Base coated the last unit of 3 Enforcer bikers and base coated a unit of assault Enforcers. Also put the finishing touches on a unit of assault Enforcers. Army is coming along nicely...

First Sons of Horus models are lacking just gold parts, black armour plates(seems to be SoH thing), rivets and chainsword grips. Hoping to finish those and spraypaint primer for 24 leg+body combo and their heads(paint those, arms and backbag separately for ease of painting).

Finished assembling the parts for my Engine of the Gods, and putting together my son's first Stormcast Eternal kit.


Slightly irritated they go together so well, and are really nice sculpts upon closer inspection.

Converting starter stormcast prosecutors to have javelins and shields (40k assault marine shields since they're the only shields I have).

Still painting the AoBR Orks, getting a little burnt out and am going to do some bases to try and kick start some more energy.

Cheers,

CB

Objective archieved. First Sons of Horus done as far as I can until ordered stuff arrives. Terminators need just basing(for which I need stuff) and veterans need shoulder pads and combi weapon for sarge plus basing(all that are coming).

Started working on 13 bodies and primed 11 more + heads for all 24. These will be used to fill veterans and two heavy support squads.

just finished putting the finishing clear coat on a batch of 30k deathguard marines, and currently getting the base coating on leviathan dread that will walk beside them

Attempting to build a fifth Mordheim terrain piece...slowly assembling a table for a new campaign.

Paintin' initiates (cultists).

Getting a start on a beginner's purchase guide for X-Wing Miniatures for Imperials. Then going to work on my Human Blood Bowl team.

FW order should be on my hands today so guess who's spending time washing resin bits and assembling plastic pieces(Battle of Calth tacticals mainly)

Replacing my Mephisto red spray and hopefully getting my painting comp entry ready.

Just started on the wing-packs of my two celestant prime "counts as dreadknight" conversions. Just gotta finish them up and do some final details like runes and a couple more highlight layers on the swirly magic stuff and they're all done!!!

Finished the last of my Iron Man themed Enforcer jetbikes! All 12 bikes, 10 breachers and 10 assault defenders are done, half of the 30 assault marines and half the 20 peacekeepers are now finished. 50 out of 60 standard Enforcers, 40 pathfinders, 12 strikers and the 4 dropship/bombers still to go! And of course the remaining 10 peacekeepers and 15 assault marines. And characters. Probably almost 1/3 of the way done.

Captain Brown wrote:
Still painting the AoBR Orks, getting a little burnt out and am going to do some bases to try and kick start some more energy.

Cheers,

CB

That's what I've been doing off and on for years. I have two sets of AoBR Orks and a trukk.

For me I will work on my AoBR Orks and at the same time start working on my KoW Orcs.

Attempting to set up painting table to begin work on months of models

If I can get the table up - that'll be a start

Begun reading the Carnevale rule book and thinking about putting a table together for it. Might have to go do a research trip next week (any excuse!)

Also put pen to paper for planning out a new game room, early days but the space I have is tight so good planning is essential.

 Grensche wrote:

Captain Brown wrote:
Still painting the AoBR Orks, getting a little burnt out and am going to do some bases to try and kick start some more energy.

Cheers,

CB

That's what I've been doing off and on for years. I have two sets of AoBR Orks and a trukk.

For me I will work on my AoBR Orks and at the same time start working on my KoW Orcs.

Grensche,

I am on a mission to get them done. Finished another 5 today, so 5 more and that is it. Should have photos in my Ork PLOG in a week, but in the meantime I am posting the other Orks I finished every day or so.

Cheers,

CB

Waiting for my Deep Madness pledge manager email to arrive. Was supposed to be uncooperatively acquiring cake in Portal this evening but my 6.5 hour 1 hour journey home from work put paid to that. Screw you, Doris.

I spent the evening commanding a fleet of spaceships and nuked a city. It was a good evening.

I woke up this morning and said to myself:

"I want to start working on those HammerHead conversions."


So I did.


To be continued....

Primed 10 sigmarine liberators and 2 retributors.
One more wing and my 3 prosecutors will be built.

Putting right what once went wrong

By which i mean fixing the tank treads i put on the wrong way

Captain Brown wrote:

 Grensche wrote:

Captain Brown wrote:
Still painting the AoBR Orks, getting a little burnt out and am going to do some bases to try and kick start some more energy.

Cheers,

CB

That's what I've been doing off and on for years. I have two sets of AoBR Orks and a trukk.

For me I will work on my AoBR Orks and at the same time start working on my KoW Orcs.

Grensche,

I am on a mission to get them done. Finished another 5 today, so 5 more and that is it. Should have photos in my Ork PLOG in a week, but in the meantime I am posting the other Orks I finished every day or so.

Cheers,

CB

Haha very nice!

I'm just doing a "mass paint line" by doing torso's, then arms, heads, and any accesories seperately. I have more orks that a coworker gave me since he stopped playing 40K. Was rummaging through it yesterday and found MORE unpainted AoBR Orks. So I haven't even scratched the surface yet. Cheers!

After my one class and a club meeting today, going to try and finish up a test model for my Human Blood Bowl team.

Working on Pathfinders from the Warpath kickstarter and painting Strain models from Sedition Wars.
No matter how badly the game bombed, the minis are fantastic and a lot of fun to paint.

Undercoated more stuff, finished cataphract termies and started assembling vindicator laser destroyer. Wil keep assembling stuff from my order. Once undercoat is dried up I'll see if I need to wash more the resin pieces. If not I'll start assembling MKIV tactical marines.

Too bad need to clean room as well so bit limited on hobby time.

Locate Glue. Please

Drilling a bazillion metal turrets for dwars.
for magnetization

Cleaning and gluing a few Firewarriors

Doing zenithal pre-shading on Sloth for The Others.

Painting Orks, halfway through the last 5 AoBR Boyz...then some Grots, a Minder, a Mech, 3 Koptas.

Going to help a mate tonight with some epoxy and tools to help him with his first resin work and converting.

CB

finishing up a squad of Dire avengers and a Talos, cronos for my Ynnari

Then on to airbrushing the razorwing jetfighter this weekend.

Testing out some new Alclad II Paints I picked up today, working on a nice candy coat red.

Expanding my 15mm World War 2 Eastern Front forces with some 1:100 Zvezda kits.

That is a lot of little vehicles!

I am painting a box of tea. It will become a garage, in time.

Woke up and started assembling more Sons of Horus. Got second vindicator laser destroyer done as well as justicaerin terminators(minus one that needs parts coming later). Next up start painting MKIV tacticals.

 amazingturtles wrote:
That is a lot of little vehicles!

They're small kits with each one being about the size of a hotwheels car and most are less than 15 parts each, so it's kind of like assembling one or two larger kits.

I am painting a box of tea. It will become a garage, in time.

I love terrain made from stuff like that.

Still working on the Wraithguard and Falcon - but nearing the end. Did shades last night, so all I've got left is highlighting and detail work. Should be able to have them done for my league game a week from today.

So I am going to likely finish the last 5 AoBR Orks, then the last 2 Grots and Minder are on deck.

Ended up assisting a gaming buddy recover 12 Firewarriors and convert 6 tank crew models into Pathfinders. Not only did his army gain two units, but he is now excited about 40K again and getting his paint out to get these two units operational.

CB

putting some paint on a Dire Avenger... i've been at him for about a week now lol only 3 more after this one

Putting the finishing touches on my two remaining unfinished Chaos Sorcerers (yes, still on those guys). Also assembling yet more Dark Angels marines.

Giving a Konflikt 47 Spinne a Nebelwerfer. I really dislike the original model (its so chunky looking), so've been trying to find ways of remedying that. Original I was going to just give it a Luch's turret, but had none spare. God all those rocket tubes did my head in gluing them together though. :/

Played Rogue Stars and an intro review quick play of Star Trek Attack Wing this afternoon.

