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Fixture of Dakka






Wiltshire, UK

That Batman looks amazing Graven really like what you've done there!

   
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Mostly, on my phone.

Viterbi wrote:Love the start on the bommers, pink/purple ftw!

Taste Da Rain-boom

GiraffeX wrote:That Batman looks amazing Graven really like what you've done there!

Why thanks kindly!

It has occurred to me, casually. that Dredd would be much easier on Hex bases: there is a front focused fire arc and a distinct front/back. It also means that I can use all my Dreadball fans as civilians it does mean using ALL the dB bases in the world not that I have shortage. I might blutac and see. I have two sets of unused blue and yellow bases from Dreadball Xtreme and that tallies with the colours of the two sides in Dredd anyway.

Had a great game of HB with the boys, playing a scenario from the Darkness Calls expansion - we were locked in a church.

It was ace, all used different characters to normal, and just managed to survive (barely).

The ghost hero, Henry Hood, was fantastic, and the eldest loved playing it (he never plays a combat agent usually); I usually play big Red so went with Liz, who apocalyptically immolated to save the day, whilst my younger son played enraged Hellboy (usually takes Abe).

As a result, started on (and finished) the rest of the undead for Hellboy:

Never have I been more grateful for writing down a paint recipe before.

The witches three. Not the wife and her sisters. Nope. Not that one coincidentally shared the wife's name

I also finished up a car for Gaslands, Lt Smash.

If you get that reference - join the navy!

Also spent a pleasant time painting today with the eldest: whilst I was doing my undead, he was doing his Nighthaunts in the remaining nikhail/thinner (1:3). Thanks to the wisdom of dakka we now have 3 matched 400 PT forces. His next task is to learn the rules and teach us >

In other news of covid crisis, on the mend, but out of superglue
Send help!
Graven

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Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
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6 foot underwater

It's a 3 pronged attack!*

I like it, looks brutal.

Glad you're on the mend, hopefully superglue hasn't all been panic bought.



*caught purely because I happened across some c!ips the other day, not sure I would have recalled that otherwise.

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Affton, MO. USA

Pink and purple added to the rainbow Arsenal

Ghosts are looking ghastly while still looking good.

I haven’t watched the simpsons in years, must correct that .

LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

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HATE Club, East London

I like those horde miniatures a lot. Your boy is right about the mossiness.

Though guards may sleep and ships may lay at anchor, our foes know full well that big guns never tire.

Posting as Fifty_Painting on Instagram.

My blog - almost 40 pages of Badab War, Eldar, undead and other assorted projects 
   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut






Mostly, on my phone.

monkeytroll wrote:It's a 3 pronged attack!*
I like it, looks brutal.
Glad you're on the mend, hopefully superglue hasn't all been panic bought.
*caught purely because I happened across some clips the other day, not sure I would have recalled that otherwise.

Impressed nonetheless. Hopefully there's superglue out there somewhere.

Theophony wrote:Pink and purple added to the rainbow Arsenal

Ghosts are looking ghastly while still looking good.

I haven’t watched the simpsons in years, must correct that .

It's a joy getting my kids to watch those early seasons, for sure.

Fifty wrote:I like those horde miniatures a lot. Your boy is right about the mossiness.


Well thank you. The last horde critters remaining are Imps, Fae spearmen, Giants and Giant Bats so I'm going to try to power through some of them tomorrow.

So today was about AoS, with the eldest (Nighthaunts) teaching the younger (Sigmar) and me ()


He rather savagely beat his little brother.


So Papa Blessed him... With a beating.
So, yeah, he's desperate to come back for more and beat his old man.
What can I say, I'm a terrible parent.

I have a fair whack of nurgle stuff. Some oldhammer, some not. Certainly at least 1000 points.
Found 5 Blightking bodies... And nowt else. Mmm, it's green stuff time and then to the circle cutter to make 40mm bases!

Meanwhile, Pinky and Purpley are done.


With bombs

And from the tail

Barring some spot highlights, and a little bit of pipework, pretty much done. Not finished for the score till the bases are done, of course.

Lots primed. Bits started: Judge Anderson, Cadet Judge, Black Canary, Gotham Cops. Oh, and the Grot Bombs.

So, more to follow...
Graven

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Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."

Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.  
   
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6 foot underwater

Nightshifthaunts look proper spooky in that first pic....

Looking forward to seeing some Nurgley oldhammer.

Pinky and Purpley looking good - definitely made a note to look into IA stuff at some future point when finances allow free spending again.




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Those games against your boys look fun. And you are a good parent to have beat your son's pesky ghosts with all of Nurgle's blessings. If Mufasa has taught me anything, than that one day it will all belong to them so you hang on to everything (and such victories) as long as you can
   
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Love the conquistador style ghosts and that Gaslands car. Bommers are a payload of fun.
   
