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Nifty cherry tree!

Thanks aku-chan!

And sti a slow month, but some progress.
Basing on the wolf and heru started...

And some base colors on the crossbow ladies, almost done that step...

So, yesterday I finished the wolf:

Not my best base, nut good enough for now.
Also got up to priming ready on the latest project:

Thinking the second I'll prime on the sprue, given how clean assembly was. I'mgoing to attempt to have them ready but for basing by the weekend for a game. Probably won't make it, but enh, worth a try.
Paint night wise, kept pushing on my challenge entry, up to shading:

And getting close on the rat marines:

Probably also get done this month, hopefully...

Got most of the way on the poryphon, though pre battle negotiations (and me forgetting the full size table) meant they ended up not being needed. One just needs me to figure out if I'm doing ragnarok hobbies, battle bling, or finding a matching stl for a base:


The other is still on sprue, but just needs assembling, touch ups, and then wash:



Only minor progress not worth a photo on the crossbows and rat marines, though I think I'm at the point with the rats I need to decide if I'm keeping doing 25mm or going to 30mm bases. Leaning 25mm staying traditional, should probably check my on hands from that last secret weapon order, need 50-ish of whatever I end up picking.

Also had a game of titanicus, though teaching play and socializing means we only got two turns. My venator with attached questoris split between myself and a friend vs ex-roommate's Ferrox and cerastis
Setup:


Unmucking our deployment turn 1, but getting isolated in turn by ex-roomies good manovering, and a lucky shot and followup nuking the reaver's chainfist:


Following up trying to do our own lockouts turn 2:


Sadly, while my questoris lived and caught a cerastus, my double plasma hound, already having eaten some leg damage, finished itself off with an errant plasma, and our outgoing fire didn't even drop the warhound by the reaver's voids, and then people needed to get going, so, final state of the game:


Still fun, and hopefully will do more.

Love the classic skyscrapers, great terrain for Titanicus!

It really is, blocks line of sight very well. We need to get a slightly larger play table, but that's on me forgetting to bring them over.

Shifting gears a bit again, doing the basing on the crossbows, and finally pulling out my old Rus for saga for their basing:


25 down, 8 more to do for the milliput, and then painting and snow flock, plus the shields on the Rus...

Got home late from paint night, so no progress on basing, but did do a couple models:
Bought a 30k blood angels hero for test mule use for a possible small slaaneshi project, kinda like ut, feel it may need another spot color or something, and obviously needs a head:


And did some skin practice on a crocodile games asar hero:


May do a little more reworking, but largely another entry for the basing pile. Hopefully thursday or friday, cause I gotta schedule shift back to midnights Saturday for a shift sunday, so I'll be all messed up.

Game looks like fun and the Slaneshii color test model looks great already. I feel that a helmet and then bright green eyes may be spot enough. Hard to think of a color that may mesh well with the blue and purple.

I was reluctant to do green, because I always do purple/green, but like you say, its a color that works. Still trying to find the puppets war helmets I meant to use.

In the mean time, crossbow lassies done:


And with their army mates:

Their opfor from the Rus is almost there, just need snow if I'm going to, and sheilds.


Knocked out the basing on the two paint night croc minis guys as well while I had the basing on the brain, now they're done:



And also knocked out the 5 basic dude chaos troopers:


Just 60 to go.

Almost done the Rus, just need snow flock and banners I think:

Got to figure whats up next after paint night--kind of want to do the Warmonger titan, but we'll see what I get enthusiasms for.

Some small stuff for paint night, a doberman rogue from dark sword, and my counts-as-Kharn. Dobie got done except the base, Kharn just has base colors done.

Looking good! I really like Lion-Bird Dude.

Thanks! I keep buying more of him, for some reason, I just find him a really cool model.

And the Rus are done:



Banners are from little big men, finally figured out how to kind of use a transfer. Need to get neater though.

And started more stuff instead of going to that titan:
Challenge models, more shieldmaidens, this time gripling beast's variant. Hoping they scale, they are about a head taller...



Want to get one done, given open season on numbers, it'd be nice to get the whole box, though I doubt that'll happen.

Also building some fill ins for my csm, looking like two berserks to round out 40, two sereants, and the loose basic trooper to bring me to 2x5 man squads one I screw up my courage and un-blister my two heavy weapons dudes.


