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I realised a while back that if I run a TT Skirmish game club, I will have to have a diversity of factions for people to play. So I delved back into my pile of shame and began assembling my Dark Angel veterans. I've had them for, like...ten years, maybe? Not sure. And having fun with it posing the old school marines as they aren't mono pose might post pics later. I've got twelve DA vets (thirteen if I include my Company Master Remiel mini I painted years ago), so I might make six classic DA and the other six Angels of Absolution or something. I'm also considering having a house rule for Space Station Zero where players can choose two edges for their crew instead of one, as what? My Custodes crew will play very similarly to my Dark Angels crew, making them pretty dull.

Some more Darktide kitbashing, this time a pair of WIP's, of my bother's zealot (need to sling a chain across her shoulder to hold the flamer in place) and his mate's psyker (replace right hand with something a bit more appropriately psychic):



When these are done, taking a crack at turning some of the Blooded into Scabs, hopefully I can get a Mauler done at the very least.

Building my second set of Field Ordnance Batteries!

Building my way through a box of Space Marine Heroes series 3 (Deathguard) that've been sitting on my to-do shelf for too long.

I based my first minis using Martian Ironearth, got some of it on their feet, but I’ve worked out a better solution for next time.

I primed, and zenithal highlighted my Dark Angels veteran minis. I then began test painting one of the minis, and he's almost finished. Frigged up the face a bit, but he's just going to be TT-ready.

Dusted my hobby area.

working on the second half of a Mk III Death Guard Heresy veteran squad, currently edge highlighting the brass trim

I've pretty much finished five of my seven Dark Angels vets (enough for an elite Space Station Zero Crew). Edge highlighted and fixed up my mini of Company Master Remiel, my old OC for the Astronomican forums, a very old mini that I'm still quite proud of, he had my first freehanding and he turned out okay.

Reorganizing my hobby stuff.

Now that my Deathguard rehab project is done I'm moving onto doing an inventory of my general Chaos Space Marine stuff. See how it adds up with the newest Codex.

four way Necromunda game, which my Escher gang managed (somehow, skill wasn't involved) to win by dint of all three other factions breaking and running before my sole surviving gang leader also broke..

now priming up some Mk VI marines for my Death Guard legion and trying to work out where the flip my Micro-Sol has gotten to

Working up on Magnus. With nieces taking 10-12h per day slow progress.

Looking great Tneva! Especially the wings!

Back OT, I mostly finished my seven DA veterans today just gotta base them and a few other things. One of them, he's bare-headed and has a shaved head, looks gloriously ugly, I'm quite proud of that lol. Might practise the powerfield effect on my Company Champion mini's power sword. Once I base them, I might post a pic or two.


I also painted up the head of the leader of my Custodes and a few other things. Planning on beginning my Angels of Absolution Vets tomorrow.

Managed to mostly finish two of my Angels of Absolution and began basing my Dark Angels. Didn't do too much as I had to help my dad with some sign writing as ordered by our almighty landlord for his walking trail lol

Later today (after the hangover wears off) I will finish building & base coating the following Kill Teams:
● Ad-Mech
● Tau
● Necrons

Almost completed another two Angels of Absolution; I just have to highlight and edge highlight one and began the fifth, who's a Company Master of sorts. Was hoping to get all five finished by the end of the day, but got distracted. Applied another layer of Astrogranite Debris on my DAs

Finished my Angels of Absolution minis, and I am just waiting for the Zone Mortalis bases I ordered to glue them on.

But while beige is one of my favourite colours (Anargrin, the main character from my Angaran Chronicles series signature two-piece suit, is beige with a navy blue shirt and tie), I think the Angels of Absolution look as good as green wing DA, they weren't fun to paint with GW's Wraithbone paint. It might be a base paint, but it covers worse than some layer paints, taking like four or five coats to cover and, even then, not too well. I've been working with it for ages, using it to base my Eldar. I'm glad that I zenithal highlighted my DA and AoA minis. I have actually painted surfaces I was going to paint with Wraithbone with Corax White, and it covered better than Wraithbone and allowed Wraitbone to cover better. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out, though. Does anyone know of a similar colour from a different manufacturer that works better?

I then began on my Adeptus Custodes, which has a much easier colour scheme, and I'm having much more fun painting them!

