Nevelon wrote:


One down, 4 to go. Still need to base, but I tend to do that in batches.

VERY nice work! Great colour choices and very good painting. Everytime I see the current title of this blog 'The Dead Walk' I am reminded of that newspaper flipping in the wind in the opening to George Romero's 1985 Day of the Dead film. Intentional or unintentional, nice reference. Good luck working on your undead!

The reference might have seeped into my subconscious, but the truth is I’m not a huge fan of zombies movies. Pretty sure Day of the Dead is not one I’ve seen.

Everyone got their black layer down this morning. Working through the basecoats.

Awesome news that you're getting the launch box. Those things are fun, and good value for money too. Vamps are looking great so far!

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Awesome news that you're getting the launch box. Those things are fun, and good value for money too. Vamps are looking great so far!

So the box showed up. Did a quick survey and thumbed through the book quick on my lunch. Should be fun. I hope the grave guard have some options and pose-ability, as it’s 4x the same sprue.

PtG anvil of apotheosis looks to be a hoot. We’ll see what kind of monster I can make. Mwahaha


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So one of the things in Path to Glory AoS is you get to build your own character. There are 3 tiers, which cost 150, 250, or 350 points. You start with a base profile, and add bits and features. As we are partway into the campaign, I’ve been stockpiling Ember shards (the currency similar to requisition points for 40k crusade) waiting for the book. I’ve got 5 banked, and it would be 3/4 for the 150/250.

In an ideal world, I’d have the new mounted vampire lord. But he’s not even released yet, and even after that I’d need to buy/build/paint him.

So do I just tap a Blood Knight (conveniently, I have finished painting one) to count-as while I wait? Or go big, and use my Manfred as a counts as for the larger option?

Budget (15 DP):
-3DP Martial Vampire (Wizard 1, Move 6, Gets 5A 3+to hit, 3+ to wound, rend 1, D2 crit=2hits)
+4DP Flaw: Repulsed by the sacred (can’t make ward save if a priest is in 12”, or vs prayers. One of the guys is actually bringing one, so this is a real disad.
-5DP Undead mount (Move 10, +3 health bringing him to 8, save 5+, some lame attacks)
-4DP Macabre Panoply (Save 3+)
-5DP Blade Master (+2 attacks)
-2DP Swift (+2 move)

Monster (35 DP)
-3DP Martial Vampire (Wizard 1, Move 6, Gets 5A 3+to hit, 3+ to wound, rend 1, D2 crit=2hits)
+4DP Flaw: Repulsed by the sacred
-20DP Mighty Grave Beast (Move 12, Health 16, OC 5, Save 4+, Fly, 7A hitting on 4+, wounding on 2+, 2 rend, 2D)
-5DP Blade Master (+2 attacks)
-5DP Feed on Sorcery (on a 3+ pick an enemy unit. they can’t make ward saves for the round, monster get +1D for the round)
-3DP Ancient skill (Vamp hits on a 2+)
-3DP Unholy Str (vamp wounds on a 2+)

Now optionally, I could boost the horse guy all the way up. Start running out of things to buy, but could kit him out to be a right blender. But it seems like if I’m going big, the monster just brings a lot to the table. But thematically, a mounted vamp on a nightmare steed has alway lead the charge.

Horse Lord (35 DP):
-3DP Martial Vampire (Wizard 1, Move 6, Gets 5A 3+to hit, 3+ to wound, rend 1, D2 crit=2hits)
+4DP Flaw: Repulsed by the sacred (can’t make ward save if a priest is in 12”, or vs prayers. One of the guys is actually bringing one, so this is a real disad.
-5DP Undead mount (Move 10, +3 health bringing him to 8, save 5+, some lame attacks)
-4DP Macabre Panoply (Save 3+)
-5DP Blade Master (+2 attacks)
-2DP Swift (+2 move)
-3DP Ancient skill (Vamp hits on a 2+)
-3DP Unholy Str (vamp wounds on a 2+)
-4DP Grave Lancer (+1D on charge)
-4DP Cursed Weapon (crit mortals)
-3DP Deathless Hunter (Gets Anti-X (+1 rend) probably cavalry)
-3DP Become the Swarm (when killed, explode into swarm and do mortal wounds before being removed)

I’ll mull it over and chat with the guys at the store.


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And so it begins…

Edit: and the next 5 also built. All with great weapons. Next squad will be sword and board. And while I know I can have 1 standard and musician per 5 guys, screw that. 2x10 man squads with one each.

Heads up for anyone building these guys: it days to build the drum as a sub assembly and then attach it. As the strap goes to the opposite shoulder, it would probably be better to leave it in parts before attaching it. I had to bend it a little to get it to fit.

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And just primed. might be a little humid out, but the temp was good. I’ll check them in a few. Hopefully went on clean.

Making good progress.

How are you going to paint those banners?

Honestly, banners are probably going to be a basic red.

I’m not a freehand guy. I do it occasionally, but it’s basic at best. Trying to get a coherent pattern on a tattered flapping ruined stretch of cloth is not going to happen.

Doing a few more touch up passes on the stuff on the bench. Not a huge fan of the vines on the black knights. I get it for them on gravestones, but mounted knights? Plus they are fiddly. not a fan.


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Edit: finished drilling guns and assembling the 5 intercessors I’ve been picking away at. Build plate is now clear for more undead. Not that the intercessors stopped me from doing the 10 grave guard…

Getting while cleanup passes. Which is a lot of work. First 3 have rough passes with the big brush, then will need the fine pass to get the small stuff. Blood knight 2 is done, just finishing their shield. Next one is down and ready to start.

Flocked them on my morning break. Not sure if I’m going to get the black knights done by the end of month, should probably pick 5 minis from the month and get the formal shot.

Pretty cool cavalry. Good luck in the comp.

Very nice. I really like how the eyes came out on the horse.

youwashock wrote:Pretty cool cavalry. Good luck in the comp.

I really like the Blood Knights. Looking forward to the rest.

Tommygun1918 wrote:Very nice. I really like how the eyes came out on the horse.

Just a splash of red wash in the socket, nothing fancy.



Black knights done, on to baseing. And I need to finish the shields. Going to push to get them done tonight so I can pick one to represent them in the comp. Need to pick 5 minis, and it’s quite the selection.

Quite the selection is a nice problem to have, right? Now me, I got my entry done a while ago, but the problem is I've been slacking for the rest of the month mostly.

Not quite 32 models this month. I got a little head start on the foot vamp, so she gets to sit out the comp. Which is crazy fast for me. More work on the shields, rocks and tufts down. Few more licks of paint, swipe in the flock, and the knights will be done.


