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Learning about the Dusk Raiders and Carmine Blades.

Big Box o' Goodies finally arrived today, a box of Harlies and Deadzone: Contagion. The Harlies got built first, and with some creative building and spare legs, I managed to get 6 Harlies, a Solitaire and a Death Jester out of the box that's supposed to make 6 total, so I came out ahead there. I also have a ton of DE/Eldar-style swords that look amazing left over, I may have to grab some DE Wyches for conversion just so I can stick them to something!

Now, onto the 30 Zombies in Contagion, and hopefully, it'll be even easier to get more than that out of them. After all, who said Zombies needed 4 linbs each? That's just greedy!

Looking at Dakka, trying to get ideas for conversion...
OK, just kidding. I am doing nothing with hobby today, but tommorow, I may paint up some BA death company or scratch-build grot tanks out of cardboard. Have not decided yet, but probably Death Company.

I by accident figured out a legit way to make a Stormbird out of GW stuff. Basically had a eureka moment using two of GW's flier kits and the canopy from a X-wing.

Going through hobby tools... weeding out what I don't need at the moment... and send the rest to a newbie to the hobby to get them started.

Painting up my brother Menoth army. He has had the army for several years a lot of MK1 models and cards. Wants the black and gold paint look on his models. Need a break from painting Menoth white.

Going to try to get 3 kriegers started for a commission im working on. Then maybe work on some Inquisition stuff for 28mm INQ

Zombies built, board set up, now for a Me-vs-Artificial Stupidity (AI for Zombies) game that may or may not feature a running soundtrack of Shaun of the Dead quotes....

Debating whether or not I'm going to run down to the shop today to order some stuff, order it from home, or just wait for the stuff to come in next week. I've been sick with a cold all week.

Assembling my wife's Wolsung club (inventors), we got our KS order yesterday! Amazing models. Very clean, sharp detail, no mould lines, little flash. Can't rate them highly enough!

I'm getting set up for mission 3 of Star Wars Imperial Assault. Under Siege.

Its basically Zulu with Stormtroopers.

Can the plucky Rebel Heroes win their first mission? Will Dials Passil find her way back to the Light Side after straying during Temptation?

Find out... Soon!

Painting a SM predator.

Working on turning a cap from a tube of carbon tablets (you know, the ones that you throw in water and they dissolve all fizzly like) into a pedestal of sorts that is going to hold orbs of great, untold power.

Or painted marbles.

In my teens to my 20's, I could get so "into the zone" (so to speak) that I could paint for almost 30 to 40 hours straight, without a break (that is sort of what killed Tycho Brahë - he was so obsessed with his work that he refused to even take a break for the bathroom, and his bladder burst).

My first ever army (Archive Hobgoblins, which I had done conversions of to produce an entire army) got painted that way.

I sat down to work on finishing a unit of Hobgoblin Axemen, and the next thing I knew, it was two days later, and I was finishing up the last of the Hobgoblin Pike unit (64 figures), and had completed the Mounted (18 figures), the Axemen (24 figures), and the Archers (2 units, one of 8 archers, and one of 24).

How I would LOVE to have that kind of ability to focus and get into painting like that again.

I know that the focus will return as I paint more (and learn the subtleties of the newer paints I am using, which do not feel or work at all like the paints I used to use), but aging has eliminated the possibility of painting for more than about six hours at a time.

But... Having slept... I managed to get the command figures for my Hithaeglir Greater-Goblins nearly finished (I got the lead-foil standard cut, and I just need to pick out details on the four command figures). Plus I only have bits and pieces of the remaining 8 figures in the units to do, and their shields, before detailing the bases on the unit and calling it finished.

MB

Imperial Assault: Under Siege

Rebel Scum have taken over and fortified an Imperial base!
The Empire wants it back. Unbeknownst to them, however... The mission is merely a decoy for a Rebel Commando strike elsewhere. - Can the Rebel Scum Heroes hold off the Galactic Empire for 8 rounds?



The Empire must capture 4 out of 5 rooms shown on the map. A room counts as captured when there is no 'unwounded' heroes in the room.



It's Round 7, near the end of the game and none other than Darth Vader enters the base, having been "recommended" by a nearby Imperial Officer to get a move on.

