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I want to say that they did announce at least doing the new style Stormtroopers. Can't recall for sure though. That does look very nice though. I might pick up a Stormtrooper myself when I go.

Just the usual open and closed hands. He's also got his pistol in a holster that you can't really see, and the holster even has the strap on it to keep it in place. Missile on his pack is removable too.

I'm really pleased with the kit.

Only thing my son cared about in Empire was the Battle of Hoth and the split second that Bosssk was on screen.

Then your son is on the good (that it's not the Good) path. Take him to the nearest Imperial Bavy recruiting booth.

M.

That Boba Fett model looks great. Really cool.

EDC

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I did see the new Frame Arms kit. Never built one yet. They don't get as discounted as the Bandai stuff at the local store I tend to shop at, and I'm usually on a pretty limited budget when I'm here.

I've been looking for the Monster Hunter kits, haven't come across any yet. Their time on the shelf may have come to an end, since they're on the shelf at home, which is usually a bit behind the times when it comes to that stuff.

We'll see what today holds...

You can sometimes find them at mandarake or hard off at reduced prices

Mandarake is unfortunately nowhere close to where my inlaws are.

Alas, we had to come home and attempt to get readjusted for heading back to work/ school this coming week.

I spent most of the day clearing out space in the garage to deposit our old fridge, as the new one arrives tomorrow.

In between cleaning I managed to put a few figures together that had come in the mail.

While I did that, my son built his first model kit completely on his own. No interference from his old man whatsoever!



That's Jibanya from Youkai Watch, the next big contender to battle with Pokemon for the children of Japan's (soon to be the rest of the world as well) attention. Kid did all the work. Thankfully he can read Japanese and actually tried to follow the directions, but he still missed a few things here and there as he was in a hurry to get it finished there towards the end.

My hodge podge put together Menoth Exemplars are there for scale reference. Not sure if they're even complete! I won some parts auctions on ebay and slapped as much as I could together.

I know I'm short a crossbow for the dude pointing his sword forward. I'll get some better shots of them after they're primed.

Jibanya's buddy there, Whisper, coincidentally sits on a 40mm base. Perhaps he'll see use in a Kings of War army?

Got started on one of those Doom Reaver whatchamacallits that came with Obavnik Zerkova.



A LOT to do still on this guy. I did all the grey/black areas a while back, and forgot what color I used! Doesn't help that I've got five or six similar paints at home...

I like the red detailing on his armor though. Will look cool when he's all done.

He's another one of those figures that due to his pose, it's hard to get a good photograph of him. The way he's in motion it's kind of hard to get a full body shot.

Unfortunately this month is not good for hobbying, as I've got grades due, projects to grade as well as finish with my own kids, and house stuff all piling up this month, severely limiting my painting time.

The jet lag is certainly not helping in that regard.

Managed to squeeze in a bit more work on my Doom Guard/ Doom Reaver/ Whatever these guys are called. Got most of the base coats down on the first guy, time to do some highlighting and shading now. His buddy got started this morning.



I also managed to finally finish up the last of my Nyss. I hope to base everyone tonight, and finally seal the 30+ figures piling up on my "To Do" shelf and get them cleared out.



It looks like the last of my Black Friday purchases should be arriving today or tomorrow. Hopefully today. I'd rather prime everything all at once.

Of course, my building/ staging area of the house is getting swamped with board games currently. Super Dungeon stuff arrived, Myth 2.0 came yesterday, and from the sounds of it, Dungeon Saga should be making an appearance soon. If only I had time to actually play them all!

Still continuing work on those helmeted Doomy guys, but got started on this dude the other day.



Kommander Harkevich, serving for the Motherland of Khador.

One thing I like about him is he actually looks like he's off to do some proper soldiering. He's got a sleeping bag tied up on his backpack, a canteen, various gear all strapped on around him... actually looks like he's not just a pretty boy standing around with a big sword. Then again, Khador does grow them pretty big and swarthy out there in the cold North.

Dude behind him is from the Iron Kingdoms line... I think. Maybe he's from the Mercs for Wamachine? Can't remember.