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So done with these guys. They did not age well. They bug me more then the hexwraiths, who are built from the same kit. But I painted them 8 years ago. Kits have got a lot better in that time. Looking forward to building the new ones and getting them painted.




1-a-week is my painting goal. This was April. To be fair, skeletons paint up pretty quick. Not a huge amount of detail, and when you black wash everything it’s quite forgiving.

And here is the pic 5 for the comp:

The Varghiest and Black Knight are there mostly to be representatives of their units. If I was to pick out my personal favorites, they would not make the cut. Probably swap out for a few more skeletons. I do like the newer kits. Not enough to get the brand new one, although they look good. I’ve got 10 more on sprue, and 10 in the primed pile. 2 blocks of 20 should be overkill for my army building needs, as they are not my focus.

Next up is to continue to work the blood knights across the monster handle, paint the gravis apothecary for May’s challenge, and work the grave guard across the bench. Starting with the 10 I have primed.

Next build will be the new mounted wights.

Just a quick proof of life. I’m afk for the week, so no pics or progress.

Before I left I put the first reds on 4 grave guard. Also magged the bases pf all the undead knights, painted and primed.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Outstanding work on the vampire knights Nev.

I noticed there wasn't a drop of blue in your army... burned out on blue by Ultramarines?

Gitsplitta wrote:Outstanding work on the vampire knights Nev.

Thanks! 3 more to go for the squad, and the new HQ announced today!

Lathe Biosas wrote:I noticed there wasn't a drop of blue in your army... burned out on blue by Ultramarines?

My different armies have different palettes. My vamps are silver/red/black. Nighthaunt have some blue, but it’s more turquoise. My old school fantasy chaos warriors used the same blue ink as my Ultras as an accent color. It’s not that I’m burnt out, just a different paint scheme.

I kinda was to break out a color wheel and plot the shades used by my different forces, just to compare and contrast. I hit a lot of the same notes on a few of them.

Im amazed of the speed you manage to keep painting new things in! Great job!

Nilfisken wrote:
Im amazed of the speed you manage to keep painting new things in! Great job!

My current pace is not sustainable. We are a third of the way into the year, and I’ve already painted 76 minis, which is more then I manage to get done some years. I can get these numbers doing basic low detail troop units to table-top levels. Basic skeletons, nighthaunt, tyranid gaunts. Anything requiring detail work or highlighting (like marines) is not that quick. And I have finite stocks of those kind of models. That said I could probably manage another two months like I just did before running dry. One to clean out the nid pile, and one for more soulblight. Although I’d need some build time to prep for the later. I’ve got 10 more skeletons, 10 grave guard, 5 knights, and the wight lord to build. And the new vamp who I’ll grab at the end of the month. Add those to the 10 wights I’ve got in progress, and that would be another month like April. Although the grave guard have more detail bits then the skeletons. Plus the CC stuff and the 10 old crappy skeletons currently in the primed piled.

I could continue to burn hot, but would run out of steam sometime mid summer, and fall back into my more normal 1-a-week pace for the rest of the year. That said, I would not be surprised for my total model count for the year to be in the 150-175 range. Potentially as high as 200, but I doubt it.

Nevelon,

"150-175 range. Potentially as high as 200" That is a lot of figures to paint...although I have seen your other painted armies and the numbers in their ranks.

Cheers,

CB

My whole Custodes army isn't that many models.

How many armies are you building?

1. Eldar
2. Tyranids
3. Ultramarines
4. AoS Skeletons

 Quixote wrote:
My whole Custodes army isn't that many models.

How many armies are you building?

1. Eldar
2. Tyranids
3. Ultramarines
4. AoS Skeletons

30k ultras in addition to the 40k, some scraps of deathwatch and nighthaunt, random minis etc. i’ve got the necron half of the 9th starter I’d like to build. Right now the primed pile is about 150 minis deep. Pile of shame is not huge, but there are 25 soulblight at the top on the sort list of stuff that needs to be built, over 2 dozen 30k marines, the necrons, and then assorted scraps of projects that go deep.

I’m not “building” most of my armies. Soulblight are the only one that’s really in that category. I have armies I slowly (and not so slowly) add units to. The Ultras and Nids are still flush with new kits from the drop of 10th. Eldar are a long standing side project that’s slow burning in the background. The AoS armies were similar, but have been kicked into high gear recently.

I’m fairly good about resisting shiny model syndrome, but not immune. And sometimes the big bundle boxes take a while to work through.

Slowly chipping away at the pile of shame and it grows. Although one of my yearly goals it to make sure I paint more then I buy.

One of the things I'm jealous of you for is your ability to keep to a steady pace of work. I tend to go in fits and starts, where I'll do nothing for a couple of months and then bang out a bunch of stuff in just a week or two. Then get burnout from doing that whole bunch of stuff so fast and the cycle repeats. I gotta quit making excuses at this point and just get some painting done every day or two, even if it's just a coat here or there on random models. And even if I think I'm too tired. Occasionally I change it up and do assembly instead, as these days I've got models still in their boxes. That helps with the monotony.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
One of the things I'm jealous of you for is your ability to keep to a steady pace of work. I tend to go in fits and starts, where I'll do nothing for a couple of months and then bang out a bunch of stuff in just a week or two. Then get burnout from doing that whole bunch of stuff so fast and the cycle repeats. I gotta quit making excuses at this point and just get some painting done every day or two, even if it's just a coat here or there on random models. And even if I think I'm too tired. Occasionally I change it up and do assembly instead, as these days I've got models still in their boxes. That helps with the monotony.

Slow and steady wins the race. I have the luxury of a large dedicated hobby space. So I can just zip down and slap a layer on, and not have to deal with set up/break down times. And have multiple projects and builds set out and ready to go. If I’m tired I don’t do detail work, but can still clip models, clean mold lines, or sloppy basecoats. While I do build models all week on the side, I like to reserve Sunday mornings to cleaning, while I listen to the retro-music Sunday Rewind on the local radio. (WEQX 102.7, 9:00-11:00 eastern, they stream if you are out of broadcast range)

I don’t make it to the bench every day. Especially if I’m at an irritating stage like finicky edge highlights. Which not only do I dislike, but requires me to be awake, calm, and not drinking coffee or alcohol. But I find the making an effort to sit down daily, even if I’m just putting a single color down on one model, make the progress happen. And sometimes I’ll have way more productive sessions. Mix up your subjects. I’d go mad if it was all Ultramarines, all the time. Find what other motivation you can. This Path to Glory campaign has given me a lot of motivation to get my soulblight done. And I have, at astonishing speed. Blogging helps me keep pace as well. Different people have different ways to motivate. Find what works for you and keep at it.

