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Congrats for surviving the decade I

I started my Cyborks the day after you - heretical ramblings celebrates it's decade at the end of the month - between them the finished models still won't compete with your y-t-d

Theophony wrote:Happy ten year anniversary . My 10 years on DakkaDakka is on Sunday, and I don’t think I hit the P&M area for a while after that.
Good luck with the online game today. Never been an online gamer, but I’ve never put in the money on a decent computer to do any real gaming their. Too broke from minis .

Well it's not real online gaming, just a board game over t'internet. It's a bit cumbersome, but a lot of fun. We managed 7 turns in 2 1/2 hrs last night, though we did have some technical difficulties at the start lol.

Viterbi wrote:Congrats on the anniversary and here's to the next ten years! Although seeing your output I'm worrying about storage

Yeah me too. Shh. Don't tell the wife!

Gitsplitta wrote:Happy 10 years graven! That's awesome!
That plane is looking ace my friend. Really coming together!

Cheers mate. Today was fun with GS cabling.

youwashock wrote:Happy milestone!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:

 inmygravenimage wrote:

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Let me echo that Gutrot is looking ace. Congrats on knocking down all of your Nurgle, it's hard to imagine that you have any models left to paint!

Oh you sweet summer child and thanks

Let me live in my naive bliss for a few more days.

Congratulations on 10 glorious years of hobby energy. Excited to see what the next 10 bring!

Yeah man I'm... Excited... Maybe ... Lol. More toys I'll wager

Fifty wrote:Waaaaaaah!

That's amazing. Ten YEARS!!! 350 PAGES That's just absurd.

You and Gits are right there on page 1 of my blog too, which is now at nine and a half years. I've always appreciated the support on my blog and have enjoyed watching yours too. Yours is, what, fifteen times longer then mine? (Phwoooar)

Right now, I love your Nurgle stuff. Purples and greens are where it is at for Grandpappy's boys, with bits of orange for good measure, so you hit the exact spot.

I have to be honest, I'm not a fan of Dreadball, but that is the game, not your work on it, which is quality.

Well it's good to be part of the elite Cheers
Glad you like my pestilential glory As for Dreadball, I can see why folk find it frustrating, sometimes. But it's my jam, and I love it.

Briancj wrote:Dawwww, I'm glad I could be here for the whole thing.

--Briancj

It's much appreciated, and the fact that you're still here is quite frankly remarkable. wait that sounds very wrong...

monkeytroll wrote:Congrats for surviving the decade

I started my Cyborks the day after you - heretical ramblings celebrates it's decade at the end of the month - between them the finished models still won't compete with your y-t-d

Your foul wizardry more than makes up for that lol.

Some odds and sods.

Suicide squad beacon objective.

Ectoplasmic Johan from Hellboy

Fun!

Couple of extra Metabots for the team.

Needed to flesh out the numbers for transformation. Well, metal flesh.

Da Blakk Panfa seems to have evolved into Da Punishork.

Much fun. A very satisfying build.

Good day today, played some Transformers TCG with the eldest, been ages and we really enjoyed it, mucking about with various bits and bots from the last two sets. Bottled up 23 litres of ale as well, 4.83%, not too strong, just decent. Plus, a mate swung by today with an early birthday present of The Dark Knight Joker set and BTAS Green Arrow, a lovely surprise. Hey ho,
Graven

Ten years deserves at least a "Bravo!", maybe even a "Huzzah!" thrown in for good measure. The breadth and depth of your hobby adventures never cease to impress, inspire, and convince people to spend way too much on KM mins... no, hang on, that last bit might just be me....

On a more belated note, that Nurgle stuff over the page is looking awesome. I'd half expect to actually catch something from that Demon Prince if I touched it, so gribbly is he!

Paradigm wrote:Ten years deserves at least a "Bravo!", maybe even a "Huzzah!" thrown in for good measure. The breadth and depth of your hobby adventures never cease to impress, inspire, and convince people to spend way too much on KM mins... no, hang on, that last bit might just be me....

On a more belated note, that Nurgle stuff over the page is looking awesome. I'd half expect to actually catch something from that Demon Prince if I touched it, so gribbly is he!

Lol. Km stuff is always a drug worth pushing. As you shall see... Yes the stuff is extremely icky-sticky ... Wouldn't have it any other way

So what have I been up to?
Getting back into TFTCG a wee bit with the boys. That's been fun. The current set is Headmasters, much nonsense. Nice to play other stuff tbh.

Also nice to PAINT other stuff too

Doing an Arnie themed Freeze crew for a pal.

Got another MVP done.


And ... Da Punishork!

Pretty happy

Not bad.

Carry on
Graven

Punishork is great , the old shield skulls really were a great use there.

Freeze crew is excellent as well. Nice glowey effect.

Theophony wrote:Punishork is great , the old shield skulls really were a great use there.

Freeze crew is excellent as well. Nice glowey effect.

Why thank you. My mate is very happy with them, which is good

So what have I been up to today? So glad you asked.
Colossal pain in the arse.

Another one down. Old KM Marvel.

Some add ons for the bugs:


And on the subject of Dreadball...