Harkevich needs a bit of touch up on his beard and a few red spots on his armor, and after that I'll be finishing up his weapon and adding him to the ridiculously huge pile of stuff to seal.

Obavnik's boy toys should be finished by Sunday. I think I have about 10 figures that need to have their bases done, that I don't think I've even photographed yet!

I'm also insanely jealous of all of you who will be going to Brookhursts' bring and buy tomorrow. No fair!

I was a little busybody this weekend, and tried to get a lot of projects lagging behind all finished up. Sorry everything looks all washed out and lacking detail. Some day I'll figure out how to take decent photos with my phone. Everyone who's seen this stuff in person always comments it looks a lot better than the photos make it seem.

Kommander Harkevich is all finished.



Just needs the usual sealing. I did however seal about 15 guys this weekend. It made a big difference on my "take out and spray" shelf. It's nearly empty!

Also got Obavnik Zerkova finished and sealed, and finished up the two bodyguards she's got. I like them way more than her, but I'm pretty pleased with how she turned out as well, for such a small, thin model.

Her bodyguards are just way cooler looking models. A lot nicer than the regular Doom Reaver guys.



Here's one I don't think I've posted before, but got her done regardless this weekend.

Kaelyssa, the Night's Whisper, one of the elves from the Retribution faction in Warmachine. She's got some seriously anachronistic looking weapons there.



Speaking of elves, here's those Nyss Hunters of mine, all finally finished. It may only be a six man unit, but after dealing with the pinning that had to be done on them, I'm in no rush to max this out to a full and proper ten man unit- as if they were actually going to be used in a Warmachine game proper anyways!



Up next is a Convergence model I got real cheap from FRP. I believe this one is called a Mitigator. It makes a neat little clockwork baddie at the least.



It's also fairly large, given it sits on a 40mm base and stands about just as tall, if not taller.

I am also continuing my decent into painting units from the Protectorate of Menoth, another Warmachine faction. Sadly this is Barzam's go to faction for the game, but at least my guys are the polar opposites of his, all being done in black rather than the proper white and gold that the studio paints them in.



This guy is one of the older metal Exemplar models, and is made up of leftover parts. I'm 99% sure his shield arm is from one of the grunt units from the metal set. This particular figure is supposed to be the leader of the unit.

Here he is with the beginnings of my "Brothers of the Banner" Song of Blades and Heroes warband.



That one of the Kreoss models on the left (the 2nd version, or 1st epic version of him I believe). He's definitely got the banner thing going on. Next to him is an Exemplar Seneschal, also rocking the back banners. I'm getting mighty tempted to pick up the armored Kreoss on horseback. He's a very impressive looking figure, and would fit in very well with these guys (he's also got the awesome banners hanging off of him).

Both of the half painted/ primed guys on the left were picked up for 5 bucks each at the hobby shop. Score for me, as they run anywhere from 10- 15 each online. The other two I've shown off before. Reznik was unavailable to pose with them as he was busy hanging out on top of a different cabinet than usual.


And here are my next projects:


That's Kommandant Iruk in the center, another Khador warcaster for Warmachine, flanked by the Talons of Everblight, Saeryn & Rhyass. They're evil tainted elf twins. Rhyass seems to have lost most of her pants in the process of growing her hair into a big bouffant hairdo. Her sword also seems to have grown a few feet. I'm not really impressed with Saeryn and her pointy spear stick. I guess it's an improvement over her throwing knives the first version had.

Once these three and the Menoth stuff are done, I've got about 30+ figures all primed and waiting to get painted after this!

So, you couldn't resist that Kreoss. He's just too small and squished up. They really need to redo that one. Good progress though. You've been very busy.

Yeah, that Kreoss is pretty compact. It's not bad, it just could be a whole lot better. The mounted one seems to be wearing the same armor though. At least at first glance.

I got a package in the mail from Ireland yesterday. My Overseer from Miniature 13 finally made it!

Here's all his parts. VERY clean casting. It took very minimal cleanup effort on my part to get him ready. It was nice having parts that actually all fit the way they were supposed to!



