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youwashock wrote:Brilliant stuff. The brighter style is working great.

Cheers! Hopefully that works on the Potter.

aku-chan wrote:Nice job on Luna.

Thanks - and likewise, hopefully I can keep it up on the rest!

Mini-update: further WIP on Umbridge

Getting there. Face needs a tidy, highlights on the cloth (all looking a bit flat just now).

Played the AoS card game with kid #2 - someone gave us 4 decks, so we have a new game to play. Bless the wee fella, he's downloaded the Switch version, so he could teach me It's actually not too bad a game.

Getting to game tonight, woo! Not sure what yet, but should be fun.

Later
Graven

Theophony wrote:I like the posters around her feet better at hiding the ankles. The colors looking good, have you tried the contrast paints on her? I’m falling in love with them the more I use them.

I'm glad the posters worked, bit of a gamble. I'm still not sold on Contrast. I've not quite found a thin green that I like. I'm also generally struggling to find a good pink too. But the contrast paints are just not doing it for me.

LavuranGuard wrote:Very nice, so many uses for such a figure in rpgs.

I know right? Get on that hype train!

Slinky wrote:Those heroes (and villains) have come out really nicely, amazing strong colours.

Dolores looks great too - The thumbnail image of her face and hair are amazingly lifelike, nice work

Thanks man. That's very kind. Hopefully you'll like the finished article:

*Hemm-hemm*

I still don't know which I prefer, black or white primer. I'm playing with some Slytherin ideas, so we'll see.

On the subject of green...
pace cop space cop space cop!
So, I do have greens I like, clearly - that's VJ Sick Green and a quick Livery Green highlight (the lime green colour on Punchline etc), both from the VJ Orc&Goblin Paint set. I suspect for the Slytherin (robe trim) I'll wash it with Nightshade to give it a dark, bluey green iridescence, whilst for Hal here it's green ink all the way.

And on the subject of space, played some Outer Rim tonight:

Damn fine game. Very like Firefly but less down time, less chance of one player running away with everything. A much less cluttered game - visually very appealling, especially the dashboard sliders - and my enjoyment was greatly helped by the fact that I won by flying casual. actually, it was more that the individual play style of the different pilots is distinctive and intuitive, but a whole lot of fun at the same time: Jyn blew stuff up, Dr Afra does lots of questionable space archeology, Han flies round dodging fleets - I spent most of the game hiding from hutts, blowing up imperials and then betraying one of my own crew to the hutts for the win. Brilliant, bonkers, narrative fun.

Wife and older spawn out tonight; suspect a bit of AoS with the youngling. I see AoS is getting a Conquest partwork, too, so a good chance to pick some stuff up if he's so minded.
Hey ho,
Graven

I've really enjoyed painting GL.


Great sculpt, and my new detail brushes are helping. However, my hand is bothering me again. Not awful, but definitely stiff and sore. Need to be careful.

Genuinely got the groove back for a bit of DC though. Funny how I've got out of the Gaslands habit. Might change when Refuelled comes late September. But that's ok.

Thanks! Both he and the flames are painted the same, but the flames are yellow washed whilst he's green with violet shade.

Hey gang,
A busy family weekend and a fair amount of hand pain have meant no p&m. So instead, a bit of a stock take!

Taking stock is always a slightly distressing business. Still, just looking at what is built and primed, and as I'm feeling very DC at the moment, I'm going to try to get cracking on them:

Hippolyta, Artemis, Menalippe and Antiope - the last of whom has a broken bow, so will need that rebuilt, but given that the other 2 generic Amazons are converted up anyway into Artemis and Menalippe, not that big a deal to further convert.

Dark Knights Metal: Red Death, Merciless, Drowned and Batman Who Laughs. I may also paint Nightmare Batman (from BvS) to go with them as Grim Knight (Dark Bat with Guns). I realise now that I was going to paint that Hal as Dawnbreaker (evil lantern bat) never mind eh?

Justice League Dark: Deadman, Black Orchid, Swamp Thing (Rebirth). Given that I've started the JLD already (Constantine, Jason Blood, Etrigan) might be an idea to finish them!

Joker's Daughter / Harley, Bud and Lou (Rebirth): Not a big fan of Duella but she is another one for Suicide Squad. I'm enjoying the Harley comic way more than I expected. So maybe. The hyenas are remarkably good in DCU as a tar pit unit.

Movie Mera and Ezra Flash: I have plans for these. On the other hand, those plans have not yet actually coming to anything... Ever.

