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Can’t wait to see another huge Marine! Good look translating him to your chapters colours

He reminds me of a Buzz Lightyear toy at that scale. But if there was a space marine toy what pithy quotes would it say when you pressed the buttons? Besides "For the Emperor!"
Maybe a voice command circuit.
Child says "What is your Duty?"
Toy responds "To serve Emperor's Will."
Child "What is Emperor's Will?"
Toy "That we fight and die."
Child "What is Death?"
Toy "It is our duty."

This would be a real plot twist for Tot Story 5

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Finished the last Nighthaunt, the Cairn Wraith. Went for a different scheme, because I can also use him with my Bonereapers in WarCry so I didn't want him completely affiliated with the Nighthaunts. He got the more classic green glowy look and pristine white bones. The rusty scythe and the flower show the allegiance a bit. And he is infantry sized mini #160 for this year, so I already broke my 150 from last year.





And I didn't want to get the Artist Proof Space Marine figure, but after seeing some very funny Tweets by Adam Troke and his DA one and the unpainted pics by ListenToMeWarriors I bought one yesterday and looking very much forward to painting it in my chapter colors.

He is a big one:

gobert wrote:Can’t wait to see another huge Marine! Good look translating him to your chapters colours

I hope it works, I'll try with a silver base and then washes, fingers crossed.

theCrowe wrote:He reminds me of a Buzz Lightyear toy at that scale. But if there was a space marine toy what pithy quotes would it say when you pressed the buttons? Besides "For the Emperor!"
Maybe a voice command circuit.
Child says "What is your Duty?"
Toy responds "To serve Emperor's Will."
Child "What is Emperor's Will?"
Toy "That we fight and die."
Child "What is Death?"
Toy "It is our duty."

This would be a real plot twist for Tot Story 5

Great, now I want one with voice

After breakfast the kids ran off to their room, the wife started organizing her home office so I went off to the cellar and finished the best paranormal investigator in the world. He was fun although the details are partially soft on this mini. Now I have to set the scenery and do the glamour shots of him and the ghosts.

And I separated the big marine, easier than I thought.

Hellboy looks good. Even got the BPRD symbol on there. Poor Biggie. He's been drawn and quartered.

Nice work on Hellboy Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

Fantastic work on Hellboy. Great job!

Great job on the ghosts!

that giant marine is too huge for me! i prefer tiny things. It will be neat to see what you do with him of course though.

Hellboy looks great. i've always liked his coat designed with a spot for his tail. The important details count

Hellboy looks great. I especially like the deep black shadows-just like Mike Mignola would do!

Great job on Hellboy looks like he stepped off the comic pages.

Hellboy is awesome. But the pic of the big marine holding the 40K version is perfect

Agreed, Hellboy looks great a proper homage to both the comic and original movies. How many other minis are in the core set (which I assume you have)?

Glad you had an easy time taking the Narine apart.

youwashock wrote:Hellboy looks good. Even got the BPRD symbol on there. Poor Biggie. He's been drawn and quartered.

Thanks youwashock! And yeah, poor big marine, they were very slow tortoises attached to his arms and legs

Captain Brown wrote:Nice work on Hellboy Viterbi.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Captain Brown!

inmygravenimage wrote:Fantastic work on Hellboy. Great job!

Thanks Graven!

aku-chan wrote:Great job on the ghosts!

Thanks aku-chan!

amazingturtles wrote:that giant marine is too huge for me! i prefer tiny things. It will be neat to see what you do with him of course though.

Hellboy looks great. i've always liked his coat designed with a spot for his tail. The important details count

Thanks amazingturtles! Big marine is low on the to do list, but I am excited to see what I will make of his scale. He is a bit daunting, because I don't know, if my metallic armour will translate well.

JoshInJapan wrote:Hellboy looks great. I especially like the deep black shadows-just like Mike Mignola would do!

Thanks JoshInJapan!

Yorkright wrote: Great job on Hellboy looks like he stepped off the comic pages.

Thanks Yorkright!

Theophony wrote:Hellboy is awesome. But the pic of the big marine holding the 40K version is perfect

Thanks Theo! There is a cool picture of the big marine (don't remember where I had seen it), where he holds a small marine that is painted like a hologram. So cool!

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:Agreed, Hellboy looks great a proper homage to both the comic and original movies. How many other minis are in the core set (which I assume you have)?

Glad you had an easy time taking the Narine apart.

Thanks ListenToMeWarriors! I'm actually not sure, how many other minis are in there, it will be enough to last me through 2021 in all likelyhood And I will have a look at the minis soon, because the new painting comp motto is Saints & Sinners and I'll probably enter Rasputin.


After finishing Red and reaching my "painted this year" milestone, I took it a bit slower. No pics, but I built 5 retributors and their 2 cherubs for my SoB and am in the process of finishing the last three Mortek Guard for my OBR WarCry warband.

But I got a few games in, started a Crusade campaign against a friend and his Necrons and brought my Space Marines (Phobos only for the start) and we're now 2 50 PL games in.

