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2022/07/13 00:35:43
Subject: Re:Here we go again... Plasma Conduits & Necron Deathmarks
Well, I was going along at a fairly merry pace last year, until we had that stupidly hot spell in July. It was too warm to do much of anything then, and unfortunately things fell by the wayside. A shame, as I thought I was in with a shout of clearing that bingo card.
We're now in 2023, and while it is probably too cold to consider undercoating anything, I've made myself pick up my brushes and get started painting again. Not sure if I'm going to do a daily count #hobbystreak this year, or just look at things weekly - we shall see in that regard.
I may also be looking to move house at some point in 2023, which will be a bit of a disruption - though I'm already looking at ordering some additional KR cases to pack painted models away in. Don't really want to leave the likes of the Phydian Destroyers unsupported, after all.
I'm starting the year looking to clear some simpler/smaller projects off the deck, which in some cases have been WIP for a while. These first pieces are, in no particular order...
- Thunderer Siege Tank
- 2 small Ryza-pattern ruins/barricades
- Those darned shotgun Scouts
In terms of applying paint, I've started with the ruins and the tank, as they're going to be in schemes to fit with each other. At the point I'm taking the pictures below, they've had the following done:
- Two coats of P3 Cryx Bane Highlight as a basecoat
- Drybrush with Trollblood Highlight
- Drybrush with Sickly Skin
The tank is going to get parked here for now - heh - while I detail the ruins/barricades before applying an Agrax wash. I'm not sure whether I want to apply a camo pattern to the tank, or just leave it as a single tone - any thoughts from the studio audience? Also, as it has been a while - well, probably the better part of a decade - since I've painted tank tracks, what methods do people recommend?
I did pick up Ratling Grime Contrast and Mortarion Grime Shade yesterday, so I may try them out on the barricades to see what I think. I also picked up Liber Astartes for HH 2.0, so at some point I'll have to decide what I'm doing with the contents of Calth, Prospero and the 2.0 starter - I think I was originally looking at Ultramarines, but we'll see. I also suspect I'll be leaving that until after I move, though.
Outside of these three, I'm waiting for the new Imperial Guard book to drop - as per my thread in 40k General, I've already made some observations from the Munitorum Field Manual that I'm not massively keen on. I've been avoiding picking up Cadia Stands! so far, as I'm not sure I want the Sentinel or the Shock Troops, but I might have to depending on the price of the Ordinance Teams when they finally go up for individual pre-order.
At a bare minimum, I'm going to need to put together four Scions to go with my Tempestor Prime (who I don't seem to have a photo of in my gallery, which is odd), n =][= Storm Troopers to go with the two converted Officers, and Emperor knows how many Guardsmen to form assorting Command Squads, given my collection currently features seven Platoon Commanders and two Company Commanders...
As people might expect, a new year means a new Hobby Bingo card, though until I've filled out any squares I'm not going to post it. This year's card was posted in White Dwarf 483, and interesting splits squares between painting things and playing games. I've left the Kill Team, AOS and Underworlds elements off my card as the odds of my actually playing any of them is really close to 0, so why waste my time? I am disappointed by the lack of Blood Bowl or Necromunda options on it, though.
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
@inmygravenimage - Thanks, graven. The Thunderer is a cool tank, I agree. I was originally going to give it a dozer blade, but never got around to it. Still, it has been sat waiting to be built/painted for so long, it'll be good to finally get it off the list, and by my first vehicle painted in this Imperial Guard scheme - though probably not the last.
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Well, we have progress - I've managed to "hurry" through the two barricades, and my initial conclusion is I should avoid using Typhus Corrosion without adult supervision.
Spoiler:
Two Ryza-pattern barricades
No major surprises on these - the door on the first barricade got two coats of GW Khorne Red. Metal details were painted with VMC Gungrey, GW Leadbelcher, GW Warpstone Bronze, GW Brass Scorpion and/or GW Runelord Brass. Various coloured details on the second ruin were picked out with GW Khorne Red, GW Warpstone Glow and/or GW Incubi Darkness.
Once all the detailing was done, everything got a coat of last-genGW Agrax Earthshade. With that done, some of the bronze sections got a little GW Nihilakh Oxide, broken pipes got introduced to GW Typhus Corrosion, and I tried out GW Ratling Grime Contrast in a few spots.
Are they high art? No, not at all. But they're good enough to put on a table and game with (bar needing some varnish, and this isn't the time of year for a-varnishin' ).
They also allow me to cross off the first square on my bingo card (B1, for those keeping score at home). Technically it also means a start to getting stuff off the Pile of Potential, but then I upset that apple cart by ordering a metal Bonesinger off eBay, and a copy of Cadia Stands! from my LGS (though I don't get my hands on that until Saturday).
Right, now to either force myself to work on the Scouts, or figure out what I'm doing with the tank...
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
2023/01/19 08:50:44
Subject: Here we go again... Ryza-pattern Barricades
@inmygravenimage - Thanks graven. I'm less worried about my use of the Oxide, as I tend to be a bit more sparing in its use. But, yes, it does work well on wee ghosties, too.
@Olthannon - Thanks for the kind words. And, yeah, about that tank...
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Picked up the copy of CADIA STANDS! I'd ordered from the LGS on Saturday - having had a flick through the Codex, I feel it appropriate to quote Vito Corleone from The Godfather here, with "Look how they massacred my boy" feeling very accurate.
