with their Heavy Weapons
I like how these guys turned out, with a few interesting features like the reloading missile launchers, golden circle on the pauldron of one of the Multi-Melta guys and the Sergeants helmet being my personal highlights. As with the Bolter chaps these guys will end up being split to other squads as I want full squads of each weapon type eventually.
I’ve got a few more pics (individuals and scenic) that I’ll probably post here over the next couple of days
youwashock wrote:Impressive display of firepower. Looking forward to the characteristic awesome "in-world" shots.
Thanks mate, the in world pics are inbound
Not Online!!! wrote:Amazing job despite hinderances!
Yeah, I still can’t shake this illness and a few other life events going on means I’ve been absent here and lacking in paint motivation
Syro_ wrote:Woohoo! More Void Panthers! The new guys look great, and I'm happy that I'm not the only one working on a lot of first born marines.
Yeah, loads more still to come! First Born are still my favourites, the Primaris just aren’t anywhere near as iconic imho. The addition of old school helmets helps though!
Before the display board pics here’s some spam of the heavy weapons guys individually. First up is the Marine with the Multi Melta I converted from one in the land speeder kit. The gun itself turned out great, but I think the string used as cabling and the back pack let him down a bit… so he looks best in this first pic where you can see much of his failings!
I have aspare Multi Melta back pack so I might change that up at some point
Sticking with the Multi Melta guys here’s the legit model
I like how his mini Panther logo worked out. It’s amazing what you can do with some thin card stock and some Oyumaru moulds.
That photo suggest I forgot the second highlight on his Devastator icon
Next up is the Missile Launcher dude that needs his back pack changing
I quite like the pose that if I remember right was from his previous owner. Kinda looks like he’s been taken by surprise mid reload
Looks like I forgot a pic of his Left side
And next is the lad with the proper back pack
I reckon he’s selecting his next target here
Finally here’s one of my favourite minis I’ve built for the Panthers, probably due to that Venerable Dreadnought helmet
His servo skull is pretty cool too, one of the very few metal parts in the army
I didn’t bother with individual pics of the Bolter chaps as they’re not as interesting. And you’re all waiting on the display board pics, so here you go!
The eagle eyed amongst you might notice the board is looking a bit empty. That’s because I got the whole gang out to see the state of the Company’s
Here’s the Third Company as it currently stands
With bits of Second Company supporting units alongside
And the First Company
And the whole Army as it currently stands;
Not shown are the Marines to fill the blank slots, a bunch of fast attack bits like Bikes, Attack Bikes and Land Speeders, plus a few Rhino chassis to build a Rhino, Razorback and a Predator… should be enough to keep me out of trouble…
Yeah, loads more still to come! First Born are still my favourites, the Primaris just aren’t anywhere near as iconic imho. The addition of old school helmets helps though!
I agree completely. There is something much more iconic about first born, I prefer them too.
Void Panthers are looking great. I've been tempted for a while to ask for a full company/force shot but I know how much work they are to set up... So it's a wonderful surprise to see your post. I have some catching up to do on my Dark Angels 5th company after seeing your Void Panthers Your devastator Sargent definitely stands out. Nicely built.
youwashock wrote:Nice! ServoSkullSarge is a very cool mini. The army is looking very good. Keep it up!
Thanks youwashock, I’ll try to keep it up
Syro_ wrote:
I agree completely. There is something much more iconic about first born, I prefer them too.
Void Panthers are looking great. I've been tempted for a while to ask for a full company/force shot but I know how much work they are to set up... So it's a wonderful surprise to see your post. I have some catching up to do on my Dark Angels 5th company after seeing your Void Panthers Your devastator Sargent definitely stands out. Nicely built.
If you liked the last post then you might like this one too! Firstborn FTW!
Not Online!!! wrote:Well, this is going to look completely awesome when you are done!
I think so too! Might take me a while though!
After a tough week or two I’ve managed to get some painting and a bit of inspiration fuelled some purchases I also got some building done. First up though here are some pics of the completed Demi Company of Void Panthers
They’ll get a bit shuffled around when I paint up Heavy Weapons to match the Sergeant and Special Weapons guys, but I think they look cool all painted up nice. So I also got a pic of the whole painted army to date
By BattleScribes reckoning it’s just shy of 2000 points of shiny death!
I’ve not just been admiring my handy work I’ve also been working on a new mini: a chaplain for the Panthers:
He’s developing nicely but could do with a good bit of tidying up of the purple edge highlights on the black bits. I tried using my magnifying light, but I had to get the mini so close to it that I kept hitting the end of the brush on the light! I then decided to upgrade with some cool hobby magnifying glasses with an inbuilt light
My display shelves also got a literal glow up as I installed some motion sensor battery powered LEDs. The kids love them as they have a remote and can change colour . I took some pics but they turned out rubbish, so I’ll try again some time
Great looking batch of minis, gobert. Quite an accomplishment. And no slowing down, as the Chaplain is looking sweet. The black armored stuff looks so good with the gold and purple, while breaking up what would be an endless sea of bling.
You're right, I do love the latest pictures and additions too. Beautiful work! It's hard to believe it's only around 2000 points... feels like it should be a lot more.
Great looking batch of minis, gobert. Quite an accomplishment. And no slowing down, as the Chaplain is looking sweet. The black armored stuff looks so good with the gold and purple, while breaking up what would be an endless sea of bling.
Disco indeed! Everyone loves an Army pic right!? I’m glad you like the Black bits, I’m very pleased I went that route, as you say, it breaks up the sea of bling and gives me some slightly different painting to do. Hopefully you’ll like the end product of the Chaplain
Not Online!!! wrote:Amazing job on the chaplain. Also there's just something about the spooky scary skeleton vibe of them that makes them just an amazing addition.
Yeah, the skelebob vibes of the Chaplains make them some of the best look SM units, this chap has even been quite fun to paint!
muette wrote:All together look really amazing. The chaplain is also going great, looking forward to seeing it finished!
Beauty in numbers I think! amazingly I’m feeling motivated for the second half of the Company now
Last night I finished up the Chaplain who I’m thinking is called Chaplain Germanus. From the last pic he got the tidy up of the black and a second highlight. His chapter icon got 2 highlights as did the purple areas. The greens got the usual treatment of Emerald Green and striking scorpion green. His eyes got a wash of Ork Flesh Wash, a dot of white and some flouro green for a bit more glow. The base was the last bit with a bit of lighter grey for the rubble, a Basilicanum grey coat for the broken Aquila an all over wash and a bit of an edge highlight on the Aquila. And here he is; Chaplain Germanus of the Void Panthers:
The proper pics will follow in due course. There are a few more pics in the Void Panthers gallery for those that want a sneak peak. I was also challenged on insta for a close up shot of a mini by our very own Ezki ( @tarkamos_mini_workshop), so here’s that pic… but beware the horrors of getting this close to one of my miniatures!
I did clear him off the desk and on to the shelf so here’s a few more pics. Here he is leading a group of Panthers
And again with the Chapter Leadership
Not a bad looking bunch!
Germanus was moved off the desk to make way for this lot…
Because I didn’t need any more projects . I was so pumped to get started on them that I’ve built the Blooded and Gellerpox Infected. The Blooded came with twins of the Blackstone Fortress Traitor Commissar and Ogryn, so I dug around in my bits box and kitbashed them both
This one was tough getting the armour to fit and then reattaching the Chaos star.
The Enforcer was fun too, getting a Scions flag that will obviously get some graffiti. They’ve all been primed now and will jump to the front of the queue. I’ve also printed some more Blackstone Fortress bases as they’ll make a good expansion to the Traitor Guard from the game.
I also got one decent photo of the upgraded display shelves showing the background I’ve printed for the Elves
And that’s it for today
Thanks for looking!
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Syro_ wrote: You're right, I do love the latest pictures and additions too. Beautiful work! It's hard to believe it's only around 2000 points... feels like it should be a lot more.
Missed this one, sneaking in while I’m writing! Glad you like the pics and have a few more to enjoy now. I also can’t believe it’s only 2000 points, I’m pretty sure it’d be more in 2nd Edition!
Looking great! I love some converted chaos guard bois. Their new kits are fun to play with - Grab the Khorne Jackals kit for even more flexibility with some of the leftover pieces from the Blooded kill team (and for some more running legs. So many running legs). I used them and the new cadian kit and needed minimal green stuffing (mostly on the backpack areas) to make them look really good.
Those green eyes are so ghostly good. Love the way he has turned out. Looks great with the boys, too. Nice work with the new arrivals. That Ogryn is going to be awesome.
blockade23 wrote:Looking great! I love some converted chaos guard bois. Their new kits are fun to play with - Grab the Khorne Jackals kit for even more flexibility with some of the leftover pieces from the Blooded kill team (and for some more running legs. So many running legs). I used them and the new cadian kit and needed minimal green stuffing (mostly on the backpack areas) to make them look really good.
Thanks blockade, the conversions were good fun and are looking pretty good now I’ve got some paint on them. There are a ridiculous amount of leftovers (21 spare heads and at least 15 sets of arms), and I’ve changed from my original plan to use a friends Krieg casts to buying 2 squads of new Cadians and 1 squad of old… damn eBay and doing multiple simultaneous bids! Still, I should be able to bash at least a couple of squads more if I’m clever with the bits I use. In someways it might help that they’re already built as I can see what bits I can damage as I deconstruct them!
youwashock wrote:Those green eyes are so ghostly good. Love the way he has turned out. Looks great with the boys, too. Nice work with the new arrivals. That Ogryn is going to be awesome.
Thanks youwashock, the eyes do have a nice look to them. The Ogryn is coming along nicely at the moment too
I’ve made decent progress already on the Blooded Kill Team. I’ve stuck mainly to contrast/speed paint and dry brushing and I’m liking how they’re going
I’ve mixed up the colours used on the Blackstone Fortress guardsmen. The Blooded get some nice purple trousers, dark grey helmets and leathers and light grey tunics. They have a range of contrast based skin tones in Fyreslayer, Guilliman, Hardened Leather and a few mixtures with bits of red contrast thrown in and a couple using athonian camoshade mixed in. The camoshade on the Corpseman and the red on the Enforcer are my favourites
I usually reply on your instagram but I'll join in here too, well done Gobert everything looks terrific. The army shots are really cool, well done on getting those Void Panthers looking their shiniest!
2000 points of pure greatness!
It's been a joy to follow the progress of that army and it is looking ace!
gobert wrote:I was also challenged on insta for a close up shot of a mini by our very own Ezki ( @tarkamos_mini_workshop), so here’s that pic… but beware the horrors of getting this close to one of my miniatures!
Haha, guilty as charged!
But you definitely nailed it, seriously!
The chaplain is looking the part and I'm loving the contrast that the eyes bring. Great job with the light green highlights on them!
And oh man, I'm in love with that background for the elves.
Purple and grey/black combo is absolutely clutch for the guard, and you're right, the sheer number of extra heads and arms that *almost* work perfectly as long as you have some extra torsos. I was digging extra chests and legs out of my bitz box for what felt like weeks but ended up being just a few days and then...they were done!
Great work on the Chaplain! He's one of the best sculps of the old Chaplains, and you certainly did him justice. I like the black armor with purple highlights very much, ties it together with the rest of the army very well. And speaking of the army, that's another awesome army photo!
Not Online!!! wrote:Very good kitbashes! More mortal chaos is always a good thing for more projects
Thanks, they’re painting up pretty decent too I feel. I also feel that there may be plenty more chaos.
Captain Brown wrote:The High Elf army is fantastic. Exalted.
Cheers,
CB
Thanks CB, I do still enjoy looking at them in their completed glory, especially with their new background
Olthannon wrote:I usually reply on your instagram but I'll join in here too, well done Gobert everything looks terrific. The army shots are really cool, well done on getting those Void Panthers looking their shiniest!
Thanks for the comment! Dakka’s still the best community, insta is great for the immediate dopamine hits though. The army pics look way better here too as you can view them in landscape mode and zoom in somewhat.
Ezki wrote:2000 points of pure greatness!
It's been a joy to follow the progress of that army and it is looking ace!
gobert wrote:I was also challenged on insta for a close up shot of a mini by our very own Ezki ( @tarkamos_mini_workshop), so here’s that pic… but beware the horrors of getting this close to one of my miniatures!
Haha, guilty as charged!
But you definitely nailed it, seriously!
The chaplain is looking the part and I'm loving the contrast that the eyes bring. Great job with the light green highlights on them!
And oh man, I'm in love with that background for the elves.
Thanks Ezki, it was fun to be challenged and he looks decent enough I suppose . That Mordor pic is really cool, I should get one for my Panthers too at some point but I’ve been struggling to find a suitable one of good enough resolution
blockade23 wrote:Purple and grey/black combo is absolutely clutch for the guard, and you're right, the sheer number of extra heads and arms that *almost* work perfectly as long as you have some extra torsos. I was digging extra chests and legs out of my bitz box for what felt like weeks but ended up being just a few days and then...they were done!
Thanks blockade23, they’re coming together quite well so far. I’m hoping to get them done before a Kill team game on Thursday. I think the minis will be doable, but I might need to play them unbased. I’ll see how much I get done this week
mcmattila wrote:Great work on the Chaplain! He's one of the best sculps of the old Chaplains, and you certainly did him justice. I like the black armor with purple highlights very much, ties it together with the rest of the army very well. And speaking of the army, that's another awesome army photo!
Yeah, he’s a cool model alright, you can’t beat a good ol’ skull helmet. The purple highlighted black can be a pain, but I also think it brings them closer together whilst being different.
Thanks for all the comments fellow dakkanauts. I had planned to reward you with some better pics of the Chaplain, but for whatever reason the pics all came out weird. I’ll get him out again when I photograph the Blooded. With any luck that’ll be before Thursday when I intend to sacrifice them to some Ork Kommandos which of course is all part of the plan to make the last survivors even stronger
This past week I’ve been getting their metal work done, loads of Leadbelcher with Agrax or Druchii washes and even a Basilicanum wash on the ogryns armour. Most of them got a few bits of Retributor armour on trinkets and spikes that got washed with seraphim sepia. I also got some glow on the plasma weapons. The pistol looks decent in pics but both at a bit shoddy in real life aside from the mild OSL around the coils.
The masks a few of them are wearing are a bit lighter than I intended, but I’m happy enough with them now they’ve had a Druchii/Nuln/light grey mix.
Elsewhere my printer has been busy helping me to relive my youth. Back in the day I took the Basic Strongpoint design from White Dwarf and built myself a mega fortress. Fast forward nearly 30years and I happened across an stl that someone had designed based on it. And created this monstrosity!
Back in the day I also designed a tower for the centre of it and I’m hoping to go one better with a bunker. I have printed one but there were a few design issues: the bridges don’t slot in to the doorways, the ceiling doesn’t fit, and the parapets on the roof are too short. I’ll get doing a bit of redesign and get that printed and primed next week. As you can see from the mat it’s on, the complex is just about the perfect size for a game of Kill Team, though I fear it will just be a race for the tower then constant sniping!