First game we were allowed to set up 2 objectives each on the battlefield and got only victory points, if we held at least two. I also had one terrain piece, where my Space Marine Captain had to perform a ritual each round... you know, how loyalists normally do
I deployed one Infiltrator squad quite far forward to stop his main army and buy my captain time so I could get ahead on victory points. Needless to say, the Infiltrator's plan worked, but they got torn to shreds in the line of duty.
MVP of the game was the Invictor Battlesuit, he killed the Overlord, 8 Immortals, managed to push the Necrons of their objectives so they didn't get victory points and when he died, managed to explode and take more Necrons with him
But the most fun were the Eliminators. My friend was very happy to deploy his shiny new Hexmark and unfortunately my snipers took his four wounds of directly and he didn't have a chance to shine. Poor fella.
In the end nearly all of my army was dead (his was also depleted) but we went to the regular end of the game (turn five) and I won by a small margin, because he managed to kill my captain in the last round, but that 30 points weren't enough. All in all a fun game that really showed you need to start getting victory points early, because the opponent might still manage to snag some at the end of the game and than it's over.

Some impressions, we didn't take many pics:


The emotionless warriors are getting ready for the fight


The incursors who I sent forward what nearly cost me my victory, because I didn't control my own objective, because they were too far away


The thin green line


The end of the thin green line


Lt. managed to survive the first round, but than was overwhelmed by attacks.

The Rematch followed a few days later, a 25 PL game, mission was Assassinate and I had to kill his Overlord. If he survives, my friend would get 50 victory points and I could only get a draw, if I wound the Overlord in every of the five rounds. So in the first round I shoot the Overlord with my Captain, because he has a kind of sniper rifle. I hit, I wound... he saves That means I have to take him out or I will lose this game. I raced my Warsuit to the front and my friend was pretty surprised one round later, when I charged it into his warriors and the Overlord. He thought I could only charge the nearest unit. Two rounds of combat and shooting (Warsuit is a vehicle) ensued, but the Overlord survived, he made his invuls (although a re-roll via stratagem was neccessary in round 2). He then killed the Warsuit and the rest of his army mopped up my survivors. Should've pushed more units to the front, but still a fun game and again going until the end.


Deathmarks had a good overview of the battlefield and were one of the reasons I didn't push forward but remained behind an obscuring terrain piece.


Infiltrators should have pushed forward instead of trying to save the captain.


So close to victory...

And very fresh a game of Mordheim after a longer pause from my side. Orcs vs. Undead vs. Averlanders. Fun game although we didn't adapt the mission parameters of Treasure Hunt well enough for Multiplayer so squabbled around the Stoic Arms I was very apprehensive when the Undead Horde was nearly upon me, because I hadn't replenished my warband after the losses in the last game weeks ago. Luckily the spontaneously decided to attack the orcs instead and I could slowly thin them out with bows and coordinated attacks from behind. But the Vampire got the treasure chest and managed to get it over a table edge, wasn't fast enough to get to them, especially because he mounted Operation Undead Shield For the next game I have to get some new henchmen was really low on numbers and would have died, if the Undead hadn't changed course.


There's a new warband in town and knowing my friend's painting pace they will be all more colorful for the next game. But they took a beating, let's see how they will bounce back (we know the squigs will).


The Walking Dead (skeletons are all count-as-ghouls)


My left flank looking at the approaching orcs and goblins, thinking "nah, we just gonna turn the corner and go the other way".


My right flank who very much appreciated the left flank joining, because this is a Str 6 T 5 vampire. Luckily he went into the Stoic Arms without attacking anyone. Sadly he found the treasure and managed to get it home.

Looks like you’ve been having fun! A great set of battle reports, you’re mates Necrons look really cool with the blue and green. The warsuit charging about was great, shame he couldn’t steal the second game

Nice game shots. Your boys look good in action.

Man I am jealous, 3 games! I have not had a game since March (grumble grumble). It was a pleasure though to read and see pics of your games. Thanks for sharing them.

A great rate of batreps - must have been a great boost to morale! If only the rest of us were so lucky!!

Thanks for sharing the batreps & pics! Lovely to see well painted minis in action on well painted terrain!

Love the Lt standing strong against the deathmarks.

I have never played Mordheim before but want to - the general vibe is really cool and you've managed to capture that dilapidated Diablo-y feel with your table.

I always find playing to be a good motivator for more painting/building too - good luck with the next minis!

gobert wrote:Looks like you’ve been having fun! A great set of battle reports, you’re mates Necrons look really cool with the blue and green. The warsuit charging about was great, shame he couldn’t steal the second game

The games were a lot of fun and after winning our first three matches it didn't hurt, that my friend won the fourth

youwashock wrote:Nice game shots. Your boys look good in action.

Truth be told, they should be concerned more about bringing the action than just looking good in green

Yorkright wrote: Man I am jealous, 3 games! I have not had a game since March (grumble grumble). It was a pleasure though to read and see pics of your games. Thanks for sharing them.

