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Played another couple of Grimdark Future: Firefight, both being "Eldar" vs "Chaos Cultists", the same teams again. The 1st was an absolute walkover for Chaos. They completely overwhelmed the Eldar, the only survivor being the Autarch. The mistake was keeping the Autarch in reserve using his "Ambush" trait until the 3rd turn. The 2nd game was a strong victory for the Eldar, but it didn't help the Chaos Marine leading them died in the 2nd turn, being reduced to 1 wound by the "Not-Fire Dragon" and then being slayed while he was down by the Autarch with his "Fusion Rifle that's looks like a Fusion Pistol because there's no option for Fusion Pistol in the High Elf Fleets faction sheet". The Eldar only lost one Guardian, while the Cultists lost most of their men, some to failed leadership tests and ran. But they did manage to kill the Not-Fire Dragon before losing with a lucky shot. The game seems quite well-balanced, might try it again with a couple of different lists next.













I think I'm getting a hang of the game, and it's so quick and easy.

Had a go at trying to paint up a worn out, beaten up vehicle. Still need to do something about the wheels, but other than that, quite pleased with how well it turned out so far.

Going through my collection of 15mm odds and sods and discovering thst I have half a Carthaginian army.

I made the canon Gaunt's Ghosts minis in Grimdark Future and GF: Fire Fight with the One Page Rules Army Forge Studio. It was fun! I made sure to give the options of Veteran Infantry, Fearless, Regeneration and a few other things only to the characters who survived the Gereon mission and the option to give Gaunt the Sword of Hieronymo Sondar. They all have Stealth because due to their camoleoline cloaks.

I also had an idea to make four GFF lists at 150 points each so the kid can play half a list each on the same side in one game on Wednesday, so it'll be easier to teach them instead of two games running at once.

Paint and assemble vampire army.

Planning a big game this summer to end 9th edition (3v3, 2k per players), and I decided to gear up for some gunline-type list with my Nids (I expect movement to be clogged up fast so I could just sit back and shoot whatever).

With that I realized that a lot of my (big) shooty unit are not painted. So I'll have to crank it up and start painting!

I did some last minute modification to my two Tyrannofexes. The guns are magnetized, but hard to swap (easy when not painted and rubbing everywhere). So I modified the bases and magnetized the model itself to the base, making everything much much more manageable! Plus the base and the underside of the model will be much easier to paint too!

I then glued the sand on what was needed: the aforementioned Tyrannofex base, a trio of Warriors, and one metal Carnifex, 3rd edition one. Went out tonight and primed the Tyrannofex base, the Carnifex and one Warrior. It was getting cold at this hour and still raining, so did wanted to push my luck more for tonight.

Finally got the Archon "Elven Woods" and "Deuslair: Sample Pack" miniatures painted.

ObPlug: 48 hour mark for the Archon "Dungeon and Laser 5: Deuslair" KS. You can get their previous terrain through the KS, though have to take the Deuslair core.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/archonstudio/dungeons-and-lasers-v-world-of-deuslair-5e

Threw in a few Reaper figures and Battle Systems "Village Set" cottage for scale.

That's so cool, ced!

Anyway, had a few games of Grimdark Future: Firefight playtesting the Gaunt's Ghosts rules I made in the One Page Rules Army Forge Studio. 300 points of Gaunt, Rawne, and Bragg vs Ork Kommandoes. No matter how strange and rare, such a matchup is just that one short story in Ghostmaker (one of my favourites in the book). It'd be pretty cool Was a lot of fun.















I also painted a Chaos Aspiring Champion to lead the "not-Chaos" team in the Grimdark Future: Firefight game(s) which starts tomorrow. I am happy with him, the model was so old school, and the way I painted him makes him seem like he'd be on the front of an issue of Inferno!

Two versions, one that just had Nuln Oil sloughed all over it.



The other with red painted back over it.





I'm actually preferring the one without the highlighted red, but that's just looking at the photo.

Started off looking for several misc Skaven pieces I KNOW I have. Ended up properly sorting out another box of mixed minis. Still haven't found those ratmen, but....
Later on this evening I'll be building a Screaming Bell.

Painting some alien trees.

Cheers,

CB

Dropping more MCP models at my FLGS for the display I have there.

Then painting Sexy Strange, Honey badger and X-23 at said FLGS.