Beautiful group shots mate, the Elves and the Panthers. Thanks for getting those fellas all together - love seeing the hard work come together/pay off!
The chaplain is a really great addition to the army - all that bone really complements the purple/gold and makes the green pop!
I'm unfamiliar with the OG strongpoint but loving your work on the fortress here. You've got that printer humming mate.
tzurk wrote:Beautiful group shots mate, the Elves and the Panthers. Thanks for getting those fellas all together - love seeing the hard work come together/pay off!
The chaplain is a really great addition to the army - all that bone really complements the purple/gold and makes the green pop!
I'm unfamiliar with the OG strongpoint but loving your work on the fortress here. You've got that printer humming mate.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks tzurk, always a pleasure to have you back around these parts! Glad to hear that you’re still liking what you see. I’m looking forward to painting the fortress, it should be fun!
blockade23 wrote:Fortress looks great - I can see the 'opportunities to excel' at fixing it and upgrading it. Will you chaos-ify it?
Yeah, hopefully I can get it looking good in short order when I finish the central tower. I don’t plan on adding any chaos elements, just paint it in the classic colours probably. Need to mix up some cheap paint to create space wolves grey and Nuln oil
Last night I finished and photographed the Blooded Kill Team. I even managed to make some blooded tokens using the arms and heads removed from soon to be traitorous Cadians. Here’s the team pics
They’re nothing special, but a few of them earned some Blood For The Blood God. The Butcher, Ogryn, Chieftain, Trench Sweeper and Sharpshooter did pretty well. The Butcher being the most fun cutting through about 4 Kommandos after the game was lost but leaning in to the teams lore.
Here’s the Butcher, who revelled in being able to regenerate wounds for killing Orks
I used the Blackstone Fortress Ogryn (hadn’t spotted how wonky his spikes were until now) for WYSIWYG. He was basically his own cover and cover for the Butcher
The Trench Sweeper massively benefited from Shielding. It slowed him down but helped him survive a few Rokkit barrages (also hadn’t realise that I missed him from the group shots
Thee Sharpshooter dishes out a good bit of damage, helped by getting the first turn blood token
More pics of follow plus battle pics too
The blooded team always makes me wish GW would get off it's backside and redo R&H with plastic kits. But then i consider the prices of 40kGW and the current state of the core ruleset and the dream shatters again.
Anyways, great work on all of them, the Plasmagun really looks impressive as an effect and the team just is an impressive work!
All about that plasma glow. The Ogryns are awesome, as is the standard. Butcher is a great mini, and already building his rep on the table.
Thanks mate! I have to admit the plasma glow looks much better on camera than in real life. Yeah the butcher is really cool and his power axe is brutal in game too!
Not Online!!! wrote:The blooded team always makes me wish GW would get off it's backside and redo R&H with plastic kits. But then i consider the prices of 40kGW and the current state of the core ruleset and the dream shatters again.
Anyways, great work on all of them, the Plasmagun really looks impressive as an effect and the team just is an impressive work!
Yeah, the kit is really awesome. I’d be well up for some more, but am happy to keep on kitbashing them with the cheap second hand Cadian’s I’ve bought, here’s the first two
And the removed arms and heads are great for Blooded tokens
And so I had enough tokens here are the next bunch mid turning traitor
Some of the were well painted so it was a shame to cut them up
muette wrote:Sounds like good fun on the game, the team looks awesome!
Yeah, we concluded it was the best yet. I think they’ll look even better with a good smattering of blood too.
Olthannon wrote:Gobert these are some particularly nice gubbins well done! Very cool looking Kill Team.
Thanks, everyone loves a bit of bloody dismembered gubbins!
Here’s the rest of the individual pics of the Blooded.
This guy was my Chieftain (Leader) for the game, he was borrowed from my Blackstone Fortress set. He did ok in the game but I think I’ll replace him with the headless Cadian Sgt who will get a plasma pistol and improvised blade from the Blooded kit
Another Blackstone Fortress stand in who took a Rokkit to the face in the first turn before he’d even had a chance to move. Bad positioning on my part I suppose
The kitbashed Enforcer turned out pretty well, again the plasma looks better in pics than real life, but this side of his banner looks great and that head is spot on
The otherside is a bit messy but that plasma glow looks great (in the pic at least )
The other no show was the Traitor Bullgryn kitbash (both as they’re not legal loadouts and I wanted WYSIWYG)
His shield looks pretty cool, I should’ve pointed it more upright though.
His back could do with a Chaos star or something I think
The gun receiver/casing looks pretty cool with nothing but dry brushing… though I now realise that I forgot the shell casings The Flenser was sneaking around and was part of the team to claim an objective. Unfortunately Bigstu314 had to go catch his train before he had a chance to cut up some Orks
Brimstone Grenadier was Bigstu314s last kill before he had to go. It shouldn’t have been but the Diabolyk bomb missed its intended target and only wounded one the other nearby Ork.
The Corpseman did a bit of softening up targets but was pretty anonymous aside from that
The gunners didn’t get many targets with Bigstu314s Orks heading home
The Thug went looking for targets to hit right at the end and did well enough before catching bullets
The Commsman was left at home but I think the extra AP would have come in quite handy in hindsight
I’ve still not gotten around to adding the BFTBG, so they’ll make a reappearance when that happens.
Yesterday I got busy preparing the next batch of Void Panthers. I went on a bit of a spending spree at the colour forge to try and speed up the colour blocking work flow.
A good amount of masking tape helped get the purple and black over their major areas without too much mess. A quick bit of tidying up and they’re nearly ready for the Nuln Oil wash,
I think I might try and only put the Nuln oil where it’s needed to see if that’s any quicker. First though I need to get through the Leadbelcher step.
Thanks for looking and getting through quite a long post
As eluded to in earlier posts we had a 3 way Kill Team game last weekend. Here are a few pics from the game
Here’s the initial set up. My blooded were bottom right, Coleface40ks Kommandos are bottom left and Bigstu314 is top centre. We all ended up having groups heading toward each other. Here are my 2 groups
With most only having 2 action points Turning Point 1 was mostly manoeuvres, but I lost the Enforcer
My barricade placement slowed my progress quite a bit but the Trench Sweeper and Ogryn are basically walking cover so it didn’t stop me.
Elsewhere the Flenser and Plasma Gunner nabbed control point uncontested
The Brimstone Grenadier atttempted to kill a couple of Orks but fumbled his throw and they both shrugged it off
Both Ork Nobs smashed each other up in the middle of the battlefield. bigstu314 won out thanks in part to softening up coleface40ks nob with a bit of withering rocket fire first. I forgot to take pics after that but it turned in to a bit of a bloodbath
This week bigstu314 and I have been away with work and elected to play kill team rather than spending too much on beers in the bar (will still managed 3 beers each, but I think it limited the damage! I brought my harbinger of damnation terrain minis the floor tiles so it didn’t take up too much room. We played the first in to the dark scenario. Here’s the initial deployment
Most of the minis formed an orderly queue behind the various doorways ready to make a mad dash to the various control points to secure some VPs The sharpshooter made what I now agree is a dubious kill shooting the first Ork in the far doorway
Here’s their replacement
At the end of Turning Point 1 Stu had a 4-2 lead
The Ogryn though thought Stu’s nob looked a bit soft and beat him to death. A retreat by another boy left me in good control of the central chamber.
The right hand chamber turned in to a bit of a bloodbath. It was looking like a stalemate until the Orks choppa killed the Brimstone Grenadier who went bang
Taking out the Ork, his mate and the Flenser.
So by the end of TP2 it was now 5-3 to stu but it was looking like I’d be getting at least 2 chambers secured if I could survive a few more rokkits
Off camera the Butcher with a bit of support from the Enforcer cleared up the left chamber. And the Meltagunner supported the Ogryn (and hid behind him) to clear the central chamber. The rokkit boy in door to the central chamber really struggled to hit the Ogryn who somehow survived multiple salvos with barely a wound taken. The right Chamber did not go according to plan as the trench sweeper met a competent rokkit boy and the Corpseman nobly sacrificed himself as he attempted to kill a boy with his stim needle, failed and was chopped down! So with that I had no one in there, putting us notionally tied if the chambers ownerships didn’t change
The Butcher had tied up the central chamber rokkit boy but couldn’t fight until the rokkit boy hit him and they did little to each other thanks to equal parties. The ogryn then charged the rokkit boy in the doorway but we reckon he must’ve got caught on the door after being dazed by all of the rokkits sent his way in the previous turn as he failed to do any damage except the Avalanche of Muscle mortal wounds! Still, that was the final moves in the left and central chamber. In a last hussar I’d withdrawn the plasma gunner and sharpshooter and sent them charging across the board in a bid to get enough APL in the right chamber to tie that sector. Whilst they both made it, they had no AP left to do anything and got mown down by the overwatching rokkit boy
And the demise of the plasma gunner to a rokkit was a fitting end to a bloody match! It ended 7-7 on VPs (we didn’t play Tac Ops to keep it a bit simpler) and we even killed the same number of enemy operatives. With lots of fun crazy 40k moments it was a great game
youwashock wrote:Man, those game shots are too good. Glad you are getting these boys some table time. Everything looks really good, gobert. Keep up the stellar pace!
Thanks, I am enjoying the into the dark/harbinger of damnation stuff, it makes for cool close up pics I think.
Olthannon wrote:Looks like you had a great game. I never have much time for a big game of 40k so Kill Team has been scratching the wargaming itch and it's great fun.
Likewise, time is at a premium and 40k would take more time than I have available. The alternating activations adds a great dynamic and now I’m 4 games in I’m starting to think beyond just my current activation too.
Not a massive amount of progress since my last painting update. I had hoped to get a good bit done on the Void Panther filler marines but all I managed was the most boring bit: getting the Leadbelcher applied.
I’ll do the green next as that seemed quicker to do at this stage rather than at the end, especially as there’s so many cables to do.
No pics as yet, but I’ve built up all of my remaining bikers, including a trio of attack bikes. My plan is to get the Army built and ideally primed before winter, though the British weather seems to not want me to do any priming at the moment! Next on the building desk is a pair of Land Speeders, one will be a Typhoon and I need to decide on the other one. After that I think I have about 30 Marines
tzurk wrote: Awesome battle shots mate, thanks for the write up.
Beautifully painted minis on well painted terrain...life doesn't get much better than this. Battle mat or hotel desk, doesn't matter
That's a lotta marines at once - palette already looking good - godspeed!
Thanks tzurk, I think you’re right, painted minis on painted terrain is the best! After the last game I’ve been doing some digital kit bashing to allow me to better use the printed floor pieces with fewer but bigger pillars. I also made up some adaptations to better represent the control points from In To The Dark with just the dynamo and tanks to do. I’ll get them printed up and they’ll jump the painting queue I reckon.
I’ve done a bit more painting on the filler Panthers but forgot to take any pics, you’ve seen enough golden lads with a Nuln oil wash. I’m part way through bringing the base colours back to life. I promise some pics when I get that stage done.
Elsewhere I got the building bug, here’s all the remaining fast attack stuff, with a pair of land speeders joining the fray
The red one is missing its bumper, so I need to source one of those. Might go to eBay unless I can find a suitable stl to print one.
I also made a start on my vanguard veterans. They’re one cool kit with lots of options. Courtesy of our very own Ragsta I have a few extra torsos so decided to squeeze out a Smash Captain. He’ll need a backpack and I think I’ll see if I can find a good stl for a winged version for a bit more bling. I also took a pair of the Chaos Space Marine lightning claws that Ragsta donated so that I can have a full squad of 5.
The other Marine is using some old Devastator crouching legs and his left claw is in the ground as he landed with a bit of a super hero landing.
Following a bit of a bonus from work I finally decided to splurge on Blackstone Fortress: No Respite. Obviously I paid way over the original retail, but I now have a full set of the expansions (less the card based ones ). I’ll have to come up with some kit bashes for the duplicate Plague Marines and Poxwalkers I’ll now have.
How good is the extension of the hobby into modelling & printing. It never ends!
Just looking at all those speedy Firstborn makes my heart melt. Always had a big soft spot for the goofy sidecar attack bike! Does it still have rules in 10th or do you run it as counts as something primaris?
Love the terminator/Thor pose on the middle guy, smart use of the dev legs!
tzurk wrote:How good is the extension of the hobby into modelling & printing. It never ends!
Just looking at all those speedy Firstborn makes my heart melt. Always had a big soft spot for the goofy sidecar attack bike! Does it still have rules in 10th or do you run it as counts as something primaris?
Love the terminator/Thor pose on the middle guy, smart use of the dev legs!
It’s pretty cool, but I remember 3d modelling being much easier 20 years ago when I was designing things at uni and fiddling with computer games. I should spend some time learning how to use something like blender but I barely have enough time for painting let alone a whole other hobby! I’ll make do with 3d builder for now
the attack bike does have rules in 10th, but it’s only in legends I believe?
youwashock wrote:Man, you're looking to be Dakka's king of BSF.
Love the lightning claw guys. That unit is already shaping up to be a big winner.
You’ve seen through my plan! the vanguard vets might end up jumping the pair queue as they look pretty awesome with their full set of claws!
Cap'n Facebeard wrote:More praise for the dev legs pose. You could do a similar thing and have the claws going into a severed Tyranid head.
Now that is a cool idea! Wish I’d have thought of that with some more spare legs. It might work well for a captain as it would have to be a pretty big beastie for best effect
Not Online!!! wrote:Those vets look amazing, inspring me really to finally do get out and maybee get jumppack AL.
Can't wait to see the speeders done !
Do it! the speeders are pretty cool aren’t they? Wish I could drop responsibilities and just get through them all, but alas, painting minis (and certainly not my own ones) is unlikely to pay the bills
Ezki wrote:The Traitor Cadians are one of the coolest models GW have ever produced! Great work on them. Like youwashock mentioned, the plasma effects are a win!
Loved the action shots, especially the sharpshooter one!
Yep, I’ve got to agree, the blooded are a cool set, and it certainly inspired me to convert a bunch more!
It’s been a slow hobby week this one, mostly as I actually watched good portions of the F1 this weekend rather than occasionally glancing up. I have also been distracted with trying to get my printer behaving better. I think I’ve gotten my head around improving on the auto-levels so I shouldn’t be losing as many prints to detachments. I still find it confusing and frustrating, but as I don’t plan on changing my filament for awhile now that I finally found one I like, I figured it was worth investing the time (and filament) to dialling it in better. Here’s how the auto levelling was leaving a lot to be desired
Painting wise, I have made a little progress on the filler Marines. I outlined all of the shadows with black as the new nun just isn’t dark enough for my liking. I then did the Liberator gold and Leadbelcher highlights on the gold and silvers. Then tonight l brought in the shine with some Stormhost Silver:
Feels like pretty decent progress so far, for quite limited hours of painting time. Hopefully I can get them done before I go on holiday in a few weeks
Gah. Leveling issues are a drag. (Get it?) I have yet to encounter (in my admittedly limited experience) an auto-level function that can be trusted. Good luck!