He comes with a 40mm base, and that cape of his is quite large. I wish he was just a *little* bit bigger. Than again, I have a preference for big and bulky figures so I may just be prejudiced against normal sized figures.

Here he is all put together.



He definitely fills up his base. I have NO CLUE how I want to paint him. I can't tell how the armor is molded- is it directly on his skin, is he wearing a suit underneath it? I'm not sure what I'll do with him yet. I didn't bother gluing on the cape yet, as I figure it'll get in the way of painting his back. Not that anyone will ever see it, but I can't abide have an unpainted section of a model. I'll know, and it will drive me mad.

I also started working on the twins, the Talons of Everblight this morning.



While my original version of the sword- twin had her armor done up in gold, I figured I'd do these in silver to match them up with the rest of my blighted Nyss elves. Hard to see, but the brown sections on their arms are all crazy spiky growths from being tainted by the dragon, at least according to the fluff.

I like how both of them have lost their pants since getting epic versions, and traded in their more modest armor for plated sports bras. Makes sense. Still don't care for Spear- twin. I like sword- twin a whole lot more. While working on her eyes, I noticed that they don't exactly line up! You get a profile view of her for the time being, as I try to even out the painting of her eyes instead of making her look like something's wrong with her.

I'm also guilty of killing a lot of detail on both of them by being a bit overzealous with the spray primer. Whoops. Then again, comparing the models to the painted versions on Privateer's page, I'm wondering if some of the details were actually not on the final model. The production photos show both of their chest areas and necklines having a mesh ninja- like chain mail on, but either I totally oversprayed or the details just weren't present on my figures.

Will be trying to get them all finished by Wednesday this week so I can get cracking on my Khadorian commissar from the other day that was posing with these two ladies.

Lots of lovely painted minis since I last dropped in. The Exemplar looks really cool in black I don't like the white scheme but black and red looks awesome.

Obavnik Zerkova and her body guard are really nicely painted, you make me want to pick them up to paint along with the lovely elf twins Saeryn & Rhyass.

I think I need to pick up some more Warmachine/hordes models soon, you've convinced me lol.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of Dark Menoth colors. Always was a fan of giant armor and humongous shoulderpads. One of these days I'm going to have to get that Anson Durst guy for Menoth, as he's in a particularly large and bulky suit of armor that would look perfect in black. Hopefully some family member took the hint and got me him for the holidays.

I'm a big fan of Privateer's figures. Sometimes they have stupid connection point issues, and the pieces don't want to fit as smoothly or as snugly as I may want, but overall they have such a crazy amount of variety within both games and each faction, there's a little something for every kind of figure collector.

At this point I'm sure I could actually field a painted 50 point Trollblood army without any issue. Theme lists would be tougher as I don't have any multiples of the infantry units, but I certainly have enough painted stuff to actually play Privateer's games the way they are intended... not that I probably ever will though. Maybe if they go through with those supposed skirmish rules for even smaller combats.

The twins of Everblight are basically done. Didn't get a chance to snap a picture this morning, had to get the kids ready on my own as my wife had a dentist appointment super early. Maybe when I get home.

At least the kids have all their Japanese homework done already, so we'll be able to actually play a game of Super Dungeon Explore together. They're still to chicken to play against me as Consul, so it looks like we're going arcade mode against the Forgotten King tonight.

Here's the pretty much finished Talons of Everblight.

You can kind of see Rhyass' pinhead going on. Still going to give them a quick ink wash tonight.



Finished up all the base coats for the Seneschal on the right, and had a bunch of leftover paint so I started slapping it on the squished up Kreoss there next to him.



Not 100% sold on the golden grill on the Seneschal's mask. My other Menoth stuff have the facemask in gold, with the helmeted area and forehead usually in black with gold trim. Might still do the same for this guy. Will think about it today and tomorrow before I do anything in that area. Time to give him an ink wash to bring out the details in his chain mail, and darken in the back of his shield since I forgot to.

With the leftover gold and black I started trying to fill in large chunks of the 3rd Makeda sculpt.