Blue Beetle & Booster Gold: Scarab showed what I can do, and I've enjoyed retro supers, though they're all primed black. To redo or not?

BvS Nightmare Batman, Zurr-en'Arrh - more Batmans!

Poison Ivy Rebirth - big, green and beautiful. Maybe.

What do you think my dakklings? What should I tackle?

Meanwhile, picked up a HW Tumbler:

So thinking about these guys a bit too. The next challenge is new sponsor so really I should make a frankencar or something. I'm considering making a Burtonesque gigahorse of some kind. However, one of the new sponsors, Bootleggers, is all about hicks distilling their own booze/biofuel/explosives. And this car rocks the hobo mojo:

Needs chunky new wheels and mesh. Might need a trailer. They get trailers. For the booze. The big fuel tank in the front could also be booze, and the empty rack in the back needs booze too, dagnabit. For the trailer, I'm thinking a little switching block(like the kind inside light fixtures) with wheels on it.
Oh my mate's KS was 450% funded, every single SG unlocked. Awesome stuff.
Anyway, zooming on, and don't forget to let me know your thoughts on what DC I should do,

Graven

Briancj wrote:
All I'm sayin'.
--B.

Slinky wrote:Sorry to hear about your hand, but looking forward to seeing your redneck hotrod

Theophony wrote:Hope the hand pain subsides. Its obviously work related Grading all those papers. My wife is struggling through all her grading too.

Yeah. Pesky kids
Cheers for the kind words chaps

So started my contest entry. My Bootleggers have got a... Fuel tank.

Yeah. Fuel It's got a bit of a dragster vibe - I imagine I'll run it as performance car with a sourmash jet booster - but I reckon a flamethrower is required, and maybe dropped napalm. Roof mounted flamethrowers mess with my head, though I like the look. I'd stick a fuel tank in the back. Mind you, that's going to happen regardless.

But not sure about the front mount, even though it makes more "sense".
Thoughts?
Graven

Wayyyyyyyyyyyyy ahead of you this is the Molotov Moonshiner.

Gitsplitta wrote:Wonderful to see your progress continue graven. Blue Scarab is... really lop-sided. Is she drawn that way?? In any case that's no fault of yours, she looks fantastic.

That looks like a really fun game, thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Lovely to hear from you again! Maybe it's just the angle of the pic?

Continuing with my Trailer trash:

So obviously both trailers need wheels. I'm not sure what the buggy's trailer is from but looks like GW metal. I've added a bit off a corvus flyer, some metal sock clips, a new brass etch steering wheel, a broken set of piston tops for molotovs, and a Mad Cars driver (yeehaw). I think the other car is going to get a set of big shocks (should've done that before doing the new wheels, never mind) BUT they're nearly built! Good times

Cheers!
Now with wheels:

Slinky wrote:Nice!

Theophony wrote:I think it needs wheels n top of the trailer because you’ll be going so fast it might flip over, but who needs reality in their games

Both trailers are now functionally articulated, greebling added all over, so off they both go to priming:

I am inordinately chuffed that I managed to make functioning clips.

Started Mera:

VJ falcon turquoise to begin. Next will be green wash for her, blue for the water.

And started slithering.

Or rather slytherins.

Work is, if not good, then at least not bad. What more could one all for, really?

Had a great night out with friends and their kids, and as we were walking home I noticed a copy of Dreadball Ltd edition in the window of a charity shop for £15. So of course, had to go back the next day helped them price up some other games too, for eBay.

So it was missing the promo fig, but as I have him anyway, hardly a big deal.
Acceptably painted Marauders (orc and gob team) - not massively useful, as I have a full team of them. But give them a wash and tidy up and they'll be a decent present for a mate to get them playing.
Poorly painted humans and referee - I don't own the classic refbot, so nice to own, and likewise my human team is bare minimum, so good to have the same again to give me a full team. But, paint is horrible. So... strip? Will Dettol dissolve the pvc
Cards, rules, dice and acrylic tokens - more dice always good, and the acrylic tokens are really nice, much more so than the hard plastic ones from 2nd ed even. Granted the rules and cards are of no real use but still. There's a couple of useful bits: environmental conditions rules card for open-air games is really cool, and "fan area" cards handy for cheerleaders etc.

But the real treat is the Azure board:

"Dad, can we play an exhibition match?"
Yup, kids so excited they immediately wanted to have a game with their league teams.

So. Not a bad haul. It's a nice board to play on, and a nice thing to have. Given that you can't get the azure board for less than £20 second hand, to have it near mint makes me very happy indeed.