Speedball? Dreadball? Balls.

Got my Supers Unlimited Ks in

L-R Shark, Doc Cosmos, Ace, Cowl, Super Soldier, Shadow Soldier (evil parallel version) and the unbridled glory that is Elextrix.

Multipart figs. Striga and Roughneck.
I'm not going to lie, the female figs are by FAR my favourites. They're all much more interesting sculpts. I went in for them primarily. The males are there to justify having full teams to play. They're still good, especially as Roughneck and Shadow Soldier were free stretches, but Shark is by far the most interesting. I didn't even original pledge for him, just squeezed in the day before shipping. But at £7 a fig (£8 post-KS) they're still a bargain for a bunch of lovely crisp super casts. And having seen the next wave, they're just getting better
On we go
Graven

Well, then. Can't wait to some of those painted. Colossus looks good, too. Shiny.

Colossus. The only good use for Colossus is as a Wolverine delivery service. Even Deadpool knows how much value he brings to the team and plays pranks on him. (Still chuckling about the soap dispenser bit )

Lovely job on Peter dude

Looking forward to seeing those supers painted, really liked the last lot you did from them.

Colossus looks good, reminds me I need to get round to repainting mine as a Captain Atom for DCU...

Good work on the many things, since last time and for the 10 years.

youwashock wrote:Well, then. Can't wait to some of those painted. Colossus looks good, too. Shiny.

Yeah me too I even managed to get white primer

Theophony wrote:Colossus. The only good use for Colossus is as a Wolverine delivery service. Even Deadpool knows how much value he brings to the team and plays pranks on him. (Still chuckling about the soap dispenser bit )

So true lol. It was a PITA to do but glad it's done.

JoeRugby wrote:Lovely job on Peter dude

Why thank you sir!

Paradigm wrote:Looking forward to seeing those supers painted, really liked the last lot you did from them.

Colossus looks good, reminds me I need to get round to repainting mine as a Captain Atom for DCU...

Oh cool, nice idea. Having seen yours I need to get myself a Mr Miracle actually, that's a priority. I have a Catman and a vision head which was the planned Kitbash.

Dr H wrote:Good work on the many things, since last time and for the 10 years.

Thank you my lovely old fruit.

Had a cracking visit yesterday from Erithromycin, who brought me lovely goodies - KORE Thinking Tuktuk, US police car, 2 new York taxis, bystanders and micro masking tape. Smashing present.


Been working on Marauder Destroyers; realised that, shoddily, they don't come with missiles I mean yeah, I have enough spare from my other kits, but still very poor, GW.


Got another interceptor done on a whim also.

Bit of muzzle flash on the radiator guns, not sure how well it's worked but looks better than pic.

Mucky pup.

Looking forward to a chilled out Father's Day, bit of Dreadball maybe,
Graven

The interceptor looks great , on my phone now so I can’t see the muzzle flash, but sure it’ll work out nice.

Plane looks excellent as well, was the stripe done with masking tape?

Theophony wrote:The interceptor looks great , on my phone now so I can’t see the muzzle flash, but sure it’ll work out nice.

Plane looks excellent as well, was the stripe done with masking tape?

Cheers bro. Yes, tape indeed. Damn you Erithromycin!

A bit late but let me echo the praise on the Punishork plane. Also digging the cracked window on Colossus's base. Really good brush control on display there!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:A bit late but let me echo the praise on the Punishork plane. Also digging the cracked window on Colossus's base. Really good brush control on display there!

Thanks on both counts. I cheated slightly, I carved the cracks into the glass first with a VERY sharp knife.

A very mellow father's day was had, including a decent walk that took us past our little local French bakery which reopened today for the first time in 3 months. Mmm, cake. Also, had a hilarious game of dreadball which was the first time in ages that we'd all used giants: mind control jellyfish, having bounced back from being stomped by alpha ape, made super shark eat a big bug. Quality nonsense, cannot wait for Arena Wars, the dreadball kaiju mash up game. Much geeky gifting also, including Krampus and Hellboy dice tray (which I knew about) and Citi Def for Dredd (which I didn't - impressed with Mrs G there ). Plus good wine and whisky.

Today was the start of school wind-down, played a Dreadball match online, and it was EASILY one of the best games I've had, bar none. Back and forth all the way, until the penultimate rush where I managed to run away with the ball and get the landslide. Playing against space dwarves, which are exactly as stubborn as you'd imagine.
During my opponent's turns, I also was able to build and clean stuff.

Krampus was a very easy build, a lovely bit of resin.

Minimal filling will be required.

The Citi Def were likewise a breeze.

Medge basing ftw.

Got my Supers started as well

Very swish.

And Ledger crew done too

A good day's busy work. Tomorrow, hopefully gap filling, base fixing, and maybe even priming.

Hey ho
Graven

Is the base on Krampus a bit wonky? Looks bent up on one side.

Looking forward to your hero figures, you usually knock them out of the park. Must be the well spent youth of reading comics

Theophony wrote:Is the base on Krampus a bit wonky? Looks bent up on one side.

