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painted a couple of necron warriors, hoping to finish the remaining four (6?) by sunday, as I'm having a friend over and don't want the damned things cluttering my desk.
also, I paint my warriors in six easy steps. weird.
leadbelcher.
ironbreaker drybrush.
nuln oil.
ironbreaker dry.
maccrage blue on armour plates.
tyemple guard blue in energy andf edges of armour.
gulliman blue wash in energy.

 Compel wrote:
I was the Christmas party today, which meant I happened to be in town on a weekday, while shops were open.

Mistakes were made.

Don't know if this is what you're going for, but that would make one hell of a cool Asterian command ship/dropship in Warpath!

I painted some Bastonne men at arms, red and yellow of course, and bought some mercs minis



Thanks
Austin

Flames of war Vickers HMG platoon being painted atm.

Today, I hope to get some Mantic Enforcers painted, do a test model for my Deadball Xtreme Convict Team but I'll probably get distracted and do something completely different instead.

Still plugging away at the 10 man Terminator Squad.

Doing some depth work on this guy


May try to wrap him up tonight but there is an equally strong chance I will mess up and have to strip him.

I need to continue airbrushing shirts for several people on my xmas list. I also want to put a strong step towards finishing some Mars Attacks minis so I can have the first several scenarios with painted minis.

Painted an IG infantry squad for Epic and primed a DKoK Quartermaster to do tomorrow (my lamp is out of action right now and daylight does not last long at this time of year).

Putting a Treeman together. Magnetizing it for dual Durthu/Ancient use.

Well, about to go on a boring 12 hour work shift, with absolutely nothing going to happen. so stripped a few older metal models (last chancer female, first and only female, and catachan grenade launcher female) to paint them during that time. Also, picked up the poison ivy crew pack. going to paint that up during the time.

assembling vampire counts

Going to sleep, it's a hobby

I also finished up my nephew's second Halo related shirt completing his xmas presents for the year. Now to start on a mass effect shirt for the niece

Decent hobbying day actually, I managed to paint four martian grunts and even added on Troy just a minute ago. I'll dip and seal them tomorrow.

I'm still painting my unassembled Daemon Prince: I'm hoping to finish his head, arm and pauldrons this evening.

Today I'm stripping 5 Blood Angels Assault Marines to paint the as Flesh Tearers as I fancy a change, hopefully get them sprayed before tonight.

Put together a 2000 pt Covens list for an upcoming tournament.

Looking forward to trying it out

Glued Ebaldur's non-sword arm on again. Keeps getting knocked off.

Painting Woldwrath still... Might paint some trollbloods next, alomg with some of my DE.

 RobertsMinis wrote:
Today, I hope to get some Mantic Enforcers painted, do a test model for my Deadball Xtreme Convict Team but I'll probably get distracted and do something completely different instead.

From yesterday, I only finished the test model for my DZ team done but got some good work in on the Enforcers.

Today, hopefully I will finish my Enforcers, prep more convicts, work on a Prussian Steam Tank and work on a Medic for a German Bolt Action Army... But like yesterday I'll probably get the urge to play Long War xcom.

Base coating a bunch of models. then will paint them later today.
4 leman russ
2 15mm 6pdrs

Building a Cerastus Knight Castigator to add to my House Griffith Knights. Good times.

Pinning, Rodding, the whole deal. I'm also going to fill the joins inside the body cavity with epoxy resin for added strength, as I do with most large resin FW models.

Today i'll be finishing assembly on 6 more Witch Elves, and then playing with some test colors ... my high elves are Marcharius solar orange, and a deep but electric blue (for trim, mostly), with white and bright silver metallics toned with turquoise + armor wash. For the new Eternity king stuff, i want to subtly work purple into that, without breaking the overall motif, so i'll be messing around with some paint schemes to try to make that happen.

Today, I had a WMH game vs Gaterman possies with my Cyriss. It was really fun.
Moreover, I bought the new BA codex. Let's see...

i've based and photographed the last month worth of painted models, and have been working on a ruined building for my table.

Tonight before I sleep I will have finished assembling my first scratch built drop pod.

Dear lord pictures! I mean sleep first if necessary, but pictures

Once im home I will working on converting my new spacemarines from the Tyranid/Blood Angel starter set into either more Black Templar or Imperial Fist. The tyranids are going to my roommate. Then we plan on doing the missions in the book. Fun small games during the holiday season before family consumes our free time.

Finish assembling my devastators: 3 more to go and then probably start cleaning up my centurions. Mold Line removal, always so very fun!

Today I've been modifying some non-FFG Star Wars models to work with X-wing. I haven't been able to get hold of the official Falcon or Slave1 expansions, so I'm using these instead. The Falcon is from Ravell, it's a pretty nice model that clips together without glue. It comes pre-painted but I gave it a quick wash to dirty it up more. I think it's a touch smaller than the FFG falcon, but still a good stand-in for someone who doesn't have one. After all, it's not really Star Wars without Solo and the Millennium Falcon. The Slave1 is from DeAgostini, I like the scale, but it's solid diecast metal so it weighs a ton (like one of the old metal dreadnoughts). The two models cost me a little under £20, which isn't too bad. The other ships are FFG which I included for scale.

For the bases, I found some laser-cut MDF squares. Which are the perfect size. They were super cheap too (I think they're supposed to be coasters). I made the falcon's stem out of an old paintbrush handle, I was able to carve the top so the ship can slot on without glue (looks quite snazzy). The Slave1's stem needed to bend a bit to go in the back, so I used a piece of steel rod. I haven't finished them yet. I still need to print out more suitable base inlays, and maybe stick little bumps on the front for measuring. Then all I need to figure out is how I'm going to accomplish the movement dials! *sigh* -- The FFG prices sure seem a lot more reasonable when you factor in all these extra little bits that you don't have to make!

Some more pictures:

Huh, that's pretty cool. What are you doing for cards for them?

Today, I definitely give the BA codex a read.
It's not that bad as I thought.
I guess I'll come up with a list.

 GrimDork wrote:
Huh, that's pretty cool. What are you doing for cards for them?

Well obviously there would be copyright issues with reproducing the FFG cards. So I couldn't possibly advocate that on Dakka. However, I have seen Photoshop templates online for creating custom cards to fit with x-wing. I'm not sure what FFG's position would be on that.

Regardless, the stats on the cards aren't exactly secret. You don't really need the physical cards themselves to be able to play, so long as you know what's in your list and the rules for it. I'll probably print some kind of cards out anyway for reference. Once I put them in card sleeves they'll feel and work the same as my real cards.