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BlackMetallic wrote:

I never did like the barrel on the kill wagon - so I did a little snipping and replaced it. Still not 100% sold on the new one, but it's better than the little one it had before! Just got it primed, so waiting for it to dry and get more paint on it.

Oh this is brilliant!

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Can't wait to see that massive tank finished

Howdy Folks!

So long story short, I was on ebay (I've still got some stuff I'm selling on there, so I check it every now and then) and I came across some old school mini's from the 90's that were for 40K but not made by GW. K-Force mini's from Grenadier, and some Demonblade as well as a few others that were sued into oblivion by GW because of IP likeness. I put a low bid in, because I figure that whomever is selling them should make a killing because they are pretty rare. So enter the low bid in, don't think about it and two hours later I get the "Congrats" email from Ebay. I'm like what the F? How did I win? Anyhow, I did. I don't plan on keeping all of them (I'll keep some, the rest are probably going back up) but here's a pic of most of them. The kicker? There were six pics, and the last pic had10 or 12 more blisters not shown on the first page, of some killer, killer mini's. Here's the first pic, I'll post the rest once I get them in a week or so.

Got here faster than it was supposed to! I'll pick up the box tomorrow at the post office, and break out all the blisters for some pics.

Pretty excited to dive into these!

OMG the bitz alone from all these boyz is awesome!

50ish blisters, and four boxes of Dreads. Can't wait to dive into them. I'm sure I won't keep them all, I paint to slow as it is. If you're looking for some bitz or way OOP blisters, they will be up on Ebay soon (the stuff I'm not keeping that is!)

Long story short, left the new job I started a couple months ago. Got really tired of the hour each way drive and toxic work conditions. The money wasn't worth it anymore to me.

Anywho, more time to hobby! Going to take a month and figure out the new game plan.

Cheers and happy turkeyday!

You know what's fun? Having lots of time to hobby. You know what isn't fun? Having Covid and not wanting to do anything at all but either sit and watch TV or lie in bed and sleep. Day six of Covid, I'm getting better, still slogging (cough and crap in nose / lungs time). I'm fully vaxxed, and thank goodness for that - the last six days would have been way worse without it. (And if you want to turn this into politics, kindly get the f&ck out)

I did a little work on some absolutely awesome pine trees for the tabletop. I honestly think these are the best Pine trees I've ever seen. A little pricey (3 / 10$ USD) but man, nothing else holds a candle to them. I'll get an update tomorrow probably with pics and stuff. Just feeling too blah today.

Cheers

Wow! That was a sweet ebay find.

Sorry to hear about your Covid case. Hope you can recover 100% soon.

Best of luck figuring out the next career move.

Nice orks!

So here we go - my new favorite pine trees (multiple varieties). While a little pricey (not really tho - you can buy the railroad ones for about the same price that look worse (IMO of course). I usually am a fan of making my own, but honestly, other than I'll paint the trunk a little when the base is done, the time saving alone is worth it. I mentioned before, they are three for 10$USD, while the paper ones were $15 (the bigger green ones). I picked them up at Target in the decor section, not the seasonal area. I'm going to cross my fingers and hope they still have some after the holidays and see if I can get more on clearance.

Stock photo on top, on the base below. The different ones available are below that. All are unpainted and bases unfinished. 32mm Fig for scale.




Went into a little more detail on sizes and variety on my blog :https://www.waaaghdaorks.com/post/super-easy-different-pine-trees

I find myself more and more drawn away from 40k, and more into "low" fantasy (think less DnD, more Conan) games/books/movies. I'm still working on my own tabletop RPG in this setting, with the added wrinkle of a world engine added to it, so you can play entirely solo, and still have events and things happen. Right now it is set up so you start off small and then the world opens up around you, so no matter how much or often things are still fresh. Currently working on solo adventure modules for this game engine (it's all pen and paper and mini's) so you can still get "adventures" as part of a campaign style format.

This originally started as a means to make terrain and paint and hobby (with the rules added in later), but things change and expand when I try stuff out and get ideas. Hoping to have V1.0 out the end of January for a bigger playtest, then 2.0 out the end of March.

If anything it will keep my brain active this winter!

And this is one of them.