On we go
Graven

Slinky wrote:What's the 2nd trailer made of? I swear I have that same bit somewhere

Buggered if I know squire, but it's definitely GW. Looks to me, maybe metal Russ upgrade kit?

Certainly looks that way to me chief

Theophony wrote:The bit is an old landspeeder extra part that could fit inside the side flaps. Just stowage, but it was extra detail that came with I think the dark angels landspeeder.

Started Slitherin....... ...should you see a doctor about that?

Excellent bitslore! Level up!
Nah, I'm fine, Ravenclaw all the way. But the Slytherins are fantastic for co-op play with the potter crew. And I really like the Malfoy family sculpts (Narcissa is one of my random favourite characters from the books). Painted in odd bits here and there, boots, shoes... mostly it's an excuse to play with model air black. For those of you contrast addicts, it behaves much the same. So progress has been made on the Slytherins, Snape, Malfoy family, Weasley Twins and Ron. Lots of bits and bobs too, bit of work on Harry, Hagrid, Fang, Ginny... sighhhhhhhhh...

Dr H wrote:Good work all round.
*don't mind me, just swooping through*

I wondered if we'd lost you to the Fallout or something again?

Anyway, here's the awful paintjob on the human team:

I have a jar with Dettol and a metal Catman that I'd forgotten about for 2 months. Let's see what happens to a Striker.

The orcs were... acceptable. Not caked in paint, just basic colours blocked in. So clearly, having nothing better to do, I've decided to repaint the whole team. Think they'll actually turn out ok. As I have a large and fairly comprehensive Marauder team, if they work I'll be gifting these to erithromycin as part of his birthday present. I'm converted one into Slippery Joe, the Captain, and I'll print him out the captain specific cards too.

And for myself, well, I repainted the first edition refbot, as I now finally have one!

In retrospect, should've stripped it too. But it's fine at tabletop level. Curse you dakka super zoom!

Eyes in the back of her head!
Love this fig, much better than the 2nd ed one. I wish I'd picked up a dozen when they were on 99p clearance on the mantic site to make the Malfunctioning Refbot team So a grand total of... 1 finished model so far this month!

My elder boy has, meantime, finished his Kalyshi Team, the Power-Tough Girls:

Not shabby. Bless him, he's not satisfied. I particularly love his converted jumping striker.

Loads of stuff in various stages on the desk. The Constructicon Brokkr team theme is settled on, but it's suprisingly faffy to do (getting the right purple is irksome). Nevertheless, aiming to get them done for the end of the month. Meera is getting there, and even a little on Artemis. The list is endless . The Bootlegger cars are primed - two weeks to get them painted, I was thinking a general lee homage originally but now I'm thinking of Scotland's finest beverage... Irn-Bru (so blue with some orange).

I need to be careful I don't hit paint-paralysis, that gnawing despair of "too much to do". Still, at the weekend, we were at friends', and he showed my wife his bike room - with 3 bicycles totalling £7000. She's reappraised her feelings about my hobby getting a bit more "me" time to work on stuff and stay sane.
I do have a long weekend at the end of the month, a Friday with my boys (so painting and more Dreadball Ultimate planned), Comic-Con on the Saturday with #2 and a Monday with him too, which we've set aside for testing DCU 2 (in the post from Spain, along with the Chamber of Secrets) so that should be fun.

Still - chin up, eh?
Graven

Theophony wrote:Refbot looks great, I totally agree about the Dakkadakka superzoom .

Your son has inherited some of your painting and modding skills. Mine has only inherited my eating and sitting skills .

Oh believe me, he's inhereted those too.

Dr H wrote:

inmygravenimage wrote:
I wondered if we'd lost you to the Fallout or something again? ...

Not to Fallout, although I do have a settlement build on the go, I'm lost to job searching / careers advice.
Some modelling may happen soon...ish.
Keep up the good work, and give the little one a

Good luck a hunting! And I shall pass on the thumb!

Slinky wrote:Top work from Graven Jr!

Aye, kid done not bad.

So, a team of Marauders:

Complete with converted Slippery Joe (fabulous 'tache). That's more like it. 10 minis done - 200 this year so far.

BUT that's not all! Admittedly these have been ongoing for a while but not pictured - and it's still early days.

