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Love Juggers - he really does look good with the mantic rubble next to him - proper bashy! Your sheer rate of output continues to impress me - an impressive speed and quality that shames almost all of us...

Thanks for sharing

Paradigm wrote:Juggernaut looking good, but the skin tone on that troll, spectacular! That's going to be superb when it's done!
All useful stuff to know, thanks! I've not really come across the terrain issue yet as we've only been using the core box terrain so far (more, bigger stuff to be printed soon, so it might come up then) and I guess being new to the game the balance issues have yet to come up, though can see the potential for certain attacks/characters to do some ludicrous damage just based on dice maths.
I'll probably bring tactics cards back in at some point, but for the moment, putting them aside just means one less layer of things to worry about, so I can focus on getting the core rules/character abilities down and generally getting a little quicker/smarter at the game. I'm also just generally not a fan of getting card games in my minis games, but that seems to be the way the whole industry is going so possibly I'm just being a stick-in-the-mud there!

Don't over-egg the pudding there, I have a long way to go to get the rest of the troll looking acceptable but thanks
I know what you mean about cards in mini games. Reference cards, fine, but all the cards? Not so much.
As for STLs, well, Kobarf's are free though that is VERY nice indeed, to be fair - and I [i]have[/] bought the occasional super STL in the past from Davide Sequirra, one of the old KM designers... and I'm very tempted to get his Rogue and Colossus So, maybe. Great cards, excellent reskins all round.

Theophony wrote: Perfect basing for Juggernaut. Great work on the paintjob, it's spot on to my feelings on Juggs.
Ill have to look up those files later.

Well, feeling juggs is what the base detail is all about, after all I was going for there being a sense of him having smashed through one side of something. I'm glad you think it's worked out (I was going to say came together, but that's quite enough smut, thank you )

Slinky wrote:That troll is going to look amazeballs when finished, I can sense it already

But oh, the pressure

Dysartes wrote:Everyone's looking good, graven - any STLs of the Evan Peters version of Quicksilver kicking around, so you could use him as an alt at some point?

I've yet to find one, but I'm certainly looking.

Gitsplitta wrote:I turn my head for 2 minutes and there's another fantastic set of images... Stop it!

Well, I try thanks

Viterbi wrote:Juggernaut looks great, that base rubble fits perfectly.
All the Moonstone stuff looks really great, very interesting minis and cool color choices!

IGtR= wrote:Love Juggers - he really does look good with the mantic rubble next to him - proper bashy! Your sheer rate of output continues to impress me - an impressive speed and quality that shames almost all of us...
Thanks for sharing

What have I been up to this week? Decorating
Still, I'd been painting Dr Strange on sprue, but finally moved over to building and then finishing off. Apart from anything else, the gapping (for him, at the shoulders for the cape) was a nightmare, as was getting the head to fit just right.

I am nevertheless glad I started him on sprue, as I would never have managed as good a finish on the cape all over. Doubt it'll be a regular occurrence though, as painting the clipping points is a faff and a half.

The way that MCP figs manage to defy gravity is impressive as ever - although I did slightly rotate the portal effect.

Also on the MCP front, built (and rebased) Wong:

The base doodad is a Reaper Spell Effect.

Also got on with the NYC Apartment (featuring Nelson & Murdoch, Attorneys), Ant-Man & The Wasp it still really REALLY annoys me that they can't make these obscenely expensive plastics less gappy. Thankfully the apartment building was much, much better than the Sanctum, but both Ant-Man (indeed, both versions) and Wasp (regular size) both had horrible issues Primed, but still NOS, I have Mysterio, Carnage, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and Green Goblin to tackle also. NIB, oh, absolutely masses.
Hard life eh? Marvel is taking over from DC for me - never thought that would happen

Back to painting; decided to call my Eldar flyers for AI done:

I always liked the Biel-tan fluff with its heavy emphasis on Aspect Warriors, though I've never really painted much in the way of Eldar stuff generally: my main opponent over the years, erithromycin, plays them - and even when I was a kid, my nerdy mates played the glass ninjas. In fact even in Deadzone, my son is siding with the Asterians, the DZ space elf equivalent. Tsk.

