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Wow, you've really been on a roll lately. You did a great job on that realm of battle board. Don't see too many of those painted.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Cracking job on the Watch Master there matey . Only thing that lets it down is him being an ultramarine :-P

Exalted

Nice job. The drybrushing on his cloak. Wouldnt of ever thoughtof doing that - but it does give it a really materially (that's a word dammit!!) feel and look to it. nice one T

Squall! Seems like ages since you have been on the P and M blogs, how are you Sir? We need to see more of your work, your Genestealer cult looked great.

Cheers for all the positive remarks, check out LDP's Watch Master for some true art, he has done a glorious job.

The reason he is an Ultramarine is very long, complicated and involved... well it isn't really. Ultrasmurfs were the only transfer I have that is small enough to fit

I did a minor revisit on the Watch Master as I was not entirely happy with the definition on his face, so a Carroburg Crimson wash sorted that out and I am a lot happier with it:





I have also gotten the SLAUGHTERPRIEST WITH HACKBLADE done, here he is with his smaller Exalted Deathbringer brother. The light here is a bit poor so I will take more, and hopefully better, pictures later:



Thanks for looking.

Yup, that wash has made the face much better. I approve

Yeah, definitely adds more character! The SLAUGHTERPRIEST WITH HACKBLADE looks great too!

I made a minor miscalculation about the amount of miniatures I have painted thus far this year so it turns out that the SLAUGHTERPRIEST WITH HACKBLADE is number 200. The second 100 of the year came about a bit slower than I would have liked but I am still happy with my progress. I am certainly painting more than I am buying, although the Deathwatch release did not help that, so here are the better pictures. I really like his rusty, but still sharp blade. Typhus corrosion made that a lot easier. The only modification I made was removing the daft skull on his back, it is a bit of a liability and looks destined to break off anyway.









Here is to the next 100.

Nice work with the Slaughterpriest here, Thraxas! Looking like quite the menacing fellow! I quite like the bruised flesh you've done around some of the "gifts" from Khorne.

Fanfreakingtastic stuff sir! I really like the latest deathwatch characters but that board, and all of the stuff on it together.. excellent progress

Always love seeing your painted minis!
They're great, don't stop!

You are too kind fellas, are you back UK side now Zam? How was your experience in the States?

One of the fun things about the blog is compiling the group shots, so here are my second 100 for the year:



(Doh, noticed my BA Chaplain in the pic, he should not be there).

I like the variety there, mainly it is 40K but you have some AOS and GoA. But certainly a lot of different stuff compared to my first 100 for the year. All told there are:

Blood Angels
Deathwatch
Chaos Cultists
Alpha Legion
Knights (Boba Fett Knight and one from House Hawkshroud).
Genestealer Cult
Algoryn
Ghar
Concord
Stormcast Eternals
Khorne Bloodbound

Here is my first 100 for context:



And some close ups:









Tally Ho!

Well done sir! What do you reckon you'll have by the end of the year?

Very nice stuff all around! I really enjoyed those Death Watch builds. Nice and fancy without feeling too busy.

Yeah, I'm back in the UK now! My time was great, both working and travelling. Glad to be back to the hobby. I played 2 games of The Ninth Age today, and I'm psyched to play more T9A. 40k less so, I've kind of gone off it, a little. Just looking at the releases recently it feels a lot like space-marine-hammer. Just very samey - not helped by the fact that my friend and T9A opponent today bought the new chaos psychic cards and was dissappointed when they were the same as the space marine ones. I'll be updating my blog shortly...

Congrats on painting another 100 models!! That is a metric sh*t-tonne of stuff to have finished in 9 months! The Alpha Legion between the scorpius and Rhino is my favourite, he looks awesome!

@WarbossDakka: I set a target of 300 for the year, so hopefully I can hit it.

Cheers Wehrkind, nice to have you pop in here. The DW are a weird kit, plenty of options but also kind of limited in terms of pose unless you are willing to get chopping bits up.

@Zambro: Glad to hear you had a great time. Aye, there are a lot of Marines. What in particular are you enjoying about the Ninth Age?

Am currently working on some Deathwatch Terminators, hopefully should have them done near the end if the week.

Awesome stuff. The Deathwatch termie captain and Watch Master look awesome!

Excellent work on the Slaughter Priest too.

I've decided I will start a plog for my take of many gamers, I've got my first 500pts done and working on the next 500pt, so I just to need get some snaps and then remember to update it. Stay tuned!