Or not. It’s a hobby, not a job. If you need to take a few months of minimum hobby or time off, to play the latest video game, do that. Models don’t go bad; they will be here when you get back. As will the community. Find what brings you joy and embrace it.

Awesome stuff man, good work!

I identify with that attitude of sitting down every day, even if the only progress I make is small. In fact, it's the small days that add the most progress because I'm not overburdening myself with the whole pile. I get a feeling of accomplishment and a finished project, eventually. I try to keep my eye on the here and now - the small thing I can achieve in one short session. I derive joy and triumph from every increment and ignore the end result. And then one day I sit at the bench and the project is complete. Time to start another.

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:In fact, it's the small days that add the most progress because I'm not overburdening myself with the whole pile. I get a feeling of accomplishment and a finished project, eventually. I try to keep my eye on the here and now - the small thing I can achieve in one short session. I derive joy and triumph from every increment and ignore the end result. And then one day I sit at the bench and the project is complete. Time to start another.

Truer words were never spoken.

Mega impressed with the night haunt. They look great en masse. What will you come back to focus on?

What’s currently on deck is the apothecary for the comp this month and grave guard. I want to get 10 of them done so I can switch entirely over to magnetic cases for them and stop using my old metals

Past that we’ll see what the comp topics are. And what the Q2 report shows at the end of June.

I've been wondering. Of all the miniatures you've painted over the last year, which has been your favorite to paint?


EDIT: Good at spelling am I? No.

Small steps can carry you a surprising distance. Good work on the recent Undead!

 Quixote wrote:
I've been wondering. Of all the miniatures you've painted over the last year, which has been your favorite to paint?


EDIT: Good at spelling am I? No.

Favorite to paint? Or favorite models?

Here are my top 3 models from last year.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/5160/528437.page#11721798

That said, I know I didn’t enjoy the process of painting the bike chaplain. Should have left him in more parts, hard to get a brush in places.

Anything with edge highlights is a chore, and less fun. It looks good, so I do it.

Armies like my nighthaunt, tyranids, and soulblight all paint pretty quick to a decent level. Which I enjoy. Easy hit of pleasure from finishing models. The wight king I had a lot of fun with and liked how he turned out.

I’d have to comb over my blog for my thoughts while painting. It’s harder to remember that over how I feel about the results.

Also built the first barrow knight and clipped the second. They go together pretty nice, but might be a pain to paint.

Huh. That front Barrow Knight looks well armed armoured.

How are you going to fix his base to look like the rest of your Marines, since he has his own terrain?

 Quixote wrote:
Huh. That front Barrow Knight looks well armed armoured.

How are you going to fix his base to look like the rest of your Marines, since he has his own terrain?

I usually put a little snow flock on the sculpted bases so they match.

Wights should be done with basecoats, but take a lot of touch up work. Vamp is getting layers. Apoth plodding along.

2 of the new knights built. enjoying building them so far.

Hope everyones weekend is off to a good start.

So time for some Sunday coffee musings.

The FLGS is doing an armies on parade, final is sometime in October. I’m planning on getting my Soulblight up and ready for that. One issue is army structure, what to include. My thought was both the old and new Spearhead, and a few units to round it out to 2k points. After the freeform 40k list building, needing to get everyone in a regiment is weird. Especially for a character centric army like vampires.

The Spearheads:
Vamp of foot
- 3 vargheists
- 5 blood knights
- 20 skeletons

Wight King on foot
- 5 barrow knights
- 10 barrow guard
- 20 skeletons

While I could do 40 skeletons total, I plan to just keep it to 20 to share.

Add to that:
Vamp on nightmare
- 5 barrow knights
- 10 barrow guard

Wight king on steed


Shuffle around the regiments for a little theme:
1950 points of SBGLs

Vamp of foot
- 3 vargheists
- 10 barrow guard
- 20 skeletons

Wight king on steed
- Wight King on foot
- 5 barrow knights
- 10 barrow guard

Vamp on nightmare
- 5 barrow knights
- 5 blood knights

This is most, but not all of what I own. Painted I have Manfred and the bloodborn (which would take us to around 2,500 points) and the korsagi nightguard. Units which could be added are more CC characters, 20 skeletons, a mounted wight lord

To do:
Vamp of foot - Done
Wight king on steed - Done, should be re-based to 80mm round
Vamp on nightmare - Need to buy/build/prime/paint
Wight King on foot - Need to paint
3 vargheists - Done
20 barrow guard - 4 WIP, 6 primed, 10 need to bulid/prime/paint
20 skeletons - Done
10 barrow knights - 5 done, (2 built, 3 to build)/prime/paint
5 blood knights -2 Done, 1 WIP, 2 to paint.
Display Board: Need to plan/buy/build/paint.

From a painting POV that’s (not counting current WIP) 25 models. 30 if you count the stuff on the bench. Plus the display board. I’m planning on having this be my goal for the summer painting side quest challenge. Should be doable, especially if I can overlap with the regular challenge. Heck, I did that much in the month of April.

For the display board I plan on getting a frame and using the sheet of metal I have left. Pick up something color matched close to goblin green, spray glue, and undercoat and flock it. Part of me is curious if I could make it double sided and snow flock the back, so I could flip it around as needed. I am also going to try to paint up some of the random scatter minis from CC to spice it up a little. Undead black cats, hanged skeletons, gravestones. If I was more of a hard-core player, I’d grab the faction terrain. But for $80 for something marginally useful for my list? Thinking “No”.

Now this is a 2k list with some restrictions (keeping units from both spearheads) Thematically it’s a little too foot-centric for me. I keep looking at the box that’s got the snake vampire, 10 wolves, 3 bats. I really want the wolves. Stat-wise the bats seem lackluster? For 20 more points you get vargheist, which are tougher, hit harder, etc. I’ve already got way to many heroes, and don’t like the look of the vamp But if you want the wolves/bats, she’s a free extra. Alternatively, grab a box of wolves and see if I can pick up another unit of vargheists from ebay from people splitting the spearhead. Or grab a second spearhead myself. Another 5 blood knights would not be out of place. But how much we spending on a secondary army? No rush. I’ve got enough planned to keep me busy for the summer.


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So hit the FLGS and got a game in. I was actually down last week, but only got a couple turns in due to some issues, so not able to complete a game.