Spoiler:
There are far too many arbitrary or box-based restrictions on unit loadouts, and ignoring the sculpts of models you've released previously in other cases - given an upcoming M2O run is bringing back two classic sculpts with the option, why can't the Commissar have a Power Fist any more?
That's before we get to issues with kitbashed models that were legal in the last Codex, but aren't in this one, like my Storm Trooper Officers with power sword or power fist.
I'm less bothered about most Officers now being back in with their Command Squads, as they should always have been, though I don't get why the Cadian Command Squad needs to be distinct from the Platoon Command Squad - or why Platoon-level Command Squads get the Regimental Standard as an option, rather than a Company Standard. It also seems weird that the only generic Captain/Colonel model is explicitly Cadian - do other Regiments suddenly not have Officers of such a rank?
Looking at my file of finished models, I think the Cadian Officer with Power Sword is going to be slotting in as a Cadian Castellan with Power Sword in the new book. The plastic Cadian Company Commander will (finally) get the rest of his Command Squad built, though this technically means a demotion to Platoon Commander.
My triple-flamer Special Weapon Squad is no longer a thing - though as it was Catachan, that's technically half a Catachan Jungle Fighter squad with a Flamer left over. On the other hand, the one Infantry Squad I had finished in the army was also Catachan, though it did feature a meltagun (and a bolt pistol on the Sergeant) - if I rejig those models, I can get a double-flamer Catachan Jungle Fighter squad, and fill out the Command Squad for my Catachan Officer (giving his squad a Meltagun & Flamer), with one or two Infantry left over. Not terribe.
Conscripts are also gone, so I'll need to repurpose my blob of 30. I'm going to have to check how many metal Cadian Special Weapon guys I've got kicking around, and what I can do for Sergeants, but in theory I can make 3 or four Cadian squads from them.
While that resolves one Platoon Commander, the SWS and the Conscripts, that leaves me with six other Platoon Commanders in need of Command Squads. Two of them are Cadian, so in the short term some Conscripts may see themselves promoted to Veterans to fill those out. The other four Platoon Commanders cover a variety of Regiments, however - one each of Valhallan, Mordian, Tallarn and Steel Legion. I think I have an unfinished Infantry Squad each of Tallarn and Valhallan troops, so once I find them, I can reorganise people into new units. Not so sure on the Mordian or Steel Legion fronts, though. Equally, I'm not sure how I want to equip the Command Squads given new limitations.
My Scions and =][= Storm Troopers also need a bit of a reshuffle. I've currently got a 5-man squad of Scions with 2 meltaguns, alongside a Tempestor Prime - the squad will need expanding to 10 models to keep the two meltaguns legal, though I could add two other special weapons at the same time. The Tempestor Prime will need his Command Squad building, though that has been on the to-do list for a while.
On the =][= side of things, I'll need to switch special weapons around between squads, so I end up with two pair in each. Currently thinking that going by range bracket is my best option, so plasma/grenade and melta/flamer, with the latter squads getting the plasma pistol sergeants. The =][= Officers will also need command squads, though I do have 3 basic =][= ST that can fill some of those positions.
I'll also have to hope that in any friendly games, people are either OK with me paying points for the =][= Officers to have the weapons they're carrying, or accept them not being WYSIWYG. See also Commissars with boltguns.
And not that I had a unit of them, but what happened to the Wyrdvane Psykers squad?
Needless to say, stupid restrictions are stupid - and I've yet to crack open the Chaos Daemons 'dex I picked up on Saturday to see what I need to adjust on that side of things.
One upside of a Guard release, though, is fresh images of tanks to give me an idea how to do the tracks. Looking at the strangely-armoured Rogal Dorn, I'd say that the tracks lean towards a dark metal base, with pads that look almost like P3 Coal Black. I think I'll use that as a base (so VMA Gungrey, shaded with Nuln Oil, possibly shaded with Agrax as well, then a light drybrush of Leadbelcher), and possibly give the tracks a general drybrush with Trollblood Highlight and Sickly Skin (followed by more Agrax) as a bit of weathering?
While that sounds like a bit of a plan, it wasn't what I actually got on with since the last post.
Adeptus Mechanicus Cybernetica Datasmith
Looks like I started this guy in June 2019, if my older thread is to be believed, so it is nice to finally get him finished. Lots of fiddly work required to get here, so I'm not going to try and recount each step. I'm considering whether to do the folded-over bit of each sleeve a different colour, but he's at least fieldable now.
I guess this means I need to find the box with the two Kastelans which came with him, and get them done at some stage.
Can't really say I enjoyed working on him that much, as there are far too many random details in there. Still, as I said, good to get him finished - and he lets me check A1 of this year's bingo card, too.
I may have resurrected another figured that's been WIP for far too long, but we'll see on that one.
Right, now to go through and reorganise my Guard. I may well take new pictures of the units which are "complete" at this point, and get them in the gallery in a "2023 Imperial Guard" folder, but we'll see.
I also need to find where my metal Cadian special weapon guys are to pad out the ex-Conscript squads - I've found one guy with a meltagun so far, but I'm sure I have more of them... somewhere.