EDC

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
@Zambro: ... What in particular are you enjoying about the Ninth Age?

The fantasy genre has just recaptured my attention. I can't really pin it down to a handful of reasons, but after a 4 month break for the hobby, fantasy is where my mindset is at.
I think I'm seeing a lot of the flaws with 40k, too which is helping me to veer to fantasy. I played my first game back into 40k last night, and was miserable for 2 turns. I played deathwatch, and was like, "they can do what?", "are you sure that rhino can teleport to your general when he drop pods in?" and "everyone has special issue ammo?". There was just no semblance of the reasonable. The game picked up after the ridiculous alpha strike, and ended as a 1:1 draw, but I definately thought "WTF is this bullsh*t?" on a couple of occassions. Especially as I dont subscribe to the "newest, hottest toy" philosophy of 40k - I play an Imperial Fist CAD with libby, 20 tac marines, scouts, dread, podded IC Dread, LotD, 2 speeders, ST, 5 grav bikes, devs and 2 TFCs. Far from a ground breaking list.

Plus, with T9A, the game is totally different. In 40k, you just dakka stuff until it's taken off the table. T9A is a lot more cerebral. You know that in a straight up fight, you're not going to win against that combat block. You need to think a turn or two ahead and get flank attacks and out maneouver their army. Its a little more meaty. It also helps that it's a relatively new game, and gets frequent updates (v1.1 for brb and all army books was released a week or two ago). It has the support to constantly be ontop of OP stuff, not let power creep kick in and all the books are roughly on the same level (with one or two slightly ahead or behind).

I didn't realise I'd write (or bash 40k) so much - just sharing some thoughts.

Does not seem like bashing to me, just reasonable and fair musings on the state of 40k as a game. If some sort of reasonable balance could be found it would be one hell of a game, as it is if you are into competing at the game (not for me) there are only a handful of builds that are viable.

Anyway have had a bit of activity over the past few days, got three of my Terminators done:













I also revisited my Hawk Lords. I have come to the conclusion of mothballing them, so decided to repaint them and fit them into my Deathwatch and Blood Angels armies. Thus I have repainted my AOBR Dread for my Deathwatch, I did a weapon swap and used the Lascannon from the Venerable Dread kit:

The old one:



The new one:





I did the same for a Rhino as well:








And here is my army as it stands:



Thanks for looking.

Shame about the Hawk Lords. I quite liked them, mate! Still, you now have the beginning of a Watch Company

Those Termies look mint! Great highlighting done.

The repurposed vehicles do look much better as well. The Deathwatch are sizing up nicely!

Amazing stuff!

Deathwatch are looking ace! Shame to see the Hawk Lords go, they were an awesome force, but they repainted nicely as boys in black!

Having both BA and Deathwatch made the Hawk Lords rather redundant. As it is I only have a Tactical, assault and Terminator squad left for them infantry wise, the rest will get repainted. The main source of guilt are the Captain and Libby that Para painted up for me a few months back...I will find a home for them amongst my armies though.

Repaints are looking awesome, makes sense to port them over into your DW if you feel they're redundant as a force.

EDC

Have got the final two members of my Deathwatch Terminator squad done, a Space Wolf with Cyclone Missile Launcher and a Salamander with Storm Bolter and meltafist:







And the squad:







With all the Genestealer Cult hype going on I have started work on the first of my DW:Overkill hybrids, 2 down with 10 to go, apologies for the poor pictures but their hunched pose does not aid good photographs:









Thanks for looking.

Black highlights are great.

I don't really like the cultists as a model, but they've been done very nicely. Purple seems to suit them well.

Great work.

The deathwatch stuff looks great.

Very nice. I really like the colour scheme for the cultists. The pale skin and purple jumpsuits works really well.

EDC

Hello there, has been a quiet-ish week or so hobby wise but I have been managing to keep my oar in. Have made a bit more progress with my GSC from Dwathwatch: Overkill and have got the final four 3rd/4th Gens (or Neophytes) done. Apologies for the poor picture but the light here is shocking and it really does not do the painting justice:



That means that my current painted GSC looks like this, with just 10 Hybrids to go:



I also accidentally bought two boxes of these:



Those combined with my Overkill minis, and 8 Genestealers I have knocking around (which luckily means I can have one 10 gribbly unit or two 5 gribbly units) and possibly a couple of transports means that I will have a 1000 point GSC army.

As ever, thanks for looking.

I accidentally buy models all the time too

It's an expensive habit