Currently painting two retributors for my AoS army (bring my squad up to 5).

They say picture says more than thousand words so...




Next several days I think will be doing these

building GSC heavy weapons teams

Task 1: Gems on my last Falcon and 5 Wraithguard
Task 2: Applying transfers across the army
Task 3: Take some pictures of the assembled horde.

EDIT: Mischief Managed:

Yesterday, we played 3v3. Each with 3000 pts. Played my Necron. We started at 10 am and at 6 pm the game was still tight. I had to leave then. Each army with one superheavy with 6 HP allowed. The game was very smooth. All veterans up to one player. Will see some repeat next time.

Assembling Prospero marines today.

Still getting my Tzeentch on...the horrors, the horrors.

Finished the AoBR Orks.

Cheers,

CB

 BigWaaagh wrote:
Still getting my Tzeentch on...the horrors, the horrors.

Tzeentch, Tzeentch, Tzeentch,Tzeeeeennnnntch!!

Finishing off Magnus, then on to Ahriman

Going to see if I can photograph the 15 AoBR Orks and some of the other models I have painted in the last week.

Cheers,

CB

Finished doing clean up of kabalite green for all the 54 tactical/veteran tactical/heavy support squad bodies for my sons of horus. Phew. I think I'll do edge highlights in smaller batchesh and start doing rest of pieces for them to break the routine!

nearly finished with the dire avengers and talos and cronos. Just have to apply some washes and highlights and grass on the base and they'll be good enough for now

also, building some custom wyches using some extra armor and the masked heads from the sigmar sisters of slaughter kit.

Work on some more of my Human Blood Bowl team. Along with that, start working on a test model for my Soviets.

Assembling some Lord of the Rings models I've bought, I've got plans for them for my Kings of War army. So, here we go, a Uruk Hai army Kings of War style.

Danor The Wizard (Saruman The White)
General with War Bow of Kaba (Lurtz)
Hero with Mace of Crushing on Horse (Sharku on Warg)
Army Standard Bearer (Uruk Hai Standard)
Army Standard Bearer (Uruk Hai Musician)
Militia Troop (Goblins)
Militia Troop (Goblins)
Militia Troop (Goblins)
Foot Guard Regiment (Uruk Hai w/Shields)
Foot Guard Regiment (Uruk Hai w/Shields)
Foot Guard Regiment (Uruk Hai w/Shields)
Heavy Pike Horde - Brew of Courage (Uruk Hai w/Pikes)
Berserkers Regiment (Uruk Hai err.... Berserkers)
Mounted Scouts Troop (Warg Riders W/ Bows)
Mounted Sergeants Regiment (Warg Riders W/Spears)
Mounted Sergeants Regiment - Caterpillar potion (Warg Riders W/Spears)
Ballista (Orc Siege Bow)
Ballista (Orc Siege Bow)
Cannon (Uruk Hai Ballista... Was thinking Siege Artillery originally but 'indirect fire' doesn't really make sense)

Maggie nearly finished

Finished building the custom wyches and all the edge highlights on the talos cronos. tonight is touch ups, priming on the new models and if I have time I'll break out the airbrush for basecoats

Going to seal some painted models.

Cheers,

CB

Working on some Tauros for my Guard.

Hopefully I'll get the skin and metals done on a few things this afternoon, depending on how much I have to do for uni this week

Built a final squad of Enforcer Peacekeepers (turns out I had 25!) and painted my Heroclix Maverick to be used in KM Marvel games.

Scale armour done, onto carving and sculpting shield designs.

Going to paint metals and black parts for 30 sons of horus tacticals. If still have time work on gold parts and the eye symbols plus heads and shoulder pads.

Finally got my Firestorm Armada fleet cleaned up and ready to rock. Cruiser detachment and a Battleship detachment - gonna prime them up and see what I can do painting wise.

Gonna try and finish up my Human Blood Bowl team. Also set up some goals for this month.

Going to try and paint the last two Grots and maybe the Minder if I get some time.

Cheers,

CB

touch ups on my talos and cronos for today, that's about it.

Continuing the slow grind through The Others by airbrushing on the basecolour shades for Sloth. And then swearing as my airbrush clogs up again because I'm trying to do too much before flushing it out.

Then building a D.O.G. drone for Monday's Deadzone game. Because burst laser enforcers are so damn pricey.

The Defend the Shrine mission from Codex: Witch Hunters using Blood Angels and Chaos Marines.

Finished the two mono-pose Gretchin and got the Minder half finished.

Cheers,

CB

Since I'm heading to meet family today less time and I have to fit models to project box which means the big pile of tacticals need to stay out(or rather the sprues of guns). So I take break from them(which have been progressing nicely. Need eye symbols and then shoulder pads and heads which I will take with me) and work on justicaerin and normal terminators this weekend. Also work on first rhino to see how it goes.

My painting style takes ages to get results but when results starts to come I get big chunks at once.

Weathering the remaining 2 of my AT-43 Red Blok Kolossus!! Got the "tester" done the other night... and going to do the other 2!!

Time permitting... might think about their bases also!

Finished the Minder and the conversion on a Mech. Now contemplating how to paint three Deffkopptas.

Photos are in my Ork PLOG.

Cheers,

CB

Looking at how few plastic feathered wings are available from bits sellers (out of stock or just not an option) and wondering what to do now.

 Vermis wrote:
Looking at how few plastic feathered wings are available from bits sellers (out of stock or just not an option) and wondering what to do now.

What size of feathered wings? Any specific manufacturer?

Played a 750 pt game of dropfleet, and picked up a UCM cruiser box.

Working on my Imperial Space Marine, as well as assembling another Razorback for my Dark Angels. I'm going to be playing a game of 40k with a friend this evening (my Daemonkin vs. his Orks), so that should be fun! Maybe I'll even do a battle report of it.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
What size of feathered wings? Any specific manufacturer?

Not too sure, TBH. Looking to stick some on a gryph-charger to make it a full hippogryph, and I'd prefer plastic for weight and welding; but it's a bit of a moot point cos no-one has them.

Started the three Deffkopptas.

Cheers,

CB

Painting custodes and nurglings. Odd combination, i know.

And reading Angel Exterminatus.

 Vermis wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
What size of feathered wings? Any specific manufacturer?

Not too sure, TBH. Looking to stick some on a gryph-charger to make it a full hippogryph, and I'd prefer plastic for weight and welding; but it's a bit of a moot point cos no-one has them.

Grab a cheap Reaper Bones Pegasus or griffon. Sounds like it would be the right size. Those are only like $4-5. And then you can cut up the rest of the body for spare parts if/when needed.

May try to paint up a few infinity models who got drafted into TNT, but we'll see.

Repainting some DA vets as Fallen, and primed 30k Ahriman.

Went to Overlord at Abingdon and bought more stuff I really don't need.

Continuing work on my Iron Man Enforcers. Doing up a suit for fusion guns that is a plasma-centric armor.

Building the baddies from Hammerhal.

I'm working on my last 6 unpainted Rangers of Gondor, before I make a start on some Uruk hai Berserkers and Crossbows. After that, It'll be Easterlings, Haradrim, and some blue-skinned Goblins, in the style of Skyrim's Falmer

Amazingly after 4/5 years... I'm actually assembling my miniatures from "The Hobbit." And I was working on repairs for my even older Lord of the Rings miniatures (some which would have been bought in 2001 and 2002(!).

Why? Because I'm working on getting an army together for Kings of War.