Played a few bits with the kids, including last campaign scenario for Arkham Horror Revised:

Enjoyed it, we were very focused so didn't die horribly... Almost disappointed It's a really excellent game, but annoyingly, a link campaign of 3 adventures is really poor for all you get in the box, replaying with different characters /difficulties notwithstanding. I've picked up some extra scenario packs, though don't feel any desire to get extra investigators - quite the opposite of Champions, where the wee scenarios are pretty forgettable.

We also got a game of DC Deckbuilding Teen Titans, My First Carcassone and Ticket to Ride First Journeys, and tried out Lost Ruins of Arnak.

It's an absolute head melter of a game to start but once you grasp the core mechanics it's really straightforward, a neat mix of worker placement, asset management and Deckbuilding. Very cool.

So that's me. River Troll and Apartment block next, most likely.
Thanks for all the support gang. You're lifesavers, truly.
Graven

I absolutely love Arkham Horror. Some of the characters are good fun to play with their example decks, but the fun is making your own card lists (or because I'm terrible at it... using one of the lists on the arkham db site)

endtransmission wrote:I absolutely love Arkham Horror. Some of the characters are good fun to play with their example decks, but the fun is making your own card lists (or because I'm terrible at it... using one of the lists on the arkham db site)

I agree that it's a superb game. We played the Murder at the Excelsior Hotel, now that's a fantastic scenario. We survived by the narrowest of margins, and are totally humped going into the next. But hey, that's Lovecraft for you

Finished off Brittlenose the River Troll

Smashing model.

Love his shopping cart armour. After all, there's always shopping carts in rivers, so it makes perfect sense.

Loads of lovely details on the fig.


And next will be Boulder, last of the trolls (still got two giants to do mind)

Rocks... Friends...
One moonstone mini a week is about my limit, they're lovely and I don't want to rush them.

Besides, I have been working on this great big beast also (fair warning, incoming massive pic dump)

I do enjoy working on terrain, I feel somehow it's judging me less I decided I wanted to go for a slightly retro, 70s vibe so it works for all sorts of games.

In terms of my rather byzantine scoring system, this building counts as 3 models, as the rooftop terrain is all removable/scatter - so every 2 pieces count as 1 model - and the stop sign plus 2 hydrants counts as 1, as they are effectively a single piece of "work".

My favourite thing on the whole model may be the pigeon, although I had to detach and turn it round as the wife pointed out it was pooping the wrong way. I would've liked the sign to be freestanding (it clips on to any side) which would've been easy for them to do and would've made for a perfect in-game card holder for the Crises.

I'm rather pleased with the A/C units, with their trailing paper tags, and the flag-smasher tag also. The kit as a whole is a far better piece of design generally than the Sanctum, for sure. It comes with alternate front/back for Josie's Bar, additional/alternate windows for the upper floors, and the exterior furniture can be placed anywhere, so it has a bit of variety if you want more to do more than one (and, lord help me, I'm seriously considering it).

More fun with tags

Had an excellent nerd-drop from Hasbro this week, a couple of new Studio Series Transformers (Wheeljack, yay, and Soundwave, meh) and a replica Boba Fett helmet, which made me pretty happy Built up more from the pile of shame also: Green Goblin, Mysterio, Carnage, Luke Cage and Iron Fist. Need to press on with the stack of shame, these models won't paint themselves Alas, got to work on little miss' bedroom over the coming weekends, but we'll get there eventually...
Graven

Love the NYC apartment building, growing up in the 70s and 80s it definitely hit me in the feels

Oh I get a great Spidey and his Amazing Friends sort of feel for that apartment complex .

That poor bird needs to see a doctor . Now we know why Tony Stank

Wonderful job on that river troll. That building is really an amazing project. I'd be proud to put that on my gaming table... or my train set!

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Love the NYC apartment building, growing up in the 70s and 80s it definitely hit me in the feels

Although born in the 70s, I grew up in the 80s - though my taste in movies and music is firmly from the decade of my birth Cheers!

Theophony wrote:Oh I get a great Spidey and his Amazing Friends sort of feel for that apartment complex .
That poor bird needs to see a doctor . Now we know why Tony Stank

Indeed, who knew how much could come out of something so small?! I was going for more Spidey-friends than Defenders so I'm glad that worked

Gitsplitta wrote:Wonderful job on that river troll. That building is really an amazing project. I'd be proud to put that on my gaming table... or my train set!

