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The vehicles are nicely weathered. That twohander for frostgrave lools cool too, love the greatswords

Nice work on the Grasslands vehicles Maharg.

Cheers,

CB

It's been a while since my last post, not had much hobby motivation the last few months, just getting something in for the painting challenge each month was all I really managed, and again this month. Bit late for a full last year recap so I'll just post a pic of the finished minis shelf. Nowhere the 2020 total, but still over one a week so overall not too bad


This month I've finished two ogres (completed on the first for December's challenge)

and a couple of skinks from the Warhammer Underworlds warband for this month's challenge:



I hope to pick up the pace a little in Feb, with a few things on the painting bench
Some more ogres and a giant for use in Oathmark/one page rules fantasy. I've challenged a mate to have a 2000pt Oathmark force by the end of March so need to get moving. At least I'm going with mainly ogres and giants so not too many figures needed
The rest of the lizardman warband
Some old Eldar models for the painting challenge

thanks for looking

A shelf to be proud of.

New minis look great and here's to even more this year.

Yeah, a nice finished pile, especially with several being vehicles.
I do really like that scheme for the lizards, too.

Very nice, loving the ogres, the rust is great!

That’s still a respectable chunk of hobby progress, and painted very nicely.

Extra points for using an Epic buggy like that

Thanks for the comments.

No painting progress here but I did hunt down the Eldar for this months painting challenge. They are currently bathing in dettol where I found another one already there. No idea how long it has been in there.

Classics. Can't wait to see what you do with them. Had the two with mohawks, but the one without the helmet has been sold/given away long ago.

Great shelf of pride Maharg, good to see you’ve got some painting done whilst you’ve been away from your plog. The Ogres and Lizardmen are a good looking start to the year. The skin and skulls are very nicely done

2021 shelf looks great, really cool mix of different systems, minis and colors. Excited to see those old Eldar minis stripped and with their new paintjobs!

Another couple of months pass and I finally get around to updating this blog. Not a lot finished in that time, with a lot of hobby time being distracted by a friend starting to play WFB again. Cue me sorting through piles of old minis instead of painting and finding I did have a 2000pt orc and goblin army in various stages of (un)paint, and also a starting force of wood elves that had been rebased for Age of Sigmar, but remained unpainted as it became clear this faction was not going to be supported in that game. So they got rebased again. Then I rediscovered ebay, and added quite a few models to those forces, making the paint more than I buy for the year target less likely. At least It has given me a target to aim for now! Even got a couple of games in, fun to get the square bases on the table for the first time in many years

Onto the paint. Distractions and an unexpectedly busy final weekend of Feb meant the Eldar did not get any paint and I had to scrabble around for something that could be done in an evening. Luckily I had this little guy based and ready to go


I also finished off a few ogres


and a terminator for the painting challenge



thanks for looking

That Terminator is such a beautiful mocha color, and the large surfaces so very smooth. Love it.

I second youwashock on the smoothness of the terminators army, really impressive!

The gobbo is really fun too, he seems to be missing some thread for his catapult though! Please don’t suggest similar for my Elf archers!

Good subtle variety on the ogres skin tones, it works well

That is a smooth looking terminator, great how you've managed to get the white, bone and parchment contrasting each other despite being so close together shade wise

Yeah, the different subtle shades really make that miniature!

That Terminator is such a beautiful mocha color, and the large surfaces so very smooth. Love it.

Thanks Youwashock. Glad you like it. Armour is a bit dark for a classic Deathwing scheme, usually described as bone white rather than mocha brown, but I as I had decided to go with the white decorations, it was necessary. Luckily it worked!

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I second youwashock on the smoothness of the terminators army, really impressive!

The gobbo is really fun too, he seems to be missing some thread for his catapult though! Please don’t suggest similar for my Elf archers!

Good subtle variety on the ogres skin tones, it works well

Thanks Gobert. Seeing as the ogres have a lot of skin, it seemed a good opportunity to play around with different tones. The final army, if I ever get it all done will have units with a wide variety of skin colours, with some more subtle variations within the units. And as for the string on the catapult - no chance, that way lies madness!

That is a smooth looking terminator, great how you've managed to get the white, bone and parchment contrasting each other despite being so close together shade wise

Thanks Guardling. Scheme was chosen to cover the off chance I made my few painted dark angels into a small force - I didn't think that just red weapon cases would be enough to tie the different elements together and as the ravenwing had white decorations, this model did too. Of course that meant the bone needed to be darkened leaving little room for the parchment, which took a few goes to get right!