That's a *lot* of black. Different washes will be used to try to add variety. Narcissa's red skirt colour will also be the base for gryffindor cloaks/ties. VJ mahogany is a wonderful thing. Except on Hagrid, to whom it will not adhere, for some reason.
And just off to the side, that's the Constructicon crew. They are ongoing

Theophony wrote:Team slitherin is looking good. After making a black Templar army years ago (precodex days) I know how you feel about the black.

Lol I'm making my kids suffer given that they're Raven Guard

Yorkright wrote: I have been gone for quite some time, come back and I see you have not slowed down a bit. Not sure I can comb thru all I have missed but it still is looking good!

Lovely to see you squire! Browse away at your leisure!

Quite a mellow weekend. Went to a local little Lego fan con, which was great, ate and drank, etc.

However, figured out how to finish off my Slime dragster. So, here's Rude Paul:

Sashay, queen.


And I've started laying colour down for the trailer trash:

The potter stuff is really frustrating me. I think it's because I'm trying to batch paint character models that are uniform, literally. So from here, I'm going to do them individually, and break between them. First up, Snape:

Definitely progress. Not done, but progress.

Of course, talking about uniform:

It's different, entirely, from painting school uniforms

That's about it. Primed up some more Raven Guard for the boys, got an awesome box of Robotech madness from Victor Von Domm which I've not quite got my head round... not much

Graven

Briancj wrote: Can I just move in nearby you, and we can hang out?

--B.

For the lego, the eating, the drinking, or the gaming? Anytime brother

Briancj wrote:...I have to choose?

Nope, I'm a very broad church

Theophony wrote:Love the Slime dragster , good choice on colors.
Given enough legos we could build an addition onto Graven’s house.

the plural of Lego is Lego. Bloody colonials

Gitsplitta wrote:Nice progress graven!

cheers matey!

Slinky wrote:Snape looks v promising!

Lol I wish my wife were as convinced (she's by far my harshest critic... no jokes please ) but thanks.

Bits and bobs. The Brokkr have now had wash of 5:1 green-black:green ink on the armour and druchi violet on the cloth/flesh. Test model for the Darkmount Devastators is just about done. Thoughts?

Although the really vibrant lime green has been knocked back, it's come back up a bit in the highlights. Should the green be even more limey at the top of the highlights? DB glove has no glow yet, will either be red or yellow. Anywhere I could (maybe) add hazard striping (gulp)?

The Bru-cru have had a wash of nuln, likewise, but not really pic worthy. I've got a week to get them done. Easy!

I find, to my surprise and delight, that I'm properly excited about the new DCU stuff. As in, actually want to buy things. Mongul and Cyborg-Superman are well-priced (£27 for the pair, and Mongul is VAT), Eradicator is a good sculpt (£15) - and I can always find them at a discount from a UK supplier. Might even treat myself to General Zod and co. I'm all a bout the bad guys Display piece Superman is vast (like the 80th Batman) but I'm not playing £40 for a model that is, well, a display piece (yes, he's playable, no, I don't care). I may buy myself a promo Momoa Aquaman - £16, but that means I have to get it from KM direct -, and I'm not crazy about the fact that Big Barda, Cheetah, DCU Joker and Mettalo only come with other stuff repackaged though I suspect they'll also be available direct to order individually down the line, so I'll hold off on ProMomoaman.

To fund this, with heavy heart (and light kidneys), I'm going to offload some BMG. I know, shock horror. But the simple reality is that I've really lost my love for the game; I either want a gang warfare game OR a supers game, not one that badly mashes the two things together. Plus, I've still got all my metals. I'm keeping all my Joker stuff, because Joker, and I've got the new Bane stuff as I just like plain like 'em - and who doesn't love generic 32mm Mercenaries? I've parted ways with Court of Owls and Penguin, which leaves Sirens - but all their stuff is DCU compatible, so that's staying - and... Batman. Well, ish. I'm going to get rid of my GCPD and DKR stuff. Whilst generic cops are undoubtedly useful, I've still got all the Bats, cops and SWAT from first ed. If I'm not inclined to paint it, when there's stuff I *do* want to work on, I think it seems reasonable - and I've still got the full gamut of Joker and Bane stuff if I do get sucked back in to BMG.

Anyone want to buy some DC ?
Graven

youwashock wrote:Short Haul looks good. Excellent choice of color scheme.

Excellent reference, I see what you did there. Now, of course, they all need to be similarly named.

A quick WIP snap, ramped the highlights, starting to block in hazard stripes

Some sponge chipping is also called for, methinks. What about the rivets? Oily steel, or leave as they are?

Slinky wrote:The stripes set them off nicely.