Sorry to hear that Yorkright. I'm lucky that way, because my gaming group is four men strong (that's already me included) and as we're playing in our homes, there were no restrictions (until now, fingers crossed).
We had a few Warcry games over skype (I was game master). It was quite fun and the setup wasn't so hard, put my phone on a tripod so everyone could see the battlefield. Maybe give it a try.

IGtR= wrote:A great rate of batreps - must have been a great boost to morale! If only the rest of us were so lucky!!

Hope you too can get some games in the not so distant future!

tzurk wrote:Thanks for sharing the batreps & pics! Lovely to see well painted minis in action on well painted terrain!

Love the Lt standing strong against the deathmarks.

I have never played Mordheim before but want to - the general vibe is really cool and you've managed to capture that dilapidated Diablo-y feel with your table.

I always find playing to be a good motivator for more painting/building too - good luck with the next minis!

Can't take credit for the Mordheim table, it's from a friend, but it is a very cool one. You should try it out sometime, if you have a small gaming group who is interested in a campaign. Broheim.net is a good source for rules, warbands and such.

So, finally an update, had a look around the News & Rumours section from time to time but have neglected P&M completely these last days. But I can blame the young ones, the apparently played with Nurglings and brought a little cold back from Kindergarten and graciously transferred it to the wife and me But we were healthy enough to work from home, but posting motivation was down. But I wasn't idle (and feeling better after a couple of days) and have some finished minis to show.

First up my last three Mortek Guard for WarCry, which were finished in ridiculously slow fashion, but now they are done.



More fun were a lot of Hobbits for my halfling warband. They are very relaxing to paint, because I use almost only Contrast and would just slosh some colors over the minis every lunch break. It is a good training for brush control by the way.



I was pretty miffed, after I stripped the four Hobbits from the Fellowship sert. I had bought them used on ebay, because Sam is holding a frying pan and one of the halfling heroes is the halfling cook. But the frying pan was weak and my toothbrush broke it off and it got lost in the drain Luckily I managed to built him a new one.





And if you slosh enough paint on minis, someday they are done

The henchmen:


The heroes:


And another Frodo sculpt will be used as the halfling thief (he even got some edge highlighting):



And my favorite model (bullroarer tuk) and my leader (who will get another name, as the rest of the Hobbits):



Pig sold separately. Speaking of pigs, the other three are in line and awaiting their base, wash drybush and hopefully some of these days the bases I ordered in October.



And all the ready models from the warband who may see their first battle next weekend (albeit not all of them, have to see how many I can take with the 500 goldcoins starting budget):



And I'm speed painting these three monsters as NPC for a Mordheim mission and should have them ready shortly:



That's it and tomorrow I really need to take a look at other plogs, a lot seems to have happened

Busy boy indeed! Excellent use of hellboy figs for NPCs also, great job on Sam's pan and looking forward to the Pigs!

Wow you're really hammering them out at quite a clip.

Love the hobbits. A suitably bright band of country folk there. Shame about the saucepan but excellent recovery.

Glad to see you back and on the road to better health. Hobbits look good! Cool that you have the Bullroarer in there, too.

Thanks for including these battle reports! Mordheim is the one of the few specialist games I never played, but I loved the low fantasy aesthetic. Cool to see the citizens of the Shire getting another lease on life!

Glad the nurglings only brought in a low level plague! The new lads look good, the hobbits especially given they are contrast only. The Mortek look great too

The half lungs are great. Nice smithy work on the frying pan . Where are the pics from? They look great in line with the hobbits.

inmygravenimage wrote:Busy boy indeed! Excellent use of hellboy figs for NPCs also, great job on Sam's pan and looking forward to the Pigs!

Thanks Graven!

theCrowe wrote:Wow you're really hammering them out at quite a clip.

Love the hobbits. A suitably bright band of country folk there. Shame about the saucepan but excellent recovery.

Thanks theCrowe! It's really nice painting Hobbits, put 10 Contrast colors out, stay in the lines and in no time you have happe shirefolk ready

youwashock wrote:Glad to see you back and on the road to better health. Hobbits look good! Cool that you have the Bullroarer in there, too.

Thanks youwashock!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Thanks for including these battle reports! Mordheim is the one of the few specialist games I never played, but I loved the low fantasy aesthetic. Cool to see the citizens of the Shire getting another lease on life!

Thanks Don Qui Hotep!

gobert wrote:Glad the nurglings only brought in a low level plague! The new lads look good, the hobbits especially given they are contrast only. The Mortek look great too

Thanks gobert!

Theophony wrote:The half lungs are great. Nice smithy work on the frying pan . Where are the pics from? They look great in line with the hobbits.

Thanks Theo! And love your autocorrect Pigs are from the Saga game.

Monsters are done and so health still permits will terrorize our warbands on Friday evening.

Great job, especially on iron shoes.

Nice save on the frying pan Viterbi.

Some nice LotR figures you have done.

Cheers,

CB

Fancy monsters, the BFTBG on the wolf is cool

Had a bit of catching up and I see you have been bus y. That gang of hobbits turned out great, love the bright colors and the pigs made my day. Perhaps you should have the big bad wolf chasing them during the Mordheim game.