My own experiences with mine have developed into a love-hate relationship. When it doesn't work it's so frustrating (especially being several hours into a print and the base becomes detached, or the filament decides to kink, or the nozzle clogs, or the....).
But when it actually works, it's like pushing the button on the replicator on the Enterprise in the Original Series!
youwashock wrote:Gah. Leveling issues are a drag. (Get it?) I have yet to encounter (in my admittedly limited experience) an auto-level function that can be trusted. Good luck!
The Marines are moving along nicely, too.
Yep, still not really getting anywhere with it. Lots of the calibration tools seem to not have any effect, the Pressure Advance one looks basically the same and now my levelling is off again
Cap'n Facebeard wrote:The more I hear about 3d printing the more certain I am that I'll just buy prints off Etsy or some such
Yeah, they’re a bit frustrating when things go wrong.
Meer_Cat wrote:My own experiences with mine have developed into a love-hate relationship. When it doesn't work it's so frustrating (especially being several hours into a print and the base becomes detached, or the filament decides to kink, or the nozzle clogs, or the....).
But when it actually works, it's like pushing the button on the replicator on the Enterprise in the Original Series!
True, when it works it’s sweet, but problem solving is a pita with them. Reddit seems to suggest that some people know what all the settings do… I just want to press print and get nice output.
Captain Brown wrote:Keep at it gobert.
Cheers,
Phil
Yep, at least painting is fun!
Syro_ wrote:I like seeing more Void Panthers That's a cool painting set-up you have them on.
Still plenty more to come! The new set up is working pretty well so far, it’s helped me to keep the right bits with the right marine as intended.
As you can tell from the comments above the printer is a big source of frustration right now. It seemed to be going well, but for no reason at all my bed adhesion went down the pan again after a blob got stuck on the hot end I also discovered there was a bunch of melted/burnt filament stuck behind the rubber cover. Not sure if that was messing with things, but I’m seemingly back to square 1 again. I think I’m pretty much level again now though.
I’ve also been sneaking in the odd 5 minutes here and there (including waiting for calibration prints) on the Panther fillers. I broke with protocol though and painted the green before the purple it seems to have worked well, particularly on the helmet as I can tidy up after myself easier. They’re getting pretty close to being done now
Just more highlights on the black, parchments and bases to get them finished.
Ha! Yeah, I seem to have one from virtually no heavy fire power to a full on arsenal!
Made some progress calibrating the printer, then over corrected the z-offset… nearly back in action though.
I also made good progress on the 5 marines, getting the bases done as well as the black and purples on 3 of them. My tired old eyes didn’t want to paint anymore, so I figured I’d glue the most complete ones together instead:
The other pair are nearly at the same level, just needing the final highlight on the black and purple and glueing together to get to the same stage.
I have some family free time this weekend so they should get finished and I can start with my next project.
Thanks for looking
In other news I seem to be having a mid life crisis as I spent even more money on mini guys at the weekend and seem to have acquired this little beauty
It was still in its wrap, so you can imagine how much I paid!
But look at those beautiful minis!
2 whole layers of them
Annoyingly the egg timer broke at some point over the past 15 years. I had already left the hobby when the box was released, but I’m a sucker for awesome terminators!
youwashock wrote:The exploded-view Marines are amusing. The batch is looking very good, though. Big guns go pew-pew.
Now, about that Space Hulk. Awesome! Will you be converting the Marines over to Panthers or will they stay Blangels?
Thanks, the explosion is slowly reversing itself, but they do look pretty funny you’re right. As for the Space Hulk Terminators I’m thinking they stay as Blood Angels, though I do have most of the options available in Panther form
Cap'n Facebeard wrote:Oooh expensive. But it’s a very luxurious edition of the game.
Yeah, it was pretty expensive, but oh so luxurious! Those Terminators are truly gorgeous
muette wrote:Great job on the devastators as usual! And good catch on the Space Hulk box, minis there are awesome.
Thanks muette, looking forward to finishing them and distributing them to their squads. The minis are pretty cool, I’ve been building the Genestealers the last couple of days and whilst cool, there are quite a few draught lines. I’ve fixed a few of them and might try to hide some others with gore and blood effects between claws.
I’ve got the house to myself this weekend so am hoping to get some projects going. I need to decide between extra pillars and gubbins for the Harbinger of Damnation (that are printing off as I type), some more Panthers, something Blackstone Fortressy, something Death Guardy or something else that I’ve forgotten that I’ve primed. What do you guys think I should paint?
Yeah it’s pretty cool, but my gosh was it expensive!
So instead of picking one project I’ve picked two! And my chances of finishing are diminished after I decided I didn’t want to paint much last night. Project 1 is the new fat pillars for the Harbinger of Damnation;
You might even be able to spot why I decided I was too lazy to paint any more! Main progress was priming all of the fat pillars, making sure I had full coverage on the brown (really thinned cheap paint actually had decent coverage. After this pic I then slapped on some cheapo red paint to start the rust effect. Thinning it more than I did with the initial batch worked pretty well. Speaking of which, I credited myself with 100 models painted when I completed the first tranche. Well, I counted up all of the finished pieces and it turns out it was actual 213, which puts me at 279 for the year. This batch will get me to 344 and the Panthers to 349, a stones throw from passing 1 thing painted for each day of a year!
Speaking of which my other project will be the genestealers from Space Hulk. I spent a bit of time in the sunshine getting them ready to prime. I primed them all first thing this morning. Then as I was writing this, realised that I was missing a few. Found those after a mild panic and they’re now drying in the sun. I’ve found a cool scheme that I’m going to try and adjust to the paints I have. That said, I did take a detour by a hobby shop on the way home from dropping Mrs gobert at the airport and got me some streaking grime, so we’ll see how that turns out!
Wish me luck!
Automatically Appended Next Post: First project complete-ish. The first 4 void panthers of the 5 I was doing are done. Plasma chap is waiting on me breaking out the airbrush shortly.
I like the pillars as a backdrop, looks like they’re in some shipyard building a spaceship … or with all that rust maybe a breakers yard? Here’s the individual shots
I quite like how this dude is looking down, his pose is like he’s looking at the enemy he’s just melta’d
Annoyingly this chap is leaning back slightly and his head is looking up a bit, I guess his target is up high!?
Nothing much interesting about this guy, but the 3d printed nozzle for his grav cannon turned out ok
Multimelta lad is quite casual but he’s ready to spoil a tanks day nonetheless!
Here’s plasm chap so he doesn’t feel left out
Got a few bits to do before I get on with the Genestealers next
So yesterday wasn’t as productive as I had hoped. All I managed was to prime and basecoat the skin on the Genestealers, and even then a few didn’t turn out great. Some were too transparent and others I think over thinned the paint and it settled more like a wash. It seems I still have a lot to learn with the airbrush.
Today however I got on a bit better. A big part of my troubles was tip drying. I found a quick clean with a brush after after every mini and sometimes with a bit of airbrush cleaner kept it at bay. This morning I managed to get a decent paint:flow improver:thinner ratio of 10:3:3 on the pallid wych flesh. I’ll try to think on next time and swap some thinner for flow improver to see if that helps with paint drying on the needle tip.
Another issue I had was a sticky trigger. Not sure what caused it but taking the airbrush completely apart and giving at a good clean. When it went back together the sticking had gone, so I guess there must’ve been something in there somewhere.
Things went well from there with the wych flesh going on pretty well. I then added some orange speed paint to their joints and face. I then went in with some black legion to the carapace. I didn’t have time to do any more as I needed to get my wife and kids from the airport. Here’s where I got to
The colour palette looks a bit coconut crab esque but the finished look should be much more grim dark. Next I’ll add some green/blue, hit the skin with a quick dry brush and or stippling. Then I’ll beaten up the carapace before adding some highlights and possibly a stripe. The teeth and eyes will get some colour before the base gets painted up nice and rusty I’m thinking. Once that’s all done I get to play with some streaking grime! I might need to varnish before I do as I don’t want that speed paint reactivating.
One final observation on the airbrush (sorry, it’s to help me remember when I next get it out). Whilst doing the carapace I noticed I was needing to get in real close to get any sort of coverage and was getting a bit of splatter. I’m wondering if the little battery powered compressor is lacking the guts to do a decent job? Maybe I need to spend some more money on a decent compressor to get the full airbrush benefit. Might need to wait for that after my recent splurge
youwashock wrote: Tearing straight into those 'stealers! Can't wait to see the end result.
Thanks! Yeah, I found a cool grim dark scheme on rgb miniatures on YouTube and thought I’d give it a go, mixing in a bit from another channel with a similar look. Here’s some close ups of where they are
This guy was my first try and I got the orange over far too wide an area, but I got better
The Broodlord looks a good representation of what I actually wanted to achieve
And this pose shows all of the areas that I wanted to be orange quite well.
I’m thinking a few patches of green, maybe along the ribbed bits on their arms?
Not decided whether to airbrush or hairy brush those bits.
In Monday I took half an hour to myself to finish off the latest Harbinger of Damnation bits. I was gonna do a poll to see whether to add grey to the pillars, but I decided I much preferred the bare rusty metal look especially on the fat pillars
I then figured that I’d put the whole thing together. I needed to carve a bit from the fat pillars to account for the floor tiles not being perfectly square. Doing so made them much easier to put together and significantly quicker than the original slim pillars. Interestingly once the walls were in place everything was much more stable too, so all round a big improvement!
I just built a random layout to use all of my wall and door pieces, and tried to make a few interesting spots
Even space hulk dwellers need a shower every once in a while… no toilet facilities printed as yet though!
The little forklift is pretty cute, at least my daughter thinks so!
I like how the filament showing through on these pipes look a bit like moss (or maybe something a bit more sinister) growing in the crevices
Like this guys offspring perhaps!?
I’m now en route to my holiday (writing on the plane and posting from Cyprus!) so I’ll not be posting updates for a week or so. Hopefully I can catch up on everyone else’s plogs in the meantime. Happy hobbying everyone
Oh lordy that board has me salivating. So much atmosphere and character! I would be stoked to play on something like that.
I didn't mind the grey cover but the bare rust is just lovely.
Genestealers are looking good with the dark carapace and orange stretchy bits. Green would be a nice accent colour I think, and fits nicely into the alien-esque theme of space hulk.
Have a great time in Cyprus mate, don't forget to eat your bodyweight in lamb and haloumi every day and marinade it all with some ouzo and ocean views!
tzurk wrote:Oh lordy that board has me salivating. So much atmosphere and character! I would be stoked to play on something like that.
I didn't mind the grey cover but the bare rust is just lovely.
Genestealers are looking good with the dark carapace and orange stretchy bits. Green would be a nice accent colour I think, and fits nicely into the alien-esque theme of space hulk.
Have a great time in Cyprus mate, don't forget to eat your bodyweight in lamb and haloumi every day and marinade it all with some ouzo and ocean views!
Thanks! It’s a cool set of stls that paint up pretty well and super quickly if you’re going for the beaten up look! I’m thinking when I eventually get to my Primaris Dark Angels then I might make some bases and a hangar display board for them. There’s a massive 6 or 9 tile door that I reckon I could add a big Dark Angels chapter symbol to!
Glad you’re liking the stealers, I wanted a grim dark aesthetic and for them to look like they’ve not seen much sunlight, hopefully they’ll end up like that. I’ve come across another set of spaceship stls that might become a diorama display for the space hulk gang too… too many ideas!
Whilst I’m coming back heavier than I left the resort we stayed in didn’t have nearly enough Greek/Cypriot options at meal times… aside from the desserts, I ate way too much pudding! snuck in a couple of Gyros too
Ragsta wrote:That board looks really good, gobert! I mean really dang good.
I spy an animal run in your garden picture! What pets do you keep? We foster guinea pigs at my end. Their work ethic is terrible.
Look forward to more Stealer progress! Check your PMs by the way.
Ragsta
Thanks Ragsta, I think the fat pillars help the aesthetic and rather pleasingly the board is constructed much quicker than the individual pillars. Should make set up and put away much quicker at the next Kill Team Thursday.
That’s so cool, we adopted a pair of guinea pigs (Ginger and Cookie) from a local charity (Little Wheakers) who rescue them (I think they also do rabbits). Ostensibly they were for the kids but it’s obviously me and Mrs gobert that do the lions share of the looking after. I agree that their work ethic is terrible although I’ve only mowed the lawn 3 times this year so I can’t fault their grass eating! They are also rather cute when eating said grass.
No hobby progress as such but I’m itching to get home and get painting as I’ve been reading the Horus Heresy novel Betrayer by Aaron Demski-Bowden. I’ve really enjoyed it so far and it’s got me wanting to get Argel Tal and some Gal Vorbek, possibly even a Heresy Era Khârn to paint up. Maybe my Legionaries Kill Team should be a Word Bearers and World Eaters alliance? With dead Ultramarines laying about of course!
Looks like the delayed flight is finally departing. See you on the otherside
Hi all, stole 5 mins to try a couple of greens on the stealers. Which do you prefer?
Nihilakh Oxide, or
Terradon Turquoise?
I think I prefer the Nihilakh but am concerned it’ll be totally hidden by the streaking grime. Maybe a Nihilakh heavy mix of the two paints? Any other parts you think I should hit with the colour? All thoughts on the topic are welcome!
It's ironic that the Nihilakh actually looks to be more in keeping with the other colors you've picked out- very natural- but (in my opinion only) may be too subtle to stand out, especially after the addition of other blending colors and grime. I'd vote then for the Terradon Turquoise, which is a good color that is strong enough to emerge even with additional layers or griming.
They're coming along nicely, with a great 'dino' vibe that I've never seen in any other color scheme.
I like the Nihiliakh too, seems more organic - and almost like you could play it up as some bioluminescene. Maybe a thinned down blue wash over the top might help to define the edges/recesses a bit?
Meer_Cat wrote:It's ironic that the Nihilakh actually looks to be more in keeping with the other colors you've picked out- very natural- but (in my opinion only) may be too subtle to stand out, especially after the addition of other blending colors and grime. I'd vote then for the Terradon Turquoise, which is a good color that is strong enough to emerge even with additional layers or griming.
They're coming along nicely, with a great 'dino' vibe that I've never seen in any other color scheme.
Thanks meercat, they do have a it of a dino vibe. Looking closely I quite like some of the splatter/over spray I got from the airbrush, it adds some nice saurus textures. I agree that the Nihilakh might be lost, but it does match the tone of the orange pretty well. 1-0 to Nihilakh
tzurk wrote:I like the Nihiliakh too, seems more organic - and almost like you could play it up as some bioluminescene. Maybe a thinned down blue wash over the top might help to define the edges/recesses a bit?
