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monkeytroll wrote:I can see the appeal of busts, but never fancied doing them myself - I have a couple floating around from KS, they'll probably eventual!y end up as terrain, demons or something...

Good work on yours

Ash is cool, obviously, he's Ash!

Liking those yellows a lot, are they proper old school washes from way back when?

I don't really get busts myself either. But these are used as trackers in game for target priority so are mechanically useful. And it's forcing me to raise my game, in this case really thinking about flesh tones. Glad you like my Groovy Boom stick, baby! Yeah, lamentor yellow and Cassandra glaze.

Had an ace game of Hellboy. It got very intense and infernal.

Interestingly, boys are starting to find the game a little bit too easy. Time to add in the expert mode cards to the deck of doom

Not much actual painting done this weekend. Very bruised hand from building a new bed for little miss. Instead, plenty of cooking and baking yesterday. Nice weather today has involved long walk, alcohol and setting fire to dead animals... plus my remaining grey primer getting used up.

Rest of my dreadball characters primed

Couple of old school metals in there and everything.

And, bits and bots

This is a large team of metabots. Transformers essentially. Possibly the worst team in the game, certainly most irritating models. I've primed them separately to make sure to get in all the nooks and crannies, as I'm just using washes on these guys (blue and red )

And the last of it used up on my modular roads for Dredd

So two 12x18 road boards, 2 18" roads, 2 12" roads, 6 10" barriers, 8 4" barriers, all made from scrap wood. I *think* this will work lol. I'm considering having either regular and ruined sides or ramps and sliproads, thoughts?
Graven

Setting fire to dead animals

Glad to see your boys are enjoying themselves and wanting more of a challenge.

Where were going we don’t need roads....or somesuch nonsense.

I'm assuming he refers to BBQ, not just setting funeral pyres for things found on the walks....

There appears to be a Nurgle ghost in those dreadball figs....

Tough call on roadsides - regular and ruined sides are good for general use, ramps and sliproads are good for world-building (especially silly in the Big Meg), and offer potential for expansion later. Hmm, writing that convinced me on ramps and sliproads

Good work.

I'm always left feeling that something's missing with a bust (the rest of the person for a start), but I appreciate the impracticality of a full sized, large scale, model.

Depends on your planned use of the roads, and how well you want each piece to match up with the others.
Personally, I'd lean towards making them look as much a part of the landscape as possible, but that is less practical for gaming.

Sharp smart.

Lovely Liz. Always appreciate a good bust. Have the set from Relic set aside for someday painting. At least a few of them. Interested in seeing how the bots turn out.

Theophony wrote:Setting fire to dead animals

Glad to see your boys are enjoying themselves and wanting more of a challenge.

Where were going we don’t need roads....or somesuch nonsense.

I believe you colonials refer to it quaintly as Cook Out
Nice '88'

monkeytroll wrote:I'm assuming he refers to BBQ, not just setting funeral pyres for things found on the walks....

There appears to be a Nurgle ghost in those dreadball figs....

Tough call on roadsides - regular and ruined sides are good for general use, ramps and sliproads are good for world-building (especially silly in the Big Meg), and offer potential for expansion later. Hmm, writing that convinced me on ramps and sliproads

I'm leaning towards intact roads. The slimy guy is more gelatinous... pseudopod than devotee of nurgle

Dr H wrote:Good work.

I'm always left feeling that something's missing with a bust (the rest of the person for a start), but I appreciate the impracticality of a full sized, large scale, model.

Depends on your planned use of the roads, and how well you want each piece to match up with the others.
Personally, I'd lean towards making them look as much a part of the landscape as possible, but that is less practical for gaming.

As I say, busts do nothing for me per se but they're a great game upgrade component and are forcing my to raise my game. And I'm leaning more gameplay than aesthetic tbh as one of the 6 core dredd scenarios is Mopad Madness - ie on a megway.

youwashock wrote:Sharp smart.

Lovely Liz. Always appreciate a good bust. Have the set from Relic set aside for someday painting. At least a few of them. Interested in seeing how the bots turn out.

I too appreciate a nice bust

So continuing with the Hellboy stuff, did the backup agents today

Key thing being keeping them uniform.

