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Naa Bean was born last january Can't wait to watch her root through it though, watching her bound through the fallen leaves was a trip!

But graven, we're British, almost all of our finest 'things' have been done in the rain

Sorry guys, really tired, got home from work and wanted to work on my competition entry for skalks junk pile. I've been having troubles making something for this, as most of you know, I have a problem with eclectic stuff, most of my necromunda build stuff is clean and my territories in the underhive are parts that have been cut off for centuries, but now accessible because of a recent hive quake that reopened pathways. I have a very orky mentality, but I just don't do ramshackle very well. Here's my WIP photo, thought I lost it, which would have sucked, because I came home and finished it .

The base is a 40mm mantic base leftover from my Orc horde purchase. The white things are the tips of fingers from non-latex gloves from work. I really liked someone else's trash bags they made for one of their builds, so I thought I'd give it a go. The arm(grey piece) is a spare Orc arm from mantic. The "bags" are full of pieces of paper towels I used to wipe my brushes on and bits of my desk from cleaning the Orc horde. There other parts to be added on here, but the basis for this is a good old fashioned body dump gang style . If you ever saw rumble in the Bronx with Jackie chan and what they do to the gangers you have the idea , although one arm didn't fit into the tree chipper.

Everyone should fear the 18th street Dames

Well, mud may be snow Sunday here.
Meanwhile, totally understand how being tired can make one not so productive.

I have a ton of workings on models to do.

Sounds like a good idea, Theo.

monkeytroll wrote:But graven, we're British, almost all of our finest 'things' have been done in the rain

Not just the finest, pretty much everything we do is in the rain... including complaining about it...

I've been quiet for a while, work, family and sleep along with snowy cold weather have me hibernating , but that just disappeared as I saw

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/565515.page#6328349

Ancient society has returned to necromunda , saw man of his builds years ago, really excited to see some more work of his pop up

Is chilly here as well.

Very little hobby stuff happening. Got up last night and couldn't drift back to sleep, so I threw some paint.

More scythes , but I need to redo the highlights, went too crazy with them, but I think that's because my brushes are pretty well shot and I need to get som new ones.

My free times getting eaten up by finals this week and papers, like vik, mayb we are the same reason after all .

Oh and looksie what just landed on my front porch, actually heard the driver sigh with relief when setting the package down

Another 28mm crusader with the limited version of the Excalibur sword , I have an extra one now.....unless I get another crusader .

We haz snow here now!

We has crusaders and snow

Printing out the forgeworld chapter tactics and characters for 6th edition right now. I'll give them a read through to see if the scythes of the emperor will be using other tactics, or if they'll have allies .

Always good to check out. I did pick up the new Marine codex, lot of retconned history/info so far.

Centurion: Jealous newbie marines wanted a Marine version of a crisis suit that gave S/T and 2 weapons in one fire turn and an extra W, so that is my take on the Marine Turducken

There's hardly any snow here, not even on the mountains. MA, CT, and NJ have nowhere to ski now.

I'd invite you to ski here, but there's a serious case of flat happening, try us in a few thousand years after some earthquakes and we might have enough ski areas to go on . Seriously though, most of our hills that could be skied on are covered with trees, with only wide enough paths down them for the power line trucks or cell tower service vehicles to get up to them. Most of our stuff has been ice with a dusting of snow on top, and Friday were getting more. Hurray for typical Missouri weather

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
There's hardly any snow here, not even on the mountains. MA, CT, and NJ have nowhere to ski now.

Adirondaks in NY?

Needed to buy paint brushes, and was by the flgs yesterday, so what did I get....paints . Must remember to write myself a note


I've been lacking variations of the metals so I thought I would pick some of those up. Dreamforge trooper still trying to figure out his color pattern. I tried white thinking Star Wars storm trooper, but shading whites a so now he's going to get a third paint job of different metal colors, because my grey knights might be brass, chrome, or bronze

Edit: what about Minotaur colors?

Good job. I think Michaels has some really nice brushes, I ended up buying every single 10/0 they had for like 12 dollars and now i know which ones I like. Because who can honestly afford a $35 paint brush >.>

Yeah hobby sections of a lot of other stores can also be good sources of less expensive brushes. I never buy GW brushes anymore, they are overpriced and not great quality for the cost, they overrate all their GW brand stuff

@nafarious, thanks, I usually pick my brushes up from the local hobby store, much cheaper and my skills don't require great brushes.
@shaso, the only GW stuff I want to buy any more is the paint, sounds stupid and expensive, but its really more because I'm used to the quality, I like the few model colors I have, but I dislike the dropper bottles.