Yeah, the Nihilakh does have a bit of luminescence, a blue wash could be interesting. 2-0
youwashock wrote:Going to dissent here with a vote for Terradon. I like that it is more distinct. That board came out killer, too.
Thanks, I’m well chuffed about the board, and glad others are liking it too. The terradon is definitely more noticeable. 2-1
Cap'n Facebeard wrote:Terradon for me
Thanks Cap 2-2
Tommygun1918 wrote:Nice stuff! I'm surprised they still have Space Hulk boxes out there.
Did they ever do re-release at some point?
Thanks Tommy, I too was surprised to see a BNIB set, though sadly the timer had broken at some point over the last 15 years. I’m lead to believe the 2014 4th edition was a straight reprint of the 2009 3rd edition. Maybe they’ll release a new one once Cursed City has run its course… again
Well, it’s a 2-2 draw on the Nihilakh vs Terradon decision, you lot aren’t much help! only joking, you all made valid points and reinforced what i was thinking. I did another couple of tests, one with Tesseract Glow (forgot to take pics though), and the other with a Nihilakh-Terradon mix. The mix gave the best of both worlds, standing out enough to hopefully not be obscured with the streaking grime. I got that done in the garden (watching the guinea pigs too) and had a bit of the mix left over, so figured I’d water it down and wash it over some heads and legs/arms. I don’t do them all mainly adding it to some of the duplicates and the Broodlord
The wash is a bit subtle to see in the pics but it’s a nice transition in hand.
Once the kids were in bed I did a bit more work, I tidied up all of the black areas, also blocking in the claws, tongues and head carapace as I went. Their bases got painted black again as they’ll mostly be metallic. These bits got a sponge highlight too with a couple of greys to add some texture. The skulls got a pallid wych flesh drybrush then a wash of pallid bone speed paint. I figured the skulls in the crevices of walls were the stealers stash of skulls rather than grimdark gothic decor! Next I made a start on the dead Blood Angels, doing sponge then stippling from Khorne Red, to Mephiston then Evil Sunz when I realised the time!
I had planned to follow Trovarion’s grim dark paint schemes, but got a bit carried away and left too much paint on the edges. I then just decided a rough stippled highlight then the steaming grime would give a suitable grim dark vibe so went with that. I’ll do another highlight before moving on to the details. I’m waiting on a couple of paints to finish things up, they should arrive this week and hopefully I’ll get the grime on before the kids go back to school in September.
At some point I also need to print some bases with slots for them to insert in to so they don’t wobble over so much. I could use them for kill team then
I think I’ve managed to get the genestealers to the point that they are ready for streaming grime! That step might have to wait though as I’m unlikely to be painting again for at least another week.
The stealers themselves were pretty much done at my last update, so it was mainly base details of pipe work and dead blood angels.
Even on the Angels it was mostly details, getting a few transfers on the dead shoulder pads painting purity seals and eye lenses etc. there’s been so many it feels like I’ve painted a couple of minis extra! The pipe work got a few different metallics, mainly coppery and brassy colours. I slapped on a few rust stains and Nihilakh too.
Here’s a few closer pics of the more interestingly based minis
To differentiate some of the twins they also got different base details, like this dead Terminator is a Sergeant and his copy a regular marine
This guy is really interested in the helmet!
I think this one is pretty much a mirror image of the one stood on the sergeant, but with skulls
This one has a wired skull that still has some skin attached, nice! His twin seems to be carrying a wired ball, not sure if they changed the skull, or it was just a miscast
Got any dollar bills to give this poledancer?
Being a glutton for punishment I tried my hand at hazard stripes on some of there cables
And finally the broodlord with his pile of dead terminator skulls.
Looking at the pics I now realise that I need to add a red wash to their mouth and pic out their teeth. I’m thinking I’ll do their eyes post wash so they can glow a bit more. I’ll also do some Blood For The Blood God on some of the odd hand shapes to hide them a bit. I also bought some uhu glue to add some stringy saliva and goopy blood drips
After work tonight I had the windows open and figured I’d give the streaking grime a try on the Genestealers.
Boy is it messy!
But the results are pretty good. I’m pleased the blue green is showing up and pleasantly surprised that the orange speed paint didn’t rub off at the slightest rubbing or moisture. Testy’s other side looks good too.
As does his twin. It also seems to give some nice variations in skin tones too. This helmet looks nice and grimdark too
Happy with the effect on the cabling and bases too
It tied the transfer in pretty well too
And the Broodlord too
Here’s all of them on my new hobby station so I can paint downstairs on a weekend and not worry about the kids causing chaos unsupervised.
To finish them off I want to brighten up their teeth, add a glow to their eyes, BFTBG their claws and teeth, plus a bit of uhu based gore
Nice work, gobert! Excellent job cranking through a large group of minis. Going to be quite the feeling of accomplishment. I bet the red really makes them pop.
Yeaaaah mate, they turned out brilliantly. Love the little variations in colour that the grime provides. Looking super gribbly, grimdark and natural/biological, well done!
Cap'n Facebeard wrote:Yeah they look like they've been crawling around in vents now
They really do, don’t they! That’s what I loved about this scheme when I saw it!
youwashock wrote:Ooohhh...gritty!
Nice work, gobert! Excellent job cranking through a large group of minis. Going to be quite the feeling of accomplishment. I bet the red really makes them pop.
Thanks, I’ve not really done grim dark before, so I’m really pleased how these have turned out!
tzurk wrote:Yeaaaah mate, they turned out brilliantly. Love the little variations in colour that the grime provides. Looking super gribbly, grimdark and natural/biological, well done!
Cheers, the streaking grime is almost magical grim dark in a bottle!
Not Online!!! wrote:That is an amazing scheme really well executed!
Thanks, most of the credit goes to the originator of the scheme rgbminiatures over on YouTube. It seemed to be fate that I wanted airbrush practice and to go grimdark and this fit the bill perfectly!
Captain Brown wrote:Really good gobert.
Cheers,
CB
Thanks CB it’s been fun to try new things on these guys
Well, I pretty much finished these guys up on Saturday night but didn’t get any decent pics. So I opted to set up part of the Harbinger of Damnation for a photo opportunity. The teeth were dead easy to pick out and I slapped on some BFTBG. I also had a tube of uhu glue delivered so played about with that. It’s hard to spot in the main group pics, but I’m uploading some individuals of the Broodlord plus family pics of each set of twins/triplets. I got a bit carried away so that might take a while to upload them all, so here’s the group shots
As you can see, their Broodlord has high approval ratings. I guess they must’ve liked the tasty Terminator armour wrapped treats they were brought!
youwashock wrote:More lovely group shots. You always put together a good scene. The blood/drool is just pure icing. Great job!
The thanks, I should look at darker lighting for these to look to be stalking in the shadows. Glad you like the blood and drool
As promised, here’s the first set of twins
These guys are a bit basic and probably the most similar pairing, though 1 of them is missing a claw so he got a bit of extra gore on that side.
They also have a set of closely related brothers, who I think share a mirrored torso but with different arms and head. A result of early digital sculpting I guess?
I’ll post some more pics later too
Ragsta wrote:Great results Gobert, lovely group shots and Stealers! You are banned from using the word ‘too’ now though
Did I use it wrong? I’m a northern and an engineer turned project manager too, so English isn’t my forte!
muette wrote:Excellent genestealers!! And so nice with the background, chefs kiss!
Glad you liked them too muette
Not Online!!! wrote:Very good! But? Where's the corresponding cult?
Hmmm, start a Genestealer Cult army too you say!? probably not any time soon I’m afraid as I have too many other projects to finish off (my Necrons are getting a few reinforcements too)
How many too’s is too many too’s? Sorry Ragsta I can’t help myself.
Next up is a pair of triplets. The first set are a pair of identical twins with a mirrored stealer
I think the blood on the central one is probably the best gore I added so here’s a close up
His mirrored twin got a good slap of blood
Here’s the whole family from the left, front and right
The next set of triplets are all identical, apart from one lost a claw. These lads are very similar to the pairs I showed earlier except they brought a terminator helmet with them.
From the side
And the other side
The Nihilakh Oxide made a decent OSL on their eyes.
More to come
Automatically Appended Next Post: Signing off for the night with a pair of skull pile twins
These two were quite cool, but the draught on their crotches is massive and hard to disguise without doing any sculpting
Warboss_Waaazag wrote: I really like this paint scheme. Dark and gritty with yhat subtle blue undertone. Nice work!
Thanks Waaazag, I’m not sure I’ve credited the originator here. It’s heavily based on @rgb.miniatures scheme he uses for his Tyranids over on instagram and YouTube.
Here’s a few more closer pics. First up I think these are mirrored twins of the skull pile stealers, but with a terminator to stand on!
Next up are two of my favourite minis in the set, the “surprise!” Genestealers
And by some happy coincidence they fit the hatches on the Harbinger of damnation board!
And showing a bit of favouritism here’s some individual pics
I really like how the grime and orange turned out on this one’s face, looks good
More still to come!
Here’s the last of the duplicate Stealers, I’ll get to some of the individuals later hopefully. This first pair became my test subjects as they got the first attempt at each stage to make sure I knew what I was doing. I didn’t, but I managed to blag it most of the way I think
They like offering up terminator helmets though.
Those two are a fun pair and this next lot are pretty cool too:
I think if hid the mould draft on their hands pretty well with lots of BFTBG and then uhu gore in front of it. These were probably the worst or maybe most visible draft marks, but the gore distracts nicely
Their dangly trophies are some of the coolest features in the set, even if one of the heads appears to be a miscast I still love it! The flesh hanging off the skull of the properly cast one is real nasty!
His prized skull is a little grimly from this angle
But nice and grim from this one.
Looking at some of the pics I should probably get my tweezers out and pull of some of the bits of cotton bud that got caught on all the spikey bits. I thought I got them all, but pictures always reveal your errors!
That’s it for the duplicates. Poledancers next then the Broodlord himself
A bit later than planned, but here are the singleton Genestealers
And Terminator POV shot as I think his fire came out particularly well
Next up is the pole dancing genestealer:
Just look at those moves!
How do they hold that pose!
Hey, where’s my money go!?
Oh yeah, I spent it all on Space Hulk!
Just the broodlord to go and I can get on with showing the Necrons I’ve nearly finished, the Blooded that I’ve started and a few pics from last weeks Kill Team game
Finishing up the pic bombardment with the Broodlord.
As you can see he got a good bit of gore and saliva added. As the centrepiece Genestealer, how could I not!
And that’s the Genestealer pics done. Necron pics inbound shortly
As promised, here’s some pics of my next project. A few months back I made some low ball eBay bids and to my surprise won this little gang. They’re the old plastic rod Necrons, but I’d seen a few people use their Indomitus leftovers to convert them to the new style. I also added a bit of battle damage, though now they’re mostly painted I wish I’d added a fair bit more.
A while back I’d started them and after a prime of gun metal, they got a zenithal of Mithril silver from my airbrush:
Then I deviated from my recipe by forgetting to add some contrast medium to the John Prins mix, but the silver zenithal saved them I think.
Next I deviated again by not thinking the Black Templar either Next came a bit of OSL starting with Sybarite agree
Then a bit of Gauss Blaster Green
I forgot to take pics of the next few steps; black on the orbs, then some ‘ardcoat on the orbs, PVA and sand on the bases, mix of brown and grey on the base (I used too dark a grey this time), grey on the sprue rubble
Whilst waiting for the bases to dry I got on with building a more optimised Roster for my Blooded Kill Team as @coleface40kand I are off to a tournament in Birmingham in a few weeks. Main missing pieces were a plasma pistol on the chieftain and a grenade launcher. Since I had a few armless bodies left from making Blooded tokens I also added a couple of lasgun guardsmen too.
As these were already built it’s been a little tricky converting them, but it’s mainly been matching the weapon to the pose and removing necks to fit in the Cadian collar. The next batch might lose the collar and keep more Blooded neck. Since building them I’ve broken my cardinal rule and started painting them before I’ve finished my Necrons. That should allow me to finish them for the tournament though. And to be fair the Necrons are only a few base touch ups away from complete so I don’t think it’s the start of a slippery slope! I’ll try to get some pics over the weekend when I’ll hopefully finish them. I’ll then pick something to come to Germany on a work trip next week.
Oh, one final thing. What do you guys reckon I should do with the Space Hulk Terminators? Go grim dark like the dead ones on the Genestealers bases or bright and shiny like they’ve just boarded to avenge their battle brothers?
Cap'n Facebeard wrote:Shiny terminators with dirty feet?
Compromise, I like it!
muette wrote:Good job on the necrons, and good luck on the tournament!!
Thanks muette. I expect I’ll get my ass handed to me but at least the blooded suit my kamikaze play style, so it should still be fun!
Managed to sneak a little painting time today and figured I’d make some improvements to the various Plasma toting minis I have whilst also finishing the Plasma Cannon Void Panther I did a while back. Here’s where I got to before heading out to meet a mate for lunch
I’m liking where they’re going, they certainly have more of a glow than the previous incarnations. Im certainly pleased with the OSL effect on the new Blooded Plasma weapons. The airbrush certainly does well with the glow effect, aided by the new compressor that did a better job than the old battery powered one. If anything I need to fiddle with the pressure and viscosity of the paint. The big bug bear was still tip dry, I was having to clean the tip after every mini, I’m not sure whether that was the paint, airbrush or the operator. So if anyone has any tips on how to minimise or remove tip dry then I’m all ears!
I do love plasma. Looking real good, gobert. The Necrons are looking sweet. Broodlord really turned out well. So far your Space Hulk set is killer. You seem to really have a knack for deep-space GW adventure.
youwashock wrote:I do love plasma. Looking real good, gobert. The Necrons are looking sweet. Broodlord really turned out well. So far your Space Hulk set is killer. You seem to really have a knack for deep-space GW adventure.
Thanks youwashock, Plasma is definitely the coolest 40k weapon! The GW board game setting are just too cool to not paint I feel!
blockade23 wrote:I'm really loving the molted effect on the tyranids, plus the blood / slime effects are perfect for the space hulk vibes. Absolutely smashing!
Thanks blockade, I too like the varied colours I got on the Tyranids and the blood and slime are really fun to do!
Captain Brown wrote:Keep at it gobert.
Cheers,
CB
Thanks CB, I’ll keep on keeping on for sure.