Production line building 3 Contemptors for 30k Scars

Finished the skins on 22 orks from 2 sets of kill team kommandos.

Seriously lovely models. Even putting them together was an absolute joy.

I planned out a crew for Space Station Zero.

Just had a couple of games of Planet 28 2nd edition to test the system. I made a Warband of 750 points which is just Attelus Kaltos and Adelana Helgen from Secret War. It's set between Secret War and Secret War: Upon Blood Sands, and I decided they were investigating into people disappearing from an Underhive slum.

The leads sent them to a former mining village that had run out of minerals, so most people had abandoned it. When they arrive to investigate, local mutants corrupted by Chaos almost instantly attack them. They called for backup and had to survive for 10+6 turns as each mutant they kill gets replaced by another coming from the other side of the board. Starting with 9 on the board.

It was pretty fun. Tried it as a stand-alone scenario, then as a part of a "campaign" (in the first game, I forgot to respawn the mutants, though, lol). They lasted almost all eight turns, but one charged Adelana and got a critical on its attack and rolled a nat eight on damage! (which is doubled to 16) Adelana rolled for her armour which was 1d8+4, and rolled snake eyes! Adelana was already hurt, so she went down. I then, for a laugh, rolled a 1d8 on the injury table and, of course, rolled a nat eight, which means she's dead.

It can't be canon now, lol.

I'm quite liking Planet 28 2nd ed so far; the character customisation is very in-depth, which is similar to my own TT Skirmish game for my Angaran Chronicles. Just have to remember to attack in close combat; the outnumbered attacker must roll an Awareness roll (Minus the number of attackers), Or else their Combat stat is -the number of enemies, which is pretty harsh but kinda cool at the same time.

Built a random Primaris LT.
Satisfies my weekly 2023 goal of building at least 1 item from my backlog.

I wasn't feeling well and was not in the mood for painting, so assembled my Imperial Guard box I bought last year I was going to kitbash them with my Death Korps of Krieg minis from my Octarius box, so I could have had all the Specialists in Kill Team 2: Electric Boogaloo. But can't be bothered with that now lol

Built an Abhorrent Arch Regent jumping off a rock. (Its the other option from the Flesh Eater Courts Start Collecting box if you build the Zombie Dragon with a Vampire instead).

Starting building the aforementioned Zombie Dragon.

Painted a Skorpekh Destroyer Lord.

Mostly completed three of my five Custodes, and they are a joy to paint. I like the colour scheme I gave them. Simple and quite quick, primed them black, painted their decorations Caliban Green, then edge highlighted the armour and Guardian Spears lead belcher. Then highlighted the decorations Warpstone Glow and then Warboss Green. It looks not too bad, still doesn't do the excellent minis justice, but still not too bad lol

Not much uhh yesterday, as it's past midnight now. Almost finished my Custodes and assembled a few minis here and there that are a part of my pile of shame and began basing my Dark Angels. I can't find for the life of me a helmetless head I was going to use on the Custodes 2nd in command. I also can't find my 2nd box of Custodes which I would've liked to use a head for in lieu of the missing one. Sorta ironic lol

I wanted to finish this project before the end of the year...a little hiccup sidelined me until the 31st.



Cheers,

CB

Quite a bit by contrast to yesterday. My white tack arrived today, so I began pushing is into the holes of my Mantic Sci-Fi walls so the primer won't get in and make them hard to connect. If I prime them when they're connected, It's almost impossible to pull them apart later. It's...tedious. I did it for a good few hours but only completed eleven out of the several dozen pieces I've got. It drove me a bit nuttier, but it didn't help I was listening to HP Lovecraft audiobooks while doing it, lol. My cousin suggested White Tack over Blue Tack for hobbying, and he was 100% correct; way less messy.

My Zone Mortalis bases arrived, too, so I primed them with Lead Belcher and went over with the not Nuln Oil; now I've got to wait for them to dry, which will take a while.

Also found my 2nd Custodes squad sprues so primed and began painting the head.

Finished my Custodes and began basing them! And finished basing my Dark Angels, took some photos and will share them later. Getting through your pile of shame feels good, lol.

Later today sees my Grots fight their final game of our current Crusade.
My Grots vs an Admech force. I really hope the ADM player brings one of their flyers. I want to shoot it down & then loot it for future games.