Painted another storm trooper, keep threatening that I'm going to build grey knights. Tell me what you think. Yes I di just notice a mold line on the leg, much more pronounced after the zoom from the iPad.



Should I paint areas different colors, like.
1. The boots
2. The gloves
3. Elbow pads
4. Knee pads
5. Get out h stripping agent o give him another coat of something else?

I understand completely I guess we look at our brushes differently >.> mine hold my paycheck and I have to figure out their secrets... shhhh

I'm excited today though I aced a final and didn't have to take another one, one more to go but through my teachers Russian grading scale (she is a math teacher straight out of Moscow and also a bear because all Russians are bears.) A 60% is a B! Hot damn I did good this semester

Does the bear have someone riding her? If so you need a cat sniper (I've had this pic so long )

Haha glad I could give you a use for it. She didn't even grade my exam. But hey now I'm done for the semester and have good grades.

I will be using a dark grey undersuit along witht he armor of the eisenkerns, I may even camo pattern the undersuit

The snowpokalypse is upon us , 4-5 inches here and still coming down. Of course this is my weekend off, but the streets look like its clean enough to go holiday shopping, or to buy a new dishwasher cause ours blew up Thursday night . Last night at work I was covering the trash guys shift, always fun stuff cleaning up the bio hazardous waste . But cleaning out the pharmacy trash I found some useful stuff , no not drugs , foam. I had no problems bringing it home as the pharmacy trash never has gunk in it. Plus the sheets are thick enough to protect minis and just larger than my box for my mantic Orc box . The parts I trim off will be perfect for sponge painting too.


Well off to do snow angels with the kids.

I would need help getting back up from making snow angels

@ Theo - it's amazing the storage used by labs and pharmacies. Good foam, strong boxes. My wife's a hospital microbiologist and she scores me some great stuff!

I swear though theo your thread and daves thread, and sometime viks. Are the only most active threads on here, it drives me crazy.

@shaso, I'm not that bad off, but it does take longer than even five years ago.
@graven, there's so much waste being tossed I shake my head. The company talks about how much debt there is and then everyday I see boxes of new stuff brown away because it would mean employees take an extra couple steps to do something .
@nafarious, I check in on my hone a few times a day usually. I try and update frequently, but right now there's so much ls going on including a daughter who took six+ hours yesterday to get a half hour assignment done so the whole family suffered.

Nothing yesterday due to daughter drama and dishwasher replacement. The guy who remodeled the house before we bought it had plumbed the connection for the dishwasher without a shutoff, or covered it with cabinets , so even after shutting the water off to the rest of the house there was a mess. Hopefully today. Can get some hobby time in, but since I'm off tonight again it will probably be more family time, I'll get to do stuff after they go o sleep though. The snow here was great, about 5", and it was a good packing snow too. Each of the kids made snowmen before we found my daughters teachers note about her late project. Driving last night to the store there was a snowman on each lawn for about a block and a half . My other brother in law and hi kids made a 6' tall snowman in their yard, posted it on Facebook, I looks great.

Edit: getting that itch for something terrainish....maybe build some zone mortalis boards???? I think someone mentioned the squares were 3"x3"

Haha I understand Theo just making a comment. Since I'm not very warhammer involved any more I figure I only back here for the threads I follow. And you should check out the privateer press terrain and table forums they have me itching to do some terrain as well. Flip the ol 4x4 over and build myself a new table in the underbelly of the old one.

Yeah, the arthritis in the knees is that bad.

But the trooper looks good, and the goggles close to what I plan to do, blue lenses for the helmets, I may use a darker blue base for the goggles, maybe green lenses now.

@nafarious, I might check out their sites for some inspiration, getting some urge to do terrain again.
@shaso, the goggles just happened that color cause the new GW oxide paint was in front of me. It's very glowy

Not much to report, really just bored right now. About to leave for work, but I did toss a little bit of paint on the mini leviathan. He's getting grey knight colors, but I think he's going to get hazard stripes. I'm thinking of fielding an alternate universe iron warriors army using grey knight rules. They don't have storm bolters, just modified bolters to throw more ammo down range. The psychic powers will just be "siege" devices that could go wrong. Of course mini leviathans will be dreadknights, and the big ones are the siege engines .

I just finished angel exterminatus this morning after not having read black library books for almost a year. Glad this had iron warriors and perturbo, also got more insight into those purple pansies the emperors children. I'm going to try and pick up betrayer today, hopefully there's enough smurf killing in it for me to enjoy.