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That's... pretty darn good graven.

High praise indeed many thanks

Better?

They are looking really brilliant, great vibe to them, really capturing the feel of the characters.

Many thanks my friend.

A much needed weekend away (beer and childcare is an excellent combination) was had. Boys did some archery, all swam lots, and much grub eaten.

So, Mrs Graven's birthday tomorrow. Cue annual cake pressure. This year, a torta Di gianduia, essentially chocolate hazelnut cake. Also, as she's off this week, less toy time.

But, made a start on the All Out War starter set and the vehicles also.

Initially just blocking in colours, though cars are a bit further along.


Experimenting with much thinner paint than usual also, wanting things ultimately to look very faded.

In exciting news, 2 lots of review goodies are headed my way, Jersey barriers and bullet casings from Secret Weapon (I'll be giving a set away on my bigcomicpage blog) and an exclusive look at the new BMG expansion, the Arkham Knight campaign (again, will be giving away a copy, because even if they only send me one, I've got one on preorder ).

So, not doing badly. Baby (14 months) for the first ever has now slept right through for a minimum of 8 hrs for the last 10 days; the difference it makes to our general humanity, and the atmosphere around the house, is incredible.

Enjoying being off. Not sure if I'm any less frustrated by my job - or rather, workplace - but the distance helps.

Still doing token fun with Red Beam Designs. We've just done a Shadow War set along with compatible terrain . I'm getting to do even more, and they now want me to design tokens for TWD and X-wing, which is exciting. If you have any suggestions, or requests, for any game, stick them here.

Later gang
Graven


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A thin wash of Russian Uniform goes a long way

They look like they are coming along quite nicely.

Always high output at Graven manor! Keep it up, dude.

Cheers chaps B)

Had a cracking day with the kids yesterday (although seem to have tweaked my back somehow ), but had time to do some odds and ends.

Took pics of the Walking Dead All Out War stuff, which i did the other day.

Individual pics of the Walkers in my All Out War gallery, but they look so much better as a horde

And the Starter set survivors.

Lovely models. Crisp and deep detail BM on the sculpts makes for very wash-friendly painting. I'm not obsessing over these guys because ultimately, they're going to get knocked about by the kids.

They are so screwed.

Cars from the terrain set. Playmat from the starter (20" square, folds neatly in an old ultra Pro heroclix bag i found in the garage, along with all the minis and masses of room for more. Lovely crate from DrH
Just need to do the barriers and supply tokens.

Meanwhile... Colours done and Posters added to Red Beam Designs Secret Apartment block.


Lovely kit, accessorised further with off cuts as AC units.

Managed to get my last BMG mini done also, the final inmate from the Zsasz boxset:

Creepy bugger. Here he is with his mates.

And, yay, all done! Shelf of shame complete.

Except...

Came home yesterday to a large box from Spain...

That's... A lot of toys. Review copy of Arkham Knight (review here on bigcomicpage.com - tl;dr it's really good, has a strong Necromunda/Warhammer Historical vibe to progression), plus all of this month's releases. Penguin is my main villain crew (or at least, was my first!) so to get all the new goodies was pretty epic. I've not unboxed everything yet but to say I'm pretty psyched doesn't come close to cutting it. Supergirl and Aquaman for the DCU game, Catwoman for both, and Arkham Nightwing to round the haul out.
A good day to be a geek
Graven

Loving the building. And that joker is amazing, I think you really captured his character!

 CommissarKhaine wrote:
Loving the building. And that joker is amazing, I think you really captured his character!

You're most kind mate!
Btw, taking suggestions for graffiti on this one

wow those walkers look truely nasty, LOVE IT!

and that building, while reminding me a tiny bit of the ghostbusters firehouse for some reason (not a bad thing) is pretty wonderful to look at, the more pastely, washed out tones really brings it all together and should stop it from taking over from the minis in any photos.

Green graffiti would really pop IMO; and or maybe some defacing of the Harvey Dent posters?

Glad to see you didn't fully deplete your lead pile you now if you ever do you die right?

Top work on the terrain and TWD stuff. Looking forward to the new KM goodies!

Zombies... love them! Building is looking fantastic too. Add a little rust and the "crane" on top would fit in perfectly.

Excellent.. though I have to say the building entrance need light fixtures. even if there broken.

Zombies look great . the game was all over Adepticon.

The zombies look great Graven.

Cool haul as well from KM

Eccentricnormality wrote:wow those walkers look truely nasty, LOVE IT!

and that building, while reminding me a tiny bit of the ghostbusters firehouse for some reason (not a bad thing) is pretty wonderful to look at, the more pastely, washed out tones really brings it all together and should stop it from taking over from the minis in any photos.

Cheers. They're an ugly bunch the building is actually modeled on the apartment block from The Secret Life Of Pets. Very happy with the colours.

CommissarKhaine wrote:Green graffiti would really pop IMO; and or maybe some defacing of the Harvey Dent posters?