Not much to look at yet. Most of my free time in the evening was spent working and visiting with family. Hopefully I can finish that Seneschal this weekend.

Kaelyssa looks really good. Very clean, and almost has a cell shaded look to her. probably my favorite model you have done so far. Nice work!

Thanks for the kind words Wherkind. You're a far better painted than I ever will be, so that means something!

I think what happened with her is I went crazy with ink and dark washes as usual, and went back over areas I wasn't happy with using pretty solid blocks of colors.

Ended up feeling very under the weather this weekend. I've had A LOT of sick kids at work this week. Heck, had 4 of them out on Friday.

Nasty stomach flu. Bad enough to lay them out for multiple days on end. Not the kind of sickness I'd wish on anyone.

Naturally I got it.

Being a veteran teacher though, and being around gross sickly children day in and day out all year long for well over a decade, you start to build an immunity to these things.

So despite having an unpleasant tummy I think I managed to survive the bulk of this flu relatively unscathed.

My wife told me to relax on Sunday, so I did just that.

Got the 2nd Kreoss sculpt finished.


Here he is posing with himself. You can see there's a bit of size difference, but damn if that epic 2nd one isn't a wonky sculpt? He's so squished on to that base! I don't understand why they didn't put him on a 40mm base. Would have made a lot more sense, and would have made him appropriately "epic." One of these days I'll get Anson Durst as my big and bulky Menoth warcaster.

Also managed to finish up Makeda. Still need to get started on her Exalted Court statues, who are sitting in a box with statue Zaal at the moment.



Not sure what the kobold is doing there. I just finished him up. He'd been in need of a few splotches of paint, so I'll probably put some ink on him and finally get him finished.

Speaking of finished! I FINALLY painted this guy!



Goreshade the Bastard! I love this new version of him! I bought it the day it came out! Then it sat there until this weekend! Sadly I killed a lot of detail on him by going crazy with the spray primer. Darn it.

You also don't really get a sense of how he takes up space from the front though.

You can get a better look at him from the side in this picture, hanging out with a few other Cryxian fellows I started working on.



The ugly Druid and hunter guy are there for size reference. Goreshade is HUGE. Makeda isn't exactly a midget either, and both of the Iron Liches in the back are just ridiculously big.

Feels good to be working through my giant backlog of figures. I've got a few more Skorne I'll probably paint after the Cryx stuff, and I have plenty of trolls waiting to get painted still...

That Goreshade model is a thing of beauty. And by beauty I mean awesomeness. I really like how you did the green fireball thing. Is that a Warmachine/Hordes model?

Really, REALLY happy to see someone working on Cryx just as I plan on getting into Warmahordes with them. The pics on the PP site don't really do the models justice, but you really did Goreshade well! Bumped him pretty high up the list of possible models to buy as well

Josh- Goreshade is in fact a Warmachine model. That seems like all I've been painting lately. I'll be rectifying that soon enough...

It *IS* a cool model though. Especially when compared to the original one. He's got his ghostly girly lady that traipses around the battlefield, but I didn't get to her yet. Not sure where I put her to be honest.

I still don't get why he's so large. He's a good 2-4 heads taller than an average human, minimum (also depending on the sculpt). I know he's supposed to be from one of the elf races according to the fluff, but most of the elves are human sized. Then again, there is that Thyron figure I've got, and he's supposed to be an elf as well, and is quite larger than the rest of them.

I guess I'll have to do some fluff googling.

One thing Cryx has going for it is sculpt variety. Pirates, traditional undead, mechanical undead monstrosities, Satyr chicks ,witches, screwed up evil trolls, ogres, access to the Cephalyx and their drudges, all the warjacks and bonejacks... there's a lot to mess with.

Did some more work on Venethrax. Of course, being how my phone picks out details, you can't tell that there's three different metallics being used on his body (in addition to the brass and bronze, which kind of look the same in the photo).



I'll probably do his base up tonight and keep working on trying to bring out the highlights on the edges of his armor. His green glowy parts need another brush over too.

