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Company Master Remiel and his Company Vets!

Primed and began painting my IG box as well as dry brushed my new Zone Mortalius bases and stuck my Angels of Absolution minis on them (25mm as it's easier to navigate Mantic terrain with smaller bases) Also put more put White tack in the connecting holes of my Mantic walls. Tried to get the white tack out of my test wall, and was harder than I thought it'd be so that's going to be fun to do after I prime them etc lol

Thinking up new orky/grot conversions.

See, in our ongoing Crusade games, when i win a game my grots loot defeated enemies.
So if the opponent had some cool vehicles or other techy stuff in thier force, & I kill the unit & win the match, then I incorporate that stuff into my own force.

Last night I obliterated an Admech force.
This yielded all sorts of cool tech/bitz....
Notably a Dune Crawler, Kataphrons, & a unit of those winged Skitari guys.
So now I'm pondering what weird stuff I can make using these kits.

More work on my IG minis; five out of ten are finished; they just need basing. I am looking forward to finishing them as I feel having an IG option for potential people at my potential skirmish gaming club is pretty important. And I dunno; when I finish them, it feels like it'll be a milestone for me as I finally have some IG painted. I've always loved the faction due to the Gaunt's Ghosts books (which I still have yet to finish as well, lol).

I also made a list of my pile of shame. It's still long even after my obsessive work on it for the past few weeks (38 different items, at least, including numerous different squad units and two Wave Serpents, this is excluding the crap-ton of terrain I've got to do, as well), But this hasn't phased me at all, which is cool, I suppose.

I’m making progress painting both my first Ad Mech Electro-priest and my first Glooming Lords Plague Marine (black w/ green trim color scheme).

After doing next to nothing yesterday due to being unwell, I knuckled down and completed (mostly) My IG, and I'm pretty happy with how they turned out, next on to my Traitor Guard from the Blackstone Fortress box. Just gotta base them (my least favourite part of the hobby, but it's an important one). Speaking of basing, I also based my Adeptus Custodes today. Here are some pics; I think the bases might need a little something extra, though. Any ideas? The Custodes with the open arms was inspired by the cover of the HH short story collection The Imperial Truth, where one of the Custodes is talking with another and gesticulating animatedly, except with a very different colour scheme (been listening too much to Lovecraft audiobooks lately, lol) It also kinda looks like he's going 'Come at me!'

 SilentScreamer wrote:
So what are you are all doing today for games like WH40k, WHFB and other war games? Me, I'm planning on making a Skaven army list and talking to my friend a bit more to try and convince him to purchase a dwarf army he's interested in, how about the rest of Dakka?

Having a bit of a writersblock (not literally, apparently.. because I've been writing a new chapter in my second book of 'the journal of Leopold Helveine' again.. after half a year hiatus) after finishing the Tyrannofex (see my blog)..

Have three Raveners on my table but low-motivation to work on them.. also still 10 gargoyles and 10 minespores to finish up painting..

Also still got 4 harlequins and an eldar support weapon to paint standing on it.. and a head (for my wraithknight) to sculpt. (rest of WK is finished already though, fully painted).. thing is .. I kindof wanted to do some Orks again but once you start that its hard to stop and I've got like 7or 8 unopened Ork boxes, Morkanaut included so that would swamp me. Better to first finish what's on the table. Right? Thing is.. I need to alternate to break boredom working with the same hue's all the time..

Today's job - adding new PDFs to buildinstructions.com and learning how to post new Articles on Dakka Dakka whilst I wait for my new latest purchase to arrive in the post

Just launched buildinstructions.com last week, which is an online library of Free to download PDF Build Instructions for all of the various Warhammer model ranges.

You can read more about it here in my first ever Dakka Article: Where to Find and Download Free PDF Build Instructions Booklets

Definitely not thinking about starting a lizardmen army.

Its why I'm absolutely not doing research on Sagebrush and Western Fence lizards and the blue flairs on their bellies.

https://www.deschuteslandtrust.org/news/blog/2018-blog-posts/western-fence-lizard

https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/sagebrush-lizard.htm


The sagebrush has an easier pattern to paint on the back scales, and the color dimorphism between males and females on the belly could easily lend itself to different types of lizards in the army.

Started the first five Guardians( and weapon platform ) for an Ulthwe army. Also begun painting the third and final armiger for a combat patrol.

Began working on my Traitor Guard and got all but four finished. I also began basing my loyalist IG; I'm still happy with how they turned out, even if I frigged up the faces of a few due to the angles and awkward spaces, but they're just meant to be 'table ready', so I'm not fussed. What surprised me was that I painted their armour Castellan Green then edge-highlighted them with Warpstone Glow (one of my favourite Citadel paints) And it turned out quite well!

Been taking a break from my Thousand Sons and got back into scale modelling.

Bought a 1/350 scale battleship, and a set of photoetch brass upgrades...because I hate myself that much...

This piece in particular is a stepladder, which has to be folded from a flat brass sheet, and each, individual step manipulated into place with tweezers.

Finishing up terrain for tournament i'm running on saturday.