Most kind. Though I was puzzling why you'd have a river troll on a train set

So I was working all weekend (exam board stuff) which is a bit rubbish and didn't get much done as a result. Me and the boy got a couple of games of Splendor in and he FINALLY beat me

However, I did manage to finish off Boulder the Troll.

Rocks... Friends...

Obviously, very much inspired by Ludo from Labyrinth

I do love Moonstone minis, they have so much depth of character.

I also sorted out my little gondola for the book nook.

Not bad, not bad. I enjoyed doing the subtle weathering from the water particularly.

And in situ.

The next nook planned is Diagon Alley for the wife's birthday, stuff finally in motion for that. Figured out a decent young Harry mini (a promo, granted, but I think I have lead on one) so that's good. I'm also looking at doing a Dune one as well. Plans, plans. WIPs just now include Carnage for MCP (though going movie version, just cos) and a Dragon that's far from mini
By my count, I've done 23 minis in the month so far. I'm still aiming for averaging a mini a day but I'm trying not to obsess over it
Onwards,
Graven

The Gondola looks great in the nook .

Boulder Troll came out great. Does it have a fox tail?

That troll looks a bit like Hoggle. I'd put him on my train set too! (strapped down to one of the flat cars of course).

The gondola finishes off the book nook perfectly!

Theophony wrote:The Gondola looks great in the nook .
Boulder Troll came out great. Does it have a fox tail?

Cheers pal. Well, orange tail, certainly.

Gitsplitta wrote:That troll looks a bit like Hoggle. I'd put him on my train set too! (strapped down to one of the flat cars of course).

Well, Hoggle is certainly not to be trusted, so that's fair.

endtransmission wrote:The gondola finishes off the book nook perfectly!

It's a lovely thing, I wish I'd thought to print one first though

Over a fairly long week, made a surprising amount of progress on Sho-Riu, the Dragon King (caution: pic dump ahead)

In fairness, he's been a big project.

As my wife says, that's not exactly Miniature

I was inspired by Matsuba Koi. I thought about adding some white or black patches into the scales but wasn't convinced I could pull it off.

Also been playing about with different OSLs

Not sure if the blue worked.

Scale shot with a 40mm 3D printed jade oni.

And a 32mm enforcer (with koi tattoo )

Yeah. Pretty proud of it, all in all.


And, as I was playing about with a *lot* of red, I decided to tackle Carnage for MCP also.

I decided I wanted to go movie inspired (I've never really liked the black raised lines on it) - Let There Be Carnage was staggeringly daft, but I genuinely, really enjoyed it.


Workbench is currently Luke Cage (planning a magical Convocation list, need a bit of muscle/bodyguard though), Ant-Man & The Wasp, and Moonstone faeries and witches. Trying to get through the backlog although I want to get on with Core Space stuff (as I now have a sort of plan). However, once the weather turns sufficiently clement to prime, the rest of the GotG will skip the queue as they're my son's choice of faction to test next in MCP. Should be getting a review copy of the reprinted Heroquest, though, so that may well distract us too
Hey ho
Graven

Carnage looks crazy good/bad/psychopathic .

Big Dragon is Big. My wife says the same thing

You've been working on some big stuff!
Love the apartment block, looks very comic booky.

Carnage looks suitably visceral. Sho-Riu has a very cool look. The eyes are great. That shelf has some hefty baddies rubbing elbows.

Lovely colour on the big dragon, the orange sets off the black nicely and the eyes really pop as well! Carnage is lookikng just gruesome, and the police tape on the base does wonders to give it a dash of contrast.

Theophony wrote:Carnage looks crazy good/bad/psychopathic .
Big Dragon is Big. My wife says the same thing

Thanks kindly sir. I've seen the stuff you've been printing lately, I'm not surprised

aku-chan wrote:You've been working on some big stuff!
Love the apartment block, looks very comic booky.

Cheers pal. It was a lot of fun, and I certainly have a lot of comic book figs to use with it

youwashock wrote:Carnage looks suitably visceral. Sho-Riu has a very cool look. The eyes are great. That shelf has some hefty baddies rubbing elbows.

