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8 years! Graven that's awesome... and your blog is only getting better and more relevant day by day. Congratulations my friend!

8 years of fantastic wonders. Thank you sir.

I am truly loving your Nurgle. Got me itching in a good way.

Yorkright wrote: Congrats on your 8th year on Dakka!

Typhus and that base is looking purty kewl.

Thanks Yeah, I found that bit of FW brass and thought ooooooooh just the thing to offset the big fella.

monkeytroll wrote:Congrats on the blog dakkaversary

Typhus looking well, or rather, unwell.

Adam and the CSA looking good, although I was hoping for a more interesting sculpt of Power Ring, maybe cowering down whispering to the ring or something.

Cheers. Re: Power Ring That would've been epic! Yeah, it's a great Green Lantern sculpt (much better than the real Hal sculpt, actually, and before I did John Stewart I'd planned on converting him as such) but not a great Power Ring.

youwashock wrote:Happy Anniversary!

Typhus is looking amazingly nurgly and the terrible trio looks ready for many dastardly deeds.

Thanks. He's very crusty. Need to get started on the veridgris at some point. The terrible trio are going to be devastating together; Black Adam is possibly my favourite DCU villain piece in terms of game balance and versatility (he's right in the sweet spot of value-for-money 12 & 13 point characters).

OneManNoodles wrote:Well done old man

The Biologus fits in perfectly, with the rest of the range, nicely done!

Oi! Yeah I'm happy with him, and the sack of mysterious things culled from a night goblin seems to have filled a back-gap well.

Briancj wrote:Let's increase Graven's sensations of imminent dread.

Spoiler:

--Brian

 inmygravenimage wrote:

I can't tell if she's holding her purse, or her underwear.

Wait, what?! I'm so confused. And scared... You're not the only one tormenting me, I keep getting cryptic messages from Mabrothrax about an impending myserious package.

It's a rope of golden barbed wire, actually, as she's the evil Wonder Woman. But yeah, I thought purse initially, too.

aku-chan wrote:Happy blog-iversery!

The villains are looking very nifty, particularly Black Adam.

Cheers muchly.

Gitsplitta wrote:8 years! Graven that's awesome... and your blog is only getting better and more relevant day by day. Congratulations my friend!

That's most kind, especially given that you've been here since day one (well alright, day 4, but page 1 )

Camkierhi wrote:8 years of fantastic wonders. Thank you sir.

I am truly loving your Nurgle. Got me itching in a good way.

The itching is entirely Papa's doing With your passion and skill at weathering I can't wait to see what you do with

Thanks, all, for the kind words. Work is all kinds of cruddy, despite it being the end of term (new timetable is a carcrash), but hey, I'm taking kids paintballing in a week, so that's ample opportunity to vent my frustrations

Not much to show. All the mold lines scraped off the Marauders and Veer-myn, ready for priming; Poxwalkers primed this morning; and started on the next set of colours for the adding spot reds and violet wash for eyes, cloth and iconography. Then GW pinks/sepia wash for tentacles and nurglings, base VJ turquiose and gw edge blue for verdigris and blades, VJ sick green/gauss green for any spot bright greens, VJ Ivory/fleshshade for the various horns, and VJ ochre with camoshade for pustules. It's good to have a system

Father's day coming up, but no geek this year. Shares in Brewdog instead. Mmm, cheap beer
Best
graven

Huzzah lets keep to another 8 years!

typhus is lookin rather gross in a good way

yea you did hit full dc nerd out lol its cool though it happens to the best of us... the figures came out quiet will so good one.

Congrats on the 8 years. It's a testament to your skill and popularity for you to be going so strong still.

Thanks for sharing and allowing us to be a part of your hobby as well as inviting us into your family moments both good and bad. It's been touching and we are better friends for it. We look forward to the next 8 years as well.

SL

Indeed. Congratulations on the first eight years, and may there be many more.

