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 Ramos Asura wrote:
Curious though.... the one that popped off his base, was it the black/red bowman with the crest on his helmet?

I think so.. but I'm too lazy to go all the way to the other side of the house to check.

Thaaaaat kinda makes sense.... He is the one Tanuki who thought he could fly. As I was heading outside to glosscoat them all, he decided to take the plunge right onto the brick patio >< Popped him off his base and scratched a bit of paint.

Gravity is a cruel mistress...



So otters keep on going. Not too much to go now.



At this stage, most of them have their armor and cloth complete (two of em need another highlight). Then its on to their belts and weapons.
If all goes to plan, I should have these done tomorrow!

And just like that, the Otters are done!



Actually took me a bit longer than I thought today, as I decided to work on consolidating some of my many boxes around here. In my adventure, I uncovered a wealth of untouched minis, including a bunch of Fantasy stuff and like 30 Ork Boyz I never got built all the way (plus another 2 unopened boxes of em!). Then I found some Sternguard, Kaptin Badrukk, a landraider.... And i havent even started to look through the other stack of banker boxes!!

Oh man, that bamboo texture on the Yari really does a great job of breaking it up and carrying the eye's interest. Bravo!

Ah.. lost treasure.. nice suprise!

@misk: Thanks! It actually popped into my head as I was painting the bases. It just seemed the right thing to do. Rather than a long metal shaft or painting woodgrain on it, I figured bamboo spear! Long poles of a durable material that had the benefit of looking different. Glad ya like how it turned out!

@SL: Indeed! Also found a dozen Skaven clanrats and a Screaming Bell that I ended up selling to a friend of mine. Now I've got a bit of lunch money!


So today I got in the next phase of a Necron commission (same guy who's Barge i painted a while back).
This time its a Ghost Ark.


First thoughts on the kit- holy crap. So many little parts, and the sprue layout is impressive. Definitely the most densely packed Ive ever seen. Relatively easy to put together.
I did, however, find a couple of typos on the kit... one or two parts were mislabeled, but with a little logic its not too hard to figure out.

Nearly finished building it into its subassemblies- then PAINT!

What a horrid looking project to paint! I don't envy you doing that! :-) ......

Good luck with that. I have a bin of those parts waiting for clean-up and assembly.

@nerd: Its... well... It's gonna be interesting, to say the least!
Though After its done, Its Knight-time!! WM dropped off the next massive batch of minis, as detailed later in the update

@Gits: Assembly actually was super easy.... Painting is looking to be a whole other ballgame. I think it actually has more sub-assemblies than the titan actually did!!
That said... I'd love to see one painted in your scheme. I still adore the gold and turquoise!



So it looks like its time for a MEGA WEEKEND UPDATE!!
Lots of pics, so prepare to have your phones self destruct. Computers, too if it's a Dell...


Saturday, WM popped up to pick up "Timmy", the Warhound Titan (we randomly called it that a coupla times and it seems to have stuck! ), as well as a number of other projects I've recently wrapped up. He also dropped off a new huge batch, including a pair of Knights, a squad of Stormboyz, 3 Eldar Hornets, an Eldar Phoenix, and a multitude of Zombicide Survivors.


(thats a looooot of plastic/resin crack!)

After that, we played a long and insane game of Zombicide, which ran on so long WMs character broke free of the game's rules and transcended to an invincible zombie-blender-incarnate. Ended up simply insta-gibbing up to 13 zombies every action in melee!! xD


Before he left, I snapped several new, much nicer pictures of "Timmy", using my new backdrop. All I can say is WOW does it make a difference!



















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Oh, and the final final pics of the Wraithlord:






After WM left for home, I excitedly tore into the Knights. What an awesome kit!
Both went together wonderfully easily, and allowed me to leave separate most of the armor plates (which will be primed white and painted blue) from the main mechanical bitz (which will be sprayed black to start, and painted a dark boltgun metal). The first one was fully assembled in a few hours, and the second in much less time. Throw in an hour for building their bases, and we're left with a pair of Knights ready to party!





Its been rainy all day, so no luck on getting primer on these quite yet. Same for the Ghost Ark and its billion and a half assemblies.


Once it dries up, though... The primer shall fly!

That titan is fantastic.

Good recovery on that Titan. Can't tell anything happened to it. I would love to get to work on some of those Knights. Just cool models. That Ghost Ark model would haunt me in my sleep.

Looks absolutely beautiful Ramos! Really stunning model to view with such an exquisite paint job.

Ooooooh you have been busy man! looking good. I love the Wraithlord, that looks brilliant, the Titan isn't half bad either lol!

It's good to finally have the Titan back at home, all repaired and restored.

Did you freehand the design on the Titans head?

It's a transfer, but you can't really tell in person either.

Ugh, I should have avoided this thread... Titans, knights, good paint jobs... I want a knight but that price is such a huge deterrent.

FYI, 7th edition so far... not terrible.

@Cyp: Many thanks!!

@moonpie: All told, he survived surprisingly well. The only major paint damage was on the laser, and that was a simple case of airbrushing it back. I also brightened the whites, which had gotten a bit scuffed and dirty during its many travels.

@Gits: Thanks a ton!

