-Crisp & Grey- A NZ blog (May Update - I painted a Dragon!)

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**Knightley**

Thanks Graven, appreciate the feedback for a scenery drawer, Currently I have all the completed stuff at the arse end of the table. I have a shelving system in the games room which will house the large stuff on the top shelf, fingers crossed I have enough space.

Update: Finished up the two from yesterday and started on some others, Also painted up 4 wrecked balls of smoke complete with weighted bases

**Gitsplitta**

That's just going to be a lovely table to play on.

**Knightley**

Oh yes, I've had a game over the weekend vs a mate and it was glorious!

Update: I finished up the last ruins and ork area terrain. There is one more bit of area terrain left but I want to make it Tyranid based but need a colour scheme from my brother first. Also left are the wreckage markers for rhinos/Razorbacks/land raiders and dreadnaughts but I can take those to work any time.

**Knightley**

here are all the shots of completed terrain. The bastion first for gits

Next up craters

Some defence lines

Bunkers

First ruin set

Second ruin set

Third ruins (painted by El brokendo)

Emplacements

Natural obstacles

Area terrain

Silos

Random bits

**Gitsplitta**

Nice job on the bastion mate. Been slowly working on mine... hopefully will have it done soon. Your terrain looks fantastic. Just love the triangular building sections that fit together to make a single ruin. Great idea!

**inmygravenimage**

Very cool and love the modularity of the bastion!

**EyeamRai**

Good looking terrain! I'm working on the honored imperium set right now too.

**Warboss_Waaazag**

Nice terrain collection.

**Mad..**

Great work Knightley!

Maybe in the not so distant future once my Tyranids are ready I can come have a rumble on this table

Any summary of the battle you had on the weekend?

**Knightley**

@Gits - Definitely looking forward to seeing a side by side comparison for sure! Thank you for keeping on with the motivational comments

@Graven - I do have a soft spot for mini-Bastion I will have to give him some more game time I think

@EyeamRai - Totally worth it IMO, the statue alone is tons of fun, and always looks good in bronze

@Warboss_Waaazag - Thanks man

@Mad - Cheers man, I'm down for that, heck even if its a 500 point game, I think seeing painted armies on the table will be mint! send me a PM when you're ready.
Quick battle synopsys IG vs Necrons(me) 1500 points Maelstrom mission where you can score the others objective card if you are in range. I lost first blood to him glancing my doomsday ark to death. I got his warlord however with line breaker. Notable awesome. my 5m lychgaurd with sheilds walked up the table absorbing everything thrown at them and not dropping a single man, only to get held up for 4 rounds of combat trying to smash a gaurd blob, turns out a commisar helps keep the boys in the fight. I had my 4 bases of scarabs crash into pask and do enough glances to kill him, followed up by my Triarch stalker stunning, then killing the plasma Leman Russ over 2 turns. Having two tomb spyders each on 1 wound charge an IG blob, only to lose one on overwatch and the other to the blob hitting first. I ended up winning 11 to 6 VP

Update: got a good run at the bloodthirster

**Knightley**

Update: Finished the Bloodthirster looks ok, not sure the red wash over silver works at this size, what do you think?
Before

After

**Gitsplitta**

I like him Knightley. Suitably nasty looking.

**Knightley**

Thanks Gits, took a risk, semi paid off.

Update: next up is Objective marker 5, a warp portal sprouting tentacles

**inmygravenimage**

Ooh - gribbly!

**Knightley**

Whats awesome about this one, I've put the tentacles in the right place so they can hold a dice which will denote what Obj it is

Update: got quite a bit done, I wanted a warp look to the flat area so quite a bit of mixing purples with dark colours up to light in a *hopefully* warp way, the covered with some water effect, not sure I like how it came out, I wanted it darker almost. but I think it still looks cool.

**Gitsplitta**

Very nice Knightley... quite appropriate.

**inmygravenimage**

Very lovely / creepy and great ripple effect!

**Knightley**

@Gits - thanks mate, gotta have something to go with my chaos lords eh?

@Graven - Lemme know what you think of the completed marker

Update: Marker done, apologies for the crud photos I'm trying new settings.

**Gitsplitta**

That's awesome holding the die like that! Well done!

**EyeamRai**

Cool objective marker!

**Knightley**

@Gits - Thanks Gits, it was more a happy accident and then before the glue had set realised I could make this work!

@EyeamRai - Thank you

Update: Getting started on the last Objective marker, an eldar themed peice

**inmygravenimage**

Smashing, I assumed the die was going in the middle but I like it even more now! I demand crystal die only be used on the Eldar one

**Knightley**

@Graven - hmm, will have to see what I can do about getting a crystal D6

Update: a little bit more done

**Gitsplitta**

Very nicely done. Should look great on the tabletop.

**Knightley**

Thanks Gits!

Update: Getting more done! after this will be the blue!

**inmygravenimage**

Lovely edge highlighting there

**Knightley**

Thanks bud, appreciate the comments

Update: Marker done

**Gitsplitta**

That's stellar... especially the work on the eldar insignia.

**EyeamRai**

That objective marker is fantastic!!

**Mad..**

Gitsplitta wrote:
That's stellar... especially the work on the eldar insignia.

I second this comment that insignia is what caught my eye straight away... Nicely done!

Good looking marker.

Knightley wrote:

@Mad - Cheers man, I'm down for that, heck even if its a 500 point game, I think seeing painted armies on the table will be mint! send me a PM when you're ready.

I'm aiming to have the venomthropes and a flying hive tyrant painted in the coming weeks, then I'll have the main components painted up and I'll be keen for some 500-1000 point games to get back into the groove will let you know when I'm getting close. Although you keep an eye on my painting log anyway so will probably see

Cheers