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Absolutely love those reclaimed Amazons! Good man.

Amazons are the bomb, but Cap has always been a fav of mine from the Marvel Universe you have done a bang up job on him. Very well done Graven!

America's A$$…...I'd have a few other votes for who that could be.....especially today on elections day

Amazons look great.

Also big Kudos on the Playtesting of a game you love. I might actually have to get into Dreadball so I can brag that I know someone on the design team.

Spare. Metal. Horseback. Wonder Woman... And I suppose you sprinkle your bases with gold dust and wash your brushes in unicorn blood as well? (Nope, turns out I'm still not over the fact I missed the window to get that model before KM binned all their metal and never rereleased it... )

Jokes aside, the Amazons and Cap are looking superb. I remember Cap being a pretty awkward mini to paint new, let alone rescued. Super work getting the shield to look so neat and crisp!

Gitsplitta wrote:Absolutely love those reclaimed Amazons! Good man.

Thanks buddy! In the end, I'm rather pleased with them. At this rate I'll have a decent horde, whether to take on Parademons, Germans or any old mythic fantasy gaming. Here's Egeria with her full complement of javelins.

Egeria, she's gonna spear ya (as opposed to Euboeia, she's gonna bow ya). Got to remember which is which somehow

Yorkright wrote: Amazons are the bomb, but Cap has always been a fav of mine from the Marvel Universe you have done a bang up job on him. Very well done Graven!

It's funny, I am just not a massive Marvel fan - at least, not in the same way I'm a DC fan. I grew up with Spiderman and 90s X-Men cartoons, as so many of us did, but it was '89 Batman that shaped my nerd-world .:E Still, he's not for me, and frankly he looks a bit puzzled in amongst all the DC display figs.

Theophony wrote:America's A$$…...I'd have a few other votes for who that could be.....especially today on elections day
Amazons look great.
Also big Kudos on the Playtesting of a game you love. I might actually have to get into Dreadball so I can brag that I know someone on the design team.

Trying not to think about the state of your nation, frankly Coronacoaster notwithstanding, our plans to visit Disney next year are definitely off. Glad you like the Amazons, they're not too shabby. Thanks for the congrats, I am *super* stoked about the Dreadball news. One of my friends (metropolis) was trying to extract info from me last night, it's really hard not to spill! the new product is slated for early next year right now - 2020 was the first year that there hasn't been a Superbowl Special - so fingers crossed.

Paradigm wrote:Spare. Metal. Horseback. Wonder Woman... And I suppose you sprinkle your bases with gold dust and wash your brushes in unicorn blood as well? (Nope, turns out I'm still not over the fact I missed the window to get that model before KM binned all their metal and never rereleased it... )
Jokes aside, the Amazons and Cap are looking superb. I remember Cap being a pretty awkward mini to paint new, let alone rescued. Super work getting the shield to look so neat and crisp!

Oh, now I feel guilty! Had I only known :( She was part of the job lot also, and tbh a bit a wreck - you're not really missing much (at least, that's what I'll keep telling you). Many thanks, old son.

The boy has finished his mighty Mourngul, at last; he's very proud of his efforts (as, of course, am I) and appreciates all your support.

He took a notion to use Blood for the Blood God on the rose, and is so taken with it he's now decided to repaint ALL the roses on ALL his nighthaunts with it he has truly entered the path of hobby madness.

It's freakin' huge - as you can see from the scale shot with a primaris his sister did.

On a whim, I painted this Funky Dude:

He's the backer promo from the last Street Wars KS (from Funky Skull games); a timely reminder to sort out my pledge for the current KS. I've picked up the Mollies (the all-girl, afrotastic gang), various civilians (2 hookers, a crazy old homeless bird lady, and a newspaper guy), and the not-Eric Draven (The Crow), plus I'll get the backer promos of Donnie (not-Trump) and Stanley (from a Clockwork Orange). Great little game, but more generally just plain useful generic figures.