Against my nemesis the chaos player, who has kicked my teeth in the other two times we’ve clashed. But this time I’ve got a new army book, and the ritual has been ccompleted and my vampire lord on nightmare has been forged on the anvil of apotheosis. Proxied by a blood knight until his model releases next week.

Mission is to hold the objective at the end of the game.

First turn I push forward, angling towards the objective, but closing the distance. No contact.
His turn he also keeps the range open, edging closer and moving towards the objective.\

I win the priority, and keep the turn order. I sanguine blur my foot vamp and move the mounted lord aggressively up to mug his lord. He counter charges with one of his knight units. My skeletons and vykos pile into the chaos warriors (which lasted the rest of the game as a horrid grind). I almost dropped his lord on the charge with my mounted lord, but he had a 6+ ward save, and healed a wound for each save he made. He ended up alive with one wound left. He swung at my foot vamp, and shaved 4 out of 5 wounds off her. In response, she pulls him off his horse and opens up his neck, conveniently healing up all her wounds in the end phase by killing him. His knights may have put a wound on the mounted lord (his dice were cold most of the game) but if he did I just healed up.

My mounted wights failed their charge and hung back.

His turn he falls back out of combat with one unit of knights to make room for the other unit to plow in. Plus the Minotaur guys. They put the hurt down on my mounted lord, making him flee the battle in a swarm of bats (killing him, mechanically. He’s got an ability that does mortal wounds to all enemies around him when he dies with a fun special effect). The grind continues in the midfield.

I win priority again, maintain turn order and go next.

Foot vamp pulls the sanguine blur to relocate next to the sorcerer. Mounted units make some long charges to tag the knights, although the lord can only reach to sorcerer. He kills it, my knights light into his, as does my vamp. Kill 2 of them. Some wounds in return, but not enough to kill anything.

He chooses to retire from the battle, maintaining his forces and ceding the field.

Victory to the Soulblight!



I warned him that my new mounted vamp hit like a truck. So I don’t feel bad about taking a tricked out vampire lord. To be fair, Nevelon the Betrayer has been dropping Chaos Lords since WHFB 5th edition. Not many things in the World that Was could cross swords with Chaos generals, but a moderately geared vamp was one of them. Nice to see he still has it. We were both using mid-tier heroes, so it was actually a fair fight. As opposed to before, where his lord would basically run rough shod over my army.

New rules feel stronger then the index rules, but not crazy so. And some of them didn’t even come up. I feel like I’m in a good place, and am being better about remembering my rules. Although I do end up spending a lot of time flipping and checking, and forgetting stuff. So many bonuses tucked in odd places. Even with the cards it’s hard to keep track.

Next up for the wights is to clean up the straps a little and the bone. Then wash.

Medic should be almost done with basecoats.

Vamp is slowly getting there.

Built the 3rd barrow knight. 2 more basic lancers left.

Build progress. Pics of the barrow guard waiting for baseing. Apoth progress.



So looking ahead, what’s on deck for the summer?

Competitions:
June is Slow and Steady.
July is Sidekicks
Summer is a mega open round.
By October I want to have an army on parade done.

I have 4 barrow guard on the handles now, but haven’t started them. I think I’ll do them for June, as undead footsloggers fit the topic well. I’ll try to get the second 10 built (they will be sword and board) and maybe get them all done in the month.

July is sidekicks. I was thinking of some of the markers/little guys from the CC set. But also might do some of the wight characters. In the world of the Soulblight Gravelords, they are second fiddle to the vampires. At least in my army.

The summer quest is going to be the AoP. I’ve got my goal a few posts up.

We’ll see what the August comp is and if I can fit more into it. I’m not going to be reserving any project on a “what if” and in an ideal world will be mostly done by then. Unlike most past years I don’t have any summer vacations planned, so hobby time should be good. I might even blow a week of PTO for a staycation. we’ll see.

Short term plans are to keep building, and get some gaunts on the handles and get some nids done this next week. Next week I’ll start in on the undead, and keep pushing those all summer.

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The HH 3.0 stuff looks cool, but not a huge fan of Mk II or the saturnine stuff. Not enough to spring for another giant box when the last one is largely unbuilt. I still have a HH army on the back burner, and might pick up some things (like breacher shields) to add to it. I’m not planning on investing in the rules for this edition. I’ll build stuff to be compliant with the last rules, and see where I stand when 4th rolls around.

So much progress! Looks amazing.

When you're done, can I mail my army to you to finish for me?

I'm amazed how fast you paint.

blockade23 wrote:So much progress! Looks amazing.

Lathe Biosas wrote:When you're done, can I mail my army to you to finish for me?

I'm amazed how fast you paint.

Slow and Steady! Even at my recent elevated clip I still have a few years of backlog to work through. And that’s just the built, on-deck stuff. And not buying anything new. While the Pile of Shame is not crazy huge, it’s got a lot of stuff in it. especially if I start to really dig.



So set up the plan for the Army on Parade. Some stuff to buy, build and paint. But all summer to do it.

What is your Armies on Parade board you're using?

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
What is your Armies on Parade board you're using?

This is just for size. It’s half the board used for Spearhead.

The plan is to get a picture frame, and use that with some sheet metal to make a magnetized flocked tray. Size should be roughly 15"x22"

 Nevelon wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
What is your Armies on Parade board you're using?

This is just for size. It’s half the board used for Spearhead.

The plan is to get a picture frame, and use that with some sheet metal to make a magnetized flocked tray. Size should be roughly 15"x22"

Wow. You're going all out on this. That's really awesome.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
What is your Armies on Parade board you're using?

This is just for size. It’s half the board used for Spearhead.

The plan is to get a picture frame, and use that with some sheet metal to make a magnetized flocked tray. Size should be roughly 15"x22"

Wow. You're going all out on this. That's really awesome.

To be fair, I already have most of what I need. When I first started making magentic boxes I bought a large sheet of steel. Enough for ~10 boxes IIRC. I made 4 to start. But it was a PITA. When I found I could just get pre-cut sheets roughly the right size, I did that for the next batch, and will do so moving forward. I think the sheet left is about 24”x18”. So it will just need a little trim to get down to size.

I either need to buy some camo green spray paint, or just mix some cheep craft paints to get something close to the right shade of goblin green. Don’t want bare metal showing though.
Spray glue the surface
Scatter flock.
Spray glue again to lock it down
Put in frame.

I want to check the local craft stores for frames. But I can get something from Amazon for like $20-25.
Spray glue and paint should not be more then $5 a can, but will need to checck the hardware store.
I have flock, but even if I didn’t, it’s like $15 for a lifetime supply of Woodland Scenics.
The metal would be the major expense if I didn’t have it already. Probably $40-50ish. Assuming I couldn’t source something cheeper.