Jyn Odan, the Smuggler and Jedi Exile, Diala Passal, have successfully managed to defeat the two Trandoshan Bounty Hunters, however the Royal Guard continued to provide an obstacle for the jedi.



While the central junction was successfully defended against an Imperial Officer, Lord Vader had now arrived by was apparently just too far away for a successful Lightsaber strike.





Except... of course. The Dark Lord of the Sith has more tools at his disposal than a simple blade. He reaches his hand out to the belligerent wookiee.



Who begins to slip into unconsciousness... Now wounded like the Smuggler Jyn Odan and Veteran, Fenn Signis.

With 4 out of 5 objectives in Imperial hands at the end of Round 7.

strikethrough is apparently done on these forums by just the s in []'s. Took me awhile to figure it out =/

That game looks pretty fun, gonna have to keep an eye out for a big sale on it... the AT-ST will be MINE

Gonna head up to the shop later, play some games, pick up my weekly white dwarf.

Clean some more models... I need the fear of a comissar to keep me on track with model cleaning at this rate..I'm getting sick of doing it. I've been cleaning or building models since the beginning of the year. Mostly cleaning models.

Thus the folly of acquiring a swarm box and a hive mind box over the last 3 months....

Paiting on the hill and the Forge Fathers progresses. Have an airbrushed paint glaze to apply to the former and lots of detailing to do on the latter. If I finish that, on to snow application and cleaning up the bases (respectively), which will mean two more small projects done!

Still have tons of scattered WIPs - not sure what I'll tackle next. Should clean up the bench, will likely assemble some fantasy elves (Mantic) or work on a larger model kit (have an AMT Enterpise still mostly on the sprue and a Dust Königsluther I've broken down for cleanup and painting - both are boxed up and criminally neglected ).

[edit: typo]

Priming a few models then working on my INQ kill teams


Got the kriegers done and they are ready to be shipped off back to their client! See more in my gallery!

Picked up a few more discounted floral oddments from hobby lobby to add to the pile of jungle plants.

Gonna try to put some work in on my dreadnought for Para's painting competition.

Painting up some Marines for my first game of Epic in 17 years.

Got just about a reinforced Battle company done now (4000 points or so).

Stripping stripping stripping 35 gloopy Tanith IG.
Washing acetone out of my eyes because I don't know how to use an electric toothbrush.

Feeling like I am making no progress on samurai

Hopefully paying a game of WH40K with a friend. BA and Ultramarines VS tyranids

Still painting that BTR-80 (truthfully I haven't touched it since my last post here) and tidying up some other bits so I can stick them up in my thread here. Besides the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stuff (yeah that acronym isn't that hard to type after you've done it a hundred times...) I've started on another bit of terrain for Fallout, this time a small warehouse based off ones which appeared in the Hub from the first game. Ack, which reminds me of all the unfinished stuff I have left to work on. :(

Painting terminators for Imperial/Crimson Fists combo Strike Force Ultra formation.

Progress thus far:

Yet more work on this stinky dreadnought, hopefully. Maybe a bit of work on some scenery if I can find time.

 GrimDork wrote:
Yet more work on this stinky dreadnought, hopefully. Maybe a bit of work on some scenery if I can find time.

Picture?

Such that it is:

Got distracted and only half-finished yesterday's tasks. Hill is completely painted and ready for snow, Forge Fathers went untouched. Still have all the leathers, weapons, brass trim on the arms (bodies and helmets already done), and base cleanup to go.

Nursing a bit of a hangover, at the moment, so that will all have to wait until after I suffer through work. Hopefully, I'll be feeling human again by evening and can make some headway.

Still not 100% decided on my next project, but I'm currently leaning towards the Königsluther. It probably would have been fine to just paint it up as it came, but I went and decided to do it 'right,' meaning roughly five times the work for what may amount to no appreciable difference in the end result. LGS doesn't carry much of anything, in terms of non-GW hobby supplies, so I'm stuck with the Vallejo Plastic Putty and greenstuff I already have for filling gaps. I'd kill for a tube of Squadron green that I don't need to have shipped in! Anyway, I've already put a bit of work into the beast, so one more big push should see the cleanup/prep completed and the parts primer-ready.