I've also been working away at the Iron Brutes, as I try to get through the dreaded Dreadball backlog I do love their captain (it's basically Ripley in power-lifter suit) - she is actually my favourite mantic model. That'll just leave the Koris to do; my new primer has arrived - Kobra Shadow, which is very dark grey-brown, ideal for spiderlings (and occasionally nurgle) - but it's too cold just now, really, to prime safely. At that point, they'll all be done (and I'll only be missing... 3 dreadball figs from the range?!) shock horror.

The shelf currently has some DC (the Bane and Display stuff, plus of course now a mounted not-wonderwoman), a bunch of nurgle stuff and various naughty types for Dredd. Technically, there's the Rogue Traders from Rogue Trader, but they're getting given away as part of a xmas gift for erithromycin. But the shelf is on hold because of the SECRET PROJECT. I'll hopefully give you guys an early reveal before the week is out: I've had to do a lot of painting without anything on display and boxes hidden in the hot water tank's cupboard.

Good times ahead,
Graven

I approve of the Blood God roses , and the madness that will ensue from him switching hobby ideas half way through.

Euboeia = Eu-Bow or use bow.

Good luck on the super secret Project.

Amazons and America's ass look great! And congrats on the Dreadball news, very cool to have your format featured!

Edit: Damnit, you post too fast I hadn't seen the new posts with the Mournghoul, great work from your son, he should be very proud.

You...

He...

Your son made a damn Mourngul!

He MADE it.

Bloody hell.

And then painted really well.

Blood hell.

Now I want one too.

(Remember the scene where Pippin gets a pint of beer in the Prancing Pony and then Merry gets one too. Imagine me saying that just like Merry.)

Where did he get the rose from?

Your son should be very proud of that. He's done excellent work!

Very nice, and the BftBG does work very well on the rose

Theophony wrote:I approve of the Blood God roses , and the madness that will ensue from him switching hobby ideas half way through.
Euboeia = Eu-Bow or use bow.
Good luck on the super secret Project.

I see you've seen through my cunning plan

Viterbi wrote:Amazons and America's ass look great! And congrats on the Dreadball news, very cool to have your format featured!
Edit: Damnit, you post too fast I hadn't seen the new posts with the Mourngul, great work from your son, he should be very proud.

Yeah, he's a wee champ. I certainly wasn't this good a week or so shy of my teenage years! And. many thanks.

Fifty wrote:You...
He...
Your son made a damn Mourngul!
He MADE it.
Bloody hell.
And then painted really well.
Bloody hell.
Now I want one too.
(Remember the scene where Pippin gets a pint of beer in the Prancing Pony and then Merry gets one too. Imagine me saying that just like Merry.)
Where did he get the rose from?

It's Playmobil, stolen off his little sister. She was NOT impressed Don't tell her that he's thieved one for every special character and unit leader's base On the subject of the painting I'm also really pleased with how well he's tackled the skull pile, there's lots of nice variation there. Yeah, we approve of making and not paying FW prices

Gitsplitta wrote:Your son should be very proud of that. He's done excellent work!

He has indeed. It's mighty fine work, though I'm still not entirely sure he's appreciated how patiently I've made him do it bit at a time.

Slinky wrote:Very nice, and the BftBG does work very well on the rose

I know. I just may have to steal the idea His next project will be a bit more prosaic, he's getting a Knight of Shrouds for his birthday (and then the Craven King and Endless Spells for Xmas).

Foolishly, I rushed the priming of the horse archer, and there's been a bit of primer shock :( however, it's salvageable. The Koris are a bit more... crunchy but I don't mind them having a bit of texture mmmmmm, delicious, crunchy spider. I have realised, however, that I also have the hobgoblin team to paint plus the goblin and space-skaven captains, squat star player and prone space ninja turtle. Damnit!

Right then. Secret Stuff:



Anyway, to finish up, here's the Mechanite team, the Iron Brutes:

I just freakin' love these models. They are so characterful and have such potential for any sci-fi game. They'll be running around MC1 as service droids (or for Robot Wars) for sure. And not-Ripley just needs a big alien to face off against, really.

