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More paint night progress, mostly assembled and started paint on the questoris, even started (one) knight of a second oops-all-s5-shooting banner;


Finally getting around to assembling the 2nd acastus:

Only the legs so far, and uh...already lost a pad. Not sure what we're going to do about that. Maybe craft new ones or something?

Also, some more work on the ramships, almost there:



Hoping I can keep going at this pace.

Finally got around to basing the Tyr tanks:

Trying out different colored rims.

Also made some more progress on the knights, just gotta prime and start painting:

void shield hater banner go!

And took some final pics on the mummy, just gotta post them to the challenge thread, and figure out what I'm doing next month:




Kinda low numbers for the month, but several of them were large, so thats probably OK.

Screwed up my sleep schedule, so no tuesday paint night, did a bit during the week:
Got some progress on the knights:


Made a couple marks on the ramships:


And also found and pulled out the chaos fleet as a get-you-by to play against the usual saturday oppnent, likely to be played unpainted, which ain't great, but only so much space on the que:


Needs some repairs too, to be honest, but we'll get there.

Ramships done except for figuring out basing:


And another game, 1500 points and just trying out stuff, in thisncase the all reaver Legio venator extergimus (on both sides, oddly):
Deployment, he has hold the line and glory and honor, I've got priority assignment and salt the earth.:

I move up to try to force my way to the point and apply pressure, but this gets my point unit explodinated, though both of his reavers are deeply injured:


Turn 2 we both drop battlefield shapers, he drops a concealment, I drop a blind on his warlord, but he manovers better, putting his knights in position for next turn, and I lock myself out of shots, not quite clearing the concealment barrage.

Turn 3 he fails the charge, but walks in, I can't get position on three activations, and I need the bringer to push hard for the objective, but he just closes the door with his warlord, while the knights get just short of engine kills, but the reavers each use the voids collapse crit to kill one of mine. The explosions mostly clean up the knights though!

Game is really over at this point, but we play one more round onnl the off chance I manage to kill the warlord, which would at least net me some primary points. I charge, and actually do some decent damage, butnthen he backs a bit, and the bad ws of a warbringer comes in, doing only minor damage with no ability to targeted shot, and his reaver behind blows it up. (Template is a flare cloud we forgot about mostly after the strategy phase) Tabled, final result 40-0:

Fun game, hopefully I'm not this bad at bfg when we start that up...

The Ram Ships look great, and the blue on the mummy is the business. Good luck with the new knights. Lots of painting happening over there, hope you can keep up the progress.
Getting games in is a rare occurrence for me, so it's nice to see that you did.

Thanks DJJazzyJeff, helps to have a buddy who's into the same sorts of games you are. Thanke on the mummy, and trying to keep up progress, got some more ramships and onslaughts on prime:


Also got some adventurers started up, hopefully for the challenge this month, from paint night:


Reaper apparently has 3d printed models into the wild--the gobbo has resin 3d print nubs on him, but they seem to mostly have dodged print lines, and the weight feels good. We'll see how it holds up.


And monday, got the first pinks done on the knights, now on to the metals...

Doing the mummy in blue was a real inspired choice, looks brilliant.

Knights look great on the table with the terrain too - bring on the pink. Loving the BFS stuff. Can't wait to see more!

Thanks tzurk. Made a bit more progress on the knights, gunmetal is all done, need to do trim and clean up passes next:



And figured out basing for the escorts, so all finished on this batch:



So I started some kroozers:


Just gotta keep these layers thin...

Progress for the day, gold is on the carapaces, need to do the bodies, and blue on the cruisers done, on to the red:

Tuesday paint night again, got the escorts from last time blued up:


And did some more work on the D&D stuff from last week. Base colors done, minus some tweaking on the druid, rogue, and axotl:

And the goblin and his mimic buddy are done except for basing:


May need to do a it more cleanup on third look, but still means I'll likely have something for the challenge at least.

