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Sitting here on Dakka.

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:
Sitting here on Dakka.

Aren't we all?

When I'm not, I'm cursing the day I thought plasticard scale armour was a good idea. Looks like a chunky ghillie suit and doesn't sand down well. Ended up that I'll have to sculpt most of it anyway, which is a job I hoped to avoid in the first place.

Just beeen out for a few lagers with visiting dad-in-law so I'm keeping it simple and just drybrushing up some bases for the GSC hybrid unit I've got on the go. Hoping to polish the lot off over the weekend, but I'm defo not firing on enough cylinders right now to do anythign more complex than bases.

Assembled Belial.

Started work on assembling some Wraithguard - hopefully the weather will be nice enough tomorrow to spray.

Still painting AoBR Orks, the definition is not a strong as the multi-part Orks so they take longer.

Cheers,

CB

Enforcer jetbikes are getting painted. I have 4 out of 12 finished. Hoping to get at least 6 finished, and hopefully all 12 by Sunday night.

Got first sons of horus models assembled as far as i can untill i get fw parts i need(veteran marines) or magnets(termi squad heavy weapon that i plan to magnetize). Also undercoated. Think drying takes more than 2h so can't start painting yet today though.

Also fw shipped order. Eta on thursday. Enough there for 2k list plus spare. Next order will get bop box set working plus some armured support i think

Success!! I've got 6 finished jetbikes and a 7th that is 90% done!! 5 left in total.

Doing a second thermal "breacher and eradicator" squad. Unit is based, washed, and dry brushed silver. Needs the black and gold still, then done!

(From last night)

Purchased Dynamo for my Cygnar.

Ordered some cruisers for my DFC UCM fleet and some infantry and artillery for my DZC UCM.

Also played a 750 pt DFC game.

Built 10 liberators for my Sigmarine army. Man, for mono-pose-ish miniatures, their shield arms are a real annoyance.

Painting Faith agents for The Others. Which I really have left too late.

I managed to pick up a Tiger tank on the cheap, but didn't have a clue what to do with it for my alternative history WWII stuff. ...So I went for the default > give it sloped armour. The Germans never did give the Tiger I sloped armour, instead of leaving that to the Tiger II (which was a major rework of the design). I guess I'll call this the Tiger I.5 or something and use it as a command vehicle (well, besides the Super Heavies) like the Germans really did with the Porsche Prototype Tiger.

I just played in a 40k tournament today. I won 1 and lost 2 games, as usual. The two that I lost were because I made some serious rookie mistakes. It was my first time running a deathstar list, though, so maybe I just need to get some practice with it. The deathstar in question was a unit of KDK Flesh Hounds with a Juggerlord and a Cyclopia Cabal attached.

My friend, who was the TO for today's tournament, was cleaning his house of old gaming stuff and just gave me a boardgame as well as a starter force box of Hordes. Now I have to decide whether I want to get into WarmaHordes or not. I may just enjoy painting up the miniatures and not get any more, as I really don't need another miniatures game. 40k is expensive enough!

Finished off two more Mil-24D for Team Yankee, assembled three exhaulted sorcerers and sprayed the base gold on, ditto some chosen and the lord from Dark Vengence.

Working on a 2nd mordheim building, and perhaps putting some paint to the remaining figures for an Undead warband.

Still painting AoBR Orks, they do take longer to paint. Just managed to finish 5 over the last few days.

Cheers,

CB

Sending much complaints to GW. Stupid spray refuses to work, so instead of painting Sons (this is the most recent attempt to remedy my spray problems)

Im stuck painting Custodes. I finished one (including base) in about 3 hours last night and it came out quite well. I am now wondering if i want to scrap my Sons (Im kidding, or at least I hope I am...) and run Talons of the Emperor...

Played in a 4-player game of age of smegma. Turns out that if victory points are awarded based on who has the most models closest to an objective point and someone rocks up with 145 goblins the game result isn't really in doubt at any point. Also, the competition between my treelord and the empire cannon over who could be the most useless shot ended in a draw when neither of us hit a damn thing for the entire game. Ahh, dice. Tiny cubes of misery.

Finished the first Faith strike team. Tomorrow I will try to murder them all with the forces of Greed.

Yesterday got first step for sons of horus done(2 layers of kabalite green). Today planning to wash recesses and highlight as a minimum. Let's see if I still have time left. Working on the 6 veteran tacticals and 5 tartarus terminators.

Got called into work. Depending when I can escape, I need to prepare for my D&D game tonight and hopefully do a bit more work on some Wraith Guard and a Falcon. (Down to my last 6 Eldar models!)

Putting my unpainted warhound titan up for sale :(

Still painting AoBR Orks, now working on the next 5.

Cheers,

CB

Finished 5 assault Enforcers and 5 Enforcer defenders. Half finished on another squad of 5 assault Enforcers.

With armour and eyes(plus face of sergeants) for sons of horus models done moving on to metals next. Also might assemble some more MK3 marines now that I ordered missing pieces to order them.

Also decided to assemble models fully only after they are painted. Some parts are annoying to reach when fully assembled. So legs+torso are safe to glue, also backbag for non-heavy support ones. But head+arms I paint separated.

Still painting AoBR Orks, now completed the base coat and starting on detailing.

Cheers,

CB

Going to finish up my base Orc Blood bowl team members from the starter set. Then get a start on the human team.

WINNING



Someone stuck up rare Warmaster phoenix guard units on ebay. Four of them. The auctions ended today, and I managed to dodge the snipers to bag one. As many as I could've hoped for. Nice...

Otherwise, peering at the rain instead of getting on with outdoor-based hobby tasks, and still struggling with scale armour.

I tried my airbrush for the first time today. Used the vallejo US Drab box set on some 15mm Shermans. Didn't go well, I didn't manage to get enough control over the flow to get anything out of using 5 colours. It all looks like the last colour used. No idea how I'll manage to paint camo schemes with it.

 durecellrabbit wrote:
I tried my airbrush for the first time today. Used the vallejo US Drab box set on some 15mm Shermans. Didn't go well, I didn't manage to get enough control over the flow to get anything out of using 5 colours. It all looks like the last colour used. No idea how I'll manage to paint camo schemes with it.

I don't know what air pressure you are running at but it is probably too high as that is very common when you start out. The best advice I was ever given from an expert airbrusher was to cut the air pressure (which also means you can get much closer for finer work like camo without high pressure air streaking wet paint everywhere). I hardly ever turn mine up above 10psi now.

 larva_uk wrote:
I don't know what air pressure you are running at but it is probably too high as that is very common when you start out. The best advice I was ever given from an expert airbrusher was to cut the air pressure (which also means you can get much closer for finer work like camo without high pressure air streaking wet paint everywhere). I hardly ever turn mine up above 10psi now.

Thanks, I'll try turning it down. I had it around a lot higher.