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Re-priming some Hellblasters after stripping, due to multiple failed AP SpeedPaint tests.

A post from the future:

I am reviewing videos about water-slide transfers, a technology I have never before used.

Started on the bases of the two plastic Cherub models.

Cheers,

CB

Took a few weeks off - might actually finish a test model for some Blood Pact casts

Just moved to my newish place and have managed to set up my new room, so began to work on my hobby stuff. Assembled my Eldar Skyrunner Warlock and began converting my "High Elf" assassin for my War Cry Warband. He's looking pretty cool, I think. I'm having a great time lol

Worked on some platforms for scratch built Necromunda terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Played remote battletech alpha strike with one of my friends. Also slowly painting my way through shadows of brimstone forbidden fortress. Currently working on three oni monsters.

Painting dok, dryads and skaven.

Removing mould lines from FF Northmen weapons/heads/shields.

Began assembling my Void Scarred Corsairs, finished mostly my Felarch and the Way Seeker but without their heads as I'm waiting for the Guardian Box I ordered from Mighty Ape as I wish to use the nice helmetless heads from that on my Void Scarred. It should be pretty kewl.

I put together two Commonwealth support squadron sets for Dystopian Wars

Threw some test paint at a Doomfire Warlock from the Arena of Shades box. Hoping to knock out the stabby-elf side of things fairly quick.

Built some archers and spearmen.

Re-stripping some marines.

Finished the sumo wrestler hero for FoFo. All that I have left for projects are:
2 FoFo heroes
13 FoFO enemies
1 NOS Necromunda Outcast box that I don't want to even mess with.

FLGS tonight for 3 hours of painting cataphractii terminator arms, finishing 10 resin cataphractii bodies and finish 2 savage orcs.

Not today, but yesterday I was pretty productive. Got my Eldar combat patrol box so the awesome Eldar Guardian heads and looked through them finding one awesome one for my Corsair leader, so I rushed out to prime then and my Hero Forge minis but got bubbly parts on the models but I'm not sure if was due to humidity or if I hadn't shaken the can enough after it'd been sitting around in my old house for months without usage. I also sprayed the head too much for my Corsair leader so I've had to strip the paint off it. I stopped out of frustration but did the new Hero Forge mini of Attelus Kaltos and go no bubbly bits so it mightve been due to not shaking it enough as I'd shaken the frig out of it before spraying him.

Then I mostly assembled my Corsairs legs, torso, it's a bit of a shame how mono pose the Corsairs are, but it seems I can put any weapon on any of then and it will work, so that's pretty cool.

Finally bit the bullet and sold off my Ossiarch Bonereaper and Nighthaunt armies, spending about 2 hours drowning them in bubblewrap and posting them off to hopefully better homes. I really need to stop buying armies off ebay while bored at work, despite my good intentions they mostly just sit under my bed for months until I feel enough shame to sell them.

On a completely unrelated note, the plan for the day is putting together my new Ork 40k starter force, hopefully prime a squad of boyz and get a layer of paint on them.

This morning I built another Big Gunz Lobba for my Grots.
A lobba is essentially just a mortar on a 3"mv/T5/3W vehicle chassis.

I used a Bolt Action WWII Universal Carrier (mortar - you can see the sculpted ammo), added 3 guard mortar tunes & a grot head to the drivers sculpted torso.
Two more grot crew are needed & I may add some more details.

I worked on a group of five figures I am calling 'loose change'...finishing some extra models to add to Necromunda gangs and a pair of Cherubs.

Still a WIP.


Cheers,

CB

Built a Haruspex. Such a perfect kit except for the fact that the head doesn't fit properly. I've never had to hold something being glued by plastic glue for that long...

And now setting up 3 (!) tables for tomorrow.

Built some FF Northmen archers.

Planning to finish these Doomfire Warlocks and start on Khinerai Heartrenders.

Not expecting to get any actual gaming in today. So it'll be a perfect time to build some improved carry/storage trays for my Grot army.

Also working on re-gunning the turrets on a 2nd hand Grot Mega-Tank. It's going from the random mix/mess its former owner equipped it with to all rokkits.
3/5 turrets finished so far.

edit: Well, none of that happened.
Instead I got to play afterall!
Maybe tomorrow evening for the tray building....

Had a bunch of people around to play, and set up 3 tables.


Got through a turn and half of my game in total because I was so busy fixing everything for everyone else. *sigh*

Next time if they show up without a list, they're just not playing... I can't keep doing everything for everyone.

On the bright side my Hieodule not only made it into combat (and ate a Chimera), it didn't instantly die to return fire during my opponent's turn.

Been pretty productive-ish today, mostly stripping paint off some minis I'd frigged up a bit before finally painting proper. Almost finished my newest Hero Forge version of Attelus Kaltos which I'm pretty happy with him so far.



I also began testing a paint scheme for my Eldar Corsairs and I'm quite liking the colour scheme I would post pics but it's late now and the lighting isn't good. It's green and some blue and a little red. I love green too much, I tried to test it without green, but failed miserably lol. Not sure about the red parts, though. Having fun with it.

Haven't done any serious hobbying in over a month! This weekend though I sat down and finished another tree stand That has been half-done on my desk since February.



MDF base I bought from a local company that makes them. The trees I got over Christmas at the Dollar store. They are mostly for Christmas village displays, so I ran them in hot water and scrapped off the snow then glued and flocked them. Bit more labour intensive then just buying hobby trees, but at 1 dollar a tree you cant go wrong.

Painting skaven. First 20 done, another 100 to go. For a start toward 2k...

Finished the three Necromunda gang models and the pair of Cherubs. Now I need to take a photograph.

Cheers,

CB

Got the base layers down on my 23 Reptisaurians for Massive Darkness. Massive pain in the neck tbh, the mobs are far too big in this game, it's very tedious to batch paint this many at once. Luckily MD2 went down to 7 man mobs, which I am looking forward to painting a lot more than the 23 Ratkin and 23 Barbarians I still need to do for MD1.