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Well, it’s been a while! Real life got in the way of hobby, but in a good way; visiting my new niece, attending the F1 at Silverstone ( what a race! ) and a mates stag do! All consigliere against much if any hobby time.

Olthannon wrote:Good to see you updating Gobert. Looks like you have a lot of bits and bobs on the horizon. The empire look cool! I hope that's a project on the closer horizon!

Yeah, I’ve got quite a selection of projects to choose from at the moment, part of the reason for not getting on with anything!

Bellerophon wrote:Just caught up with this - I'm in love with your High Elves display! They were my first and still dearest WHFB army (you'd never tell I liked High Elves from my love of eldar... ), though mine were all newer sculpts than these. This vintage of sculpt are things that I saw as lovingly painted armies in magazines and the like when I was a kid, so it's a fantastic sight to see a paintbrush applied to them once again. So well executed too, and such a classic scheme. Nicely done!

Thanks Bellerophon, I think the display helps elevate them beyond the paint job and the monopose too! I first saw the scheme in White Dwarf when Andy Chambers (iirc) showcased a scheme for the elves which was quick to do… well 25 years or so is pretty quick by my standards and they look good to boot! Cheers!

Not Online!!! wrote:ah yes, saving old hobby mistakes and being nostalgic..

Happened quite a bit when i touched up on my orks.

Yeah, some of the Empire guys are pretty entombed in paint! The cannon in particular is pretty rubbish! I think there might be 2 paint jobs on it already!

Viterbi wrote:Great to see you tackle the Necrons next and with the paint recipe they should go relatively fast compared to the elves Love the new hobby storage area.

Yeah, they’re pretty rapid and I might batch them up and give the airbrush a go. The hobby storage was another reason for no hobby, but that’s done now too!

So as mentioned above the hobby has been slow of late, mostly just building Necrons in quiet moments. The main hobby stuff related task has been sorting the storage space. It was quite a chore in the end and the hobby space/office was an absolute bomb site whilst I did it. Mrs gobert was not impressed but now that it’s done, it’s a massive improvement over the piles of stuff! There’s still piles, but they’re tucked away (mostly! )

I spent more than I planned, and it’s a bit rough in places, but I’m still pleased with the outcome. I might paint the unfinished edges and the dodgy diagonal joint between the pieces, maybe a plasma glow or something?

Today though I actually got some proper hobbying in! My youngest preferred to stay home in the paddling pool instead of going to the shopping mall with my wife and eldest, so I had a day of pool and hobby time! I set off by finishing building the last Necron, a Deathmark (fiddly little blighters!) and arraying them all out for the next step;

Basing! Ok, so some of them already had bits of basing on the go. The leaders of each squad are adorned with bits of space marines. My favourite is either the buried Captain on the Doom Croissant or the 2nd Ed Marine chopped up on the Skorpekh Lords base! They all then got some watered down PVA painted in the bases before adding some sprue rubble and a dunk in some mixed sand (taken from under a previous iteration of the patio I was sat at!)

It’s due to be un-Britishly hot this week so the loft hobby space will be out of bounds. Heck I’m even off in to the office to see if it’s any cooler there! Still, now these guys are all built and based I can give them a spray. Hopefully I can get them primed all done before the family gobert go on their holiday for a couple of weeks.

Until next time… Stay classy Dakka!

That's a lovely big pile of necrons Gobert. Very nice basing. Looking forward to seeing them get painted up!

 Olthannon wrote:
That's a lovely big pile of necrons Gobert. Very nice basing. Looking forward to seeing them get painted up!

Thanks Olthannon, it’ll be a while before the bases get finished with a dusting of snow. Still it feels good to get them ready to prime.

And primed they are;


I gave them a few final touches first, mainly adding a bit of battle damage and adding some bits I’d missed on one of the Tomb Blades… that I kept knocking off as well as one of their guns! I did that while the Little Miss goberts did some mini guys of their own;

Not bad i think! The Stormcasts are from 9yr old gobert jr, she likes the splat blood on them (not sure where she got that idea from!) and the dwarfs are from 6yr old gobert jr (she spent ages on the green “gun” getting it just right, and got a great finish on the base). A fun little way to pass a rainy afternoon in the school holidays!