"Move me closer, so I can hit it with my purse." has a nice ring to it, eh?

That typhus, a very big mini. Progressing nicely.

Say, Graven, have you ever used fluorescent paints?

Nice work Graven'.

Good luck with RL. Paintballing with kids... that won't be cheap, first time I went (at school age) I spent 50squid on paintballs alone.
Last time I went, some of us got together and bought a box (that the place gets from their supplier) of 1000 paintballs... was cheaper in the long run... kind of.

I was going to comment on whether that was a handbag... but this...

Briancj wrote:...I can't tell if she's holding her purse, or her underwear.

...nearly made me empty my nose onto my keyboard.

Gratz on the 8 Graven, my time has flown!

alabamaheretic wrote:Huzzah lets keep to another 8 years!

typhus is lookin rather gross in a good way

yea you did hit full dc nerd out lol its cool though it happens to the best of us... the figures came out quiet will so good one.

Cheers. Yes, I am a nerd. The geek shall inherit the earth, and so forth.

Solar_lion wrote:Congrats on the 8 years. It's a testament to your skill and popularity for you to be going so strong still.

Thanks for sharing and allowing us to be a part of your hobby as well as inviting us into your family moments both good and bad. It's been touching and we are better friends for it. We look forward to the next 8 years as well.

SL

Aw thanks mate.

Red Harvest wrote:Indeed. Congratulations on the first eight years, and may there be many more.

"Move me closer, so I can hit it with my purse." has a nice ring to it, eh?

That typhus, a very big mini. Progressing nicely.

Say, Graven, have you ever used fluorescent paints?

I haven't. I'm a bit scared of them, like colour shift paints. Not that there's anything wrong with going outside of my comfort zone.

Dr H wrote:Nice work Graven'.

Good luck with RL. Paintballing with kids... that won't be cheap, first time I went (at school age) I spent 50squid on paintballs alone.
Last time I went, some of us got together and bought a box (that the place gets from their supplier) of 1000 paintballs... was cheaper in the long run... kind of.

I was going to comment on whether that was a handbag... but this...

Briancj wrote:...I can't tell if she's holding her purse, or her underwear.

...nearly made me empty my nose onto my keyboard.

Knightley wrote:Gratz on the 8 Graven, my time has flown!

I know, right? Time, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all its sons away...

So Father's Day came and went, without really any geek time (booooooo) because trying to find new bathroom lights (), but there was a very large breakfast and a case of beer to go with my beer shares so I can't really complain (well...) Nevertheless, progress is being made on the :deathguard: tentacles are pink, pustules are ochre, blades are turquoise. Starting to come together. And the remaining poxwalkers are now primed, also, though I'm holding off on the Khaki priming of Dreadball stuff just in case, heaven forfend, more invades in the next
week or so from the darkest recesses of mabrothrax's bitsbox, because he's an evil soul.

Having only painted 3 models this month, so far, I feel very behind, but then again I'm making progress through these as a batch, and that's another 15 if I get through them, so June won't be a write-off. 165 by halfway through the year? That's not bad given that I was 187 last, and whilst I doubt I can keep up this pace (May was a very good month!), I'd like to aim for 200 at least this year. 47 to go Oh, and apparently, there's a parcel from Spain waiting for me, wonder if it contains any (dark) Knights...

Later, and thanks for the support as ever,
graven.

All base colours and washes now done, pretty much.

Niiiice! The picture rewards a bit of zooming in, there's a lot to see

Cheers mate it's just a quick phone snap to prove I'm actually doing stuff, so zooming doesn't really hold up
Things that still need done:
1) Bone highlights up to white.
2) Armour plates with Kreig Khaki
3) All the damn flies on Typhus and the fly-bits on the fly terminator.
4) Crackly wickedness on the bases.

Generally happy with how they're going, but window renovations on the downstairs begin today so I may have to pack stuff away (temporarily). Will I finish in June, that's the question?!