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
2023/01/28 00:17:55
Subject: Here we go again... Cybernetica Datasmith
Yes, GW seems to be trying to force limitations based on the new kits for many armies. Those of us with massive numbers of figures will not have an issue, but those who have built a small army are suddenly finding arbitrary changes making a unit here or there no longer 'legal'. My gaming group is just adjusting with some homebrewed changes...as we are past the time for new armies.
Haha a suitable replacement for tank progress is some tasty admech. Nice colourful red on the cloak.
Interesting write up on Cadia Stands. I would have picked it up if I had time to start a new guard army. I think one day I will.. It's just as well I barely play a game of 40k, let's me convert minis to my hearts content. I think I may be quite lucky that my local GW is content with whatever you bring to the store.
@inmygravenimage - Thanks, graven. I'm not deliberately going through the n1 squares, honest...
@Captain Brown - Yeah, the whole NMNR thing is an insult to the hobby, really. Oh, to have the money to buy GW, find the person in the Studio behind it, and demote them to janitor...
@Olthannon - Glad to hear you like the Datasmith. Aside from the new Sentinel (which I'm not keen on as I prefer the shape of the previous one), I've not got any issues with the contents of the box so far (though ask me again once I start building things from it) - it's the massacre of the Guard they've done in the Codex I'm not keen on
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As I mentioned last time out, I'm going to be doing some work to try to get my Guard to fit within the boundaries of the latest ludicrous 'dex. I've reshuffled the three Catachan choices I had painted previously, getting a Platoon Command Squad and a Catachan Jungle Fighters squad out of the mix, with two spare painted Guardsmen left over to start a second CJF squad - need to find where my spare Catachan metals are, and how many flamers I've got.
Spoiler:
Cadian Castellan
Assorted Commissars
Regimental Enginseers - could also be used in AdMech if needed
Catachan Platoon Command Squad
Catachan Jungle Fighters Squad 1
Steel Legion Heavy Weapon Squad - not a new picture, but a current unit
I've also managed to find the sprue with the rest of the Cadian Command Squad on that this Commander came from back in 2019. I've started putting together a Medic and a Vox-Operator from there, and now just need to decide which two special weapons I'm going to use, as I don't think I'll be putting a Regimental Standard in there. Currently thinking plasma and a grenade launcher, for a stand-off-ish CCS.
I did manage to find one metal Cadian with Meltagun so far to go with into one of the three Cadian Shock Troops squads I'm making out of my Conscripts - I've also found three on eBay at vaguely reasonable prices, so that'll get me to two squads with double melta - would like to add two plasma to the third squad. If I can find the parts to build sergeants for the three squads, that'll leave me with 9 troopers left over, which will make most of a fourth squad, which'd be handy.
I'm pretty sure I filed away the head/laspistol/chainsword trifecta of bits from the three squads I built the Conscripts from, so I really only need legs & torsos - need to go looking, as I'm sure I've got some of this generation on-sprue somewhere.
Worked on the Thunderer tracks as described in my previous post, though I've held of with the Agrax step, and used VMA Steel instead of GW Leadbelcher for the drybrush step.
Hey! Look! A proper tank, that isn't afraid to show its belly!
Those with a keen eye may also notice an Ultramarine on the tray - that would be Lt. "Twenty Degrees" Calsius, the exclusive Lt. from the Imperium magazine run. Like the Datasmith, he was also started back in 2019. I've done a little tidying up on the white so far with Celestra Grey, as well as doing what looks to be a second Seraphim Sepia pass on the to-be gold parts. I put him to one side shortly after that photo was taken, so I could concentrate on the Scouts, with the exception of when I was tidying up leather areas.
Speaking of the Scouts, what did I do with them? Well...
Spoiler:
- Paint grenades GW Caliban Green
- Paint ropes GW Incubi Darkness
- Paint shotgun barrel section VMC German Grey
- Paint pistol butts VMC German Grey
- Paint shotgun slides (I think that's the term) Umbral Umber
- Tidied up the leather with P3 Bootstrap Leather
- Picked out the meltabomb on the Sergeant with GW Averland Sunset
- Remember that Sergeants have black shoulder pads in the BA, and repaint those with VMC German Grey
- Washed the Sergeant's shoulder pads and the ropes with GW Nuln Oil
- Tidied up red armour with GW Mephiston Red, including a couple of previously-missed areas
- Went back to get any missing silver metallic areas with VMA Gungrey
- Finally got to the boots with VMC German Grey
- Tidied up gloves and fatigues with GW Rakarth Flesh
- Shaded any silver metallic areas with GW Nuln Oil
- Built up the gold with GW Seraphim Sepia
- Shaded fatigues, cloth, leather, armour with GW Agrax Earthshade
- Picked out whatever the thing that looks like a light or sight on the side of the shotguns with GW Retributor Armour
- Went over the RA with GW Blood for the Blood God
I was pretty much at the "fiddly detail" stage of things, so just had to work through them.
Glad to get these five off the WIP list
They also clear square A2 of the ol' bingo card, giving me a little cluster in the top left.
Not sure I'l be moving on to next - could be the Command Squad, could be Lt. Calsius, could be the Thunderer, or it could be something else entirely...
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
@Captain Brown - Thanks, Captain. I need to get a shot of Nork Deddog and the reorganised =][= Stormtrooper squads at some point, so they can all be on here as units. And, yes, NMNR really does suck.
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As well as what I've been working on, I've had a model painted by a commission painter, Ashelyn Gaming. In this case, Ashelyn painted the copy of Bayard's Revenge I picked up last year for me, with quite a quick turnround.
