Ha, i enjoyed the backstory, and the corporate skull ladder. Just can't trust that khorne

Great pair of Ogroids, the red ties them together too. Good stuff!

Viterbi,

Nicely done on the Ogroids.

Cheers,

CB

youwashock wrote:Solid pair of minis, man. The varying techniques are cool to see. I was sure I liked Red more before, but now I am uncertain.

Thanks youwashock! I gotta admit I like Red more, because his sculpt is in my eye superior. Blue is meant to be seen from the side, but Red is good from every angle.

IGtR= wrote:The duo look great together. I really like that you have gone for two different schemes, and have made each version work. I can get very bored of models that look the same, especially where a (magical) creature is involved. I think AoS is a really good opportunity to do something like this, as there are no blocks of 1000 goblins, and you have done a great job

Thanks IGtR=! Luckily with two models this big and enough time on vacation painting them was no chore, but I get the feeling bored painting the same models. I have 7 of the 10 Mortek Guard done, but will now switch to Kharadron Overlords because the motivation with the skellies wanes.

inmygravenimage wrote:I like your take on this very much. Whilst AoS can be a bit swarmy I think you're approaching it in absolutely the right way. Interesting, characterful models.

Thanks Graven! Luckily AoS mena WarCry for the foreseeable future, so I only have to paint up to 20 models max per faction, it's very manageable esp. with such bigger monsters strewn in.

amazingturtles wrote:Ha, i enjoyed the backstory, and the corporate skull ladder. Just can't trust that khorne

Thanks amazingturtles! It was fun imagining that brute trying to further his power via politics, but he belongs on the plains of the Eightpoints.

gobert wrote:Great pair of Ogroids, the red ties them together too. Good stuff!

Thanks gobert!

Captain Brown wrote:Viterbi,

Nicely done on the Ogroids.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown!

Working on the last two bigger buildings from the WarCry core set atm, sprayed them Stormvermin Fur, washed the first with Nuln Oil and will probably drybrush with Zandri Dust. And finished some details on the smaller terrain pieces, such as painting some metal and skulls.

But I'm really excited for this "terrain piece", the Playmobil Roman Arena. Saw this some time ago in the Toys thread and was delighted to find it on the German Playmobil site for just 20€ incl. shipping. But after putting it in the cart, the normal price of 50€ showed, despite the product page stating the discount. Tried with several browsers and after that didn't work either so wrote a friendly mail to costumer service, if it's a bug. But later that day it showed the normal price on the product page too, so I thought this would be it. So I was really delighted when a few days later I got a reply saying they would make a one time exception and sent me the set for 20€
Unfortunately the channel that converted the arena hasn't put up how they did it (they wanted to show their WIP pictures) so I bought some white primer and green spray color and just gonna try them out and see what happens. Although the two cans may not be enough, I didn't realize how massive that arena is, Ogroid and human fighters for scale reference.

That arena looks really cool and is surprisingly huge! Will the playmobil people statues be replaced with something or leave them for a bit of humour?

I knew it was big, but not that big.

Ooh, can't wait to see what you do with that coliseum! What a great idea for a centerpiece terrain feature. It could host an entire match of Warcry - fill it with terrain pieces and dangerous beasts and see how long you can last!

gobert wrote:That arena looks really cool and is surprisingly huge! Will the playmobil people statues be replaced with something or leave them for a bit of humour?

For now the stadium will remain as is, but I plan on changing the statues. They look not bad enough to be funny and not good enough to remain on their plinth I'm eyeing some from Ziterdes, but my go to online shop Fantasywelt is out of stock so I will have to wait. And a friend has already said he will look into his bitz box for any shield, banner etc. so we can spruce the place up. Gonna dive into my box later too.

monkeytroll wrote:I knew it was big, but not that big.

Must... try... to... resist... can't... That's what she said! Ok, now that is done and yeah, I was surprised myself. I started building it on the kitchen table and couldn't finish it there, because it is that huge.

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Ooh, can't wait to see what you do with that coliseum! What a great idea for a centerpiece terrain feature. It could host an entire match of Warcry - fill it with terrain pieces and dangerous beasts and see how long you can last!

Gonna keep it as simple as possible, so heavy drybrush. Problem is paint, I need to get some more, wanted to use Zandri Dust and I have only one opened pot, that won't do And there are actually some rules called Arena of Blood in an old White Dwarf, but we will sure as hell write some own scenarios.

Started on the arena, used the whole rattle can of primer and immediately went out and bought two more cans and some more color Hope it dried well, will check on it later in the garage.

And had my second game of WarCry, remote over skype. I play with three friends and we opened a group chat and I won on razor's edge against my opponent. The other two gave... constructive comments during the game It was fun and not as weird as I had expected. But next time I will use two cameras, phone overhead like this time and iPad for closeup shots.

Good idea with the remote gaming, must be wierd for your mates not moving the minis and not rolling the dice The board looks fantastic all terrained up! It’ll look even better inside the massive arena

That's seriously exciting. Have you tried Arena Rex? That would be fun. Mind you, you could also do a great Trek style alien arena

gobert wrote:Good idea with the remote gaming, must be wierd for your mates not moving the minis and not rolling the dice The board looks fantastic all terrained up! It’ll look even better inside the massive arena

Went better than expected. Although I only rolled the initiative dice, my opponent rolled with a computer program and sometimes sent screenshots, for example when he needed at least one six on two dice to kill my model and managed two sixes

inmygravenimage wrote:That's seriously exciting. Have you tried Arena Rex? That would be fun. Mind you, you could also do a great Trek style alien arena

Hadn't heard before of that game, but will look into it. Found some stuff online to use on the arena, hope it arrives next week.

And I'm gonna finish the last WarCry terrain from the starter today. The shade is drying and so I did the blood effect on the rest of the terrain. The options were subtle or over the top gory. As you can see, I totally went for subtle

I'm glad you're finding a good and safe way to get some gaming in. It's also great that you are already thinking of ways to improve the experience.

Nice subtle blood stains there Viterbi!

Man, your warcry stuff looks good. Nice work managing to get in a game too. I like that board - the terrain looks like it would impact the game a lot without being super claustrophobic.

Moar blood! The colossal colosseum is impressive. Lots of potential.

Great stuff Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

Clever on the remote gaming! A friend and I are going to give the Warcry simulator and Tabletop a try. See how it handles.

I got kind of giddy seeing that coliseum half-sprayed. It's just... it's just so big! Think of all the possibilities!

Would never have guessed that Playmobil would be a source of potentially awesome wargaming terrain, you live and learn.

I pity the poor villager that has to clean up all that Warcry terrain!

Syro_ wrote:I'm glad you're finding a good and safe way to get some gaming in. It's also great that you are already thinking of ways to improve the experience.

Hi Syo_, one of my friends suggested it and it's been nice being able to use the freshly painted models.

gobert wrote:Nice subtle blood stains there Viterbi!

kestral wrote:Man, your warcry stuff looks good. Nice work managing to get in a game too. I like that board - the terrain looks like it would impact the game a lot without being super claustrophobic.

Thanks kestral! Yes, the terrain can influence the game with maneuvering, because for example the Ogroids can't walk through doors (there's one in every big building), only archways and jumping of a building can cause fall damage, if you don't get your superhero landing right

youwashock wrote:Moar blood! The colossal colosseum is impressive. Lots of potential.

Blood for the Blood God is the only technical GW color I couldn't live without

Captain Brown wrote:Great stuff Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Clever on the remote gaming! A friend and I are going to give the Warcry simulator and Tabletop a try. See how it handles.

I got kind of giddy seeing that coliseum half-sprayed. It's just... it's just so big! Think of all the possibilities!

Good look on playing via simulator, would be nice to hear, how it worked.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:Would never have guessed that Playmobil would be a source of potentially awesome wargaming terrain, you live and learn.

I pity the poor villager that has to clean up all that Warcry terrain!

I imagine Johann having to clean all this stuff with Brightheart and Nihilus watching

And as you all say, that arena is massive, I already went through two and a half cans of primer and two cans of green color. Later I will apply the last green and then varnish that base color, before starting on drybrushing the thing. Paints arrived this morning, so I can hopefully get this thing roughly ready until next weekend. The bigger task will be to spruce it up, as it is very plain atm. Mostly with banners and shields, but the stands are the biggest task, they are so bland. Saw some people lay miniature wood planks over it, that could be a way. Will look into some stuff.

Last but not least painted a Kharadron Overlord in a new color scheme (already have two schemes, one of my own with some minis painted and one of most of my existign army, which I bought off ebay and rebased for unity). For WarCry I'm attempting a third scheme and am quite happy with it. Only problem was the base rim, The Fang didn't really work, so I settled on black (I did another coat since the last pic ). Which means I have to repaint all the base rims of roughly 2.000 points of dwarves

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh that's lovely.

Thanks Graven! And Phase 1 was finished today and the arena made its way from the garage to the cellar. Unfortunately I hadn't realize at some side parts, that they would be visible. Luckily most of it was a casualty of the spraying, so once the drybrush is on it shouldn't matter. Supplies arrived today, Phase 2 is ready to commence!

I’ve considered getting that colosseum just to get into Arena Rex. Gomez really does a great job selling that game with his painting skills.

Love the look of that K.O.

Dwarves (or whatever they are called in AoS) look great. What is the paint recipe (and apologies if I have missed it above). The metallic armour looks truly fab and is remarkably smooth. Is it one paint or a mix, as the consistency is brilliant?

Nice Dwarf, armour is lovely.

Theophony wrote:I’ve considered getting that colosseum just to get into Arena Rex. Gomez really does a great job selling that game with his painting skills.

Love the look of that K.O.

Thanks Theo! Quite happy with the scheme myself, luckily if the bases are identically it doesn't matter if the KO look different because of their mercenar... eh, mercantile nature

IGtR= wrote:Dwarves (or whatever they are called in AoS) look great. What is the paint recipe (and apologies if I have missed it above). The metallic armour looks truly fab and is remarkably smooth. Is it one paint or a mix, as the consistency is brilliant?

Thanks IGtR=! The metallic parts are super simple, it's just a coat of Leadbelcher and then contrast paint Terradon Turquoise over it with one layer. Cloth is Nagaroth Night with some Highlights in Genestealer Purple.


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 monkeytroll wrote:
Nice Dwarf, armour is lovely.

Thanks monkeytroll!

Great color choices on the mecha-dwarf.

Great work on the Ogroids, the red one especially!

The overlord looks stylin' and the arena is looking... huge

Wow, I don't check this blog in a week or two and there are three new pages of content to catch up on! You have been busy. The arena looks surprisingly good right out of the box. A few small conversions and it will be perfect. I need to look for that for my kids, and then wait a few years until they outgrow it and then re-purpose it into terrain! They would love it since they made me build them a giant Pokemon fighting arena out of Duplos. That is a cool find, thanks for the inspiration.

Really good progress on the painting, too. So much good stuff.

Thanks for sharing the story on the remote game. I haven't tried that yet. I like the idea of doing multiple cameras, especially with an app that lets you see multiple views at once or switch to a full screen view of one, as the situation dictates. I guess it would work, as long as the remote player could communicate the moves to the player with the models... and trust him to measure everything accurately!

Your Arena is already looking Mega Viterbi. The metal bar gates and other gubbins will help sell it as a Warhammer piece. That and copious amounts of blood for the blood god!

youwashock wrote:Great color choices on the mecha-dwarf.

Thanks youwashock! Can't go wrong with purple and turquoise

mcmattila wrote:Great work on the Ogroids, the red one especially!

Thanks mcattila! I also love the red one, such a great sculpt.

amazingturtles wrote:The overlord looks stylin' and the arena is looking... huge

Thanks amazingturtles! It is the hugest arena evah!

The Riddle of Steel wrote:Wow, I don't check this blog in a week or two and there are three new pages of content to catch up on! You have been busy. The arena looks surprisingly good right out of the box. A few small conversions and it will be perfect. I need to look for that for my kids, and then wait a few years until they outgrow it and then re-purpose it into terrain! They would love it since they made me build them a giant Pokemon fighting arena out of Duplos. That is a cool find, thanks for the inspiration.

Really good progress on the painting, too. So much good stuff.

Thanks for sharing the story on the remote game. I haven't tried that yet. I like the idea of doing multiple cameras, especially with an app that lets you see multiple views at once or switch to a full screen view of one, as the situation dictates. I guess it would work, as long as the remote player could communicate the moves to the player with the models... and trust him to measure everything accurately!

Thanks The Riddle of Steel! It shows, that I had two weeks off work and the kids didn't need supervision most of the time It will probably get slower after starting to work again tomorrow. Pokemon Arena out of Duplo is great, I had to build a racetrack last year when some cars from... well Cars entered play in this house.