I also did a few bits and bobs for finishing off the High Elves. I made one more attempt at getting some shields cast up, and prepped the chariot and horses for priming.

The shields came out ok. They are a little fat but once hidden inside the unit they’ll be fine. I’m tempted to buy some resin printed ones to shortcut this process and get them done at last!

One of the axles on the chariot was broken so I re-glued that… for the 2nd time as I broke it again while filing the join last weekend . There seems to be a theme here! The horses got their joins smoothed with milliput and I generally tidied up mould lines all around… and re-reattached horse tails I still need to figure out what to do about the missing bow and arrows from one of the bags that mount on the side of the chariot. The previous owner removed it for some reason

That’s probably the last post from me for a while as we’re off on holiday; visiting family and boating in Northern Ireland, for the next couple of weeks.

I envy you the steel frame pool We thought about getting one, but seeing how tilted in all directions our lawn is, we stuck with the little inflatable pool for this year and may tackle a designated pool area next year

Good to see the Necrons primed and hope the axis will hold this time

Looking forward to seeing the chariot. I have one of those beauts but not the one with the feathery fella

Have a cracking time in Northern Ireland. We were there not that long since to visit my wife's family.

Have a nice holiday gobert.

Cheers,

CB

Viterbi wrote:I envy you the steel frame pool We thought about getting one, but seeing how tilted in all directions our lawn is, we stuck with the little inflatable pool for this year and may tackle a designated pool area next year

Good to see the Necrons primed and hope the axis will hold this time

Ha! Yeah, it’s been a life saver in this heatwave! I finished work last Friday and pretty much got straight in there it was that hot! The garden is on its 3rd iteration since we moved in, the last one getting a flatter area specific with the pool in mind, well worth it in my book. So much so we bought pool chemicals and a little filter pump to save refilling it all the time.

The Necrons will get their go on the painting desk once the kids go back to school I reckon. I might use a free Friday to get the airbrush going.

Olthannon wrote:Looking forward to seeing the chariot. I have one of those beauts but not the one with the feathery fella

Have a cracking time in Northern Ireland. We were there not that long since to visit my wife's family.

Yep, it’s a beauty alright, I’ve now also managed to source all of the parts I was missing! It’s pretty much ready for re-priming now, so want to get cracking. The Prince will get a touch up too, probably removing some of the colours like I did on the metal champion.

My wife is from Northern Ireland too! Main reason we chose there was to visit my Mother In Law. It’s a Small World after all!

Captain Brown wrote:Have a nice holiday gobert.
Cheers,
CB

Thanks Cap, it was busy yet relaxing and fun, so basically ticked all of the boxes!

I had hoped to be back posting updates a while ago, but my hobby area is in the loft and not a space I wanted to spend much time in during the crazy temperatures Europe has been seeing of late. The weather seems to have finally turned and I was keen to get back on the wagon and sorted out the shields for the High Elf Spearmen I had all but finished a while back:

After another failed casting I caved in and bought some reasonably priced 3d printed shields. They’re not a perfect match but they’re close enough for me.

Whilst I was at it I figured I’d repaint the spears that I’d previously painted brown. The white looks so much more Elven and tie them in with the other unit;

As you can see I also added a banner. I’d originally painted it probably 20years ago, and did a half decent job, so it got a small touch up and was glued on.

A few horrid mould lines on that shot

And proof they all have shields… well, apart from 1… I fixed a silver bell that I’d damaged and realised that one of the OG shields actually belonged to him . The Silver Helm pulled rank and got the shield whilst the poor spearman hid amongst his buddies!
Some of the guys I finished and touched up got mixed in with the first unit so I could match shields per rank


The mould lines again

And this lot do actually all have shields, apart from the standard bearer and horn blower who have nowhere to put one, though I suppose I could strap them across their backs?

So that’s that epic(ly long) project done for the time being! I’ll be back to the elves shortly, but I need to decide on a palette cleanser first. I’m thinking one of the following; Zoat, Void Panther Tactical Sergeant or a Space Marine Heroes Plague Marine.

Thanks for looking!

Lovely stuff Gobert, glad you had a good time! I love those paper banners, I have to do the same for my Elves at some point.

My vote is for Void Panthers!

gobert,

Congratulations on getting another large unit of Elven spear-men finished.