Wow, lots of projects moving right along.

Is that treasure the gobbo is lugging about, or a spare mimic in case something happens to the first one?

Thanks Nevelon, trying to get a unit for a game, a model for the challenge, and some stuff for a future game all done at once, its...going. little bit of progress, I think this trim may defeat me:


And bases on the more finished D&D stuff:

Sometimes the real treasure is the pet mimic you literally picked up along the way...

Finished up the D&D trio:



Bases I'm not entirely happy with, but good enough to be moving on with.
Also got a little further on the kroozers:

Might need a touch more red, mostly just blocking out at this point. Knights probably aren't getting done, notnin time and probably not for a while after, bit off a bit too much at once I think, hitting the "don't wamt to look at these any more" point.

Had a very Titanicus game today, my lucidium cosplaying tempestus in a corsair supported by a warbringer and cerastus lancer banner vs my usual opponent trying out venator rules with an extergimus of three reavers and a lord, plus supporting warhound. We also tried out the open engine war cards--we had vox static, (all non corrupted titans auto fail machine spirit rolls), the spearhead deployment, hive city terrain and bunker busting as an objective.

I had warp conduit and organic protrusions on all my reavers, so deployed aggressively, and he only had one reaver volcano cannon for blast, so went for the first turn charge with the knights. I opened with a localized warp storm which actually hit...which got endurance of terra'd down to two points of structure damage on the warlord. Then he first fired, and with maximal and extergimus, critted the knights out of existence. Warbringer boosted for movement...and machine spirited into not doing anything as my only uncorrpted titan, while I rolled a little high for warp displacement, and ended up on a reaver instead of my preferred target of his warlord princeps senioris. Still, should be able to do some damage....

Aaand then we got slapstick. I fire my melta cannon in the clinch, it misses because of WS instead of BS, and blows my own gatling off. I still rip his body pretty hard, go to finish with the warp conduit since I can't gatling, and roll a superficial. Return fire kills my titan, but luckily, I fall backwards into his other reaver by the hound, damaging its legs badly, though I fail my tempestus shoot on death roll. I then kill it using that titans warp conduit to try to clear a fire lane...which causes it to wild fire. He gatlings, I power to voids, machine spirit, fail the check, and bullish into a collision, damaging my legs--and he then proceeds to roll legs for hit location on every shot, then last ditch efforts into falling on me and rolling legs, killing the titan. I pass the fire on death roll, but his hulk which hasn't been removed yet blocks LOS, and everthing has voids up anyways, and at that point we decide that one reaver about to eat two titans worth of shots and an out of position warbringer just weren't going to win against a force of 4 voids up, mostly undamaged, mostly larger titans and called it.


Got home and did some painting though. Finished the 2nd batch of Salamander predators for epic:



Painted a battle bling volkite hat for my reavers next game so I can have two close assualt models:


And did the red highlights on my kroozers:


Off this week, hopefully get the kroozers done, and we'll see what else pops out.

Probably should have predicted vacation leaving not a lot of time to paint, but got some time in.
Sadly, mostly under unideal kitchen table lighting, so pictures aren't that great. Kroozers need touchups, final freehand touches, and basing, did a little red on the second onslaught squadron, and made a start on my unlikely to be used savage gunships:


And got a trio of rhinos finished, more or less. Not sure if they're close enough in scale to get put on 25mm bases for a salamanders force, or if I'm going to make them titan base decor:


Pretty happy with the result either way, and will probably tale better pictures when I get home and get better light.

Got the usual end of month sudden spray of everything finishing:

Bases done and first three armigers attached:


Rhinos glued down to bases and given mildly better light:



And some finished kroozers:


Also started work on some stuff, about 5 tac squads worth of 6mm vanguard space marines ("affray squads"):


And some savage gunships:


Also got a game in against the cousin, on some nicely sculpted board:


My force:

Setup, he has a psi titan and two acastus in reserve in the hanger:

And a few turns of very tight fighting. His reserves came in turn 3, but a very lucky bellicosa took both acastus, and that just left him the psi titan, so we called it:

Terminals and end of game dead machines:

And the survivors:


Fun game, knights do kinda evaporate when you let heavy guns on them, and more painting to go.