You need the trust with measuring, but we know each other for nigh on twenty years, so that's not a problem. My friend rolled the dice via an app and just told me what they eyes were and I believed it too.

gobert wrote:Your Arena is already looking Mega Viterbi. The metal bar gates and other gubbins will help sell it as a Warhammer piece. That and copious amounts of blood for the blood god!

Thanks gobert! And yeah, there will be a lot of blood

Update on the arena, Phase 2 is finished, drybrushed the whole thing and did some color accents beforehand. And the drybrushing is a little rough in places, my wife pointed that out right away Phase 3 will be painting the wall decoration and glueing it on. Phase 4 will be finding spikes and statues (those knights have no real backside so can't be used on the plinths) and then it is finished.

Oh yeah, you gotta have spikes, it's the rules!

Viterbi,

Fantastic arena.

Cheers,

CB

Spikes and chains. What's an arena without spikes and chains?

The knights could go back to back to make a plinth?

That's a very snazzy Dwarf with his green armour.

amazingturtles wrote:Oh yeah, you gotta have spikes, it's the rules!

As a fierce loyalist when it comes to armies I unfortunately don't have any spikes in my bitz box, I hope my friend comes through. Because you are right, an Arena of Doom without spikes is just a sad amphitheatre.

Captain Brown wrote:Viterbi,

Fantastic arena.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown!

monkeytroll wrote:Spikes and chains. What's an arena without spikes and chains?

The knights could go back to back to make a plinth?

First question see reply to amazingturtles

The knights are sidelined for now, I had another idea what to do with the plinths, hope I can show something there next week.

aku-chan wrote:That's a very snazzy Dwarf with his green armour.

Thanks aku-chan!

And some WIP shots, did the dryfitting on the arena decorations, so I don't paint too much Decoration inside the ring is mirrored on the other side. And started the tedious task of blocking in colors on more dwarves and Leena Stormspire who will be used as a Knight-Questor in WarCry and accompany my dwarves. Luckily the thunderers are almost all armour so once I blocked in cloth and leather the rest is nearly all turquoise and gold details.

I love some neat and tidy blocking in. It's tedious as can be but it's one of those jobs that's always worth taking time over.

Kabab sticks and tooth picks can make for some appropriate spikes on something this big. Add some impaled heads and skeletons and you're good.

Yep, plenty of options for spikes. Even on loyalist sprues there'll be knives, swords, spears, bayonets, horns and other spiky bits - plus there's the sprue itself, always good for carving some basic spikes. Cocktail sticks, pen lids, screws, nails, all sorts of spiky things around

I was going to say uf you've got any extra blades from the overlords they might make for some nice spikes!

Ring of Doom is coming out great. Love the weathering. Excited to see the Stormcast gal painted.

Looking good Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

Wow, that arena is massive. Good start, look forward to seeing it finished and some in game shots

I second kebab sticks or toothpicks if you can't get your hands on any plastic spikes - cheap, quick and easy!

Looking great so far, really lovely piece - can't wait to see it all come together.

The Arena is looking great with its embellishments dry fitted. Will they all be painted up to match your warbands?

The dwarves look nice and shiny, they’re growing on me as models

The arena is a fantastic build- terrific attention to detail and great color selection and application! For spikes: perhaps cocktail skewers? They're really just plastic toothpicks, but some come with a spearhead shape on the end.

Stay focused! Have fun!

inmygravenimage wrote:I love some neat and tidy blocking in. It's tedious as can be but it's one of those jobs that's always worth taking time over.

I love that you think I would block the colors neat and tidy But sometimes I give it my best (and somewhere retired SAS agent John Mason groans).

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Kabab sticks and tooth picks can make for some appropriate spikes on something this big. Add some impaled heads and skeletons and you're good.

monkeytroll wrote:Yep, plenty of options for spikes. Even on loyalist sprues there'll be knives, swords, spears, bayonets, horns and other spiky bits - plus there's the sprue itself, always good for carving some basic spikes. Cocktail sticks, pen lids, screws, nails, all sorts of spiky things around

amazingturtles wrote:I was going to say uf you've got any extra blades from the overlords they might make for some nice spikes!

Thanks for the ideas! Found some wooden picks, but they were very thin. And other household items with spike potential elude me, but I'm a little stupid and your ideas with using weapons made me realize, that I have sprues of ogre bits that are still on sprue and they are most definitely spikey! Add to that some Bonereaper spear tips I had forgotten I have left over and we are go!

youwashock wrote:Ring of Doom is coming out great. Love the weathering. Excited to see the Stormcast gal painted.

Thanks youwashock and am excited for the Stormcast too. Didn't like her original bare head, but the evocator head works well. Plan is turquoise armour and try some silver edge highlights on it.

Captain Brown wrote:Looking good Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown!

Maharg wrote:Wow, that arena is massive. Good start, look forward to seeing it finished and some in game shots

Thanks Maharg! Game shots will have to wait a bit, but I'm still optimistic that it will be used in a face-to-face game in May. Hope dies last

tzurk wrote:I second kebab sticks or toothpicks if you can't get your hands on any plastic spikes - cheap, quick and easy!

Looking great so far, really lovely piece - can't wait to see it all come together.

Thanks tzurk! And regarding your tip, see above

gobert wrote:The Arena is looking great with its embellishments dry fitted. Will they all be painted up to match your warbands?

The dwarves look nice and shiny, they’re growing on me as models

Thanks gobert! Bonereaper shields will be painted the way they are on the warband, most of the other's don't nessecarily have a warband, only stormcast atm. Will try colors that complement the arena, so most likely purple/red or some such.
I loved the KO from the first time I saw them and can't wait to do battle with them again, I painted a few models back then. I used them some time ago in a AoS skirmish campaign mixed with ebay-bought and already painted Seraphon (which I sold) and some ebay-bought and already painted Fyreslayers (which I also sold). They fared well until the last moment of the last battle... then they lost and all died. Picture of those band of ragtag heroes under this post. May they rest in peace!

Meer_Cat wrote:The arena is a fantastic build- terrific attention to detail and great color selection and application! For spikes: perhaps cocktail skewers? They're really just plastic toothpicks, but some come with a spearhead shape on the end.

Stay focused! Have fun!

Thanks Meer_Cat! Regarding cocktail skewers, see above

Thanks for all the kind words and glad you like the arena so far. Can't wait to game in it, even if it may still take a while with this lockdown. And I'm realizing I'm not on vacation anymore, painting has gotten a lot slower Gonna try to find some time this evening to do the armour on the 5 heavy dwarves and the stormcast.

And a throwback picture, my old skirmish warband, who lost the last mission of a campaign in October 2017. KO painted by me, the rest bought painted on ebay.

Snazzy, and great background too! I know what you mean about trying to find random stuff. I was just thinking I needed a few coffee stirrers for a project...

Thanks Graven, they are beyond the stars now And yeah, you have stuff lying around for years, then throw it away, because you know you never need it again and then a week later you're like, hey, I could use this for that built and now you curse yourself...

Made some progress yesterday, cleaned up the metal and did the turquoise on the armour. Need to correct some bits on the SCE one, because it pooled in places. Luckily that is a breeze with Contrast as opposed to washes.

Lovely colour, with a real alpha legion vibe.

Very nice turquoise color.

And of course I think about clearing out my piles this weekend and you all have to talk about missing things you throw away . Great, I’ll just let the hoard overtake me .

That is a lovely shade.

Theo, I'm pretty sure these days you can get creams that work better than trying to clean them out...

That armour is lovely, shame you got rid of your old overlords, but you get to put your own stamp on them now.

Oh I do love that metallic alpha legion colour. I am amazed it is so simple. Arena is looking very good too!

inmygravenimage wrote:Lovely colour, with a real alpha legion vibe.

Thanks Graven, I just love that kind of metallic armor and use every excuse to paint it That's now Space Marines (albeit with a wash), Sisters of Battle, Kharadron Overlords and this SCE hero.

Theophony wrote:Very nice turquoise color.

And of course I think about clearing out my piles this weekend and you all have to talk about missing things you throw away . Great, I’ll just let the hoard overtake me .

Thanks Theo and sorry I'm always torn between keeping and throwing away, but throwing away can not only clean up rooms, but the also the soul

monkeytroll wrote:That is a lovely shade.

Theo, I'm pretty sure these days you can get creams that work better than trying to clean them out...

Thanks monkeytroll!

gobert wrote:That armour is lovely, shame you got rid of your old overlords, but you get to put your own stamp on them now.

Thanks gobert and I probably miswrote (is that a word?). I only sold the Seraphon and Fyreslayers I bought painted. With the KO I have three units, one airship and two heroes I painted myself and the other 2/3 I bought painted on ebay and just rebased them to fit the rest of my army. I have no qualms mixing the purple, blue and now Alpha Legion KO, because skyports may band together for a bigger expedition.

IGtR= wrote:Oh I do love that metallic alpha legion colour. I am amazed it is so simple. Arena is looking very good too!

Thanks IGtR=!

Finished the 5 Grundstok Thunderers for the challenge yesterday. Would like to slap 2017-me for not doing subassemblies, wasn't nice trying to reach some spots. 3-Foot-Rule definitely applies for these guys, luckily the armour draws the eyes away from some sloppy details and mispainted stuff Gonna "cheat" a little for the comp and throw my red Ogroid into the ring as well as an adversary to those dwarves.

Next up are gonna be the 8 Cypher Lord models, gonna finish one as a color scheme test and then hopefully get through the rest until Saturday, gonna have the next remote game. My wife will be happy about this, because against her better judgement and interests she agreed to play a game this weekend It's not her cup of tea, but was nice to have the opponent sitting in front of me

Thunderers turned out very nice, can't wait to see what you do with the Cypher Lords!

I’m honestly glad that it’s not just me that has a thing for the metallic turquoise armour lol.
Since picking that up I’ve made every excuse possible to use it.

While all contrasts go well on metallic, something about that one just stands out from the rest.

The weapons on the steam dwarves are so over the top. I love it. They turned out good.

They look lovely! And I hope that the game with your wife is fun, personally i've found games with family to be my favorite kind of game

Really like the Grundstok Thunderers Viterbi.

Good luck in the challenge.

Cheers,

CB

Can’t wait to see your cypher lords, I haven’t seen any to really draw me to their style. I think it’s the silly hats.

The turquoise armor is still really attractive.

Have fun with playing the wife. Mine flat out refuses to play my silly games , and it’s rubbed off on the kids.

Looking good. Even zooming in the Kharadron Overlords look pretty good (obviously great from 3 feet). Interested to see where the Cypher Lords go too.

MegaDave wrote:Thunderers turned out very nice, can't wait to see what you do with the Cypher Lords!

Thanks MegaDave!

Jackal90 wrote:I’m honestly glad that it’s not just me that has a thing for the metallic turquoise armour lol.
Since picking that up I’ve made every excuse possible to use it.

While all contrasts go well on metallic, something about that one just stands out from the rest.

Gotta agree with you, it's the bee's knees. I tried several contrast paints over metal, there is one unlucky Deathwatch veteran who has multicolored armour

youwashock wrote:The weapons on the steam dwarves are so over the top. I love it. They turned out good.

Thanks youwashock! The name's of the weapons fit their aesthetic, I believe the one with the many barrels is called Decksweeper.

amazingturtles wrote:They look lovely! And I hope that the game with your wife is fun, personally i've found games with family to be my favorite kind of game

Thanks amazingturtles! The game was fun, but she made it very clear, that it was also the last game. But she hinted at being open to a game of Risk, but that's the extent of strategic planning she is willing to do in a (board) game

Captain Brown wrote:Really like the Grundstok Thunderers Viterbi.

Good luck in the challenge.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown!

Theophony wrote:Can’t wait to see your cypher lords, I haven’t seen any to really draw me to their style. I think it’s the silly hats.

The turquoise armor is still really attractive.

Have fun with playing the wife. Mine flat out refuses to play my silly games , and it’s rubbed off on the kids.

Thanks Theo! And re: playing games with wife see answer to amazingturtles But my boys (3 and 5) love all the models I paint so I will try some games with the eldest maybe next year.
The Cypher Lord hats actually grew on me and know it would look weird for me, if they were missing.

Arakasi wrote:Looking good. Even zooming in the Kharadron Overlords look pretty good (obviously great from 3 feet). Interested to see where the Cypher Lords go too.

Thanks Arakasi! I'm probably more critical of the painting, because I know what I might be able to do with more patience and cleanup, but as I mainly paint for playing 3 feet rule it is

And I had some spare time yesterday evening and finished the test model. Contrast is making paint this models really easy, applied it over all the metals (Leadbelcher) and only the cloth is painted with normal paint. Quite happy with the scheme, went for a little bit more subdued than the brighter studio scheme with more gold.