If you are doing sponging, I would leave the rivets alone personally, doing both might start to look a bit "busy"?

Thanks! I have that worry...

youwashock wrote:Love the hazards. Rivets and just a little chipping, I think.

I'm so conflicted! I've not rvieted them, but could be persuaded.

Right, well, here's where up to:

Yes to more stripes and sharper highlights. No to rivets. What about the base stripes? I know that it should be green and white, not green and black, what do we think? And is the red and white too candy stripe? Likewise, I'm not sure about the solid purple - thinking red and luminous yellow?
Other than than I think they're done, but still up for further c&c.

Much more importantly, they all now have relevant Decepticon names:
2 Strikers Scrapper and Hook (green/black base)
2 Jacks Short Haul and Wide Load (yellow/black base)
3 Guards - Bonecrusher and Gravedigger (red/white base)
1 Keeper - Mixmaster (purple base)
1 Captain - Scavenger (red/white base - the drill)
+2 prone

And still to come...1 MVP Hightower (and, when I get round to buying him 1 Giant Devastator).

What's up next? Getting those damn booze jockeys done :flame:

In other nerd-life, got an exclusive for wave 4 Transformers TCG, which'll drop at the weekend, along with Blaster vs Soundwave to giveaway. In the next week or so should also be getting the Dune board game, Wild Hunt for Hellboy, and new DCU stuff from KM (allegedly) - plus got my press pass for Glasgow Comicon next weekend, huzzah!

Cya
graven

Slinky wrote:Have you considered some sort of basing material on top of the bases?

Something like GW's Astrogranite, perhaps, though I have not tried that myself...

Whilst it's not especially Neodurium-like, I think that's a cracking idea. I think I'll do that.

Yorkright wrote:
My goodness that Snape looks outstanding! Loving the little green guys are you sure they aren't nurgling wanna be's?

Aww cheers mate. Need to finish him this weekend. Tbh I did get that colour for It has occurred to me, alas, that an adamantium base effect won't look right, as that would be more like an xtreme pitch. I'm considering glittery glowy blue, like a Db pitch.


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Yorkright wrote: My goodness that Snape looks outstanding! Loving the little green guys are you sure they aren't nurgling wanna be's?

Aww cheers mate. Need to finish him this weekend. Tbh I did get that colour for It has occurred to me, alas, that an adamantium base effect won't look right, as that would be more like an xtreme pitch. I'm considering glittery glowy blue, like a Db pitch.

Solar_lion wrote:Like always your alover the map. Good. Been fun catcking up.

I admit that the Green Lantern is my particular favorite, But then was blown away Snape, It really looks like Rickman.

Awesome.

Yeah, I definitely have hobby ADHD lol. Thanks for swinging by again old chum, good to know you're not dead

Busy with an array of things.

The Bru Cru, my entry for this month's Gaslands UK contest, is done!


Wull and Boab, my irn-bru guzzling brothers-in-law, in tiny trailer trash form.

Boab gets the flamethrower and a napalm dropper.

Wull gets Molotovs... All the Molotovs. I used a broken resin engine block for this.

50 bru-can team!

And Snape is done too.



And, so are the Darkmount Devastators!

I cannot believe I freehanded the bloody logo.

I'm happy enough with them. Not going to put them in for Brush with Death (Mantic's painting contest) but they'll do.

Scrapper and Hook


Yes, they're all named after Constructicons.

Hightower (MVP Ragnarök)

He may have stepped in someone. His colour scheme is closely modelled on G1 Devastator

Nice shot of the shoulders and gore

Pva + superglue + blood god.

Short Haul, Buckethead and Wide Load



Scavenger, Bonecrusher, Hightower, Gravedigger and Mixmaster



So yeah, not a bad weekender. +14!

Graven


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Aw snap!

Forgot Mera

And her... Wake

Thanks buddy. Prime very pale grey, VJ model Air black, then fabrics washed with Druchi Violet, Camoshade or darkshade accordingly.

youwashock wrote:Gives a whole new spin to "caught up in her wake."

youwashock wrote:
Constructi-dwarves look awesome, but now I wonder if they wouldn't have made better Stunti-cons.

Very good. Now, of course, I have to think about repainting my other Forge Father team.

Gitsplitta wrote:Snape is really good graven...

Thanks chum. I'm trying to work on various ways of shading blacks to create varied tones. Hence, also working on Bellatrix and Death Eater Draco:

It's funny, I like the Bellatrix model a lot but it's a book, rather than movie sculpt - which is weird as EVERYTHING else is an attempt to render the cast accurately (and generally rather well). I've left some flash on her arm as ragged cloth. So they need a bit of tidying, but they'll be done before the week is out.