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monkeytroll wrote:Nightshifthaunts look proper spooky in that first pic....

Looking forward to seeing some Nurgley oldhammer.

Pinky and Purpley looking good - definitely made a note to look into IA stuff at some future point when finances allow free spending again.

Yeah a happy photo accident, no filters here. Oldhammer GUO is likely to become Daemon Prince Covidimus not that original perhaps but still.
Viterbi wrote:Those games against your boys look fun. And you are a good parent to have beat your son's pesky ghosts with all of Nurgle's blessings. If Mufasa has taught me anything, than that one day it will all belong to them so you hang on to everything (and such victories) as long as you can

I'm more Scar, really. I'm surrounded by idiots...

youwashock wrote:Love the conquistador style ghosts and that Gaslands car. Bommers are a payload of fun.

Thanks amigo... Bommas done!



Or should that be Bommaz?


And of course, Da Bommz!

Reckon they are like tokens, 2 count as 1 painted.

Had a great game of Dredd today with the eldest

Another day in the Big Meg: took my Cadet out, we decided to do 2 mirrored teams of Senior, Street and Regular judges.

A simple training sim in a wrecked sector turned out to be a setup by his bent, umpty-bagging Street Judge.

It was a toughie, and there's going to be fines for some unsafe buildings - no wonder the foreman went futsie!

But ultimately my senior finally managed to bag the rotten judge and send him down for an extra 15 years.

A great game, the Big Meg cards turned into a really enjoyable narrative. The fantastic MDF is made by Uncertain Scenery, incidentally.

So, a great game; the boy is getting keen to beat me. I'll wager he'll win the next game we play

Nothing else significant to report. Spots of colour here and there. However the boy has managed to convince me to order him a back issue of mortal realms. Bless him, he's hooked.
Graven


Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."

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6 foot underwater

Bommaz for sure! And they do look nice - da bommz are cutey cool too.

Dredd sounds like a lot of fun from the games you've been playing.

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Bommaz look garishly grot-tastic!

I've always been boring and stuck to the Big Two on comics, so a lot of this Hellboy and Dredd stuff is pretty obscure to me, but cool minis and they do sound like fun games! Gotta love how many comic-themed games are out there at the moment.

 
   
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Hex bases might have some? Super Glue if Wilko's is still open their brush stuff is fine for modelling.....

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Mostly, on my phone.

monkeytroll wrote:Bommaz for sure! And they do look nice - da bommz are cutey cool too.

Dredd sounds like a lot of fun from the games you've been playing.

Thanks! Dredd is immensely cool. It's a very fun system even if the rulebook is pretty awful organisationally.

Paradigm wrote:Bommaz look garishly grot-tastic!

I've always been boring and stuck to the Big Two on comics, so a lot of this Hellboy and Dredd stuff is pretty obscure to me, but cool minis and they do sound like fun games! Gotta love how many comic-themed games are out there at the moment.

Yeah it's a good time to be a comic nerd!

Llamahead wrote:Hex bases might have some? Super Glue if Wilko's is still open their brush stuff is fine for modelling.....

Aw cheers bud but I'm pretty good on both counts. Got some glue on an Asda run.

Played some Hellboy today. We went hunting giants.


Great game, and VERY like the comic

Lots of giants. Tough, but we survived, by the skin of our teeth. We honestly thought we'd lost but the Wild Huntsmen joined us on the hunt.

So, yes, I've been painting also. The giants aren't quite done yet.
Other stuff, however...

The Wild Huntsmen

And Imps.

Hordes of imps.

Giant bats

Cazmatoz

And the various wings.

Lots of bits done. The giants are nearly there too, and I've started the Luchadors, floating heads, support agents, various bosses, plus a bunch of BMG also.

Let's see what the coming week or so brings
Graven

Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."

Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.  
   
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6 foot underwater

Plenty done

The bats are pretty cool, liking those.

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UK

Good progress

I don't know anything about Hellboy, the models make it look like a fantasy affair, but from pics of the film I thought he hangs around in the modern world?

   
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monkeytroll wrote:Plenty done

The bats are pretty cool, liking those.

Cheers! Lots of fun, although we've never run into them, so that may change lol.
Slinky wrote:Good progress

I don't know anything about Hellboy, the models make it look like a fantasy affair, but from pics of the film I thought he hangs around in the modern world?

Dark Lovecraftian fantasy investigations in the modern world. Also Nazis.

Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."

Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.  
   
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Affton, MO. USA

Bats, Imps and Giants , well Hellboy at least has variety . Nice work on the wings.

LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

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Madison, WI

Really liking the giant bats!

Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."

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Theophony wrote:Bats, Imps and Giants , well Hellboy at least has variety . Nice work on the wings.

Why thank you indeed, I admit I'm in a bit of a Hellboy place just now but I just hate playing games with unpainted models lol.