I'm liking the contrast skin, metals and... plume?

Cypher lady looks good. Still not sure how I feel about the models. There's a lot to like, but some elements...

Crazy a$$ model. Crazy good paintjob though.

Arakasi wrote:I'm liking the contrast skin, metals and... plume?

Thanks Arakasi! It may be a plume or just her fabulous hair But seeing as they all have these, it should be plumes.

youwashock wrote:Cypher lady looks good. Still not sure how I feel about the models. There's a lot to like, but some elements...

Thanks youwashock! The main thing I still dislike is the "earrings" on their helmets. Thought about snipping them off, but the way they are integrated in the head section made me stop this plan.

inmygravenimage wrote:Crazy a$$ model. Crazy good paintjob though.

Thanks Graven!

Trying to finish the next five models this evening, ground work is done and after them it's only the two leader models to finish the warband. Next up after the Cypher lords is finishing the arena, I now have all stuff together that I need: shields, spikey stuff and since yesterday throne, statues and bleeding skulls. Gonna try and prime everything this weekend and should have the arena play-ready by the end of April.

Ok, doing all five was a little ambitious, but after a 90-minute-session I got to this: Four nearly done, they need a second layer of color on the metals and drybrush on the base plus rim color. And went back to the test mini, because I realized the metal has some edges, so why not highlight them with some Stormhost Silver. Worked well, although I may have gone overboard on her sword, because I did some broad strokes on the green blade as well.

They are looking good Viterbi

Yep, they are coming together well! I do like that bold yellow for their hair hats (that's what they look like to me and that's what i'm sticking with)

Nice work on the skin too

Nice pace! The throne rules.

Cool additions to the ring Viterbi, the bleeding skulls fit those plinths almost perfectly! I think Hair Hats is probably the official term for their hats, right? The yellow hair looks great, but I’m not sure about the metallic green hair. Perhaps red would work for them? Maybe even bright green or blue too?

Syro_ wrote:They are looking good Viterbi

Thanks Syro_!

amazingturtles wrote:Yep, they are coming together well! I do like that bold yellow for their hair hats (that's what they look like to me and that's what i'm sticking with)

Nice work on the skin too

Thanks amazingturtles! Contrast all the way, good stuff for impatient painters like me

youwashock wrote:Nice pace! The throne rules.

Thanks youwashock! It's always good to have a game on the weekend, that helps with motivation.

gobert wrote:Cool additions to the ring Viterbi, the bleeding skulls fit those plinths almost perfectly! I think Hair Hats is probably the official term for their hats, right? The yellow hair looks great, but I’m not sure about the metallic green hair. Perhaps red would work for them? Maybe even bright green or blue too?

Thanks gobert! Was quite excited when I went through my favored online shop and found those additions. The skulls bloodstreams really fit nearly perfect in the opening, it's made to be. Gonna put some greenstuff in, because I don't want to pour to much Blood for the Blood God into it (it doesn't go to the bottom, but it still is a bigger hole). The models don't photograph all that well, because the hair is actually black contrast paint over Grey Seer In reality it looks grayish on the rises and black in the recesses. I wanted to differentiate the fighters, yellow for the cheap ones, black for the more accomplished assassins and purple (& black) for the leader and the right hand.

And here is the whole crew, ready for seeing remote play, a friend will play my Corvus Cabal. Happy with them, especially since I started Monday evening, but close up they are rough in places, tried to correct some stuff, but more because I painted them with the magnifying glass which is very unkind to my painting abilities
Photos don't really show the edge highlights with Stormhost Silver and I did the Gemstones a little subued in red and green over darkened Leadbelcher. I imagine that these specific Cypher Lords were cast out of their city, because their schemes failed and now they wander the Eightpoints, looking for a small dwelling where they can build up a honorable reputation again and get to power.

And I'm looking for a spectator to sit on the throne, but am at a loss. The briar queen seems to small, has anyone an idea where I can get a sitting miniature without too much converting? A fantasy Thanos would be a good one

There's got to be a seated Conan out there somewhere right? Hasslefree maybe?

And they're done. Great job!

Wonder if you could get your hands on a Sophet Drahas from Confrontation...

Cadwallon has him listed with a price, though also listed as "temporarily not available, but write us!", so...probably?

The skin might just be what eventually sells me on contrast paints!

i've been combing through my collection for an appropriately sized sitting person but no luck so far.

How about Epidemius ?
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Epidemus
Or the Craven King from Nighthaunts?

Actually, that just cudgeled my brain into an idea, Slaan are bad theme wise, but the old Cold One Riders for lizardmen used folded under legs that could probably work as "kneeling on a cushioned mat" Tatami style that you could then attach a demonic torso to, dunno if the new ones do though, or how available those would be.

monkeytroll wrote:There's got to be a seated Conan out there somewhere right? Hasslefree maybe?

Didn't know Hasslefree, their range is... interesting Although I don't want to explain to the kids, why the naked lady is lounging on the throne Thanks for the idea, but unlucky atm to find a sitting barbarian.

youwashock wrote:And they're done. Great job!

Wonder if you could get your hands on a Sophet Drahas from Confrontation...

Thanks, he looks interesting and like someone who would love to watch fighters slaughter each other all day. But the cheapest option I found was 50€, what would make him as expansive as the arena plus the material I ordered to get it painted

Vejut wrote:Cadwallon has him listed with a price, though also listed as "temporarily not available, but write us!", so...probably?

Thanks for the shop tip, but my word, before they sell stuff to people, they should build a better shop, that is one slow server :wow. Funnily enough it shows up as "in Stock" in the Google Search and then as unavailable on the website, so their Markups are bad too. Maybe I can do a little consulting on their shop and get gift vouchers

amazingturtles wrote:The skin might just be what eventually sells me on contrast paints!

i've been combing through my collection for an appropriately sized sitting person but no luck so far.

Skin colors are very nice, but I'm still getting the hang of them, so they don't pool too much. What I found out with this lot is that a second layer smoothes things but the skin goes from Guilliman to always-sunbathed Cary Grant flesh

Thanks for having a look in your bit box!

inmygravenimage wrote:How about Epidemius ?
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Epidemus
Or the Craven King from Nighthaunts?

Vejut wrote:Actually, that just cudgeled my brain into an idea, Slaan are bad theme wise, but the old Cold One Riders for lizardmen used folded under legs that could probably work as "kneeling on a cushioned mat" Tatami style that you could then attach a demonic torso to, dunno if the new ones do though, or how available those would be.

Thanks Graven and Vejut, those look great too, but again we will probably venture into price ranges, where they are a bit too expensive for being an ornament.

And to all of you thanks for the quick replies and ideas, I really appreciate it!

And what I found out with a little more experimentation yesterday after posting is the perfect size for a throne occupant: 4 inches from head to toe (a Stanley Shunpike action figure would actually work standing before the throne, at least sizewise if not by theme). The throne itself is nearly 3 inches high, so built totally out of scale with normal models, even an ogre looked lost when I put it before the throne. I'm afraid that most of your ideas would also look lost on the throne lost like the briar queen :(

And I said (of course after I asked for your help ) that I don't want to spent too much on an ornament, but had another idea, which would cost even more, but also double as something playable in AoS. I started the Bonereapers Warband for WarCry but may do a whole army at some point. So of course I would buy Katakros, because he is an amazing model. He looks like he could be tall enough to stand before the throne (may ask ListenToMeWarriors if he can measure him for me). I would magnetize him so he could stand in the arena (floor under him is very thin so could put magnet under it and one on his base. But I think for now I will leave the throne unoccupied... or put a grot on it for comedic effect Again, thanks for your quick help!

And (good lord, I started every paragraph "and" ) I had the second remote WarCry game last night. Very fun and until the last activation the win was up for grabs. Mission was my friend as the defender placed six objectives (which stupidly I removed before taking the after battle pic) he put three near each other in the lower left quarter and three in the lower right quarter, where his one reserve reinforcement would arrive round two. Mine would arrive over the complete lower half.

So turn one was just me moving down with my fighters on the map, no fights.

Second round I was able to burn two objectives (had to hold them end of battle round) in the lower left corner with my arriving reinforcements. That meant that the objective which lay nearly in the middle of the heap was contested all of round 3 (which was the last according to the battleplan).

Round 3: All fighters had activated around the objective, some had died and it was 3-3 around that objective, so my friend would win, because I couldn't destroy it. In the lower right quarter there were still three objectives, one where my Luminate (she's the one with the purple hair and spear) is standing and two a little lower.
It was my turn to activate and my friend had one spear fighter left to activate, he sat on one of the objectives in the lower right quarter. I had two wild dice in the last round and made a quadruple out of a double which meant I had the ability to get a bonus move action and attack action while also gaining Fly for the duration of the ability. First I wanted to go to one of the unoccupied objectives, but that would have meant that my friend would just walk over and we would draw it, which meant I would lose.
So I flew the Luminate over to the last spearmen and with my 5 attacks managed to get two normal and one critical hit, which meant 9 damage to his 8 wounds and winning the game

Looking at the picture now I'm not sure what can be gained, when you weren't there Forgot to take pictures with the iPad while playing, maybe next time.

Love the weathering on the arena!

Great work on the arena. Have you tried it for a battle yet?

I like the shiny metallic aqua/teal armor. Very nice.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Love the weathering on the arena!

Thanks Kid_Kyoto! Luckily with terrain this size a heavy drybrush is all you need

The Riddle of Steel wrote:Great work on the arena. Have you tried it for a battle yet?

I like the shiny metallic aqua/teal armor. Very nice.

Thanks The Riddle of Steel! It is still WIP, working on the details of the arena, but it may see battle in May, fingers crossed.

Did the first decorations for the arena, but super glue doesn't hold and I don't want to rough up the paint, so I just used blue tac, should be permanent enough. Loved painting that skin banner

Looking great.

Wasn’t there a dark Eldar character that rode their hover sail ships who sat with the slave girls around him. That should fit the bill, maybe removing the sci fi theme if there’s any present.

Yeah, the skin banner came out great and a little gross, as it should!

That's Asdrubael Vect, Theo. And you are correct.

Decorations are looking good, Viterbi.

The arena is coming along well Viterbi, the decorations really help bring it in to the old world, I mean mortal realms.

Man, I blinked and I missed that whole arena project. That thing is massive? I kind of enjoy projects on that scale, where you have to commit and move fast, paint efficiently... That's a really bold color choice, and I love it!

Arena is looking good, those little details really bring it to life

Theophony wrote:Looking great.

Wasn’t there a dark Eldar character that rode their hover sail ships who sat with the slave girls around him. That should fit the bill, maybe removing the sci fi theme if there’s any present.

Thanks Theo! Googled him, with youwashocks name and it is (or better was, it seems oop) a cool model. But the slave girls would probably put me in the same pickle as a lot of the Hasslefree minis: My wife wouldn't mind, but I don't want to explain to the little ones what that woman is doing there

amazingturtles wrote:Yeah, the skin banner came out great and a little gross, as it should!

Thanks amazingturtles!

youwashock wrote:That's Asdrubael Vect, Theo. And you are correct.

Decorations are looking good, Viterbi.

Thanks youwashock!

gobert wrote:The arena is coming along well Viterbi, the decorations really help bring it in to the old world, I mean mortal realms.

Thanks gobert! Maybe that arena is standing between the worlds

MacPhail wrote:Man, I blinked and I missed that whole arena project. That thing is massive? I kind of enjoy projects on that scale, where you have to commit and move fast, paint efficiently... That's a really bold color choice, and I love it!

Thanks MacPhail! It was a very spontaneous buy after I saw the arena in the Toys with wargaming uses thread. Luckily with that size painting is pretty relaxing, you can't really botch it up

Maharg wrote:Arena is looking good, those little details really bring it to life

Thanks Maharg!

No progress to show, but painted a bit more of the decorations and will post the finished arena plus all the WarCry stuff from March and April in the next few days. After that will go back to my sisters army, they feel a little neglected after nearly two month of fantasy

 Theophony wrote:
Looking great.

Wasn’t there a dark Eldar character that rode their hover sail ships who sat with the slave girls around him. That should fit the bill, maybe removing the sci fi theme if there’s any present.

Vect's captives are long OOP, but Bronze Age has some alternatives

http://bronzeagemin.com/

If that's what you're looking for.

The arena looks great. Regarding your Katakros question from head (well the top of his helmet) to toe he measures in at just over 3 inches, pretty much band on 8cm/80mm. Hope that helps.

Oooh, I like that idea. The arena where square and round shall meet!