I took this pic yesterday, a 2000 point 'Kingdoms of Men' army, made entirely using Lord of the Rings miniatures. Where I've got Moria Goblins to act as 'militia' in the list. However... Escape from Goblin Town has 36 goblins inside it, who lookswise fit in more likely to have been slaves in Isenguard, rather than the somewhat heavily armoured Moria goblins. And, there's more of them... So, I've been putting them together as replacements.

Then I worked on the rest of the minis as, well, to get rid of the sprues, really.


Off topic but... I'm still, years later, completely amazed at how half-a*sed the dead-tree materials were for "Escape from Goblin Town."

Cor, lookit that.

When you say 'dead tree material', do you mean the books or the model platforms?

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Grab a cheap Reaper Bones Pegasus or griffon. Sounds like it would be the right size. Those are only like $4-5. And then you can cut up the rest of the body for spare parts if/when needed.

Point. Though I wonder how well the PVC would stick, and with Miniature Heroes down 'til mid March, I'm almost in the same situation.

The books, I had genuinely forgotten how awful they were.

5 scenarios, each one only having 3 characters or so for the good side. No points costs, despite the rulebook spending a long time talking about 'points match' games. It's just horrendous.

I remember back in the 'Fellowship of the Ring' days, each accompanying boxed set they released (EG Assault on Weathertop), had scenarios tied to it that were essentially mini games all on their own.

Got two units of Sentry Stones and Mannakins, not available for a longer time.
Each larger Circle army should have two of these.

Close to done with my Thunderbolt, just need to get some details done along with the cockpit and pilot. I'd post a WIP shot, but those are verboten.

Also wrapped up the erm, detailing of my Malcador, brushing Typhus corrosion into every nook and cranny to make it look less flat and a bit more broken in. I also decided to glue the tank commander in place. Next up.. the Infernus, which needs a whole lot of touching up done to it. :(

Building my Infinity Yu Jing Army.

Finished my three Deffkopptas.

Cheers,

CB

Played 150 pts of Deadzone. Forgot to take any pictures at all because idiot.

I've still to play Deadzone V2. Are there good reference sheets and things for it yet?

 Compel wrote:
I've still to play Deadzone V2. Are there good reference sheets and things for it yet?

There's a good set of summary sheets and a quickref page on the boardgamegeek page for Deadzone 2. I've been using that one.
https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/135670/universal-head-deadzone-second-edition-rules-summa

Someone did quite a nice set of stat cards for the various factions.
https://www.mantic.club/forum/deadzone/general-discussion-ae/265424-deadzone-redux-personal-stat-cards

There's an army builder here as well. Includes the errata'd units (get the FAQ - it's a Mantic game so there are a lot of annoying errors in the rulebook, mostly missed special rules on the unit entries).
http://dzone.mentemeccanica.com

Infinity Yu Jing Army coming along. Filled gaps with Green Stuff tonight on 9 miniatures. I love the Infinity models. Much better than any so far.

Well, finally working on my Awaken Realms terrain I kickstarted about a year or two ago. Pulling it back out of the box and seeing flash and some bubbles, but it's not all that bad.

Assembled (pinning every piece) the lower half of Dynamo.

Yes, including that loin cloth.

Tomorrow night I'll finish the upper half.

First 30 tac marines for sons of horus are nearing completion. Hoping to assemble them fully today(and last time I paint pieces in sprues). Then just need gold parts, blacken some armour and touch up where plastic visible from being cut from sprues.

10 terminators also approaching completion(barring bases and weathering).

Need to get HQ painted fast though to have legal army!

just primed a custom raider for my DE grots and all of my custom built wyches. Time to buy some more minitaire purple... I'm gonna need it.

Putting together Warhammer Quest baddies.

Sealed up the Orks and they are done.

Cheers,

CB

Finished assembly on Dynamo.

Got tac marines ready for cleaning up paint job after cutting from sprues. Then just gold and black armours plus red plumes on heads. Working on those today plus start assembling sicarian that whose parts I washed yesteday.

Also plan to wash the autocannon and lascannon parts for heavy support squad and think could I magnetize these things. Problem is backback. Especially with lascannons power cable...

Also need to figure how to heat that cable to make it twist. Don't have hair drier so that's out.

I'm about to finish off the last bits on my Necron warriors, before starting on my Triarch Stalker.

After that, impaling a list of the paint/base material I need when I go to a FLGS for the first time in 15 years. Joined their facebook page and was immediately invited to a group active in WH40k in my area. Meeting them for the first time tomorrow, and they've all been really friendly so far, so I'm looking forward to it and getting back into it fully!

You're impaling a list?! Pray tell, what is it being impaled upon?? Your phone? The dog? Your hand? Your mum?? Inquiring minds want to know!!

Reorganized the Skirmish pack so that it will carry my Orks...well at least the figures. Vehicles will need a new way to get to the battlefield.

CB

Opening baggies of Heroic & Ros colonial brits for Epic praetorians and wondering where the heck all those drummers and buglers are supposed to go.

I'm playing around with some basing ideas and materials. Going to see if I like the results for my up coming thousand sons army.

The Witch Elves, some of these are from 3rd ed where things were very different, these ones have armour and some even have crossbows.
They're so mismatched they can't really be anything else, and they were technically the pre Witch Elves so that's what they get to be.
I am only missing the 5th ed witch elves (with the huge hair) and I'll have every edition in this army lol.
Mostly it will get tossed in 9th Age since Round Bases aren't really my style.

Pulled out my Sisters to look at my next painting challenge.

Cheers,

CB

Painting up some Gutbusters. I have 20 minis I need to pain t for a Tournament next month and I've managed to get 9 of them done. Hope to have 3 more completed by the end of the weekend.

So far finished 15 tacticals waiting for basing and got another 15 lacking just final stage(well except weathering I'll do later once I get playable army). Made first go at base which overall looks like I might go for this way. Also undercoated some more stuff and assembled 20 heavy support guy ready for painting(with legs and body already having been partially painted). Praetorian also got some paint.

Approaching playable small force. Just want that 2k soon so I could play. I hate playing with unpainted force but want to play soon so I have good motivator to keep up chucking!

30 tac marines, 20 heavy support guy, praetorian, 15 terminators, 2 vindicator laser destroyers. That's stuff I'm having ready soonish for basing. Not most competive force no doubt but it's a start.

Posting images of my painted Orks on Dakka.

Cheers,

CB

Primed a unit of Retributors for AoS.
Building the last four GSC 3/4th gen hybrids from a trade.

Just Finished off a dozen Malifaux models , now for beer

Modified my Walking Dead All Out War core box to hold all the expansions I own as well. Which means I now have a solid reason not to buy any more as they won't fit.

Played two games each of King's Table (Viking chess-like game that I'd never heard of before) and Memoir 44 using just the base game.

I painted this:

Painted the torsos of two Mark I Immolator Gunners, still need to do the Twin-linked Flamers next. Also started on four Melta Gun armed Sisters.

Cheers,

CB

Went down to the inaugural meeting of our local boardgaming group in a nearby coffee shop. Played Elfenland and a couple of games of Pandemic. Missed out on Colditz, Tsuro and Labyrinth. Pretty good showing for a rainy sunday

Cleaning up the resin parts for my three MkIIc Rhinos.

All washed and rinsed, now drying off prior to trimming and tidy up. Their plastic hulls are already assembled.

Testing out a setup for 3d scanning / photogrammetry.

Needs work, but should give a solid enough starting point for sculpting add on bits.

I've been painting 1:300 scale WWII aircraft, RAF and Luftwaffe. I'm a few planes short of finished but when I'm done I'm thinking of taking a bunch of pictures and making an album to show them off.

Its been a really rewarding project so far and of course I'm considering adding a couple more planes to each airforce and probably starting a small USAF collection too. Beause a P-38 lightning is just a beautiful machine.

Going down another prototype tank rabbit hole...