Also putting my name down to pre-order the new underworlds set.

I played a couple more games of Grimdark Future: Firefight, this time using the custom-made faction for my Corsairs vs Not Chaos Cultists, this time on 44x30 board, and it was fun it worked well on 44x30 board.

Continued painting some alien trees.

Cheers,

CB

Finishing priming some Tyranids (magnetized arms, Tyrannofex), as well as painting some 3rd edition Carnifexes (that will need those afformentioned magnetized arms ).

Wrote up a battle report for Kings of War.
https://www.kowforum.com/t/tales-of-the-fools-hold/3963/6

Hopefully building a unit of Stormvermin later this evening.

Dull coated my final ww2 infantry, at last
Now only 2 pak40s and 11 tanks left to go

Assembling some more Mantic/Deadzone terrain for my TT Skirmish gaming club. An excellent way to callus and harden your fingers, lol

Finished the alien trees.



Cheers,

CB

I did my least favourite part of the hobby, priming, especially priming terrain. My Mantic/Dead Zone buildings are primed, and I began washing the big ruined one that I tried to make it look like a ruined mansion recently converted to be a temporary defensible position.















This one is a pill boxy/mini fortification.













This one is sorta a ruined vendor, which I was meaning to make into some sorta prison, but it ended up, well, not being a prison lol

I began applying washes to the buildings in my last post and finished two of them, the ruined mansion and the pillbox, but the vendor wasn't quite done; for that, I used Reikland Flesh Shade, and it worked well. It looks like it's in a desert or something. I would've done more, but it was very humid today, so drying time on even acrylic paint was very slow indeed. I then plugged in the dehumidifier, which helped a bit. I also cranked out the airbrush for the first time in ages and, again, would've done more, but the battery ran out, and I couldn't find the recharge cord. Maaan, I wish I was more tidy and organised some of the time...hell...wish I was most of the time lol

Finished painted my 2 Carnifexex and my Tyrannofex.

Might move on to a small squad of 3 Warriors to get my 1500pts list of shooty Nids all painted.

Finished washing my buildings today and began dry brushing. I did some airbrushing too, but like a dumbass, I dropped an essential piece down the sinkhole while cleaning it. We had to take out the S-bend to retrieve it. Making sure to put the plug in next time :/

Actually managing to tackle some models as of late. Working my way through some of the new AoS swamp orcs and Xandire's Truthseekers

Got my battle banners mailed to me from Dragon Trove. I'm a busy little bee cutting them apart. I thought the spaceship one would be difficult to figure out, but it's pretty intuitive. These are going to be fun!


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Got my battle banners mailed to me from Dragon Trove. I'm a busy little bee cutting them apart. I thought the spaceship one would be difficult to figure out, but it's pretty intuitive. These are going to be fun!

We had the first game night playing Grimdark Future: Firefight, and it went really well! The kids were great, and they had fun. Now I'm exhausted, though lol

Had to take the cat to the vet unscheduled.
They said "Bring her in & they'll work us into things."
This translates to come on in & ..... wait.

So I'm sitting here at the vets with the cat, drinking coffee, and alternating between reading the v2 Warcry book & browsing the internet. And waiting.....

Built and finished 10 necron warrior flayed ones for a flayed one necron dynasty I'm making, along with also assembling a plasmancer and neocyte.

Overall pretty satisfied with the progress.

A couple of minis delivered I bought from Etsy a few weeks back. A Lelith Hesperax proxy mini that's part of a diorama of her stabbing a Chaos Space Marine through the chest. The second is a proxy of Eisenhorn, and it's an excellent mini better than the GW version of Eisenhorn. The only problem being is his mouth is very undefined. I primed, and Zenithal highlighted him, and it helped a bit. Also rebased Attelus and his team onto Zone Mortalis bases instead of Infinity ones, as they are from 40k. As well as re-glued a few things.

I tried chipping for the first time. I used chipping fluid on a very damaged Japanese Zero I did a while back but the fluid has it's pros and cons. For this 1/48 Challenger 2 I decided to paint the chips by hand. Was helped by the fact that this modern British tank wouldn't be as chipped as a WWII Soviet machine for example. I sponged on a lighter coat of the basecoat then filled them in with Vallejo Dark Rust.

The overall effect is pretty impressive in person, I hope the camera managed to catch it.