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Drybrushing seems to be the route I'll most likely go. I primed 30 guys using a rusty brown primer which is very similar to beastial brown from GW. I wanted to get an idea how they might look so I painted up a couple by hand quickly. Ignore the archer as I didn't wait for the different layers to dry.

Bestial brown, adeptus battle grey, some other grey, another other grey (they are downstairs and I'm not right now ) I think for putzing line troops they will be good. The fat guy is an army general with a fan of command, I have about 7-10 of him, so he will be a unit leader. They all came prepainted, but I covered over their masterpieces.

So thinking of an entire army of these guys, I might wind up using the undead rules for them. I mean how scared are they of dying? Instead of Necromancers id just have "clay shapers?". I'll have to look at it more later. My youngest daughter Lilly has a choir concert tonight, so family time. Great timing too as my teacher canceled class tonight because of family engagements .

Looks like a good start. I reckon you can have any summoner/sorcerer or even a necromancer controlling the statues, they're basically lifeless dolls with a spark, soul, or puppet strings attached, so the only difference between them and skeles/zombies is that they were never alive to begin with. There's a distinction, but not a huge one. Mechanically similar let's go with that

Fighting off this cold right now, at least when I'm up at 3am I can get some painting done.

First regiment of Terracotta soldiers is complete....except for basing.


Some of them look like a flock of birds flew over their heads

They will probably get basic static grass basing done to them, I want it different to their paint jobs since they will be the invading army .

The static poses are kind of menacing.

Great idea for an army! They're gonna look great together with 1000 of them . Insane amount of minis btw lol.

Yep, troops marching in perfect unison not only look scary, but they are destructive. The tendency for people to "fall into step with each other when walking across a bridge and the results causing the swaying of the bridges and their collapses has been documented on mythbusters .

I don't think I'll even repaint the Foo Dogs as they look ice from the prepainted line.


About to prime more Terracotta troop fodder, just over 100 of them

I just got a missing parts package from Corvus Belli, my replacement gecko arm (the box I got had the wrong arm in it) and an arm for my amazon biker chick penthethiala.


Already glued hers on, now I can consider assembling the Geckos

Sweet, it's about time to see some more Gecko action on dakka, already need another fix

Those foo dogs are a nice imposing size too.

Tarracotta army of dooom!

The terracotta army looks brilliant actually, fab idea. And yes 1000 of them will be amazing.

The terracotta idea is great, can't wait for some Gecko action though.

Have to agree with all on this the terracotta army is original and completely crazy which makes it totally "Theo"

1000 is just insane. But in the nicest possible way. And really cool too.

The business about collapsing bridges, yeah, true. It is the same phenomenon that vocalists use to break glass-- remember the old "is it live or is it memorex" commercials. Resonant Frequency.

just wanted to make sure everyone knows I got 1000 figs from the arcane legion game, does not mean 1000 Terracotta warriors though. There will be a few hundred of them for sure, just not a 1000...yet.

Little bit of free time this morning, this weekend was a bust for me-time as there was church decorating for Christmas, church, and the yearly church budget meeting, not to mention building a 1:1 project for my wife. I'll get pics once all the coats are done. Wife was busy too with 9 batches of cookies for a church cookie bake off, and preparing for tomorrow nights women's banquet, along with helping our oldests with a science project.

In the mean time I primed 22 infinity models.


And painted up 14 archers

You can also see the base coat on my first Infinity "Space Monkey Mafia" figure. Loooooooong way to go on him still.

Nice work!

22 Infinity miniatures will definitely buy me off while I wait on Gecko. Extra points for Morats.

Well this morat is almost done, but I think I might go a radically different color route on the next one as a test scheme. Not sold on the red. He still needs his tattoos and some details and sword done.

Bold choice. Not everyone can run Christmas colors with a straight face . Its a solid combination though .

Yeah for 40k terms, the Murder monkeys I liken to a cross between the Tau due to the tech stuff they wield, and their aggression like Orks, a chilling combo.

I'm thinking of doing more of a Lion theme with them, like my Lion Clan from Legend of the Five Rings CCG. Paint their hair darker brown/tawny and do more of a light brown/yellow skin. Not sure of the armor colors I'd go with though, or the pants color.

I think the lion thing could really work out.

Personally, I must say, I prefer my Orks green, my Simpsons yellow and my Morats red.

Your probably right Casey, I like the lion idea, but not sure I could pull it off and don't want yo have to strip these guys.

I've been meaning to post my weekend project that my wife asked me to make.

I don't like working on ladders so I didn't want to go crazy with the lights this year. My wife saw a picture of someone's house getting the lights "grinched" and showed it to me. A couple hours later a sheet of plywood and some spray paint all came together fairly well. We had looked on Etsy.com and found people selling them for $200 each. Mine cost maybe $30 and an afternoon . He's just under 5' tall so probably not 1:1 scale. Next year I'm definitely making the dog and the sled .

Wow, that is kind of hilarious and I may have to emulate it. Probably not this year though.

Don't get me wrong though, I bet you could pull out an awesome looking lion inspired Morat and I do love Lions, lions and stags, it's just that Morats are red, violets are blue. Fluff can be a sticking point for me. Personally I'm going to go with red but I'll either darken it right down or bring it right up so it looks very familiar as flesh. And I think that is the sort of racial diversity that doesn't tread on any current or future fluff.

Grinch stealing you Christmas lights: Priceless!

Theo has a Grinch on his fence!

A Hooville Christmas scene would be awesome. Add a few pieces every year. I understand about the ladders too. they are not friendly to tall people at all. And yet guttters do not clean themselves. Now that would be a great invention, self-cleaning gutters, or something like it...

I'd keep the Morat's red, or very close to it. Skin color variation probably occurs among them too, so I would expect various shades of red (50 maybe?) among Morats.

Thanks for the Grinch photo. Made my afternoon

The terracotta army idea looks amazing, cant wait to see it finished .

Well, I was almost late to work today (only happened twice before in my 30 years of working), because as I was pulling out of my street I saw UPS pulling onto front street. I was worried the wife would find my Christmas present to myself .



The N3 (Infinity third edition for those not in the know) preorder has arrived, including the free authorized bounty hunter I've had plans for him since the first picture was leaked. His left hand is in full "rage fist" mode, but I'm thinking of using one or more of my stash of RSJAKE's translucent nukacola bottles to tell a different story about him .

I didn't get to look at the books as I had a mandatory meeting I had to be at, but a few things popped out at me. First there's actually two books(which I knew), ones a fluff book and the other is all rules. Both come in a nice slipcase to boot. The books stick out from the slipcase by 1/8" or so though , not sure if bad planning or a design to get the books out easier. The othe noticeable thing was one of the books (didn't even get to see if it was the rules or fluff) cover extended 1/16" further than the pages, no reason for that. The only thing I could guess is the printer goofed on the page sizes and they corrected with a larger cover.

I won't get time to even peruse the books until Thursday when my kids are getting braces and I have to sit still for hours.

Cool beans! I look forward to your thoughts on the book as I'll be waiting awhile to get it myself.

Also your rage-coke, or perhaps a half-drunk six pack of something else

 GrimDork wrote:
Cool beans! I look forward to your thoughts on the book as I'll be waiting awhile to get it myself.

Also your rage-coke, or perhaps a half-drunk six pack of something else

Maybe in the Infinity universe caffeine has been outlawed, so he is confiscating it . I posted the idea way back when they previewed the model and suggested a contest for the conversion, a few people liked the idea, who knows I may start one.