Green will feature some of the posters are already de-faced (two-de-faced?), fear not!

Llamahead wrote:Glad to see you didn't fully deplete your lead pile you now if you ever do you die right?

Paradigm wrote:Top work on the terrain and TWD stuff. Looking forward to the new KM goodies!

cheers. You and me both!

Gitsplitta wrote:Zombies... love them! Building is looking fantastic too. Add a little rust and the "crane" on top would fit in perfectly.

They're a blast to paint, actually. As for on top, funnily enough, there will be a rusty addition...

Solar_lion wrote:Excellent.. though I have to say the building entrance need light fixtures. even if there broken.

Zombies look great . the game was all over Adepticon.

That is an outstanding suggestion. Consider it done.
TWD: AOW is fab. Fun, very easy, nasty, complex. Boys love it, non-gamers get it. Cracking stuff.

GiraffeX wrote:The zombies look great Graven.

Cool haul as well from KM

Thanks! Yeah it's not quite sunk in yet. I suspect the Street Demonz will be getting head swaps - it really bugs me that they are modelled with gas masks and (1) don't have them on the card (2) can't even buy them as equipment (tis the curse of Penguin lists, alas). But I have many heads left over from converting my Mirakuru crew, so a solution will no doubt present itself

Do check out the article if you can (it's gone a bit viral, it seems), why would you not want a free book and miniature, after all?

You have been very busy! Villains and thugs, zombies and survivors, and vehicles as well as more buildings!

Yup quantity, with variable quality

Fiddled with scrap MDF offcuts and made these:
And with paint


Finished the rooftop AC unit also

Absurdly pleased with that.

And my kids love Beast Boy from the teen titans.
No model exists, so i made them one:

Good times
Graven

The colours of the building really give it a comic-book look. Right out of the pages.

Yeah, that wooden box totally sets the scene, it says all that is necessary to the viewer; the colour of the wood expresses the wamth of life remaining, while laying on it's side at that angle conveys the bleakness of the situation.

Good haul of things.

Nice additions to the building.

Fantastic, said it before but your game table is going to be stunning.

Dr H wrote:The colours of the building really give it a comic-book look. Right out of the pages.

Yeah, that wooden box totally sets the scene, it says all that is necessary to the viewer; the colour of the wood expresses the wamth of life remaining, while laying on it's side at that angle conveys the bleakness of the situation.

Good haul of things.

Nice additions to the building.

Thanks, i love that wee box. Now i just need a broken bathtub to go with it. I'm surprised, tbh, that going full colour on the building has worked. I can see me replicating it on others

Camkierhi wrote:Fantastic, said it before but your game table is going to be stunning.

You're most kind mate. Sadly this one is not destined for my table, it's for metropolis's birthday. He's a big Two-Face fan so really wanted to incorporate that into it.

Planned graffiti so far:Metropolis rules!
GCPD y?
Graven woz ere
Red Beam
Stop Trident
Dead inside

Any others?

Right, building done!

Kept the front view very simple, and indeed generic.


The roof, with its scrap-built AC unit.


And the back, with scrap AC also.

For the sides, heavy Gotham tagging.



Decided I didn't like the HAHAs at the top in red, so...


Much better. All in all, really pleased with how this turned out.

Not sure what's next. Probably should build my new BMG/DCUMG stuff, but might make a custom large plant for my Ivy crew. Right now I have this:

Made from Chaos spawn bits. Ivy can now take 1 Ancient plant (large base, tangling vines, basically horrific) so I might rebase this and add more foliage etc. (still got some 3rd ed tree bit somewhere), maybe a big flower, a half-digested body trapped in the vines, that sort of thing.

Very nice work on the building. Crazy graffitti artists getting up that high!

That thing's amazing.. I love those eyes right underneath the roof.

shasolenzabi wrote:Very nice work on the building. Crazy graffitti artists getting up that high!

I know, the devils, right?

CommissarKhaine wrote:That thing's amazing.. I love those eyes right underneath the roof.

Cheers mate - - really glad I changed that bit

Its new owner-to-be is absolutely thrilled with it, I'm pleased to say.
Nice evening, quite quiet, family all crashed out so after a game of Pokemon with the boys, watched Dr Who (really enjoyed it, good soft reboot), repaired a tiny crystal tortoise of the wife's and made a couple of ATMs out of scrap mdf - no pics, phone (well, firefox on android) not behaving.
Simple pleasures (don't worry - there was also beer )
Cya
graven

Chrome working


Wip safe boxes

ATMs

And starting phone boxes

Tortoise is looking good - and so do the ATMs

Light fixtures are 'spot' on. You just keep cranking stuff out. Very nice.

Looks amazing - have you considered putting scaffolding up one of the sides (or two) - give you some more gameplay areas and would look (potentially) amazing - plus could explain the graffiti being so high without the need for extra long ladders - Could even have shredded plastic hanging off in places...