You've made some great progress on the arena! It looks fantastic. I love the trophies you've started to accrue. Great job on the Cypher Lords as well!

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 Theophony wrote:
Looking great.

Wasn’t there a dark Eldar character that rode their hover sail ships who sat with the slave girls around him. That should fit the bill, maybe removing the sci fi theme if there’s any present.

Vect's captives are long OOP, but Bronze Age has some alternatives

http://bronzeagemin.com/

If that's what you're looking for.

Thanks for the tip! At one point I may do spectators (although my foothill of embarrassment [I think I don't have enough stuff for pile of shame]) must get smaller before that

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:The arena looks great. Regarding your Katakros question from head (well the top of his helmet) to toe he measures in at just over 3 inches, pretty much band on 8cm/80mm. Hope that helps.

Thanks for the quick answer. That might be just the right size. I put the Formoroid Crusher in front of the throne, he is also 3 inches, but of course a little sturdier. Unfortunately my FLGS closes his doors and doesn't get new stuff in. So I may wait until Wayland is giving 20% again on GW stuff before ordering. Luckily throne alone doesn't look to bad. And I always have the option of standing Lego Hulk or Groot in front of it

gobert wrote:Oooh, I like that idea. The arena where square and round shall meet!

Additionally there will be two custodes shields be hanging on the walls once finished. The arena transcends all planes of reality!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:You've made some great progress on the arena! It looks fantastic. I love the trophies you've started to accrue. Great job on the Cypher Lords as well!

Thanks Don Qui Hotep!

 Viterbi wrote:


Did the first decorations for the arena, but super glue doesn't hold and I don't want to rough up the paint, so I just used blue tac, should be permanent enough. Loved painting that skin banner

Viterbi,

Use 5 minute two part epoxy and you will have a permeant hold...especially for the larger ones on top that players will bump when they move their figures.

Just a suggestion.

Cheers,

CB

 Captain Brown wrote:

 Viterbi wrote:


Did the first decorations for the arena, but super glue doesn't hold and I don't want to rough up the paint, so I just used blue tac, should be permanent enough. Loved painting that skin banner

Viterbi,

Use 5 minute two part epoxy and you will have a permeant hold...especially for the larger ones on top that players will bump when they move their figures.

Just a suggestion.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown, I may try this out, because atm the throne isn't glued to the arena at all.

That said, I am (for the moment) done with it! Added the last shields, some blood and to make the outside look less boring a bunch of posters from the Hammerhal Herald. Following are some shots with all the stuff I painted for WarCry in March and April and the stuff that is still unpainted, but built and primed. Gonna try and finish them in May but maybe it'll be June.

Before that I will return to the 41st millenium and try to finish some odds and ends, those poor sisters are half-painted since I believe February and the two holy men are for the painting comp.

That shot of the while thing together is amazing! What a wonderful project.

I really like the little posters, they give it a great realistic touch.

Dang, that came out amazingly! The posters do add a lot but it's neat to just see all the little details you've put in. Skulls with blood eyes? Why not!

Excellent, look at all the stuff you can get in there...

I heard on the grapevine that Big Bob might have been responsible for the lost cat....

The completed arena with buildings looks amazing . The warband sure look ready for a good Dust up as well.

Fantastic project, Viterbi. Looks stunning all together like that.

I'm so impressed by the big project. You are an inspiration

Fantastic. I'm picturing the ensuing brawl if those gates just swung shut and everyone went at it.

Spectacular Arena! Can’t believe how much stuff you can fit in comfortably. So many painted minis in a well painted setting are what the hobby is all about. Great work Viterbi!

Such an impressive display! You should be proud of all the work you've done in only two months. The posters and trophies add great character to the arena. I didn't notice the floating blood skulls over the gate! That's awesome.

Do you store it in one piece or can you break it into components?

MegaDave wrote:That shot of the while thing together is amazing! What a wonderful project.

I really like the little posters, they give it a great realistic touch.

Thanks MegaDave! Quite happy that there were so much posters on the Community site, did this also with the 40k terrain, it really adds without being much effort.

amazingturtles wrote:Dang, that came out amazingly! The posters do add a lot but it's neat to just see all the little details you've put in. Skulls with blood eyes? Why not!

Thanks amazingturtles! Was quite happy when I found those skulls, Endless spells make good terrain pieces apparently.

monkeytroll wrote:Excellent, look at all the stuff you can get in there...

I heard on the grapevine that Big Bob might have been responsible for the lost cat....

Thanks monkeytroll! And I will make inquiries, them gargants be hungry!

Theophony wrote:The completed arena with buildings looks amazing . The warband sure look ready for a good Dust up as well.

Thanks Theo! The two chaos ones have already battled it out twice, with the Cypher Lords coming out on top both times.

youwashock wrote:Fantastic project, Viterbi. Looks stunning all together like that.

Thanks youwashock!

inmygravenimage wrote:I'm so impressed by the big project. You are an inspiration

Thanks Graven!

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Fantastic. I'm picturing the ensuing brawl if those gates just swung shut and everyone went at it.

Thanks DJJazzyJeff! Probably only the shooty dwarves having the high ground will survive

gobert wrote:Spectacular Arena! Can’t believe how much stuff you can fit in comfortably. So many painted minis in a well painted setting are what the hobby is all about. Great work Viterbi!

Thanks gobert! I was surprised myself, wanted to put the other terrain next to it, but that is one spacious arena.

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Such an impressive display! You should be proud of all the work you've done in only two months. The posters and trophies add great character to the arena. I didn't notice the floating blood skulls over the gate! That's awesome.

Do you store it in one piece or can you break it into components?

Thanks Don Qui Hotep! Floaty skulls were the one important puzzle piece, because I didn't find statues that I really liked for the plinths and they fit marvelously, thematic and dimensionwise. And to your other question, I can break it down into two halves of the ring and the big gate/spectator piece, but I actually haven't thought much about storage. For now it will remain on the table and I have another small table that is now occupied with the next projects, where it might have a place next month or so.

Floaty skulls really ground it in AoS, as do the trophies.

The transformation of this has been fantastic, and I love that you have not really thought about storage - this deserves to be played on and showed-off!!

Viterbi,

Exalted.

Cheers,

CB

IGtR= wrote:Floaty skulls really ground it in AoS, as do the trophies.

The transformation of this has been fantastic, and I love that you have not really thought about storage - this deserves to be played on and showed-off!!

Thanks IGtR=! Luckily I'm blessed with a rather spacious hobby room so could snatch it without hesitating

Captain Brown wrote:Viterbi,

Exalted.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown!

Taking it slow after finishing the arena, but started on finishing two battle sisters, one repentia and one arco-flagellant and gonna get them finished this week, pics to follow.

And did a little organizing and I have so much stuff built and primed that I'm trying to get more of that painted, before building new stuff and cluttering my hobby desk. Most is fantasy, but my space marines also feel a little neglected (And the stuff seen on the desk isn't even all the built and primed stuff, but you gotta start somewhere).
And because of Theo I now want to start Frostgrave and am gonna repaint my Discworld miniatures (and buy some new ones, to round them out). They were some of my first minis that I painted when I got back into the hobby (first time round I painted practically now minis at all), but they got a bath in Biostrip and will be reborn once I settled on additional minis. With Ridcully as my wizard Ponder Stibbons seems like the natural choice for apprentice (even if he runs UU if one is being honest), but I also like the Tiffany Aching mini. Maybe I use her as a soldier.

And got three games of WarCry in on Saturday, had a friend over and it was weird having someone for an extended time at home after two month of no visits. Also weird omitting the obligatory hug. Games were really fun and starting position and movement was really important in all our games. There were some fun situations and fights, but big bird pouncing on my poor Cypher Lord was one of the highlights.

Little sad to see the discworld figs stripped, they looked pretty decent--but they'll be back and looking better I'm sure!
War cry game photo, all I can see is the raven going "oooh, shiny" and just plucking the headress right off based on the pose.

A lot of interesting stuff going on here Viterbi. I'm glad you were able to safely get some games in.
I think the diskworld minis' paint jobs look nice, glad you have a photo to remember them. How do you plan to paint them differently for Frostgrave?

The sword on the Cypher Lord is great .

Glad that some normalcy is returning. I’m afraid here they are loosening the restrictions too soon and we are seeing an uptick in the fight.

That arena looks fantastic. Doing it blue instead of grey really makes it look special. The Warcry minis look great too. I'd imagine they are fun to paint, but I've resisted them so far.

Vejut wrote:Little sad to see the discworld figs stripped, they looked pretty decent--but they'll be back and looking better I'm sure!
War cry game photo, all I can see is the raven going "oooh, shiny" and just plucking the headress right off based on the pose.

Thanks Vejut, they were looking a little bit too shiny for me with their gold armour, otherwise I was quite happy with the paintjob. Gonna have a look at all my Paul Kidby books and try to make them look like the "official" versions.
Now that you're saying this, it is quite probable that this was big birds thought. My friend and I mused that evening that such a big bird would probably have a very small brain

Syro_ wrote:A lot of interesting stuff going on here Viterbi. I'm glad you were able to safely get some games in.
I think the diskworld minis' paint jobs look nice, glad you have a photo to remember them. How do you plan to paint them differently for Frostgrave?

Thanks Syro_! As I said, I was quite happy with them overall, but they are gonna look a bit grittier in their next iteration, modeled after Kidby's paintings.

Theophony wrote:The sword on the Cypher Lord is great .

Glad that some normalcy is returning. I’m afraid here they are loosening the restrictions too soon and we are seeing an uptick in the fight.

Thanks Theo! Was quite happy with their weapons too, it's my favorite recipe Leadbelcher and then a coat of Terradon Turquoise but in this case with a added highlight of Stormhost Silver via Drybrush.

Until now in Germany we are thankfully on the whole getting away with it quite well (if you can call it that), but we'll see what the next weeks will bring.

Fifty wrote:That arena looks fantastic. Doing it blue instead of grey really makes it look special. The Warcry minis look great too. I'd imagine they are fun to paint, but I've resisted them so far.

Thanks Fifty! WarCry minis are fun, they have some fiddly details, but seeing as they are just 8-9 miniatures, you always have the end in sight

Started with several five minute sessions on my missionary today, love all the different shades of brown Contrast colors, perfect for leather, rope and wood.

While I like contrast paints and all the colors they come in, I find myself using them more for training my eyes. I’ve never been good at seeing shadow and light (drove my art teacher crazy), and seeing how the contrast works and leaves the variation is helping my painting....I think .

Looking forward to seeing your Discworld Frostgrave crew all painted up.

Man, those discworld figures are so neat. I can't wait to see what you do with them!

I echo the excitement over the Discworld minis.

Hooray for Discworld! Those minis are so characterful (even if the Two-Flower one hasn't aged very well). They match the personality of each of the characters in a really masterful way. Sam Vimes is one of the best protagonists in the series, in my opinion, and his sculpt has really done him justice. That Ridcully mini is also really cool. If you check out their website, the way that they've sculpted existential dread onto Rincewind's face is just perfect.

Theophony wrote:While I like contrast paints and all the colors they come in, I find myself using them more for training my eyes. I’ve never been good at seeing shadow and light (drove my art teacher crazy), and seeing how the contrast works and leaves the variation is helping my painting....I think .

Maybe pitch that to GW or another company, the shadow training paint, it could be a gold mine

aku-chan wrote:Looking forward to seeing your Discworld Frostgrave crew all painted up.

amazingturtles wrote:Man, those discworld figures are so neat. I can't wait to see what you do with them!

DJJazzyJeff wrote:I echo the excitement over the Discworld minis.

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Hooray for Discworld! Those minis are so characterful (even if the Two-Flower one hasn't aged very well). They match the personality of each of the characters in a really masterful way. Sam Vimes is one of the best protagonists in the series, in my opinion, and his sculpt has really done him justice. That Ridcully mini is also really cool. If you check out their website, the way that they've sculpted existential dread onto Rincewind's face is just perfect.

Happy about the Discworld excitement, but alas they are a little way off, I need some sci-fi right now, but will return to them in due time. And you are right Don Qui Hotep, the Two-Flower sculpt is really bad, although that is one of the few characters where I don't like how Kidby drew him. Rincewind on the other hand is spot on and may also be a contender for apprentice or perhaps thug with his half-brick in a sock. Will definitely get Lady Sybil and once he's back in stock at my favorite online store Greebo, the two minis fit purrfectly into the warband.

In other news, my SM Heroes Series 2 display arrived and I was lucky and got the captain and the ancient in the box (at least I think it's lucky, front says captain is 1/20 und ancient 1/30). And it feels good to have sisters back on the tables. Not satisfied with the eyes I painted back at the start of the year and my try the method Duncan employs on the Obi-Wan mini with just wyldwood and a little Druchi Violet under the eyes.

