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And the dragon got done. Not great work, even for a 48hr model, but still a fun bit for next time my roommates rp group needs a dragon:

I think he looks good for a 2 day mini.

I'm in a similar place with the whole Contrast/Speed paint thing, they look so useful but I'm just too much of a messy painter!

Thanks aku-chan!

Got a bit of enthusiasm for titans, leading up to a game Saturday, made some progress on my warbringer:
Battle bling parts primed:

Stipple painted highlights and torso stacked up but not glue:

Need to do the magenta on the trim. And some more parts getting ready for install:


And game pictures, only got a few turns in before they had to close, ended up being a 3k game on my side as somebody had to drop. Kind of a lot of flying around keeping track of it all:
Deployment:

Turn 1:

Turn 2:

Turn 3:

Got rather shot up partially from poor deployment, and I was just starting to get in to range, likely would have lost if it went the distance. Still, games are fun.

Also started some more bad squiddo norse, probably won't be done in time for wednesday, but we'll see.

Tantalizingly close, but not quite done for wednesday:


Needs a bit more skin work, some metal in the blades, and basing.
But made some nice progress on the warbringer:



Hopefully this week, not sure what I'm going to do for space marines innthe challenge though...

More progress, got the norse far enough along to use tonight, sadly in a solid loss:


And used the excess milliput to do some basing (also painted some skin when I did the norse):


May start another warband, at least have to paint some more archers, and hopefully the warbringer...

Looking good, I like the snake lady!

Thanks aku-chan, kind of a palete cleanser, but probably get done sooner or later.

Speaking of, boar finished:



And getting there on the warbringer, just cleanup and wash on the parts I was working on:


And de sprued the final batch of parts and base decor:


Also did a bit more on the shield maidens, trying to keep up with my mordheim warband:


Hopefully more stuff finished soon.

Almost there on the titan, just got assembly and basing:



And starting some kitbashed gnoll marines for the challenge this month. Not sure the sizes fit, may just use the gun arms by themselves.


We'll see after it all gets greenstuffed.

Got a bit sick today, so didn't go to paint night, but did do the final assembly on the warbringer. Iommius Maximus walks!



Now lets see if I can get two reavers done by mid april...

The observation tower is amazing. How did you come up with that idea?

Its actually from battle bling, though its really intended for a warlord, I just figured it'd look cool as a "spotter" indicator when I used it in an arcus maniple.

The green and purple make for a very bold color combination.

Thanks joshinjapan, what I was going for.
Actually a bit behind, forgot to show the dragon test mules for the other xpress colors I got. Shadow lotus green-black, the other violet I forget the name of, a red, and imperial yellow.

Kinda like the colors, needs thinning on the smooth bits I think, and still kinda in that in between area where I can't correct or back track easily, but I don't have the brush control to do it in one shot.

Also did the sculpting on the gnoll, kinda like how the sculpt came out, but not sure I'm really liking the overall kitbash effect. Actually started painting any ways, just been a bit behind on photos:


And the main thing I've been working on, two more reavers for a narrative tourney at the end of April. Also did a little sculpting on one as well, liking the mouth, not sure the external blobby bits are going to stay, and really not sure they're keeping that gold color...

Moving much faster than the warbringer at least...

Possibly spoke too soon, slow progress this week, as paint night got partially taken over for me by a keep up game of mordheim, but at least started some 6mm tanks and got some gnoll progress:


Made some small progress on the titans, including figuring out that flesh color:



And got a game of titanicus in with a buddy, 1500 points my counts as infernus in green vs his laniaskara:
My force:


His force:


Setup was line of battle, I had secure and hold+priority assignment, he had retrieval and priority assignment.
Setup:
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First turn move:

Was trying to get good arc and start moving forward to grab objectives without directly walking into his charges, he's setting them up, we both repeatedly forget I played cursed earth, but nuke his cerastus to stop an objective run with my big guy's first fire.

He gets a lucky round of warhound fire, nukes my tourney pattern, I can't get a good angle on his reavers and just settle for ending his stand in hound.

Turn 2 he gets a charge on a hound (my spear) and eats it with his princeps, but very nearly loses the princeps to warbringer fire, while the other reaver finishes the right, but then gets charged and exploded by my cerastus, taking one with him on the explosion.