Gitsplitta wrote:Really liking the giant bats!

Cheers ! Man-bat was a useful test. There's some Japanese inspired wickedness that'll be up your alley, I'll wager.


Painted my daughter's nails whilst painting figs. Anything for peace and quiet
Had a game of AoS with my eldest; this time he played carefully, tactically and attentively - and won, legitimately. He's rightly delighted
Another busy day. Made myself a Lockdown Laurie for Dreadball (doubling as another citizen for Dredd)

Get back inside!


Anyway...

Be vewwy vewwy quiet - we is hunting giants!


Floating heads

(ewww)

And an Oni to go with them

I googled tiger stripe loincloth, and instantly regretted it


Vladimir Giurescu, Vampire

Prussian Death's Head Hussar uniform.


Igor Bromfield, occultist



They all need someone to fight!

The 3 amigos!

And of course, El Rojo.

Great fun to paint. Not played them yet, but now we can


Also got promo Professor Bruttenholm and Pancakes Hellboy done!
.

2 figs left and that's all my Hellboy done! So close! Aiming to do them tomorrow, and I'll do a full painted box shot!

Till then,
Graven

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Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."

Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.  
   
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6 foot underwater

Just make sure you're keeping track of which paints go on nails and which on figs....

Impressive drop of HB stuff there, really like the floating heads.

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Wow, all Hellboy stuff nearly painted and you have all the expansion's haven't you Really cool work on the minis, love wrestler Hellboy and am a little sad that I limited myself to the core game... which has none of it's minis even primed
   
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monkeytroll wrote:Just make sure you're keeping track of which paints go on nails and which on figs....

Impressive drop of HB stuff there, really like the floating heads.

Used the same paints lol. And thanks!

Viterbi wrote:Wow, all Hellboy stuff nearly painted and you have all the expansion's haven't you Really cool work on the minis, love wrestler Hellboy and am a little sad that I limited myself to the core game... which has none of it's minis even primed

I'm lucky with what I've got, but I'm sorely tempted to pick up a KS box also to get the various expansions, especially as the retail releases are delayed indefinitely

The final 2 figures for Hellboy. Koeschi the Deathless, done in greyscale preshade and washes.

Fantastic fig, great character.

One of my slight gripes about HB is I'd love some sort of Legacy rule, whereby you gain experience, knowledge or allies based on previous investigations. Gaining Koeschi as a backup agent once you've defeated him would make enormous sense.

Anyway, Alice.

Let's not talk about the version in the new movie. The whole point is she's bright and shiny.

So, some pics of my collection.




Isolation has its advantages! Of course, now I'm out of Hellboy

Finished off a pair of Canaries today:

Justice League version

Animated version.

4 today means I'm 255; pleased by this.

Nothing tomorrow, wife's birthday.
I have however started my custom Joker gang, the Blue Jays. They were crazy cop killers before they hooked up with the Joker. Pics anon.

On we go...
Graven

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Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."

Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.  
   
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6 foot underwater

Great job on Koeschi, really nice.

Impressive collection - and score, 255, that's averaging like 2.5 a day, good going the

Canaries both look good, think I prefer the JL version.

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All are lovely and as you predicted... the Japanese stuff is near and dear to my heart. However the giants steal the show! Nicely done graven.

Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."

Gitsplitta's Unified Painting Theory
 
   
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Mostly, on my phone.

Right, where were we?

monkeytroll wrote:Great job on Koeschi, really nice.

Impressive collection - and score, 255, that's averaging like 2.5 a day, good going the

Canaries both look good, think I prefer the JL version.

Cheers! Oh I don't like to think aboutn numbers lol
Gitsplitta wrote:All are lovely and as you predicted... the Japanese stuff is near and dear to my heart. However the giants steal the show! Nicely done graven.

Cheers buddy!

As I mentioned, I've started on my Joker gang. I decided that I needed an idea for the gang as a whole. So the Blue Jays are cop killers through and through, taking a cop's uniform as initiation and wearing parts of it.

Gotham is a grubby place after all. The tie-die t-shirts were just me playing around, I was thinking in terms of how could a gang easily adapt its colours.
Of course, they need cops to take down.

Bullock is further along than the rest. Lovely figs though.

Steady work on display Joker: not going to rush it
Merrily we roll along
Graven

Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."

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6 foot underwater

Tie-dye worked well, makes a nice contrast against the GCPD Blue.

Bullock looks great, nice sculpt too.

Joker coming along nicely.

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Tie-dye Joker gang are looking great, colourful yet very cohesive. Lovely blending as well, what's your method for that colour fade?

Congrats on getting the full Hellboy set done, mighty impressive.

 
   
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Damn, I'm often jealous when I look at this thread, but that tie dye takes to to a new level. Please do describe the process, it looks great.

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