Last but not least a very quick and dirty paintjob because those damn kids always jump back to the start or too early to the finish carrot, so I painted in the stones that were also the same green as the grassy hill.

Hooray for more Sisters. Nice pulls on the Terminator box. Looking forward to seeing those guys get painted.

Yeah, the sisters are looking great.

Lady sybil's one of my favorite characters, i hope that they did her justice

Nice luck snagging both the captain and the ancient in the box.

Not sure what the carrot tower thing is all about, but looking forward to see how you use it.

Love the green armor on the sisters

 monkeytroll wrote:
There's got to be a seated Conan out there somewhere right? Hasslefree maybe?

I don't know where Power Elephant got his seated Conan, or what the scale is, but if you're still looking for something you may want to PM him, or something.
He has a gallery image of one that is super cool looking and may fill out the throne pretty solidly.

Nice haul on the heroes there!

Fingers crossed that the painted road stops the kids cheating on their game! When they’re done it looks like it might make a good display piece with all of those base holes!

Excellent luck on the Series 2 Heroes. The Captain, Ancient and only 1 duplicate! I missed the Captain in my Series 1 box :’( hopefully they jump your painting queue like mine will be!

youwashock wrote:Hooray for more Sisters. Nice pulls on the Terminator box. Looking forward to seeing those guys get painted.

Thanks youwashock! Fells nice to be in the 41st millennium again.

amazingturtles wrote:Yeah, the sisters are looking great.

Lady sybil's one of my favorite characters, i hope that they did her justice

Thanks amazingturtles! Sibyl has a nice sculpt, but she's one of the characters Kidby doesn't draw often, I've yet to see a picture of her.

Theophony wrote:Nice luck snagging both the captain and the ancient in the box.

Not sure what the carrot tower thing is all about, but looking forward to see how you use it.

Love the green armor on the sisters

Thanks Theo! The carrot tower is a game I play with my children. And seeing as they always loose their way, I had to put a contrasting paint on it

DJJazzyJeff wrote:

 monkeytroll wrote:
There's got to be a seated Conan out there somewhere right? Hasslefree maybe?

I don't know where Power Elephant got his seated Conan, or what the scale is, but if you're still looking for something you may want to PM him, or something.
He has a gallery image of one that is super cool looking and may fill out the throne pretty solidly.

Thanks for the tip DJJazzyJeff! atm will put off putting someone on the throne and will await the return of the king

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Nice haul on the heroes there!

Thanks Don Qui Hotep, was very happy myself.

gobert wrote:Fingers crossed that the painted road stops the kids cheating on their game! When they’re done it looks like it might make a good display piece with all of those base holes!

Excellent luck on the Series 2 Heroes. The Captain, Ancient and only 1 duplicate! I missed the Captain in my Series 1 box :’( hopefully they jump your painting queue like mine will be!

I wouldn't call it cheating just overexcitement in the heat of the game Yeah, got real lucky with my box, the ancient actually was the last model I opened. And I don't know if at my age I should've been that excited, when I opened all those boxes, felt like being a kid again Hope you get the captain from other sources! Had hoped that the Barnes & Noble Space Marine Adventures expansion would also come to Germany like the core game, but no luck.

Finished the two sisters this week and started on heavy flamer sister and other sister superior is also waiting for paint. And slowly progressing with the priests, still two weeks left for the comp.

And got a game in with a friend, last week we were able to finish three WarCry games in the same time it took us to finish this one game of Kill Team Commanders, because he had never played Necrons before and I had forgotten all the differences with my space marine bolters Sniper did what he always did, look good and achieve nothing. I don't know, why I bring him anymore Won the game because a heroic 30k terminator charged the Overlord and killed him. Friend thought the Overlord also had Reanimation Protocol. He was wrong

Good to see the Discworld minis on the previous page, they are some fun little sculpts. Some are a bit off in my mind but that is always going to be an issue when bringing the written word to life in physical form when your mind has already decided what a character looks like. Agreed on the Tiffany Aching as well, great mini.

Excellent luck with the Terminator box, the Ancient and Captain are the best sculpts in the set to me.

Kill Team looks pretty. Worth the time we've not played in a while either: the aching slowness of 40k lingers with us also...

Looks like a cool game even if it took a while! The battlemat seems nice and thematic with a mix of Imperial and Necron in the design. The sisters look cool, but I’m really interested to see where you take the priests.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:Good to see the Discworld minis on the previous page, they are some fun little sculpts. Some are a bit off in my mind but that is always going to be an issue when bringing the written word to life in physical form when your mind has already decided what a character looks like. Agreed on the Tiffany Aching as well, great mini.

Excellent luck with the Terminator box, the Ancient and Captain are the best sculpts in the set to me.

Yeah, on the whole Kidby's designs are great, but some aren't what I pictured in my mind either. The Josh Kirby ones were really bad, if those were the basis for the miniatures, we'd be in big trouble

inmygravenimage wrote:Kill Team looks pretty. Worth the time we've not played in a while either: the aching slowness of 40k lingers with us also...

It would've probably been better, if we had our rules memorized, but it is fascinating how much faster WarCry plays.

gobert wrote:Looks like a cool game even if it took a while! The battlemat seems nice and thematic with a mix of Imperial and Necron in the design. The sisters look cool, but I’m really interested to see where you take the priests.

Battlemat was actually the WarCry one, was to lazy to put it away after the session the weekend before Priests are actually progressing, did the cloth, but now have to redo a lot of the leather and smaller details, that I got with the layer paint.

The purpley tone of his cloth makes me wonder if pastor jones is acting strangely ....Tyranids reference from 3rd edition . Man I’m getting old. They are looking great whether spreading the imperial truth....or some other truth.

We always love to see some purple robes! They fit right into the 41st millennium. I don't think I've seen quite that hue before, was that using Contrast? I like it a lot.

Theophony wrote:The purpley tone of his cloth makes me wonder if pastor jones is acting strangely ....Tyranids reference from 3rd edition . Man I’m getting old. They are looking great whether spreading the imperial truth....or some other truth.

Thanks Theo! Sadly as someone who wasn't very interested the first time around (late 90s/early 2000s) and dug a little into it the last 3-4 years, I don't get the reference, but I'm assuming there were men of the cloth spreading the good word of the Four-Armed-Emperor.

Don Qui Hotep wrote:We always love to see some purple robes! They fit right into the 41st millennium. I don't think I've seen quite that hue before, was that using Contrast? I like it a lot.

Thanks Don Qui Hotep! The robes are actually one of the few things not painted with contrast, the purple is just Screamer Pink, than wash of Nuln Oil and than a kind of drybrush with Pink Horror via a Medium Layer Brush.

And I got the motivation and time for a little push and finished both models. Had a minor shock after sealing them, because Stormshield decided it wanted to be a glossy finish today and not be its usual matte self. Luckily Lahmian Medium sorted that out. Tomorrow evening will be glamour shots.

They are coming along great.

In the old rules the Tyranids had, onewas called Jones is acting strangely. Basically one figure in the opposing army had been implanted like a facehugger from the Aliens movies and was a “plant” by the Tyranids. I forget if he attacked the rest of the squad or just caused some other disruption, but it was what I remembered .

Either way they look spiffy .

Always gotta keep an eye on ol' Jones...

It was pretty bad. The trooper in question would explode using a fairly large template, equivalent to the Barbed Strangler at the time, I believe.

Priests are looking good. Fit right in with the Sisters.

They do look good, but it’s making me wonder if your imperials are all actually cult members? The mark on the forehead of the bald chap is a bit suspicious with all this face-hugger talk!

 Viterbi wrote:


Thanks for the tip DJJazzyJeff! atm will put off putting someone on the throne and will await the return of the king

Sounds good, Viterbi. I was browsing and saw Conan, and thought I'd send it along.

Lots of great stuff in your blog.

Theophony wrote:They are coming along great.

In the old rules the Tyranids had, onewas called Jones is acting strangely. Basically one figure in the opposing army had been implanted like a facehugger from the Aliens movies and was a “plant” by the Tyranids. I forget if he attacked the rest of the squad or just caused some other disruption, but it was what I remembered .

Either way they look spiffy .

youwashock wrote:Always gotta keep an eye on ol' Jones...

It was pretty bad. The trooper in question would explode using a fairly large template, equivalent to the Barbed Strangler at the time, I believe.

Priests are looking good. Fit right in with the Sisters.

That sounds like fun rules until you get to the template I love it, but my priests are fiercely loyal and the one test model for my GSC Kill Team has not the same colors, it's another blue... and pink... I may talk to a commissar asap

gobert wrote:They do look good, but it’s making me wonder if your imperials are all actually cult members? The mark on the forehead of the bald chap is a bit suspicious with all this face-hugger talk!

Thanks gobert and I believe they are meant to be veins of righteous fury, but that's only what he is telling us, so who knows

DJJazzyJeff wrote:

 Viterbi wrote:


Thanks for the tip DJJazzyJeff! atm will put off putting someone on the throne and will await the return of the king

Sounds good, Viterbi. I was browsing and saw Conan, and thought I'd send it along.

Lots of great stuff in your blog.

Thanks again!

Slow progress, gonna finish those 5 intercessors tomorrow, they are nice and easy and than to tackle the next seven sisters. Have some free days until Wednesday and there should be some hobby time next to family time, to get the gals done.

It was indeed hilarious. For the Tyranid player. Sometimes I miss all the random tables of RT/2nd edition.

I got a case of the slows, too. Keep on sluggin'. Intercessors are looking good.

Nice work on the priests! Excited to see how the Sisters get painted up.

I love those old priest minis, you did a good job with them. Marines are looking fun, excited to see the finished paintjob.

Nice Priests Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

youwashock wrote:It was indeed hilarious. For the Tyranid player. Sometimes I miss all the random tables of RT/2nd edition.

I got a case of the slows, too. Keep on sluggin'. Intercessors are looking good.

Thanks youwashock and good luck on pushing forward yourself

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Nice work on the priests! Excited to see how the Sisters get painted up.

Thanks Don Qui Hotep! There are some finished ones a few pages back, but the current ones are slated for a little painting session tomorrow evening.

MegaDave wrote:I love those old priest minis, you did a good job with them. Marines are looking fun, excited to see the finished paintjob.

Thanks MegaDave! They are really nice sculpts, although i realised to late that I should've done something about the mold lines.

Captain Brown wrote:Nice Priests Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown!

And the squad is done, nothing fancy, but always good to have troop choices. Was pretty excited when I saw the new SM units yesterday, I fear that box will be bought on release. Just need to convince my friend, that he really, really, really wants to start a Necron army, if he likes his Kill Team of them so much

Dang, I haven't even looked at the new things, i'm too afraid too.

These guys look great! i like the contrasting shoulder pads

Good looking squad. Yeah. New Marines look pretty cool. For the most part. Curious what the future of the game holds.

Shiny And snazzy. Keep it up!

See the newcrons are what piqued my interest in the new box, though I was more hoping for Chaos Space Marines. The return of Chainswords is always welcome though! With the new site showing sisters, I was half thinking it might be a 3 army box. I’m digging the mixed colours on my he intercessors’ shoulder pads.

Yep, varied shoulder pads are great. Really makes the squad different.

Came in to check out the update, wasn't disappointed. Love the different color shoulder pads.

 Viterbi wrote:


And the squad is done, nothing fancy, but always good to have troop choices. Was pretty excited when I saw the new SM units yesterday, I fear that box will be bought on release. Just need to convince my friend, that he really, really, really wants to start a Necron army, if he likes his Kill Team of them so much

Always a good feeling when another squad is finished.

Cheers,

CB

amazingturtles wrote:Dang, I haven't even looked at the new things, i'm too afraid too.

These guys look great! i like the contrasting shoulder pads

Thanks amazingturtles! Well, there's always the option of look but don't buy, but that doesn't always hold up well

youwashock wrote:Good looking squad. Yeah. New Marines look pretty cool. For the most part. Curious what the future of the game holds.

Thanks youwashock! Had a short skimming of the thread here regarding yesterday's Q & A about the new rules. Seems interesting and truth be told, I played two games of 40k with one of my friends last year and for our approach to gaming the rules work just fine already.

inmygravenimage wrote:Shiny And snazzy. Keep it up!

Thanks Graven!

gobert wrote:See the newcrons are what piqued my interest in the new box, though I was more hoping for Chaos Space Marines. The return of Chainswords is always welcome though! With the new site showing sisters, I was half thinking it might be a 3 army box. I’m digging the mixed colours on my he intercessors’ shoulder pads.

Thanks gobert! Was very happy to see sisters featured so prominently in the trailer and on the new site and wouldn't have been averse to having some more of them in the starter

Theophony wrote:Yep, varied shoulder pads are great. Really makes the squad different.

