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You've got plenty of stuff there Ramos... no problem! You can crank out another couple of vehicles in two nights, can't you!

That's one sweet old school giant, Ramos, well done! Looking forward to seeing you in a few days

Giant make pie happy!

The giant looks great Ramos.

It's good to see you back at the painting table, your updates have been missed recently.

Road to Adepticon, Update number the second one!

List is narrowed down to one I think will function properly. Or at least it looks good right now!

HQ: Chapter Master on bike
HQ: Librarian, level 2
TP: tac squad (x6), plasma cannon, vet srg w/ melta bombs, razorback (Las/plas)
TP: tac squad (x5), plasma gun, vet srg w/ power sword, melta bombs in Razorback (TL HB).
FA: storm talon, LCs & MLs
FA: storm talon, LCs & MLs
HV: devastators (x5 or more), 3 ML, 1 LC
HV: Contemptor dread in pod


Heres what we're looking at after we clear the unnecessary stuff off the table. Shockingly, much of it is painted already!




All I need to do currently is to paint up another Razorback, and the Marines Chrysemys were willing to supply me with one.
This model in particular was a rescue project from an old, beat up chaos Rhino. I remember there was a LOT of glue everywhere and some tracks were outright busted. Gaps were bad as well, but fortunately I have plenty of stuff to patch it up!



A few extra bitz and it looks well used and road weary. a complete opposite of the other Razor, which is pretty straight forward and factory fresh.
Turret was an easy enough build as well. A bit from the Chapterhouse kit I got last year and a bit from the ADL kit (that I somehow had sitting in my box), and I rigged up a quite serviceable Razor turret. From WM's other razorback projects I had plenty of the weapons left over, and happened to have a complete turret base for it as well!

Primer is currently drying (Yaaaaaaaay warm weather!!), and after that its just a bit of color!

Fantastic! Nice to see you on your way!

Tonight's progress:








While painting the white areas, I stumbled on what might be my new way to paint this type of white.
A week or so ago, I had ordered a P3 paint set, really for just one color. Coal Black. Its an awesome black blue-green, and is ideal for highlighting black. Since the kit was the Legion of Everblight set, it included a black, a white, a new container of Carnal Pink. Good solid colors to have around. What I didnt expect was the color "Frostbite"
Its a very light blue-gray, a bit more neutral than the old foundation Astronomican Grey (my current favorite way to paint white details!). As it turns out, it sprays beautifully as a foundation for white, especially in a zenithal scheme. It still needs a wash, but I think that a light gray wash (something like thinned SW gray?) might be just the ticket!

The turquoise is shaded just a touch differently this time, using some scaley green to give it a deeper teal color in the shadows.

From here its on to some edge highlighting and some minor details before my flight leaves. I figure I have most of tomorrow to work on this (and touch up another set of models to enter in Crystal Brush). Tomorrow night is also DnD night. No longer is the group playing Deathwatch (we ran out of steam :/), so its on to testing out the new DnD 5th edition. So far... eh. I guess its ok. Still love my 3.5!

Till tomorrow, guys!

Looks fantastic! I should be finishing packing, but instead I'm checking your plog . My plane takes off for AdeptiCon in six hours! (But I'm arriving super early due to available flights and needing to set up)

Looks good Ramos! Have to look into those paints myself.

*cracks whip*

Now get to work!!

I'd be interested to see your opinions on 5th ed. We are too deep into Pathfinder to change.

Have a safe flight!

@moonpie: I'll do a little writeup after the con. Very short version right now is that 5th ed is FAST. Much much more streamlined in combat, character generation, magic items...
Hope you and Ice can make it up to Chicago for a day or two!

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Not as much done on the Razor as I had wanted, but had some other touchups to do for some Crystal Brush entries. Finally getting the chance to enter!! Big personal milestone

Anywho, heres where we are now with the Razorback.





And here is the obligatory "What Im bringing" shot:



So with this, its off to do the final packing (mostly of minis). Then tomorrow, to Chicago!!

Hopefully Ill see some of you guys there- If you are around the Dealer's Den, come stop on by RiTide's ModCube booth and check it out- I'll be helping out a bit with the booth over the weekend, so come say hello!