Love Scott's rocket pack. We don't play with bprd backup agents that often but when we do it tends to be Bud (second from left) as he is a good shot and can boost defend, really handy natural partner to Abe.

Other than that, I went through the tedium of building allllllll the Metabots today. Horrid, but now done, and helped the eldest work on Nighthaunts.

What's on my desk/mind right now? Well, I'd like to get my fatties done for Dredd I think. That *might* be tomorrow

Hey ho
Graven

The jet pack looks great

Nicely done graven!

It just struck me as a Scooby doo sheet ghost that had contracted some nasty pox

Important to have backup available, even if you're not planning to use it

Theophony wrote:The jet pack looks great

Cheers buddy.

Gitsplitta wrote:Nicely done graven!

Ta

monkeytroll wrote:It just struck me as a Scooby doo sheet ghost that had contracted some nasty pox

Important to have backup available, even if you're not planning to use it

Tuesday was not good, we lost my grandmother, so things went a bit up in the air. It wasn't unexpected - we'd been waiting since Friday, really - but still sad and strange. Mostly it's tough on my dad, and not being able to be there for him.

Anyway, on to nerdier matters.
Dug out my oldhammer Daemon Prince, and began reassembly

New head, and wings to follow.

Mostly, however, it's been about improvisation. The Modular Megway is just about "built"

And against a Dredd mat

That should do it
Turns out the ever-brilliant kid_kyoto has uploaded the 80s Dredd game cardstock vehicles to the dakka gallery, so my Megways can get proper traffic

And some quasi-medieval buildings

These are for decoupage or something? who knows. However, they had potential, and the offcuts made for decent thatching. Chimeys from coffee stirrers. Plus, handily, they work for extra storage:

Painted some scatter for them

Well, the table is actually for Hellboy, but still. It all counts! Specifically, table and large crate for 1, each of 3 others for another 1.

And painted this slimy creep

Salaran Vesh. He just wants a cuddle! and to eat you...

Next up - at least in theory - Blightkings and the League of Fatties, remaining busts and Ragna Rok Rasputin.
Cheers
Graven

Look at the schnoz on that guy . That demon prince definitely has a Cireno DeBergerack (totally misspelled I know ) problem.

Fuzzy buildings are the best buildings .

Vest looks like Gumby had a bad acne problem during puberty . No wonder he wants a hug.

That demon prince is something else. You could paint it like the ant-eater from the pink panther cartoons

 Viterbi wrote:
That demon prince is something else. You could paint it like the ant-eater from the pink panther cartoons

That is a fantastic idea .

Theophony wrote:Look at the schnoz on that guy . That demon prince definitely has a Cireno DeBergerack (totally misspelled I know ) problem.

Fuzzy buildings are the best buildings .

Vest looks like Gumby had a bad acne problem during puberty . No wonder he wants a hug.

Cyrano would be appalled Vesh is great, he gets overexcited and accidentally eats the opposition making him slow, strong and uninterested in the ball, but very good at hitting people. In the game, mechanically, he changes position, comedy gold.

Viterbi wrote:That demon prince is something else. You could paint it like the ant-eater from the pink panther cartoons

He'll need a bright red nurgling to eat too

Theophony wrote:
That is a fantastic idea .

It is actually, I really like it. I'd probably use the Prussian blue I use for cloth for the blightkings

We've had some lovely weather, and Wednesday is the wife's day off (NHS, so still working), so it was mostly splashing about with the kids, having a beer and eating. Today was soggy, mostly. So lay down some more colours on the blightkings, added wings and some tentacles to Daemon Prince, but nothing to show yet.

I did, however, conduct a valuable experiment in paper tokens:

Yup, they work. There are two current Warlord Dredd vehicles in the mix there. Now I need to figure out how to use Photoshop or some such to change the colours of vehicles

I finally got the Metabots done, also. Cybertronian Cogs, transforming Dreadball team.

They all start as Jacks (orange) but can transform into the other positions.

Very cool concept on paper, although not actually a very good team in game.


So of course, I'll be using them for the foreseeable.