Yeah, the different subtle shades really make that miniature!

Thanks Gwyn

After having played a few games of WFB, I decided to paint up a couple of night goblins

and now there are more of the little blighters clogging up the painting desk, base coats and shading finished so far


Also in the painting queue are Kainan's Reapers from Underworlds for this month's painting challenge. I've finished one to test the scheme, and the rest are in various states of base coat / shade

That Ossiarch guy is fantastic. Awesome colors and that blade is just killer.

That purple blade is just *chefs kiss*

Loving the night goblins, they’re always such fun minis to see painted. Gwyn is spot on about the blade, it looks fantastic!

Love the skellies, great color choices!

Night goblins look fun, hope the squad is ready soon.

Thanks for the comments everyone. I've been abit slack updating this, mainly due to a lack of painting enthusiasm, pretty much the only mins finished being for the painting challenge:
a fanatic


and a wood elf lineman


I have half a wood elf team half finished to match this one, maybe sometime soon I'll finish these and the rest of the team....

My main gaming buddy has been having the same lack of painting inspiration lately, so we've set a few goals to hopefully motivate us:
1) Horus heresy army, 2000-3000 pts by mid September
2) Warhammer fantasy army by early November
3) Some smalls (blood bowl, underworlds etc for over xmas)

Quite a lot required for me to meet these. For the heresy, the obvious choice was to expand on the few Emperor's Children I already have (see p1), though I thought these might take too long to paint. So I tried out a quick scheme for some Iron warriors (mainly drybrushing so quick and metallics tend to give a better look for DB). Started out with a terminator captain

Turned out ok, and certainly quick compared to my usual methods, good enough to start an army. Any tips on shading/drybrushing a Martian Ironearth base paint welcomed as I'm not quite sure how to finish this off. I built a few models based on what I had lying around and hope to finish these quickly for the painting challenge along with some other models (a few more mk IVs to finish the squad, along with some FW resin that will be here soon. And maybe the starter box, though was late ordering this so who knows when this will arrive.

and some progress on the tactical marines



Thanks for looking

Love all the fringe painted like hazard stripes and the hazard striped crest.

Lots of nice progress Maharg.

Cheers,

CB

Hello again, its been a while since my last update. I have been painting a bit, just got out of the habit of updating this blog, so there are a few pictures coming.
First up is my entry for the November painting challenge, an Escher ganger



Last months challenge was this vampire for Halloween



The rest of my painting time has been spent building up an Iron warriors army for the Horus Heresy. Fairly basic scheme so I could get an army together reasonably quickly. 2000+ points in 3-4 months is definitely a record for me







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Thanks for looking

Nice Escher lady!

Thanks Guardling. Now I just need a gang to go with her...

Time for the review of last year. I managed to finish 91 models, which isn't too bad. Most of these were Iron Warriors, over 2500pts worth. I'm not sure I've ever got a decent sized army done that quickly, certainly helps that the majority of the painting is dry brushing and washing. There is a distinct lack of vehicles though, something that needs to be fixed this year


Other than these the remaining models are a random mixture, mainly painted for the painting challenge, a couple of which actually made the podium which was a pleasant surprise
Some ogres

Parts of Underworlds warbands

and a few other bits



Hobby goals for the coming year
- Paint more models than I buy. Don't think I've ever managed this one before! Stretch target here of painting twice what I buy.
- More Iron warriors, get the army over 5000pts with at least 1500 being vehicles
- Get the ogres game ready, maybe 1500-2000pts (6th/7th ed)
- Finish off some of the things started for last year's painting challenge (Esher gang, 4 Underworlds warbands, Wood elf bloodbowl team)
- Enter the painting challenge every month
- Update this blog more often, aim for twice a month on average

That should keep me busy for most of the year, and with the three painting projects requiring very few purchases to complete goal 1 could actually get done!

Wow, looks like I’ve missed a couple of updates. Those Iron Warriors came together very quickly and look excellent. As others have said, the yellow and black tassels work really well. I love the white mask on the wood elves, so cool. Hope we get to see more on here this year!

Nice work Maharg.

Cheers,

CB

Top notch painting dude, love the hazard stripe skirt