I'm happy with the end result, and will likely use her services again in the future, particularly with character models I'm not planning on using in an army.
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This week may have mostly involved revisiting a model that I think last made an appearance back in October 2021, in the form of the Spoilpox Scrivener.
When last seen, I'd painted the base for this Daemon, but hadn't progressed with him much beyond there. As you can see from the below, that's no longer the case...
A model after my own heart, tracking data whenever appropriate...
Roughly in order:
Spoiler:
- Tidied up areas where I'd been untidy with Grey Seer
- Basecoated metal areas with Abaddon Black
- Warplock Bronze on the icon, scroll handle & sword
- Drybrushed those areas with Brass Scorpion
- Tidied up over-drybrush with Grey Seer
- Went over ink bottle(?) with Leadbelcher
- Picked out leather straps with P3 Bootstrap Leather
- Painted quill with Aethermatic Blue
- Picked out centre of quill feather with Leviadon Blue
- Washed slug underbelly (and maggots) with Reikland Fleshshade (twice)
- Picked out slug gums/tongue/mouth with Screamer Pink
- Washed the above with Agrax Earthshade
- Washed maggots with Seraphim Sepia
- Washed skin with Athonian Camoshade (twice)
- Generally tidied up washed areas, given white undercoat
- Painted small bits of cloth, scrolls-in-belly, etc, with Skeleton Horde
- Painted Big Kahuna Scroll with Skeleton Horde
- Painted guts and small back wound with Druchii Violet
- Shaded the ink bottle with Mortarion Grime, just because I can
- Basecoated Hungry Nurgling with a 2:1 (ish) mix of Lahmium Medium & Fenrisian Grey
- Shaded Hungry Nurgling with a 2:1 (ish) mix of Lahmian Medium & Druchii Violet
- Picked out areas on the scroll to become metal with Abaddon Black
- Picked out the Scriviner's third eye and some of the boils with Averland Sunset
- Picked out Hungry Nurgling's eye (and some highlights) with Ulthuan Grey
- Went over the metal bits on the scrolls with Brass Scorpion
- Shaded yellow bits with Reikland Fleshshade
- Shaded Leadbelcher bits with Nuln Oil
- Shaded Brass Scorpion elements with Agrax Earthshade
Quite a few fiddly details on the guy, and I'm sure some areas would've been easier to work on had he been in sub-assemblies. Having said that, I'm not sure how easily he'd've gone together after painting.
And, true to form, as soon as I took these "finished" pictures I find little bits I need to touch up - the downside of a white undercoat.
Is anyone else confused how Nurgle Daemons seem to be lacking a Heavy Support choice? Seems more fitting for them than Fast Attack - bring back the Contagion of Nurgle as a HS, you cowards!
I'll admit, I'm a little curious how many points things end up becoming by the end of the year, so I'll keep updating this spoiler when things get finished.
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
I've continued making progress on some of these older WIPs, with some detail work on Lt. Calsius, as well as working my way through a unit.
More of Grandfather's blessings...
These were originally intended to be reinforcements for my existing unit of Plaguebearers, but then GW changes the Daemons rules. There are another five to work through now these are done, but they were a little further back in my process for this scheme.
Guess I'll have to do a third squad in this scheme, and put together an additional Champion/Standard/Musician when building that unit.
Mildly annoying, as I'd wanted to do a Sickly Pallor of Decay unit as my second or third Plaguebearer unit - guess they'll be unit #4 now.
Progress steps:
Spoiler:
- Calsius: Basecoated the two purity seals with Steel Legion Drab
- Calsius: Went over the brown on the purity seals with Rakarth Flesh
- Calsius: Shaded the seals with Agrax Earthshade
- Plaguebearers: Did what I think was the second coat of Athonian Camoshade to the first 5 Plaguebearers
- Plaguebearers: Picked out eyes and some boils on the first 5 with Averland Sunset
- Plaguebearers: Washed eyes/boils/maggot with Reikland Fleshshade
- Plaguebearers: Picked out wounds with Screamer Pink
- Plaguebearers: Washed the Screamer Pink areas (and the skin around them) with Druchii Violet
- Plaguebearers: Picked out teeth/bones with Steel Legion Drab
- Plaguebearers: Went over teeth/bones with P3 Jack Bone
- Plaguebearers: Washed the mouth maggot with Seraphim Sepia
- Plaguebearers: Washed the teeth/bones with Agrax Earthshade
There may be a little bit of tidying up to do when I've finished the other five - the downside of looking at pictures on the screen, especially when we're talking models with a white undercoat.
Progress on Calsius
Interestingly, when he's done, I think Calsius will be my first Primaris marine - and definitely my first Ultramarine.
Shockingly, my next project will be the other half of this batch of ten Plaguebearers, though there's a chance Calsius might get finished first. I'm pretty sure these 5 daemons get me half of cell E2 on the bingo card, but I'll confirm that once the other five are done.
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
2023/02/18 21:09:18
Subject: Re:Here we go again... 5 More Plaguebearers
I guess this means we can move these Plaguebearers fully off the "old WIP" list, then...