Whilst my Terminators made the trip to Germany with me this week I only managed a basecoat on 4 of them and forgot to take a pic before I packed them away. I did however manage to finish some of my other projects before I left and took some rough pics. First the Necrons;
Nothing special on these guys, just clearing the backlog. They turned out pretty well to say that I didn’t strip them before painting them. Adds a bit more bulk to the army, and used a few bits too (I think the big boulder might actually be a bit of Ogryn shoulder
Next are the Plasma glow up Void Panthers;
I think the glow on these looks pretty decent, but the darker bits on the coils could’ve been a bit neater. That’s what happens when you’re in a rush though I suppose. The Plasma Cannon chap is another completed mini, edging me closer to a full Company
Lastly we have the Cadian’s turned Blooded;
Sadly, these 2 aren’t quite finished. I forgot the mask on the left hand chap, and the others foot snapped as I tried to free him from his temporary base. So a bit more painting and gluing to get these guys done for the weekend. I also need to find my hobby knife to get that foot off the base These 3 are all done and the Chieftain lady will hopefully be a boost having another plasma weapon that should will be guaranteed a hit each turn, and a crit once I give her a blooded token
Here she is in close up, the OSL on her leg looks cool, but I think I need to neaten up the coils if I can
The ex-Cadian Plasma Gunner has a good OSL effect too, especially on his head
The converted Enforcer joined the Plasma gang too , ready to give one of them an overwatch shot each turning point!
That’s it for now. Later in the week I might share a pic of the last pair of Blooded Cadians before the tournament if I get them finished in time.
That's a nice eclectic mix of minis you've managed to paint. The Necrons are super dark, I feel like they could use a tiny touch of lighter coloring to make them pop. Maybe a lighter green face mask? I dunno.
I like the plasma glow on your Void Panthers and Blooded. It really enhances the models.
Amazing Job Gobert, you've been far more effective than me recently and to an massive degree Great job on all of them, though if you don't mind, how did you get that cold metal look on your crons?
Solid work, gobert. Loving all the plasma, of course. The Blooded are turning into quite a characterful band. How many Necrons are you up to, now? Group shot?
The plasma glow is excellent and the OSL is terrific!
I really want to try to copy the effect you have achieved; I'm getting better at getting the glow down right (Step 1) but not sure I'm ready to risk damaging an otherwise adequate paint job pushing the edge- although it has to be done sooner or later!
Warboss_Waaazag wrote:That's a nice eclectic mix of minis you've managed to paint. The Necrons are super dark, I feel like they could use a tiny touch of lighter coloring to make them pop. Maybe a lighter green face mask? I dunno.
I like the plasma glow on your Void Panthers and Blooded. It really enhances the models.
I hope you had fun at your tournament!
Thanks Warboss! Variety is the spice of life as they say . The Necrons are a bit darker than I intended as I forgot to thin the Contrast mix they’re close enough in colour to the rest of the army though so I’m calling them done!
Not Online!!! wrote:Amazing Job Gobert, you've been far more effective than me recently and to an massive degree Great job on all of them, though if you don't mind, how did you get that cold metal look on your crons?
Thanks Not Online!!! Though I can’t believe that I’ve been more productive than you, surely you’ve finished an army in the past few weeks!? The Necron colours were borrowed from John Prins’ Necron Christmas Project back in 2019. When I saw it I decided to do something similar for my Indomitus set.
youwashock wrote:Solid work, gobert. Loving all the plasma, of course. The Blooded are turning into quite a characterful band. How many Necrons are you up to, now? Group shot?
Thanks youwashock. I think the plasma looks better in photo than real life, but I’ll take that! I’m really enjoying the Blooded and they’ve turned in to quite a sizeable side quest with a few more additions falling from Cadia in recent days too! I think I’m just shy of 2000 points for the Necrons and have a few characters in my draw of potential.
Meer_Cat wrote:The plasma glow is excellent and the OSL is terrific!
I really want to try to copy the effect you have achieved; I'm getting better at getting the glow down right (Step 1) but not sure I'm ready to risk damaging an otherwise adequate paint job pushing the edge- although it has to be done sooner or later!
Thanks Meer cat, it is daunting on an otherwise finished mini, and I hadn't really thought much about what to do if it went wrong. For me I think the glow is a bit milky at the moment, I’ve been tempted to add another layer of fluorescent green to take the edge off it. If I do it’ll be by brush as Reddit agrees with me that the VMC Flouro Green that I have is terrible through an airbrush!
Tommygun1918 wrote:I'm really liking those triangle bases there Gobert. They have kind of an organic look to them.
Thanks Tommy, they were originally for my Blackstone Fortress minis, but I’ve decided that they work well on all of my Chaos stuff (though Death Guard may get a different treatment)
Ezki wrote:Great work on the plasma glow! It gives character to the models and pops nicely against the armor.
Thanks Ezki, they really do stand out now, helps the opposition find them easily on the table though!
So clearly I failed to get proper pics of the new blooded team members before the tournament, but here’s the newbies now
That one’s the best pic of the plasma glow I feel
This one ain’t bad either
Overall I think the Cadians blend in really quite well with the Blooded heads and arms added
Whilst putting them away I also decided to get a few pics of the Roster that I took with me
The team went well in a couple of games, but tanked in a couple too. MVP was probably the Brimstone Grenadier and the Melta dude. Though one of the Lasgun Troopers somehow survived about 4 shooting attacks to help me win the last game.
Game 1 was against @nyfelim’s Grey Knights.Here’s the start of TP1
I think the layout really helped me command the board, getting control of the central rooms was easier for my side and a few lucky Melta/Plasma/Diabolik shots helped me thin his numbers quickly. It ended up being a fairly clear win for me, but that was about to change!
Game 2 was against my regular opponent @coleface40k. He did some kunnin’ tricks with his Nob who lobbed some dynamite in to a bunch of my guys with the first activation, killing 3 including the Ogre. Here’s a pic of later in the game
Basically I never recovered from that first activation as it also stopped me from being able to flood forward and nab objectives. We also later found out that the move he did had been nerfed by an FAQ recently! Oh well, I’m not bitter as he gave me a lift home!
Game 3 though was even worse for the Blooded. Up against the high accuracy and high wound count of tournament organiser @playswithsoldiers’ Strike Force Justian (painted by @heresyismytherapy. I made a couple of stupid moves that cost me my Plasma Gunner in Activation 1 and my Ogre early on too (he was quite buttery against the Marine Captains Plasma Pistol). It seems that breaking cover was a challenge for my guys and I think I should’ve dropped the Ogryn for a couple of Troopers to act as cannon fodder cover. Another barricades might’ve helped with that too. Facing a tabling though there were a couple of standout performances. First the Thug showed how tough he was
Taking a heavy Bolter from short range and surviving, though only long enough to find another Marine to be killed by!
The Corpseman also had fun after getting an extra activation he shot at the Captain to soften him up, charged him and stabbed him in the eye with a needle!
It must’ve been quite a stretch to reach him! He then got mown down by another Marine leaving me with a sole operative
He didn’t survive long against 5 marines! These guys were super tough and I couldn’t get the numbers to work for me on such and open board I should’ve concentrated on one side much more than I did.
Game 4 then was effectively the wooden spoon fight against @the_minotaurs_lair’s Arbites Exaction Squad. I think we’d both struggled to fight the other teams who were mostly Elites. We played the In To The Dark table as my opponent hadn’t played that one before. Since I had I picked the side with fewer doors, but knowing what to expect I rushed the 3 CPs nearest me. I also managed to put the Brimstone Grenadier to good use taking out 2 and 7/8ths Arbites. I could then gang up on his guys in the central rooms as he lost his flank and a chunk of his force went the other way to deal with my Enforcer who was the main perp they were after.
As you can see the doggo held him down while the Arbites behind eventually managed to take him out. Lucky for me, he was too big for the doggo to drag off! This one was pretty evenly balanced and nicely thematic with the naughty Chaos types fighting the Arbites.
Whilst it was a shame the event didn’t get a massive turnout, it’s safe to say that we all had fun. @coleface40k and I will look to join the next one that @playswithsoldiers organises if we can.
Speaking of playing kill team, I seem to have become the organiser of a kill team club at work. The plan is to play alternate Thursdays, though we are away with work a fair bit coming up, so nothing for a month, then 2 Thursdays in a row. I just need to complete the H&S forms now!
Long post, thanks for taking the time to go through it!
youwashock wrote:Great stuff. All the game shots are wonderful. Good to see your minis getting table time.
Thanks youwashock! The minis are pleased to be getting some table time too!
Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Looks like you had an awesome time! Too bad you got punched so hard by elite teams, but I loled at "wooden spoon fight".
Yeah it was great! And there really was a wooden spoon (and a set of dice!)
Quick post for tonight’s hobby time. First up I finished a little project I’ve set my printer on earlier in the week; a new paint rack for my paint drawer:
Designed myself and unlike most things I design myself is stayed away form the over complicated and stuck with simple hex shapes. They fit together nicely and it means I can now hold all of my paints in one drawer. That then mean that my drawer of primed minis doesn’t get bashed by paint pots when I open it!
Quite a few nice little projects in the Nearly Realised Pile of Potential. You'll notice there aren’t any Void Panthers in there, as they’re all stood in formation waiting their turn at the other side of my hobby room/office.
I have a few more Tactical Marines that I want to finish next, and then I’m thinking Gellerpox Infected with a broadsword wargaming inspired scheme.
My current painting project though is the Terminators from Space Hulk. As I’m a lunatic I’m attacking them in one big batch!
Decent progress so far with a Khorne Red Base and a Mephiston Red initial highlight/base. I’ve decided to go Grimdark on them to match the dead terminators from the Genestealer side of the box so everything is quite rough. I’ve found it pretty enjoyable so far just slapping paint on in roughly the right location and aiming for a textured finish. Hope you all like them!
For some reason I got the urge to paint up my 3d printed fortress built. I finally finished the central tower a few weeks back. It sat a while waiting to be primed, but I got it done in the week. I mixed up a decent match with the Wolfkin Primer from colour forge to cover the bits I missed. I even stippled some highlights on before I decided to add a wash. This was mixed from some speed paints, old wash pot water and some cheap black acrylic. I slapped that on last night but was a bit messy to apply (and needed a lot!). So tonight I mixed up some more close match to the wolfkin and over brushed that on.
It’s taken the shading from a harsh messiness to be harsh where I wanted it so, and subtle elsewhere like on the outside. I’m hoping some lighter highlights will build better contrast to show off the print.
I also decided that the hobby space needed a proper sort out this weekend. My wife was getting rid of some small plastic drawers, so I rescued them and rearranged some of my storage. I freed up a whole big drawer and some space near my printer and filled up 2 of the new drawers with all of my bits;
Drawer 1 is chapter specific space marine bits, mostly blood and dark angels, plus a bunch of necron and Tyranid bits.
Drawer and is the my Void Panther bits. I also have a drawer of bases and a drawer of swing materials.
I also found out that the Bristol and Bath Warhammer stores both recycle sprues according to the link on te gw site. So I bagged up all of the sprues I’ve collected since they announced the scheme
That’s a big bag and the sprues are two layers in there! Most are from the big eBay haul I got a while back. I also have some Gale Force 9 sprues but I don’t think gels will take them.
Finally, the big clear out was really to make way for this big box
But don’t get too excited, neither Kill Team particularly excites me so I’ll probably throw them up on eBay, especially now they’ve dropped the fees! I’m undecided on the terrain, though I’m edging towards keeping it. The equipment sprue is awesome, I’m already loving most of that and am looking forward to paining it all! The rules and crit ops cards come in a good looking and useful folder. I think I’m also pretty much committed to buying the next box mainly for the ratlings!
That’s it for now, hopefully I’ll be back soon with some more interesting posts
youwashock wrote: Wow, no small task, tackling all those Terminators at once. Good luck!
Yeah, I’m slightly regretting taking that approach as I’ve made negligible progress on them since my last post.
Part of that malaise has been deciding to do the Kill Team equipment sprue. Obviously a third project was just what I needed to do to make progress! Still, they’ve been pretty fun with simple paint schemes. Here’s where they got to last night
I’m loving the sponged on space wolves grey, gives a texture similar to the old bunkers in white dwarf! Will have to do similar on my fortress when I get back to that. The smoke grenades are just behind them and have just been a simple dry brush, with the ammo stash on the foreground being a speed paint and strong tone wash. Same goes for the grenades in the background too.
The barbed wire is probably my favourite item on the equipment sprue. I even decided to add some more gore to it by throwing in a couple of Cadian heads to one of them. That one will be for my Blooded Kill Team if I ever take barbed wire as an equipment pick for them. In fact my plan on half of the set is to give it some Chaos graffiti and blood splatter. You can’t see it on the pic, but one of the ladders has a big spike at the top with a skull on it! The comms arrays were just a quick bit of contrast and a couple of different golds, pretty uninspired by these if I’m honest.
Hopefully I’ll finish these up tonight and get back to either the fortress or terminators. I’m thinking I might split the terminators in to smaller groups as that many is a bit daunting
In other news I now seem to be the main organiser of a Kill Team Thursdays group at work. This week was our second expanded session, with 1 total newbie and a couple of new to Kill Teamers. We’re all still learning the latest rules. We didn’t do the full rule set just yet, but will do next time out. This week though I played @coleface40k who decided to try his Kreig. He hadn’t planned on playing Kill Zone Gallowdark so hadn't optimised his list for the game. a couple of bad decision and some incredible dice rolls for me in TP1&2 meant the board looked like this at the end of TP3
One sole Kreigsman in a room with 2 Blooded with more in adjacent compartments. We called it at that point as I was already leading comfortably on VPs and figured the Kriegsman just picked up a few spiky bits to add to his armour and joined the traitor guard! Unfortunately I can’t make the next few games but I’m looking forward to the expanded opponents, with Hierotek Circle, Legionaries, Hearthkyn Salvagers joining my Blooded and @coleface40k’s Kreig/Scouts/AoD/Kommandos. Despite having 4 other teams and soon a 5th when the Nurgle Space Marine Heroes are released I’m dead excited at the Ratling Kill Team, they look awesome. I might even keep the Orks too!
So I didn’t quite manage to finish the Universal Equipement but I’m very close now. I did have loads of fun using the Vallejo Game Efects Dry Rust and Rust. The former is like a very matte brown that’s a bit like a contrast paint but the latter is like a layer paint. I ended up thinning them down to be a bit more like a wash to get some streaks of rust from all of the rivets. I also played with something I’d seen on instagram, wetting a path for the wash to follow.
It was great fun and I think it looks really good. Using the orange more like a wash helped get plenty of colour variation.
The barbed wire got the same treatment plus some verdisgris on the skulls and eagles
In the pic the orange looks a bit strong, but thankfully it’s duller down lots now that it has dried out. Just a few more details, like buttons on the comms pieces, scorch marks on bullet holes/scuffs and some blood splatter on half of the equipments. I’ve also printed a couple of little templates to throw some blooded icons on the terrain banksy style!
muette wrote:Looking great Gobert, love the weathering effects. Dream game table you are creating!
Thanks muette, it’s the first time outside of plague marines that I’ve gone so hard on the weathering, I might be a convert now!
Guardling wrote:The equipment looks great, I hope it comes out as a separate box. Love the colour on the concrete barriers
Thanks Guardling, also you’re in luck it’s already available separately; here
Cap'n Facebeard wrote:You are making this game look very attractive...
Thanks Cap’n, the kits are pretty cool with lots of character and the game is good fun to boot!
