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Freehand you say? Freehand?! You devil you. Love the pin-up girl especially. I *may* have stolen the cowgirl idea for something...

Loving the freehand Jazzy! The dragon is actually my favourite, so definitely keep it and maybe repeat it. Though I find it nigh-impossible to get 2 freehand symbols to match!

The Fable creatures look pretty cute, even with the weapons

Great post, the cuddly weaponized animals are very cool looking indeed. But the freehands steal the cake and I gotta echo the others, keep all freehands, they are amazing!

Meer_Cat wrote:Wow! All around- wow!

Love seeing your Fable pieces, very well done already and more to come, you say. I very much enjoyed my own forays into chibi-type figures with the little ponies and the yokai. Very different from 'normal' wargames pieces.

Your freehand is amazing. I've seen the French WWI design before, or very similar, reading about the war. Keep The Dragon Wagon- it's perfect. And for the Cowgirl? One doesn't serve seven years at Fort Hood and not throw back one's hat and holler yee-effing-haw.

Rock on.

Thank you, Meer_Cat. The Fables are a nice switch, and have been really fun. The Cowgirl came out pretty well. Yee-effing-haw, indeed.

youwashock wrote:I vote keep the dragon, too. All those freehands look great!

Thank you, youwashock. Two votes for.

inmygravenimage wrote:Freehand you say? Freehand?! You devil you. Love the pin-up girl especially. I *may* have stolen the cowgirl idea for something...

Go for it! The more cowgirls, the better, imho.

gobert wrote:Loving the freehand Jazzy! The dragon is actually my favourite, so definitely keep it and maybe repeat it. Though I find it nigh-impossible to get 2 freehand symbols to match!

The Fable creatures look pretty cute, even with the weapons

I'm thinking of putting it on my other vehicle, instead. I put it on the Repulsor, but think it would fit better on the Impulsor. It's more of a transport, where the Repulsor is more of a big tank. We'll see how it comes out and then I'll decide.
More Fables to come.

Viterbi wrote:Great post, the cuddly weaponized animals are very cool looking indeed. But the freehands steal the cake and I gotta echo the others, keep all freehands, they are amazing!

Thanks, Viterbi. That little Elephant is my most favorite thing.

I have another couple freehands coming, so stay tuned.

Meanwhile, I started on my LoER project. Finally. Only two weeks left, it's sort of time.

I have some photos of it. I built ladders from chip board. I need some ways to get up to the upper level. Maybe a series of ramps?

Also, a kickstarter that I backed two years ago finally arrived. Some cool graveyard terrain. I'm excited to get to it, but at the same time I have other projects going. It will likely have to wait.
Although at the same time, it would make a killer back drop for some games of Cursed City. So, maybe that will bump both of those projects up the que.

The LoER entry is looking cool, good luck getting it done in the next couple of weeks. I hope we get to see the kickstarter cemetery soon afterwards as those bits look cool already

Oh...Necromunda towers.

Sweet.

CB

I haven't posted in a while, but I've been busy painting. I'm just going to put this all as a photo dump.

I went a bit of a different direction with the LoER terrain piece. I'm going to see if I can find the motivation to finish it for the next challenge. Four months doesn't seem too far off.
It's now a series of modular towers, stairs and bridges. The factory piece and the tower are still on the table, so I'll probably build a half stair or something to connect the two. I posed some space marines against some skaven for photo purposes. It's probably heresy on some level to combine the two. But, I don't see the Skaven worrying much about heresy, and I see the Space Marines shooting any xenos/heretical forces they come across and worrying about the heretical consequences later.

I also have some more freehand on the vehicles. A two-headed eagle flying against a sun set, and a second crack at the Dragon Wagon logo on the Impulsor. I like this one much better and painted over the first one on the other tank. I've got a lot of little fiddly bits and weapons to paint, still.

And, I finished all of the heroes from the Stuffed Fables game painted up. Flops, Lumpy, Stitch, Theodora, Lionel, and Piggle are set to bash some nightmares.

Not pictured: Three gnawholes built, the holes and warp energies are painted. The rigging around them built and primed.
The Skaven plague priests I built and primed that have been sitting on my desk have been started. I base coated about 30 of them in the past couple of days.

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Ooh, that's some nice freehand. Snazzy murder toys too.

Great job on stuffed fables minis, they came out fantastically well! Lots of nice blended highlights and the carpets on their bases look cool.

The freehand on the mechanised units look great too. Loving how modular the necromunda stuff looks to be, good luck getting it done for the comp

Nice work on the new freehands. The stuffies look great. I love the lion and the elephant with the tenderizer.

Fables look great, my favorite is the li'l lion and the pencil-quarterstaff. Really digging the Lisa Frank paintjob on the Repulsor (Lisa Tank?), great freehand.

inmygravenimage wrote:Ooh, that's some nice freehand. Snazzy murder toys too.

