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Did get the doggies ready for basing:


And paint night wise, started up another set of chaos escorts (and a peegy tonk):


Plus for a friends d&d game, took a guy from this:


To more or less done:


Hoping tonight to finish the dogs and escorts...

That looks really good. Especially going from blister to done in no time.

Thanks Nevelon!

Kinda grinding away in the background. Got some warmaster doggies done:


Likewise finished out the escorts:



Did another d&d speed paint:





May use them for the challenge this month, but not really thinking the quality's there.

And paint night, buckled down and finally got some demon hordes that've been waiting a while down to just needing basing:


Closeups:



Hopefully remember to post those when done...

Those speed painted Halflings came out nice!

Thanks aku-chan! Would have liked to do more with the skin, but was also trying to just finish then off.

Speaking of finished off, base-o-rama'd the hordes:


And then finally finished the dogs and the slaaneshi goober charachter (paravane or something?) that's been sitting around a while, plus a generic demon prince as an overlord a friend gave me:



Also got in some parts from an packing errored order for the bfg chaos fleet, sadly, my gamble on them did not pay off, and they did not fit the cruisers:



Tried sanding the bottoms, but was kind of a bit too slow...but cutting the back wall off the top seems to have mostly done it:

Gonna need a touch of filler, but mostly seems to have got it.

Also playing with scultping more warmaster objective markers:


Not sure I like them yet, we'll see where we get.

And some paint night stuff:
Bunch of projects to choose from:

Mild shipping progress:


Objective just needs flocking and drying:


Blocked out the bulldog for my ratlings:


And made some small progress on the eldar titan:



But mostly I took the tiny tank from last week and finished some war peegs:



Debating what to do for the challenge--space marines just not really speaking to me. Thinking the peegs or the bulldog, may do a protest eldar escort or chaos cruiser. We'll see what comes out.

I keep having a lot of ideas for the challenge this month for someone with no ideas.

Got some progress at paint night on the protest eldar:


But also got these space raptor infantry ready to paint:


And also considering this infinity tikbalang a friend gave me:


In other news, did a black pudding for a buddies D&D game:

And started some bfg terrain. This orb will eventually be a planet:

We'll see how the week goes.

Not as much as I'd've liked done, but still a bit.

Got a few more games in, a 1500 point titanicus battle that ended in a draw:




And a quick cruiser clash to get back into bfg after a few decades, ending in a solid loss for me after my bullets turned rubber turn 3:



Also got some more foam chunks:


And turned a few of them into some planets for bfg:


Also got the eldar escorts ready for basing, need to get some bases though:


Got the eldar titan done, finally:




And made some progress on the laser raptors and the Inifnity TAG:


Probably start more stuff tonight at paint night, hopefully get some done...

Did in fact start more stuff at paint night.
Painted up the objective markers from last week, mostly just need the ground done:


And started some ogres for a d&d game:


But most of the night was more warpeegs:
Ramming cart, and akira slide bike:

Those warpeegs are hilarious.

They are! I've got one more to go, but it was a bad cast (sides shrunk in), so it needs some repair with milliput first.

Picked up another space marine option:

This overlord dropship. Made some nice progress;

Not happy with the red, but I think we're past fixing it.

And at paint night, some mechs finally down to basing:



(May redo the mech tattoo on the mauler, and may do some freehand unit insignia, but thats bonus stuff)

Also got the ogres down to basing:


And started three more needing done by sunday.


Not gonna be up to usual standards, but they will be done quickly.

Also for said d&d game:
A wyvern, and a giant lizardman for my fun:



Lotta stuff getting close to the done pile, we'll see what finishes by the end of the month.

I have a number of Warpeegs that came with other Bad Squiddo minis. I guess I should paint them.

Is that dropship for Battletech? I've never seen one in the wild.

How does the Overlord scale? Aren’t they supposed to carry a whole company of mechs? I thought they were supposed to be huge! Granted, I’ve not paid close attention to battletech since the 90s... Nice work with the shading to break up all the space.

Always a fun assortment of stuff crossing your bench. Lizardman is particularly good.

JoshinJapan, I'd love to see you do some peegs.

And thanks Nevelon! Playing with simpler color sets with him!

Also, it is a dropship for battletech! Its supposed to hold a battalion of 36 mechs at a time, in lore.

This one is a bit of a chonker, but smaller that that nonetheless. Battletech has a different scale for the map and the models (1:285 vs 1 hex=30m or about 1:1000), and its scaled to fit its map sheet size!

Right, the leopard was the lance, union was the company, and the overlord was all your baskets in one egg.

Scale might be off, but looks good with the mechs.

Thanks Nevelon!
Got the mechs done:



Also made some progress on the dropship, and picked up another:


Did get some space ships done though, as I found some bases for the eldar escorts:



And took some better photos of the akira peeg bike and rammer buggy:





And at paint night, started some more eldar titans and a couple mechs:


Made some minor progress on the croc hoplites:


And finally got around to the FWL guys I'd been sitting on. Two almost done:


Aaaand one metal guy that kept dropping off the cork and eventually broke:

(Metals. Nice sometimes, sometimes a pain...)
And capped it off with doing up a reaper 3d printed lizardguy, waspnettle lizardfolk archer:



Really ought to update more often. Doesn't feel like I've got enough to report mid week, and then I drop a bunch on tuesday like this...didn't even show the warmaster game yesterday.

A bit of incremental progress:
Pulled the old unknown maker goatman out and finished him up:



Started basing him and the fwl mechs:



And started priming a couple blind box mechs:

Looking great! The breadth of different minis and styles is awesome. Very cool stuff. Everytime I see BFG I go hmmmm and then remember I cannot do yet MORE games.