Thanks Theo!

MegaDave wrote:Came in to check out the update, wasn't disappointed. Love the different color shoulder pads.

Thanks MegaDave!

Captain Brown wrote:

 Viterbi wrote:


And the squad is done, nothing fancy, but always good to have troop choices. Was pretty excited when I saw the new SM units yesterday, I fear that box will be bought on release. Just need to convince my friend, that he really, really, really wants to start a Necron army, if he likes his Kill Team of them so much

Always a good feeling when another squad is finished.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown!

A little more progress, gonna have them finished soon, the Repentia's head is already painted and the sister's ones at least primed white.

Looking good. Which head did you pick for the Sister Superior?

 youwashock wrote:
Looking good. Which head did you pick for the Sister Superior?

Thanks, went for the hooded one. Both sisters are more or less done, only minor touchups after watching the closeup of the minis. Well and the sword of the superior.

Nice. Heavy flamer gal is sweet. Love the cross-bolter.

Wow, you never see such vivid color combinations on SoB. Very striking, very cool.

Yeah, i love how bright and vibrant the colors are! The red cloak is pretty unique looking in color too, these are stylin' battle nuns

Dang! That teal armor just fits those Sisters of Battle like a glove. I love the heavy flamer one on the right. Is the one with the crossbow a conversion or an option in the new plastic kits? For some reason she's giving me major Stormcast vibes, couldn't tell you why.

Purple robes look great against the green. Nice contrast there.

youwashock wrote:Nice. Heavy flamer gal is sweet. Love the cross-bolter.

Thanks youwashock! She is one of my favorite models and hopefully will wreak havoc the next time I play Kill Team and bbq some orcs or necrons And I'm not even sure what the rules for the crossbolter are, but it looks so awesome, first saw it on Greyfax (who I have lying around waiting for assembly and a paintjob to match my sisters).

JoshInJapan wrote:Wow, you never see such vivid color combinations on SoB. Very striking, very cool.

Thanks JoshInJapan! Color scheme was inspired by my marines, just love the combination of purple and turquoise.

amazingturtles wrote:Yeah, i love how bright and vibrant the colors are! The red cloak is pretty unique looking in color too, these are stylin' battle nuns

Thanks amazingturtles!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Dang! That teal armor just fits those Sisters of Battle like a glove. I love the heavy flamer one on the right. Is the one with the crossbow a conversion or an option in the new plastic kits? For some reason she's giving me major Stormcast vibes, couldn't tell you why.

Purple robes look great against the green. Nice contrast there.

Thanks Don Qui Hotep! She's stock build, all the normal options directly out of the kit. But funny that you mention Stormcasts, my scratchbuild terminator inquisitor got SCE shoulderpads.

Board pics of the finished models (with the addition of the finished Repentia and Arco-Flagellant). And because I'm unifying the base rims of all my imperial models, there will be some throwback pics, first up three of the first minis I painted after getting back into the hobby (and not having painted much the first time around).

I like how the Repentia turned out. Also cool to see the old Inquisitors taking the Jokaero for a walk.

That looks ace, and your jokaero is magic

Repentia and arco-flagellant turned out nice.

youwashock wrote:I like how the Repentia turned out. Also cool to see the old Inquisitors taking the Jokaero for a walk.

Thanks youwashock! I was more happier with the Repentia before I had to repaint her eyes with brwon blobs. She had "real" ones, but because I had painted the head separately, they looked into the completely wrong direction I like to think that the Jokaero is taking those Inquisitors around

inmygravenimage wrote:That looks ace, and your jokaero is magic

Thanks Graven!

monkeytroll wrote:Repentia and arco-flagellant turned out nice.

Thanks monkeytroll!

Today we have a One Day Rush. Playing a friend this evening and need a bit of firepower to tackle his Necron Overlord. Funnily enough this weapon should excel at that, but on the other hand it is nigh on useless on the normal warriors. Because the living metal rule in Kill Team works so that a 6 on an injury roll will see that damn metal skeleton walk again So a possible Damage 6 weapon is worse than a Damage 1.

And some supplies, already pondering how to paint the rhino, the Contrast over that much metal probably won't work, but I will give it a try and experiment with some other schemes as well. Want to differentiate them from my space marines rhino which is mainly Stegadon Scale Green and Screamer Pink accents.

Whoa, that's an impressive set of boxes. And metal boxes as well.

You'll have to let me know how solbright is, i've been kind of considering picking that one up

Whoa. Incoming!

Nice quick turn on Melta-sister.

I think Ive said this before about your space marines, but I really like this green armor. Its unique and stands out. Supply drop looks fun!

Nice supply haul

That melts sister is looking great as well. It will be a beautiful force, definitely not one to space monkey around with.

Definitely needs more monkey

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh you're going to be busy.

All looking good here. Am especially looking forward to seeing you tackle the Stormcast characters, you do not see many of the big winged beasties about as it is not a cheap kit. Enjoy!

amazingturtles wrote:Whoa, that's an impressive set of boxes. And metal boxes as well.

You'll have to let me know how solbright is, i've been kind of considering picking that one up

Metals are not in it, the assassin is the plastic one. Will tell about Solbright, but may take some time, I want to get more of my primed stuff done, before I build new minis.

youwashock wrote:Whoa. Incoming!

Nice quick turn on Melta-sister.

Thanks youwashock! Always good, when you have a color scheme really down, makes painting one model so much easier. And she didn't even die in her first game. But didn't do much else either

squall018 wrote:I think Ive said this before about your space marines, but I really like this green armor. Its unique and stands out. Supply drop looks fun!

Thanks squall018! Would love the color for the marines armour more, if it was as easy to paint as the one's for my sisters, contrast is so much easier than washes

Theophony wrote:Nice supply haul

That melts sister is looking great as well. It will be a beautiful force, definitely not one to space monkey around with.

Thanks Theo! And the monkey is definitely the brains of this outfit

monkeytroll wrote:Definitely needs more monkey

That monkey is so beloved, he may qualify for an optimized paint job

inmygravenimage wrote:Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh you're going to be busy.

As if I hadn't aleady enough to build and paint But by my estimates it would only be enough to next summer, that's no time at all

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:All looking good here. Am especially looking forward to seeing you tackle the Stormcast characters, you do not see many of the big winged beasties about as it is not a cheap kit. Enjoy!

Thanks ListenToMeWarriors! Already contemplating a color scheme. I have 5 Sequitors painted from last year (picture at end of post) and tried a new scheme yesterday, which cost me an hour and gave the good Eternal a free bath in Biostrip Problem is doing the armour other than gold or silver, because finding two additional colors for the tabards that don't clash isn't that easy. Although seeing the old scheme, I still like and will probably keep it.

Currently working on the next three sisters from the sqad, excited for the one pulling the safety pin out with her teeth. Love it, that they made a new version of the classic model.

The five marines will be played as assault marines with bolt pistols and chainswords and will accompany my already done smash captain. Jump packs are getting painted separately.

Did the cherub for the squad, interesting mini to paint, really fun.

And (not all of) my primed models, gonna try and tackle as much of them as possible during June and July. Probably won't stick to my oath, that I won't build anything before I made a real dent

Last but not least a 2019 model with my SCE color scheme, may really stick to it.

All great, love the teal and purple, but the cherub is outstanding.

Wow, yeah, that cherub is the star of the show. Looks fantastic. I think the Stormcast scheme is really cool. I also really like the basing scheme you have for your imperials, very effective and simple.

Fulfilling my role as echo chamber and agreeing on both the cherub being very nice and the original stormcast scheme works well

inmygravenimage wrote:All great, love the teal and purple, but the cherub is outstanding.

Thanks Graven!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Wow, yeah, that cherub is the star of the show. Looks fantastic. I think the Stormcast scheme is really cool. I also really like the basing scheme you have for your imperials, very effective and simple.

Thanks Don Qui Hotep! After fiddling with some schemes I realised, that simple (as always) does it. Astrogranite, a shade (Ivary between armies) and than a light grey drybrush and snow. That's why I hate sculpted bases, they may look nice, but take effort

monkeytroll wrote:Fulfilling my role as echo chamber and agreeing on both the cherub being very nice and the original stormcast scheme works well

Thanks monkeytroll!

Today is a holiday in Germany so I used the time pre- and post-breakfast to finish the three sisters (so only four left of the squad) and made a little progress with the jumpy marines.

Sisters are just flying off the table. Speaking of flying, allow me to throw another shovel of praise onto the cherub. Stellar job, man. And I think you will be just fine sticking with that look for the SCE. Sequitor looks grand.

YOUr progress is great.

That arena is looking a little bit full, somebody better start shooting or hacking away .

Great work, as usual. Excellent colors.

The arena full of primed models is really exciting, but so is that stack of boxes. Do you think you'll make it halfway through before you open and build something else?

youwashock wrote:Sisters are just flying off the table. Speaking of flying, allow me to throw another shovel of praise onto the cherub. Stellar job, man. And I think you will be just fine sticking with that look for the SCE. Sequitor looks grand.

Thanks youwashock! Cherub was really helped by Contrast, nearly painted itself And I'll definitely stay with the SCE scheme, if it is so well liked all around.

Theophony wrote:YOUr progress is great.

That arena is looking a little bit full, somebody better start shooting or hacking away .

Thanks Theo! I imagine that the combined firepower of Marines and Overlords would probably obliterate the other models before any casualties happen on the "good" side

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Great work, as usual. Excellent colors.

The arena full of primed models is really exciting, but so is that stack of boxes. Do you think you'll make it halfway through before you open and build something else?

Thanks DJJazzyJeff! I do hope so, I'm pretty sure that I will honor my promise to myself in June. July... another matter

My Assault Marines are progressing slowly, wanna do a bigger push this evening so I only have the heads left to paint, should be possible.
But to have something new here, another pic of models with unified base rims, the Guard half of my AM Kill Team. I really regret not having put other heads on the 5 ETB guardsmen, need to rectify this one of these days, they look to unruffled compared to the other lot.
And even if they are cannon fodder you may notice the orc skull on one base and the harlequin masque on another guardsman's shoulder. They got this in honor for in-game-achievements. Ringo Orcslayer managed to kill not one, but two orcs in HTH in one single game! Granted, my friend realised after the game that the second orc had two wounds, but still.
And George Aelfbane managed not only to survive all of a harlequins attacks, but kill the xenos scoundrel in return with one hearty stab of his bayonet.
The other three mostly die, when and if they make it from roster to starting in the game

Always nice when the model you don't expect comes through. Looking pretty good, and basic troops still looking basic isn't a terrible thing!

 Viterbi wrote:

And even if they are cannon fodder you may notice the orc skull on one base and the harlequin masque on another guardsman's shoulder. They got this in honor for in-game-achievements. Ringo Orcslayer managed to kill not one, but two orcs in HTH in one single game! Granted, my friend realised after the game that the second orc had two wounds, but still.
And George Aelfbane managed not only to survive all of a harlequins attacks, but kill the xenos scoundrel in return with one hearty stab of his bayonet.

Well that is one way to remember past games.

Cheers,

CB

I love that! A friend and I are gonna start a kill-team league once we can game again and that's a great way of adding a little personality to make your guys "your guys."

Those are lovely, neat paintjobs. Really crisp cloth.

Vejut wrote:Always nice when the model you don't expect comes through. Looking pretty good, and basic troops still looking basic isn't a terrible thing!

Thanks Vejut! Both times it was really fun, because my friends couldn't really believe it, as I needed a 5+ to hit, a 5+ to wound and than a 4+ to kill

Captain Brown wrote:

 Viterbi wrote:

And even if they are cannon fodder you may notice the orc skull on one base and the harlequin masque on another guardsman's shoulder. They got this in honor for in-game-achievements. Ringo Orcslayer managed to kill not one, but two orcs in HTH in one single game! Granted, my friend realised after the game that the second orc had two wounds, but still.
And George Aelfbane managed not only to survive all of a harlequins attacks, but kill the xenos scoundrel in return with one hearty stab of his bayonet.

Well that is one way to remember past games.

Cheers,

CB

Most of the times I can't even tell you who won one week after the game, but stuff like that sticks in my memory and is one of the reason why I love this hobby.

Don Qui Hotep wrote:I love that! A friend and I are gonna start a kill-team league once we can game again and that's a great way of adding a little personality to make your guys "your guys."

Go for it, it's very easy to add little detail and have the story of your guys evolve.

inmygravenimage wrote:Those are lovely, neat paintjobs. Really crisp cloth.