Thanks, I really agonised over the eyes so that's much appreciated. Yeah, it's a shelf of the big stuff no room for any more

Paradigm wrote:Lovely colour on the big dragon, the orange sets off the black nicely and the eyes really pop as well! Carnage is looking just gruesome, and the police tape on the base does wonders to give it a dash of contrast.

I was debating whether to have a daily bugle impaled on the spike hand but I think in the end the tape was enough, so many thanks. And cheers for kind words on dragon!

Weekend was busy with decorating and creating a desk for the little one. Not my usual kind of p&m but there we are. Always fun sawing bits of wood. But, in the meantime, we have a quick super-update:

Luke Cage, aka Power Man

I was never a fan of the 70s version, but really loved Bendis's ALIAS (Jessica Jones) and how he reimagined Cage in the context of their relationship.

And a wee Hell's Kitchen shot. Once Iron Fist is done (meh) I'll get a group shot of the Defenders. My workbench is mostly Moonstone (Giants, Faeries and Witches) at the moment though, along with Ant-Man and The Wasp (plus micro versions).
Generally, the house in chaos as we're getting a lot of work done through March so this is going to be a sloooooooooooooooooow P&M month. I mostly expect my March tally to be in the single figures Hwoever, I'm not going to feel pressurized. I do what I do, and I'm going to enjoy it. Crucially, I have come up with a plan for speed/batch painting my First Born for Core Space, so that might help all round Red/brown prime, red wash (similar to Sho-Riu) for recess and cloth then drybrush greys for armour, flesh in olive green and then green/tan mix. Should be quick and snazzy. Mebbe
Graven

Nice work on the "modern" Luke Cage, graven.

You have to wonder, with the amount he gets shot/stabbed/burned/thrown through buildings, does Luke Cage order his yellow shirts in bulk?

Nice work!

 Paradigm wrote:
You have to wonder, with the amount he gets shot/stabbed/burned/thrown through buildings, does Luke Cage order his yellow shirts in bulk?

Nice work!

Pretty sure there was a joke about that in the Netflix series where he ends up buying a job lot of hoodies

Luke Cage is great. I actually only like this iteration of luke cage and didnt care for the older comics either.

Dragon king is good - I'm glad you didnt go pink/salmon with the red and kept it that bright red with some orange.

Still love the Thanos was Right building

Dysartes wrote:Nice work on the "modern" Luke Cage, graven.

Thanks buddy. I am only occasionally retro

Paradigm wrote:You have to wonder, with the amount he gets shot/stabbed/burned/thrown through buildings, does Luke Cage order his yellow shirts in bulk?
Nice work!

I imagine him being like Charlie Brown, with a closet full of them, agonising over which identical yellow shirt to wear.

endtransmission wrote:
Pretty sure there was a joke about that in the Netflix series where he ends up buying a job lot of hoodies

Yeah lol. I'm really looking forward to the shows moving to D+, it gives me an excuse to rewatch them

Stevefamine wrote:Luke Cage is great. I actually only like this iteration of luke cage and didnt care for the older comics either.
Dragon king is good - I'm glad you didn't go pink/salmon with the red and kept it that bright red with some orange.
Still love the Thanos was Right building

Thanks on all counts my friend. When I am rich and famous (aye, right) I will be getting another NYC apartment to do as Josie's Bar, and I imagine more Pro-Snap graffiti will appear

A couple of bits and bobs that have kept me sane over the last few days (man cave is also currently housing assorted furniture and the baffling array of shoes that a six year-old girl requires)... Ant-Man and the Wasp!

As usual, I've tried to strike a balance between the MCU and current comic depictions. Tried a new lighting set-up, unsure of it tbh.

I really like the MCU version but I loved 'Second Chance Man' etc, which is Scott Lang/Ant-Man in the current(ish) Marvel era.

The base scatter for scale was a late addition, but very glad I did it. Both sets reference the movies (well, the first one) as Pepsi periodically appears in the background and and hey, Baskin Robbins always finds out.

I very nearly went for painting Wasp as Stinger (so, purple and black) but chickened out at the last minute. I have a good STL for a not-Wasp though so will probably do that instead.


I have also made a surprising amount of Moonstone progress despite being stuck in a tiny corner. First up, Foxglove:

One of a number of poisonous Fae. I have his partner, Belladonna, on the bench just now (she's TINY!!)

