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Was working on painting the first of my knightworld IG's counts as Bullgryn when I got the urge to redraw my regimental commander. Also got some more painting done on the regular guardsmen as well

Got the Valkyrie mounts working quite nicely, now just adding some 0.1 thickness styrene to make the plastic flying bases fit correctly.

Vulture is a narrower fuselage so it is going to be tougher to design.

Cheers,

CB

Primed and ready for paint!

Visit to FLGS to be defeated (twice) at FoW V4, a set of rules I still don't really see the purpose behind, V3 was to me more enjoyable - maybe when there are more than two very anaemic books and Battlefront drop the 'collectable cards' idea which works in science-fi games with small numbers of units... but WW2?

anyway, also picked up a box of ork boyz to go with some AoBR models that have been primed today.

On a recommendation picked up the £20 AoS starter.. not too fussed on the models but will give them a go for that price, likely to use the somewhat dusty WHFB models in the back room though.

Also Mrs L passed her driving test so she was driving. currently sitting with a large drink and wondering how to get hair colour back...

Well the Vulture proved to be tougher than I anticipated. I attempted to use the same method I used on the Valkyries and it failed miserably. The balance point is further aft and looks like I am going to have to drill.

Cheers,

CB

I completed a DV librarian as Ezekiel (or some kind of counts as) for my Angels Ascendant. I also rebased Venerable Bitzboxius and took a few photos of my fledgling Angels Ascendant strike force. Sadly the pod, marines, and scouts aren't even a part of my target 26 model Deathwing list. However, they'll be a nice sideboard for variety.

Finished painting and basin the Death Guard models from one of my DI boxes. Also got in a nice game of Frostgrave and tried a deck builder called Arctic Scavengers.

A self-explanatory tale of one Craftworld turning it's farmers and craftsmen into soldiers:






Still got a varnish/shader to apply though.

Continue working on my Universal Carrier platoon for my Desert Rats force:



The only problem is that I didn't realize that the gunner won't really fit if the gun is glued into place first, so I'll have to find a workaround to get him in there.

Today I had my first game of new 40k and I won!

Then I had my first game of AoS with my Overlords...and I lost. So ups and downs.

Today I played a 2,000 point game of Eldar vs Space Marines. Practicing for ATC.

This certainly isn't the same game I spent my whole life playing, but I like it.

I have a Predator and Vindicator to put together as well, so maybe I'll get one of them knocked out tonight.

For the first time in weeks humidity was low enough to prime models...

...Too bad I had forgotten that I needed a new can of primer and won't be near a hobby store again until next weekend. Sigh

Ran a tournament for the Batman Miniatures Game yesterday, had a great turnout and it was a great event overall
Also building a couple of things, Miss Step that I won from a Malifaux tournament a month ago, and Kid Flash that I got given by my FLGS as a thank you for running the tournament yesterday. Now that I'm finished uni for the semester I'm hoping to put a dent in my backlog as well

I have had a good time putting together some scrap buildings, now it is the time to paint them. This is the part i always mess up, and my buildings end up looking muddy and awful. but i think i've got it figured out this time!

I had my first real set of 40k games today in 8th that weren't learner games. I won once, lost once, and won one game by default (there wasn't enough players, so I got a free win). I also got to face Necrons and Orks for the first time ever. I had close games with both, I lost to Orks by 1 VP in a kill points mission (I just couldn't seem to finish off any units) and I defeated Necrons by 1 point in a Relic mission

I've still got to wash in some algae, thin out the flock in some places, and tone down the colors a touch. Hopefully I'll have them finished after work tonight!

Finished some Intercessors last night - but I'm thinking I'll go back and add another layer of highlight to the pouches - the Nuln Oil faded them out a bit too much.

Nice lookin' Fisticuffs! I'm not much of a fan of Primaris, but they do look cool.

Well, after painting loads of Hormagaunts, I painted more Hormagaunts, and after that, I'll be painting more Hormagaunts.

This week (because I get maybe an hour of hobby time a night after work, at best), I hope to finish up inspecting cleaning mold lines and flash off of my Reaper Bones 3 models (only a handful of miscasts so far) before washing each of them, and then I hope to finish smoothing and gap filling a Forge World Sicarin tank for a friend.

Sometime this week I should be getting in a game or two of AoS as well, and selling off some old on-sprue models.

Been working with this golden warrior.

I rather like the effect vallejo liquid gold provides. Bit of a bummer to work with since it's alcoholic so not using this for every model but Horus and Custodians felt important enough(and small in numbers) it felt right.

Weird to paint all non-metals first, varnish and then work on gold...

Painted my tanks with some dip...and kinda/sorta ruined them. Pretty stoked.

Played two games of 40k yesterday. Painted the two flying stand joints I built for the Valkyries.

Cheers,

CB

Got Xenos 1 yesterday. Scheming up some lists now.

Going to oil (wash) up some Banana marines

Put the chaos stuff together from the £20 AoS starter, will prime tomorrow and hopefully paint Friday.

Bit more on the AoBR Orks I'm salvaging, Nobz weapons now painted a nice rusty metal (tin, dry brushed gun metal, a bit of the corrosion textured wash GW do, then the GW dry orange rust colour as a dry brush.) still need to put the sharper edges back in a brighter metal colour but for now it will do.

Worked on the original FW Vulture to build a mount using brass rod to the GW flying stand. Still not a perfect match but getting closer. Also worked on some new 40K terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Im going to work out some fluff for my Eldar and try to tie them in to my KSons army.

Beezley, you're not involved with that eBay page Scrap4Bitz or whatever are you?

Continued to work on the terrain. Only get a few minutes a day right now.

Cheers,

CB