Thanks Graven! I'm not on the same side with you on crisp, but was and am still happy with their paintjob

And the assault marines are done, had to buy the jump packs, but the rest comes from deathwatch, primaris and mk 3 kits. I hope the primaris assault guys will also get jump packs with the full kit, so I can use these as acount as. For now they will assist my jump captain (picture not included) as his personal bodyguard.
Quite happy with those guys, experimented a little with their skin tones. And these will be the last models with Coelia Greenshade armour. It's too tiresome and I will switch to Terradon Torquoise and have ordered Akhelian Green, the Space Marine Heroes termies will get a light blue armour. Contrast is just better for this stuff.

Strike from the sky, brothers!

Good looking squad. I like the use of the Reiver masks.

 Viterbi wrote:
And the assault marines are done, had to buy the jump packs, but the rest comes from deathwatch, primaris and mk 3 kits. I hope the primaris assault guys will also get jump packs with the full kit, so I can use these as acount as. For now they will assist my jump captain (picture not included) as his personal bodyguard.
Quite happy with those guys, experimented a little with their skin tones. And these will be the last models with Coelia Greenshade armour. It's too tiresome and I will switch to Terradon Torquoise and have ordered Akhelian Green, the Space Marine Heroes termies will get a light blue armour. Contrast is just better for this stuff.

I know what you mean. I personally like the assault intercessor model but they need both extra mobility and access to special weapons. I'm not super happy with the jump packs on the Suppressors and similar, the classic jumppack design is so much better.

Assault marines are looking really cool (I also dig the helmets, thanks for pointing that out youwashock), and the different skin tones each look naturalistic. I really hear you on Contrast being great for this sort of armor work - I've really been impressed with how Contrast paints, in conjunction with traditional paints and washes, can help save a lot of time in basecoating while still producing a high quality results.

Viterbi,

I agree with youwashock, some very nice work. Although my personal preference would have been to use helmets.

My two cents,

CB

i like 'em! and the eyes worked out really well. I don't know why, but the shoulder pad with the... bumps? is one of my favorites.

Looking good Viterbi! The dark green armour looks great, I hope your switch to contrast works out

Nice marines, look like they mean business. I like the dark green on the armour, hope the contrast works out as well

youwashock wrote:Strike from the sky, brothers!

Good looking squad. I like the use of the Reiver masks.

Thanks youwashock! They are very fitting heads for a jumppack strike force, although I may paint the teeth in to get a little more contrast.

Don Qui Hotep wrote:

 Viterbi wrote:
And the assault marines are done, had to buy the jump packs, but the rest comes from deathwatch, primaris and mk 3 kits. I hope the primaris assault guys will also get jump packs with the full kit, so I can use these as acount as. For now they will assist my jump captain (picture not included) as his personal bodyguard.
Quite happy with those guys, experimented a little with their skin tones. And these will be the last models with Coelia Greenshade armour. It's too tiresome and I will switch to Terradon Torquoise and have ordered Akhelian Green, the Space Marine Heroes termies will get a light blue armour. Contrast is just better for this stuff.

I know what you mean. I personally like the assault intercessor model but they need both extra mobility and access to special weapons. I'm not super happy with the jump packs on the Suppressors and similar, the classic jumppack design is so much better.

Assault marines are looking really cool (I also dig the helmets, thanks for pointing that out youwashock), and the different skin tones each look naturalistic. I really hear you on Contrast being great for this sort of armor work - I've really been impressed with how Contrast paints, in conjunction with traditional paints and washes, can help save a lot of time in basecoating while still producing a high quality results.

Thanks Don Qui Hotep! The squad was a good excuse to test some skin colors, I'm most happy with the marine in the middle, I'd have thought doing black skin and black hair that don't look the same and flat would be impossible, but with the aid of contrast is super easy.
I actually like both jump packs, the old ones are more brutal, but I have the surpressors and start painting inceptors now and I like the more rounded approach, it fits the primaris line.

Captain Brown wrote:Viterbi,

I agree with youwashock, some very nice work. Although my personal preference would have been to use helmets.

My two cents,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown! I'm usually with you and may give only the sarge and maybe one other squad member bare heads, but with this squad I wanted to convey the elite nature of them.

amazingturtles wrote:i like 'em! and the eyes worked out really well. I don't know why, but the shoulder pad with the... bumps? is one of my favorites.

Thanks amazingturtles! I believe those were the first shoulder pads on the Rogue Trader era Space Marines, they definitely have a lot of character. Also giving every bump a bright pink spot was not a nice task, I'm not one for precision in painting

gobert wrote:Looking good Viterbi! The dark green armour looks great, I hope your switch to contrast works out

Thanks gobert! Luckily with the sisters I already have proof of concept for green armour and already tested Akhelian Green (see picture).

Maharg wrote:Nice marines, look like they mean business. I like the dark green on the armour, hope the contrast works out as well

Thanks Maharg! They'll probably die instantly once we play 40k the next time, but yeah, they'll look menacing doing so

Very slow progress, but close to finishing the last four bolter sisters for the 10 woman squad. Also started work on my three entries for the painting challenge and tried Akhelian Green on the first marine and I'm loving it! The blue marines will be getting silver trims and aquilas. Now it's even harder to wait assembling the space marine heroes terminators, because they will be getting that armour color too and they will look gorgeous in it

Blue with silver? My imperial handbook says your traitorous hydra worshipping killers . But you can’t be all that bad if you got sisters of battle on your side . I like the blue on the NuMarine.

Yeah, those are very nifty looking greens. I'm liking the navigator so far too!

New armor color is super slick. Looking forward to the Rogue Trader, too.

Double plasma marine is looking nice already, but that rogue trader looks the business

Excellent color scheme, and solid work, as always.

Theophony wrote:Blue with silver? My imperial handbook says your traitorous hydra worshipping killers . But you can’t be all that bad if you got sisters of battle on your side . I like the blue on the NuMarine.

Thanks Theo! Well they are the Emperor's Fangs a loyal Alpha Legion successor chapter... or so they say It surely helps that they have close ties to an Inquisitor and she is coming from a knight house, so they are safe for now I haven't given too much thought on their backstory, but they have a little sinister element what with all their hydra logos on their shoulder pads.

amazingturtles wrote:Yeah, those are very nifty looking greens. I'm liking the navigator so far too!

Thanks amazingturtles! I will be glad once he's done, one of the four Blackstone Fortress minis left.

youwashock wrote:New armor color is super slick. Looking forward to the Rogue Trader, too.

Thanks youwashock! She's my favorite from the three Rouge Traders I have.

gobert wrote:Double plasma marine is looking nice already, but that rogue trader looks the business

Thanks gobert! Having a leg you can stab someone with sure doesn't hurt (well despite the other someone).

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Excellent color scheme, and solid work, as always.

Thanks DJJazzyJeff!

Powered through last evening and finished the four bolter girls and so have finished the full squad of sisters. And the squat is also taking shape, thanks foremost by the mighty powers of contrast who did some heavy lifting. No to finish the normal basecoats and start with some cleanup.

That's a powerful fiery beard there!

Awesome work on the Sisters. The Squat is looking fun. I like the color combinations.

inmygravenimage wrote:That's a powerful fiery beard there!

It'll singe any grot that comes too close

youwashock wrote:Awesome work on the Sisters. The Squat is looking fun. I like the color combinations.

Thanks youwashock! The purple/pink and grenn/blue are my imperial colors to try and tie everything together. And need a little sisters break now, but they are very nice models and it'll be fun building the army up from the ground and the Seraphim from the army box are next in line once I finished the painting comp entries and the three inceptors.

And because when you're working from home and the wife has to go to the office this week and the kids are in kindergarten, you can use your lunch break very effectively, the squat is done

Good job going to town on all the little details on this guy.

His beard is beautiful! Yes, beards can be beautiful, it is a thing that happens!

That is a delightfully-vibrant Squat. I especially love how, in the first photo, there is a drop of "blood" from his hammer on your finger

What a handsome squat you got there. Looks great, all the colors are really crisp and neatly done!

Great little Squat Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

That squat really is a cool mini and he suits your imperial scheme well. As turtles has already said, that beard is a thing of beauty! His gun barrel looks a bit un-holey to me though

youwashock wrote:Good job going to town on all the little details on this guy.

Thanks youwashock! Was a little apprehensive at first, but it was easier than I thought to catch the little stuff.

amazingturtles wrote:His beard is beautiful! Yes, beards can be beautiful, it is a thing that happens!

Thanks amazingturtles! And there's nothing to add to your statement, why argue with the truth!

JoshInJapan wrote:That is a delightfully-vibrant Squat. I especially love how, in the first photo, there is a drop of "blood" from his hammer on your finger

Thanks JoshInJapan! Yeah, that Blood for the Blood God goes everywhere. Once I hadn't realized that I had a significant amount on my fingers and when I saw it later, I thought I had cut myself... until I thought a little more and could solve the mystery of the blood drops

Don Qui Hotep wrote:What a handsome squat you got there. Looks great, all the colors are really crisp and neatly done!

Thanks Don Qui Hotep!

Captain Brown wrote:Great little Squat Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown!

gobert wrote:That squat really is a cool mini and he suits your imperial scheme well. As turtles has already said, that beard is a thing of beauty! His gun barrel looks a bit un-holey to me though

Thanks gobert! And actually that Squat is one of the few models with a real gun barrel (because it is actually modeled on, otherwise you would have been right )

And I finished the second of the Imperial trio, the navigator is done (although looking at the big pictures, he may need some little touchups, I despise photos of minis).

Cool paint job on Espern! He looks resplendent in your imperial colours!

Very snazzy, especially his word cloak (that's my new name for the middle bit)

It's a rule of miniature photography that no matter how much work you do, the photo will always reveal something wrong somewhere. I think that the camera itself creates them

Speaking of picking out detail...

Navigator looks quite good. The scroll and mask are especially nice.

Edna is wrong , keep the cape it’s glorious.

So too I should the so manly(or squatly beard) I am envious .

Emperors Fangs? That inquisitor isn’t a heretical one is she? It’s sounding pretty fishy .

“Why does your iron halo have eight points on it all of differing lengths? That seems odd I’ve never seen that in the Emperor’s handbook........gak..... “

“Where’d Fred go?”

“DON’T ASK QUESTIONS, HAVE FAITH”

Your Squat looks great in such vibrant colours.

The last week was not very productive with a mixture of great weather, back pain and trying to win the Champion's League on FIFA20 Hope to get some hobby time in this evening.

gobert wrote:Cool paint job on Espern! He looks resplendent in your imperial colours!

Thanks gobert! I'm really happy not to have encountered a miniature that doesn't work with those colors.

amazingturtles wrote:Very snazzy, especially his word cloak (that's my new name for the middle bit)

It's a rule of miniature photography that no matter how much work you do, the photo will always reveal something wrong somewhere. I think that the camera itself creates them

Thanks amazingturtles! In the future I will only look onto the picture on my phone and post it blind into this thread so not to see what the camera unearthed

youwashock wrote:Speaking of picking out detail...

Navigator looks quite good. The scroll and mask are especially nice.

Thanks youwashock! For the scroll the reimagined Sisters really helped, they have lots of nice scribbly text decals on their transfer sheet.

Theophony wrote:Edna is wrong , keep the cape it’s glorious.

So too I should the so manly(or squatly beard) I am envious .

Emperors Fangs? That inquisitor isn’t a heretical one is she? It’s sounding pretty fishy .

“Why does your iron halo have eight points on it all of differing lengths? That seems odd I’ve never seen that in the Emperor’s handbook........gak..... “

“Where’d Fred go?”

“DON’T ASK QUESTIONS, HAVE FAITH”

Thanks Theo! Well, the inquisitor also has no qualms to work closely with abhumans, so I will keep a good eye on her

aku-chan wrote:Your Squat looks great in such vibrant colours.

Thanks aku-chan! He was fun to paint, wouldn't say no to some more of them as inquisitorial henchmen.

As stated above, did very little the last week, wanted to finish the three inceptors, but only did one. Really not in love with the models and the paintjob shows it in parts. If I don't like your sculpt, I will not do proper cleanup on every part Gonna try and finish the other two and my Rogue Trader over the weekend and Monday/Tuesday two Aberrants that wait for paint since last year, because that would bring me to a nice round 90 models painted so far this year (terrain excluded).

I see i am not the only one who doesn''t much like those guys. For me they were just a pain to try to put together. You did well anyhow, the helmet screen thing looks extra nice!

Inceptors are a little hit, a little miss. More miss, really. But I love that armor color .

Love that rich shiny blue. It's all looking very mecha sci-fi. Really cool.

Woah, nice job on the Inceptor! I saw the photo before I read the post and my first thought was "oh dang, with the right paint job that model doesn't actually look that bad." Then I read your post and, well hey, guess it's not the most popular sculpt on the market! I agree with Graven, that's a classic Sci-Fi blue right there. I'm pretty taken with it!