Whilst working on my Alternative History Germans, I was looking into American use of Amphibious LVTs (I'm making a German one based on the Panther chassis at the moment). That led me onto the Pacific theatre. Japan oddly enough had designed a whole wave of armoured vehicles for the defence of the home islands which surpassed what had came before.

I'm currently eyeing up a Type 5 Chi-Ri Medium Tank. In short it was the Japanese Panther (in terms of other stuff like say the Hungarian TAS 44M), aimed at out performing the American's Sherman. Problem is ...its based on another Prototype Tank from earlier in the war, the Type 4 Chi-To. Luckily, that was made from a lengthened Type 97 Kai Shinito (thus the rabbit hole).

So... I guess I'll pick up a Type 97 Kai Shinito and steal the track units from it. Then make some new road wheels and tracks to lengthen those, and create the rest of the tank from plasticard. Oh, and the gun too considering that was also a prototype 105mm which never saw any major production (seeing a theme here?).

Meanwhile I have a load of other stuff unfinished, and a German force with more armoured vehicles than complete squads (I've literally just been playing Tank games with them). But... well... this thing looks cool, so meh.

Putting the finishing touches on my Imperial Space Marine, and still assembling stuff for my Battle Company. I spent the earlier part of the day doing RL stuff (including seeing Logan at the theater- great movie!), but this evening will be spent on hobbying.

Mourning the destruction of my WIP Black Legion Daemon Prince.




Sadly crushed by a small child (the child happily is still fully assembled with all pieces accounted for, unlike mr DP, who is missing a horn, some fingers and other assorted pieces).



It has taken me some days to take this model and look at it again, as I've been slowly painting him for months due to limited hobby time. Having him destroyed before he was even completed, let alone seen on the field of battle was upsetting to say the least.

I'm trying to take a silver lining approach, and use the damage as an excuse to go back and redo elements of the model I didn't like, or incorporate new ideas.

I'm thinking of remodelling the claw to have more blade like fingers, akin to the Talon of Horus, possibly with a combi bolter mounting. Where the horns were may be turned into ears, or filed down, as I am considering adding a lavish top knot to reinforce the black legion look. Horns are so passé.

And yes, he has arms for legs. This was a stretch DP, the second I manage to squeeze out of the official kit!

Played Blood Bowl all Saturday with some friends using my newly built and completely painted and based Lizardmen team.

I've never based anything in my life before. Turned out pretty well.

My Juggernaut, Psylocke and Archangel models from Heroclix came in; I've found heroclix sculpts (of newer models) to be decent, it's the paint jobs that usually suck ass (Archangel is good though; just no shading, but colors are great. Very happy with him, as is). So I'm repainting them. Psylocke and Juggie have rules for KM Marvel that are considered "finished", and Archy is easily subbed with Falcon rules. So doing them all up. Need a second Archangel for X-Force costume. Got my second Psylocke already.

Went on a model hunt to find the two Rhino Mark I chassis' as they had been stored away somewhere. Started painting them and cleaning the twin-links Heavy Flamers for gluing together the torsos and the tanks.

Cheers,

CB

Juggernaut needs a wash, and I did an eBay purchase order for 8 other Heroclix models to use in the KM Marvel/DC game. 'Clix models are decently sculpted, but lord the paintjobs are terrible!! The ones that aren't bad have no shade, no detail, just flat color. Time to fix that all up and have a Marvel X crew to be proud of.

These are both Heroclix models, btw.

nareik wrote:
Sadly crushed by a small child (the child happily is still fully assembled with all pieces accounted for, unlike mr DP, who is missing a horn, some fingers and other assorted pieces).

Ouch. The dreaded child attack! Those little fellows seems to have a nack at destroying anything breakable!

Did the long drive to the nearest GW store to pick up some an order, didn't plan on buying anything else but the store had some of the gryph cavalry unboxed and undercoated. The mount models looked fantastic and before you could say "limited impulse control" I'd ordered up a couple of boxes plus the hero.

No intention at all of starting a Stormcast force, but these boxes mean my AM killteam just gained some fierce looking roughriders.

Finished Archangel. Using a Heroclix model, I'll be using Falcon's leaked data sheet from Knight Models to play him on an X-Men team.

Going to work on the Immolators and perhaps some more on the Melta Gun Sisters.

Cheers,

CB

Been putting the models from the Triumvirate of the Primarch set together. All that detail is pretty daunting, I must say, but it'll be a fun challenge to paint.

tneva82 wrote:

nareik wrote:
Sadly crushed by a small child (the child happily is still fully assembled with all pieces accounted for, unlike mr DP, who is missing a horn, some fingers and other assorted pieces).

Ouch. The dreaded child attack! Those little fellows seems to have a nack at destroying anything breakable!

Yea, I also opened up my carry case and the foam has pulled one of Abaddon's Trophy wrack spikes off. Not sure whether to blame me, the foam or fine cast on that one.

Hopefully I have some white metal spikes from an old kit I might be able to replace it with.

The 13th Black Crusade not having much luck at the moment!

I completely rearranged my hobby space and only sustained a few bruises in the process!

Now to find every thing that i have inevitably misplaced/lost in the process...

Did not get much of anything done as I was visiting in-laws.

CB

Currently contemplating starting an Ork army

Undercoated all my remaining TSons, including Ahriman. I will not be able to paint this week (am in france) so I wanted a good starting point for when I come back.

I purpled up 2 Wave Serpents, 2 Fire Prisms, 1 Falcon, 1 Night spinner, 7 Crimson Hunters and 5 Hemlock Wraithfighters.

That killed just about two pots of Xereus Purple :x

Tomorrow is Hawk Turquoise !

Making a Japanese WWII Ho-Ru Tank Destroyer out of a Walord Ha-Go. Having only really made German tanks to this point, the size of the Japanese stuff is insane. They were prototyping this thing in 1945, but the thing is smaller than a Panzer I ...expecting it to go take out Shermans with a 47mm gun (for comparison the Germans by 45 had set a 75mm as their minimum size, with 88s being shoved on most of their prototypes, and 105s on the cutting edge stuff ...let alone mentioning the Soviet stuff, which admittedly couldn't kit the side of a barn).

An interesting wee Tank, for a war that never came, after Operation Downfall/ Olympic was cancelled (luckily ...damn luckily). I'll be painting it up for the defence of the Home Islands, so that'll take me away from all the snow I cake my German stuff with.

I finished painting a Desert Rats motor platoon. Just waiting for my order of desert tufts to come in before it's 100% complete.

Painting one of my Psylocke models. Got two so one can be X-Force.

Finished painting up four Melta Gun armed Sisters of Battle.

Cheers,

CB

Played a game as IG against Tau, both semi competitive lists, and came out on top. It was my first game against Riptides, and there were two of them. Some big, big reasons for my success included getting the first turn and having fiery hot dice that turn. Wrecking a devilish with lascannon HWS, finishing off the passengers with a Wyvern, removing lots of Fire Warriors with a Hellhound and Eradicator. I had Pasknisher, and he was not killed on the first turn by Riptide + 3 marker lights, just down to 1 hull point. Bullgryns charged a Riptide, tying it up for 4 rounds of combat until they inflicted 2 unsaved wounds and made the Riptide fail morale, nearly killing it with sweeping advance in the 5th. I also made a couple clutch 6+ camo netting saves between my Wyvern and Pask, preventing both from being wrecked. On the last turn a Riptide could have gotten slay the warlord and linebreaker for a tie by charging Pask and consolidating into my deployment zone, but he failed a 5" charge. So though I never quite killed either riptide, getting both down to 2 wounds, it was a really interesting game.

I also scattered grenades onto my own units at least 3 times, even glancing a Taurox accidentally

Building vanguard stormcast. Starting with Lord Aquilor. Thought he was going to be a pain to assemble but so far, so good.