One trick is I’m going to try to make it double sided, with grass on one side and snow on the other.

So hit the FLGS for a game. Nobody was there for PtG, but a guy was looking for a spearhead game to get into the hobby. Didn’t quite have it, but subbed some black knights for blood knights and gave it a go.

His dice were really hot on the armor save for the trolls. they took forever to kill. solid anvil. But I managed to carve through, tableing him in the 4th turn. Fun was had, game was learned, all was good.

Got the purple on some nids this morning before heading ddown, not much else from the paint bench.

Picked up the mounted vampire lord, he’s next on the build front. Want him up and running ASAP.

Unholy glowup. If the weather stays nice, might be able to prime this afternoon.

Put the white contrast on the apothecary. Clean up of some details next. Some coverage issues I’m not sure I’ll go back and touch up. Han’t given him a good look post dry.

Vamp should be done with basecoats. Need to do a few cleanup passes and then inks.

Gaunts got their black wash this morning. Eyes/teeth/tounges and cleanup to go.

Edit:
I managed to prime yesterday. So 5 barrow knights, 5 intercessors, and the vamp lord ready to go when time permits.

There is no scale creep on Fenris...

New lord looking to be quite the impressive model. Can't wait to see how he turns out.

Good luck with the Army on Parade Nev.

Cheers,

CB

So he’s done. Kinda meh on him. Could be better, could be worse. Also got the 4 gaunts based and off to the YTD shelf. They are the last of the hormagants. They also let me check off the unit as completed. Doing really well for all my non-marine goals.

Ordered a frame for the display board. Slightly bigger (16x24) then I was originally planning. My target space is like 15x22 and a quarter inches. Due to some space being lost into the frame I was thinking of 16x23. Going with 24” means I just need to trim a couple inches off one side, which will be easier. Plus I think it’s a more standard poster size, and I was able to get it on sale.

I should read up on flocking boards instead of just remembering stuff I read about a few decades ago. I should also do a magnet grip test to see how much the flock interferes with holding on. If it’s too loose I’ll forgo the flock, and just mottle some greens and browns to make a backdrop for the army.

Almost done building the barrow guard. 4 more to go. The one issue with the kit is the lack of options for the standard bearer and the drummer. I did an arm swap for the banner, so one has a sword, the other a shield. Musician just has a slightly different hat, The last 2 guys I’m going to cut the pegs off of arms and play around with options, as I already build those bodies once with sword and shields. Should not be hard to get new poses out of them.

Quick update:
Finished building the barrow guard. Arms were a little fussy, but not horrible. So the last batch of 10 is ready for the to-prime pile. Might build the new wight lord next just to finish out the deathrattle box. or 10 more skeletons while I’m in the grove. Not sure what else is kicking around that needs work. I’ll have to shake the PoS and see what falls out.

Almost done with the WIP Blood Knight. She needs her eyes and a touch of red in her mouth, and basework. Hopefully move her off the painting handle tonight.

Finally got around to flocking the vamp/guard. Off to the YTD shelf. Or more likely the travel box.

I got a game in Sunday, didn’t get around to uploading.

Assassination mission, he needed to kill my general. I just can’t sit back and play tacticaly. I needed to charge in for glory. And due to the timeing, got slapped down. Should have been more patient. I also got to remeber not to get stick into his tarpit of chaos warriors, who tied up my mounted wights all game. I should just feed them a block of skeletons and call it a day.

The game was a loss, but after my general went down, I pivoted to collecting embershards, and got a chunk of those to help advance my army.

In painting news got some reds down. Need to pick up the pace a bit.


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Cut to fit. Had to shave about 2” off one side of the remaining sheet. If I had to do it again, I’d just by a four pack of 8x12 metal sheets (like what I got for the last batch of boxes). Nothing against the tin snips. They work a lot better for cutting a narrow strip then 8” wide chunks. This pass was a LOT easier then before.

Need to hit the hardware store for some green paint. Might skip the spray glue and just run some 50/50 water/PVA through a spray bottle. Saw them do that on a flock demo.

Layers going down.

Stuck some more magnets into bases as well. Will need at least one more batch; have the 10 wights I just build plus all the stuff on handles need them before this project is over.

Well, the End Times are surely upon us. Prepare your souls for the rapture. It took 123 tries, but my apothecary won the monthly challenge for me. Which wraps up my collection of medals.

Bronze:

Silver:

Gold:


It was a light month of entrants, and some of the normal medalists were not participating. But still a little surprised I did so well. Didn’t even share the win. While there was a 3-way tie for both 3rd and 4th place, I had 3 more votes then 2nd. Which while not a massive margin, is actually a fairly comfortable one. I think adherence to the theme did a lot of the heavy lifting here, as the paint is not much better then my normal middle of the pack table top standard.

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Got the browns down yesterday. Just a few more basecoats on this batch. Plugging along. Also picked up some flat green olive drab spraypaint at the store. I should have everything I need to get the board done now. Just need a decent day to spray.

Congratulations, Nev!

Thanks



I’ve packed a 1k Eldar list in case nobody showed up for AoS. Played it yesterday. I need a simpler list to keep on the back burner. I did OK for the first half, but crumpled badly in the second. So many things I forgot about that would have helped. Anyway, fun was had, game was played.

Congrads on the win. I don't know if my local shop has any painting contests.

Nice job on the top finish. That Apothecary turned out pretty sweet! I had a lot of fun painting that model too; it's probably the coolest of the Marines in the Leviathan set. Nice to see you getting some games in, too. I do look forward to how your Armies on Parade entry turns out. I kinda wish we had something like that locally, but the nearest GW stores are 2 hours away from me in either direction.

Tommygun1918 wrote:Congrads on the win. I don't know if my local shop has any painting contests.

ZergSmasher wrote:Nice job on the top finish. That Apothecary turned out pretty sweet! I had a lot of fun painting that model too; it's probably the coolest of the Marines in the Leviathan set. Nice to see you getting some games in, too. I do look forward to how your Armies on Parade entry turns out. I kinda wish we had something like that locally, but the nearest GW stores are 2 hours away from me in either direction.

One perk of having an actual GW store close. They do painting stuff. Armies on Parade, mini of the month comps, and other odd ones from time to time. Independent stores might run tournaments, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one do a painting comp. Before the GW in Clifton Park opened up, the closest official one was like a 4 hour drive (Which I never did)

There are always our local painting comps here on Dakka.