Happy days
Graven

Nice work on the robots. I have that team, but they come in so many parts that I've been hesitant to start on them. Good luck with the Koris-- I enjoyed painting mine just a little bit less than, say, extensive dental work.

Is the Imperial Assault stuff being kept secret from your wife?

They are great figs. I agree that it's utterly bewildering trying to build them though. I sat with the second ed rulebook open in front of me to do it!
Nah, she knows. No nerd.secrets from the boss

Great stuff again!

Your son did a fantastic job on his Mourngul.

aku-chan wrote:Great stuff again!

Your son did a fantastic job on his Mourngul.

Thanks! Yeah, he's alright that kid.

So here we are again.
First up, the Z'Ha'Dum Shadows, my Koris team:

All in all, they turned out ok.

However I've been working more on Imperial Assault stuff (if you missed the first batch, it's in the spoiler block above)

Royal Guard Champion. He's going to be a nuisance, I can tell.

Another gunner. God, I forgot how tedious this white was to do lol.

Some farm boy.

And Jyn Odan (as opposed to Jyn Erso), last of the starter heroes. I'm trying very hard to work on my human faces, with mixed results.

And so, we had our first couple of games

It's a nice hybrid of board and mini, but leaning much more towards the latter... However, it's very much a narrative campaign game, where you take your heroes on their quest to rise up against the empire. I'm playing Imperials, which allows me to discreetly modify the difficulty, whilst the boys play as a team of Rebel Scum. It's a huge campaign, and if that's not enough, we have 2 more campaigns that the kids know about (and 2 they don't!) - and then there's skirmish mode too. The boards are relatively small, also : the game felt pretty self contained on our kitchen table.
What's next? Well, the elastopod team are very distracting, I'm thinking of a Slurms McKenzie (from Futurama) colour scheme for them. I still have MASSIVE amounts of Star Wars to paint, but I'm going to do that as needed by scenario.
Onwards!
Graven

I approve of the dreadball team name Old B5 fan.

The imperial assault models are coming along great. The local shop had someone trying to sell off their collection. It looks fun, but I really don’t need another game .

I do know how tough white can be and yours is looking sharp. I would love to jump in on the Star Wars game but I may have to sell off some 40k stuff first.

Love the red on those Imperial bodyguards.

Theophony wrote:I approve of the dreadball team name Old B5 fan.

The imperial assault models are coming along great. The local shop had someone trying to sell off their collection. It looks fun, but I really don’t need another game .

Likewise, B5 was a big part of my teenage years. I used to work a lot of the cons in Glasgow when I was at uni so got to hang out with a bunch of the cast back in the day.
Imperial Assault has the benefit of being very self contained, and not driven by the special characters. I really like the character development deck.

Yorkright wrote: I do know how tough white can be and yours is looking sharp. I would love to jump in on the Star Wars game but I may have to sell off some 40k stuff first.

Thanks matey. One good thing about it is the fact that because it's "finished" you can get good discounts. I also prefer it as a game to Star Wars Legion mechanically for skirmish play.

Fifty wrote:Love the red on those Imperial bodyguards.

Cheers old son!

Next on the desk for SW are Han, Chewie, Leia and two Rebel Agents, plus a Stormtrooper Commander, as that gives us everything needed to play our first campaign. I'll probably paint some more bounty hunters too I may have to hand prime though because the weather is wintery to say the least.

Today, as I say, we planned our campaign, building our semi-random mission decks (I'm Imperial, as that's effectively GM). We did try the app, which has an AI Imperial player... Not convinced, but might provide variety down the line. It uses different rules to the basic game, which do make sense but was just confusing to the kids. However gamerkid (#2) did like the Screen element.

And I painted up a belated birthday present, the elastopod team for Dreadball:

McKenzie's Monsters are here to PAAARRRTTAYYYYY!
These are one of the custom teams, and I love them in all their slimey glory.
And with that dear readers we are at 800 figs for 2020!
More stuff a comin'
Graven

800? ! That's incredible!