Those flys on Typhus took a bit of work for me, patience and a good magnifier helped me. I do want some close ups when they are done ;-).

Yorkright wrote:
Those flys on Typhus took a bit of work for me, patience and a good magnifier helped me. I do want some close ups when they are done ;-).

The horror. I've only got his flies left actually.

But the rest are done; Tallyman:


The book may have the song lyrics written on it

Blightlords


Melee squad, with the Icon Bearer and original commander.


New ranged dude for filling out that squad.

Aw, he looks so lonely

Biologus as he stands, as it were, as he currently doesn't have a base

Need to find that pesky nurgling too...

And Typhus


Done, i think, apart from the flies. No idea how to do them, I wonder about bluebottle look to give a good contrast?

And what, I ask, is this?

That's a box of DC goodness and badness that is. Not including the stuff that's going to go into a mahoosive prize draw on my bigcomicpage.com bog, there's: Lobo with his Hawg (and dawg), Justice League Dark (Swamp Thing, Deadman and Black Orchid), New TV Green Arrow, a resin Superman to convert into Bizarro, Green Lantern (Hal), Mera and... Well... Supposedly Harley Quinn with Bud &Lou, her hyenas, but open up the blister and...

Amazons. Which I don't own, which is cool, if a bit odd I guess it's a sign from the universe to convert up a full Dark Trinity (Red Hood, Bizarro and Artemis, one of the lost tribe of Amazons) and be done with it. one of them is also missing a head, but I've got a spare from Ravager that should work. Artemis will be needing a bloody great Axe anyway (none of this lasso nonsense). KM are sending me a replacement Harley anyways, so no great loss.
I choose to be amused, and slightly despairing.

Feeling pretty phlegmatic about turning 40 on Sunday. Mostly as I suspect there will be more toys
Later
Graven

Exciting! Do kindly push Swamp Thing to the front of the painting line, please. Thank you.

woo shiny loot! I bet the song lyrics are kumbya...

Yeah, metallic blues and greens for the flies. They are Nurgles' shinies after all.

Tallyman looks great, as do the rest.

"Come Mr. Tallyman, tally me bananna..."

youwashock wrote:Exciting! Do kindly push Swamp Thing to the front of the painting line, please. Thank you.

I promise nothing. I don't get the level of fanaticism he inspires, my editor on bcp is obsessed with Swampy. But each to their own, and it's a lovely fig.

alabamaheretic wrote:woo shiny loot! I bet the song lyrics are kumbya...

haha nope

Gitsplitta wrote:"Come Mr. Tallyman, tally me bananna..."

That's the ones

monkeytroll wrote:Yeah, metallic blues and greens for the flies. They are Nurgles' shinies after all.

Tallyman looks great, as do the rest.

Ok, well they've had a layer of silver, red eyes, thinned flayed flesh on wings. I *think* a layer of thin blue - either VJ air or asurmen - followed by nightshade. That sound good?

That sounds spiffing....

monkeytroll wrote:That sounds spiffing....

Actually ended up being really difficult to get to a point I was satisfied with.

Thin layers of (in order) VJ Silver, Gulliman Blue, Waywatcher Green, VJ Violet, VJ Sick Green, Nightshade, Druchi Violet. Ultimately, it worked though, I think.
And a couple more of the big fella:



So that's Wave 1 complete!

Biologus not pictured, as he's not based; also, needle fell off so I may redo with the rod and gs - but on the plus side, found the nurgling for his base when, you know, I have a base for him

Still, that's 18 models in June so far, taking total to 168. Not bad, not bad. Unlikely to get anything else painted I suspect as it's all now covered in dust sheets (continuing work on the house).
Merrily we roll along,
Graven

Okay, that's more layers than I was expecting - guess the tiny size affects the effect.

I like it though, they do stand out from the rest of the model.

Group looks suitably grimy and diseased.

