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The leader guy is suitably spooky...

Nice work, Graven' and Mrs Graven'.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:The Freeze team looks awesome. I've never seein these in ITL, how do they scale up next to a circa 1996 GW Necromunda figure?

That assumes I own any however, a scale shot of sorts:

CommissarKhaine wrote:Looking good.

Short and sweet, ta

Slinky wrote:The leader guy is suitably spooky...

LOL trying to balance the silliness of 90s Batman with the gothdark of BMG, so thanks

Dr H wrote:Nice work, Graven' and Mrs Graven'.

Cheers. Yeah, she's scary talented.

As I was in a bit of a Mr Freeze place worked on Mayor McCheese (some freis with that?) to complete the (tournament legal!) Fry Guy crew:

Decidedly less scary in retrospect might do away with the silly eyes and just go back to white glasses. Bit rough and ready generally, but fine to be going on with.

I've not forgotten about the btw, just snipping things off sprues merrily. Lots of bits with the set, which is fun but it's the classic I NEED MORE LEGS problem. Still. It's not like I don't have plenty of other stuff to work on

Speaking of which, playing with some colour scheme ideas for Dreadball Teams. I want them all to have clear, distinct colour identities on pitch. I'm thinking in terms of skin tone/main gear/accent colour
Just now we have:
Teratons - Ochre Skin, Dark Red Gear, Turquoise accents
Yndij - Dark Brown Skin, Miltiary Green Gear, Red/Grey accents

Yndij:

That's them done I reckon. Glad I didn't indulge the whimsy and paint them blue (Na'vi from Avatar)

Here's my thoughts on others:
Forge Fathers (Squats) - pink skin, muted gold gear, Bright blue accents
Marauders (Orks & Gobs) - green skin, purple gear, black accents
Neo-Bots (hi-tech robots) - grey "skin", red gear, white accents
Zees (space chimps) - black/grey "skin", bright green gear, yellow accents
Veer-Myn (space skaven) - brown/grey fur, orange gear, green accents
Corporation (humans - don't have a full team yet, but thinking ahead) - varied skin, blue gear, silver accents
Does that sound distinctive and varied enough?

So, a bit quieter, but still stuff getting done. 51 models this month. S'okay
Saw Solo with the kids, really great fun, western/heist movie, very Firefly vibe - and has a genuine shocker right at the end

Spoilers...
Graven

Everything seems to be in the quantum realm in that scale shot.......

Back to the glasses I think

Need more legs? Now, obviously, that's a query I understand, but if someone needs three (or more) someone else just had to go without.... That is what you were asking right?

How about introducing red or brown skinned marauders into the mantic-verse? I've always liked non green-skinned greenskins

Albino veer-myn? Just because I had a favourite skaven I had painted as an albino way back when.

But sounds alright otherwise

Loving the new offerings graven! Great stuff!

monkeytroll wrote:Everything seems to be in the quantum realm in that scale shot.......

Back to the glasses I think

Need more legs? Now, obviously, that's a query I understand, but if someone needs three (or more) someone else just had to go without.... That is what you were asking right?

How about introducing red or brown skinned marauders into the mantic-verse? I've always liked non green-skinned greenskins

Albino veer-myn? Just because I had a favourite skaven I had painted as an albino way back when.

But sounds alright otherwise

Lol dammit!


And fixed the eyes:


Like the albino veer-myn idea. I was actually toying with Blue orcs, a la Warmahordes.

Gitsplitta wrote:Loving the new offerings graven! Great stuff!

Sorry I have not dropped a note lately, but I have been checking in. The deathguard is definitly my fav of your recent stuff, all that crackly grossness will look great on the table. Mayor McFreeze is so much fun, cant wait to hear how he does in game.

Don't be daft mate, pleasure to hear from you but we all lurk at times. More goodness to come soon. I built my Marauder, Forge Father and Zee teams last night, just the Veer-myn left. But Tallyman was started also, and FINALLY all other bits have been clipped, so we're ready to build the laughing boys
On another note, we're at 150 models painted so far this year. Gonna bust 2017's total out the water

Still to come...