Spot the captain and MVP

I also painted the bust of Johann

Getting the cream highlighted and smooth was haaaaaaard

Mantic have released the spectral Johann token as a mantic point promo for what would've been Mantic day, so dutifully set fire to my mantic points (not allowed to post, so have to redeem in novel ways) in a bucket with the boys and sent mantic a picture fire is fun kids! older one is a scout, so he kept us right, and younger one was learning about fire safety at "school".

Tomorrow: blightkings! Plus, should break the 365 barrier

On we go
Graven

Like the look of the cybertronians, especially the MVP and leader. When the leader dies does a young whipper-snapper take over and do horribly bad until the team is decimated but then becomes a rampaging killing machine?

That bust looks great. You can tell a lot of hard work went into him.

I still have a ton of Mantic points from long ago, one day I may use them.

Glad they were useful!

That's how it's done. Love (love!) the bots, and Johnny looks very good.

365...gadzooks.

Theophony wrote:Like the look of the cybertronians, especially the MVP and leader. When the leader dies does a young whipper-snapper take over and do horribly bad until the team is decimated but then becomes a rampaging killing machine?

That bust looks great. You can tell a lot of hard work went into him.

I still have a ton of Mantic points from long ago, one day I may use them.

Well if you don't need them, I'll have em

Thanks for kind words on bust.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Glad they were useful!

Oh, absolutely!

youwashock wrote:That's how it's done. Love (love!) the bots, and Johnny looks very good.

365...gadzooks.

Cheers chum.

Pst ...
Wanna see some blightkings?



And the special characters

Lord of Blights, Plagues and Rotbringer

Rusty

Particularly happy with the gs hammer

Finished Kitbashing the Daemon Prince Covidimus

Still need to find Charlie the nurgling. I know I've got one somewhere.

Going to build a Gutrot Spume also. Because they're still out of stock on gw, and because I like Kitbashing nonsense, and I'm basically tight.

So that's 8 more, and cracked 365. Pretty chuffed.

Graven

Huzzah.

The bells on the DP are an incredible choice. The BKs are perfectly pestilent. And so, so rusty. The guy with the gallows backpack just rocks.

Blight Kingston look great and the Demon Prince is ready to ring someone’s bell . Love the fact that there is a chalk outline on the ground in front of them .

youwashock wrote:Huzzah.

The bells on the DP are an incredible choice. The BKs are perfectly pestilent. And so, so rusty. The guy with the gallows backpack just rocks.

Thanks chum. I do like the bells

Theophony wrote:Blight Kingston look great and the Demon Prince is ready to ring someone’s bell . Love the fact that there is a chalk outline on the ground in front of them .

Lol I do need to change my background.

This is a good month, for all that's going on in the world. Every month, wife and I set aside some cash as a selfish budget, that we only get to touch twice per year (a bit like a Xmas club). This year, it's May and October hers tends to go on overpriced beauty products she wouldn't normally feel she can justify. Me? It'll be an opportunity to pick up a couple of gaps in my Dreadball collection (believe it or not, there are some ) and more Dredd minis, fill in the wave 1 and 2 bits I don't have.

Speaking of Dredd, laid out the Mopad Madness board with enough printed vehicles to fill it

Should be good and dangerous.

Little bits today. Only the Hellboy bust painted in honour of virtual mantic open day.

Love it though. Really enjoyed doing his skin.

However, I didn't do nothing. Most hobby time was spent kitbashing a Gutrot Spume

Pretty decent approximation I reckon.

Graven

Hellboy looks badass, lovely deep reds and they pop really well with the jacket. Spume seems suitably gribbly!

That Spume is fantastic .

The board with all the cars on it reminds me of the old video game Frogger . Watch out little moped.....squish.

youwashock wrote:Huzzah.

The bells on the DP are an incredible choice. The BKs are perfectly pestilent. And so, so rusty. The guy with the gallows backpack just rocks.

Thanks chum. I do like the bells

Theophony wrote:Blight Kingston look great and the Demon Prince is ready to ring someone’s bell . Love the fact that there is a chalk outline on the ground in front of them .

Lol I do need to change my background.

Managed to score a couple of KS promos I never picked up, maybe get some proper nice beer.
Got Abe sorted

Which means that's the busts done. Back to the KS pledge bits!


Enjoyed them, though not use fussed about doing another bust any time soon lol.

And Tabletop Standard isolation challenge... Complete!