Thanks Blockade, keeps me from getting bored. And hey, gothic ships aren't that hard to speedpaint well and then use in Void Admiral or the like...

Finished off the week by finishing off the Overlord dropship, and making some progress on the Overlord-C...




Almost did a DCMS symbol on it, but the AFFS navy uses red and black too, and I liked the idea of being able to use it with more forces cleanly. The Overlord-C is very much getting a Jade Falcon mark though. Hopefully next week.

Paint night update:
Some diffuse progress, a color each on the eldar titans and raptors:


The cavalry camo lance is just needing some basing and maybe freehand work:

And did a random pair of plausible but weird camos, for Nova Cat and not sure yet (totally not dragonfruit), likewise just needing unit markings and basing:

(Jenner already got a nova cat symbol you can see in the wide view, but I hadn't decided on that yet when doing closeups)

And also pushed a D&D dragon through for the roomie:

Just basic basecoat, two layers drybrush, wash, still needs the statue done without screwing up the dragon, but reasonably happy with it as a speedpaint.

We'll see how the rest of the week goes.

Skipping sword stuff due to rain, so more model progress.
Camo lance is done:



As is the Jenner iic:


Closeup of the freehand (could have been done.better, gotta remember I've got magnifiers):


...and.the ostsol:



And also a goofy furry thing, because I'm into that to no ones surprise:


Designed, printed, and primed by an acquaintance over discord, and then I kinda went ham on it and painted it same day I got the box open. Have a few more, but they need a bit of assembly and in one case a color I'm running out of.
Next, possibly the wyvern and overlord-c?

Wyvern got its statue, but I added a base and forgot pictures. Did work on a dropship, but the union instead of the Overlord-c:



And at paint night, got the laser raptors ready to base:


And did up a frankenmech for the challenge and most of a light star about to halfway. Was trying to match last weeks Jenner but forgot what paint I used and didn't check my refs, so:


I think I like the color here better as art, but not sure it works for camo. Think I have another locust and Jenner iic, may just color match the three...

Still forgetting to post during the week. Decent progress, got the three clan mechs based up, may do some more shading, gem, and freehand work, but usable for now:



Likewise, dragon all done:

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And the first set of space raptors:


Still figuring out what the second batch looks like...
F(semi-)LGS had a decent bunch of savannah masters, ended up picking up enough for two companies. First one got done monday, except for basing which I'm still working out.




Trying an eriadani light horse scheme.
Then at paint night, did the other company to freehand unit marks and basing in lyran colors:


Also did the back part of the clan high speed lance (and a little frankenmech progress for the challenge, maybe):


And some decent progress on d&d guys for the roommate:


Still got a bit of time to bring them in before the end of the month.

Great progress! Really churning stuff out.

Thanks Warboss_Waaazag.

Trying to base the masters, didn't want to waste a full base and was having issues finind small hexes, until on a trip to home depot:


Painted up nicely, and more than I'll need for $12.


Also got the frankenmech done:




And the Nova cat star:




The freehand insignia bring them down I think, but gotta pra tice and try things.

And of.course, one star down means time for a buddy group at paint night:


Also got the mind flayers almost done, albeit to speedpaint 5ft levels:


And feeling a bit blocked, so I went at some old fuzzy things:



Squirrel and hare about ready to base, hopefully tomorrow. Should about wrap up april, as long as I remember to post the frankenmech to the challenge thread.

Plenty of good stuff here, the latest Eldar ships and titans are shaping up nicely.

I like that squirrel alchemist!

Thanks Sherrypie--likely to be a bit for more, but they have been started...

Thanks Aku-chan! He's a fun little guy! Got him fully done and based up too!


And the bunny:



Plus as 2e comes soon, finally got a couple games of 1e Burrows&Badgers in! One of seoze the point:

Where the enemy otter royalists rolled my mixed but heavily armored royalists thoroughly, leaving only my leader and his valet alive...

And then a camp ambush:

Where bad luck ended up with a slinger pinging his leader to death on a shot into melee, that then snowballed against him.

Fun game, not the deepest but a pretty quick play (about an hour each including setup on one and a show and tell to the next table over on the other)! Hopefully 2e is even better and I can get some games in.
At paint night, did my usual spray of attention:


But the heavy nova cats got done:

Got started on some MASH and mobile HQ for the challenge:

And ran through a little furry dude (besides the snake in the background of the mash trucks)



Didn't realize until I went to look up the stl sculptor to post here he was an otter, thought he was a reptile like his bagmate the snake, so he's got a bit of a weird color scheme going on. May do a bit more, but feel they're pretty well basable as is. Hoping to base up the mechs and otter and figure out what else I'm doing tomorrow...

Love the rabbit and squirrel. Good progress on the rest.

Thanks Nevelon!
Got the mechs based up:



And the otterlizard--



Less happy with him, but also kinda proud of the freehand on the cloth. May come back to him around June, maybe try to clean him up more to "not get totally laughed out of the competition" grade for Historicon's crystal brush.

Also started some skeleboys that I ordered uh...october 2023. Oops?


And alsp started a pinup furry peice from the same order. Lost her swappable weapon hands, had to borrow some from a warlord celts kit. Also decided to try some limited palette work--ferrari red, black blue white, and black. May add a mid blue for 5 as the black blue wasn't going to actual (desaturated) blue when lightened with white like I hoped, just to kick the wraps and jewelry up a bit, though a yellow might be a smarter play to put gold in as an option.
Spoiler for extremely naked rat lady:

We'll see what gets done tonight.