Good work on the McGang.

Dr H wrote:Good work on the McGang.

McThanks

So, a nice sunny long weekend has meant much pottering about and not much p&m.

Did get the blightlords and plague marines built:


Quick and rubbish pics, sorry.
Whilst I like how much personality these have, it really, really annoys me how limited a range of poses you have. The body sculpts are so heavily dictated and the arm/hand combos are not interchangeable really on the Plague dudes. I'm sure it's partly to disrupt the second hand market but it really limits you when building. Not any less time consuming either. Never mind. They're done now.

Oversaw a cracking game of Dreadball with the boys today.
Wee fella playing fast light Yndij All-Stars, big one playing brutal slow Teraton Avalanchers (turtles). Lots of to and fro, lots of fouling each other (yay!), players getting sent off, sin binned, ko'd - riotous good fun for our first game with all the rules ( bar team captains).
And how did it end?

Well folks, it's the bottom of the 9th and All-Stars have opened up a mighty big lead, but they're certainly shell-shocked from the beating they've been taking off the Avalanchers. Off the subs bench and that Striker is going straight for the Visitors end! And here comes the other Striker, steals the ball right from under the Jack's snout and OH MY GOODNESS the crowd goes wild for that pass fully halfway up the pitch and what's this? He's going for the far score! He's going for the bonus - he can't - he won't - HE DOES! And the crowd can't get enough of this! Landslide win to the All-Stars!


So, yeah, good game

Now, of course, they want me to paint the other teams
Later peeps
Graven

 inmygravenimage wrote:

Now, of course, they want me to paint the other teams
Later peeps
Graven

Hmm, From what I can see, their hands are not broken... if you get my drift.

150 so far. Impressive. Also, insane.

Carry On.

150. Mind blown.

I see what you mean about assembling the new DG stuff, very limited posing options - I guess that is the price for all the extra tentacles etc...

Good to see your boys enjoying a game, thus far mine have mostly played Talisman, but they have done some of the starter games from both the 40k and Mines of Moria starter sets

Red Harvest wrote:

 inmygravenimage wrote:

Now, of course, they want me to paint the other teams
Later peeps
Graven

Hmm, From what I can see, their hands are not broken... if you get my drift.

150 so far. Impressive. Also, insane.

Carry On.

Fair point. I think that getting them to do the Neo-Bots (robots in football gear), in particular, will work. Amazing what you can do with drybrushing and washes, after all.

Yes, insane. But of inconsistent quality. Some, like the Mayor, are rather slapdash, and part of the point was to raise my game generally.

youwashock wrote:150. Mind blown.

I've probably got the same again sitting waiting to be painted though.

Slinky wrote:I see what you mean about assembling the new DG stuff, very limited posing options - I guess that is the price for all the extra tentacles etc...

Good to see your boys enjoying a game, thus far mine have mostly played Talisman, but they have done some of the starter games from both the 40k and Mines of Moria starter sets

Tentacular spectacular, no less. There are enough bits flying about to do some more things, but, for instance, you only get 1 Mace of contagion to 2 bubotic axes, which makes exactly zero sense. Also, the heads are a bit too samey for my taste. I mean, the grinning grill is perfect for my Greek Masked Chorus motif (these are the "Comedy" chorus), but still.

Yeah, we like Talisman, but takes ages. Ticket To Ride and Settlers, of course. Walking Dead: All Out War is a firm favourite with the boys, X-Wing too but again, takes absolutely yonks to set up, play and take down. DCU is always surprisingly quick. For super quick fun, it's King of Tokyo every time. I've got Puppets War to play with them too, but not got around to it yet.

Mostly it's about teaching them right. My plan is to make Wednesday nights "Mum goes to cinema with your Auntie, boys play games once your sister is asleep" night

I understood about half the words in the plly-by-play... but as long as everyone had fun.

Wow! 150 models, and not even a full halfway through the year yet. That's really impressive. I hope your wrists aren't regretting that dedication?

Gitsplitta wrote:I understood about half the words in the play-by-play... but as long as everyone had fun.