@nerd: Well I gotta keep busy if I'm ever gonna keep up with you! (ya lousy speedpainting git...)
Im not gonna be starting on the KNights past this point till the Ark is done.... SO YOU BETTER BE READY TO ROLL WHEN THAT HAPPENS!! Should be interesting having a Knight off-
Do you (or anyone else, really, haha) have any ideas what the parameters should be? Im rather out at the moment

@SL: Oh goodness, no. Definitely a transfer. Im nowhere near that good with freehand, especially on a surface covered in a gradient! Glad to see its not too obvious as a transfer! ^ ^

@WM: Glad hes home safe and sound.... Really nice to have my desk space back!!

@Alf: It's a neat little model, but like all new GW stuff, I cant justify its price. One day, maybe... One day....
In the mean time, Im just pleased I have the chance to work on them!!

Good to hear 7th isnt completely awful... Still very confusedly curious about it.

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Today I ran a few errands with my little brother, who is graduating from college now (goddamn it Im old!), and primed a little bit of stuff after getting back.



Did I say a little? I meant a ton. That Ghost Ark, man... More subassemblies that both of the Knights!!
After it all cures, its off to touching up the black and then the many many many little green lines!

Ramos, I'm trying to sell some HeroClix so I can buy the rulebook if you and/or your brothers would be interested in playing it (and so I can play it lol).

I've got all the peripherals atm (tactical objectives and psychic cards). And I'm looking to play more because, and I'll deny it publicly, it was the most fun game of 40k I've had in a long while. It was 3000 points (2 armies of 1500 each) and it was 1100 points of Chaos Daemons (guy was just starting that army) and 1900 points of Chaos Space Marines vs 3000 points of Guard with a Stormlord. tactical objectives are fun, psychic powers are almost infuratingly hard to cast, but at the same time it's just as much a pain for you as it is for your opponent (though on another table, an Eldar player was sporting 16 dice on average...).

We still have a lot to learn about the tactical objectives, but we all enjoyed ourselves.

Get it and then come down here for a day of guns of both the small plastic and large metal kind.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Get it and then come down here for a day of guns of both the small plastic and large metal kind.

Have you not picked up the rules yet? My biggest concern is the fact I can't get the rules separated from the fluff and model book. They're all images I can see on the internet and all fluff I've known since I started this hobby three and a half years ago.

I could acquire the rules... but I hate deciphering stuff on my computer/tablet...

Nope, I'm holding out for a starter set, or hanging with 6th. I play about once every other week with a guy that is still learning. And has no models of his own, so I don't really have a reason to learn it. Even at the discount I can muster, seems like a waste at this point.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Nope, I'm holding out for a starter set, or hanging with 6th. I play about once every other week with a guy that is still learning. And has no models of his own, so I don't really have a reason to learn it. Even at the discount I can muster, seems like a waste at this point.

That's a completely logical way to go about it. I'm holding off until a starter set comes out, but if it was anything like 6th edition, It'll be out in August or so. Which isn't that terribly long, I'm just horrible with waiting.

 Alfndrate wrote:

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Nope, I'm holding out for a starter set, or hanging with 6th. I play about once every other week with a guy that is still learning. And has no models of his own, so I don't really have a reason to learn it. Even at the discount I can muster, seems like a waste at this point.

That's a completely logical way to go about it. I'm holding off until a starter set comes out, but if it was anything like 6th edition, It'll be out in August or so. Which isn't that terribly long, I'm just horrible with waiting.

If its Orks VS someone I'd be willing to split it with someone for the Orks.

Unless its Orks VS Tau, then I'm going to buy like 3 for myself.

Sounds interesting, Alf. Though like I've said before, unfortunately Im the only wargamer in the family. The others just dont have the interest in it. Sure Nick'll play a game once in a while, but he really prefers stuff like boardgames and the like!
I wouldnt mind playing a little bit of 40k on Thursdays (or whenever), though. Might be nice to actually use some of the minis I've been collecting for so long!

Totally up for a trip down south Lemme know when you're free (Saturdays are the ideal, according to WM). Im always free, as is tradition! xD

Would be nice to see a Tau vs Ork starter, but I dont like the thought of adding more Riptide spam to the game ><
Plus I dont think GW is ready to part quite yet from the Ultrasmurfs. Maybe a Tau vs SM, but that'd be a odd choice.

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HEY LOOK OVER THERE!



The crew of the Ark are painted up to full silvers. Love the Minitaire Gun Alloy, even if it is a bit bright for what I initially got it for.

I also put the bronzes on the Chaos Lord Ive been painting. Other metals soon to follow.

I suppose a "lost his head in the thick of battle" pun is appropriate here lol! Love the chaos lord so far awesome work!

Not the time to lose one's head
That's not the way to get a head in life
It's a shame he wasn't more head strong
Well he'll never be the head of a major corporation

Lol. Sorry couldn't resist.

I keep forgetting you have a good chunk of my minitaire paints.

And I don't think a tau starter would come with a riptide

I think it'll be Orks and Marines. Ork codex is due really soon and GW is putting out new Ork models. This leads me to believe something is right around the corner. As for Marines I assume that GW isn't gonna abandon their mainstay Marines over a nitch army. Thou It's GW so who knows? We should know soon enough.

I don't think there has ever been a set without marines. Ever.

There was a time when the Dark Eldar were with the Marines and the Dark Eldar codex was out of print. This was when I worked in a GW store, and we still had to try to sell the thing. That sucked.

The rumors have been saying Blood Angels, but who knows?

What's the color scheme on those Knights to be?