Murder toys are the best kind of toys. Thanks.

gobert wrote:Great job on stuffed fables minis, they came out fantastically well! Lots of nice blended highlights and the carpets on their bases look cool.

The freehand on the mechanised units look great too. Loving how modular the necromunda stuff looks to be, good luck getting it done for the comp

Thank you. I realized I didn't add any shadow to the little rabbit's base once I took these pictures. Still so many baddies from the game to paint, but I'm enjoying this set.
The terrain is 100% modular. It has some variations of my own, but it's heavily based on a Wyloch's Armory video. Each walkway, tower, stair, and railing comes off and connects to anywhere else.

youwashock wrote:Nice work on the new freehands. The stuffies look great. I love the lion and the elephant with the tenderizer.

The elephant is my favorite, but the lion is a close second.

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Fables look great, my favorite is the li'l lion and the pencil-quarterstaff. Really digging the Lisa Frank paintjob on the Repulsor (Lisa Tank?), great freehand.

Haha. It's a little more colorful than I planned, but I like it.

Did some more work on the terrain. I have a couple more towers put together. I have about 24 more railing sections in the works. I need another 2-3 stairs and probably about a dozen more railings after that.

Cheers,

Necromunda board is coming along. Thats a lot of planned railings...

Get painting then DJJazzyJeff, nothing says dystopia like graffiti on every possible surface.

Cheers,

CB

PS: And I know you can do that graffiti.

Yeah, CB is right, get slapping on some graffiti!

Strap in, everyone. This is going to be quite the update.

This week has been my Spring Break from school. Mrs. JazzyJeff, who is also a teacher, had hers last week. The downside is that we didn't get to go anywhere together, but the upside is that I've had lots of time for the hobby. It's warm outside, warm enough to spray prime, but not warm enough to do all of the spring cleaning/yard tasks I would have had if this were May.

I have worked on a lot of different things, and finished very few of them. Alright, here goes:

First of all,

Vejut wrote:Necromunda board is coming along. Thats a lot of planned railings...

Yes it is. I cut strip out of a whole sheet of chip board, and assemble them in a batch. Then it's just a matter of cutting them apart.

Captain Brown wrote:Get painting then DJJazzyJeff, nothing says dystopia like graffiti on every possible surface.

Cheers,

CB

PS: And I know you can do that graffiti.

gobert wrote:Yeah, CB is right, get slapping on some graffiti!

Well, I have a few more painting steps to go before I get to the graffiti, but thank you both for the encouragement.
I did get some spray can rust effects going.


I'll do some more rust brush work, then cover it all up with chipping medium and paint it metal. I haven't really tried it before, so I'm hoping to meet with success.

I need to find a simple solution to reinforce the tabs on all the modular pieces. I payed a game against MacPhail last week on his Spring Break and some of the tabs are already showing wear and tear.

Had some friends over and got some positive feedback about the diorama piece I made for Mrs. Jazzy. So, between that and all the posts and videos out about Adepticon and the Golden Demon, I decided to make another diorama. I don't think I have the chops to stand up for a GD competition or anything, but a man can dream.
A look through my available models brought out this arrangement.

A Golden Girl surrounded by grim grinning ghosts. Could be a fun little set up.

I did some gs work to expand the ghostly trails of some of the nighthaunts. It'll give the scene some depth and layers.

Glued a few of them together as well.



The plan is to have her blasting some sort oof energy burst outward from herself and all of these ghosties swarming around her.
I got just the barest start to slapping some paint down, and am already not at all happy with it.

Back to the drawing board.

In other news:
I got some baddies primed for Stuffed Fables.


There are some transfers printed to make hazard tokens for Gaslands. I'm going to mod podge those onto bottle caps. I'm envisioning them something like Nuka-Cola caps in Fallout, but less like currency and more like . . . hazard tokens.

And speaking of Gaslands, I was inspired to pull a bunch of cars out and arrange them on the bench.

Unfortunately, that is as far as the muse has led me up to this point.

Got some Skaven Gnawholes painted up.

(Not pictured is the third one.)
The scaffolding is base coated.

They are in a box with all 76 of my Plague Monks and 20 Skryre Acolytes. I started throwing some base coats on cloaks there as well.
(Ooh, you can just see the third gnawhole peeking out from around the box!)
Also pictured are the bottle caps I mentioned earlier, the only space marine I still own on a sprue, and all sorts of other treasures. Did I mention I cleaned up the bench recently?

Additionally, I glued and did some gs work to this beauty, Khanjiri, the World Breaker from Reaper Bones.

I was talking to my brother about wanting to do some larger figures. I was thinking along the lines of 75mm models or busts, but he sent me this. Certainly not going to complain.
Here she faces off with the other monstrosity on my tabletop, Truckzilla!


A little love and fuel from a staple in my collection, my favorite, 90 Shilling.


And finally, while they need basing, they are the one thing closest to done.

The skeletons from Cursed City. Some really fun rusty bits all over.

Thanks for tuning in, everyone. What a ride!