He's also quite stabby I do love the Brian Froud aesthetic. And,the A Witch in Time set, a nice twist on Maiden, Mother, Crone.

I'm really proud of the faces.

Shame about my terrible photography Anyway:
Zorya, the Dawn Witch - I've gone for spring/early summer colours, lighter skin tone etc, full lips and cleavage, all that jazz

Antonia, the Noonday Witch - I've gone for late summer/autumn colours, darker skin tone etc, and pretty crazy eyes

Danica, the Dusk Witch - I've gone for winter colours, and a pallid, ashen skin tone, cataracts and yellow teeth

Great models, bonkers in game. Moonstone is driven by a card bluffing system, and avoiding your bluff being called with a Catastrophe... The Witches aim to cause Catastrophe, and essentially flip the entire bluff mechanic. Demented. I love them. I don't play Leshavult as a faction much - Dominion/Faeries or Commonwealth/Humans (which I need to paint... ALL of) are more my bag - as I'm not crazy about some of the mechanics around the Fauns sub-faction, but the Cult faction with its faerie tale creatures is fun; there's a few more of them creeping their way onto the paint-pile. Mind you, Fauns do also have killer bunny rabbits...
Not sure what the week ahead will bring, as the boardgames and comics that live in the dining room are getting relocated to the cave till the floor is done... so this might be a dry week ahead. Still, managed to blag a copy of classic Heroquest off Hasbro, so should get to play, if not paint.
Adios
Graven

Prolific as usual, quality is brilliant. Love the tag up there. Going to have to up my game a fair bit.

A whole new blog! Loads to catch up on. Love to see you breaking into MCP, and using yer graffiti skills - all that Megacity musta paid off. Really like how you rebased Wong, real improvement on the original sculpt. I like second-chance man too!

Nice work on Ant-man and Wasp .

Moonstone people are coming along nicely.

I’ll be feeling the home renovation upset shortly, redoing all the carpet in the house and buying new couch to replace the living room furniture.

Camkierhi wrote:Prolific as usual, quality is brilliant. Love the tag up there. Going to have to up my game a fair bit.

Hardly! Anyway, who do you think I learned to tag from?!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:A whole new blog! Loads to catch up on. Love to see you breaking into MCP, and using yer graffiti skills - all that Megacity musta paid off. Really like how you rebased Wong, real improvement on the original sculpt. I like second-chance man too!

Hey there old chum thanks for swinging by! Yeah, rollover started to eat my old blog as it crept up to 400 pages. It's a mystery. Many thanks on all counts! Yeah, totally deep diving into the mountain of tags I did for my megacity megway barriers. I'm very pleased with Wong, I did it before I even realised he can sling-ring portal in game!

Theophony wrote:Nice work on Ant-man and Wasp .
Moonstone people are coming along nicely.
I’ll be feeling the home renovation upset shortly, redoing all the carpet in the house and buying new couch to replace the living room furniture.

The horror of houses. I feel like I'm reenacting The Money Pit atm. And, many thanks

Work, rather surprisingly, continuous apace, with more faeries.

Belladonna, Foxglove's lethal partner.

Lovely if miniscule figure.

Really tried to lean into the colours of deadly nightshade.

What's that? More faeries? Oh, ok.

Butterfingers, slippery fellow.

I was going for a vibrant caterpillar vibe here. Not quite sure if it worked, but still.

Plus another Leshavult: Kalista, the priestess.

Trying for very natural colours again. There's a lot of dual faction characters for Leshavult and Fae (though I don't own the faerie priestess character, tsk), as they're both nature orientated, so I aimed to use a similar pallette.
So that brings March back up to pace.
Despite having 2 bookshelves and various other furniture sharing the cave I still have access to my printing desk (just). I have a notion to tackle the Hulkbuster but I'm also really close to getting all the Faeriesv finished. Turning into a bit of a Moonstone March!
Graven

Belladonna reminds me of the butterflies from the Peacemaker TV series .

Nice work.

I really like the palette you are using for the Moonstone figures, it suits them perfectly.

Wow those models are extremely cool, that emerald green of the cloak looks brilliant.

I really enjoyed seeing the dragon king you painted up on the shelf with all those other big boys.