Looking forward to your hero figures, you usually knock them out of the park. Must be the well spent youth of reading comics

A little, yeah. I'm likely to fill under as the rest of it has gone together so well, and I don't want to risk boiling water at this stage. And many thanks, very mispent indeed. need to trim the end of the bat, I realise. Fool of a Took.

No posts yet today. .

Must really be enjoying that Birthday celebration .

Happy B-Day sir. Can’t wait to see this years cake ....and haul.

I'm a little late, but congratulations Graven! That's great that you have been sharing so much on Dakka for 10 years. I'm also happy to see that it doesn't look like you are slowing down after hitting that milestone.

Well the gap filling hath occurred, and the basing, and allllllll the priming. Helped the boy get his Harridans based, which are really awkward figs. Bring on the milliput! Also, I grudgingly stuck the Krampus base-first in boiling water and clamped to a 60mm base. Now, all is well they have now been primed.

Theophony wrote:No posts yet today. .

Must really be enjoying that Birthday celebration .

Happy B-Day sir. Can’t wait to see this years cake ....and haul.

Cake is on the facebook squire chocolate peanut butter apocalypse.

Syro_ wrote:I'm a little late, but congratulations Graven! That's great that you have been sharing so much on Dakka for 10 years. I'm also happy to see that it doesn't look like you are slowing down after hitting that milestone.

Many thanks and absolutely not. I suspect that it won't be quite so crazy now lockdown is easing though
Wife has outdone herself with nerd loot this year:

Skies of Fire, Taros campaign book and board, Tiger Shark AX1-0 and Strontium Dog Search & Destroy agents from Warlord. And that's just the toys, lots of good merch too (death trooper lanyard, spider man hoodie, bprd t shirt, vader travel mug, Batman socks) - and gin. Plus Taros decks from the in-laws. Very blessed.

We had my parents over yesterday, seeing them for the first time in 3 months was wonderful, hence no real nerding. Did watch Star Wars on the Big screen, good stuff.

On the subject of anniversaries, today is the ten year anniversary of the small boy having open heart as a newborn. Dakka was a lifeline then just as it is now, albeit in rather different circumstances
On we go
Graven

Hope your son has mended well, those rough and tumble games of dreadball can get out of control .

Nice haul .

Glad to hear your getting to see parents finally. Have the Covid measures been reduced in your area, or are you rebel scum?

Happy belated birthday, nice haul you got there! AI planes are looking great, how complex are the rules? It may be a good entry to try and get my eldest son involved in gaming (although he will turn only 6 in October, so maybe still too early ).

Theophony wrote:Hope your son has mended well, those rough and tumble games of dreadball can get out of control .

Nice haul .

Glad to hear your getting to see parents finally. Have the Covid measures been reduced in your area, or are you rebel scum?

Yeah reduced somewhat. Bubbles. So saw them Weds and today caught up with friends - ate, drank, celebrated his 50th and bemoaned lack of holiday.

Viterbi wrote:Happy belated birthday, nice haul you got there! AI planes are looking great, how complex are the rules? It may be a good entry to try and get my eldest son involved in gaming (although he will turn only 6 in October, so maybe still too early ).

The rules are probably slightlytoo complex. It's a modified reskin of Wings of Glory, which is easier. We started with Settlers, King of Tokyo, Talisman, and Hey that's my Fish! at that age. Dreadball is pretty easy to get into also.

Proof of priming

Supers Unlimited and the Krampus


Allllll the Tau. Quite fun to build. I'm starting to think about colour schemes, I'm seriously considering using nikhail oxide and going all spectral on them. Thoughts?
Graven

Nice birthday haul you got there! Excited to see the Tau join the tiny orks. I think a spectral scheme would definitely fit the ethereal air cast, and would be a fun experiment!

Spectral Tau fish....Bioluminescent .

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Nice birthday haul you got there! Excited to see the Tau join the tiny orks. I think a spectral scheme would definitely fit the ethereal air cast, and would be a fun experiment!

Thanks old son. I'm trying to go there, certainly.

Theophony wrote:Spectral Tau fish....Bioluminescent

There's a dash of that, to be sure.

So here's where we are now:

So my thought is yellow on the underside, grey and black on upper, purple for lenses and screens etc. And mayyyyyyybeeeeee a thin stripe the length of the body along the wing? Thoughts?
Graven

I've got this image of Wraith's decloaking but I think the colour choice is wrong for aircraft sky tones would work but the spectral green to my way of thinking doesn't make sense and Tau to me are the most practical of 40k races. Something similar shifting out of cloak or chamoleonic camo would look cool however. However I'm a fan of relatively realistic camouflage on most things.

I dig it! I like the idea of dorsal and ventral having different colors, a lot of aerial predators do the same. Do they usually have a lighter belly? I know in the ocean it helps blend in with the light above, but I'm not sure it matters in the sky, cuz they tend to stay in the sun. Anyway, I dig purple as an accent color - you never see bad purple paint jobs.

I like the spectral green, you just have to imagine an alien planet an the different flora colors from a strange atmosphere. Plus imagine that the Tau don’t see colors the way we do either .