Long time ago (two years maybe?) I got this idea for building some really awesome ruins with LEDS. This was the first prototype and well, I got it half primed and about 75% built. It was looking at me today to just finish the damn job. So I finished the priming, and now we're building up layers of color. I'm also seeing a billion places I need to gap fill before final paint. It's O.K., he ain't heavy. He's my brother. 15% paint completion (it's a step dammit!)

Got the tree's painted / flocked / spruced up (horrible pun, sorry!)

Boooo to the pun.
Yeeessss to the beautiful trees.

Got a wild hair up my bum to work on this.... what could it be?

Happy Bday to me (early but shipping!) Probably my last hobby purchase this year.

So long story short, I'm selling my house in a couple of months and moving off grid. Like, only solar power, building my own cabin in the woods type a thing. Super excited by it, and really looking forwards to next winter, when I'm stuck inside, I'll have loads to paint and build. Spending the next couple months cleaning stuff up and getting rid of everything I can't take with. Hobby stuff comes with, because it doesn't need anything but light. I've already started planning a hobby desk (Tiny cabin, 16x16) using mirrors to help with extra lighting. So until then, it's condense / sell / keep piles of stuff. I did plan for a 3x3 game table tho!

Can't decide to keep or sell my game PC, shipping is the killer, but who knows.

Welp, now I wait for my last order of stuff to get here in a week, and then it's on with the grind of saying goodbye to stuff!

BTW... I've got three Elegoo Resin 3d printers that need a home... (Two Elegoo Mars Pro and an Elegoo Saturn)

Holy cow that sounds like quite an adventure. I hope you'll be able to enjoy miniature gaming in a small house. Best of luck!

 bbb wrote:
Holy cow that sounds like quite an adventure. I hope you'll be able to enjoy miniature gaming in a small house. Best of luck!

Thanks, I'm a little scared but thrilled as well.

I was looking on Amazon, and found some of the battle system stuff and was going to click the trigger to buy, then decided first to see if I could make some. Using the "northern settlement" theme, mixed with a little warhammer-y fantasy mixed in, the basic shell of the first building is done. All told, spent maybe two hours so far.

Trying to use up my hobby materials as much as I can before the move (hence the building above). I'll probably end up tossing whatever is left, simply as I don't want to haul boxes of junk with me lol. Having said that, my final order of stuff gets in Thursday, pretty excited!

Just got one of my last mini's for the year - some troopers for 5 Parsecs from Home. Modular, so I can swap arms/guns/heads etc. Looking forward to painting these, then packing them up in a couple months :(

So I'm all set, I'm building my crew, and then I come across this.... and well, moving be damned, I'm printing it!

Okay that's pretty awesome, I can't wait to see it!

 Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:
Okay that's pretty awesome, I can't wait to see it!

You know when you get the hair up your butt to make something, well that started when I picked up 5 Parsecs from Home. I dunno why, but I can't stop building stuff for it. I suppose I should build my crew, but damn if it isn't more fun making non blown up sci fi terrain!

I'm sorry did you put an actual screen in a piece of terrain!

I did. I had an old phone that still worked. I can rotate through gif's, videos or what not by just swiping. I can pull the phone out to charge / add files etc.

Wow- lots going on here!

Imprimus: I wasn't familiar with Knight Soul Studio and really like the look of the render pic you posted, I'm going to take a look at their webpage a bit later. Nice looking stuff and a great contrast to 'standard' IG looking pieces.

Secondis: The building is great! Using the strip wood to half-timber the plasticard really sets it off and will make painting and weathering easier, the depth of detail will be impressive. Not bad progress for only a couple of hours invested so far.

Tertius: That assault ship is killer! What a great model that combines futuristic propulsion capability with rivets- it looks like it should be burning coal and have a smokestack sticking out somewhere. It perfectly captures the Empire in the 41st Millenium that knows only war.

I'll be checking back in more frequentlier- rock on!

Knocking out an easy 5 Parsecs (2x2) gameboard. I'll use it later for Five Leagues from Home when that book comes out the end of the month.

And some secret sauce for texture...


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Now just let it dry overnight, shake off the excess, and a quick coat of matte clear sealer, and we're all done with a super easy 2x2 gameboard for 5 Parsecs from Home.

Almost there! I'll need to fill some gaps, but last batch is on the print plate.