So yesterday I managed to finish up the Universal Equipment for Kill Team 24. Ironically (perhaps in the Alannis Morrissette kinda way) I’m unlikely to take any of them when I play as the Blooded given their faction equipment choices offer some great buffs now. The blooded icon graffiti came out ok, the template was a bit stiff so didn’t conform to the barricades very well and my decision to use Blood For The Blood God made it a bit hard to see, but I think you can get the idea. Here’s the heavy barricades;
These things look super dirty, though I question how a spec ops team can covertly deploy them. The lifting eyes suggest they’d need a vehicle to bring them in! Maybe a Valkyrie brought them over or they were teleported in to the space hulk? Or left there earlier in a battle? Who knows!?
The portable barricades though have handy lifting handles. The details on these are super fun too, they have little viewing hatches with even littler hatches within them, all of which have hinges and latches!
I never painted the printed versions of the classic KT barricades, so it’s cool to have a painted pair! I love the rack and pinion slide out mechanism on these too
The ladders ended up a bit meh, but the skull on the spike is a winner imho!
These grenade tokens I guess are just to help you remember what you picked, but they’re fun oversized grenades
The smoke grenade tokens are pretty cool. GW did a red one that looked kinda cool, but I stuck with grey mainly for laziness reasons!
The ammo caches are kinda cool, and look decent for a prime and wash with a couple of bits of contrast paint
The barbed wire though is absolutely awesome though! It took the rust and BFTBG really well
The body parts in this one were super fun to paint and I added some uhu gore too. The arm was original but the heads are bits I cut from Cadians that turned Blooded.
The comms devices have quite a few details, like the British style plugs that have clearly been decided to be the superior configuration and is now Omnissiah approved
Not sure what project I’ll return to next, I might even keep the Kill Team bits going and do the Volkus Terrain.
youwashock wrote:That's a bunch of cool terrain! I'm with you, though. That barbed wire rocks.
Thanks youwashock, the barbed wire is pretty grisly!
Cap'n Facebeard wrote:Very cool, but I think I like the comms devices the best. Your use of little bits of colour makes them look more real.
Thanks Cap’n, once upon a time I worked on a project involving radios. It was not fun and perhaps it’s tainted my appreciation of the model
Had a bit of time this weekend between family visiting us, drinks at friends and looking after kids. I spent a bit of time priming the Volkus terrain as our little club at work could do with another board as my Harbinger of Damnation Gallowdark proxy board takes too long to set up. No pics of they yet as it’s nothing special just yet, just being a Black, grey, white zenithal prime and the floors in Silver. I then got stuck in to the White Dwarf Strongpoint Fortress, which I reckon will be a fun board for a multiplayer battle royale/king of the hill game of kill team!
I started off with sponging a thinned Shadow Grey/Russ Grey mix all over with a bit of a focus ok the top half. then added a good bit of Space Wolf Grey for the top parts and edges.
Here’s some closer pics of the details
Here’s the damaged central tower made from an earlier iteration that I cut up to suggest it had been blown up a bit
The main tower has a Trojan bunny to distract the occupants!
I then spent a good while doing the rivets, eagles and pipework on all of the pieces
Here’s some close ups, but I have a question, how should I do the eagle?
Keep it dark steel, probably with a good bit of rust like the kill team equipment. Or do I paint it gold or copper with verdigris?
Here’s one of the bridges
It’s bit hard to see but the pipe work in the arches is metallic too (though I had missed quite a few of them on the first pass and had to go back separately). My question on this is what to do with the skulls? Keep them concrete, paint them as bone, or do them in gold, or copper? Rusty steel might look wool too.
I’m also wondering whether I should give a wash I’ve the bracing to darken that down and provide a bit more variety on the outside.
Just remembered that I also finished the Kill Team Rulers and Mines. I’ll get some pics this week of those too.
Thanks for looking and let me know what you think on the Eagles, Skulls and Bracing
Cap'n Facebeard wrote:Personally I think bunker terrain looks better when its kept simple. Concrete and steel all the way.
There’s something to be said for Less is More!
youwashock wrote:I say go for the wash. I like it, though!
I gave the wash a go, but in keeping with what Coco Chanel is supposed to have said “take off the last thing you put on,” I reverted to no wash.
Warboss_Waaazag wrote:I second the wash idea. I think it will add depth without getting too involved. It looks great either way, though. I love your trojan bunny!
Thanks Warboss, I gave it a go. Whilst it didn’t look bad, perhaps even a little better, it was a pain to do! For some reason I keep getting bubbles in my washes and they tend to find the deepest recesses like eye sockets!
So whilst if dropped the wash from the scheme I did make progress elsewhere. All of the metallics got a good dose of rust in the same manner as the similarly painted Kill Team equipment.
Here’s a close up of an access point and the central tower,
As you can see, I also decided to brighten up the consoles on the access points by throwing some white and then some fluorescent paints over the buttons and screen. They’re supposed to show what areas are in friendly control and which are not. This one has a cross on it trying to encourage the enemy from climbing the ladder , the others have arrows saying where the enemy are
I actually thought I’d finished the whole fortress at this point, but then I remembered the doorways have lights either side and the doors I had printed didn’t fit. Those should be done printing when I get home tonight so I’ll try and paint them up next. I’m thinking the lights will be red and green to show in a similar manner to the access point control panels. It’d be nice and 40k for the outside to be green everywhere the enemy are not and the inside to be the opposite, forcing the defenders to advance on the enemy! Like a commissar bunker!
I could have sworn I replied to this earlier but can't see it now. Absolutely mint updates Gobert, I've got that KT box as well, looking forward to painting up the terrain. Hope I can get it to half as good a standard as yours!
Kid_Kyoto wrote:Looks fantastic, what are the dimensions?
Thanks Kid_Kyoto, I’ve not measured but it hangs over the edge of a Kill Team board, so I’d say about 23-24 inches. I’m hoping the little gaming group we started at work can have a battle royale on it before Christmas
Olthannon wrote:I could have sworn I replied to this earlier but can't see it now. Absolutely mint updates Gobert, I've got that KT box as well, looking forward to painting up the terrain. Hope I can get it to half as good a standard as yours!
Yeah, the number of times that I do that is not even funny any more! I’m sure you’ll get it to just as good a standard, can’t wait to see the results! Did you keep the teams?
youwashock wrote:Wash or no, it looks great. Can't wait to see your minis milling about.
Cheers youwashock! I’ll be sure to populate it when I finish it off.
I didn’t get much of a chance to do any painting over the weekend, but I did manage to print off the missing doors and hinges. They seem to fit pretty well and are ready for mounting now. The recipe is the same as the Kill Team terrain and the rest of the Fortress; Vallejo dark gunmetal, with Vallejo game effects dry rust, then the orange rust in the recesses. Slight difference on the doors was that I cover the whole thing in dry rust before wiping off excess with a make up sponge. It seemed to work pretty well. I also used Vallejo copper on the skulls with some Nihilakh oxide verdigris. The lights by the door also got some white in the recesses.
Theres barely anything left to do. Hopefully I can get the doors mounted and finished off in the week and maybe even throw some fluorescent paint at the lights. I might even use the airbrush for that as I bought a pair of laptop and monitor arms to get some more space on my desk with the aim of making it less hassle to set up my spray booth.
Also I got a new phone, so the pics might be a bit better, or more likely a bit off whilst I get used to it!
Thanks for looking
PS - what should I put on the door plates? NSEW, ABCD, 1234 or 2468 (my current favourite as there are 8 outposts)
That was the perfect idea. I even went to town and did the diagonals as well!
As well as sticking some decals on the doors and gun ports I stuck the doors in place. As the doorways had been cut and shortened to fit inside the bridges I found they not every door would fit in every opening. Luckily a bit of sanding to get the hinges to sit right and they all found a home. The hinges then needed a bit of tidying and rust adding to the joints
Here you can see both inside and outside of the doors, including the fact that I forgot to add white undercoat to the inside lights! And a slightly lower shot giving a bit of a view of the decals underneath the gun ports.
Tommygun1918 wrote:The fortress came out really nice.
Thanks Tommy, I’m liking how it’s going
Kid_Kyoto wrote:Incredible stuff!
Thanks Kid, it’s a real blast from the past for me. I remember building it out of cereal boxes and playing a game of 2nd Edition 40k with my brother. My Catachan Jungle Fighters vs his Space Wolves. Then one of his mate came over and joined in with my Orks who raced their bikes past the fortress shooting at whatever they could! Hopefully the Royale Rumble I’m hoping to organise will be equally memorable!
Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Beautiful work!
Thanks Gwyn, it’s been a real labour of love
So I finished the fortress this weekend. The lights took a few coats of fluorescent paint and whilst they’re not my best OSL I’m calling them good enough. Here’s the fortress all complete
At youwashocks suggestion I also put some minis on the board. Here’s the Traitor Guard assaulting a Void Panther held Strongpoint Fortress
Plus a few closer pics
This lad is a bit brave, charging a charging Space Marine!
The Tactical Marines of squad Sevastus begin the push to repel the Traitors
The Traitor Guard bring up their flag bearer whilst avoid Panther Devastators rain fire on their enemies
A lone Space Marine attempts to flank the Traitor Guard
This one shows the lights quite nicely
The Void Panthers Devastators command the central tower of their Strongpoint Fortress
And I thought this was a fun little pic
There’s a few more pics in the gallery if you want to see any more pics
Next I’ll probably do some more work on the Space Hulk Terminators. I’ll probably keep breaking my rule of not starting a new project until I’ve finished the current one though. I might do a few Void Panthers, but I also ordered the Provisionally Prepared Ratlings, who will probably jump the queue ready for Brutal and Cunning. I was tempted by the Dark Angels Battleforce to add to my pile of grey Primaris, but my usual shops had all sold out.
Slinky wrote:That's simply marvellous, well done!
And the action shots came out really well, too.
Thanks Slinky, it was a fun little project for sure
Cap'n Facebeard wrote:Look amazing, great piece of terrain
Thanks Cap’n!
youwashock wrote:Oh yeah, baby!
Totally awesome. I can just imagine your inner child's joy setting up the minis for those pics. Great work!
Yeah, it was good fun laying down the minis, hopefully my little group gets to have a good game on it before christmas
muette wrote:That is looking sweeet, excellent job gobert!!
Thanks muette!
Olthannon wrote:Love the action shots, they look excellent. Great terrain pieces, looking forward to your next updates!
I've got the Aquilons I'm hoping to build when I have a bit of free time!
Yeah, everyone loves an action shot right!? Looking forward to seeing your Aquilons, I was uninspired by them so sold them on eBay instead. I’m 100% in on the Ratlings though!
Captain Brown wrote:Exalted gobert.
Cheers,
CB
Thanks Captain!
Not Online!!! wrote:Glad to be of Help ! Great progress btw.
Cheers, it was perfectly old school, just right for the model!
Syro_ wrote:That beauty is massive!
Yeah, it’s huge, just how I remember the one I built as a kid!
Speaking of massive, my printer had been busy printing a ride for my Traitor Guard. A Chimera didn’t seem sensible to bring to a Blackstone Fortress l, but a Valkyrie makes sense right? Rather than buy one I found a great proxy from nfeyma. His Valravn seemed perfect so I got printing. I soon realised this was much bigger than I expected but I love how it’s turning out! The print is a little rough in places but I can live with it. I’m thinking some sponging like on the fortress will sort it out. I had planned for all the doors to be openable, but I had a few issues that meant the clean up shrank some doors tooo much, the hinges were a bit ropey and the less that’s said about the rear ramp the better! That didn’t put me off painting the inside though and I went a bit crazy with the Fluorescent paints through the airbrush!
Sadly the paint doesn’t glow in the dark
Whilst this was a fun and quick littlw project that’s now fully certified for the Society of Hidden Paint the big challenge is to paint the outside as this thing is MASSIVE!
Spot the tiny Space Marine for scale! As it’s for my Blooded it’ll be mostly greys, and I’m thinking some kind of camo pattern, maybe with purple thrown in. Purple might also be a unit marking stripe too. I’d like to chaos it up a bit as well so might print out some chaos stars and/or the Blooded icon.
Speaking of icons, I have also been printing new measuring gauges for Kill Team. I actually printed one for each of the factions represented in our Kill Team Thursday grouping. I finally got around to painting my factions and a general one
This was another project where I played around with the airbrush. Some colours went on nicely, the Red on the Blooded, the dark purple of the Blooded. The light purple has always suffered with rapid drying even with a brush and it had tip dry after every spray. I’m sure a good bit of it was my poor technique. The orange was certainly my poor technique, I think over thinning and not moving enough so I got some horrible spider webbing. I think they turned out reasonably well.
I’ve not forgotten the Space Hulk Terminators, but they’re just a bit daunting having so many highly detailed minis. They might be my project that comes with me when I travel for work
Loving the personalized rulers. Having custom stuff makes the hobby that much more "yours." That flyer is awesome. The print artifacts aren't a deal breaker, as the outside looks really good. Those interior shots are pretty atmospheric.
Captain Brown wrote:That is a large transport.
Cheers,
CB
Yeah, it’s friggin massive! Not sure where I’ll be able to display it when it’s painted and on it’s flight stand
Cap'n Facebeard wrote:Awesome plane
Yep, it’s a cool mini alright!
youwashock wrote:Loving the personalized rulers. Having custom stuff makes the hobby that much more "yours." That flyer is awesome. The print artifacts aren't a deal breaker, as the outside looks really good. Those interior shots are pretty atmospheric.
Thanks, it’s been cool seeing others bring their painted rulers in too. Our Word Bearers player has some really cool glow effects on his!
Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Beautiful transport interior. Great job!
Thanks and Warboss and now it’s sealed away for ever!
I’m really going off the rails now with even more projects coming up. Instead of doing a bit on the Blood Angels Terminators I decided to hack up some Poxwalkers duplicates that I won on eBay. I got themas part of a bundle with some Death Guard Chosen of Mortarion and Tainted Cohort which I only picked up for the Malignant Plague Caster as I seem to have lost the Space Marine Heroes Series 3 version. He was probably thrown out with the supposedly empty boxes along with the duplicate warrior . So obviously to ease my pain I bought more minis! here’s what the whole gang looks like with their body duplicates
I think that I’ve managed to make them different enough by the odd arm/hewd/weapon swap. I probably should’ve been more brutal in changing some of the poses of the two-handed weapon guys. Maybe if I get some more on the sprue that will be an easier task. I’ll get some primer on them next and see if I need to do some more gap filling. So far it’s just been done with a runny sprue goo that covers most of my sins and gives some interesting shapes, perfect for Poxwalkers some close up side by sides in the spoilers
Spoiler:
This guy had a tentacle donated by a chaos space marine terminator that I think was donated by Ragsta
Axe head donated by 2nd Ed Boxset Ork
In the side on view you can see his Bloodletter leg, again donated by Ragsta I believe
Just a new head and weapon I think I might’ve trimmed a tentacle and turned a horn too
This guy now has 2 melee weapons and a new head
This guy got his coat cut up and a spare head from Space Marine Heroes Series 3 which is maybe a little on the large side but Nurgle. I also rotated his tentacle and gave him the bionic arm from the set
This guy is a bit same, I should probably trim a few tentacles and maybe swap his other arm
Another samey walker, but I like how he strapped a hammer on to his gun barrel!