What else is on the desk this week? Well, I'm in a DC place. Took a punt at the Rebirth Swamp Thing

Green ink-thinned VJ Sick green washed with green-black ink. Again, I've left some flash attached to his right hand because I like the way it could be him channelling the green. I'm very fond of this sculpt, even though I have the metal one and wouldn't normally be bothered about doubling up - however, it's smaller and leaner than the metal version, which I think works nicely to reflect his different (and current) power levels.

But mostly, I'm on an evil kick.

Daddy's grrrls. Just blocking in flesh for now. I am not a fan of Joker's Daughter as a character, even though she should on paper be very cool (she's Harvey Dent's daughter, but literally wears Joker's face - yup...) and she's pretty rubbish in game, but the model's cool. Rebirth Harley is ace, and despite myself I love the comic.

And a whole other kind of Mr J:

The Batman Who Laughs is slightly further along than the Crow Robins, who are really just blocked in for now. This is a creepy as feck sculpt, really evocative, and starting the Dark Knights has been a priority for a while. - I may even try to crank out the whole crew (Red Death, Merciless, and the Drowned) as self-contained fluffy crews are always fun.

Got a nice supply drop from Autokill!


On a separate note, your wisdom is sought. My boys are absolutely determined to have a game of 40k on Friday, as the 3 of us are off, so I've been trying to work out what's (1) easy (2) self-explanitory (3) viable. Bear in mind they've got to grips with Kill Team, so they're fairly savvy. A simple, terrain heavy battlefield for a grinding murder machine.

I'm thinking 1000 points split into 2 roughly equal detachments is easy for them to manage. We have plenty of stuff so that's not an issue. Broadly, for troops, I'm planning on giving them Intercessors and Scouts (because Raven Guard), probably 2x 5-man squads with an Aux GL and a 5-man sniper squad with camo cloaks. That leaves ~400 for a couple of captains and lieutenants. Or should I mix it up a bit? Give one of them a "different" squad each, to give them a tactical role - a fast attack (3 Aggressors) for one them, a heavy support (5 Hellblasters) for another? Or more complex HQs?

As for command points/stratagems, I was going to keep it simple for now - with the Patrol Detachments in the above arrangement, that gives them 6 CPs, which again, for now, I'll just let them use for the basic 1CP reroll.

And then I have to decide on what DG to play against them. The sheer slowness of DG means they should be able to bed in a gradually grind away at the Disgustingly Resilient blighters. I'm going to avoid PBCs etc for now, but maybe throw in a swarm of Poxwalkers to pester them. They know to stay out of melee with Flails/ axes etc, and out of range of Blight launchers, but haven't run up against a fleshy horde. I'm thinking of broadly mirroring what they have, essentially, with regular squads of DG analogous to the Primaris, and looking at 1 each of poxies and cultists as scout equivalent.

Thoughts, ideas, input gratefully received!
Graven

Briancj wrote:Graven, are you reachable by internet-chat-messaging? Facebook, Telegram, whatever?

Easier to help if we can chat semi-real-time.

--Brian

FB/Messenger I'm Sam Graven, twitter I'm @graven_sam, instagram I'm insta.graven - take yer pick old chum.

Yorkright wrote: I think for the marines your on the right track. 2 intercessors, 2 scout squads. Captain and Lt. throw in a squad of hell blasters so they have a heavy hitter.
For the DG a lord of contagion and Chaos lord with the plaguesword and archcontaminator warlord trait. 2 squads of plague marines with blight launchers and a big squad pox walkers for troops. Elites I would take tally man and noxious blightbringer. A blight drone, maybe as they are tough to kill but can fall quickly to the hellblasters. My 2 cents.

That's really useful. Cheers matey

Swampy's coming along

I know TV Swampy is very dark and grimy but often he's very bright in the comics, especially covers like Swamp Thing #40 (Season's End, good stuff), which this is loosely based on.

 youwashock wrote:
Positively delighted to see Swampy get his day. BWL is also looking good. Creepy is right.

You should hopefully approve of this then:


Season's end

Really useful feedback about the WH40k stuff, btw. Got some good thoughts from Briancj also, particularly on thinking in terms of PLs not pts. Plus we have the Objective and Open War decks, which will be good for both reference and generating a "story" to the game.

Briancj wrote:I live but to serve!