It's such a great game. And so much better than first edition, which never worked for me. Let's see if I can clear things up a bit:

Well folks, it's the bottom of the 9th
The game has 14 turns or 'Rushes'. It's IGOUGO, with the home team always starting. 6 players on the pitch per team, 5 action tokens to use per turn; any one play can only have two tokens used on them per turn, but there's various ways of getting free actions. For example, quite often you'll spend your first action token to buy a card from the game deck, which are usually free actions but can also be random events, or be discarded for a reroll.
Normally, all dice rolls are done with 3 dice, and you are aiming to beat 4+ (on average) on a single for a success, or on more than one to "double" which typically gives you a free action. If you score, or drop the ball, your rush ends immediately.

and All-Stars have opened up a mighty big lead,
Scoring is about points differential, with the tracker going up and down. There's 3 scoring zones in each team's end, the near 2 scoring zones being a 1 point if you throw it through the end hex, 3 if you do it from the bonus (furthest) hex), whilst the far scoring zone is worth 2 or 4 points in the same way.

but they're certainly shell-shocked from the beating they've been taking off the Avalanchers.
The Teratons (Avalanchers) are all about pummeling your opponent into the ground. They're not particularly quick, but they're strong, tough, and very hard to take down.

Off the subs bench and that Striker is going straight for the Visitors end!
You have an entry zone at your end, so can run players on to the pitch as an action. When someone has been injured or sent off, they got into the Sin Bin boxes marked 1/2/3 (depending on severity of injury or how badly you got caught out) moving up one box a turn.

And here comes the other Striker, steals the ball right from under the Jack's snout
There are 3 positions available: Striker (very good at picking up the ball, stealing it off other players, and throwing), Guard (very good at slamming into opponents, but can't pick up the ball), and Jack (okay at everything, good at running interference). Some teams don't have all the positions, depending on their species (Teratons have no Strikers, for example, though they do have access to have special kind of Guard called a Keeper).

and OH MY GOODNESS the crowd goes wild for that pass fully halfway up the pitch
The longer the pass the more difficult; a 9 hex throw triggers a fan check (as do various other impressive things like Tripling dice rolls or particularly impressive fouls), giving you a free card or a bonus die to spend as you see fit.

and what's this? He's going for the far score!
The far score zone being worth 2 points, you may recall. Normal movement is a run (up to your Speed (~5), freely changing facing) or a sprint (double, but a point of movement to change facing), but you can also Dash, rolling to add a hex of movement at a time - and Jacks get a bonus die on this - but if you fail, you trip, fall prone, and drop the ball if carrying it.

He's going for the bonus - he can't - he won't - HE DOES! And the crowd can't get enough of this! Landslide win to the All-Stars!
If you ever achieve a 7pt difference, you immediately win.

That help?
All 5 remaining teams are now built, though some conversions needed (Marauders and Forge Fathers need Keepers, for instance), some gap filling on a couple of figs, and a lot of mould line scraping required generally.

Syro_ wrote:Wow! 150 models, and not even a full halfway through the year yet. That's really impressive. I hope your wrists aren't regretting that dedication?

Funny you mention that. My right wrist, and up through my palm into ring finger (the damaged section of my hand) has been a bit twinge-y lately.
Still , pleased to be where I am for the end of May.

Built the Tallyman (heymrtallymantallymebanana) and Typhus, having misplaced the instructions. That was... fun Repositioned Typhus's head and the leg, just for a bit of variety, though it's a lovely model regardless. Didn't attach the Tallyman's nurgling, too useful for another project at some point, or maybe riding the plagueburster, not sure yet. Also been adding orange to start the rust on various DG. Nothing to show really though.