Full unit shots to come once the command groups have been sorted out
Progress steps:
Spoiler:
- Plaguebearers: Painted the compound eyes on the fly head with P3 Coal Black
- Calsius: Basecoated the shoulder pad rims with VMA Chrome, ready to use Seraphim Sepia to turn them into the gold that the 2nd Company now seems to use
- Plaguebearers: Applied two coats of Athonian Camoshade to the skin
- Plaguebearers: Picked out eyes (on 4 of them) and boils on all of them with Averland Sunset
- Plaguebearers: Washed eyes/boils with Reikland Fleshshade
- Plaguebearers: Picked out assorted wounds with Screamer Pink
- Plaguebeaeres: Washed in and around the wounds with Druchii Violet
- Plaguebearers: Did a tidy-up pass with Athonian Camoshade, as I was seeing some white/light spots where there shouldn't be
- Plaguebearers: Picked out teeth with Steel Legion Drab
- Plaguebearers: Went over the teeth with P3 Jack Bone, as well as picking out the two maggots in one gut with it as a basecoat.
- Plaguebearers: Washed the maggots with Seraphim Sepia
- Plaguebearers: Highlighted the guts (and tongues) with Pink Horror (also did this step on the previous batch of five)
Time for a quick hobby bingo update...
Spoiler:
If I'm not mistaken, that works out at 50 points
So, what's likely to be next?
- Build and base 10 Plaguebearers, including two command groups
- Build and base the remaining four guys for the Cadian Command Squad
- Base 5 Assault Intercessors
- Base 1 Bladeguard Lieutenant
- Base a Necron Psychomancer
- Base a Plague Surgeon
- Base a Sloppity Bilepiper
- Undercoat all of the above, assuming I get a good day for it, weather-wise
- Check my desk for anyone else who should be ready for basing
- Review where I got to on the Hellbrute
- MOAR PAINT on Twenty Degrees Calsius
- Possibly figure out what I want to do in terms of camo and markings for the Thunderer
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
@inmygravenimage - Thanks for that, graven. It's good to get some of these models that have been sat around for a while off the WIP list and into the "finished" list.
@gobert - Thanks, gobert. The Scouts had been haunting me, so I was really glad to get them finished up.
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Progress steps:
Spoiler:
- Plaguebearers (PB ) : Assembled 10 Plaguebearers, including two command groups
- Assault Intercessors (AI) : Based all 5 models
- Bladeguard Lt. (BGL) : Based
- AI/BGL : Undercoated with Chaos Black Spray
- AI/BGL : Basecoated the bases with two coats of P3 Cryx Bane Highlight
- AI/BGL : Drybrushed bases with P3 Trollblood Highlight
- AI/BGL : Drybrushed bases with P3 Sickly Skin
- AI : Picked out the skull on the base with Steel Legion Drab (Sgt. only)
- AI/BGL : Picked out the brick on each base with P3 Skorne Red
- AI : Went over the skull with P3 Jack Bone (Sgt. Only)
- AI/BGL : Tidied up the base edges with Abaddon Black
- AI/BGL : Shades the bases with Agrax Earthshade - AI Bases Done - BGL : Picked out the Necron skull with Leadbelcher
- AI : Basecoated the Sgt's bionic forearm with Leadbelcher
- BGL : Highlighted said skull with a light VMA Chrome drybrush
- BGL : Basecoated his helmet with VMA Chrome
- BGL : Tinted the skull with Aethermatic Blue - BGL Base Done - BGL : Went over the helmet with Seraphim Sepia
- Calsius : Went back to the purity seals and picked out the metal elements at the bottom of each seal with VMC Chrome
- Calsius : Picked out the two wreaths with VMC Chrome (I was originally going to do these green, but changed my mind)
- Calsius : Went over the shoulderpad rims & purity seal bits with Seraphim Sepia
- Psychmancer : Glued the Psychomancer down to his base.
- Calsius : Tidied up his power armour with Macragge Blue
- Calsius : Picked out the 4 small vents on his backpack with Leadbelcher
- Calsius : Washed the vents with Nuln Oil
- Calsius : Washed the wreaths with Sreaphim Sepia
- Calsius : Went over the eagle on his chest with P3 Jack Bone
- Calsius : Washed various bits that had had one coat of Speia with a second coat
- Calsius : Washed the bone chest eagle with Agrax Earthshade
- Calsius : Went over the grey bits of detail with Ulthuan Grey, to get them to "white"
- BGL : Second coat of Seraphim Sepia on the helmet
- Calsius : Picked out vox mouthpiece thing with Leadbelcher
- Calsius : Washed the above with Nuln Oil - Calsius done
Nice to get Calsius off the WIP list, given he joined it in March 2019 - only took four years. He also crosses off square E4 on my bingo card. I'm pretty sure he's the first Ultramarine I've finished, and fairly sure he's the first Primaris marine, too - there's a WIP Mentor Legion Lt. in a box somewhere who I'm sure is pretty ticked off with me now...
It'll be interesting to see if I regret starting on the gold helmet and bionic forearm on the Blade Guard Lieutenant and Assault Intercessor Sergeant respectively, given I've not basecoated the main armour panels yet...
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
@gobert - Thanks for that, gobert. He's another one that had been hanging around for far too long, so it is good to get him off the WIP list. As for a fun bunch coming up? We'll see...