So I've heard

Slinky wrote:Mr Swamp is v effective! As ever, I have no clue who he is, my comic-fu is weak

He's the living embodiment of nature, basically.

Paradigm wrote:Swampy looks great, suitably vibrant with just a hint of decay. Excellent colour work!

Many thanks bud!

Theophony wrote:Good job on the walking camouflage , though being in his concrete jungle backdrop doesn’t help him hide.

Sorry I’ve been absent a bit, just not getting the time I need to actively respond and read (usually in thatorder )

That is very true don't sweat it, lurkers always welcome

youwashock wrote:Whole-heartedly approve!

Gitsplitta wrote:Nice work on ST graven. I think you're nailing it.

Many thanks. Coming along.

aku-chan wrote:Swamp Thing turned out really nice!

He was a lot of fun to do. Funnily enough, I used to hate painting green

So, yesterday was weird. The school had to shut because of a burst water pipe. Got a lovely day with wife and little one, plus got some more paint on some potter stuff, which I then tidied up today. I'm all about the Slytherins.

Malfoy Family: Narcissa, Lucius and Death Eater Draco

Getting some glow on. I'm a bit fed up with all the black so decided to mix it up a bit with some glowy magic.

Particularly happy with Narcissa.

Bellatrix

Much more glowy magic, but with black hair too decided it was necessary. Plus, went for lots of the same shading as cloaks, but hopefully more varied in the grey tones.

Crabbe, Goyle and Draco.

Goyle's pudgy face was a real nightmare, as were the school badges.

Fred and George (or is it Geroge and Fred?)

Which is which?
9 more done, and that's the back of the potter stuff broken, finally.

And onwards... Ron and Harry wips

Added a plague rat to Ron for Scabbers. God, what a nightmare the Harry sculpt is to paint!



Also, started some spectral bikers for Beverly, the not-Christine faction for Gaslands:

I am enjoying VJ Livery Green a bit too much, I suspect. Yellow wash and then white highlights to follow, plus maybe some GS ghost flames on the bases.

Spooooooky I've left them quite flashy also, to be drippy goop. Two more to do as well, but they need base repair/shenanigans.

Planning my first proper game of 40k with the kids tomorrow. Wish them luck!
More geeky freebies on the way, too: Blaster vs Soundwave for TFTCG, Tripods & Triplanes from Ares, Hellboy stuff from Mantic, and a mystery box from KM. Who knows what's to come?
Anon,
Graven

youwashock wrote:Great looking wizards! The Malfoys are such great sculpts. Love how you have handled Bellatrix, too. She looks both crazy and dangerous.

Thanks! They're very evocative

Slinky wrote:Some great OSL there, Graven, very well done

Thanks. I think the green by her left food is a bit too blobby still though.

Gitsplitta wrote:Pretty fantastic work there my friend! Nicely done.

Cheers chief!

Yorkright wrote: Wizards look good, the Malfoys are my favorites.

You and me both.

Well now. A long weekend? Why not.
First, a day off with the munchkins.

Tried to give the kids balanced, similar forces, which ended up coming in at 61PL for 2 detachments.

Kids: Raven Guard


My Death Guard


Funnily enough, because we've played kill team, we had the realisation that we lack enough basic loadout primaris or plague marines, just a couple short, but still. So a little bit of proxying required. For me, it was even more noticeable with a total lack of a non-terminator chaos lord still, something to do, eh? Kitbash Necrosius was a perfect stand-in however.

Following Briancj's advice (I know, dangerous, right?), sorta, we used the open war deck for random deployment zones, objectives (2 for them, 1 for me) and a twist. The Comet and... the Big Game Hunter (?) for them, burn and pillage for me (how fitting). Really forced them to think and plan. Inceptor strike in the back field led to slaughter by cc DG, whilst the snipers happily took pot shots all game.

By the end of T3 they'd taken out everything bar Tallyman, Chaos Lord and plaguecaster, plus were holding the high ground with the crashed xenos pod atop it, so I graciously admitted defeat. The wee fella had started to flag and so wanted to cut our losses - need him to stay feeling excited.

It was a great learning experience for us all, especially given that I've not played 40k in about 5 or 6 years. Printing everything in advance made things much, much easier. The kids quickly twigged about using captains and the lieutenant to optimise rerolls, using cover and going for the objectives over slaughter. They got a real fright picking a fight with the cc squad and the sheer quantity of dice they were dropping, and though they wasted a lot energy trying to snipe the Tallyman the fact that they figured out how important it was to take him out and prevent me from getting back my CPs was impressive.