This one I like! Another SMH3 head that’s an ok size for him, a new arm and a weapon swap. I think the SMH3 head walkers are my favourites right now
I like how the hook axe turned out on this lad. I think it was from an old Ork axe that I clipped down to match the hook on the back.
Head and weapon swap for this guy, plus I turned his 3rd arm around to change the silhouette a bit
Not sure what I’ll paint tonight, probably should do some work on the Terminators. Let’s see what the mood brings me
These are brilliant. I don't know why I never thought to do similar with my own poxwalkers. Guess now I'll just have to buy more and try my hand at it with those.
youwashock wrote:Nice work! Plenty of variation, especially at a glance. Solid modeling. Let's hope it's a Terminator-y sort of evening!
Thanks, they were tricky but fun to chop up. Last night didn’t have any terminator action as I just wasn’t in the mood to paint but tonight saw some progress.
Warboss_Waaazag wrote:These are brilliant. I don't know why I never thought to do similar with my own poxwalkers. Guess now I'll just have to buy more and try my hand at it with those.
Sounds like a plan! I think I’d have had more variety had they not been already built, but I’m happy. I did manage to prime them (and my Valravn ) yesterday, so they’ve joined the growing Death Guard pile in my primed drawer.
Not massive progress, but i managed to get most of the Blood Angels Terminators an Evil Sunz Scarlet layer. It’s deliberately a bit rough and patchy as I want them grim dark to match my Genestealers.
Looking at it I think some of them might need to do another highlight with Evil Sunz before I add some proper highlights with Fire Dragon Bright. Will probably do a mix of that and Evil Sunz as the first highlight, then a pure one before I put a red wash over the top as a filter. Whilst there’s still a hell of a long way to go, I actually quite enjoyed painting them tonight, so maybe they’ll step up a gear and progress a bit quicker now.
A bit of a random update today. First up, the Fortress saw battle for the first time. The original trio from our Kill Team group got together for a Christmas game down the pub (Chance & Counters in Bristol). I volunteered to be in the middle with my Blooded and the other 2 let me take a couple of extra bodies to make up for it. Here’s the deployment
I planned to dominate the approaches by putting all of my shoots things on the tower and wearing the other teams down with charging assaults, keeping the Brimstone Grenadier inside the tower to suicide anyone that got too close. Well that plan lasted my first activation, where I chose to fire the grenade launcher at the scout rocket launcher who missed. That revealed him to the rocket launcher who took out the enforcer, grenade launcher and comms man. A bloody revenge mission ensued for most of the rest of the first TP as my team wore itself down against the scouts. When the squats eventually joined the fight (they’re pretty slow! ) it was left to the Grenadier to do what he does best in TP2. He took out a few squats, but the squats saw the scouts as their main opposition and embarked on settling a grudge! Some stellar work from the Melta gunner and corpseman (who’d retreated to the tower) miraculously helped me wipe out the scouts in TP4. Somehow my Butcher and Trench Sweeper managed to slow the squats enough to ensure they only held 3 towers at the end.
Having tactically chosen to level up my kill op score by picking soft targets on each side, that lone Melta Gunner in the tower gave me a final VP and helped me win by a point from the squats! What looked like being a quick defeat somehow turned in to victory! Great fun was had by all and the game turned on a couple of dice rolls. Not sure if I’ll get to play before the new year, so it was fun to finish with a bang!
Next hobby update is a tenuous link to Kill Team in that my pre-order for Provisionally Prepared arrived… and I quickly built them up!
They were such a cool model to not pick up and they look super cool in person. I need to check them next to Rein & Raus from BSF as they seem tinier than I remember those lads being.
With the final F1 race of the season I took to making some progress on the Space Hulk Terminators whilst watching it. Not the most enthralling of races so I made decent progress and got the reds finished.
Having stippled the Evil Sunz Scarlet layers on I switched to the sponge for a mix of Army Painter Fanatics Pure Red (perhaps closer to Wazdakka Red than Evil Sunz Scarlet which was disappointing) and Fire Dragon Bright. Then a lighter application of Fire Dragon Bright by sponge. I finished up the evening by getting the airbrush out and covering the armour with a Red wash. Last night I did also start blocking in the black areas including a black undercoat for the metallics but didn’t get a picture. I’m away for work this week and they came with me. I had planned to bring my USB magnifying light, but silly old me left it in the drawer at home.
Warboss_Waaazag wrote:That's great progress! They're starting to really come together.
Thanks, their Armour came out really nice. It’s a bit on the bright side but some streaking time will knock it back really nicely with any luck!
youwashock wrote:Congrats on breaking in the fortress with a win!
That red is looking really nice on the Terminators.
Yeah, it was good to get a win and just a really fun game. And thanks, I’m quite enjoying this sponging of armour, it’s fast and effective.
Having finished the armour in the last post I’ve been painting all the non-red bits black ready for other colours. Today was the first day of my Christmas holidays and I finished that step, then moved on to highlighting the bits they will remain black as well as the blue armour on the Librarian. As I was stippling and sponging I tried masking off the nice red armour with some blue tack
It seemed to work pretty well and left me with only a few touch ups to do on both colours.
The black doesn’t look like it needs a filter, but the blue is a bit bright and could do with a bit of knocking back. Not sure whether to give it a filter like I did the red or just wait for the streaking grime to do its thing. Next I’ll make a start on the white bits of armour that some of them have. I’ll probably need to stipple with a decent brush for those bits as they’re pretty small areas for the most part. Then it’ll be seemingly endless metallics on all of their embellishments.
Thanks for looking!
PS : I’m off to pick up Brutal & Cunning tomorrow for some Ratling action. I’m not sure what to do with the Wrekka Krew though. I’ll see if the store has some Ogryns to bolster the Ratlings too
Thanks, they seem to be getting there. Blocking out all that black seemed to take forever, but gives a nice base for the other colours
So this morning I did the Christmas food shop and picked up Kill Team: Brutal & Cunning on the way. I’ve got to say, it’s a pretty weighty box for to say half of it is Ratlings! I was intrigued what the new terrain was like and how it fitted with the rest of the Volkus set, so I got building the first sprue;
I’ve got to say, it’s pretty neat! It meshes well with the Strongholds and the bunker with the walls, but best of all is the bits of wall that can be blown open! It’s already neat touch that’s pretty well done, though Ive heard that the Blooded will need a Melta to get through. I’m wanting Volkus to be quite transportable, so after building the bunker I decided to magnetise all of the walls. That means I’ll have to have an inside and outside to keep the magnets aligned. I think that could work pretty well and will go for a beige-ish white on the inside and probably the same blue-grey that I did for the Fortress. I got some Dirt Down moss effect which will probably also play a part.
This afternoon and evening I got back on with the Blood Angels Terminators. It was quite fun trying to replicate the heraldry on them and the white came out looking fairly decent. After that I did a few more touch ups before I got stuck in to the metallics.
The back row has had its Boltgun Metal applied, but I’m now thinking that I will change up a few things. The box art has quite a few gold chains and scrolls, but I might do them all in silver. That said the sergeant has some fancy scrolls that might be better in gold.
I’m away tomorrow taking the MIL to the SIL and getting to see their family which will be nice. When I’m back I will hopefully get a bit of time to finish up the metallics before Santa comes.
blockade23 wrote: Lots of good progress here! I like the look of those walls too.
Thanks blockade, it’s easier to get hobby done when you don’t have to worry about work!
I made some good progress today. The kids had some salt dough decorations that they wanted to paint so I offered to supervise! That allowed me to smash out all of the Boltgun Metal on the Terminators.
It’s funny how some colours really help a model look better. It needs a highlight of silver, but they’re really getting there now. I’ll do the gold next I think for a bit more of a feel for the finished look. Still loads to do mind, but I seem to have found my mojo with them now.
All that said, I also signed up for a Kill Team event at the new FLGS on the High Street in mid January. I could do with adding a few more options for the Blooded, so a new chieftain might make a show soon. I also seem to have picked up a commission for some Xenomorphs, so they should probably jump the queue as well. I do fancy painting up the Volkus Terrain so I have a quicker set up and pack away at my Kill Team group. I’ll keep going with the Terminators for now, but I might change course soon if progress slows
Thanks for looking and if I don’t post beforehand, Merry Christmas Dakka!
youwashock wrote: Looking solid, gobert! These guys are going to really be a batch to be proud of.
Yeah, I hope so, the dead ones at the feet of my Genestealers looked good, so hopefully these guys look just as gnarly!
Well the gold was quite a slog last night, so much so that I didn’t quite finish it. Part of the issue was deciding where to put the gold to match their heraldry. The main issue was that the Retributor Armour was a pain to work with. I added a load of thinner and flow improver and it got better, but I think it still needs some more to be as useable as my Boltgun Metal. Anyway, here’s where I got to
Here’s some pics showing off their Heraldry on their right shoulder pads.
With all of the gold I’m thinking they have a similar vibe to Meph’s Blood Angels from back in the day, which I’m really digging!
Not sure when I’ll get some time to paint and post next as tonight will be present wrapping and drinks either Mrs gobert. Hopefully I’ll get some time in Boxing Day between packing for travels.
If I had the money, I'd offer to take those wrekkas off your hands, but I guess even the good guys need good enemies from time to time. Ask any Ork, they'd tell you. "Gud enemeez iz 'ard ta find"
youwashock wrote:Bling-bling! Keep it up! Merry Xmas!
Thanks man, will certainly try. Hope you had a good Christmas too!
Warboss_Waaazag wrote:If I had the money, I'd offer to take those wrekkas off your hands, but I guess even the good guys need good enemies from time to time. Ask any Ork, they'd tell you. "Gud enemeez iz 'ard ta find"
Yeah, I’m still not decided on the Wrekkas, they are pretty cool and look like they could be fun to play. Let’s see how I get on with clearing the Kill Teams backlog
Back from visiting my family I took to the loft to do some hobby stuff. My Brutal & Cunning terrain is all magnetised and should be ready to prime tomorrow if the weather is decent. That took a fair while so I only managed to finish the gold on the Terminators
I think I’ll switch focus tomorrow to the Blooded reinforcements and maybe the Volkus terrain.
Thanks for looking and I hope Santa added to your grey piles!
It’s been a busy hobby day today. This morning I got the Brutal & Cunning terrain finished and ready for priming by filling some of the magnet holes with sprue goo. It’s pretty effective, I just was a bit impatient so it pulled off in a few areas. Might pass as battle damage I reckon. I then went in a priming spree, starting with the Xenomorphs, then the B&C terrain, the Blooded extras that I’ve built, and finishing off with the crates and doors from B&C. So much priming given the terrain had Black, Grey & White zeniths, that my trigger finger was feeling it
After a ridiculous amount of shaking the Colour shift paint, I embarked on a few testers for the commission that I picked up. The chap wanted them in the blue and I thought I’d see what a fully blue one looked like. I set off with a dry brush, but that gave dull results. A good over brushing gave better and then a few touch ups got them pretty close to the original. I think the original might not have used paint that was quite so well mixed so is a little more silvery. That or the gloss ardcoat sent it silvery
I still have a couple of days left after the New Year before I have to go back to work so given how quick these guys are I should be able to get them finished and in the post.
Keeping the hobby butterfly theme going I also slapped some paint on some Traitor Guard to give me nearly all of the options for Blooded Chieftains.
I figured only a Chieftain would get away with trousers like that in a Traitor Guard unit! The zenithal prime and a quick white dry brush helped the minis take the contrast and speed paints well. I have a tournament in 12 Jan 25 so should be able to get them finished before then.
Whilst waiting for paints to dry I also got started on the parchment painting for the Space Hulk Terminators, and boy was there a lot! You’d think that some of them were Angry Marines the volume of purity seals on them. So much so that I only did half of them before calling it a night
I also kept spotting bits of heraldry that I need to fix up before they get their grime on. I decided that their ropes would be the same colour as the parchment and loin cloths but I might change it for something a bit whiter.
It’s now morning and I’m off to GW to spend some of the vouchers that Mrs gobert got me for Christmas. I’m hoping to pick up a box of Ogryns for the Ratlings to hang out with plus a few paints I have in mind for the Volkus terrain.
youwashock wrote:Solid progress, gobert! Plenty of variety. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you my friend!
Captain Brown wrote:Wow, pushing hard to finish a lot of figures there gobert before the New Year.
All the best in 2025.
Cheers,
Happy New Year Cap! Gotta keep fighting the long painting war
Whilst I was away visiting family I thought it’d be a good time to put together the annual Year in review post. Though with losing signal on my phone causing dakka to refresh it’s about the third time I’ve written some of it! I should try to remember and use notes instead of typing in dakka itself.
January got off to a good start with a squad of Terminators being finished for the Void Panthers
Together with a bunch of other Terminators that I’d built
My 3d Printer got to work finishing printing a Harbinger of Damnation board for Kill Teams
The month concluded with a good bit of progress on a bunch of Aliens: Another Glorious Day In The Corps minis
It wasn’t long in to February that the Aliens:AGDITC minis were finished off
I then plugged away at the Harbinger of Damnation board, which also saw my first game of Kill Team. That game resulted in a Victory for the Void Panthers
March got off the ground with a bunch of 3d printed icons for the Void Panthers Terminators
Then I painted up Librarian Natorian as a bit of a treat following the slog of the Harbinger of Damnation
Keeping the good momentum going I painted up some Poxwalkers for my fledgling Death Guard force
Ripley then got her Power Loader on
Before the Void Panthers gained a squad of Tactical Marines
With a Demi-Company in sight I made a start of a Devastator Squad
And cobbled together a squad of scouts from my now extensive bits box
April got off to a bang with some eM4 Orcs that I donated to theCrowes son for his DnD games (they might also make a cameo in the mining game too!)