It occurs to me that I don't need much else to make this a really substantial, robust army. Ten more plague bearers would be useful (well, eleven, because then I have a multiple of seven ), to go with the ten old school metals I have, and of course I've got Mortartion, the plagueburst crawler (still need to work out how to do the arm to suspend the bell from), blight drone 2 and the rest of the pox walkers to build/chop/paint - I don't own a biologus putrifier or foul blightspawn, which are nice but not necessary, though potentially kitbash-able: the idea of a guy with wheezing bellows certainly fits the musical theme, whilst a putrifier would add a fair bit of punch to the cc unit of plague marines (don't like the official biologus model, so a more likely candidate for kitbash). Nor do I own any myphitics, 3 of which seem irratatingly necessary (but I'm not actually ever going to play, now am I?!). I may do other bits, Daemon Prince perhaps, though I don't like the extant models at all, Helbrute (very impressed with monkeytroll's) etc, but these will evolve from bits and as the muses are upon me.

Little one's been poorly, yet again (this is what I get for summoning ) so not got much else done, off with her today. Plus, life has been complicated by my dad ending up in hospital with a detached retina, so a lot of to-ing and fro-ing (they live about 2 hrs drive away in St Andrews, on the other side of Scotland).

Target for June is finish painting plague marines and blightlords, cut up pox walkers, get teams tidied, prepped and primed. Maybe some bat action, though having a break has been good for me I think.
Later
Graven



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Oh well. Maybe one pic:

Just as proof

Yeah, that's awesome graven. One question... what's a pitch?

Pitch, field, gridiron, board Dreadball is played on a hex board that's about 20x40 hexes.

Converting up a captain and keeper:

Getting my Marauders ready for the new season. Thinking purple and yellow accents, because the moustache made me think of Wario and Waluigi.


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On a separate note, I sat down to build Plague bearers and convert up the Biologus to discover I have no slottas or 40mm bases?! How is that even possible? Baffling.

Yep, I can definitely see Wario orcs being a thing

You haven"t by chance painted some slottas brown, and had some particularly crunchy chocolates recently?

 monkeytroll wrote:
Yep, I can definitely see Wario orcs being a thing

You haven"t by chance painted some slottas brown, and had some particularly crunchy chocolates recently?

Lol if I ate chocolate that would perhaps be a concern (well, I do occasionally eat in, but I'm not fussed about it, certainly).
Plan with the orks is to prime them all ochre (orches?), as that should be a decent base for the green skin, and build up the armour as purple, but reversing on the captain. I'm also planning on priming the Veermyn that way because I think I can get a better fur tone by layering different washes over that, much as with the death guard. The exception will be the captain, who'll be albino.

150! Amazing amount of models painted in 6 months, are you sure your not revving up to start your own painting service?Glad to see your still working on the Death Guard, did I miss Morty or is he still on the shelf of shame?

Lol absolutely not! Did consider it, but I have too much of my own stuff. Very occasionally for friends, that's all. Morty is still in the box, along with crawler and the other drone.

Wow.. I have a lot of catching up to do.

loving it!

Solar_lion wrote: Wow.. I have a lot of catching up to do.

loving it!

Thanks and great to see you again
I feel like looking at my shelf I have lots of catching up to do...
Just dropping by. Busy busy busy in RL.
Good day Saturday, Dad on road to recovery.
Sunday involved a lot of painting of MDF. Don't get excited, it was my new shower room. but, I was very impressed by the lovely kitbashes of Dakka, and especially as I say of monkeytroll, so began work on the Biologus:
Needs a proboscis of sorts, and I need to harvest some fantasy vials and phials for his potion racks (for which I'm using scythe blades). Oh, and find a 40mm base, obviously.


Can't really prime at the moment, other than by hand, as the garage is out of commission. Probably should actually paint some stuff rather making new occupants for the shelf
Best
Graven

Woah, am I in the right spot? Is that 40k?

Lol aye, did you not see I've been seduced by ?

Oh stop it, you'll make me blush

I like it, and the idea of using scythe blades for the racking is very nice. Not sure how well it fits on a nurgly head, but I recall using a horn nabbed off some chaos helm or another for a termie tongue. Or are you thinking more of a straight needle/mosquito type proboscis - which makes sense given the whole fly thing, but this is chaos, and sense is not always an option

Looking very good so far

"No, don't suck my brain out of my ear with a straw... AAaarggh"

Good job.