I'm done with the turquoise... and I love the results.

Watching BloodBowl game.
^_^

 War Kitten wrote:
Currently contemplating starting an Ork army

What sane person isn't?

Beginning to spray a massive Mordheim terrain project I've been keeping under wraps...finished assembling some additional walkways - time to buy paint.

Hauled myself over to the local GW to pick up the gryph riders I ordered midweek and to gawk at an ongoing painting competition.

As a rare and treasured prize turns out there was a sealed and unwanted copy of the Eldar Sketchbook hanging around, so bagged that as a real bonus prize!

Finishing off build work on a couple of projects. My favourite though's this Panther based LVT.

Just played in an ITC format tournament. Lost 2 games, and managed to barely squeak by in the third for a win, and that was only because we ran out of time (I would have lost for sure if there had been another turn). I think I'm going to give up on my Chaos stuff for the time being; not permanently though as I do intend to slowly build up some Daemons stuff and maybe make my Chaos collection great again. I just don't really have the tools to take on tougher opponents right now.

My takeaway:
Chaos Knights are awesome, especially the Khorne one. Too bad for all the ranged D shots Eldar can throw around (a Lynx killed my Knight in the first turn of the first game).
Be'lakor is just not worth his points. Guaranteed Invisibility is nice, but not for 350 points with only T5. He's too squishy to accomplish much on the ground despite his statline and weapon, and too expensive to hide in the air, especially against anyone with Skyfire or a ton of shooting (like Eldar).
Khorne Daemonkin, on the whole, are just not that good right now. They suffer from being an assault army in a game that is biased toward shooting. Maybe 8th edition will help them, maybe not.
The Cyclopia Cabal can be good, but it really depends heavily on rolling the right powers. They are kind of expensive for what they do, and they might not do a whole lot if they don't get good powers.

Won my first event ever...and with solo Fyreslayers using old/gakky points.
Assembled prize Rhino for my Death Guard

then...more Adepticon prep.

Played Battletech Alpha Strike for the first time.
Also played Columbia Games' Hammer of the Scots.
Finished building 6 gryph-hounds and my lord aquilor.

Left to be built are 3 palladors, 3 vanguard-raptors and 10 vanguard hunters.

The plan for today is to finish my bully boyz. They need some checkers, flames and dabs.

Lovely smooth yellow, jealous!

Almost finished a Sister Superior and half way through a Repentia Mistress.

Cheers,

CB

Hopefully finish up my Glottkin!

Finally got my 3D printer up and running, now I just need to do some scenery to print on it!

Another batch of arms from the Mantic Kings of War Orcs Army set, painted with the Army Painter Greenskins Paint Set!

Painting tutorials in the BGG KoW forum: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/85204/kings-war/forums/0



Plus, gap filling and scraping mold lines from Fireside Game's "Here, Kitty, Kitty" game.

I'm experimenting with an airbrush... first serious attempt in nearly 20 years.

Plan for the rest of the evening. Watch the second half of this weeks Critical Role and work on painting up some more ninjas.



No idea how to approach painting Lady Shiva though.

First time putting brush to mini this year, started work on my UCM Broadsword and Mortar teams

Won our FLGS' Blizmania postseason Bloodbowl tournament. Beat Chaos Chosen to be placed as 4th seed in overtime (highlight: his Minotaur got KO'ed turn 2 and never woke up), upset the 1st seed Lizardmen team in overtime (highlight: Kroxigor failed Bone Head 5 times, and failed break tackle once as well), then more handily defeated 2nd seed Chaos Dwarves 2-0 in the final (highlights: 1st block of the game his Minotaur pushed my Morg n Thorg and lost support from guard, rolled skulls, and got casualty'ed, his S5 bull centaur also failed 2+ break tackle 4 or 5 times.)

My opponents swore that I generated some sort of null field because everybody was rolling 1s on 2+ rolls. I guess Nuffle just decided to pick me, or?

Working on the two Mark I Immolators for my Sisters.

Cheers,

CB

awesome yellow meganobz, there! I'm a fan and play those mega bad moonz myself

Planned out my 6mm Alexandrian army.

Basecoated the skin of about 5 or 6 termagants. Hopefully this evening I'll get a wash over all 11 I'm working on, tomorrow drybrush the skin, basecoat the other bits and maybe pick out the teeth, eyes and tongue. Tyranids are numerous but quite fast to paint if you have a simple scheme

Received my Heroclix stand in figs for Knights, basecoated Blob and I'm gonna paint him up tonight. Also had to do a head swap for Avalanche cuz the 'Clix one has no lower face; just a blob of skin color. Used a Mantic Enforcer pathfinder head with a green stuffed helmet.

Finished painting/basing my 1-week Mordheim terrain blitz.

I like it a lot, Elbows! Looks excellent for small skirmishes.

...Quite possibly something 10-yr-old me would want to run around on if it existed 1:1

Yep, it's essentially a Mordheim-flavored treehouse of doom.

Finished my first squad of Grey Hunters.. Now im painting SW wolves !

I just want to second the love for that terrain, Elbows!

I am delicatly swaddling my miniatures in the gentlest of fabrics in preperation for moving.

they are all going to get crushed and shattered, i know it.

Finished the Sister Superior and the two Mark I Immolators (except for their names...have to decide what I am going to call them...if you look at the tanks in my Sisters of Battle PLOG you will understand).

Cheers,

CB

Finished assembling vanguard raptors.
Only have vanguard hunters and palladors left to build for my AoS project.

Just starting to work on the bases for my two Avatars of Khaine and finishing up some work on my Crimson Hunter.

Doing the mold lines on Tau Firewarriors. They clean up a bit easier than space marines which is nice.

So, working on four Sisters of Battle with Heavy Flamers...remembered that they can only be painted properly with the Heavy Flamers removed. So 30 minutes in the freezer and off came the Heavy Flamers. Will be working on them for several days as they were basically primed and had only a little base colouring.

Cheers,

CB

Priming some Fire Warriors. Nothing really too earth shattering.

Just finished off this little guy.
old goblins just had all the character.

Mainly working on a bloodbowl lizardmen team, starting with a kroxigor.

MY FW STUFF ARRIVED!
Im currently soaking the bits, and then I'll finally build my 1st librarian!

Finally sorting out the bases to my Necron models.

First, glue down the home made crystals to the base made out of sprue, then, once dry I'll use PVA glue to put the base material down (sand). I'll then prime the model black.
After that, I'll paint the crystals to match the Gauss of my army, and dry brush the base with grey to give it an "ash wasted" look.

Finished the four Heavy Flamer Sisters...so up next is likely the remaining two Sister Superiors and two Sisters with Melta Guns (Multi-Meltas will likely be last infantry I build for the arm). Then perhaps the Immolator Mark 1s for them to travel in (although those are broken down to their base parts right now).

Cheers,

CB

Building my second Baneblade

Intensely awaiting the parts needed to start on a squad of Harakoni Warhawks.

Finished up a conversion of Barabas Dantioch for my loyalist Iron warriors. He's abit rough around the edges because the original metal model was beat up pretty badly and caked with paint after I snagged it of ebay for cheap but I'm pretty darn happy with him. Just waiting for a Mk3 techmarine come in so I van give him a cool backpack with a servo arm.

Painted Cable, Avalanche, finished Blob, and Iceman and Beast are almost done.