Cheers,

CB

Glad to see the Elves fully complete.

zoatzoatzoat

Very good job Gobert, now that you completed these, do you have any old school WHFB projects left?

Olthannon wrote:Lovely stuff Gobert, glad you had a good time! I love those paper banners, I have to do the same for my Elves at some point.

My vote is for Void Panthers!

Cheers, they hit you right in the nostalgias don’t they! I’ve a few more I should do too, certainly at least one for the Silver Helm banner bearer, but maybe they all get a ribbon and Eltharion too?

Captain Brown wrote:gobert,
Congratulations on getting another large unit of Elven spear-men finished.
Cheers,
CB

Cheers, they’ve been looking at me for a while, so it’s great to have finished them at last!

youwashock wrote:Glad to see the Elves fully complete.
zoatzoatzoat

Cheers! I knew Zoaty would get your vote! Sadly I felt I needed something that I knew the recipe for, so maybe next time if I can figure out how I want her to look

Not Online!!! wrote:Very good job Gobert, now that you completed these, do you have any old school WHFB projects left?

Thanks Not Online, I don’t feel they’re my best work by a long shot, but I’m in love with their volume! There’s still plenty of Oldhammer WHFB goodness in my collection. Once I’m done with the chariot I’ll carry on with my tiny Chaos bunch and start on my Empire stuff. I also have a bunch of Orcs and Goblins, plus my brothers Undead to tackle at some long distant point. I feel for WHFB I’ll stick to one project at a time though, so maybe I should finish the Chaos next?

Anyways, I decided to get back on the avoid Panther wagon and slapped on some base layers. I followed my usual, but helpfully I sprayed a bunch of marines gold whilst fiddling with the airbrush last year. That meant I got the Purple, black and gunmetal down before calling it a night after the Nuln oil

If I ever work on a large batch of Panther, or maybe some vehicles, I should probably look to spray the Nuln oil as I tend to hit almost everywhere. I also need to get some more too, I hear the new stuff doesn’t stain so much, which will be great! Next session I’ll paint the gold and hopefully get on to the volumetric highlights.

Thanks for looking.

PS - can anyone recommend a good casual board game that has decent miniatures for painting and isn’t too complex?

I got another evenings painting in once the nighthaunts daughters went to sleep . I got stuck in to layering the gold back to Retributor Armour. Here’s a comparison of the Sergeant post layering and the regular marine about to get his layer on;

For this batch I used a new brush. Nothing fancy, just one from a kids painting set, but I’m really impressed with it. It holds the paint well and has a great point, even after hauling metallics. Here’s where the squad got to;

I’m liking the Sgts power fist in black, I figured it’s a weapon and all the other weapons are black. Sadly I forgot to paint the skull on the back in Leadbelcher so I guess I’ll do that before it gets highlighted purple. Before I get to that though I’ll get on with highlighting the gold

Thanks for looking

PS - after several half arsed attempts to secure a few terminators for fill out my Space Marine Heroes squads I seem to have finally succeeded… except I seem to have bought 10 instead of the couple I needed!

I succumbed to buying more bits… to support the Terminators I bought a bunch of Sector Imperialis 40mm bases. In my defence they also come with skulls apparently!

To make space for the impending arrivals I did a bit of work on the Tactical Marines. They’re all shiny now;

Highlighting the gold is pretty fun, shining one of my painting lamps at them head on and filling in where the reflection is, first with Liberator Gold and then Stormhost Silver. I think it helps exaggerate their shine.

Next up is the Leadbelcher before I tidy up the blacks and purples and finishing off with the green and parchments.

Thanks for looking!

The white spears are a big improvement on the spearmen.

And i always love seeing more Void Panthers, such a great scheme.

Nice updates, those Void Panthers are looking great. I agree about the powerfist, looks very cool in black.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:The white spears are a big improvement on the spearmen.

And i always love seeing more Void Panthers, such a great scheme.

Thanks LTMW, I’m pleased I went with the white spears, the brown just looked like they’d borrowed somebody else’s spears!

Olthannon wrote:Nice updates, those Void Panthers are looking great. I agree about the powerfist, looks very cool in black.

Thanks Olthannon, hopefully you like how it’s going now too.