That's fantastic work graven! Very impressed by both quality and quantity. Maybe I'll send you some of MY models to paint... how do you feel about yellow??

monkeytroll wrote:Okay, that's more layers than I was expecting - guess the tiny size affects the effect.

I like it though, they do stand out from the rest of the model.

Group looks suitably grimy and diseased.

Well, partly it was to achieve a sense of that iridescent colour shift. But I think also over the silver it just required... more.
At least they stand out
I wonder if generally everything could benefit from a bit of Nurgle's Rot though? Just to add some sticky pus-filled neon goodness?

Gitsplitta wrote:That's fantastic work graven! Very impressed by both quality and quantity. Maybe I'll send you some of MY models to paint... how do you feel about yellow??

You're a bad man, gits.
Thanks, I'm aware of my limits though. Not in the same league as some of the serious painters here. Just a happy dabbler.

 inmygravenimage wrote:

youwashock wrote:Exciting! Do kindly push Swamp Thing to the front of the painting line, please. Thank you.

I promise nothing. I don't get the level of fanaticism he inspires, my editor on bcp is obsessed with Swampy.

Personally I attribute it to old movie nostalgia and the mighty Bernie Wrightson. That Nurgle group is very impressive.

That makes sense, my initial thought was just metallic blue rather than iridescent, which is obviously songbird insects anyway
I've been thinking of your guys as more rusty and corroded rather than actually pus-ridden, but there's never any harm in a bit of goo on Papa's favoured is there?

I was a big fan of the initial run, leading on to Alan Moore's run, never really picked it up after that though.

The DG look awesome dude, LOVE typhus (that sounds weird when you say it out loud)

Happy birthday graven!

Great job on Typhus.

Happy belated Birthday for you and the blog.

Hey gang, sorry for the radio silence.

youwashock wrote:
Personally I attribute it to old movie nostalgia and the mighty Bernie Wrightson. That Nurgle group is very impressive.

Cheers . Yeah, true enough. Likewise the weird fascination with man-thing I suppose.

monkeytroll wrote:That makes sense, my initial thought was just metallic blue rather than iridescent, which is obviously songbird insects anyway
I've been thinking of your guys as more rusty and corroded rather than actually pus-ridden, but there's never any harm in a bit of goo on Papa's favoured is there?

I was a big fan of the initial run, leading on to Alan Moore's run, never really picked it up after that though.

Newer appearances have been interesting. Great in Batman, but Tom King is generally on a real hot streak just now.

JoeRugby wrote:The DG look awesome dude, LOVE typhus (that sounds weird when you say it out loud)

Sexy beast, isn't he?

Gitsplitta wrote:Happy birthday graven!

Thanks mate.

Dr H wrote:Great job on Typhus.

Happy belated Birthday for you and the blog.

Thanks on both counts !

So summer is here, and it's baking hot. 30 degrees in Glasgow in June is frankly a bit much

Massive amount of work on the house getting done just now means can't get into study or garage, hence no new geekery. Birthday loot had good comics (Dark Nights Metal, Pirate Fun, some Cullen Bunn horror, Slaìne: The King), lots of random Star Wars stuff (lightsabre umbrella is a standout) and some toys (a Beast of Nurgle, which is very cute if extremely rubbish in game, but may get converted into a helbrute, and Dreadball Event Deck/Tour expansions). Even my parents got in on the geek with Dumbledore's wand
Oh, and a lot of beer was consumed, which was a bit messy, but led to a reconciliation between 3 of my oldest friends who've not spoken in over a decade. Because beer is awesome.

However, sunshine has meant some priming done.

That's the Veer-myn and Marauder teams done. Veer-myn are getting bloodletter glaze on the armour and a range of different browns on the fur (except the captain, who'll be albino). Marauders (orcs&gobs) are getting yellow and purple but not sure which will be the main and which the secondary. Green skins regardless. Probably purple armour, yellow accents, reversed on the captain. Thoughts?

Hey ho, will try to get back into things soon as, but won't really be till the tail end of next week
Graven