Played a 2000 point game of 40k with a friend today. My Khorne Daemonkin vs. his Orks. My list had a CAD with a Juggerlord, a D-thirster, a Heldrake, my Khorne Knight, and a Soul Grinder along with a unit of Bloodletters and a unit of Cultists as troops. I also had a Gorepack with two units of melta bikes and 3 units of Khornedogs (2 5 model and 1 10 model). His list had a tooled-up Warboss in Mega Armor, a unit of Meganobz in a Trukk, 4 units of Shoota Boyz each in a Trukk, 2 10-man squads of Lootas, and a Killkrusha Tank (I think that's what his big tank was). I won the game handily as might be expected from this matchup, with my friend conceding after just 3 turns. The game really just went to show how desperately Orks need a better codex, and my friend realized this. I also got very lucky with some of my saves, as my Chaos Lord survived longer than he statistically should have.

Still contemplating an Ork army.

Also built St. Celestine

 Ir0njack wrote:
Finished up a conversion of Barabas Dantioch for my loyalist Iron warriors. He's abit rough around the edges because the original metal model was beat up pretty badly and caked with paint after I snagged it of ebay for cheap but I'm pretty darn happy with him. Just waiting for a Mk3 techmarine come in so I van give him a cool backpack with a servo arm.

Snazzy!

Hopefully start painting this:



And finish building these:

Bought Una2 yesterday.
Not sure if this was a good idea since her feat addresses warbeasts with flight and I have none.

Getting a little paint on some ultramarines and a biker,along with finishing off reading gathering storm fall of cadia.

I've assembled 10 Grant tanks and 1 25 pounder artillery. In the process I managed to cut myself enough times I've only got 2 fingers left without plasters.

Started building an painting models from Warlord's Test of Honour Samurai game.



Only the black armour, red cloth and skin tones done so far on one of the small starter factions.

Samurai models are a pig to build, light infantry are better, both have the typical Warlord problem, paired arms and legs with nothing on the frames to show you which goes with which...

adding some trim lines and washes to this Inquisitarii atomic onager.

Very cool conversion there! Not seen anything like that before, it definitely works!

I bought Battle for Vedros to help kickstart an Ork army.

Gork help me...

Making a start on kill team Cassius. Pretty sure I have lost the space wolf head though

Painting my Death Guard, I always felt kind of sorry for that army, they got tossed in a shoe box, I was digging up stuff to sell and since they're mostly static space marines they'd not be sold for much, so I greenstuffed a lot and dug up some other stuff (the forgeworld dread which is the centrepiece along with the old metal one).
Next the Khorne army and the Slaanesh Demon army (which will eventually happen).

Bought, built and primed a bastion that will be painted white for my CSM/Thousand sons. Nice kit, tedious to prime though (airbrush keeps clogging).

Bit more on my Samurai as well

leopard wrote:
Started building an painting models from Warlord's Test of Honour Samurai game.



Only the black armour, red cloth and skin tones done so far on one of the small starter factions.

Samurai models are a pig to build, light infantry are better, both have the typical Warlord problem, paired arms and legs with nothing on the frames to show you which goes with which...

Nice work. I just finished assembling my samurai. Fiddly little sods, every one of them. I am fully expecting something to snap off first time I use them. I was particularly unimpressed at the neck hole in the torsos to locate the head peg and then realising that only one of the supplied heads actually has a neck peg so the rest have to be glued to the rim of a hole instead of a decent contact patch. Wargames Factory's sprue designers really didn't concentrate on what they were doing.

Glad to hear the ashigaru are a bit easier to build.

I'm doing all of mine in monochrome so the whole game looks more like a Kurosawa film. And because I am a very lazy painter.

Monochrome sounds like it could work very well actually, not good enough at working the shades out for that but would love to see them.

Finished group shot (well lacks static grass but otherwise done)



Agree the sprue designers were asleep on the job in some areas, for the love of gork, please when putting paired arms/legs etc on frames mark them so you know what goes with what...

Waiting on more 25mm steel bases before I can do any more of them.

Was trying out new skintones, since Lady Shiva is on the list to paint.



I'm pretty sure my terrible painting and lack of understanding of well, any aesthetics has resulted in me insulting a good 20% of the worlds population.

Though I'm not entirely sure what 20%...

And also my attempts at highlighting have ended up looking like bikini lines.

This painting thing is hard.

Getting sad that i cant glaze infinity models to save my life

i think im just going to go back to airbrushing.

Painted two more Sisters of Battle...these with Melta Guns. Next up will be the two Sister Superiors.

Cheers,

CB

Planning out an Ork army, seeing the cost, and debating going with CSM instead

Trying to finish off some Dark Angels tanks to clear my desk for when the Custodes arrive.

When the rain stops, basecoating my second Panther and 251.

Working on getting my 400 points of Eldar ready for an event Friday. I have 9 helmets and installing magnets on 4 jetbikes left to get to table top standard. I'm leaving everything without clear coats as on the bikes I need to apply black striping, and on the dire avengers and warp spiders I need to apply highlights.

 Desubot wrote:
Getting sad that i cant glaze infinity models to save my life

i think im just going to go back to airbrushing.

3 hours of work. i think the white came out ok.

I'm trying to finish up a bunch of Dark Angels models that have been sitting partially painted for about a year. Once I finish those I can move on to more exciting things.

Finished the two Sister Superiors. So three more infantry models left and three tanks and one flyer.

Cheers,

CB

Bit more on my samurai, blue ones this time (lovely Prussian Blue, highlighted Magic Blue), then assembling, priming and making a start on a Mk III Armour Techmarine for a Thousand Sons force that currently consists of one part painted Techmarine wondering where the other 999 went

Assembling three old Mark I Rhino chassis that I stripped and pulled apart. Brings back memories of the original 3 Rhino plastic kit that GW released. Also remembered to have elastic bands on hand for assembly of these things...which are soon to become Immolators.

Cheers,

CB

Painting Ahriman!!

Captain Brown wrote:
Assembling three old Mark I Rhino chassis that I stripped and pulled apart. Brings back memories of the original 3 Rhino plastic kit that GW released. Also remembered to have elastic bands on hand for assembly of these things...which are soon to become Immolators.

Cheers,

CB

Have one in bits on the windowsill, plus a Mk1 Predator which sadly needs the turret sawing off as its about the only glued joint on it thats firm... (flipping typical really) old eBay finds that need a bit of TLC, and oh yes they bring back memories, pity the Mk1 land raiders go for so much these days.

Playing a league game of 40K this afternoon. Working on assembling some Deathwing Knights in the meantime.

Got my Warhawks parts, dry fitting a model.

Edit: Results here

The two buttpacks are acting as battery charges for the eventual hotshot lasguns.

Getting the first layers on my challenge entry a cluster of spore mines (living artillery) adding some washes on 5Ultramarines and a Bike+Biker,Finishing off some bits guns radios pouchs.

Bought and assembled an Ogre for BB. It's clamp pack but nevertheless a nice model.

Gearing up for Armageddon dropping on us at the end of this week.

I dug out a pile of half-painted Orks of various sorts, including good representations of their special operatives along with an Ogryn with maul and shield to act as Imperial Guard special operative. Let's see how many I can do of these.

leopard wrote:

Captain Brown wrote:
Assembling three old Mark I Rhino chassis that I stripped and pulled apart. Brings back memories of the original 3 Rhino plastic kit that GW released. Also remembered to have elastic bands on hand for assembly of these things...which are soon to become Immolators.

Cheers,

CB

Have one in bits on the windowsill, plus a Mk1 Predator which sadly needs the turret sawing off as its about the only glued joint on it thats firm... (flipping typical really) old eBay finds that need a bit of TLC, and oh yes they bring back memories, pity the Mk1 land raiders go for so much these days.

To true leopard. Getting the Sisters of Battle parts to fit on the chassis is proving to require an awful lot of sanding and now building replacement parts for those I do not have...like the front door with tracks.

Still working on them, but two mostly look like Immolators now.

Cheers,

CB

Having more fun debating between CSM and Orks. Or maybe the new Dwarven sky pirates that are on the way

Building vanguard hunters this week.
Primed the Lord Aquilor and the raptor guys and gryph-hounds, too.