F1 is back, so another evenings watching and painting saw some decent progress. The gun metal bits got their first coat of highlights, just back to Leadbelcher. The blacks all got tidied up. The purple got tidied up and I edge highlighted the weapons purple at the same time;

Which gets us to past the half way point. The gunmetal, blacks and purples will get their highlights progressing next, then the details and the bases to finish.

Through the week I set my printer to build some laptop stands as my work laptop was warming my desk it was getting that toasty! That proved successful at the second attempt so I fancied trying a few other bits. First I printed a crater, it came out well but I think it’s a bit big and looks more like a volcano than a weapon crater so I might not use it. I then figured I’d try something more adventurous and ended up plumbing for an Armiger proxy.

It’s coming out reasonably well, but has quite a few dodgy bits, not that I’m completely bothered as I was thinking nurgle anyways. I might build it up and prime it and see how rubbish it looks. I used my terrain settings so could play around with those and build it a partner at some point.

once again the gold is awesome.

For nurgle rough is indeed actually quite decent. Especially for vehicles if you go with the rust and decay moreso than the bacteria and tentacles.

I do like! Very cool idea to do the highlights in purple, great way to tie it in. Looking forward to seeing how the finished Armiger looks. It sure looks the part (or is in parts )

Not Online!!! wrote:once again the gold is awesome.

For nurgle rough is indeed actually quite decent. Especially for vehicles if you go with the rust and decay moreso than the bacteria and tentacles.

Thanks Not Online, it’s fun to do too. Rust is certainly the way I’m thinking of going, get myself some typhus corrosion or similar (anyone know of cheaper alternatives?)

Olthannon wrote:I do like! Very cool idea to do the highlights in purple, great way to tie it in. Looking forward to seeing how the finished Armiger looks. It sure looks the part (or is in parts )

Cheers, it’ll tie them in to their fallen brothers too . I’ve still got a few bits, mainly arms and armour plates to print but hopefully in the next week or so it’ll be together.

Speaking of coming together, the latest Panthers got the their heads back having finished the highlighting on their purple and black black bits. The latter got a pass of Eshin Grey and the former some genestealer purple. Then they, along with the purple black bits got a second highlight of dawnstone. Once done I stuck their heads on too

Next up will be the parchment and green cables, eyes, plasma etc.

That’s all for now, thanks for looking

They are really starting to look fine gobert

Cheers,

CB

 Captain Brown wrote:
They are really starting to look fine gobert
Cheers,
CB

Thanks Captain, their edging closer now!

Another F1 weekend where I retreat to the loft to watch Quali and the race whilst getting some hobby time in too. Tonight I got the Tacticals pretty much done too;

I tried a new recipe for the plasma (thanks Midwinter Minis), it’s turned out ok I think, not quite as bright as I’d hoped. All that’s left is a highlight on the Sgts helmet stripe and a few touch ups to their base ornaments. I’m quite liking the dead Eldar head the guy on the right is holding and the blood oozing down and pooling by his feet. Grim!

Thanks for looking, I reckon these guys will be done tomorrow night

Excellent stuff Gobert, that poor Eldar looks brilliant very impressive highlighting.

 Olthannon wrote:
Excellent stuff Gobert, that poor Eldar looks brilliant very impressive highlighting.

Cheers, I’m glad you spotted the highlighting, it was mainly bone colours with mixes of Agrax and druchi, then plenty of blood from orifices. There were a couple of mixes of that too with purples and browns and near army painted blood effects. Aka fun messing about !

Whilst watching the race tonight I slapped on the last few bits of paint, mainly just bones on a couple of bases and highlighting the Sgts helmet stripe. And here they are;






And since they needed putting away, here’s a couple from their shelf with their squad mates;


Plus an army shot

And one of the guys poking this gun out

After I finished them I finished building a few more tactical marines for the 3rd squad

And tidied up the shoulder pads of the Assault Bike Marines

Finally a few days back I dragged some RTB01 marines out of their dettol bath and they slipped out of their old paint jobs

I also tried isopropyl alcohol on the terminators I bought last week. I was worried They were painted with enamels, but I think it was just a glossy acrylic varnish. They only soaked for an hour or two whilst I cleaned the RTB01 boys, but most of their paint came off pretty well. It requires a good bit more scrubbing than dettol but I was happy enough, especially as the smell is much less obnoxious than dettol! I set them back to soak to get the last bits from the deepest most thickly painted recesses and will give them a once over later this week. They could do with breaking down to their components as most were shoddily assembled with the sprue connectors still attached preventing parts joining. Still they were pretty cheap (£10 for a squad of 5).

