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Haven't updated for a while but been quite productive. Assembled and primed my Death Jester and Shadowseer as well as a few Chaos Marines and a squad of Rangers from my Eldritch Omens box. Began painting my Warlock on jetbike I got for Christmas and finally began assembling and priming my Autarch from the Eldritch Omens box. Decided to make him modular and plan on doing that with Blu Tac as I can't be bothered magnotising or pinning him. It took me a while as I couldn't find his torso part but found it which made me happy. Primed the equipment on the sprue.


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Base painted most of my old guardian squad that I primed...frigging months ago now, as well as my new Autarch batch painting them but it's going pretty well. I realised I focus too much on my HQ minis and need to knuckle down and finish my troops, especially now because Dire Avengers are in the Elites slot so my three squads are no longer the troops I needed them to be. Also more options for Kill Team too. Next, maybe? My Rangers, yeah, both boxes of Rangers.

Building bases for my Horus heresy models. Trying to get the dreadnought into a cool pose with a foot up on a dead chaos marine. Do t have him fully assembled yet, but I like that the legs are posable.

Now properly-ish finished base painting my Guardians and Autarch. I'm doing the normal Guardians as a part of my Craftworld Dalorsia (which is in Secret War) the helmets of normal Guardians are black with a white face plate and more specialised Guardians such as the ones who control the heavy weapons platforms with white helmets and black face plates (which doesn't make sense from a tactical standpoint, but oh well) and I'm very happy with how the ones with black helmets look. I'm having fun with them, despite how undefined and tiny so many of the details on the old school Guardians. I'm looking forward to assembling the new box I have and painting them, but Rangers next!

Added two more colors to the Sister Repentia squad.

Cheers,

CB

Almost done stripping as much paint a I can from some Dark Elves.

Soon I will be re-building them, but first I need to get a bunch of terrain painted thats taking up too much room.

Did a wash and two more colors to the Sister Repentia squad.

Cheers,

CB

• I've got to cut some dividers for the custom storage trays I made for my grot tanks/gunz.
Nothing fancy/complex, just a # grid to keep things from rattling around too much.

• Then I need to cut a foam tray to fit my Wazbomb.

Finally found some time to get on more basecoat on the Sister Repentia squad. Shifted to doing the nine Repentia first and then the Mistress after that.

Cheers,

CB

Mostly finished painting my old Guardians, too bad I realised afterwards their bases were too small, but oh well. Assembled my 2nd box of Rangers and one of my boxes of Guardian Defenders. I decided to focus on troops choices first (excluding my 2nd box of Guardians as I'm making them Storm Guardians, mostly for KT) and once they're painted and ready, I'm doing Fast Attack starting with my new Shining Spears, (as Fast Attack is one of the things Eldar are known for) Then when they're done, Heavy Support then my Wave Serpents before coming back to my unfinished HQs and Elites as I've got so much of both of those it isn't funny. I hope making that plan will help me knuckle down and finally finish my Eldar into a legal 2,000 or so point army (even though I plan on using One Page Rules rather than the official rules)

Started the red and golds for the Sister Repentia squad.

Cheers,

CB

Started painting the first gaming minis I've done in over 20 years.

Primed my 2nd squad of Rangers and 2nd squad of Guardians. I did a demo model of a Ranger colour scheme and I'm so happy with how he turned out, he was also a ton of fun to paint, the new Rangers are very nice minis. I began base painting two more Rangers as well as doing touch-ups on my old Guardians, the Autarch from the Eldritch Omens box, my oldish plastic Farseer and my Skyrunner Warlock, his jetbike mostly.

I was going to batch paint both my ten Rangers and Guardian Defenders at once but decided just to do the Rangers for now. I batch painted fourteen of the fifteen Cultists from Assassinorum: Execution Force and that was bad enough so just doing the Rangers, for now, they can also fill two troop slots, unlike the Guardians.

It feels good to get things done!