Finished my second chaos rhino, slightly less bling on this one to make painting easier so went from the base gold applied last night through the two highlight golds and clear red today after about an hour masking, few details and done - and looks a lot nicer than the clear red applied by brush one that took a week to get four coats on the thing.

Have to get hold of a 30k one and have a go with the silver base and full on thousand sons colours.

Finished the day assembling and basing the masked men box for Test of Honour which I hope to prime tomorrow, think the yellow/brown/red/white colours Warlord use are ok but likely to swap the yellow for green (better to lurk in the shadows with)

Test of Honour event on the 15th so wondering about letting them have a run at that

complete airbrushing on 12 guardians and 5 wraithblades. Still waiting on stencils from Anarchy models to finish some wraith lords.

OK, have three old slightly converted Mark I Immolators built to the primed stage. Next comes the primer and the paint.

Cheers,

CB

I spent MONAY!

And bought enough pieces to assemble a retro 2nd ed Death Guard army.

I have finished the process of moving!

Now to open boxes and see just how much broke.

That's going to be my hobby stuff for now: fixing things.

Assembling Custodes.

Finished 2 Tyranid Spore mine Clusters x4Exploding x2Acid x2Poison About to base them,As well finished three more small Necromunda/Archeotech objective markers,which i will post in P&M in a bit.

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

I wonder if the long since departed OP realises the legacy he left with this thread

To day I will finish my Prospero 1k Sons. Depending how I am feeling I will Start Gorchosen models.

Mordian2016 wrote:

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

I wonder if the long since departed OP realises the legacy he left with this thread

"My name is SilentScreamer, King of Kings
Look upon my Skaven, ye mighty, and despair.
How about the rest of Dakka?"

This

Painting tentacles...that's what I'm doing. Making a seabeast for Mordheim.

Just putting the finishing touches on this fella!


Honestly I'm so glad to be finished, I don't know how people handle anything much bigger than this, I'd be pulling my hair out.

 theCrowe wrote:
Just putting the finishing touches on this fella!


Honestly I'm so glad to be finished, I don't know how people handle anything much bigger than this, I'd be pulling my hair out.

Nice giant.

Felt the same with a shadowsword, was fun to build, at first, then a chore, painting it got very tedious. Wifyboo bought me a knight, took me a year to build and paint it, just find a normal 28mm model about manageable, larger gets tedious.

Ironically did a giant and enjoyed it, something about that model I liked doing

Batman tonight. Ra's Al Ghul got knocked down by a random penguin thug tonight as a result of a bad decision and a series of unprobable rolls. He never stood up again...

Final score, 32 victory points to penguin. 6 to the league of assassins. In a word. Ouch.

At least i did get points.

Touching up the mold lines on 35 Enforcer peacekeepers.

They're thankfully not too horrendous, and at the price I nabbed them at the work is worth it.

About Big models, do you guys use an airbrush or is it the paintbrush which makes it tedious?

I didn't get any bad feelings when painting my super heavies.

 amazingturtles wrote:

Mordian2016 wrote:

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

I wonder if the long since departed OP realises the legacy he left with this thread

"My name is SilentScreamer, King of Kings
Look upon my Skaven, ye mighty, and despair.
How about the rest of Dakka?"

He will be sorely missed

morgoth wrote:
About Big models, do you guys use an airbrush or is it the paintbrush which makes it tedious?

I didn't get any bad feelings when painting my super heavies.

Shadowsword was brush painted (camo applied by a sponge), didn't help the desert yellow needed three coats, took an age - have since bought an airbrush which would have allowed the thing to be painted in a few days, mostly waiting for paint to cure the actual time being a few hours of effort.

Issue with the big GW kits is the 'detail density' is the same as the smaller models on some of them, all just ends up looking a bit busy, suits some more than others.

Wouldn't do a large model with a brush again, the knight got sprayed - was doing the old 'storm lord' camo on it, got about a third of the way through and now its metallic red/gold/silver and "good enough"

leopard wrote:

morgoth wrote:
About Big models, do you guys use an airbrush or is it the paintbrush which makes it tedious?

I didn't get any bad feelings when painting my super heavies.

Shadowsword was brush painted (camo applied by a sponge), didn't help the desert yellow needed three coats, took an age - have since bought an airbrush which would have allowed the thing to be painted in a few days, mostly waiting for paint to cure the actual time being a few hours of effort.

Issue with the big GW kits is the 'detail density' is the same as the smaller models on some of them, all just ends up looking a bit busy, suits some more than others.

Wouldn't do a large model with a brush again, the knight got sprayed - was doing the old 'storm lord' camo on it, got about a third of the way through and now its metallic red/gold/silver and "good enough"

Why dont you just use a hairdyrer to speed up paint cure time?

Mordian2016 wrote:

 amazingturtles wrote:

Mordian2016 wrote:

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

I wonder if the long since departed OP realises the legacy he left with this thread

"My name is SilentScreamer, King of Kings
Look upon my Skaven, ye mighty, and despair.
How about the rest of Dakka?"

He will be sorely missed

His last word were

Matt Ward - need I say anymore?

Going through the motions of making yari-style spears from aluminum florist wire. I've been trying to figure out how exactly to do this, since flattening with pliers seems impossible. The current method is hammering the wire on a steel plate. Not exactly great, although I'm going to give the Dremel a try to shape the spearheads.

Brainstorming ideas for a comic.
Anybody familiar with Worldwide Skinwalker legends?

Working on a resin Mk III command set, lots to do but nice models



Also finally finished the Bastion and its defence line



Obviously needs a bit of weathering, happy though with how its come out

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:


His last word were

Matt Ward - need I say anymore?

Wow. i thought you were joking at first. that's so perfect. in fact...

"My name is SilentScreamer, King of Kings
Look upon my Skaven, ye mighty, and despair.
Matt Ward - need I say anymore?
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal post, boundless and bare,
The lone and level forums stretch far away"

Primed the three Mark I Immolators.

Cheers,

CB

Began blocking out colours on Cawl.

Gorgeous model, but it's going to be a long painting project...

Built a set of Munitorum containers and fuel drums for future Shadow War games. Nice and chunky scatter terrain.

Just finished flocking my realm of battle board, after finally getting all those frustrating and IMO stupid as hell skull pits filled in.

Assembled an primed a forge-fiend, going to put him together using sub-assemblies to paint. Unsure on scheme for him as I want it to be part of a nurgle force. Debating between an olive green, something brighter or not even green. Going for the 3 ectoplasma cannon loadout as it reminds me of the giant warrior from Nausicaa. Mouth cannons FTW!

 BrookM wrote:
Built a set of Munitorum containers and fuel drums for future Shadow War games. Nice and chunky scatter terrain.

They too look pretty nice I have to say, not cheap for what they are but they are nice looking.

Tamiya do a set of fuel drums etc thats worth a look, more or less identical in size, and look good alongside the GW ones.

Have been wondering on the containers myself, more for the normal game but as you say, nice chunky scatter terrain

Currently starting some basecoating on my Talons. Tonight I'll put some MST3K on and work on finish painting some Dark Angels.

 amazingturtles wrote:

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:


His last word were

Matt Ward - need I say anymore?

Wow. i thought you were joking at first. that's so perfect. in fact...

"My name is SilentScreamer, King of Kings
Look upon my Skaven, ye mighty, and despair.
Matt Ward - need I say anymore?
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal post, boundless and bare,
The lone and level forums stretch far away"

Gotta say I do appreciate some dakka poetry. There should be a dakka poetry thread.

Kitbashed together a Militarum Tempestus sniper for future Shadow Wars games.

Now to work out how to best do a Scion armed with a shotgun.