The inceptors really are odd looking models I think, but you’ve made the best of the situation with the cool metallic blue. Hopefully you win the champions league and can get back to the important minis!

amazingturtles wrote:I see i am not the only one who doesn''t much like those guys. For me they were just a pain to try to put together. You did well anyhow, the helmet screen thing looks extra nice!

Thanks amazingturtles! My biggest gripe with them was putting them on the flying stand (as evidenced by the one model that stands on a case, I did not want him too ).

youwashock wrote:Inceptors are a little hit, a little miss. More miss, really. But I love that armor color .

Thanks youwashock! Yeah, that color is really great, could probably thin it down a little to make it cleaner, but not for these guys.

inmygravenimage wrote: Love that rich shiny blue. It's all looking very mecha sci-fi. Really cool.

Thanks Graven!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Woah, nice job on the Inceptor! I saw the photo before I read the post and my first thought was "oh dang, with the right paint job that model doesn't actually look that bad." Then I read your post and, well hey, guess it's not the most popular sculpt on the market! I agree with Graven, that's a classic Sci-Fi blue right there. I'm pretty taken with it!

Thanks Don Qui Hotep! Sculpt has potential, but doesn't use it well in my opinion. It's a bit like Die another day, good and bad stuff intertwine. Dual wielding guns - Great! Jetpack - Eh! Head pose when you don't put the visor down - Wait, where is he looking?

gobert wrote:The inceptors really are odd looking models I think, but you’ve made the best of the situation with the cool metallic blue. Hopefully you win the champions league and can get back to the important minis!

Thanks gobert! I'm in the final against Liverpool and will play it in the next days

Finished the squad and was even to lazy to do the hazard cable like I did with the first one, his brothers just got green and turquoise cabling. But they are done and I have to admit that armor color and transfers (love that Alpha logo) make them look slightly better than they should
And the more fun model to paint, my Rogue Trader should get finished on today's lunch break, did some work last evening. The problem is, that you can't do sub-assemblies because of E2B model, so I had to work from the in- to the outside. "Only" cables skulls and pistols left, then drybrushing, snowing up the base and painting the base rim. So I will get my trio of RT, navigator and squat ready in time for the painting comp.

Very lovely. Really rich and vibrant.

She looks great. How did you do the skin?

Squad looks good! That color does a lot to elevate the look of the models, even more so in a group. The blast shields make for a neat contrast. RT lady is coming out nice, too.

The richness of the RT lady's coat is outstanding.

inmygravenimage wrote:Very lovely. Really rich and vibrant.

Thanks Graven!

Fifty wrote:She looks great. How did you do the skin?

Thanks Fifty! The skin is a base of Bugman's Glow, then nearly 1:1 Wyldwood and Contrast Medium (erring to more Wyldwood in this case) and then some edge highlights of Doombull Brown. Saw the recipe in Mengel Miniatures Twitter Feed.

youwashock wrote:Squad looks good! That color does a lot to elevate the look of the models, even more so in a group. The blast shields make for a neat contrast. RT lady is coming out nice, too.

Thanks youwashock!

aku-chan wrote:The richness of the RT lady's coat is outstanding.

Thanks aku-chan! Although it really is just base color, wash and kind of drybrush with brighter color, because I'm very lazy

Got the RT done for the comp and have also made photos for my half year review that I will post probably tomorrow, after checking, what exactly my goals were

She was a lot of fun to paint and I will definitely use her as a Kill Team Commander when I have my next game.

Blood on the peg-leg. Nice.

To me it’s a ridiculous model, but a fantastic paint job. Sword leg . GW jumping the Sharknado just a bit. I totally get the idea that she is so bad that a lost leg didn’t slow her down, in fact it sped up her killyness, just past my crayon line in the sand of reality for some reason.

She looks really cool, yet another model that looks good in your imperial colour scheme. Didn’t Mao try that, where everyone had to wear the same clothes? Was the Emperor Mao in a former life!?! I’ll have to check out the competition posts for the pics of the trio!

Really like the plasma Inceptor squads, did you have any issues with the flight stands?

You should be very pleased with the results on The RT lady, her jacket looks great with that pattina esque effect, you say it was a lazy job but if you can get it looking like that I would say the lazy way is the way to go.

Nice work there Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

youwashock wrote:Blood on the peg-leg. Nice.

Her boot may be for walking, but the peg leg is for stabbing!

Theophony wrote:To me it’s a ridiculous model, but a fantastic paint job. Sword leg . GW jumping the Sharknado just a bit. I totally get the idea that she is so bad that a lost leg didn’t slow her down, in fact it sped up her killyness, just past my crayon line in the sand of reality for some reason.

Thanks Theo! Although after having seen the first Kingsman movie, I didn't find the killer leg outlandish

gobert wrote:She looks really cool, yet another model that looks good in your imperial colour scheme. Didn’t Mao try that, where everyone had to wear the same clothes? Was the Emperor Mao in a former life!?! I’ll have to check out the competition posts for the pics of the trio!

Thanks gobert! That's a tidbit I haven't heard about Mao (although truth be told, I don't know that much about him at all ) One of these days I'm gonna learn how I can put in another thread uploaded gallery pics in this one, withput having to resort to spoilers, because the picture isn't shown as a thumbnail.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:Really like the plasma Inceptor squads, did you have any issues with the flight stands?

You should be very pleased with the results on The RT lady, her jacket looks great with that pattina esque effect, you say it was a lazy job but if you can get it looking like that I would say the lazy way is the way to go.

Thanks ListenToMeWarriors! I'm not sure if the flight stands had issues with me, but I did not like working with them. Some time ago I had no qualms with my Kharadron Overlords and hope that the Seraphim will also go on better. I believe the minis are a little to heavy for the contact point, but I didn't want to magnetize.
And good to know, that my effect really doesn't seem to look lazy

Captain Brown wrote:Nice work there Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown!

And now to my half year review, seeing how I set myself some goals at the beginning of the year. Let's check them and use Nevelon's traffic light system to see, what I have achieved.

Warhammer 40k/Kill Team

Goals:
Paint the last primed Space Marines (16 infantry models, 2 tanks and 1 dreadnought) Well, I painted the three Inceptors, 5 assault marines and 5 Intercessors. Still some stuff left, but getting there.
Build and paint the 5 intercessors, 5 incursors, 5 infiltrators, 5 hellblasters and 3 aggressors still on sprue Everything is still on sprue
Start a sisters army, army box is already in progress and I will first add (probably) 2 seraphim and 2 zephyrim squads to that to build an angelic host led by celestine and her gemini That is in progress, I now have 10 of the box models painted and another 10 woman squad from a normal box is done.
Paint the Rogue Trader Kill Team and terrain from the box Nope
Finish the last 4 Blackstone Fortress Heroes I painted the Navigator, but the other three are still awaiting paint.
Build and paint the Combat Arena heroes Did the Rogue Trader of this set this year, Crusader and Psyker were done in 2019. So only Techman and Servitor left, but still on sprue.
Paint Ghor Half-Horn He got painted alright!
Build and paint Greyfax Still on sprue

Stretch Goals:
Build and paint an Adeptus Mechanicus Kill Team roster consisting of 10 Skitarii and 10 Sicarians 6 Sicarians are primed (well since 2018), but I haven't done anything to get them closer.
Paint my Kastelan Robots and their master Nope
Strip my Adeptus Custodes and repaint them (or sell them) Counting them as green, after not liking my new test scheme I sold them
Paint the rest of my deathwatch (app. 20 models) Now it's only 5 models and a flyer, sold three squads, have enough deathwatch for a small inquisition force.

Age of Sigmar/WarCry

Goals:
Build and paint at least 1.500 points of ogor mawtribes I painted 2 Gluttons and a Leadbelcher (ok, orange is probably too generous). But the army is shelved for now, gonna tackle them in 2021, have no motivation to do so now.
Build and paint an Ossiarch Bonereapers WarCry Warband Nearly there, 3 Mortek Guard left plus some big boys and skellies on horses.
Build and paint the WarCry terrain That I did!
Paint the already primed or WIP Kharadron Overlords models (3x Skyriggers, Lord Big Hat and the ironclad) Counting that as orange, because I painted the not mentioned 5 Thunderers and a Arkanaut test model. Need to pick up the pace here.

Stretch Goals:
Paint some of the already primed stormcast Nope, but they moved out of a drawer and into the light.

Other stuff

Goals:
Paint Hellboy, Abe Sapien and Liz from the Hellboy Board Game
Convert 10 cars for Gaslands and build a little terrain or whatever will be needed for the track

Stretch Goals:
Paint the other heroes from the Hellboy Board Game Did nothing of that and may lay that of for the time being.

I'm not that surprised, because me and plans don't often get along well and I got easily distracted with other stuff I had lying around or bought. All in all I'm actually very happy, because despite the time that WarCry terrain took, I managed to paint 89 minis in 6 month and if I keep that pace, I will surpass last years 150 (infantry) minis painted.
What made me especially happy when getting out all the minis, was the more diverse paint schemes. I still have my love for green, blue and purple showing, but the WarCry bands made it easy to test some other colors and not comitting to them for a whole army.

The goal for the second half is just to get stuff from the foothill of embarrassment (it's not really enoug for a pile of shame) done til the end of the year so that in 2021 I may buy a box, build it, paint it and not just put it into a shelf We'll see how that will work out.

And now some pics of everything painted.

Well done!

Awesome that they have the arena to stand in and be applauded.

That’s a great half year review there. Reminds me to step away from the printer and pick up some brushes. All just in time to get called back to work soonish.

Really impressive stuff. 80 miniatures is no small potatoes! And high quality work too. It's like climbing a mountain, I suppose - the peak never looks any closer until you're right on top of it, so you gotta keep looking behind you to see the progress that you've achieved.

That is a cracking collection for the six months Viterbii. They are set off really well by the arena and Warcry terrain as well. And some solid progress on your goals as well. No point beating yourself up over what you haven't achieved, just be glad of what you have.

Looks stunning. Most impressed. The arena with everything in is just epic. Great stock take too.

I also like how you photographed in the arena, it looks very nice like that. I'm impressed with how much you accomplished in six months.

Viterbi,

Exalted.

Still loads of painted figures and terrain in your arena, even if you did not meet all your goals.

Cheers,

CB

That’s awesome Viterbi! Now I think you need to have a game with them all to see who wins, Battle Royale style! Good luck with the second half of the year

youwashock wrote:Well done!

Awesome that they have the arena to stand in and be applauded.

Thanks youwashock!

Theophony wrote:That’s a great half year review there. Reminds me to step away from the printer and pick up some brushes. All just in time to get called back to work soonish.

Thanks Theo!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Really impressive stuff. 80 miniatures is no small potatoes! And high quality work too. It's like climbing a mountain, I suppose - the peak never looks any closer until you're right on top of it, so you gotta keep looking behind you to see the progress that you've achieved.

Thanks Don Qui Hotep! And the challenge with our hobby is, that we always work on building a higher peak

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:That is a cracking collection for the six months Viterbii. They are set off really well by the arena and Warcry terrain as well. And some solid progress on your goals as well. No point beating yourself up over what you haven't achieved, just be glad of what you have.

Thanks ListenToMeWarriors!

inmygravenimage wrote:Looks stunning. Most impressed. The arena with everything in is just epic. Great stock take too.

Thanks Graven!

Syro_ wrote:I also like how you photographed in the arena, it looks very nice like that. I'm impressed with how much you accomplished in six months.

Thanks Syro_

Captain Brown wrote:Viterbi,

Exalted.

Still loads of painted figures and terrain in your arena, even if you did not meet all your goals.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown!

gobert wrote:That’s awesome Viterbi! Now I think you need to have a game with them all to see who wins, Battle Royale style! Good luck with the second half of the year

Thanks gobert! That would be funny, 89 go in, only one comes out! And if that were the case, I would hedge my bets on the Rogue Trader. She'll probably form loose alliances, play everyone against each other and stab the last guy with her leg

Updated the "what I want to paint before I start building new stuff" to something more manageable and made a start on the next 12 minis from that pile. gobert's work on his Space Marine Heroes made me finally tackle the four waiting primed ones and also repaint their ML buddy so that he gets the same nice blue color as his peers.
Aggressors got the Terradon Turquoise treatment and will be more in line with the old Coelia Greenshade models.
And last but not least the 5 Seraphim from the sisters battle box. Got the cloth blocked in and shaded.

Everything is looking like it is off to a good start. The updated Marine will fit right in. Really liking the Aggressors.

The arena is fantastic. Fighting either in or around that would be awesome.