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Progress steps:
Spoiler:
- Bladeguard Lt. (BGL) - Basecoated armour + backpack with Mephiston Red
- Cadian Command Squad (CCS) - Built remaining two men for the Command Squad
- Plaguebearers (PBs) - Added 10 Plaguebearers to their bases with plasticard spacers
- CCS - Added the 4 men to their bases, with plasticard spacers
- Psychomancer (PM) - Added basing material to the bases
- CCS/PBs - Added basing material to the bases
- Sloppity Bilepiper (SB) - Glued the Bilepiper and his Nurgling to his base, without a plasticard spacer
- Hellbrute (HB) - Glued the dangling Nurgling to the arm chains
- SB - Based the model
- PM/CCS/PBs/SB - Undercoated with Leadbelcher/Chaos Black/Corax White as appropriate
- PM/CCS - Touched up (or painted) the bases with Abaddon Black
- PM/CCS - Applied two thinned coats of P3 Cryx Bane Highlight to basecoat the bases
- PM/CCS - Drybrushed bases with P3 Trollblood Highlight
- PM/CCS - Drybrushed bases with P3 Sickly Skin
- PM/CSS - Picked out bricks on bases with P3 Skorne Red
- PM/CSS - Washed bases with Agrax Earthshade
- PM/CSS - Tidied up base rims with Abaddon Black - Bases done - CCS - Basecoated the skin with P3 Midlund Flesh
- PM - Drybrushed the Psychomancer with VMA Chrome
- PM - Painted the staff shaft, weird forearm, and spinal elements with Black Templar
- PM - Shaded hands & joints with Nuln Oil
- PM - Shaded tentacles with a 2:1 mix of Lahmium Medium & Nuln Oil
- PM - Went over elements of the carapace with Leviadon Blue
- PM - Went over the Necron symbols on the weapon and chest, as well as the orb on its back with VMA Chrome. Over-brushed the skull thing with VMA Chrome ready for when it would get its Technical coats.
- PM - Applied a first coat of Seraphim Sepia to the Necron symbols
- PM - Aethermaic Blue'd a lot of armour sections
- PM - Second coat of Seraphim Sepia on the gold symbols
- PM - Washed the tentacles with a 1:1 (ish) mix of Druchii Violet & Lahmian Medium
- PM - Went over various spheres that will need Tesseract Glow adding with VMA Chrome
- PM - Shaded the end of the tail, bottom of the staff, and the retracted arms/legs in the lower torso with a 1:1:1 mix of Nuln Oil, Drakenhof Nightshade & Lahmian Medium.
- PM - Applied Tesseract Glow as required.
- PM - Went over the bladed bits at the top of the staff with Ork Flesh Contrast
- PM - Added a little more shading to the top of the staff with Dark Angels Green Contrast
- PM - Used Nighthaunt Gloom and Hexwraith Flame (and a mix of the two) to try to do a sort of wet blend over the skull image thing.
- CCS - Applied a second coat of P3 Midlund Flesh on the skin
- PM - Highlighted the top of the staff with Ogryn Camo - Psychomancer done
Necron Psychomancer - also known as square C5 on the bingo card.
Apologies for the weird focus in the front shot - I'll get another shot when I'm next in t'booth.
Nurgle Daemons - Undercoated, awaiting their spot in the limelight
The Psychomancer is an... interesting model to paint, given how many bits want to flex when you paint them. Not disconcerting at all, no sir.
I've actually filled up all the "Hero or Character" squares on the bingo card already, which is probably not a good sign. Want to get the Cadian boys finished next, though I'll probably work through the basing on the Daemons at the same time.
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
The psychomancer is such a cool mini, one of the few extra Necrons I’d like to get. I love how you’ve blended the colours on the digital ghost, really nicely done
Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way
@gobert - Cheers, gobert. Hope the better pics below make up for the out-of-focus initial one.
@JoshhInJapan - Glad to hear you like them, Josh. The other advantage, of course, is that it makes them fairly simple to paint effectively
@Captain Brown - Thank you, Captain. It's still easy to get distracted, but we're getting there, slowly. We'll just not mention painted vs. bought YTD, OK?
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Progress steps:
Spoiler:
- Cadian Command Squad (CCS) - Washed the flesh with Reikland Fleshshade
- CCS - Basecoated the uniforms in P3 Cryx Bane Highlight (twice)
- Plaguebearers (PBs) - Basecoated the bases in P3 Cryx Bane Highlight (twice)
- Sloppity Bilepiper (SB) - Basecoated the base in P3 Cryx Bane Highlight (twice)
- SB/PBs - Drybrushed the bases with P3 Trollblood Highlight
- SB/PBs - Drybrushed the bases with P3 Sickly Skin
- PBs - Picked out the skulls on two of the bases with Steel legion Drab
- PBs - Went over the skulls with P3 Jack Bone
- SB/PBs - Picked out bricks on bases with P3 Skorne Red
- SB/PBs - Washed all the bases with Agrax Earthshade
- SB/PBs - Tidied up the base rims with two coats of Abaddon Black
- SB/PBs - Washed any horns with Reikland Fleshshade
- PBs - Went over the plague swords and standards with Abaddon Black
- PBs - Basecoated the plague swords and standard tops with Warplock Bronze
- PBs - Drybrushed all the Warplock Bronze with Brass Scorpion.
- PBs - Washed all the Bronze/Brass with Agrax Earthshade.
- PBs - Went over the spiky bit at the base of the two standards with Leadbelcher
- PBs - Basecoated the standard poles with P3 Umbral Umber.
