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Looking good with those BF explorers. The little glows on the zoat stand out nicely amidst the rest of the warm colours.

Wow that's quite the necron horde. Looking forward to your progress, good luck!

Sherrypie wrote:Looking good with those BF explorers. The little glows on the zoat stand out nicely amidst the rest of the warm colours.

Thanks sherrypie, the Escalation minis are really cool. Yeah, I like how the glow contrast her skin tone so well.

Olthannon wrote:Wow that's quite the necron horde. Looking forward to your progress, good luck!

Yeah, I seem to be falling in to the batch painting on them too

A bit more painting was had tonight (penultimate painting with F1 on the computer of the year) and instead of going back to finish off the void panthers or even finish my Elves I cracked on with the Necrons!



It took a little while to get the mix of contrast:medium right, so the scarabs and a couple of the warriors are a bit on the dark side compared to the originals. I can live with that, and made some good progress getting the scarabs, warriors, deathmarks, immortals and Lychguard contrasted up. I’m looking forward to seeing the murder buckets in their spooky green next time out.

In other hobby news, I’ve finally rearranged my desk, so I now have a permanent hobby set up and permanent work set up. Hopefully that will mean more quick sessions of painting.

Thanks for looking!

Nice little update, keep cracking on.

I've had zero motivation recently, I'm struggling to "batch"paint two models!

 Olthannon wrote:
Nice little update, keep cracking on.

I've had zero motivation recently, I'm struggling to "batch"paint two models!

Thanks Olthannon, I think most of us feel the motivation pain from time to time. Hopefully you can get past the troublesome twosome.

I’m hoping to get some more progress on the Necrons tonight, but I’m trying to figure out what to do on the Doom Sycthe. Should I paint the central bit black and the arms green, or vice versa, or keep it green all over with just the weapons and trim in black? Any quick fire ideas welcome too!


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I did get a bit of painting in tonight and got the green done on all of the Necrons;

As can be seen i went for green all over. I’m still not sold and the contrast looks quite blotchy over such large flat surfaces. I might need to redo at least some of it, I’ll see how it dries and then decide what to do. Maybe through the airbrush it will work better, but that would rely on me getting the hang of that!

Opportunity to paint will be slim for a while as I’m away with work next week and we have guests the next 2 weekends. I might take the panthers on tour and see if I manage to get anything done on them.

Thanks for looking

I’ve been plodding away with the Necrons, the other night I finished the black;

I also took some closer pics to show how they look individually;
Warriors

Deathmark and Immortal

Lychguard and Cryptothrall

Skorpekh Destroyers

Plasmancer and Royal Warden

Plasmancer again and Plasmacyte

Canoptek Reanimator & Overlords

And finally the Doom Scythe

I’m thinking the scythe is a little boring right now but I’m hoping some glow will bring it to life.

Thanks for looking

I like how those Necrons are looking. It must take forever to paint that whole group together.

The Necrons are really coming together. I'm sure the Doom Scythe will look awesome when it's done.

That Blued steel look is fantastic

Syro_ wrote:I like how those Necrons are looking. It must take forever to paint that whole group together.

Thanks syro, it really does take a while, each stage takes a good few hours at my pace. I do feel it’s more efficient than painting in smaller groups though.

Olthannon wrote:The Necrons are really coming together. I'm sure the Doom Scythe will look awesome when it's done.

Thanks Olthannon. On the doom scythe I’m still wondering if I’d have been better doing a part of it black, but knowing me I’ll stick with it now

Theophony wrote:That Blued steel look is fantastic

Thanks Theo, John Prins was the recipe originator from one of his Christmas armies.

Sadly I’ve not made any progress on anything hobby related, despite finishing work early this year. Hopefully you’ve all had a good Christmas holiday and Santork got you something nice. I got a couple of paints from my kids, which I’ll be putting to good use soon hopefully! As I’m unlikely to do any painting I’ve the next couple of days I’ll be posting a year in review shortly, which will be quite a bit to get through this year!

Thanks for the encouragement through the year!

