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Started work on my Loonshrine and put up a new display cabinet.

Hopefully getting in a game of AoS. Gonna try to smash face with some Hedonites!

Now have the Exorcist assembled and ready for priming.

Cheers,

CB

Today was a clearcoating day for me.

Here in the Midwest our Spring times are basically rain, mist, and rapidly changing temperatures. If you want your models to look decent, you need to wait for the right day to spray them, and those days never seemed to coincide with my work schedule.

So, I ended up with a backlog of 72 marines and a Landraider. All painted and not sealed. I sealed them ALL in one go using Krylon Matte ultra clear ($2.50 per can and sprays very fine with a 10 minute dry time).

My wife comes home and instantly gets furious, as the smell of that many freshly painted models was a bit overpowering in the home, even though I painted them outside.

Hobby been bit of a backburner few days due to chess but today continued 2 doom scythes and command/annihilation barge. Also work on transcendant c'tan conversion from nightbringer. Head and arms replaced by some random d&d fire elemental and couple wood elf tree bits to represent flames/energy whips. Coupled with totally different colour scheme to my nightbringer hopefully distinct enough.

Batch #3 of my Deathwatch infantry is underway. 20 more models, including 5 Heavy Bolters, 4 Missile Launchers, 3 Frag Cannons and a Heavy Flamer.

Stuck some bits and random bits of "stuff" (bits of wire and a bottle cap, mostly) to a Hotwheels pickup.

To make a Mishkin pickup with an experimental nuclear engine.

Finally got my Loke Battlemat, "Slaughter Field". 4x2 of grimdark fun!

Review: https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/18/18174.phtml



Messing around with my Secret Weapon Miniatures "Malice RPG" game tiles as ruins...

I have been digging through various bits, looking to make some friendly looking mutants.

Primed the Exorcist.

Cheers,

CB

Finished some ACW cavalry



unusually for me "finished" included basing them

Decals and overcoating are my hobby plan for this very wet day. I may have to skip out on the final dull coat as I'm worried about the humidity though.

Working on my Fane of Slaanesh, helped my wife build a Sylvaneth army (and subsequently put her wants into my swap shop post). Might work on my Syll’Eske to generic Slaanesh Prince conversion.

Tried out contrast paints at the weekend. They were fun but I don't think I'll be using them extensively as an army painting tool, more so for glazing as the high pigmentation was quite nice.



Today I'll be doing some painting of some kind, I have a few projects to catch up on!

Deathwatch Veteran batch #3 is underway, first marine completed, lots and lots of edge highlighting still to be done.

Started painting the Exorcist...I think I have bitten off more than I can chew for this month's painting contest...there are just loads of extra details to paint.

Cheers,

CB

Yea, it’s a pig of a model to paint that CB

I’ve just finished assembling the last bits from Shadowspear. I got bored about 3/4 of the way through and left it for months, but got sick of looking at the box with only 6 models left to build in it.

Painted a WLG Tiger 1. It's a fantastic model and it was fun to go all out on weathering techniques.

Tying to paint 10 Emperors Children Palatine Blades before Saturday, for a Horus Heresy event. Five down, five to go ...

Working on my converted Hedonite Bladebringer on Exalted Chariot. I bought a second Syll'Esske model, split them up, and Syll is getting mounted on a chariot. Esske has been graced with wings, a Slaanesh claw, and a KoS blade to become a regal looking Daemon Prince of Slaanesh. Honestly, I don't think I could ever go back to using the bigger Daemon Prince models for Slaanesh ones now. They should be lithe and svelte.

Started on some Plague Marines this morning, but got bored, so went back to painting Deathwatch. 7 more marines have been completed and added to my Deathwatch force.

Nice work leopard and Tyranid Horde.

Started the base coats on my Exorcist.

Cheers,

CB

Tiny Furniture's "Dishes for a Tavern"
Review: https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/18/18176.phtml
Catalog: http://tiny-furniture.com/products

These dishes are fine outside of fantasy, so long as you have a table. You can use Museum Wax to temporarily adhere the bits!

Got a crazy good deal on a necron auction that included a lot of OOP stuff from the classic line, the models that got me started playing 40k about 20 years ago. Been sorting through them and working out base replacements and plans for the work to restore all this crazy stuff.

Cleaning my brushes so I can start back with mid week painting again. Got a big gaming weekend, 2 days of games

Finishing a few bits of my American Civil War forces off for their first outing to FLGS tomorrow, hope to get some pics of them in action.

started painting some 28mm civilians for Napoleonic era stuff as well

Also assembled a box of Dark Age Cavalry from Gripping Beast as reinforcements for my SAGA Anglo Saxons

I had a go with the new contrast paints today.

I'm not 100% certain about them really. For all the hype, they just sort of seem like a thicker wash.

This is their Gryph-Hound Orange, over a Halfords Grey Plastic Primer.

A single coat, no watering. Or medium.

Also, yikes, they're expensive.

Painted the gold base coat and started a white test on the Exorcist.

Cheers,

CB

Went to tournament. Best result evah in 20 years with 40 points after 2 rounds. Then finnish tournament ranking #1 came with his seriously toned down eldars that my poor necrons couldn't deal at all. I was outranged so bad that even advancing nephrek immortals couldn't reach anything for first round and anything that's seen got vaporized by piles of S5-S6 fire that is basically just what doctor orders against necrons(and lots of other stuff as well). I had basically no way to survive open, outside LOS opponent could just sit on objectives and get 20-0 and if I tried to break cover I got shot to pieces. Trust ranking #1 to figure out way to make super good eldar list with no alaitoc, only few saim hann units(rest being mixed detachment) and no psykers whatsoever or even spamming single unit slot(only 1 fire prism etc).

After that assembled 6 destroyers ready for priming and dug up few khorne daemons who will be the guinea pigs for contrast paint.

More work on Deathwatch infantry batch #3. 2 more veterans completed today, as well as a lot of work done on the last 8 of this batch.