With a Demi-Company on the horizon I got started on a Devastator squad
And put together a bunch of friends for them
May got off to a fun start with another game of Kill Team
Quickly followed by the Devastator Squad Boltgun Marines
And their mates with big guns
To celebrate a Demi Company I got the built and painted Panthers out for a few pics
June meant I needed to pack away the Marines, but got a snap or two of the painted Demi Company
And one with all of the Void Panthers painted to date
To celebrate the milestone I painted up Chaplain Germanus
And splurged on a bunch of Kill Teams
The High Elves got a fancy backdrop for their display shelf
My 3d printer got to work printing out a White Dwarf and youthful gobert inspired Strongpoint Fortress
With the month wrapping up with the Blooded Kill Team getting finished
I enjoyed painting them so much I even bought some nu-Cadians to turn in to more Traitor Guard
Turning their removed arms in to Blooded tokens
I then finished up the month by doing some work on a bunch of Heavy Weapons Marines
July starts off with a 3-way game of Kill Team
And a works trip game too
The 2nd Company of the Void Panthers had some reinforcements built
As did the 1st
I didn’t quite get the batch of Heavy Weapons finished
As this little gift to myself arrived
August saw a decent bit of outdoor painting
With a few Special and Heavy Weapon Void Panthers being finished in the sunshine
Then a bunch of new pillars for the Harbinger of Damnation Kill Team Board
And I very nearly finished off the Space Hulk Genestealers
September saw the Brood all finished, thanks to a great and quick scheme from @rgb.miniatures over on instagram and YouTube
I smashed out a handful of Necron Warriors I got cheap on eBay ages ago
And gave the Plasma toting Void Panthers a glow up
I then finished a few additions to the Blooded Kill Team with some Nu-Cadians turned Traitor
That gave me a full roster for my first Kill Team Tournament which I walked away from with 2w 0d 2l
1st game was a victory against Grey Knights
2nd was a loss to Kommandos
3rd was another loss to Strike Force Justian, but the Corpseman got to stab Captain Justian in the eye with his Stimm Needle and kill him!
Game 4 was a really fun one against the Exaction team that resulted in victory
Next I got started with a sort out and my 3d printer helping organise my paint drawer
Plus the crazy notion to paint all of my Space Hulk Terminators in one batch!
October began with my now massive bits collection getting sorted in to some new drawers
And I finally got around to recycling a bunch of sprues I’d hung on to
All of which was to make some space for Kill Team: Hivestorm.
And I quickly got on with painting up the Universal Equipment
I then kept procrastinating over the Space Hulk Terminators and started painting up the White Dwarf Strongpoint Fortress
November started with the White Dwarf Stongpoint Fortress being finished off
I kept the 3d printing going and painted up the inside of a Valravn gunship
This thing was massive when it was fully built
I then painted up some 3d printed measuring gauges for Kill Team
I also painted the Hivestorm gauges, but never took photos
The month closed with me cutting up a bunch of Poxwalkers to avoid duplicates
December has had less of that completion vibe (but that should get my mini count off to a good start again next year!). That said the Fortress saw battle with a 3-way Kill Team game
I built up Provisionally Prepared as preparation for Brutal & Cunning
When that arrived I got stuck in building the terrain
And edged closer to finishing the Space Hulk Terminators
Overall a really productive year. The numbers were dominated by terrain and I only managed to paint 86 miniatures, but 443 individual pieces speaks for itself I think!
Void Panthers = 27
Necrons = 8
Death Guard = 10
Blooded/Traitor Guard = 18
Harbinger of Damnation = 278
KT Universal Equipment = 28
White Dwarf Strongpoint Fortress = 23
KT Measurement Gauges = 6
Space Hulk Genestealers = 23
I have quite a few in progress to boost next years numbers, so hopefully it will be as fruitful!
Dang. Really puts it in perspective, seeing it all together. Great year, gobert! I would have to say the VP Terminators and Germanus are my favorites. Here's to more minis and more paint in 2025!
Love the post with all your updates you've had a fantastic year of painting. Those Blood Angels look very cool, looks like 2025 will be a blast for you.
youwashock wrote:Dang. Really puts it in perspective, seeing it all together. Great year, gobert! I would have to say the VP Terminators and Germanus are my favorites. Here's to more minis and more paint in 2025!
Yeah, it was great fun putting it together and seeing all of the bits I’ve done. I really need to do some more Panther Terminators this year
The Red Hobbit wrote:Wow! Congratulations on all that output this year!
Thanks, it’s been nice and productive for sure
Tommygun1918 wrote:Gobert, stop making us look bad.
Ha! Sorry, not sorry! Thought the numbers look better thanks to the Harbinger having lots of similar and small pieces
Olthannon wrote:Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Gobert!
Love the post with all your updates you've had a fantastic year of painting. Those Blood Angels look very cool, looks like 2025 will be a blast for you.
Thanks Olthannon, there were lots of fun projects for sure! The Blood Angels terminators are certainly turning in to a fun project too
Well, 2 days in to 2025 I have 2 completed minis! The Traitor Chieftains are to give me a few more options including the optimal Power Sword chieftain. The Bolter chieftain is a little less optimal but might be handy to have someone to dish out damage at range since all of the other options are limited to 6 inches
Nothing special on these guys painting wise but I think the banner came out nice with mixing some pink in to the purple for the highlights. I do have one important question, Black or White background
I also did a bit more on the Space Hulk Terminators, getting pretty much all of their base colours blocked in, which took a long time as I kept missing purity seals as these guys are basically Angry Marines!
I think I got all of the seals now . I’ve got a few more base colours to go and then I’ll do some highlights before they get their grime on.
And being the sensible chap that I am I started another project! As signposted previously I got in to the Volkus terrain. Nothing fancy yet, just a base coat of Space Wolves Grey contrast on the outside and Rakarth Flesh on the inside. The former didn’t last very long and ended up being really dark. I’m much happier with the Fang mixed with Gravelord Grey Speed Paint and a bunch of thinner that I used on the Barricade walls from Brutal & Cunning.
I’ll get the sponge out next and get some nice textures on the walls.
Your stuff is looking amazing. The purple on your Void Panthers really pops, and I love the bases on the Blooded Kill team as well. Mixing the new cadian kit with the remaining pieces from the Blooded Sprue and a few mechanicus bits really brings the rag tag set up together. Add in a few GSC pieces and you can kitbash to your heart's content!
muette wrote:The traitors look fantastic. Good luck with the terrain!
Thanks muette, speed paints ftw! The terrain might be a slog, but I’m excited by the scheme, so hopefully not!
Olthannon wrote:Love the traitors, particularly their frilly pantaloons.
Gotta love some fancy pants!
blockade23 wrote:Your stuff is looking amazing. The purple on your Void Panthers really pops, and I love the bases on the Blooded Kill team as well. Mixing the new cadian kit with the remaining pieces from the Blooded Sprue and a few mechanicus bits really brings the rag tag set up together. Add in a few GSC pieces and you can kitbash to your heart's content!
Thanks Blockage, purple seems to be my favourite colour . I’ve not got any GSC bits but I just won a low ball on a Death Guard army that included a few Chaos Renegades, so they’ll get thrown in the mix on the next batch. Maybe I should look in to GSC if Foilrak is right and the store anniversary Genestealer is a precursor to a new Space Hulk edition
Automatically Appended Next Post: Another Glorious Day on Christmas Leave, and another project on the go. Though this is likely to be a quick one. A guy approached me on Instagram a few weeks back asking i would sell him my Blue Xenomorphs that i painted at the end of 2023. I wanted to keep them so offered to paint him a set on commission, and to my surprise he said yes and posted me a box of Aliens! With being away with work and Christmas commitments it took a while to get going but they’re now built and primed so I got started. I found a few other Aliens to test the scheme which he wanted modifying to be all blue, and honestly I think it looks better than what I did the first time around
And here are the test minis that I did
And as I had a few others I decided to paint them up too
They look pretty cool in grey, but I might give them a wash/filter before they get a gloss coat.
Morning all! 2025 has gotten off to a great start as I have finished the Xenomorphs. The Blue guys turned out surprisingly well and I think I prefer them to the old ones that were a bit more OSL like.
Another tweak was the silver/blue base rims, I’m not so sure on those, but the customer wanted it so that’s what I did.
Shortly after those, the 4 test aliens were finished
These guys were a bit of a mish-mash, some having Nuln oil wash, I think one might even have been half and half! Still they’re done, but this time with a black rim including the top of the rim which is a step up from the rest as I left their rim tops Boltgun metal. I might have to fix that
The grey/black guys from last time are also now finished. The heavy Nuln Oil wash really helped them a lot and they’re definitely my favourite aliens now.
I used a bit of the old citadel space wolves grey to do the final highlight and it gave a bit of a blue tint to their skin that I like. One thing I did do for them all was that they got a coat of varnish through the airbrush. One thing I need to watch out for in the future though is that the Ardcoat seems to develop a skin when left in the cup. I might have to pick up some alternative as I’m planning oil washes in the not too distant future.
Keeping the hobby ADHD going, I also flitted back to the Volkus terrain. I had hoped to get it down by this Sunday, but that ain’t happening. I have however made good progress on the outside walls. I set of sponging them but I needed such a small sponge I was taking ages, so i switched to stippling.
After the first layer there is still quite a difference between the Brutal & Cunning set that got a layer paint base colour and the Volkus stuff that got Contrast. By the 3rd layer though the difference was minimal
It’s still there but much reduced. I’ll do the inside next. Stippling with Rakarth Flesh then Pallid Wych Flesh to get a texture before adding some white to the wych flesh for a dry brush to bring out the details. I’ll get the underside of the floors out to do the same. Then it’ll be about a million years of picking out metallics!
Tomorrow I have a Kill Team tournament at the new game store that opened recently about 1 mile from my house. It’s going to be hectic as each game is timed to be 1:45 and with the blooded being such a numerous team they take ages. Had a practice game on Thursday where I tried to maximise the various buffs and I did quite well. I just need to not be massively gung ho or leave people out in the open. Even the ogryn can’t handle that! Oh and I just remembered that I need to splatter blood on the Melta dude as he melted a couple of Night Lords!
Thanks mate, finishing each game and not getting tabled is my main objective!
youwashock wrote:Game over, man!
The xenos turned out great, and fast, too. Terrain is coming along nicely. Hope the games go well!
Let’s build a campfire, sing a few songs. With all those Xenos, it’s probably the best bet as they’re facing quite an uphill struggle! I’m really enjoying the terrain so far, hopefully that continues with the metallics
I managed to sneak in a couple of hours of painting this afternoon between family time and chores. Got the inside all stippled and dry brushed
It’s a bit more subtle than the outside Space Wolves Grey-ish colours
As you can see, but I guess the base colour was a lot lighter. I’m excited to see how the oil wash is going to look.
I even got the airbrush out and threw a dirty red brown (saddle brown from Vallejo) down in random ish areas to give some more variety.
I kinda wish that I’d done all of the steel work first as it looks like a good rust starting point. Never mind, I might add some more when Ive done the steels. I’m tempted to add another colour, but I might have gone a bit strong on the brown. Will definitely do steels next. Wish me luck!
Loving the finish on the outside of those structures! To me eye its looking like exactly the right amount of contrast between the tones. These are going to look neat.
tauist wrote:Loving the finish on the outside of those structures! To me eye its looking like exactly the right amount of contrast between the tones. These are going to look neat.
Thanks tauist, I loved it as well, sadly the oil wash obliterated all of the hard work! It looks good in a different way now though!
Olthannon wrote:Great stuff Gobert, love that blue on the xenos.
Thanks Olthannon, they came out better than I was expecting, just hope they make it to their destination as Royal Mail are showing it’s still at the local sorting office
Well it’s been a busy couple of weeks or so of hobby. The tournament was a bit of a bust, W0,D1,L3. First game was against my usual opponent(@coleface40k), but I let his Nemesis Claw in too close and got absolutely smashed. Next game was against Kommandos where things went much better, but I still lost thanks to that surveillance grot whizzing about the board. That was probably the most fun game of the lot, plenty going on and it wasn’t over before it started. Next was the wooden spoon fight against a fellow Blooded player, that ended in a draw which I felt I should’ve won, but kept forgetting my buffs and Blooded tokens. Game 4 was against Legionaries, and a player that knew his team inside and out. Unsurprisingly that turned out to be a real flop and I got tabled. There were a few highlights and I got a few clarifications on rules that should help me in the futures. I think it’s fair to say that the Elite teams really have an advantage with their 3APL and the Astartea shoot/fight twice ability makes things really tough. I’ve bought a sheet of the legit Blooded tokens so I should have a fighting chance of remembering buffs a little more. The last player I played also laid out all of his cards and used tokens to help him remember what was what, so I should try that next time as well. Saying that we have a few new players this week at our little work club so we’ll probably be playing a paired down rule set again.
On the hobby desk has been the Volkus terrain. I’ve been loosely following an Vince V terrain Hobby Cheating video so against my judgement I decided to do the oil wash before blocking in all of the steel and other colours. I think that was a mistake in hindsight but I’m committed now. The oil wash itself went pretty smooothly, though some bits just didn’t want to rub off, perhaps I waited too long (only about an hour) before sponging them down.
Overall it looks very grim dark, but as noted above I have lost most of the texture. The red-brown I airbrushed though gives a nice variation in tone and I think I like the inside colour even more than the outside now.
Post the messy oil wash I battled the stink and slapped on some Dark Gunmetal on most of the bracing similar to the Kill Team Barricades I did last year. I also made a start on a few bits that will be Boltgun metal like fallen bits of floor and the tanks.
They’re looking pretty good now and I’m looking forward to rusting them up. I quite fancy doing a resin pour in the open tank and want something funny to put inside, but as I’m thinking of adding some moss on the walls it might be fun to put a small tree in there (any good recommendations?)
I’ve also been distracted by my new Death Guard project. Not sure if I already mentioned but I won a low bid on a small Death Guard army over Christmas, giving me the Combat Patrol plus a few terminators, characters and some vehicles. I think it gets me close to 2000 points though with a new codex coming I might need a few more bits. Handily I quite fancy a Great Unclean One and some Plague Bearers so it might work out ok. In any case, I got a butt load more Poxwalkers, 26 I think but they were all duplicates, so I repeated my earlier project of chopping them up and rebuilding. I went even more extreme this time and barely a limb was left attached. In fact some were just a torso at one point, getting new legs, arms and heads. I’ve nearly finished them so thought I’d share a pic of the rag tag bunch
I don’t think I’ve ever had so much fun with a hobby knife before… but that could be down to the copious amounts of sprue goo and poly cement I inhaled! either way, great fun and gave lots of variety from 10-15 models. I think I’ll probably magnetise my Blackstone Fortress walkers so they can join in with the larger force. The Death Guard will probably share top priority with the Void Panthers over the coming year. The question is whether I change the scheme to be different to the BSF Death Guard or not. Here’s a small reminder of what they looked like
) with gold stripe like my Sternguard/Company Veterans had. It worked on them and similar with the crimson fist terminators I did ages ago
then it was on with blocking in the purple bits: shoulder pads and helmets
). I’m kinda regretting not ordering a Deathwing plasma cannon, but I might convert the Assaul Cannon for these guys in to one… I have about 6 regular ones left after all!
) for disrupting the paint queue system!
I like the silver idea so might do some scratches/scuffs and probably a few bits of primer showing through
. I was so pumped to get started on them that I’ve built the Blooded and Gellerpox Infected. The Blooded came with twins of the Blackstone Fortress Traitor Commissar and Ogryn, so I dug around in my bits box and kitbashed them both
which of course is all part of the plan to make the last survivors even stronger 
). I’ll have to come up with some kit bashes for the duplicate Plague Marines and Poxwalkers I’ll now have.
