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Building a Vanquisher and Hydra.

Quite a bit, but most importantly, I gave my dad the Vampirella statue, and he was very happy with it. Now gotta do her base, which I primed and went over with Vallejo 'not nuln oil' wash.

But most of all been doing a crap ton of dry brushing of terrain, which I've been putting off for ages now. So it feels good to get that done even if it's the most basic way to paint terrain lol

A crap-ton of dry brushing of more terrain that I'd been neglecting to work on for months. I'm dry-brushing Necron Compound on my black primed terrain, and it actually looks pretty good. I also did quite a lot of work on my Faye Valentine, which I'm not too happy with, in all honesty, and the base for my dad's Vampirella.

Here are the pics of her pretty much finished.

I’ve went back to my Plague Marines that I painted a while ago and I’m redoing their backpacks, as well as adding just a titch more detail where I didn’t paint it on the first go through.

Some priming and washing of terrain accessories. But I also finished the base for Vampirella last night and gave it to my dad! I'm so happy with her!







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A lot of applying washes to terrain and dry brushing it. Experimenting with stuff, especially dunking smaller bits into my Vallejo pot of "not-Nuln Oil" wash, and it worked quite well once I wiped the excess with a paper towel off a few of them. It'll be very cool to finally play with terrain that's fully painted and everything.

A lot more work on a lot more terrain. Pretty boring, in all honesty, but getting through it slowly but surely.

Mostly finished the terrain that I had primed up to now. I managed to knock over my red wash and lose a lot, and the day before knocked over my Agrax Earthshade as well when moving my Vallejo Nuln oil.

Smooth lol

Edit: Also painted hazard stripes on my Necromunda/Zone Mortalis tiles with masking tape. It was...interesting, not fun, but interesting lol

Took the plunge and finally primed the two-story building I built from Mantic parts. I was hesitant for a couple of reasons; I dislike priming a lot. Fear of frigging it up and that it was going to use a frig-ton of spray paint. With the building primed, I had an idea to play through a scenario where Attelus and company are defending the building by besieging by waves of mutants. robots and zombies, like that part where Leon, Luis and Ashley are besieged in Resident Evil 4. Using, maybe, the rules from Space Station Zero? It could be fun.

Did more work on my big mantic building. Essentially coating it in the Vallejo nuln oil and then wiping off the excess finished half of it so far.

I also did some photos for fun for the scenario idea, and this is what it might look like.

Darrance and Attelus defend the main entrance side-by-side.





















Adelana provides Attelus and Darrance with covering fire with her "not-bolter", lol



Torris and Karmen cut down enemies with their guns.





The attackers.











Fun times lol

I made more progress on my big building today, finished putting washes on it, ready for dry brushing. I accidentally smeared too much wash on the building so on my dad's advice wiped off them with some methylated spirits, which made the building look much better. I want to make it pretty pristine as it hasn't been in any battles yet and might've been a base for my characters in something as so well maintained. Then I decided to try out making light sources with my new airbrush, and it turned out...okay, lol

















I also played a game of Space Station Zero, playing Challenge 13, which I should've seen as foreshadowing for how frustrating and boring the scenario turned out to be and also for how bad my luck was during it. I was going to make another battle report, but nahh lol. Vince Venturella, if you're somehow reading this, you're a frigging frigging evil genius or something lol. I couldn't think how crazy hard the scenario would've been for crews not wielding advanced weaponry (the drones had an armour of 8 which means any even rolls 6 or under are negated, and they also have a shield which reduces a hit to 0 each time its attacked) So the game was pretty much the epitome of a pillow fight, for the enemy lol.

Attelus got taken out by a very lucky critical hit by one of the drones, which he rolled a critical failure to protect himself from, so he took like 12 damage which was twice his full wounds lol. Luckily I rolled a 12 on the death roll, meaning he came out unscathed; he just didn't gain any exp from the scenario. Darrance was MVP as his energy melee weapon negated the drones' armour completely. I'm just glad I got some good loot, and Attelus didn't die.

Here are some pics, I suppose.

Demonstrated Age of Fantasy Skirmish and Song of Blades and Heroes yesterday. Topped off the game day playing a full mission of Too Many Bones, lite rpg board game.

Did a kitbash of my Darktide character doing what she does best; BASTION 220 COMBAT STANCE, ENGAGE!

Is that mostly the new Guard kit?

Aside from the head and the mattock, all new Cadian.

I was hoping the mattock was part of it, too, giving the squad more entrenching tools, oh well. Nice work!

Finishing up my Deathguard rehab project bitz wise.
A couple more arms/pads/bolters to go....

Then I'll hit the whole batch with a coat of primer.

They'll be far from finished, but they'll be playable - and look a damned site better than they do atm.

Tonight I tried to set up my AK wet palette that I bought a while ago. First attempt I didn’t wet the top sheet, so it didn’t work. For my second attempt, I wetted both sides of the top sheet. I didn’t have the time to put paint on it tonight, but will try tomorrow morning.