It does feel good to be playing again, but I need to up my game if I’m going to be playing more 40k. There are a lot of moving parts that you need to leverage to make things happen. Especially for Eldar.

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Flocked the board last night. Going to try to spray some glue on it to help fix it next.

Grave Guard should be done getting basecoats. Now for the extensive cleanup passes. And more work on the vamp.

Congrats on the win Nev, looks a lovely model and turned out really well.

Thanks



Cleaned up the reds on the wights. Plodding along.

Building the wight lord. Done with the horse body and most of the base stuff.

Some ramblings on making the display board. This is what I did, and might not be the best practice. We’ll see how well it holds up, as I’m still working on it.

Undercoating is important. It will show through the flock, so this is not a skipable step.

Dry times: don’t skimp. And when you test, test on the corner or somewhere. Not the middle, like an idiot.

My proccess:

Aquire parts. This will be a frame, a metal sheet sized to fit, paint, flock, PVA glue, big brush, water, spritz bottle. Tin snips if you need to cut the metal. Drop cloth to keep paint overspray/glue in check.

Trim metal to fit. Do note that there will be a border that the frame will hide.

Paint the metal your base color. Allow to dry.

Coat with a thin layer of 50:50 glue/water mix.

Scatter a thin layer of flock. You might need to shake it around to make sure it’s evenly coated. Shake/tap off excess.

Allow to dry thoroughly.

Put glue/water mix into spritz bottle and mist it over the flock, allowing it to soak in, so it fixes it in place and helps prevent wear and tear. This is not just a light flock on a mini’s base that’s never going to be touched.

Wait for it to dry. Wait longer. Do not touch.

(do other side of metal in a different scheme because you are crazy and cheep)

Put in frame.

Secure. I might add some reinforcements here. This will depend on your frame. I suspect that that little metal fasteners on mine would be fine for keeping the metal in. But if I load it up like a tray full of minis, and held it by the edge of the frame something bad might happen. Like the middle would drop out and dump everyone onto the floor. Would be prevented by holding it not by the frame, but keeping fingers on the backer, but would be nice of there was more support. Screwing in some little brackets onto the corners might help.

I’ll try to grab some pics later. Right now the snow side is waiting to dry after the flock went down. I’ll give it a day or so to dry, mist it to fix, and give it another couple days.

5 more down. Puts me at 9/20. Last of the first 10 in progress now, 10 more built waiting for a nice day to prime.

While I wait for the weather...

Started one of the new barrow knights, and some random filler. Vamp is slow going in the back, but getting there.

Wight lord is done being built. I think technically I built the king version. Whatever. I’ll have 2 mounted wight HQs, can do one of each. While I like the rules for the king, the lord might actually be better in lists, as he’s significantly cheeper and gets a lot of work done.

The Boy gave me 3 SM primaris bikes for Father’s Day. I think they might be fun to run a squad of 6 with the chaplain. Although part of me wants to wait and see if we get a full bike kit with more options I could kitbash them into. Not rush, the year is pretty packed with projects.

I'm having to wait for a window in the weather to get the rest of my Lumineth guys primed (did one with a brush so I could test my Fire Nation color scheme), not to mention my Tomb Kings and Kruleboyz. Lately around here the weather is some combination of rainy, extremely muggy, or windy. I learned my lesson the hard way last year about priming on a muggy day. Your undead are coming along nicely!

As for the bikes, I actually really like the Outrider models. And they work well with the bike Chaplain (you can even stick one of the Primaris Mario Karts in with them). They paint up nicely and do look good in the Ultramarines scheme.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
I'm having to wait for a window in the weather to get the rest of my Lumineth guys primed (did one with a brush so I could test my Fire Nation color scheme), not to mention my Tomb Kings and Kruleboyz. Lately around here the weather is some combination of rainy, extremely muggy, or windy. I learned my lesson the hard way last year about priming on a muggy day. Your undead are coming along nicely!

As for the bikes, I actually really like the Outrider models. And they work well with the bike Chaplain (you can even stick one of the Primaris Mario Karts in with them). They paint up nicely and do look good in the Ultramarines scheme.

I’ve had enough bad primes to be patient waiting for the weather to clear.

Most bikes have the issue of being big enough to get tedious halfway though to paint, and having hard to reach spots to get a brush on. IIRC the 3 I painted already were not the worst thing I’ve done, but certainly not the most fun on the bench. I can’t stand the look of the Mario Carts. On my list of things to do eventually is get a GSC Ridgerunner, swap the stubbers for bolt rifles, and stick a marine in the back manning a MM. Should be the same basic size, but not look it came out of a happy meal.

Getting more paint down this morning. I should figure out what I want to build next, now that I’m done with the Deathrattle box.

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there. Have a good one!

PtG game yesterday vs. my chaos foe. Who I think might be the only other active person in the league at this point. But that’s fine, he’s a great guy and the games are fun.

Mission is to hold objectives, bonus points if they are uncontested.

He goes first, pushes the green knights to the center, no combat (3 snake eys for charge rolls), but scores some points. on my turn I charge with the bulk of my army, while my degenerate vamps go to tangle with his mino guys. He countercharges the chosen, and manages to put down my mounted vamp, but I erase the knights. in the corner he kills the vykos, but I drop 2 of his big guys.

I win priority and take the double turn. I gum up his line with skeletons, and start working down the flank, pulling down his general and the chosen. The mino decides to leg it from the corner leaving me the objective.

I think I’m missing a couple of turns somewhere, I think we ran 3 before he withdrew and ceded the field. Or it might have just been that ugly. His army is tough and hits like a truck, but I’m getting better are remembering and utilizing my tricks.

Anyway, victory Soulblight.

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Got a lot of good painting done yesterday as well. The last barrow guard is ready to be based, and is the last model needed to go fully modern plastic for my army. Also finished 2 markers and put some layers down on the other stuff. Need to decide what to move down to the active handles.


Weather was nice this morning, so I primed the wight king, the last 10 barrow guard, and the spearhead terrain (which was waiting)

edit: Duh, The goal this month is wights, so I’ll start cracking on more of them.

I love it when the pic seems fine until you upload it, and then the focus just decides to flake out.

Anyway, that’s the 10th barrow guard, and the last mini needed for my PtG list to be fully modernized. If I’m going to be moving armies around in mag boxes, I need to get a decent bag for rules and dice and stuff. I’ve got a messenger bag I use for RPGs, but it’s falling apart. And mostly full, but I clean a lot of crap out of it. Would still be nice to have a dedicated AoS/40k bag.

I should get some old vs new pics of all the units. Maybe wait until I finish the mounted vamp lord.

