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Assembling old metal and plastic Shining Spears.

Cheers,

CB

Blu tacking my Cawdor gang onto my paint handles ready for painting.
Also looking for cheap Eldar weapons platforms.

Coming thiiiiiis close to chucking Doc Ock across the room.

Growf.

Painted a Bear APC for DZC, played the Glymmsforge dungeon crawler co-op game from GW page. Very fun if simple. I plan to expand on it, cause co-op AOS is way more fun than "competitive"

Almost finished a unit of Terminators with Cyclone missile launchers (Epic scale, for my Great Crusade-era World Eaters)

Built the new Mega-Gargant (warstomper variant) tonight.

Very cool model. But over priced since you can only build 1/3 variants - resulting in a bunch of wasted bits/$.

You should have checked youtube. There's some magnetization tutorials there.

Going to try and make some pennants for the Shining Spears.

Cheers,

CB

Finishing Miss Guided, basing some miscellaneous Ten Thunders models for my Malifaux and aiming to finish a unit of Rebel Veterans for Legion

Cleaned up and/or assembled two regiments of Mantic ironclad and a handful of the old metal ironguard.

Going to keep the iron guard on separate bases, I don't have enough for a unit and they're characterful old school sculpts that'll be great for Vanguard, Frostgrave or D&D.

Over the month of October I managed to paint 32 models and clear off the bulk of my "To do" pile. Only failed to get to 3 models but they are now next in queue.

After that I have 14 Orcs I need to paint to finally finish a complete unit of Boys I technically started in 2003. A bit late yes, but so close to done!

In the end only managed to prime the Shining Spears.

Cheers,

CB

Finished a few random models - an Escape Pod from SW Legions, a WHFB Giant from 5th/6th ed, and a Rocket Bike from Bombshell Miniatures from 2003.
The latter two were found in a box as I was cleaning/moving a shelf the other day. I was like "What's in this old box?" Bunch of misc stuff/bitz & these two long forgotten minis MIB. So onto the projects desk with them!

I don't remember buying either of these minis.
The Rocket Bike? It's a cool mini. Very nicely done. I can easily envision myself seeing it at GenCon, having that same thought, & picking it up.
The giant? .... It's not that cool of a mini. Not now, not then. It's not reject-it-from-my-collection-bad, but not something I'd pick up as "Oh cool".
And even back then it had a price tag that'd rule it out as an impulse buy ala the Rocket Bike. And I know I already had several better giants that didn't see much play at the time this thing was made. So no "use". So how/why this thing wound up forgotten in a box on top of a shelf in my hobby room....
Maybe the Gremlins traded it to me in exchange for a PF book that went missing years ago?

Anyways, the giant is a quite timely find as I just built one of the new Mega-Gargants for AoS & two of the current Aleguzzlers.
I fielded an AoS Gargant army the other night - 1 Mega & 2 3x units of Guzzlers. The units consisted of the two plastic Guzzlers & a D&D Storm Giant in one group & the two WFB Albion giants + the original WHFB giant in the other. As I was playing I was thinking "The Storm Giant looks out of place (right size, just looks). I should track down another GW giant for that 1st squad. I was thinking of a 3rd Guzzler.... And then I moved that shelf Tue.
So now I have my 6th GW giant! And the army looks like a GW evolutionary scale.

Priming everything I can while the weather still allows.

Slapping some paint on a couple of packs of GZG Crusties Beasts to go in my ASQL Alien Imperials force.

 DarkBlack wrote:
Priming everything I can while the weather still allows.

Oh jeez thanks for reminding me, I gotta do that too! Seems the reward for cleaning out my most recent paint pile is....another paint pile

Just was able to collect some bits that might work of scratch-built Necromunda terrain.

Cheers,

CB

The new UK Lockdown has seen some of my work dry up so i'll probably be prepping some scratchbuilt scenery for a lick of paint and claiming the kitchen table for my son and me to start work on his Tyranids - Having managed to aquire 30 genestealers and a broodlord.

We'll be testing out ideas for hive fleet schemes.

While I should be painting Shining Spears for the Monthly Painting Challenge, I instead worked on some scratch-built terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Prepping a small Necron force for action this evening.
Once the sun comes up they'll get a coat of primer & an initial base coat. After that they'll have to earn their paint through play.

And in the coming week I'll properly magnetize the Tomb Blades weapons.

Got the first coat of grey on the Shining Spears.

Cheers,

CB

experimentin....

Finishing the Wastrel keyword with basing (until their Explorer half comes out) and working on Foundry

I survived my move! And most of my hobby stuff did as well, barring a few limbs here and there. Such are the hazards of moving

Built a few random minis from the backlog tonight.
40k
SoB - Canoness Veridyan
SoB - Sister Superior Amalia Novena
SoB - Sister Tariana Palos
SoB - The Geminae Superia, Sisters Genevieve and Eleanor
SoB - 3 cherubs
SM - Lexicanium Varus, Terminator Librarian
SM - Primaris Chaplin on bike (my 3rd Primaris model ever built)

SW Legion
Bosk
C-3PO & R2-D2 (came with the escape pod I built awhile ago)

behold , a glued together old metal swarm tyrant....

I swear awesome kit, suffering for the ages:

Not Online!!! wrote:
behold , a glued together old metal swarm tyrant....

I swear awesome kit, suffering for the ages:

Spoiler:

Love that model.

ccs wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:
behold , a glued together old metal swarm tyrant....

I swear awesome kit, suffering for the ages:

Spoiler:

Love that model.

it is really fancy, but also, SUCH A PAIN:.... 8 hours and 3 attempts and i am far from a novice at building difficult or unconventional stuff....
thankfully i now only need plastic warriors and a dex... if i ever bother to go through with that side project

Keep on doing my ogors. These 2 and　i only have　terrain piece to paint before reinforcements arrive. Smaller order should come within week, bigger one from 30.10 still pending, all items in stock.　grrr

Working on some random Haqislam infantry to try and maintain a ratio of 2 old/set aside minis finished for each new shiny bought.