Managed by the skin of my teeth to get through another two Challenges of Space Station Zero today. Challenges 14 and 15, and boy, the latter was a doozy that had to fight a landed starship of sorts. They lost both Darrance and Karmen in the scenario (luckily, they didn't die, but Karmen cannot participate in the following Challenge). The game's gotten much harder over the past few Challenges. Challenge 14 I played the place that had a poison gas that made the characters go mad and attack their friends if they failed a body check which your characters need to pass three of; luckily, my crew have the Natural Brutes Edge, so they gained two more dice for body checks, or else they'd have to pass with three even numbers on 4d12s which isn't good odds. I think many a crew would've been lost as insane wretches due to some poor rolls then and there lol. The game's harsh.

painted up the terrain from Ash Wastes.. built is Saturday evening, Sunday saw primed through to finished (except the interiors) on the lot to a state I'm happy to use them

amazing how much there is in that box

Primed the horde of Deathguard I've been working on.

Pulling together a few dedicated Kill Teams out of misc stuff - Tyranid Warriors/H.Gaunts, Necron Warriors/Deathmarks, Deathguard (I found I had 4 spare guys in the box - no Champion yet unless I find a 5th DG), and Tau Fire warriors/stealth suites.

Bit lost at the moment so I'm working on a simple Ulthwe Warwalker. Wasn't sure on the armament so I went the safe option of dual Shuriken cannons, with the option to build a second walker with different weapons.

I did more work on my big Mantic building, dry brushing it a lot. Then began painting my mini of Arken from my Angaran Chronicles series who I think I've stated for the TT Skirmish game. Using his mini to practice skin and began base painting a mini of Elandria from Secret War. Pretty happy with how Arken's turning out so far!

Magnetized a Tau stealth suit for burst cannon/fusion this afternoon & built a Plague Marine champion. Both for KT.

And in tonight's KT game another ork kommando earned his paint.
Over 3 turns, Snipa Boy put serious hurt on 3 Tyranid Warriors. He killed 2 of them, & softed the 3rd up enough that a regular Boy was able to handle it in CC.
So tomorrow.....

More work on Elandria's mini, and she's looking not bad! But here's a pic of Headhunter Arken so far!

unpackaged the "age of Darkness" box and a few other bits from the carton it all arrived in..

my better half has now pinched the lot so it can be gift wrapped

For MCP: Undercoated Mordo and Elektra and will be painting them tonight at FLGS on my weekly hobby night there.

Also painting half finished Human torch for MCP and last Oc in a unit of bone splitterz for AOS.

Played two 500-point games of Bolt Action.

Tonight, painting my quar cavalry unit leader and glued my3D print slann blood bowl team to their bases.

Yesterday, finished building my first of two bolt action japanese infantry boxes.

I finally rebased my Space Station team from 32mm to 25mm using resin bases from Infinity. The bases were too thick in the middle, so I took to it with a spinny thingy my dad gave me and ground it down enough to make them easier to walk over terrain. But I was dumb enough to place my magnifying glasses on my dehumidifier, and it began to slide off, so I snatched and caught it. I then looked back to my painting handle, which had Attelus on it as I was doing some touch-ups on him, and...there was only a base. It took me a second to realise what had happened, and then panic hit, and I began looking for him. I found him not far away. On the floor missing his left arm, so it took me a good while to find that and glue it back on, which was annoying.

Later, I was about to head to bed, I switched off the light in my hobby room, and as I pulled back my hand, I knocked the box with both my Angaran Chronicles minis and Secret War minis from my left palm. My minis went everywhere! I managed to break all of my Angaran Chronicles minis except for Anargrin, who was miraculously unscathed (I like to think it was his incredible agility which saved him, lol) Raleas, both her arms broke off and somehow her sniper rifle was broken into at least three pieces. Wilom's, Jelcine's, and Emilia's legs were broken off by the shins as they were 3d printed on their bases. I was looking forward to using them to play test my Angaran Chronicles skirmish game and have been trying to get all five together for a long time now, but oh well.

Luckily, all of my Secret War characters came out unscathed, just knocked off their new bases, even Attelus, even though his arm had been broken off earlier in the day.

So, that sucked. Too angry and tired to try to reassemble Raleas and co., so I just stuck Attelus and company back on their bases and went to bed.

Anyway, here are my Secret War minis on their new bases; I think they look better on 25mm instead of 32.

The bitz I needed to complete my DG KT arrived yesterday.
I now have, converted from 4 ancient derpy plastic bolter/knife mono-pose DG,:
1x plasma gun
1x Blight Launcher
1x Icon
1x bolter/knife - no mod needed!
& a current champion converted holding a plasma pistol
All base coated and ready for our next game where they will embark upon their quest for actual paint.

Honestly I probably spent more on bitz for this squad than the 4 base models have ever been worth....

Finished an Ulthwe Warwalker and a 40K Warglaive, which has long been without detail for it's base. Also undercoated some AoS scenery.