An update as big as the Worldbreaker! Lots of cool projects. I'm excited to see the progress on the Necromunda board and the diorama. I like how you added depth by stacking Nighthaunts. Crack on with the painting and you'll get there. Skeletons are looking good too!

A good spread of things, like you said. Necromunda is looking solid. I feel you on the "I just started picking a scheme and I already hate it." Not sure what to do to help, but I definitely feel you. Likewise with the "arranging everything up and then running out of gas", but sometimes the first step is just figuring out who goes with what and where the themes will be. Or just leaving them where you can see them and it bothers you into actually painting them up, that too. Gnawholes look great, and the skellies do look like rusty fun--almost there on those! Nice all around!

Well, you have been a busy boy! I can't wait for our spring break, and Mrs Graven isn't a teacher so that should herald plenty of nerd time with my kids. Nice to gaslands getting some love, ages since I've played it and really like your Fallout token theme. And as for night haunts BOOOOOO! they look great. I just hate em they're too good at annoying Papa's faithful.
Great update bro.

Great dump of progress! Those skeletons look awesome, how far through the set are you? The nighthaunt diorama sounds intriguing too

So much fun stuff. The Fables are my clear favorites, but the freehand on those tanks and the start of the AoS scene are also amazing!

Wow, do you have any plans for what you will do with Khanjiri the World Breaker? Or just building & painting for the fun of it?

Don Qui Hotep wrote:An update as big as the Worldbreaker! Lots of cool projects. I'm excited to see the progress on the Necromunda board and the diorama. I like how you added depth by stacking Nighthaunts. Crack on with the painting and you'll get there. Skeletons are looking good too!

Thanks. It was a big update. Oh, and I mis-typed. The name on the box is Khanjira, not Khanjiri.

Vejut wrote:A good spread of things, like you said. Necromunda is looking solid. I feel you on the "I just started picking a scheme and I already hate it." Not sure what to do to help, but I definitely feel you. Likewise with the "arranging everything up and then running out of gas", but sometimes the first step is just figuring out who goes with what and where the themes will be. Or just leaving them where you can see them and it bothers you into actually painting them up, that too. Gnawholes look great, and the skellies do look like rusty fun--almost there on those! Nice all around!

I have been looking at a lot of pictures of nighthaunts, and of ghosts from other sources. I'm most feeling the old-school Grim Grinning Ghosts from Disney's Haunted Mansion. I'll update when I get some work done on them. Having an idea and putting it into practice are two different things . . .

inmygravenimage wrote:Well, you have been a busy boy! I can't wait for our spring break, and Mrs Graven isn't a teacher so that should herald plenty of nerd time with my kids. Nice to gaslands getting some love, ages since I've played it and really like your Fallout token theme. And as for night haunts BOOOOOO! they look great. I just hate em they're too good at annoying Papa's faithful.
Great update bro.

Hang in there. Only a couple more months until we're all seasonally unemployed. I think the night haunts look super cool. I don't play their army, nor do I really plan on getting more of the army. So, I figured I'll paint these ones up and if I ever change my mind down the road I can always buy more. It's only m-m-money.

gobert wrote:Great dump of progress! Those skeletons look awesome, how far through the set are you? The nighthaunt diorama sounds intriguing too

I have finished painting two of the heroes and the two ogre guard baddies. The skeletons you see here. I finished basing the big bad vampire and the rest of the heroes. I primed all the rats, bats, objective markers, and all the named villains. I keep going back and forth wanting to hack the tombstones off the backs of the zombies. One or two might have been alright, but every one of them is carrying a tombstone on its back. It all depends on the right set of circumstances. If I get the rest of the game painted and still haven't cut any apart, I'll probably just paint them up as is.

Viterbi wrote:So much fun stuff. The Fables are my clear favorites, but the freehand on those tanks and the start of the AoS scene are also amazing!

Thank you. The Fables have been a really neat project. I had a fun time painting them. I had a couple friends who were going to play the game with me, but then they just had a baby. So, that plan is delayed a bit.

Syro_ wrote:Wow, do you have any plans for what you will do with Khanjiri the World Breaker? Or just building & painting for the fun of it?

No plans as such. I'll start with just painting and go from there.




And a little bit of an update: I did some work on a few Gaslands cars. Turns out having them on the tabletop led to something other than just less space to work.

Some interesting gubbins there. sometimes its just in having them where you're reminded they exist...

Apparently this is what happens when you give your sixth grade art class some brushes and say. "Help me paint this horde of rats."

The one with the mushroom cloak was apparently playing dress-up with his son and forgot he had a war scheduled.

Entirely down with this color scheme, 10/10 would war with again

It's like Brian Jacques' Mossflower books have come to your table to game. It takes a rat well-confident in his status within the horde to wear cranberry before Memorial Day.

Wow. Idleness does not exist in this dojo. A ton of cool projects on the go, and the return of Truckzilla! Nice work recruiting the students.

I think they did pretty well! I quite like the mushroom one, he’s got style.