Speaking of cheap I also splashed out on some reinforcements for the Demi company, adding a Chaplain, Librarian and a Rhino for about £33. All are assembled but unpainted, and look to have been better put together than the terminators.

I think that brings us up to date with gobert related hobbying

Thanks for looking!

Hello Gobert

Cracking army shot, you’re really making me want to restart a metallic bling Marine force!

In your hobby area you have a white display unit for some of your oh so fun projects - May I ask what the unit is?

Nice to see you back at it! I am hoping to find my motivation around here at some point!!

 Ragsta wrote:
Hello Gobert

Cracking army shot, you’re really making me want to restart a metallic bling Marine force!

In your hobby area you have a white display unit for some of your oh so fun projects - May I ask what the unit is?

Nice to see you back at it! I am hoping to find my motivation around here at some point!!

Hey Ragsta,
it’d cool to see another bling marine force, hopefully the hobby motivation returns and we ge to see some awesomeness!
My shelf unit is a cheapo from Amazon but I modified it quite a bit. I added some hinged plastic sheet for the doors and extra mdf shelves to fit more stuff in.

Here’s its original sparse self

And mid way through upgrade

Then a more recent one showing the details of the hinges

It’s pretty shoddy and I could do better if I didn’t rush and spent a bit of money. That said, it fills the brief of enough space to store and display all of my minis whilst keeping the dust off them. I am already planning g the next expansion.

I’ve got 3 options; modify the current shelf to be triangular (least favourite), a long display along the back wall of the worktop, or a triangular display cabinet above the wooden bit behind the current shelves (favourite). I need to paint more minis first though!

Absolutely supoib! Love to see all the army shots, your Panthers look fantastic. Really nice work on the lenses.

You have an excellent collection of minis, some lovely classics!

Having the space to place a tray to move figures to as you remove them from the cabinet to play should not be written off.

My two cents,

CB

Olthannon wrote:Absolutely supoib! Love to see all the army shots, your Panthers look fantastic. Really nice work on the lenses.

You have an excellent collection of minis, some lovely classics!

Thanks Olthannon! Sometimes being old has its benefits, like having bought classic minis!

Captain Brown wrote:Having the space to place a tray to move figures to as you remove them from the cabinet to play should not be written off.
My two cents,
CB

It’s a rare moment to be removing minis to play with, but I’ve made the shelves all removable too, so they are already on trays

A bit of hobby tonight, slapping some paint on a mini that’s a reimagining of a classic that I never owned;

So far just the 3 main colours (Mephiston Red, Eshin Grey and Zandri Dust) and then a druchi violet wash all over. Whilst I’m back underway with her, I’m not sure what colours I’m ultimately going to use. The main decision is on her belly glass, so any thoughts are welcome

Cheers for looking!

Just a minor update tonight. No progress on the Zoat, still can’t figure a colour scheme for her. As a result I went on a building spree. First I fixed up the second half of tactical squad 3,

Most of them even had pad emblems ready to go. I’m really pleased with the lad in the centre’s pose, I think it’s up there with the Space Marine Heroes. Some of their bases turned out pretty well, using cut up bits of 25mm bases that came with the the 40mm for the Terminators.

In the background there’s also the Rhino I got on eBay. It had a decent bit of work; filling gaps, filing panels, opening the back door & top hatch and removing lots of inquisition iconography. I still have a few bits I want to do with it, like add another front hatch and probably some 3d printed Void Panther iconography.

Next I gave the Chaplain and the Librarian new 32mm bases;


The librarian is from Kill Team Cassius, so had his Blood Raven and Inquisition iconography removed. I also put together the bits of the Techmarine that I kitbashed, he needs some mechadendrites creating when I can print a suitable cable roller.

I finished up the evening with the command squad

I think I’ll do some work on their bases, but they’re pretty decent otherwise. I might do the Devastator squad next so most of the army will be ready for priming.

Thanks for looking