Till next week, guys!~

See you soon!

Post-Adepticon Update: Trapped in Paradise (well, Chicago)

So hello everyone! Ramos here reportin in from the Windy City via Kindle!
Due to inclement weather, many flights got the axe and yours truly is now stranded at the airport. Whooooooo.
Now its a case of waiting.

Updates as they become available. Take care guys!

Hang in there Ramos!

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Not like you can do anything else...

Oh man, hope you're able to get out! I'm now a lot more appreciative of only having a 2-hour delay last night to fly out from the convention...

Oh god. I can sympathize. Ohare/Chicago is awful. I was delayed for 3-5 hours there on the return from Sweden. My hip was still an issue at the time but, myself and an 70-80 year old woman were told that we could either run to our gates, wait in the 50+ line to request the disability cart, or to kindly feth off by the service desm. (The irony was the cart was empty except for the driver and on standby for this issue roughly 8 feet away.) I was more mad about the elderly woman witha cane than myself. I ran it but, I think I had to take 5-6 Tramadol to feel any relief. (Then I found out about the delay.)

So yeah... it's awful. I hate Chicago, and she hates me. I hope you get out of there ASAP. Keep us posted!

Blergh. Much Tired.

Escape plan success.

In a completely insane move, my dad actually drove FROM CLEVELAND to pick me up from Ohare. The catch being that I have to buy him dinner- specifically Malnati's deep dish pizza.
He picked me up around 7 (man airports suck to have to wait in!!), so with dinner and a massive drive, we ended up getting home in the wee hours of the morning (5AM).

Now to wait a few days to call United and ensure my ticket is refunded/comped. Should mean that I'm set for next years convention!



So what's to come?
Well, Website is coming along swimmingly. My pack is full to bursting with new miniatures (lots of freebies in the bag, plus some extras from helping RiTides with his vendor booth).
I also spent a bunch at Forge World and other stores along the way, resulting is what would have ended up being another bag as big as any of my carry-ons. Very fortunately, I was able to pass it off to Gits to ship back to me! Incredibly grateful for that!!!

Gimmie some time to decompress and readjust to "normal" operations, and Ill get a little bit of a recap and swap somme stories. Ill also show off some of the new stuff I got from the bags!

Till then, Take care!!
Ramos, signing off from Cleveland (at last!)




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@Storm: Wooooooow.... that's damn rough :( Maddening to think, too, cause I kept running into those blasted carts! Seemed to be no end of them!

Glad you're back and (hopefully) re-energized. How was the giant zebra received?

Giant zebra went over pretty well, I think. I fell in with a group during board game night (Sunday night), and in one of the conversations we had, it got mentioned. The one guy there got a kick out of the NAF logo on the base
They were the guys behind the Nerdherders Podcast, If Im remembering it right. Good group of guys. Fun to play with, even though i got soundly stomped in Alien Frontiers by em.

Also got to play Hero Fight (like apples to apples but with you explaining how your hero can win in a fight with the target), Dominion, and some train game that I cant remember. Something like On Track or All Aboard or something xD

Ticket to ride?

Thats the one!

Pretty solid game. Again, I got stomped by my opponents, but THAT I can blame on beer, haha!

I' d drive anywhere on the continent rather than go through O'Hare for the most part.

I play Ticket to Ride and Dominion with my girl. They are fun.

Glad you are home. Your dad sounds like a right trooper.

@moonpie: Yeah, hes got his moments Im just glad to be home now.


So Adepticon Recap time!
Overall, a great weekend for all. Th enew venue is absolutely massive. Far far bigger than the old one, and I think the hotel is nicer too. The venue is staggeringly huge, and the dealer's den reflects that. I got some demo games in for other systems and picked up a lot of cards as well. Got to rub shoulders with a few world-class painters, too, so that was a treat

Got some 40k in with the other Wardens, including a game with Gitsplitta's Grotzkrieg. I suffered a narrow defeat, but sunk Da Turpitz. Those grot tanks are such a thrill to play against, and look positively smashing! Then I played the one and only Thing 1, Gits' son, and surprisingly managed to hold my own against his necrons. Very very close game.