Couple of other bits today. Managed to grab a couple of regular Brokkr for my Dreadball team.

They get to keep the hammers and guns to represent the Illegal advancement. These are bad Constructicons, these guys.

Also, I got a maildrop from KM

Now. This is cool. I really like Eradicator, especially in the Rebirth era. His rules are excellent, and terrifying. They also sent the repackaged LexCorp box. But here comes an entitled rant

If you are telling me you are sending me your new edition and releases to review, send me the new edition not JUST one new blister and a rerelease. At least send me the sodding RULES!
/rant

Off to Comicon today. Aiming to meet John Wagner (Dredd) amongst others, try to get a couple of good prints etc.
Graven

Briancj wrote:VERY dangerous. Glad to see it worked out in the end.

Enjoy comicon!

--B.

Yeah, very much so.

Speaking of dangerous, how about red heads?

Artemis of Bana-Mighdall. Yeah, now there's an obscure dc character. Not to be confused with Young Justice Artemis or the golden era goddess.

The Bana-Mighdall are exiled Amazons. She's THEIR wonder woman. She's part of the Dark Trinity, the anti-heroic big 3 with Red Hood and Bizarro. Scott Lobdell's run has been outstanding, I've never been a huge fan of Red Hood or Bizarro but I've loved every issue.

You were expecting a Princess? Let me show you The Goddess...

The Goddess is the axe. A bit like Thor's hammer in marvel. In the absence of a model for her made my own with spear Amazon and etched brass. Likewise brass sprue for the Lasso of Submission (formerly Superwoman's [Earth 3, evil Lois Lane wonder woman]). Stat wise I'll probably just run her as regular Diana. Now I need to convert the other Amazons...

Comiccon was ... Ok. Very cosplay, very manga, not hugely comicy. Did pick up some odds and ends, and had a long chat with John Wagner which was pretty epic.

Finished off Harry and Ron.


Don't love them, but they're ok.

6ft rule and all that.

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Painting bad guys is much more in my comfort zone:

Adding a bit of purple makes sense to my addled brain.

Whilst I'm doing purple, I might I as well start on some serious purple...

The purple is actually highlighted with green - subtle and, I think, effective. Doing the skirt damn near killed me.

On the subject of the green:

Another redhead. Shocking...
Lots of other stuff lurking on the desk.
Till then,
Graven

Theophony wrote:The skirt may damn near have kilt you, but it was well worth it .

Speaking of kilts (I know you weren’t, but I am )

Do you know how many canaries can fit under a Scotsman’s kilt?

Spoiler:

I depends upon the size of the perch

Briancj wrote:Yeah, they call them "ComicCons" but they're pop culture cons, not comics.
--Brian

Very true. And I'm not going to get all gatekeeper geek about that. But I still think it could do with more comic.

youwashock wrote:Why would a Scotsman have little fish under his kilt? Does it lure the canaries?

The MWL and JD look super cool. Poison Ivy is growing into something lovely. Artemis turned out great, quite effective conversion. I wish the main characters from HP were more inspiring sculpts. They went all-out on Hermione and the boys just seem...meh.

Cheers. Yeah the Hermione is odd though too: super dynamic but almost too balletic? It's a similar problem, weirdly, to Bellatrix - not movie accurate, though very cool.

I started painting a hunk o' junk

Needs dakka though. My prison crew is just about done, so I'll need to outfit it for a different crew.

And finished converting up my Antiope

I do feel a bit sorry for the Amazon I sacrificed (well, 2). Never mind eh?

Today was a bit experimental: trying model air over different primers.
Blue experiments:
Alo-Khan, MVP

Black prime, drybrysh dark grey/neutral grey, deck tan.

Not quite as far along, The Merciless:

Corpse will be in bright superman colours. Debating with to have a decapitated head in his fist.

Blue beetle and booster gold, with a layer of white highlights underneath

And asterian weapon drones over off-white primer, with initial highlights


Red experiments

Red death (left) has grey over black, Ezra flash has white after grey also.

Taking this to the next level, gives us... Deadman!

Boston Brand. He's a ghost, btw.

And then, more highlights, plus some purple,



Feel very productive.

And yes, before you say it, I am essentially using model air as contrast. What's you point caller ? fraction of the cost, already own lots. But totally inspired by Theophony and Briancj powering along. It's nice to feel positive about painting.

Speaking of which, Sept has been remarkably productive. Here's to October: may it bring me cheap tint pumpkins for Harry Potter and Scarecrow!
Graven