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Played 2 games of Batman as a celebration for my birthday tomorrow, and got a few models. Built those models, then continued on painting my 6 metal Knights of Dol Amroth and Prince Imrahil, doing the wash on metals now which will probably be the last painting for a few weeks

Finished my Nightbringer.
Now working on the transcendental Ctan.

Trying to figure out what project to start in the new year. I've been lazy the last 4 months and barely painted anything. Now I going to force myself to get stuff done.

New Year! New Project!

Gold trimming 2 heldrakes at same time.

Continuing to work on the six Imperial Guardsmen who will make up three mortar teams.

Cheers,

CB

Assembled a box of Nuglings, very nice models.

Also found four unpainted French Dragoons for Sharpe Practice, had wondered where they got to.

Found a box of French Hussars as well, the officer and three others, plus another five horses assembled for another unit.

Somewhere there is another box of Perry line French, a job for this week to find them

Woohoo... after 3 days of hobby time, finally managed to finish assembling the Blackstone Fortress minis. They are gorgeous, but damn are they spikey. I ended up trimming of quite a few extraneous blades and spikes to help.differentiate between the Guard duplicate.

The last set of this scale I had was Space Crusade, and these models.are light years away from those.

Back to work tomorrow though, so no idea when I might actually play a game

I'll be continuing the Necromunda Goliaths I tried magnetising last year.
The arm joints are odd, with an overhang to stop the arms sliding down. This means that the magnet connections have to be just-right, and the arm side is difficult to line up.
I ended up gluing a few of the arms on, and the 2-arms-holding-a-weapon are the majority I ended up keeping loose.

Finished all three Ctans. Now they are ready to play.
But only the Deceiver will enter my army lists.

Unfortunately ended up with a cold and have not been able to progress the mortar teams any further.

Cheers,

CB

Finished the assembly and basing of my French Hussars, primed and put the first wash on the Nurglings

Continuing with my modern silliness. For a while now I've been making miniatures based on the Ukrainian conflict. That's been relatively tame. Now I'm covering the Syrian Civil War, and well things just get silly over there...

Today an order from Warlord Games showed up, so I was able to make a start on my latest technical. This one's a commercial truck chassis with a WWII era Soviet Zis-3 Field Gun mounted on the back. ...Which at least is a bit more reasonable than the even lighter trucks I've seen these bolted onto.

The plan's to sculpt some crew figures up for it. Modern Artillery crew miniatures are next to non-existent, so I'm using some sculpts I started for my Ukrainian project for this. At the moment one of the key things on my mind is to improve my sculpting, as its now an area that I kind of want to move into as a career, so vehicles like this are just fodder for a bit of experience (whereas I could have bought existing models and just converted them for my purposes). Here's hoping that pans out.

Building two 500-pt unofficial armies for Gates of Antares for us to give the rules a try. Used a Stargrunt platoon to make a small force of Algoryns and bits from the Jupiter Rescue boardgame to make Ghar outside of their battlesuits.

Also just finished my 5th of 10 Orlock gangers from the new kit. Green-stuffed bandanas around their faces.

Picked up a Tyranids Maleceptor this weekend, so I'm building it right now. Most part done, but I decided to magnetize the Toxicrene options as well (head and arms only). So this part take more time as I try to be as neat and precise as possible so the parts fit well. Hopefully tomorrow I can get the magnet in and green stuff too.

Priming the last few miniatures of my Vanguard stuff.
Then onto painting my army of nightmares.

Deployed my orks to the table for the first time yesterday and naturally had a couple models break. Time to glue/repair.

After that 5 more Ork boyz. Even with all these third party bits I'm starting to go nuts working on all these boyz in the same color scheme.

EDIT: Forgot - I did finish that scrapjett:

Have decided to work on one base and two Imperial Guardsmen at a time instead of the six Imperial Guardsmen who will make up three mortar teams.

Cheers,

CB

Built three ammunition crates for mortar shells to add to the three mortar teams I am working on.

Cheers,

CB

Working on 2 squads of Tempestus Scions. Hoping to get quite a lot done today so I can finish them tomorrow.

Today, I will probably finish my second Talos, the Killing Joke. Then maybe basecoat some more miniatures ready for the weekend.

Today, painting weapons - Dark Angel green on a squad of my Eternal Guardian space marines.

I am trying to figure out what the best purple is.

Worked on two Imperial Guardsmen as part of the six Imperial Guardsmen who will make up three mortar teams.

Cheers,

CB

Painting. And ordered an AT Reaver.

Working on the bases for the three mortar teams.

Cheers,

CB

Finishing touches to my hellblasters, and my bad moon totem.

Just finished up a squad of Aggressors for my Dark Angels army, tomorrow they ride to battle in the Repulsor I finished last week

Painting Nightstalkers.

Picked up my infection node box from post office, played two games of Sharp Practice, leading the French to the silver medal in both, still learning the rules for this amazing little game.

got home and found the second box of Perry's French line infantry which is a little project for this week to get assembled and based up, ideally primed if time permits.

Despatch note for two boxes of Venomthropes as well for an upcoming event, expect to have these built by end of next weekend as the paint scheme is pretty basic

Basically completed the second pair of Guardsmen for the three mortar teams.

Cheers,

CB