Very pleased with my quasi Medieval Fantasy buildings.



Had an excellent game of Dreadball with my sons, warm up match for the new season of Ultimate and time try our our new teams, Sphyr (older boy), Z'zor (younger boy) and Metabots (me). An outstanding game where despite most of the game being to and fro between Sphyr and Metabots, it went to sudden death between the Z'zor and Sphyr, when a Z'zor jack made a run, pick and bonus score (my god those things can dash) in the final rush, leading to a non-stop stealathon that ended in a stunning Z'zor victory. Other highlight of the match was a Sphyr striker being caught in a Sudden Deluge after a Heatwave and clearly being so distracted that he failed to pick up the ball on 8 dice (4, and a discarded card for rerolls, needing a 4+ on just one of them)
Roll on the 2020 season!

Despite everything, very low today. Not sure why, but suspect it's just being stuck in the house for even longer. I know it's socially responsible but still. Today I'm just brittle and stressed and full of piss and vinegar.
Graven

Busts came out great.

Midevil buildings look great as well.

I totally understand the stir craziness your feeling of being cooped up inside. Even with getting out to the store this morning for groceries and working at church I’m still going nuts. I love my wife, I love my kits, I love our cats but I really miss just going to the LGS and perusing the stuff on the shelves.

You don't look here for what feels like two minutes and there are so many updates. Busts of Red and Blue look great and congrats on reaching 365 painted minis in May
Greenstuff work on the spume is amazing!

Cardboard for mopad madness makes a lot of sense - I remember struggling to find plenty of cheap vehicles I could use when I was planning lots of stuff for the big-meg

The blight boys all look great, and loving the new additions you're building.

Abe and big red came out great, really nice work on HB

Thatched cottages came out good too!




Ever get that strange feeling of deja vu?

Great busts!

Good work on your busts and hoosess.

Theophony wrote:Busts came out great.

Medieval buildings look great as well.

I totally understand the stir craziness your feeling of being cooped up inside. Even with getting out to the store this morning for groceries and working at church I’m still going nuts. I love my wife, I love my kits, I love our cats but I really miss just going to the LGS and perusing the stuff on the shelves.

Cheers bud. I am climbing the walls.

Viterbi wrote:You don't look here for what feels like two minutes and there are so many updates. Busts of Red and Blue look great and congrats on reaching 365 painted minis in May
Greenstuff work on the spume is amazing!

Thanks on all counts bud.

monkeytroll wrote:Cardboard for mopad madness makes a lot of sense - I remember struggling to find plenty of cheap vehicles I could use when I was planning lots of stuff for the big-meg

The blight boys all look great, and loving the new additions you're building.

Abe and big red came out great, really nice work on HB

Thatched cottages came out good too!

Ever get that strange feeling of deja vu?

Or is it... deja vu? Many thanks indeed.

aku-chan wrote:Great busts!

I do admire a lovely bust. Fnar.

Dr H wrote:Good work on your busts and hoosess.

Most kind. Your housing was certainly an inspiration

Bunch of stuff done today and yesterday, so let's have a gander, eh?
Whilst everyone else is bemoaning the lack of monochrome primer, I snagged a can of Pistachio:

Honestly, you'd never know.

Oops, blurry.

I also started on my Oldhammer GUO

I imagine him riding something, maybe a huge slug, to get him to the new size, perhaps with whip in hand. Any ideas?

Von Klempt, the head in a jar on spider legs

Not sure which version of the jar to go with


The model itself doesn't come with one, these were made from LED covers.

And more nazi experiments:

Unmensch!

Continuing the Conqueror Worm theme, the Visitor:


And Ragna Rok Rasputin

He's ragnarockin'


Look out! It's a Monkey with a Gun

(I mean it's clearly an ape but still)

And Iron Shoes

Sorry, some of these pics have come out rather dark. Hmm.

Plus, finally, the League of Fatties

Initially, my brain thought the female one was wearing a thong *shudder*... then my modeller brain said, "What if she WERE?"

So that's a whole lot of gs ass there too.

Bit more chill today. Not gamed any, but planning our new Dreadball Ultimate Lockdown League (not DULL at all with the boys, plus they've played a lot of Chess over Zoom with my dad. Good stuff
Graven