As promised here’s my year in Review

January
Started the year with a bang, getting the BSF Plague Marines and a bunch of BSF terrain done




February
Keeping up the rapid progress I finished a 5 man Assault Squad for my Void Panthers

Then Aradia Madellan from Blackstone Fortress Escalation

March
I then took a detour from GW and painted up the minis from Bill & Ted’s Riff In Time game using mainly the new Speed Paints from Army Painter

Neyam Shai Murad was the last of the Blackstone Fortress Escalation minis and one of my favourites of the year

I then elected to do a massive batch of High Elves, but I snook in a Blackstone Fortress themed dice tower first

April
Nothing finished, a few Panthers and Necrons built and the slog of the Elves carried on
May
The Archers were the first Elves to be finished

And the High Elves got a little display board

June
A quiet month mainly spent building Necrons
July
Not much direct hobby but I build some storage for my miniatures stuff and 3d Printer

August
I finally finished the High Elf Spearmen having sourced a few extra shields

These guys got a touch up too

September
The Void Panthers 2nd Tactical squad was finished, I really like how the Space Marine Heroes Sergeant conversion turned out.

I also built pretty much all of the remaining Void Panthers having splashed out on a bunch of Terminators, HQ selection and a Rhino
October
The Archivist Zoat was my penultimate Blackstone Fortress project (those Guardian drones will be a 2023 thing

The Escalation explorers got this proper bases too;

November
I did a bit of work on some Void Panther Assault Marines, but got distracted with some Necrons
December
Not much beyond a bit of progress on the Necrons thanks to DIY, family visits and pestilence

Overall I’m pleased with the quantity and quality of my outputs. The former was certainly helped by the simplicity of the Blackstone Fortress terrain, but it looks great too. I also think some of my best work to date was with Neyam and the Zoat.

As far as goals for 2023 go, I’d like to get my High Elves, Blackstone Fortress minis and Necrons finished. The Elves only have the Tiranoc Chariot to go, so should be quite fun. The Blackstone Fortress stuff only needs the Guardian Drones to complete the collection, which if I follow the scheme I used on the Spindle Drones won’t take long at all. After the current batch is done I’ll only have the Tomb Blades (I forgot about them ) to do for the Necrons. I’ll obviously also continue with my Void Panthers, maybe even doing some work on the display board too. As for other projects, it’d be nice to do some Blood Angels, start on my Empire Army or Indomitus Dark Angels… so plenty to be getting on with. If I can hit triple digits of finished minis again I’d be very happy too!

That’s probably it from me for 2022. Hope you all have a good New Year and 2023 brings you plenty of hobby success!

Merry holidays and all that Gobert. Hope you've had an excellent time. An excellent showing for 2022. Looking forward to seeing how you get on in 2023. All the best!

That certainly was a productive year on your behalf.

Great work this year, gobert. All of your BSF stuff is stellar.

Gobert great work with the elves! Thats a few hundred hours of work across the board!

A nice recap of 2022 and a good start to 2023

I like the storage solution/table/cabinet, and the color on the necrons is great too.

Now that is a horde of models painted last year gobert. Always good to see lots of painted models against the armies of grey.

Cheers,

CB

That is some sweet sweet work in 2022 mate, and so much of it! Nicely done

Can we get an update on the necrons?

Olthannon wrote:Merry holidays and all that Gobert. Hope you've had an excellent time. An excellent showing for 2022. Looking forward to seeing how you get on in 2023. All the best!

Thanks Olthannon, it was pretty good festive break even if the hobby time was lacking!

Not Online!!! wrote:That certainly was a productive year on your behalf.

Yeah, 133 is a good number, I think it would see me keeping ahead of purchases for the year I think… checking eBay and emails I think I only bought 18 minis last year, so made a sizeable dent in the pile of shame.

youwashock wrote:Great work this year, gobert. All of your BSF stuff is stellar.

Thanks youwashock, good to see you about. Looking back, I think the BSF stuff is my favourite collection.

Stevefamine wrote:Gobert great work with the elves! Thats a few hundred hours of work across the board!

Thanks Steve, yeah, they did take quite some time, so probably in to 3 figures of hours. Pretty scary when you put it like that!

Syro_ wrote:A nice recap of 2022 and a good start to 2023

Thanks Syro, a recap is good for the motivation I think. Look where you’ve come from, not what’s left to go, or something like that is the saying I think.

ph34r wrote:I like the storage solution/table/cabinet, and the color on the necrons is great too.

