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I will let you know how it goes.

Pics of what I'm going to be working on for Paradigm's "Veterans" painting comp for April.

I'm still deciding between the two.

Maybe I'll get prolific and get both done.

Filthy Space Elf Clowns ?

Yeah!

I love the new Harlequins, what kind of scheme have you got in mind?

More to the point how are you doing? I have only just caught up on the last few pages. It is good that you can talk about it.

Thraxas - I am making it day by day. I'm keeping myself as busy as possible. That's about all I can do. Thanks for asking.

I told my friends that the next army I painted up will be designed after the anime RWBY. The main girl is black and red. Then her teammates are black and white, white and blue, and yellow and brown.

The solitaire and the vehicles will be black and red. I'm going to do a shadowseer, a death jester, and a troupe master in the colors of each teammate. Then the troupes will be mostly the same with some slight marking to show which team leader goes where.

I'm considering doing a unified mask color across the entire army but I haven't figured that out yet.

People should totally click that link and sign up for the competition and talk about lots more ideas that fit into that category so that I may be inspired to build something.

Thank you.

The new harlequin models are fantastic. So dynamic. I think you should concentrate on just one for the comp and lavish heaps of attention on it.

Archer - Concentrating on one of them is probably a better idea. I have them both primed but I've been working on the Solitaire and it has been thoroughly kicking my

I just realized that I went over 5000 views?! Wow! Thanks for coming around guys. Feel free to say more things. I'll try to say more things too.

So I'm gonna put this pic of junk up on the new LoER competition site. I'm thinking jungle temple ruins. The pic is blurry, sorry about that. It's an ice cream tub and those protectors that come on the end of new laptops.

What do you think? Are any of you joining in the competition? The link is in my signature if you wanna check it out.

I have had a look at the comp a few times, but am trying to stay good and avoid the distraction of all the wonderful community competitions being run on Dakka Dakka and stay on course with my army plan.

Good luck with the contest. I think those are some solid items to start with, interested to see how you turn them into terrain. You did a great job with the Idols last time so I think you will do well again.

Thanks Archer! Stay strong and keep on track! You have your own pretty big undertaking with all the armies.

I was mostly pleased with the result of the idols. I am going to have to go back and pin the stones to the bases because they keep falling off. Hopefully the pinning plus some hot glue will keep them in place.

I'm looking forward to playing a game with them spread across the board.

I've been looking at lots of pictures of jungle ruins since I decided that is what I was going to try. This is going to be an interesting project.

I'm going to need a fair amount of extra bricks. Any ideas for bricks?

The project will be too heavy if I sculpt them. I guess some kind of foam. Has anyone tried those craft bricks you can get at the arts and crafts stores?

what size bricks are you looking for? if you want to keep them as bricks scaled to 28mm figs, you could try cutting bits of sprue, or balsa wood. bigger blocks can be made with foam--insulation foam scrounged from a construction site dumpster works wonders--I got the equivalent of more than four 4' x 8' sheets one day at work.

I'm not sure what size bricks yet, Gawdam. I think I'll need bigger than sprue. I need to start the project and see.

It's been a while but I'm still here.

April managed to get by me without me having a SINGLE mini

I knew it was getting close and I was entered in Paradigm's competition even! In my defense I had the flu and then out of the blue a mini stroke with ended up with me spending a few days in the hospital getting every type of scan and exam done on my head and chest.

It's been quite the scare but they can find no lasting damage and I can read and write again so that's all good news.

In other good news my wife is making noises like she wants to work things out. I'm really happy about that. We're going to do some couples therapy but after the nearly 2 months off-ish that we've had, I'm totally all for it. I'm all for us getting on the same page just in general to get and keep the relationship going. Fortunately my wife is very supportive of my gaming habits so I don't think that'll be nixed by us getting back together. I know lots of people where that isn't the case and I'm grateful.

I got a starter box of Relic Knights. I don't know which one but the local Ninja guy is supposed to come and demo the game next week, Tuesday, so I want to have them at least together and primed for the demo. The models look neat. This is my first attempt at building models out of this particular hard plastic material. It is not an easy go of it. Have any of you worked with this stuff?

My Goblins are still on my work table as are the two harlequins and a few other things... Hmmm, just realized that I need to update my original post with the all the things I'm fiddling with now-a-days.

Anyway! If any of you are still here and reading this - HI! I hope you are well. I still live here.

Anyway! If any of you are still here and reading this - HI! I hope you are well. I still live here.

well...after i read your post through from top to bottom i have to say... thanks for still being with US....you sir have a tendency to frighten me...man... a stroke or a two month relationship breakup/pause i would need like a new hole in my head...
or to put it in another way: good to see you up and about nevertheless what hardships got tossed in your way!!!

gotta ask tho... how old are you? and you both don´t have kids, right? i´d die if i was away from my kids...(my youngest son was on a school trip for five days and i was not myself anymore...)

well... in the terms to be positive of the future... good luck to the both of you and i look forward to see some at least primed stuff here

i cross my fingers mate!

cheers, vik

Sounds like you have been on a bumpy ride, good to see things are looking better.

On the Relic Knights front I've painted quite a few of the Shattered Sword faction, must say the minis are the worst I've ever seen. On the plus side the game is supposed to be really fun. I just need to pick up a second faction. Oh and use super glue to put them together with.

The bigger models are supposed to be ok but I dont have any of those.

Glad you are still kicking around the block. Keep fighting the good fight and things will turn around eventually.

I unfortunately have no experience with hard plastic, although I would like to see some of the models if you have time to post a couple of pictures.

Vik - I've felt like I've had an extra hole in my head half this time! I'm 39 and she is 30. Neither of us have children other than the furry kind. Even though she broke up with me, she never moved out of the house just into a guest bedroom. It's been a wild time.

GiraffeX - thanks for coming along the ride! I still haven't looked to see what faction box I got. My boss gave it to me. It's the one with the Oni looking demons and the main one is a mostly naked chic? I think I'll like them them once I'm painting them but right now...

Archer - feel lucky that you haven't had to deal with that hard plastic. It's the devil. I'll post some pics of the models tomorrow. I'm supposed to be doing school work right now. Right because on top of all this I'm in graduate school as well.

I'm really feeling much better though. I can't wait to start painting the Relic Knights. I'll post an update with pics tomorrow, I promise.

Glad your not dead, and that your women troubles may be coming to an end !!

Thanks adamsouza!

No problem. Not being dead and not arguing with my wife is how I like to live.

Seems like a mighty reasonable way to get by.

I find myself in agreement.

Ah man, a mixture of bad (the stroke) and good news (positive moves with your wife). Good to hear that there was no lasting damage though, sounds like it was quite a shock.

It all puts the world of gaming and miniatures into perspective but your hobby and Dakka is always there if you need it.

Very true, Thraxas, very true.

Not sure what to say in reguards to the personal life other than I wish you the best and I hope things work out for you.

Even with everything thats going on you're still making more progress then me.

That will be the Noh Empire, they are nice and big so should be fine.

I haven't forgotten about taking pics of the Relic Knights. My technology wasn't working well together (human error I'm sure )

I've enjoyed painting them so far. I still have more work to do on them as well as deciding what I'm going to do on their bases.

I got a chance to play the game this past Tuesday and really enjoyed it. It's different than any of the miniature games I've played before.

I'm hoping to get another game in this week.

good looking models... must be quite huge models too... and nice paintjob to boot too!

I don't know squat about Relic Knights, but those are some cool looking demons, nicely painted.