Also finished the pair of CC markers. Quick and fun. No use, but cute.

Mounted vamp is done. Needs magnets in his base, but that will happen soonish.

started putting color down on the next batch of wights.

Well, huge congratulations on collecting a Bronze, Silver and now Gold in the Monthly comp! That is very satisfying, you must be pleased.

Your display board is coming along. With colour and a base, it looks to frame your Army well. What is the deadline for it? I think October, but not sure if I half remember reading that or if I made it up.

I'm not an AOS player (never played a game), so when I look at your game pictures it all just seems a bit odd. It looks like a push them forward and fight type of game. I'm sure there is more to it though - how do you find the game?

I’ve not done a lot of the matched play style AoS, which has more depth/secondary objectives. It’s like 40k in that there is a lot of get to objectives and hold them. Spearhead has a deck of things to do to gain victory points as well (or use for boosts). Manuver and position do mater a little, but it’s not a rank and flank game where that’s key. Lot of play in what order you activate units in combat, as it’s back and forth. Command points, abilities, etc.

I enjoy playing. Maybe more then 40k. Some of it might be the crowd that plays it. While it might not be balanced (we’re still talking GW here) it seems better then 40k. Some of that might be the fact that the ranged firepower is not as intense, so units don’t get erased as casually, so even a bad matchup you still feel engaged.

The actual deadline for Army on Parade is sometime in October, but I’m going to try to get as much as I can done for the summer challenge.

Game yesterday. My normal chaos opponent wanted to try out his sylveneth, and there was a new player who wanted to step up from spearhead, so we mish-mashed a game with me at 2k and they were about that. Turns out they were a bit over, but whatever.

I needed to put some unpainted blood knights on the table to get to 2k, but I knew this and had packed them. In non-PtG play the mounted vamp needs to be fielded with them, or half his rules are useless.

Tree guys were using my own tricks against me, with a lot of healing and movement tricks. Made it hard to pin them down to focus fire them to death. I need to work better on my screening and pinning. A lot of my army really needs the charge. Ended up loosing the game, but it was fun.

Aroooo!


Got some dire wolves. I think they will add a lot to the army, both mechanically and thematically. They have a 10” move and and run and charge. 2 wounds each with a 5+/6++ at 10 wolves for 150 points seems reasonably tough for getting up the table and keeping things in place. 2 attacks each hitting on 4s wounding on 3s is not shabby for damage output, but not going to delete anything fast.

Thematically I like the wolves running around the hooves of the Blood Hunt as the vampire lord and his retinue ride to battle. Hunting dogs on the chase with their masters.

I’m trying to wrap by brain around the regiment system for larger games. I know it’s advantageous to have fewer “drops” as the person who finish deploying first chooses who goes first/second. Some characters let you take another as a sidekick, so you can get extra heroes. As an army, Soulblight is very HQ focused. But how many regiments do I want to include? I’m trying to keep it to 3 for a 2k list, might that might be too restrictive.

It does not help that I also like to keep things thematic. Mounted vamp with his hunt, Foot vamp the mistress of the fallen, who’s retinue is the devolved bestial vamps. That leaves the bulk of the army to try to cram into one regiment. I think the mounted wight king is a bit overpriced compared to the lord, but he would let me take an extra HQ. I really need a foot hero to hang with the barrow guard foot wights, but the vamp is often zipping around using sanguine blur to assassinate people and raise skeletons in the backfield.

Oh well. I’m sure I’ll figure something out.

Hope everyone’s weekend is going well.

Army ideas sound good to me. I like a good theme. Wolves should be a cool addition. Army board is coming along nicely. Looking forward to glamor shots for the big vamp.

I/m hoping to get this lot done before dragging the camera out for end of month shots.

But running out of time. I already have a batch done for the comp, but was hoping for more. Still plugging away…

So yesterday the FLGS was trying out a new game mode he’s working on.


He wanted to capture the feel of crowded skies over an apocalypse game, pitched battle with flyers zipping everywhere. One VP per kill, or for each objective held at the end of your turn. The thought was that people could drift in and out over the day and join a side with what they had in an ongoing fight. Unfortunately that was not conveyed particularly well in the event post, which suggested a 1k list of nothing but things with the Fly keyword. Which folks like me who has been here forever could do, but would be real hard for most people. I could have also brought close to 1.5k in Eldar.

Everything DS’s, everything recycles back from the dead next turn if killed. Custom strats in addition to your army ones. Clouds are obscuring and scatter.

We played 5 turns, vs. a 1ksons guy who had a lot of stuff on disks and wings. Fun was had. I lost. We talked a bit about refining the mission and the strats. It was a good start, but needed some tweaks.


ready for black wash. Put down the last of the touchups before coffee this morning. Once that dries it will be nuln oil, red for the eyes, and basing. Hope to finish them today. Then I need to do some EoM pics. And a halftime report, as we are basically done with June.



Dire wolves done being built. Not a bad kit, but had some issues. One was sprue layout. Models used numbers that were close, but there was no rhyme or reason to how they could be found over the 2 sprues. So a lot of hunting for bits. Went together pretty well. I didn’t try, but many of the heads seem interchangeable. Some had a hole for the tounge, which was part of the body; not sure if those could be swapped. 2 small deviations from the instructions. One wolf should have had a bit on his back snacking on him, but the ultra-thin leg snapped on srpue before clipping, so I just cleaned the rest off and built without. One also had some twigs growing through him (a common theme with GW zombies) did not like, clipped and cleaned.

Also cleaned up a tombstone and sword as trophies. I suspect that the Path to Glory is nearing an end, and thought I might give some bits to my main opponent to toss on the alter/scatter on bases.

When everything is packed up to take down to the FLGS it can be easy to overlook how much I’ve gotten done this year:



How we doing?

I wrote:Here are my New Year’s resolutions:
1 Paint 12 members for the primaris battle company 1/12
2 Paint at least 24 Tyranids, and strive to keep them PoS neutral. 18/24
3 Paint more than I buy. 99/40
4 Paint at least 3 units that have been in the primed pile/Pile of Shame for 3+ years
5 Update my blog at least once a week, and maintain a consistent pace of work (1 mini a week).
6 Paint at least two units for 4 different factions. 7/8
7 Enter and finish an entry every month for the painting challenge. If the monthly challenge stops, enter at least one comp in the year.
8 Paint a tank. 0/1
9 Get more games in. At least 6. -Done

1 - way behind. With the AoP focus on soulblight, this is going to have to be a fall priority
2 - Doing good. Might be able to bang out the last of these in scrap times at the end of the months. Or a dedicated push to clear all the remaining nids
3 - Solid here. I’ve picked up a number of things, but am getting them painted.
4 - I got one cent done before the undead took over. Might miss this one this year. The fact that minis qualify for this goal means there is no motivation on them.
5 - Blogging good, painting well ahead of goal. Like almost 2x my goal at halftime. Progress harkening back to my 4 mini a week goal of my youth
6 - The only thing keeping this from being done is I’ve not done 2 units of nids, Painting 3 more termagaunts will check this off.
7 - Actually won a month. Entry record continues.
8 - Nope. This is going to have to happen at the end of the year. I guess I could start one in the background as they don’t take up space on the handles. I should do that.
9 - Rocking this one. While I do occassionally miss a weekend, I am getting down to the store weekly. And almost always find a game.