I'm wondering if he was supposed to be one of these giant elfs like Goreshade. They're both pretty similarly sized. What was their race called? Iosian I think? Maybe that's what it is...

Venethrax is kind of a big guy. So that really says something about Goreshade's height when they're almost the same size.

Venethrax is pretty much done. Same all the metallics seem to blend together, and not in the way they are intended.



On the plus side, my wife really wants to get a new camera for photographing her Etsy and ebay stuff, and having recently purchased a new fridge from Best Buy, we've got a few hundred in credit from them that will probably go towards a dedicated camera.

Since a lot of the Cryx casters share color similarities, I went ahead and started doing some more work on the 3rd version of Asphyxious.



I haven't done anything with his head, and I've got a lot of the glowing green parts to deal with. Also need to paint the scraps of flesh hanging off his pipes on his backpack. At least I think they're scraps of flesh. Not sure what they are- rags maybe? Couldn't afford decent tubing so he tied it off with a bandanna? No idea.

Also love the fact that his weapon is actually the remains of his superior officer, if I remember my fluff correctly. Asphyxious got pissed at him and trapped his soul in the blade, or forged it into the sword somehow.

While I was doing the robes on the lich lords, I went ahead and started trying to fill in the colors on Kommander Irusk.



The dude could totally play the part of a Komissar with just a little sanding and greenstuff.

My paints have been a bit uncooperative this last week, spurting out way more paint than needed. I tried to use up some of that and started working through some unfinished projects close by.



I'm hoping to sneak over to the hobby shop after lunch- it's our staff luncheon, so that means the afternoon is basically a wash. I need a new good sized brush, as my Citadel one has bristles going in every direction possible, and I'm running low on my favorite ink washes. Might pick up some blue ink from Vallejo to try out on my Trollkin.

Funny, I was planning on going there myself after work. Something tells me that you'll wind up with more than just painting supplies though.

Why, whatever do you mean? I'm *ONLY* going to get paint... and a brush.... and basing materials... and Bones stuff... and....

(200 dollars later)...

alright, maybe not that bad.

Not sure what I want to get. More iron lich stuff? Some of the Mercenaries? Cheap 40k stuff if it's available? 100 dollar box of Varanguard or whatever they're called?

I saw they had one of the individual Stormblade Cannon guys on the rack. I might grab him.

Did you see those Bombhounds on FRP from Zenit? It looked like something up your alley. Undead dogs loaded up with dynamite in their chest cavities.

I saw them. Wasn't too interested, actually.

What did you wind up getting from the hobby shop?

I grabbed one of those larger husky sized- ink bottles, Kozvik Jozef Grigorovich, and Bane Lord Tartarus. I'd take a picture but they're in pieces on the kitchen table surrounded by piles of gifts I have to give out at work tomorrow, and I have to get the stupid skeleton guy's arms pinned in place.

Just about done with the stand- in Kommisar, Kommander Irusk. Need to finish his base and dull coat him, and he's ready for action!



Simple paint job, but I think I got all the little details accounted for. Got to get started on the next batch of Khador personalities I've got sitting here!

In the meantime, here's a random Iron Kingdoms figure I've started working more earnestly on.

These WarmaHordes figures are pretty sweet looking. I particularly like these two guys and the spectral look to the corpse/spell in his hand, and the metallics on the other one. What faction are they from? I've been getting tempted myself by a few of them. What's the game like to start up in?

Gameplay- wise? I'm not sure what's really needed to start up.

The all in one boxes are a pretty good deal to start with. Usually about 100 US, they give you a caster, a few monsters to use with them depending on the faction, and at least one unit of infantry and a few individual heroes. Some boxes get a bunch of monsters (Everblight has 4 I believe), while some have a less big stuff and more infantry to counter balance it.

Both of those guys are from Cryx, which is the undead/ pirate/ mechanical/ evil faction basically.

That Goreshade sculpt really is a cool one. There's a lot of movement with him, his cape, the spirit he's pulling back into reality to do his dirty work... there's a lot to like. Especially if you compare it to his original sculpt, which is UG- LEE.