Back to Tuesday paint night, ended up getting caught up in the sebeki human character, actually pretty close to done:


And almost got the salamander tacticals done:

Just needs a lot of freehand arrows and salamanders, and somr basing...

Bit off pattern here, and distracted again, but some progress.
Finished up the croc queen, including a bit of skin touchups:


Maybe one day she'll hit table.
Also played a game of titanicus, another 40-0 loss. Ran a corsair supported by a warbringer, trying to play heavier, normal opponent trying gore crows, with a meme-iple, three vulcans with stormfrags, including the warlord of his mandatum. Tox world, vox static on the open engine war cards, and a weird diamond deployment. Primary was retreive and carry the objective. Warlord stormfrags are death on reavers once shields go down, and I didn't manage to get sustained hammering on anything, so ended the game with one titan up, and only took his warlord on turn 3 or 4.
Map:

Deployment:

Forgot turn 1 pics, mostly him hiding hounds and me moving up reavers, but turn 2:

End:


And typically, impulse bought the new kroxigor, partially because I've got at least one of each previous generation back to 5th, bar possibly the finecast only one, and immediately started assembly.
Accidental buddy joking pose:

And the free saurus plus likely this months challenge model, some celebrating mouslings from reaper:

Hoping to motor on these, but I always do.

I like the kroxigor buddies, I want to see their movie.

Thanks amazingturtles, got the sculpt repair done, trying to keep the buddy pose as I rank up and paint...

Sprue came with a good few frogs, made me think of your stuff, may use a few as further buddies.

Also played with leftover green stuff for heresy:


For the nyanperor!

I like your work on the Sebeki, especially the skin tones. The bumps are supposed to be crocodilian skin, right? Did you consider doing those areas in darker colors? When I do models like that (you see them a lot in older Chaos models), I am always at a loss for how to approach those areas.

Thanks joshinjapan, wasn't actually thinking of them as areas of actual gator skin but more like subdermal implants or scarification. I was going to go with white but the rest of the skin ended up lighter than I wanted, went with green assuming a tattoo-over for contrast, probably should have gone reddish.

Made some progress on the 6mm stuff:
Everybody done:

Closeups:

And starting to put on bases, but turned out I miscounted guys, so more painting needs doing:

Still some decent progress, should be done soon if I don't hare off on some other idea.

Remaining bases filled out, ground sculpting started:

Sooon.

And the tactical squads are done:


So I started some devastators:

And wasn't quite feeling the mouslongs for the challenge, so started some oathsworn badgers and burrows miniatures instead:

After the days painting:


Hopefully get one of the fuzzy things done in the next week or two.

Just need basing on the blood bowl kroxigor I started a while ago after some work tonight:


And some minor progress on the burrows and badgers:

Still bouncing about, but progress is progress.

He’s mighty buff.

I like the look of the bagpipes fox.

Love the koxagor. Great work!

Thanks amazingturtles, actually got the bagpiper and friends done, just need to hopefully take better pics for the challenge!



Also, thanks Nevelon. Got the greebo krox done, he is indeed buff:



Plus a bit more work on the new GW krox I was doing:


And getting there on the devastators to be:


Being productive, hopefully keeps up.

Some paint night progress. Minor color added to the ork escorts:


Some shading added to the krox, to be blended back with some blue glazes:


And finally started the dark sword westie warrior I'd been sitting on for a while:

Little at a time, but going.

Got the westie warrior done!



Also got the individual marines for the devastators done:

And starting the basing:


And some progress on the krox:


May shift to steel legion 6mm stuff after the salamanders are done, given the announcement of legio, after all, need some units I can take into gw if I want to play there...