- PBs - Washed the spiky bit at the base of the poles with Nuln Oil.
- PBs - Drybrushed the standard poles with Steel Legion Drab.
- PBs - Washed the poles with Agrax Earthshade.
- SB/PBs - Tidied up where necessary with Grey Seer.
- SB - Applied the first coat of Athonian Camoshade to the dancing Nurgling
- PBs - Touched up some of the Reikland Fleshshade on the horns
- SB - Applied the second coat of Athonian Camoshade to the dancing Nurgling
- PBs - Applied first coat of Athonian Camoshade over the skin
- SB - Basecoated the Bilepiper's skin with a 2:1 mix of Lahmian Medium & Fenrisian Grey
- SB - Shaded the Bilepiper's skin with a 2:1 mix of Lahmian Medium & Druchii Violet
- SB - Shaded the Bilepiper's exposed guts, tongue and wounds with Druchii Violet
- SB - Painted the fleshy sac of the Bilepiper's Gutpipes with Reikland Fleshshade (twice)
- PBs - Applied a second coat of Athonian Camoshade to all of their skin
- Scarabs - Removed the Scarab swarms from my Boarding Patrol box from the sprues and cleaned them up.
- SB/PBs - Went over some bone elements with Skeleton Horde
- SB - Painted the hood of the head-on-a-stick with Black Templar
- SB - Painted the face of the head-on-a-stick with Nighthaunt Gloom
- Scarabs - Worked through basing the Scarabs, taking care not to have basing material interfere with them from a height perspective.
- Scarabs - Undercoated the Scarabs - Scarabs themselves with Leadbelcher, bases with Chaos Black
- Scarabs - Worked through the steps to paint the bases (see above).
- SB - Painted some of the Bilepipe pipes with Basilicanum Grey
- Scarabs - Drybrushed them with VMA Chrome
- Scarabs - Filled the rectangular recess at the back of each Scarab (and any plastic between claws) wit Black Templar.
- PBs - Used Basilicanum Grey on the hair on any severed heads.
- Scarabs - Shaded Scarab legs with Nuln Oil.
- Scarabs - Went back over orbs and eyes with VMA Chrome
- Scarabs - Painted the orbs and eyes with Tesseract Glow
- Scarabs - Went over the underside of the Scarabs with Black Templar
- Scarabs - Tidied up base edges and the uprights under the Scarabs with Abaddon Black.
- Scarabs - Glued the Swarms to their bases - SCARABS COMPLETE - PBs - Went over the skin on all the severed heads with Reikland Fleshshade
- SB/PBs - Picked out eyes and some boils on the Plaguebearers and Dancing Nurgling with Averland Sunset
- SB/PBs - Washed the bits I'd painted yellow with Reikland Fleshshade (along with the maggot on the back of the Bilepiper's stick)
- SB/PBs - Applied Screamer Pink to the wounds, guts and tongues of the Plaguebearers and Dancing Nurgling
- SB/PBs - Washed all the Screamer Pink areas with Liche Purple
- PBs - As he was looking pretty white for a fly guy, painted that fly head's eyes with Coal Black
- SB/PBS - Went over any maggots with Seraphim Sepia.
- SB/PBs - Basecoated teeth with Steel Legion Drab
- SB/PBs - Picked out any bits of leather with P3 Bootstrap Leather
- SB - Basecoated metal areas with Abaddon Black
- SB/PBs - Went over the teeth with P3 Jack Bone
- SB/PBs - Washed the teeth and leather with Agrax Earthshade
Improved pics of the front of the Psychomancer
WIP of the Bilepiper
More Scarab Swarms Just how many of these is enough? I'm up to 12 painted bases now.
Plaguebearers A couple of bits to tidy up on these, mainly on the musicians
Question - does anyone know of a good 3rd party canopy replacement for the Doom Croissant? Ideally UK-based.
Was quite fortunate to be able to pop into my LGS on the 22nd and grab a "The Lion & Retinue" box off the shelf there, despite how quickly they sold out on the GW store. Wasn't even really hunting for it, but I'm not going to complain.
Weird observation for the day - on the UKGW webstore, at the time of writing, the "Contact Us" in the top left displays an email address, but is formatted as a click-to-call link, which is odd. The sort of thing you noticce when you work in the field.
What's next? Well, I'm close to finishing the Bilepiper, so I guess him. I should also crack on with finishing off that Cadian Command Squad, as they've been on the tray for a little while. After that, I have options, but I should really get around to making a call on markings and camo for the Thunderer, so it can get finished.
Still not completed any rows or columns, but I've filled 9 squares after 4 months, and if I get the Bilepiper done in time, that'll be 10 in 4 months, which I don't think is bad progress. I'm currently planning on using him as the "Any Model", before I start a second card.
Looking at that latest image, I've got 2 rows and 1 column with 3 squares filled, so I'm not far off starting to check them off. Lord of War and Scenery seem to be the boxes I need to push on, so I guess I should go back to building those two Armigers I was working on. Kitbashes will probably be for the Stormtrooper Command Squad(s) I need to put together, but I'll come back to those - I need to check which Sergeants I've got kicking around to serve as bases for conversions.
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
2023/04/28 04:11:41
Subject: Here we go again... Scarabs and Plaguebearers
That bilepiper looks great, can’t wait to see him even more Nurgled up.