Edit: valkyrie. Good to know never get into scale modeling

I finished my Traitor Guard, batch painted the final four which wasn't much fun. I batch painted my 14 of 15 Chaos Cultists from Assassinorum: Execution Force a while back and I don't know how I did it lol. I think if I'm doing a squad I'll do them one by one and maybe batch paint the final two (which I did with my last two IG which I'm still basing)

I began work on an Apothecary for my Dark Angels and my new Scale 75 white paint is making it much easier than GW white paints.

Working on my ever growing GK army, and trying to find the best way to deal with the changes that came out in Arks of Omen.

I've had two small games already, and it's not exactly as bad as I thought it would be.

Finished my DA Apothecary, and he turned out okay. He has the legs of a DA veteran, so it's a cloak, but I'm not sure if it suits him. Oh well.

I also finally started to work on my Gaunt's Ghosts minis in earnest again! Batch painting them, but I don't mind batch painting them for some reason. Probably because they're Gaunt's Ghosts and not some random traitor guard lol

Going to try the boardgame Nemesis later today.

When I get home in the evening ill:
*build another single figure from my backlog
*and then begin work on squad #2 of my HH Iron Warriors.

My 30x22 Zone Mortalis mats arrived today from Skirmish Mats, along with a whole lot of other things, because my town was stranded due to a few slips that happened during a recent storm. So I had a game of Space Station Zero with a 30x22 mat instead of my Necromunda tiles which were 25x25; it worked a bit better, so I might begin a new single-player campaign with 30x22 (I have the mats from both Octarius and Nachmund, but I wanted immersion of a floor that looks like it's in a Space Station rather than ground) I rolled a lot of critical failures, like five times or something, with three in a row or so, but managed to win without any real casualties.

Also did quite a bit more work on my Gaunt's Ghosts. A little happier with how they look so far.

played, and lost, a game of The Barons War, and lost by an epic margin.. not worked out a decent counter to cavalry yet

also assembled a Demos Predator for priming tomorrow, did consider magnets, however its got a specific role and will likely always be in one configuration so just assembled as that for now. local group not too fussed on weapons not being as modelled so not a huge thing

nice kit though

Not too much today, I mostly finished my Gaunt and began freehanding tattoos on the Tanith, first trying it with Corbec as a test, and he turned out okay. I also did it on Bragg. Tried to do Rawne's famous starburst tattoo on his face but frigged it up, so painted over it. Hopefully, my next try will be better!

Building an American platoon for Bolt Action.

I've nothing on the schedule for today, so I should be able to complete the whole project (build + basecoat) in one go.

Oh, and knocking out another random single figure kit from the backlog. This time a 40k Primaris Ancient.

edit: @$&* I'd forgotten just how fiddly plastic Bolt Action figures are to build....

Continued working on a Canoptek Reanimator.

I really thought that the colour scheme for our Necrons (silver and red) would be super fast to paint until I got to the bigger ones and having to do multiple shades of silver to break up all the bigger areas takes way more time than I thought.

Also let my 8 year old and 3 year old paint 2 of the free Stormcast Hachette sent.

Assembling Mantic marrionettes.

Detailing two Ryza-pattern small ruins/barricades, reviving my plog, and buying a metal Eldar Bonesinger on eBay.

Mostly finished my Gaunt's Ghosts today and began basing them. I took the plunge and painted their tattoos, and they look pretty good. I built up my courage and even did the camouflage patterns on their camo cloaks too which I was very hesitant to do. I hopefully will have them finished by tomorrow!

Almost finished basing my Ghosts, including glueing on grass tufts. Still, I realised that the paint was scratching off the bases, I must not have primed them on the bases when I first assembled and began painting them way back in 2019, so I went over them with Stormshield varnish, being careful not to get it on the tufts.

Churned out these ekranoplans for Dystopian Wars today

No turrets cause I'm waiting for a different gun than what's in the box

Would you believe that I'm STILL building that Bolt Action US platoon I started on Sunday?
I've been reminded exactly why some years ago I built my Germans using as many metal pieces as I could.
BA plastics are sooo tiny, spindly & fiddly to assemble....

I've got 12 more arms/guns to attach.

Yes! Finally mostly finished my Gaunt's Ghosts. I began way back when they came out! I just want to fix up Gaunt's hair and paint the stuff hanging from the trees on the bases green. Tried as best I could to keep them to how I see them in the book. The hardest part was painting the camo on their camoleoline cloaks, not freehanding their tattoos lol I am so proud of how they turned out! They're great minis; painting them was a bit up and down in my enjoyment. Besides the gap of years between finishing and starting them, some parts just made me stop and scratch my head again and again. But I forced myself to keep going!

With almost finishing my Gaunt's Ghosts, I took a bit of a break today before finalising them, I think? Lol

I then began finally working on my Shadow Seer and Death Jester that I'd bought, assembled and primed months ago. I also used Scale 75's Birch paint instead of GW's Wraithbone for the beige bits, and it worked way better only took two or three coats instead of five or six. I'm happy with how he looks. Might one day take a few photos of my Harlequins. I'm pretty proud of the colour scheme; it has no motley diamonds, so it's easier to paint; it's quick and easy, but it still looks good. And, of course, I make sure to use a lot of Warpstone Glow, lol