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Painting yet more Arkanauts, assembling new Arkanauts and numbering their bases to help keep squads together.

Spent 2 hours with my Badger Patriot airbrush today.

I are in lurves!

Got in some good painting time for the first time in a few months. I finished up some Greek peltasts and archers. Then started work on some Indian elephants.

Primed my last 4 UCM New Orleans for DFC
Primed the drones for my Ferrum for DZC
Printed out some test token sheets to glue to chipboard and cut out for DFC.

Painting necrons. With the new codex I've decided to dive back into the first 40k army I ever collected and innthe process got a buttload of minis for literally free from a buddy that didnt want them.

Still working on these guys:

Finished my 6mm Alexandrians (with some cataphracts to play Seleucid)

Used the airbrush booth and found out the following:

1) They work. There is so much suction going on that it actually affects the texture of the primer. I'm thinking it might actually make GW Primer usable. (but probably not)

2) Using an aerosol based paint (figured it would be the most likely to cause problems) I found 0 leakage in the sides, but a definitely paint spray mark under the hood. Will have to lay newspaper down for that.

3) Darn things are noisy. Even noiser than my airbrush. Not certain if I can have other people in the apartment with me when I use this thing

Put five Sisters of Battle in a bath of Simple Green to start the cleaning/restoration process.

Cheers,

CB

Been planning a conversion for when the new Knight codex and assorted models drop. Been wanting to do more scions on foot for some time now and while the model in question is nice, it could do with some more gubbins and whatnot to enhance it and make it look more at home in the setting. One printout of the model's concept art and an afternoon of scribbling later, we may have something here..



Still waiting on the model itself to show up though, dear Royal Mail, hurry up already!

Had japanese lessons so hobby time was limited but did get to pick up box with tons of IG and orks and assemble 8 slugga boyz, 26 shoota boyz(minus armour plates etc) and 4 tank bustas. I'll be continuing assembling those today after Ghazz leads boyz to a battle. Tomorrow need to prime and hopefully get first layer of skin so I have plenty to paint on long weekend I'll be having(thursday will be another game so no airbrushing time).

Looking forward to assembling gorkanaut. Rules suck but maybe codex helps and I can't help but love assembling ork walkers.

Finally started on a batch of Batman models I've had sitting on my desk. Etrigan, Jason Blood, Red Son Superman, Arkham Knight Sniper and Raven are now in various stages of painting, should hopefully get them done tomorrow

First scrub of five Sisters of Battle in their bath of Simple Green. Second scrub will be tomorrow to see if all the paint and primer is removed.

Cheers,

CB

Assembled 12 Termagants and three bases of Rippers, washed and cleaned 8 eBay Termagants, will give me 30 with Fleshborers to run as 3x10 for general utility

Nothing physical but trying to work out what to buy to turn the odds and sods of my disparate collection into a solid army or four.



Also thrashing out ideas for an asymmetric skirmish game.

Second scrub of five Sisters of Battle and removal from Simple Green, all ready for priming now.

Cheers,

CB

I finally got the arms on my Stormguard Knights connected to the right spears. Turns out that the issue was just an issue with the mold at the hand connectors. Also got a plain primer to use instead of the Krylon paint+primer that I had been testing before. Really glad I tested it on some cheap dollar store army men, first. Speaking of those, I've been practicing my painting on those and have slowly been figuring out proper thinness of the paints (as well as which of my paints are thin enough already). As soon as I get these infantry built, I'll be ready to start painting.

Been very slowly assembling some Idoneth today. . . Hoping I can prime what I got left, and start getting some of these subassemblies into final place.

Will be leading orks to battle once more today. Have watered down list a bit and only 1500 so maybe I can actually get a game finished in time(by getting blown out of table by taking crappy units like gorkanaut and dreadnought but at least game should last more than 2-2.5 turns...)

Primed four Sisters of Battle.

Cheers,

CB

I want to spray paint my Overlord Frigate but rain is preventing me from doing so.

 Future War Cultist wrote:
I want to spray paint my Overlord Frigate but rain is preventing me from doing so.

I feel your pain. I wanted to prime a few minis out in my garage since I finally got them assembled, but the weather has been bad all day and we've got a vehicle in there that takes up most of the space. I've been practicing my painting a bit on some dollar store army men, instead. I think I finally got a feel for just how much to thin down some of the colors, which will help when I finally get to the minis that need those colors.

Doing some more work on Red Son Superman, Raven, Arkham Knight Sniper and Etrigan/Jason Blood. Should hopefully get Superman, Raven and Arkham Knight finished up today

Built my UCM Tokyo class battleship.

Going to finish my agressors. Possibly the final Nephilim Fighter if I feel up to it and can pull myself away from the new Battletech video game

Driving to South Carolina. Attending the Barnyard Brawl this weekend. Might try to get a warm-up game in this evening.

Working on my final unit of Sisters of Silence and some Null-Maiden Rhinos. Might finish up a few random miniatures I'm painting for Starfinder NPCs too.

Got my Cygnar Stormguard and a random Cryx warjack primed today. Now I'm just waiting on them to dry before I start painting.

I started painting my fleet:





Early days yet. Every aspect is going to take multiple layers so this is going to take a while.

Started to assemble the mdf terrain, very simple