Those guys look great, but I'd paint them as Scrubbing Bubbles "Cleaning the other guys Clocks"

800, go for broke and get 1K

Hola

Gitsplitta wrote:800? ! That's incredible!

I certainly can't quite believe it

Theophony wrote:Those guys look great, but I'd paint them as Scrubbing Bubbles "Cleaning the other guys Clocks"

800, go for broke and get 1K

Lol don't knock my smock or I'll clean your clock and as for the other matter, don't jinx it I think it's unlikely.

Tonight I painted up the Rebel Saboteurs for Imperial Assault

Great sculpts

Don't fancy the Stormtrooper's chances much.

The irksome spawn has changed his mind about one of his characters for our Star Wars campaign , so I've had to add a Mon Calamari marksman (likes shooting fish in a barrel ) to the paint queue as a priority. As well as the Mon Cal sniper, they're taking a Wookie warrior, a Paduwan, and Lone Wolf Rebel gunman, with Han, Leia and Chewie as potential allies. However, the weather has turned unexpectedly mild so I plan to get a whole lot of Star wars stuff primed while I can. Heroes, Allies and Bounty Hunters first (bounty hunters can show up unexpectedly) plus of course the aforementioned Stormtrooper captain, as I'm playing the Stormtrooper experience deck for Imps. I love that, just as the rebels have experience decks and missions, Imps have different decks for character development for different styles of play - there's also an Officer deck, an Imperial Security Bureau deck, and so on - plus you build a stack of 6 different agendas, which represent different imperial factions (you might focus on technology, or Sith, for instance), and can alter the Rebel's missions accordingly: in an 11 mission campaign, Rebels choose 4 side missions for their characters, 4 for possible allies, and 6 mystery ones, and then they all get shuffled together, never knowing which exactly will turn up - plus they only get a mission briefing, whilst the Imperial player effectively GMs). Although I'm a bit late to the party, I'm pretty stoked.

Made real headway with my mounted Amazonian archer, had to re-resculpt her hand, as it wasn't quite right. And so, she's done!

And side-by-side with their converted counterparts:

Amazonians, Assemble! To be far, Donna Troy is not in this shot.

And finally, got the last 3 members of my Purple Power Princesses team done:

These have been hanging around my desk for aaaaaaages. Another inch closer to all the Dreadball done! not sure what scheme to paint my Hobgoblins in yet
Till next time
Graven

800 plus? Amazing, all looking good too, love the scrubbing bubbles..

FYI, there's a very reasonable way the Imps can field three AT-STs in the same game.

Just sayin'.

--Brian

Yorkright wrote:800 plus? Amazing, all looking good too, love the scrubbing bubbles..

Cheers on all counts

Briancj wrote:FYI, there's a very reasonable way the Imps can field three AT-STs in the same game.
Just sayin'.
--Brian

you are nothing if not a troublemaker. I'm looking forward to the ATDP from the Coruscant expansion. That'll be lots of walkery wickedness, when I eventually, inevitably give in and get it. I have got the expansions for Hoth (which comes with an imperial speeder tank thing) and Jabba's Palace (woo! Rancor!) stashed away for the kids also.

Used the free Carnevale miniature from Miniature Wargames magazine to make Batwoman's nemesis / sister Alice. Had originally intended to find a Malifaux fig or similar but this did the job nicely.

"Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle." – Alice, quoting 'Alice' as usual. Because in the comics the character is depicted as porcelain doll-like, in layers of lace in white, blues and pinks, she was almost entirely done in inks, which was frankly terrifying, apart from the mask which was model air black, a dot of scarlet for the lips and the skin base tone which was (of course) deck tan.


Next is the Stormtrooper special character.

So. Much. WHITE.
I mean granted, he's a special character so he got a lot more layers (7), but still. Reminds me why the regulars only got a couple of layers over prime. I'll need to remember that for the Snowtroopers and Jettroopers...

