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Painting BA honour guard and applying a second coat of gesso to Dante's base

Back to working on this month's Painting Challenge entry, the Valkyrie.

Cheers,

CB

Finished the Valkyrie base, matt varnish sealing done as well...now I just have to remove all the electrical tape to see if I avoided fogging up the clear plastic stand.

Cheers,

CB

Painting 3 lakes, swamp, 2 big hills and these 2 knights.

Begun assembling an Aeronautica Thunderbolt. Very nice kit, I must say...

Spent about 2 hours sorting my Warhammer stuff (sans miniatures, thats my plan for tomorrow evening!). That means, sorting my remaining sprues so that similar stuff is together, grouping boxes with marine stuff together while storing IG stuff somewhere else and so on. Gotta say, having all that stored nicely is quite satisfying.

Tomorrow I am going to sort out my miniatures. Right now, I have all my built models sitting on two cupboard shelves. And I mean all my models. Wannabe-Salamanders next to pretend-Deathwatch beside nameless guard stuff (pretty much everything unpainted. By packing old, badly built models and all the tiny old ETB marines from various starter sets and only leaving models I like I hope that I actually will finally find the motivation to start painting all my gray pile of shame.

TL;DR: Basically adminstrative stuff and tidying up.

Finished up an Elf...and maaay take a stab at a Sorceress later.

Man I haven't gone near a paint brush in a month. Although the good news is the weather is getting cooler where I live so I can start base coating. Most likely I will finish up some character models for my PCS in my most recent D&D campaign.

OK, tried doing the imperial eagle wings motive on the Valkyrie wings and it was a disaster...so recovery work needs to start.

Cheers,

CB

Adding magnets to the imperial knight weapon arms. Working out pretty good so far.

Priming a dwarf flame priest from Mantic.
Nice little model, dwarf with a flame thrower is just delightful.

Slapped together a box of Pink Horrors.

Reorganised my model storage so I now have LotR, Blood Bowl, Warcry and Kill Team all in one case and started reading through Malifaux 3rd edition faction books

Finally getting around to painting my Genestealer Cult kill team. I have had the original starter box for almost a year before finally getting them to tabletop standard. Funny thing I actually enjoyed painting them up and my FLGS was having an anniversary sale so I picked up some Acolytes and more Neophytes.



I don't quite have 100 points painted where I like to field them unless I run more than one genestealer. The cult is based on my Space Hulk genestealer colors, but for ease of play I will probably use my Jorgmandgandr ones. I also had a tough go on deciding exactly which cult subfaction they fit in best for. I finally decided on Rust Claw since the colors are pretty close, and I want them to be hickish ala Deliverance, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes or Resident Evil 7.

I can't say I like the Kill Team subfaction trait as I feels like it largely won't do anything except ruin Primaris team's day (which my group does have a lot of). I would much rather have not wounded on a 1 or 2 like the White Dwarf Blood Ravens chapter tactic. It could be too good with T3 units though.

Hung out with a couple buddies who played some X-Wing. Played a 1v1 game of Warcry and then played a 3 player game of Warcry. Fairly eventful hobby day.

Took photos and posted up a large amount of WFB terrain for sale in my Swap Shop Thread.

Cheers,

CB

Painting sector imperialis scenery. Everyone seems to be painting it brown/mustard like in the GW shots, but I prefer good old standard stone gray.

I painted a silly rat centaur...and put a lot of work into trying to finalize some project cards so I can test-print.

Built a warcry warband member; broke off some badly done slotta bases from old school necron warriors; also agrax earthshaded an inceptor.

Basecoating my painting challenge entry and primed some ETB intercessors for some First Founding schemes.

Just finished building a Tiger 1 platoon for Tanks. It's a 15mm scale tank on tank game with really simple rules ideal for beginners and people like me who have bad information retention.

I now have 5 American Sherman's (1 76, 3 75's & an early M4), 3 British Cromwell's, a British Comet & 3 German Tiger 1's

I'm planning to get Italians next. That will be 5 M14/41's and 3 Semovente's. Italian tanks are really cheap, points wise, so that will be very different from the other platoons I have.

Back to working on my Valkyrie.

Cheers,

CB

Put in lichen and brushes to bunch of terrain, assembled wardens of gondor and elfhelm and worked on 24 mordor orcs.

Revisited a 20 year old space marine squad for games of Space Crusade. 5 bolters and 1 Heavy bolter...bitchin!

Playing my first 2000 point game using the ITC format, gonna be a learning curve but looking forward to it!

Lots of stuff came in over the last couple days and it's been my first 2 days of uni break (which just so happened to be off work), so I've been busy. Built my Chimera for Warcry, finished my Gorilla Grodd crew for Batman and painted start to finish about 1300 points of BFG Eldar Corsairs. Got the last 2 ships for my Eldar today, so working on cleaning them up (the whole fleet is 3d printed by a friend) and painting some things for Malifaux.

Just went through my pile of Bones mini from the kickstarters I backed. A few that I need to prep to paint are all bent out of shape.

So this evening I will be boiling a few minis...for science.

Doing transfers on my Valkyrie before the drybrush.

Cheers,

CB

Sticking magnetic sheet to the bottom of bases.

Will try to finish layering my honour guard