And finally getting to the dobies base, hopefully get him done this week:

Always amazed at the variety and pace of your work.

(As an aside, the former IT professional in me cringes when I see the state of your keyboard in the background)

Thanks nev, admittedly the variety is mostly poor attention span, but it works out. Keyboard's still going strong after 13 years so shouldn't worry too much on it.

Got the dobie done:

And tuesday paint night pics: did up some fast skeleton archers as a fallback for the challenge, quick fun, may do more:

Do still need basing though, not sure if I should match the last skeletons or not.

Put a layer on a couple more weres:


And did up a lycan shaman, also from reaper:
(Spoiler for exposed breasts)

Hopefully get some open stuff done this week.

Wonderfully random, as always! Loving the love You show to these old sculpts, they do deserve it even though sometimes they do look a bit dated.

Your choice of lots of blues for the Old Rus looks a bit strange, but... In large formation they a quite believable.

Cheers!

Thanks wirecat, on the Rus I admit I was mostly going off googled image searches of osprey books and re-enactor groups, and started their clothes mostly green and blue with some red, did shields to match. Glad they at least mostly came out. What are more normal colors? Looking like red and white?

And some progress.
Skeletons done (technically with glue still wet in the picture, but good enough)


And base color almost done on the shieldmaiden warriors:

Closer pics:




Got a bit more time to finish the norse, but kinda feeling that simple as they are, the skeletons are the better models for the challenge this month. That skeleton bone msp to ivory then sepia wash and brush off excess method just really works for me.

Did eyes on the shieldmaidens, but that doesn't show much, so no pics. Did get some assembly on the rat marines though:

Was already losing steam on the sheildmaidens, then the cat got on my desk for the first time in a while, necessitating repair paints, so of course I zipped off onto new things instead.
Got the marines assembled up except bases, living dangerously by fulling assembling before painting:

Not sure if I want foot wires for corks, temp blank bases, or just paint them on their final skull bases.

Threw a little paint at a catfolk barbarian, needs washes and metallics next:


And since the game store is doing spelljammer as a paint theme for their july contest, finally broke out and started some wargames atlantic lizardmen, though only just started:


Maybe one will stick enough to get finished through my usual summer bleahs.

Minimal painting, but got a game of titanicus in at the shop:
The map:

Deployment, both venator maniples:

Turn 1 positioning:

Opponent went for a big charge turn 2, and fell short resulting in his melee reaver getting ganged up on, because oh no keep it away!:

Left me kinda put of position, so dressing ranks turn 3 (white reaver is dead but silenced so didn't fall, and IIRC white hound died to first fire, while I kept getting lucky on hit locations and misses on my rightmost hound):

Got repositioned, kinghts got hosed down and exploded after scoring one void drop:

But the double vulcan knocked out his reavers shields, and then my reaver and double plas hound pounded it out:

At which point we had to call it for time. Fun game overall, a lot if good luck on my part, very easily could have dropped into a hole early with some of the shooting.

Paint night happened, I forgot my paints and had to borrow, so still more stuff for the random unpainted pile:
Lizards got some more red layers:

Likewise threw some color at a gnoll:

And started some beastmen, base colors mostly done, though not really happy with the results so far:


Sadly, also brought the wrong nippers, so only really got three skellies assembled, but plans for more:


Hopefully something comes together in the next two weeks...

Vejut wrote:
Thanks wirecat, on the Rus I admit I was mostly going off googled image searches of osprey books and re-enactor groups, and started their clothes mostly green and blue with some red, did shields to match. Glad they at least mostly came out. What are more normal colors? Looking like red and white?

Greens were also in the mix. The problem with blue pigment was extremely severe with no real trade between Rus and Persia/Khwarazm and Byzantium being only occasionally friendly. Probably until Mongols came and shook the trade routes. One-off precious things could be blue. Mass pigments at best could be reddish violet.

Nice batrep and a good space You have there! Thanks!

Lots of fun stuff, always happy to see your assortments, there's always something I've never seen before anywhere

Thanks wirecat. Was figuring there was still woad for blues, but I suspect that should have gone greener.

And thanks viterbi, I try for for variety, usually just end up with short attention span.

