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We set me up more shelves in my hobby room for my minis and such. I also began base painting my new Eisenhorn mini

Recalculating all my Warcry bands to the v2 compendium pts values.

Then I've got 16 more Stormvermin to build.

Edit: Well, tonight during one of the most boring D&D sessions I've played in in a looong time, I got 11 of those Stormvermin completely built.

Just finished building my 5th Raptadon Hunter. Next up are going to be the 5 Lancers!

Building the 2nd half of my Stormvermin box.

More progress on my Eisenhorn proxy, and despite him having almost no mouth, I think he's turning out pretty well.

Building Raptadon Chargers. 1/5 down!

Built the contents of Warhammer Unddrworlds Shadespire late last night. Looking for a clear day so I can prime them

Finishing up building a Skaven Plague Furnace.
I may also start on a FW VerminLord & a box of Gnawholes. Or maybe those'll be tomorrow....

Either way, the "build & basecoat" phase of my 2023 Skaven project is nearly complete.

Finished building Raptadon Hunters, now this happens:

Primeasaurs!

Finished a squad of 3 Tyranids warriors and played a game last weekend, and since I've been prepping the rest of my Nids backlog.

Glued sand to some bases, and primed a bunch of models. I did 16 Genestealers, 1 Warriors, 3 metal Raveners, 8 Plastic Raveners, 1 Tyrannofex. After the primer I base-coated them all black to have the surface ready, that was a lot of black!

Have a few more models left to do that same way, but that's a nice chunk done and ready to paint whenever I want now!

Still suffering from a back injury, so painting is not something I can do for long stretches yet. So I've decided to try and fiddle about with contrast for a bit, touching it up after with drybrushing to see where I wind up. These are both test models and well, haha, cannon fodder destined to die in the first scenario of a campaign I plan on running later this year. Also still work in progress, need to do the bases, weapons and the hair in case of the leader of the gang.

Preping bases for 2 more obligatory Armigers.

Today I will:
● finish building a Skaven Plague Furnace
● make movement trays for my various Skaven units.
•• and pull together the mechs & sheets & maps needed for a BattleTech game later in the week.

I've been pretty slack with miniature stuff lately, but I did a bit today. Assembled a Farseer proxy mini I got from Etsy and then began painting the bases of Attelus Kaltos and company, then fixing them up, as well as my GW Lelith and began painting the Hero Forge mini of Dellenger from Secret War; Using my new pair of magnifying glasses I bought from Neat and Handy with the 3.5x magnification glass and a mounted flashlight that'd arrived a couple of days ago and boy oh boy it makes a huge difference it helped me fix eyes and parts I'd missed earlier easily. Really happy with them.

Well the plan was to build a Plague Furnace, make some Skaven movement trays, & pull/print some BTech sheets....

I ended up painting an Urbenmech.
As in fully painting it, not just hitting it with a base coat. 2nd model to be fully painted this year.

More progress on Dellenger; his mini looks pretty much exactly how I imagined he looked like. I also realised he looks like Archer from...well...Archer. Should make Dellenger start saying DANGERZONE from time to time, lol. I also fixed up an Attelus Kaltos mini that I'd frigged the face of earlier with the new magnifying glasses. It allowed me to fix him a lot. Too bad he fell off my painting handle and broke on the floor pretty badly. I glued most of him back together, but there are a few slivers I can't find.

Also assembled a few more minis.

I haven't been doing much at all for a while! But today I set myself the task of painting a bug warrior (Some sort of dnd mini) and I also finished that goal.

I wrote a battle report for Kings of War:
https://www.kowforum.com/t/tales-of-the-fools-hold/3963/9

I liked how my Urbanmech from last night turned out well enough that I decided to paint up a random lance mate for him.
A Scorpion mech.

The Urbie just happened to be in a bitz box I'd been sorting. It & the paint were both present on the work table at the same moment.
The Scorpion? That I had to intentionally open the BTECH cases for that one. Of all the unpainted mechs I own, I've NO idea why I selected a Scorpion....

In the coming days I will paint up 2 more random mechs in this scheme for a complete lance.

Almost finished Dellenger and began another old Attelus mini that's been sitting around for ages, mostly his face. But I dropped Attelus while painting him and broke his sword, and couldn't find the blade no matter how much I looked. Made me demoralised but then I got an idea, so I clipped off what remained of the blade and replaced it with the blade of a power sword from the Dark Angels veteran box, and I'm happy with how it turned out, much closer to the sword Attelus wields in the art I drew of him. Then I did a bit of base painting on him.

More progress on the new Attelus; I'm quite happy with how he's turning out.

working, slowly, through the contents of the Judge Dress starter, have the skin tones done and even have the blue on a single judge

work also progressing on a pair of Contemptor dreadnoughts for my XIV

Planning to get some more work done on some misc Skaven stuff this evening.

There's some Frostgrave going on around here, so I figured out a 2nd ed warband using my handful of nightstalkers (illusionist seemed appropriate) that I based individually.

Weather has cleared up, so I have a pair of macharius, and 4 of mortian medium tanks and a Mortian battle tank to prime and spray.

bit more work on a few MegaCity one judges and the contemptor pair, base colours on them two largely done, just metals to add now, then the weapons to paint

I've pretty much finished Attelus, I'm very happy with him. Also did some work on Dellenger I repainted his cameleoline cloak to match the base (grey with Nuln Oil and light grey dry brush).

Finished Attelus I just put a matt varnish on him a while ago. He could use a little more work but right now just leaving him for a while. I assembled (mostly) my pair of Warlocks and I'm a little annoyed with the kit as it makes it you have to give one a Witch Blade and one a Singing Spear, would've liked to been able to give both either, especially because it's such an expensive kit. So if you want two with Witch Blades or two with Singing Spears you have to buy two boxes at $114 NZD. Luckily Gap Games sell it for $69.99 AUD. Though I might go to Etsy for similar models, I think. Still nice sculpts, will give the one with a Singing Spear a bare head to represent Klrith from Secret War.

sorting space in the cellar to stick a new 3d printer mostly

Contemplating wether or not I need to cancel this evenings D&D game at the shop.

Wed/Thur I injured a knee.
I can (mostly) get around the house. I can drive.
But can I survive the walk through the parking lot to/from the gaming table? That is the question.....