Local restaurant scene was pretty solid. Got pizza from Moretti's on Thursday with the gang (good stuff, but we made the mistake of getting a bunch of appetizers) and Malnatti's on Sunday (AMAZING butter crust deep dish!). The local "fancy" restaurant in the hotel was Sam and Harry's. Excellent food, but almost too fancy for me. The food was exquisite, but the portions found me wanting a little more. Then I finished my meal with a piece of Black Forest Cake.... Which turned out to be a "deconstructed" cake- two chunks of chocolate cake, a cherry sauce, a ribbon of slightly sweet frosting, and some bizarre (but awesome) freeze-dried meringue. Absolutely not waht I had expected, but delicious. The brunch at Sam and Harry's (all you can eat) was much better, if a little pricier than normal. Still, though... spectacular breakfast!! Would definitely do it again!!!

Swag bag this year was pretty generous. Lots of sample minis, including a Victoria Lamb mini (very cool), a Bones mini (curious to work with this material), and another starter kit from Warmachine. This time I got a Retribution box, and I figure I'll end up painting it and sell it off or something. Looks like an iteresting enough project.
This is only a small portion of all the junk I picked up on the trip, too. I had to send a huge bag with Gits with all of the extras I couldnt fit in my bag. Got a Deredo dread to play with as well as all of the Secret Weapon Washes. Fun fun stuff


In addition to all that, RiTides gave out a few things from his VIG bag to the guys helping at his booth. Super appreciated it, and it's wild how much stuff is in the VIG bags!!

I got the UCM starter kit from Dropzone Commander!


Which of course I already tore into and got assembled!


Plan for these guys is a winter camo. not sure what design, but definitely winter scheme.


In business-related news, I got a bunch of wolves to rebase and do just a smidge of touch-up work on. Its an unusual request, but it lets me use terrain stuff that I dont usually have the chance to use. These are destined to a nice winter theme with plenty of snow.



And finally, the last little update.
Over the weekend, the Wardens and I got together with yakface and a few others to play a game called Boss Monster. This is a card game where you take on the role of an 8-bit villain and build a dungeon to attract (and kill) heroes! Plays very easily and fast, and the game is always different. Its such a great game!

Plus, I absolutely LOVE how they stuck with the 8-bit game theme


It even has an instruction book!


I think we had to have played 10 or 12 games of this over the weekend xD

Are we going to see some actual ME progress over the next ~360 days? You still have the flyers and rhino #2 to finish!

That's the plan, anyways!
The fliers may or may not see further work (depends how I feel about more detail building and whatnot) but the Razor is definitely on my to do list! It's already well on its way, so I figure I night as well finish it off while the ideas are still fresh in my head! And of course there will be the Deredo (read as "Dorito") Dread that is getting shipped to me with some fliers for gits. Im thinking of painting it in the Badab camo scheme



Incidentally, I took a pic of all the Ork stuff I had to pull out of my army bag in order to transport the marines... Lots of memories on these (and so few actually painted fully! )



This is a majority of the stuff except for 2 dreads, 8 or 9 Kans, a Mek Buggy, and a battlewagon- all of which are in another box.


Status report: Primer applied on the mass of random stuff! Awesome to be able to spray outside again!

Hey what about my minis

JK, welcome back to Ohio man. Still up for EFT Saturday?

Oh Im still painting those guys on and off. (And you bet Im ready for Saturday! Totally ready for some gaming)
Been working on the LE Candy and Cola mini lately. Figure shes in the current workpile so i can show it off a bit:


A decidedly different style than the usual (being more chibi and brightly colored), but now that I think I have a handle on how to paint skin, it should go smoothly Fun fun mini.


As to the rest, I put the base colors on the UCM and some Khador. Still might go a bit brighter on the reds, and still need to crack the camo pattern I want.

Quite the camel toe on that disgusting little chibi-thing.

Oh dear.... You know that is a completely unintentional result of the lighting and the paint splashes....



ooooooh myyy....

Once you see it ........ you can't unsee it!......much like myself in a mankini