“When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? For then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
2023/04/29 20:45:09
Subject: Re:Here we go again... Scarabs and Plaguebearers
Dysartes wrote: @Captain Brown - Thank you, Captain. It's still easy to get distracted, but we're getting there, slowly. We'll just not mention painted vs. bought YTD, OK?
That Plasmancer is great, I might have to get me one. I know the canopies you mean, but I’ve not seen any available in the UK. The plague piper looks good so far, really neat base colours
Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way
2023/05/01 09:36:32
Subject: Here we go again... Scarabs and Plaguebearers
@FoxHybrid - Thanks for that, Fox. I do like this sort of drowned/asphyxiated scheme for Nurgle models.
@Captain Brown - offers a salute - my thanks, Captain.
@gobert - I found the Psychomancer a little awkward to assemble, and worryingly springy until attached to his base, but he was nice enough to paint up. No idea if he's good in-game or not, mind you
@Olthannon - Thanks Olthannon. I'm pretty comfortable with my process of painting this scheme for Nurgle now, as you might hope after 30 Plaguebearers and a few characters
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Progress steps:
Spoiler:
- Sloppity Bilepiper - Did a second pass with P3 Bootstrap Leather, carefully eliminating white spots.
- Immortals - Built 5 Immortals with Gauss Blasters.
- SB - Hit that one drop on the lowest pipe of the Bilepipes with Nurgle's Rot.
- Immortals - Built the bases for the Immortals.
- Immortals - Undercoated the Immortals with Leadbelcher, and their bases with Chaos Black.
- Immortals - Painted the bases (not going through all the steps individually again)
- SB - Picked out silver/steel metallics with Leadbelcher
- Immortals - Did a tidy-up-the-undercoat pass with Leadbelcher
- SB - Washed any white areas inside Dancing Nurgling's mouth with Liche Purple.
- SB - Basecoated any brass areas with Warplock Bronze
- Immortals - Drybrushed the Immortals with VMA Chrome, as well as picking out the chest symbol with it
- SB - Went over the Warplock Bronze with Brass Scorpion
- Immortals - Went over the chest symbols with Seraphim Sepia (twice)
- SB - Shaded the brass and leather with Agrax Earthshade
- Immortals - Added Leviadon Blue to the shoulder pads.
- Immortals - Went over the over-spine with Black Templar.
- SB - Went over claws with Black Templar
- Immortals - Added Black Templar to other details, such as gun casing and rib recesses.
- Immortals - Shaded appropriate Leadbelcher areas with Nuln Oil.
- Immortals - Went over the armour plates with Aethermatic Blue
- Immortals - Went over the gun barrel elements with Incubi Darkness
- Immortals - Went back in with Leviadon Blue to their foreheads
- Immortals - Used VMA Chrome to set up the areas that will get Tesseract Glow later.
- Immortals 2 - Started to clip parts off the sprue and clean them up.
- Immortals - Basecoated remaining cables with Caliban Green.
- Immortals - Went over the Chrome with Tesseract Glow
- Immortals - Highlighted some of the cables with Warpstone Glow.
- Immortals - Glued them to their bases - Immortals done
Immortals with Gauss Blasters - bingo card square C4
Thought I'd try making the end of the barrels glow as if about to fire on the three poses that look like they're shooting at someone. Not made my mind up on how it has come out yet, but I think it was worth a try.
Random confusing point - I ordered the metal Typhus from the recent M2O, along with some small flight stands, to get delivered to my local GW. Got shipping confirmation on Friday, but then got an email today saying the package has been returned by UPS. Here's hoping GW can sort that out - maybe UPS tried to deliver an order to my local GW on the bank holiday Monday? I dunno - I've replied, and am awaiting more info.
I've taken a look at the bingo card, and this is the detail of what I need to do to clear it:
Spoiler:
Kitbashed Model - ||
Lord of War - ||
Vehicle or Monster - ||||
Unit of 2+ Models - ||
Unit of 5+ Models - |
Unit of 10+ Models - ||
Any Model - |
Fortification or Scenery - |
The second unit of 5 Immortals I've got to build from the Combat Patrol - with Tesla, this time, using Doomfire Magenta for Tesla glow - should cover off that last "Unit of 5+ models" slot, and I've got a variety of units kicking around I could paint for the 10+ models slots. Once the 5+ and 10+ slots are filled out, any unit can complete the 2+ on this card - though I think I'd like to use Tomb Blades for one of them. The Bilepiper will slot into Any Model when I finish him off.
Lord of War, Vehicle/Monster and Kitbashed Model are the ones I need to think about, for sure. I'm part of the way through building a pair of Armigers, which will cover one LOW option, and the Thunderer will cover one Vehicle. I'm looking at a part-built Doomstalker as I type this, which would cover another V/M slot (and I'm pretty sure I have a second one from the box I got that one in).
Here's a question - can I hit 1,000 9th ed points of models painted this year before the 10th ed launch box releases? Gives me about 5 weeks to complete 290 points.
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
That yellow for the cyclops eye and the gun glow is a great choice, really gives them an alien, unearthly feel.
Finished Forge World Elysian Army 
Finished Tau Sept Cadre 
Alaitoc Eldar Warhost 
Finished Order of Our Martyred Lady - Sisters of Battle 
Finished Necromundian Imperial Guard Regiment 