So overall doing pretty good. The cocmpany/tank goals are way behind, but we still have half the year left. Although I suspect those are going to be crammed into Q4

I took more pics of what I’ve been up to, but need to edit them. Will get them up later in the week. Some tomorrow at least for the comp.

Added some Dire Wolves to the AoP. Probably need to tweak things to keep it to a 2k list. Not that it’s required, but I’d like to do it.

Very cool. A worthy successor. Keep up the good work and best of luck in the 2nd half!

Those Barrow Guard turned out fantastic! Your whole AoP is shaping up nicely so far. Also, I'm stealing your idea for doing a halftime report.

youwashock wrote:Very cool. A worthy successor. Keep up the good work and best of luck in the 2nd half!

Part of me wants to do a side by side, old vs new of all the stuff I’ve upgraded. Break it all out in the lightbox together. But that would be a solid afternoon’s work. Maybe as part of the year end wrap, when things head from the YTD to the display shelves.
Until then:
Nevelon:

Foot Wights/Grave Guard/Barrow Guard

Mounted Wight King/Black Knights

Foot Vamp

Skeletons

And still more to come...

ZergSmasher wrote:Those Barrow Guard turned out fantastic! Your whole AoP is shaping up nicely so far. Also, I'm stealing your idea for doing a halftime report.

I find that halftime/quarterly checkups help keep me on track. I know that not every goal is going to be 1/4th done every 3 months like clockwork. I just don’t work like that. But knowing what I’m behind on, what I’m ahead of the game with. That helps me decide what projects to work on, what to choose to enter in the monthly comps, etc.

Halfway done with the last skeletons. Actually snapped the leg on one of them (the champ) which is a known issue with the kit you hear people complain about. Those legs are fragile as heck. Luckily this on the leg ran along the robe at the break point so easy fix. Making 2 spearmen which will give me a full squad of ten, the rest will be sword and board, so I’ll end up with 2x10 man squads of them. Ignoring the old ugly ones. Gave the champ a shield from the barrow guard kit, as a nod to his position.



Layers going down.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Nevelon the Betrayer got quite the glow up! The side by side pics are cool, always great to see where you've come from and where you are now. How many years between the old and new, do you think?

I was pretty taken by the pictures of your aerial game mode game you played. It looks cool! And definitely unique. I'm pretty sure I remember an Imperial Aeronautica game - did you ever dabble with that?

 Zambro wrote:
Nevelon the Betrayer got quite the glow up! The side by side pics are cool, always great to see where you've come from and where you are now. How many years between the old and new, do you think?

I was pretty taken by the pictures of your aerial game mode game you played. It looks cool! And definitely unique. I'm pretty sure I remember an Imperial Aeronautica game - did you ever dabble with that?

He’s in the 98 catalog, but not the 97 one. which matches my recollection of being from the later 90’s. So 27-ish years. The large bulk of my old fantasy stuff is from WHFB 5th edition, which ran from 1996-2000. I still was collecting in 6th, but I think my old FLGS was closed at that point, and would have been married, which was a hit on my time and budget. So a lot less hobby stuff at that point. Plus I was playing a lot more 40k when 3rd dropped for that.

Aeronauticca is one of those game I like the concept of, but realized I should not get into. For one thing, the hobby budget is not infinite. And with specialist games, there may not be a local group who plays, and even if there is, at the rate I paint, will I get a force ready before the game is dropped and people move on?


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Kitty feedback time.

Painted this lovely little fuzzball, mostly as a test for the dire wolves. Exposed bone is the normal grey seer with the nuln oil that’s constant for all the skeletons/wights/etc. Black is black templar contrast with the nuln oil over it, like the manes of the varghiests, and shields for that mater. One thing I did was to edge where the skin meets the bone with BA red before the oil wash. So you get a little bit of the rotting flesh going on. I figure exposed entrails might get a little BftBG on them to glisten them up a little and add a more gory punch. But none here. gashes in the skin might get a little of the BA red in the cut, not sure if they would need the gloss.

Thoughts?

So plugging away. Bunch of stuff ready for basing.

I wanted the glossy finish that comes with my old black ink, but it flattened a lot of the details from the contrast paint on the raven. I really should pick up a pot of the gloss hardcoat got spot shines. I think I’d also like it on the black talons I have on things like the vargheists.

Blood knight is getting along. Most of the washes are done, Need to flesh wash the face, and clean up a lot of the black templar, before the final nuln oil wash for the steed.

Barrow knight I think just needs the bone cleaned up, and his oil bath.

King I think is in the final touch up step. I’ve been sporadically splashing paint around, so forget what step he’s on.

Moved the little demon guy down and put his base grey seer down. He’s the last of the monthly comp targets.

Question of the day is what to put on the free handles. I’ve still got barrow guard to do that I didn’t get to last month. But should probably also keep moving on the barrow knights. They have a lot of detail, and take some time. And part of me is going “start work on the puppies!” as they are a new unit, and not just adding another copy of an existing unit to my roster. But I think I need to clear out old projects before working on new ones. I could also do more random CC filler units. But would like to get more of the meat, less of the frills done.

Skeletons are done being built, waiting for a day to prime. Thunderstorming out there right now, so not today. Hope everyone’s weekends are off to a good start.

Got some finishing touches and flock down. Moved the last of the blood knights down and some silver on her. Put some paint on bits. Moved the next 2 barrow knights down but not started them yet. Month is halfway done, making good progress.

It has been a very productive period for you Nev!

I'm really enjoying these undead, there's just something about them - maybe I'm being influenced by the history of it being your army refresh project - but I think even without knowing that it, would definitely feel like a modern take on a WHFB classic between the crimson-and-steel colour scheme and the (very nicely done) static grass bases being reminiscent of the Goblin Green bases of old.

Thanks for sharing!