Turn three the cerastus charge kill a hound with the help of some mines, but die to the other hound, his reaver charges my warbringer and the explosion kills the reaver. The remaining hounds kinda dance around a bit with my double vulcan hound unable to kill his, but I mostly forgot the turn limit and objectives, so he dances on to the obajective last turn, grabs it, and between that and actually meeting the kill part of the secondary, wins 24-0.



Fun game, even if I still clearly have no idea what I'm doing.

Actually got some painting on paint night, mostly 6mm stuff. Started some tyr tanks for battletech, and some predators for epic, actually put color on some armigers:

Got a game of titanicus in on Saturday my lucidium playing as infernus, vs buddies Laniaskara:
Map setup, less dense and actually by the book this time:


Deployment, both fairly agressive, me trying to get my melta warbringer in, him to set up some charges:


Moved up, he sets up charges, I try to jam things up by ramming mine in first:


His right side reaver gets shield stripped, then blown up by my bringer, but my turbolaser hounds both get snacked around in return. He moves up some hounds, which I realize too late is an objective run, I set up to try to and stop it, but have to choose between saving my reaver or stopping the questoris and having the hounds, and fumble both, while my near dead hound charges in to try to explode on him instead of me:


...yeah, that doesn't work. Cover and ice cold dice means I don't even ping him, he scores full points, my two hoinds explode, leaving just the double vulcan and the bringer, and we call it as he'll get full points next turn by charging my bringer out of existence two different ways, and at most I'll get one out of three kills on my secondary:


Plus side, made progress on the reaver titans, first color fully down on the trim, started some cleanup. Still need a whole second set of armor panels, but that'll come. Sadly, didn't get much done on the new tanks and gnolls, though the older started trio are almost done--just need to do the freehand and the treads. Probably have to be my challenge entry for the month, kinda disappointed I'll finally be entering astartes for space marines month.


Also started in one of the guns I'll need, and the arm mounts, all magnetized. Five more of those to go:


Need to get back in the painting habit, mordheim's been fun, but does take a good bit of hobby time.

More tuesday paint night work.

Painted up a pair of Tyr tanks, eridani light horse colors. Just need to throw some bases on them:



Likewise, need to build some bases, got a few armigers done:


And just some green paint on the next set of predators, hopefully get them done before the end of the month:
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Plus finished the previous set yesterday I think, may do a little more with the tracks--gotta geth em done by thursday if I want to use them in the challenge:

Funny how it feels like a long uphill where nothing will ever get done and then a whole bunch finishes at once.

Not sure if incremental progress or shooting off on new stuff, but started some custom scultping for the possessed reaver's carapace:



Plan to cover up the reamaining aquila with more scale work and/or broken armor, but gotta let the bottom layer finish curing.

Also threw some magnets in and started painting spare-until-the-new-reavers-finish guns, just not feeling trim painting:


Hoping my brain triggers on that soon, really am almost there with the first of the pair.

Good progress. Lots of tiny scale stuff, across multiple systems.

Thanks Nevelon. Been on a small scale kick, mostly because of a tourney at the end of the month, and doingnmore games with a buddy. Speaking of, did another yesterday.

Setup, pretty open. He's just trying stuff, technically ignatum regia, I'm trying fureans arcus and ferrox, but we both forgot pretty much all our legio rules. He had table quarters, I had retrieval.



We both advance a bit, he blows up a center hound, I start trying to grind down shields on my glory and honor targets on my left. I have to make a decision on shooting up the warlord vs the hound on the left, I pick warlord, and only the bellicosa has range, so just a tickle.


Next turn his shields go down and I get some lucky hits that take his lord just short of decapitation, but its still alive. However, I'm taking heavy damage and IIRC the 2nd middle hound gets silenced. On the right side, I really misplay my positioning, and lose a third hound.


He drops concealment to give the lord time to repair, whiffs some repair rolls and hammers the reaver, while I fail to kill the hound on my side.


Some shuffling, reaver dies, I forget (or really, ignore because that warlord is lethal) my objective, he remembers his, his warlord and hound explode. Can't remember if that takes out my hound or the other lord does.