Went to historicon, which was a lot of fun, but left very little time for painting. Did a lot of Hobby University, which was a good bit of painting. Some results:
Black and white space marine for practicing black and white:


I can't paint centered, apparently, but given they were both done within an hour and a half, I'm ok with that:


Also got a game in of titanicus with my cousin:
2065 pts, both doing hold the line on the diagonal deployment.
The forces, we both kinda bias towards the small stuff:


The board and deployment:



I went more gun heavy and less into melee than usual, and tried to bias towards the narrow side, with just one titan and the knights as bait towards the other. Woods were see through zones of touch for -1 level cover.
Turn 1, mutual rush for the choke points and cover, I pop off first fire from my reaver for a volcano cannon shot, and then full normal fire into his acastus, trying to pop them fast, while the rest of the front rank tries to nail down his forward most dire wolf.

Turn 2, I try to get the stragglers into the fight and prep for knight charge. Concentrated fire starts to tell, and the dire wolf pops, as does his lead titan on the left after making a charge towards the center IIrc, but doesn't take anything with it, and a haywire barrage achieves not much.


Turn 3, we start seriouly making contact, but I think I forgot to photograph it--I lose a fair few knights, but get the charge, and concentrated fire from the hounds starts really popping things, though he starts scoring kills back. A smoke barrage screens out his acastus, and my plasma titan that can still see it maximal fires it to death, though with some heavy damage. Then turn 4 consolidate to lock him in place and start grinding stuff out. I overpush my right titans trying for the reavers sheilds...and miss, a lot:


But sheer weight of numbers tells. I think we miscounted turns, or I'm missing more, as I know I pushed the suriving cerastus back into his deployment zone for the objective but got shot out by the macro cannon and apoc launcher bastions he had back there, but here's the last two turns--the reiver kept repairing sheilds, and my good sheild crackers were dead or out of position at this point, so IIRC it still had voids up at the end!


Messy but fun all around.

Did finally get some loose hobby time in though tonight, starting some bases for my acastus. Can't find my sculpting putty, so curbs and interest bits will have to wait until I get home:


(Still loose, but the first acastus is tentatively checking them out for scale)
Needs a trim too, but that'll be post putty.

Almost done bases for the Acastus:

Have some more undead, but nothing really assembled, probably still slow for a bit...

And one acastus down:

Getting back into the swing of things with Tuesday paint night.
Got some solid progress on my challenge models:

Turns out the bat isn't a necromancer, but a nudist however. Mistook the wing for a robe until I started painting.
Also got nearly there on my lizardmen and some solid progress on the last challenge model.


After taking that, felt the urge to finish the blue though, which left them here, just needing a little punch onnthe base I think, and maybe one more shade on the red.


At least its a nice start to the month, we'll see how much gets actually finished.

Nice bases on those mechs. Good bit of work in that.

I like those lizard men too. Good strong Red on them goes well with the blue. Where are they from?

Tuesday paint night sounds great! I haven’t had a dedicated weekly painting slot for years. I’m also jealous of your paint strewn hobby space. I miss my old man zone.

Your BnB minis for the monthly challenge are looking good. It’s funny to see the bat in a lighter scheme and hear that he’s just wearing a hood. It really changes how you think of the mini. It won’t be news to Lovejoy of course (he’s Mike Lovejoy creator and sculptor of Burrows and Badgers in case you didn’t know) so he’ll be delighted to see his minis represented in the challenge again this month.

Looking forward to seeing those rat-marines coming together. Another fun project!

Thanks theCrowe! Glad they worked out!

The lizardmen are from wargames atlantic, pretty nifty kit, also includes spears, AKs, and about three other head styles.
Tuesday paint night has been great for my painting--a nice little swap up of what I'm working on, and some nice social time, plus a focus help with stuff right there and less distraction from the computer.
And yeah, the lack of anything but a hood kinda changed my plans on the bat, still a nifty model! Lovejoy being the sculptor is half the reason I wanted to do it--kind of wanted to do one last month when he entered, but didn't have anything that'd fit.

Kinda been bumping from thing to thing, so rat marines have kinda slid back, especially given my desk is filling up and is about ready for a cleanup to get room to work back. That said, did dig in to the warmaster prints I picked up at Historicon, and down to just needed to decide on the base color and order bases...



Even got the next regiment lined up, loving how quick these paint up.