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Mostly completed my Shining Spears, a lot of painting white and the first time freehanding in ages.

Pulling together a Cities of Sigmar list for the shops upcoming Escalation League.

Began assembling my second Shining Spear squad, and while they were drying, I began assembling my Shroud Runners, finishing one. I was going to do my Wind Runners but couldn't find them and said, "I'll start the next one I find" so, yeah, an exciting story there, lol

Just finished painting so krieg. There is loads j could do to improve them but I’ve got an entire army to do, so they are done for now

Edit: Wrong thread, whoops

Primed my 2nd squad of Shining Spears and have begun painting the Exarch. I'm painting him much quicker than the last one. I'm glad that painting them is giving me important lessons on how to paint white.

Basing some CSM after work. Using bulk watch parts as gears/small basing details

Primed the two Plasma Regulators. Next job is painting them.

Cheers,

CB

Finished 6 more iron fangs.

Have a tharn ravager chieftain on the go.

Have about 50 other guys from various projects in various states of unpaint and assembly.

95% painted though! Woo!

Making sure I know where I'm going for each of my GenCon events & that I've allowed proper time to:
A) get from one to another,
B) haven't scheduled things so tight that I can't eat dinner....(you laugh, but its happened before)

Packing tonight for a weekend away at a cabin in the bush, reading white dwarfs and painting MCP models.

Managed to finish two out of three Shining Spears of the 2nd squad and began on the third. I also did quite a bit of work on the head of my Autarch from the Shining Spear box. Messed him up a bit but managed to fix it pretty well.

Started converting rank&file model into a captain.

Painting skaven, assembling leviathan and painting dok. Business as usujl.

Managed to complete my last Shining Spear, but I got impatient and frigged up the free-handing on both him and the last one so might go back and fix those up in the future. Began assembling the 2nd bike of my Shroud Runner squad but lost one-half of the skeleton thingy and I had to take ages looking around for it. Also, I stuck the sword hand back on my Wraithlord I'd knocked off by mistake a while back, was more trouble than it should've been. I can't remember the how and the why I managed to knock it off lol

Built some gobbos.

Painting bunch of dreadnou@gts, blood sisters and sisters of slaugher

Getting started on Lady Olynder. Got the Lady assembled last night, hoping to knock out the handmaidens this evening.

Alternating between the old metal CSM Daemon Prince and the Greater Possessed from ShadowSpear.

Finished a couple of needed repairs before the Sat Apoc game at GenCon.

And finally added large bases under my (FW) Warhounds feet.
Without them he's always been a bit forward top-heavy.
But if he's going to spend 10hrs on a table other than at home I don't want him tipping over onto someone else's stuff....

op success, handmaidens assembled and as a bonus the FLGS finally received that fancy new White Scar so everything is primed as well

Finished assembling my Shroud Runners, had some fun with them, and made one of the pilots no-look shooting his shuriken pistol as he's driving. Would've primed them but went to another town with my dad to buy groceries, and now tired, and priming is one of my least favourite parts of the process, even at full awakedness, so I'll save that for tomorrow

Started putting some paint on a Vyper.

Cheers,

CB

In the last two weeks - ending yesterday - I have completed painting and basing (and playing multiple games of Alpha Strike with them!) 12 of the new sculpts of BattleTech minis in an entirely new paint-scheme.

Utterly distinct from my existing collection of 48 minis evenly divided into 4 different camouflage schemes, I intend to add future miniatures in the snazzy new completely non-camouflage scheme for my main Inner Sphere force until I become sick of doing so! They are teal bodies with arms halved in yellow and purple, known as the Teal Terrors. Fear them.

Additionally: I have primed 10 Clan mechs and two units of Battle Armor, to join 2 other Clan mechs received as bonus minis in one of the aforementioned old starter sets I bought cheap, for ANOTHER new paint-scheme. I can't decide which Clan I like the best, so have decided to create my own which I currently refer to as Clan Smoke House BBQ.

(All of the new BattleTech purchases - and about 4 or 5 future lance-packs - was/is made possible by recycling a pile of unused 40K minis and bits into cold, hard cash. So I have that going for me, which is nice.)

Magnetising weapons on and cutting out the inside of the commander's hatch on a pair of 3d printed resin tank turrets so they can carry a tank commander. More carefully after i accidentally cracked the first turret open and had to glue it back together. Will cut turret ring off and install smaller diameter one to mate it to chassis easier.

Primed my Shroud Runners (which is their name, I keep thinking it's Shade Runners for some reason) And began painting them properly. I also primed a couple of Chaos Marines with Mephiston Red over the black I'd primed on them earlier as I wish to make painting them as easy as possible when I eventually get to painting them lol

Last day of GenCon.
I plan to;
1) play demo games in search of New boardgames the group back home might enjoy.
2) see just how much $ I can part with/get home with - two completely opposite objectives.... we'll know in a few hours wich way it went.

So that went well.
Found 3 games.
1 card game about hunting Unicorns, 1 worker placement/resource game of Hurricane survival, 1 game of space exploration/conquest.
The unicorn game was cheap & the other two won't be out of Kickstarter until next year....
Add in another $200 worth of stuff (mostly BattleTech).....
Even including travel/hotel/food? This was a fairly cheap Gencon.

Painting clanrats, rat ogors and heroes, demoing adeptus titanicus and possibly got 3d printer running again.

Finished base painting my Shroud Runners, I accidentally painted one of their cloaks with Corax White instead of Wraithbone (as they're fighting on their Craftworld) I have no idea how I managed that, but it turned out a good thing as it was much easier to paint the Wraithbone layer on top than just on a black primer which is...strange. Corax White base paint covers quite nicely, actually. Lesson learned I suppose lol

Continued working on the Vyper.

Cheers,

CB