And some final positioning, ends 25-11.


Fun game, but man am I bad at this...

Some more work on the reavers:
Did the carapace sculpt:

And started paint:



Considering giving it a tail:


And some general progress:


Almost there.

Tuesday paint night, another scattershot of stuff. Got most of the way through the gnolls from last month, may do some more edge highlights, and needs bases:


Doing up a leader for my skeleton force for the challenge for this month:


And some othet stuff, a kromlech priest I might swap to for the challenge, and a little progress on another bones skeleton:


Try to get these done between the Reavers...

Some awesome work's been going in here my dude.

The warbringer is great and reads almost like a reverse-Evangelion in colour (and theme) - the sickly green really plays off well.

Really interested to see where the reaver with the protruding spine goes too.

How good that you got to play a game too! The end goal of the hobby that some of us hardly ever get to enjoy...

Thanks tzurk, evangelion is in fact where I was going with those colors. Likewise, glad the scultping came off as a spine!. As to how they're coming:

Almost there, just needing these pads to finish, getting close:

The other titan just needs the guns there done:



Also got some bases for the gnolls:

And got another game in, full force practice for the tourney, corsair and arcus on each side, he's still in laniaskara, I'm running tempestus this time:

Rolled fairly heavy terrain this time:

And deployment:

I've got a salt the earth and priority assignment, he's got honor the banners and priority. My off the board hound is considering a combat drop, while he triggered dawn attack
Didn't get turn 1 pics, but heres turn 2 after just my vulcan hound moved.

Knights foolishly stopped in the gap there in front of a plasma cannon and exploded, and the vulcan hound is glowing and badly off, though he blew up the missing reavers shields, letting everyone else blow up the reaver. Downhill from there though--he dodged my attempted charge block, after I moved my reaver up into range, and ate that reaver, then next turn:

This followed up with my warbringer getting popped, which took out the reaver, and that left one titan, which he then ate after two turns.

Another loss, not really figuring out the counter to mass charge, but learning.

And the 2nd reaver is done, as I wanted to enter it in a painting challenge today:

Just gotta get these guns done for the tourney, and then everything else like objective markers will be bonus, if I don't hare off on something else.

Still kinda happy about getting it done.

Great work on the reaver. Tons of motion and character on him. Well done!

Thanks Nevelon! Still kinda proud of the sculpt (kinda falling out of love with the paint method, but there's at least 10 more titans to keep trying on.
Got the weapons done:


And some pictures of a just recovered from battle Ferrea Custodea, making use of them:



Also got some custom nameplates from battle bling, got them painted up for a game yesterday, last major paint item for the tourney:

Trying some wear work, not sure it came off, but good enough for now.
Game itself was closer than the final score, but that was 32-4, so not hard.
Kind of got caught up playing, didn't take a lot of pictures during.
New transport tray for table to table use at tourney:

Just a full sheet baking pan from a restraunt supply house.
Enemy force was same as last time, but new battlefield:

I clustered together and tried to group push, sadly, laniaskara is just as dangerous up close as ever, and dawn attack still hurts at the worst times.
Turn 1, some advancing, lots of scattered damage, and I manage to fail voids on the right hound from full to zero, and then it eats maximal fire to the head and dies.

Turn 2:

I think this was the critical mistake. I should have blocked the reaper on the left with the knight and just accepted it would pop for no damage, instead, I lost a reaver. Right flank, can't shoot down his reaver, next turn it silences the right reaver. In the center, just a mess, with some lucky wiffs and manovering, but still coming out the worse of it. By the end of turn, my badly damaged warbringer is all thats left.

He kills the hound with his death shots, but the subsequent ammo explosion doesn't do more than tap the last reaver, and his bringer is untouched, leaving the field like this, and him in control of two objectives to my none:

Fun game, but still not getting the hang of advancing vs laniaskara.

Also because I don't have enough on the plate, playing around with starting some bfg orks:


Not the best photos, but still feeling nice to pop into some stuff.