Thanks ph34r, it’s pretty handy, keeping everything tucked away and neat…ish

Captain Brown wrote:Now that is a horde of models painted last year gobert. Always good to see lots of painted models against the armies of grey.
Cheers,
CB

Thanks CB, it’s always good to slay the grey as it were!

darkkt wrote:That is some sweet sweet work in 2022 mate, and so much of it! Nicely done

Thanks darkkt, it was good to get some things off the desk, particularly the horde of Elves! Hopefully this year will be similar.

DoctorDanny wrote:Can we get an update on the necrons?

Sure thing, coming right up!

2023 has started very slowly on the hobby front. Part of that has been me being busy at work and not wanting to sit and paint. The main reason though I that whilst re-insulating and boarding our loft storage space I aggravated a sore elbow, which also makes my forearm sore, particularly when typing on my phone and also painting. As a result I’ve not been making fast progress. Looking back at pics I hadn’t shown the start of the glow on the Necrons;

Scarabs

Warriors

Deathmark and Immortal

Lychguard

Cryptothrall and Plasmacyte

Plasmancer and Royal Warden

Canoptek Reanimator


Despite my arm, I did do a bit of painting tonight, getting the glow started on this lot;

Overlords

Skorpekh Destroyers

And the Skorpekh Lord


Next will be the Croissant before starting the second stage of the glow

Thanks for looking

I’ve just realised that I forgot to mention that I’m underway on extending my Blackstone Fortress project after I remembered there were a few White Dwarf articles. As a result I’ve splurged and bought all the minis needed for them;
Solo Characters
Harlequin Solitaire
Eversor Assassin
Deathwatch Watch Master
Retinue Characters
Gren ’Knuckles’ Broggan, Ogryn Bodyguard
Dorg ‘The Wall’ Broggan, Bullgryn Sentry
Penitent 707, Arco-flagellant
Skarburn Zapdakka, Flash Git
Enemies
Astroth Mythrak, Master of Possession
2 x Greater Possessed

I managed to get a good deal on the Watch Master who also came with a squad of Intercessors (they’ll eventually join my Indomitus Primaris force). For the Broggan twins and Skarburn I ended up just buying retail boxes, so have a few extra minis to build too! At some point they’ll all join the Blackstone Fortress gang. The Master of Possession and Greater Possessed were a bit steep, but in for a penny in for a pound!

I did a wee bit on the doom croissant tonight

eery croissant. Carries your sheme quite well i say.

Not Online!!! wrote:
eery croissant. Carries your sheme quite well i say.

Thanks not online, I’m liking it now it’s getting its glow on, particularly the black and glowy filling

Got started on the second stage of glows, using heavily thinned Gauss Blaster Green as a wash to get the recesses. I got the wash on the Scarabs, Warriors, Deathmarks, Immortals and I made a start on the Lychguard. The shields took the wash particularly well I think, with the symbols on the front looking cool.

Coming along well!

 Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:
Coming along well!

Thanks Gwyn, with a large batch like this it feels like it’s taking ages, but little by little they get closer to completion

Tonight was another little step closer, getting the Lychguard done (nearly forgot 1 but spotted him later on), same for the;

Cryptothralls, plasmacyte,


Plasmancer, Royal Warden,


Canoptek Reanimator, Overlord,


Indomitus Overlord, Skorpekh Lord


and Deatroyers;


I also made a start on the Doom Scythe

I had to stop mid 1/5 of the step through the croissant as I overloaded the vents, so had to position if so they dried at the bottom. On the plus side the photo show the different that the Gauss Blaster wash does for the glow effect.

Thanks for looking

Just caught up on your blog, great summary of last year, I think the elves are my favourite, I'm especially impressed you fought through the huge batch painting on those spears! Looking like we're in for another bumper year with the progress on the Necrons, and looking forward to seeing you expand on the Blackstone Fortress

Bloody excellent Gobert. Your colour scheme is dead good. I really like the croissant model, interesting design.

Great necrons - the croissant is very nice, and the guass blaster wash is a really cool effect.