Remaining Heroes, Han/Leia/Chewie and Bounty Hunters primed. Which still leaves a ton of other stuff from Bespin and Tatooine - Heavy Stormtroopers, Tusken Raiders, Ugnauts, Bespin Guards and of course Lando is a personal priority, as he has always been my favourite SW character (and I do love capes) - but good to be going on with I may switch the bounty Hunter in the campaign deck from Bossk to Dengar, simply because he's my son's favourite (go figure, weird kid - his favourite DC villain is Sportsmaster...) - there's no guarantee he'll turn up, but it'll be a nice touch if he does.

Otherwise, just trying to be disciplined - some base tidying on Dreadball figures, some detail work on the metalwork of Joker bikers, cloth on cultists - nothing noteworthy, but all chip-chips away. Rest of this week is going to be super quiet as the boy's birthday is Saturday; finished up the Mon Cal character so we can use him in campaign:

He was actually fairly straightforward, lots of thinned VJ WW2 colours and a skin tone of 50/50 Air Mahogany/Scarlet. The boy is pleased.

I really like painting up the Rebs, I'm a sucker for Endor schemes (for all that I'm happy to concede that Empire is better) simply because I have such strong memories of it as a kid.

As for birthday plans, taking the kids rock climbing and eating a LOT of food (Greek takeaway, Scottish fry up, Tex-mex all planned - and of course, cake) should be fun.
So, ticking over,
Graven

What a wonderful model Sister Alice is. You really did it justice Graven to me she looks just like you described her.

Star Wars minis looking good too.

Not familiar with Alice (need to read more Batwoman, love the character but never picked up her solo stuff) but the paintjob is great, super ethereal and the colours tinting the pale dress work wonders

Worth the effort for that ST commander, he looks awesome. as does all the other SW stuff. Now that you're at least 3d printer adjacent, you might want to check out Skullforge Industries on Gumroad, they do a load of Star Wars proxies if you ever need more variety or want to throw in characters FFG didn't cover.

Great job with the inks on Alice .

Also you are braver with whites than I, so many layers .

Happy early Bday to your boy, today is my Wife’s, so some good people can be born at this time of year .

Yorkright wrote: What a wonderful model Sister Alice is. You really did it justice Graven to me she looks just like you described her.
Star Wars minis looking good too.

You're very kind. She is indeed a lovely fig.

Paradigm wrote:Not familiar with Alice (need to read more Batwoman, love the character but never picked up her solo stuff) but the paintjob is great, super ethereal and the colours tinting the pale dress work wonders

Worth the effort for that ST commander, he looks awesome. as does all the other SW stuff. Now that you're at least 3d printer adjacent, you might want to check out Skullforge Industries on Gumroad, they do a load of Star Wars proxies if you ever need more variety or want to throw in characters FFG didn't cover.

Well, I appreciate she's not a major character on a lot of folks' radar, but much like Nocturna (vampire, the other big-bad of Batwoman) she's a strong antagonist. She's also a much better take on Carroll's characters than Mad Hatter, imho, who's a bit naff. The New 52 comic version of the character was very much my inspiration. Printer-adjacent lol. So I'm getting, in the first instance, figs for Queen of Blood (DC villain), Arisia (a Green Lantern), movie Cyborg and movie Mera, plus - on the SW front - Din Djarin and the Child. This is the way

Theophony wrote:Great job with the inks on Alice .
Also you are braver with whites than I, so many layers .
Happy early Bday to your boy, today is my Wife’s, so some good people can be born at this time of year .

Well, I don't know about good... I've also got two nephews and a sis-in-law this month I am really pleased with the Commander, I've got a Scout Trooper special (Agent Blaise) to do that will get the same treatment, but the Heavy, Snow and Jet Troopers are just getting dark grey prime, nuln wash, wolf grey highlight and blocked in white. In fact, given that it is so unseasonably mild () I decide to get absolutely everything else primed as well: Bespin Wing Guard, Ugnauts, Tusken Raiders, Weequay pirates, Gamorrean Guards, Rancor, Echo Base Troopers, Wampas, Assassin Droids, Imperial Snow Skiff and Imperial General Sorin. They'll all be done by the end of the day, weather willing. Will that be enough to be going on with?

Lovely job on the white graven. You nailed it.