Little bit of progress on the skeleton king, not sure I like the result on the blue:

More paint night stuff. Little bit of variety:


Did a bit on the priest, but didn't take closeups, and its mostly a backup to the skeleton. Speaking of:
Skeleton king almost done, mostly just need basing:


And started some ork brute ramships:

Kind of slow on the updates, mostly because not a lot of progress. However, lots of pictures to share, as some of the slowness was due to the narrative event/tourney this weekend. We had 6 tables, 11 players and and organizer who played as ringer, with 11 different legios, for the Revenge at Ulixis a loyalist counter invasion near Ultramar. I didn't get the best pictures, but there was a more prepared photographer there who apparently got some nice ones, IIRC on Facebook.
Legio Fureans, probably my favorite paint job from the day, and thebonly warmaster to come out:



And the actual best painted winner, one of our two legio gryphonicus (and my second round opponent), less immediately punchy, but lots of nice detail work:


The other gryphonicus player, with accompanying psi titan, only army to kill the fureans warmaster:


Organizer's Astorum, my third round opponent:


Legio crucius, my first round opponent Brian's force, all the way from Indiana:


Legio laniaskara, my usual weekend opponent:


Legio krytos:


Legio audax:


Legio I beleive Osdeax:


Legio lysanda, which looked better than the bad back of store light could give them in photos:


And my legio lucidium, running tempestus rules:


There was also a very sharp looking prasegeus legio, but sadly I somehow didn't get pictures.

Sadly, not much in game photos as I was focused on play, and I should have taken more photos of the several quite nice table setups, but such is life, but what I do have:

First round vs crucius, sadly only a round 1 ish picture:

Imperials had the grab distance objective, we traitors had hold them back. I had a courage and honor secondary with targets on his warlord and reavers. Water was all half speed difficult terrain. All the rounds were time limited, and sadly none of mine got beyond turn 3, which seemed pretty common for the day. At the end, I'd held him to 18", getting my primary at 15, and taking a reaver for my secondary, but he got full secondary, some primary, and a tertiary, pulling it out 24-19-if we'd played on, he likely would have done better, and I'd likely fallen off, half my machines had already exploded. A fun, tight game, heavy on luck for both sides--he made 18 of his first 19 void saves, but then rolled a ridiculous number of machine spirits, and eventually started failing command checks, almost always for his reaver he was trying to move up, which then would shoot.
Loyalists were ahead round 1, winning 4 tables, got to pick tables and people, which we then assigned to match. They also got a small bonus table strategem. The traitors round 2 were assigned the opposite side of round 1, take terrain vs hold the line, and I got assigned against a gryphonicus player on a war zone--he was fairly new, but gave a good fight.
Map setup:

Mid last turn:

I ended up nailing him 25-4 after a few beginner mistakes and some shutdown fun with a dire wolf and an odd looking venator shennanigans. Lost one titan turn 1 to a vortex missile, another to being swarmed down after a combat drop, only killed one of his, and lots of knights, but got my primary and a minor secondary for my warbringer living. Again, he had the upper hand in kills, but I was doing well on objectives and was starting to come back combat power wise as more engines got into shooting position. Another that could have gone either way. The larger traitor cause however blew out the loyalists, with at least two 40-0s, and the most points scored by a loyalist of 9.

Third round vs the organizers Astorum, doing a weird objective dance, back on the water table. Other two matches were line of battle and then angled lines deployment, this one was a weird four squares thing. He got tangled on startup with his fortis, focused on holding my three points and killing his brawler lord and reavers for secondaries. Very slow build, helped by some very lucky shield rolls for my titans meant nothing bigger than knights on either side died until turn 3, despite his attempted outflank with his cerastus. Turn three however, ended with duelling tracer and concealment clouds, letting me take his reaver...which promptly fell over into and killed his already damaged brawlerlord. He had hoped for one more turn, but had to keep dealing with organizational tasks, so was only on one objective, where I'd positioned on two, and grabbed more secondaries, ending 21-14. A more even but still traitor favoring round, the final was something like 400-200, a decisive win for the warmaster, and a very fun day of games.
End of game:

Turn 3 just before the boom:



Then I went home and assembled some knights:


Hoping to get a household together for a game at the end of may. Not likely, but at least it'll help bring down a section of the grey pile.