Painted my first Tau model, Pathfinder, for the Shadow War. Maybe I could also collect an army of Tau, though their colour scheme is not satisfying.. (purple/bone)

Wandered round local GW, a lot of muttering about the new version of 40k and what its 'bound to be' between staff and a few regulars, even got a nod that things are due to change soon - no details obviously.

Odd really, was considering getting the legions book, the mutterings on a new system that doesn't use the current codexes was a bit off putting and somewhat counter productive, final choice not to buy it was due to most of it seeming to be a traitors hate rules reprint..

Otherwise was just browsing, considered some Mk III marines but figured I have the prospero box unbuilt so didn't.. Need to order a few more steel bases...

I have actually started painting my 'masked men' for test of honour though White/green/red-brown

Whoever thought tracks which're made up of individual teeth was a good idea can go die in a well... Putting together an old Tamiya kit (presumably from the 80s), and just thinking how lovely Rubicon's one piece track assemblies (which have more detail than their competitor's multipart ones) are...

I never realised how good things are in my home town for wargaming. In Glasgow there's a handful of shops in close proximity to each other which sell similar stuff. I thought we were kind of crap actually, especially given how many have closed. Queue me going to Edinburgh, where their famed wargaming shop barely has any stock on the shelves (other than Warhammer), and that's the only gig in town (unless you're into board games, they love them there). Their historical model kits shop was fairly great though (it doesn't hold a candle to the one Glasgow used to have, but sadly shut down a few years back), so I wound up spending most of the cash I brought along for the trip there; thus the Tamiya kit.

I'm turning the Tamiya 1/48th scale Elephant kit, which a helping hand from a load of platicard and milliput, into a 1/56th scale Lowe super heavy (with some liberties obviously). Scale creep is a real thing.

Their 1:48 range is only a few years old at best. Is the lower hull metal or plastic by the way? If it's metal it's an older kit, if it's plastic it is way more recent.

Oh god the documentation says 2016.

I did wonder why the base was plastic (with steel rod inserts). Those metal hulls were nice, but really annoying if you need to mess with them a bit whilst converting.

Made two Harakoni Warhawks stormtroopers, on my to build the squad Tempestor

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Oh god the documentation says 2016.

I did wonder why the base was plastic (with steel rod inserts). Those metal hulls were nice, but really annoying if you need to mess with them a bit whilst converting.

They did the metal lower hulls / frames for their 1:48 military vehicles in the early days to give the models a "more satisfying weight and feel to them". Sadly they stopped doing this in favour of chunky weights that have to be glued into the hull itself, looking at you, IS-2 tank.

Over the Last week I had the satisfaction to re base color my two revenant titans and my six Hornets.

I'm still fixing the magnetized jump jets on the first one though... I switched it from round magnet plus pin to just square magnet.

Damn those 10mm square neodymium are crazy strong.

Bit more on my MkIII command group, bit more on masked men otherwise not a lot as haven't been at home much

First warm sunny day, so I'm spray coating all the things that accumulated over the winter.

Alrighty, that's my League of Assassins force completed.

 BrookM wrote:

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Oh god the documentation says 2016.

I did wonder why the base was plastic (with steel rod inserts). Those metal hulls were nice, but really annoying if you need to mess with them a bit whilst converting.

They did the metal lower hulls / frames for their 1:48 military vehicles in the early days to give the models a "more satisfying weight and feel to them". Sadly they stopped doing this in favour of chunky weights that have to be glued into the hull itself, looking at you, IS-2 tank.

"Satisfying" in that when bunched together with a few other tanks your carry case becomes rather heavy...

Let alone with all the milliput I'm sticking on those kits. Warlord and Blitzkrieg's all resin kits are still beating Tamiya's metal hulls out in weight though.

I've been doing a lot of hobby today. Working on various AoS projects:

- Freeguild General on Griffon,
- Handgunners unit (30 Strong)
- Bloodbound Hinterlands Warband

But I also got 4 Genestealer Acolytes finished up!



It's part of my Deathwatch Overkill project (which you can follow here), but I am hoping to play Shadow War with these too as I am a massive Necromunda fan.

 theCrowe wrote:

 amazingturtles wrote:

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:


His last word were

Matt Ward - need I say anymore?

Wow. i thought you were joking at first. that's so perfect. in fact...

"My name is SilentScreamer, King of Kings
Look upon my Skaven, ye mighty, and despair.
Matt Ward - need I say anymore?
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal post, boundless and bare,
The lone and level forums stretch far away"

Gotta say I do appreciate some dakka poetry. There should be a dakka poetry thread.

A magnificent Ode to the OP

Brought some paints and washes to work so I could do stuff on my lunch hour. Was very careful to select all the things I might need to decide how I want to proceed with the detailing on my Guardians. Even made sure to whip up a second wet palette that I can leave at the office.

.....forgot the minis.

-_-

The priming coat revealed some more damage that required repair on the three Mark I Immolators. Did not have much time for modelling due to other commitments.

Cheers,

CB

Finished My Challenge Entry Tyranid Spore Mine Cluster,along with a small Batch of Industrial bases,which will turn into Necromunda Objective Markers,
Check by my Lab/Blog bottom of my post to find out what kind of markers.

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:

Mordian2016 wrote:

 amazingturtles wrote:

Mordian2016 wrote:

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

I wonder if the long since departed OP realises the legacy he left with this thread

"My name is SilentScreamer, King of Kings
Look upon my Skaven, ye mighty, and despair.
How about the rest of Dakka?"

He will be sorely missed

His last word were

Matt Ward - need I say anymore?

Do you think he ever convinced his friend to buy that Dwarf army?

Finished up one of the new plastic Vindicators for now. It's noticeable larger and more intimidating than the old model.

I'll need to go back to it eventually to add some weathering effects to break up the green and white - but I have some other projects to get to first.

Two weeks until a tournament and I have two models left to paint too finish up my 1500pts of Gutbusters. Almost done, hope to have them done by Sunday so I can finish up my display board.

Slowly painting the three Mark I Immolators and their Gunners. At some point I will have to focus on one tank and get it finished...or one of the Gunners...six models is too many at once unless they are Ork Boyz or Gretchin.

Cheers,

CB

Assembling some Land Raiders for my Custodes and going through the SW: Armageddon box to plan what I'll do with it.

Still painting the three Mark I Immolators and their Gunners, it got worse today as I also pulled out the two Multi-Melta figures and the Repentia Mistress when I was working on the Gunners, which will slow completion even more. :(

Cheers,

CB

Getting a friend to teach me about magnetization.

"I saw how to save the world. I could have made everyone see. If it wasn't for you, I could have saved the world."

Working on some Bloodbound. Got the $170 box at 25% off, so a pretty awesome deal on a set that was already $100 off the price of everything split up.

Making some bushes for my WWII stuff.

"I don't want to be a god. I just want to bring fire to the people. And... I want my cut."



Next section done.

"For surely as night follows day, there comes a time when even gods must die."




He's done! That's the quickest I've painted a model in years, I think. Although, I guess the bank holiday really helps for that.

As a sidenote, I really love Vallejo Metallic Medium.

Played in a 'Test of Honour' event... came in *mumble*

managed to lose a game on the second turn by declaring a charge, fumbling and being killed on the counter attack, rationalised as tripping over his shoelaces and falling on the enemy spears...

Hobby related, but not directly involving the miniatures. Just got the thumbs up from a 3D artist to use Space marine models he made to make a full sized suit of MkIII Iron armor.



On the model front I'm cleaning up a Mastodon for my 30k Iron Warriors.

Rushing to get my Ork SWA Kill Team team ready for a league starting on Friday and waiting for UPS to deliver a box from Forge World with my copy of Inferno and some Custodes stuff.