Painting this and preparing for tournament i'm organizing tomorrow. I even get to play first time(9 guys shows up so i even up numbers). Khorne will be happy. Well first game not so. Up against ghosts. No blood, no skulls...

I needed more stabbing grots than shooty ones so changed some of them their armaments.

Going to see if I can find time to add some static grass to the bases and then seal the old metal Sister Repentia. Then I have to start on the really ugly Sister Superior.

Cheers,

CB

Completed base coating most of my Rangers, except for the skin tones and the metallics. Also began my newest Autarch's base.

Was not done today, but this past Thursday and Friday - I painted 24 Battletech miniatures in two distinct color schemes.

They are from one of the older plastic starter sets, bought for very little cash at a local convention some years ago.

They join 24 others of a different copy of the same set, for a total of 48 miniatures divided into 4 distinctly painted forces, to be used in games of Alpha Strike! So glad for those rules, now games of B'Tech can be completed in a reasonable amount of time, and while fielding multiple lances per side.

36 minis primed today. I’m building a dread and a sergeant. Then need to build the bases of 11 more. Then I’ll have 10 terminators, 20 beak marines, 10 assault intercessors, 6 vanguards, a lieutenant, and a dreadnought to paint.

Finished five of the six Nighthaunt units from Arena of Shades. Just the Scriptor Mortis left.

These five were the first where I've added extra stuff to the bases; in the past I've just done texture, wash, and a bit of drybrushing. For these Nighthaunt I'm adding some autumn leaves on everybody, plus flower-tufts on heroes & unit champions.

Finished the really ugly metal Repentia Sister Superior [Mistress].

Cheers,

CB

Finally got past the base coating of my Rangers now onto high lighting and washing them. I am so damned glad now I didn't try to batch paint them at the same time as my Guardians.

Nuln oil is truly a gift from the E...I uhh I mean Asuryan himself. My Autarch is slowly getting there too, he and his extra bits are on my desk, too and I'd just grab them ever so often to paint them while my Rangers are drying or when I feel like it. I have another Autarch with swooping hawk wings who I'm tempted to give a Fusion gun and Sun Spear too as that seems like a pretty powerful combination. Then one day I'll have to buy some Swooping Hawkes to support him, but they're still Fail Cast so, not now.

Almost finished painting a house to add to my terrain collection.

Next after that...A slightly larger House.

Finished and sealed this unit of nine old metal Repentia and the Mistress Superior.



Cheers,

CB

Looking good, CB!

Today I mostly finished my Rangers! I'm pretty happy how they turned out. Just gotta base them and finish up their faces (made the mistake of giving them mostly unhelmeted heads, but the ones with helmets look much better than the bare-headed ones) Also, almost finished my Autarch. I'm not sure whether I want to begin my next squad of Guardians before basing my Rangers. I'd like to start them, but it might be a bit of a pain basing twenty models at the same time instead of ten. Hmmm...

This heat is hot, but I'm determined to do a bit of painting. So going to continue with my Necromunda Squats.

House done! Next up, more House.

I also realised I have so much unfinished terrain. I had bought it all to make a village of sorts for both D&D and Warhammer/Frostgrave/Rangers of Shadowdeep...basically any skirmish game really.

The whole thing was done with craft paint and homemade wash.

Adding some Stuka Zu Fuss rockets to an old Ork wartrack.

Mostly based my Rangers. Also fixed up the bases of my old Guardians as they were a bit manky because I'd primed them with a Wraithbone spray can. Began base painting my new Guardians, and they are much more defined and easy to paint than the old ones. Much more fun painting them than the original kit so far.

Corrected some not properly primed models.

Got the bases of my old Guardians, new Rangers and Autarch ready for dry brushing with Terminus Stone tomorrow. Also base painted most of my new Guardian squad, except for the skin colours and purples. The ones with helmets almost look table ready already. They're going to be much easier to pain and finish than the Rangers and the old Guardians. Then onto my six Shining Spears!