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Yellow looks good, though I heard that red onez go fasta.

So, with the cars ready and the new Dune game, both gas and spice must flow!

I think the Wasp vehicles look great graven. They're dirty enough to be very believable... especially since I feel the gang would do what it could to keep the look of it's vehicles as pristine as possible. Very nicely done.

Theophony wrote:I think Idris and the Japanese gang can get away with not being as grimey. All the electricity shooting off these guys would repel dirt.

I like your logic

Yorkright wrote: Yellow looks good, though I heard that red onez go fasta.

I'm mildly annoyed that I forgot to paint the car drivers red to match the vesperados actually...

shasolenzabi wrote:So, with the cars ready and the new Dune game, both gas and spice must flow!

Clearly, I control the universe.

Gitsplitta wrote:I think the Wasp vehicles look great graven. They're dirty enough to be very believable... especially since I feel the gang would do what it could to keep the look of it's vehicles as pristine as possible. Very nicely done.

Cheers. Yeah, I like that logic. They are the cult of speed after all.

Talking of things that go fast, decided to repaint a dragster bright pink at the daughter's request

I think I'll call it the Yass Queen

Fun with chroming effects on the engine.

Didn't do much anything else p&m wise, but I acquired Devil's Run: hell's highway for more vehicles (and crucially, ones that don't require power tools to chop up) and reorganised the BMG and DCU boxes around so the DCU is now the bigger of the two. Oddly momentous. Even with BMG 3 around the corner, DCU is still my jam. I know there's some BMG stuff getting moved to DCU that's not been announced yet officially, so they've been bumped also. Be prepared
Still hacking and spluttering. Trying to kill it with Whisky (Macallan gold if you care about such things). Got my appetite back - which is good, I've lost half a stone in 6 days - and now just need to start feeling normal again!
Hey ho
Graven

Glad your on the mend, I could use what you got as I have a whole quarry of stones to lose .

Yass Queen sounds and looks appropriate, and if it gets her attention and makes her feel like she’s special enough to warrant that attention

Half a stone. Now that's a conversion that I cannot do in my head. ~3 kg?

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. Stick with the Macallans.

Best of luck getting better, and loving the yass mobile!

For getting better, try to get ahold of becherowka; the tsjechs swear by it, and I can attest to its effectiveness.

The driver of the Yassmobile is none other than Penelope Pittstop.

Theophony wrote:Glad your on the mend, I could use what you got as I have a whole quarry of stones to lose .

Yass Queen sounds and looks appropriate, and if it gets her attention and makes her feel like she’s special enough to warrant that attention

Well it's relative. Day 8, still coughing up crud. Sadly I now have my appetite back

Red Harvest wrote:Half a stone. Now that's a conversion that I cannot do in my head. ~3 kg?
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker. Stick with the Macallans.

Very true. Yeah, about 3 kg.

CommissarKhaine wrote:Best of luck getting better, and loving the yass mobile!

For getting better, try to get ahold of becherowka; the tsjechs swear by it, and I can attest to its effectiveness.

Cheers, and I shall investigate!

Briancj wrote:The driver of the Yassmobile is none other than Penelope Pittstop.

That's it, indeed

Settled on the roof etc off the Mystery Machine

Need to mask the other flowers.

Happy with the build. I have lots of toy cars, lots of bits. Fun just to mess about a bit. Just needs a bit of wire or gs rope to hold down the boxes.

Still, finished off the Night Terror for Dreadball



Mad month continues. The older boy's birthday is Thursday, I'm making him a bits box. Got to start somewhere right? In NO WAY is it actually just an attempt to "organise" my own stuff...

Graven

Mystery Machine is looking good - Old Man Smithers who runs the amusement park won't know what's hit him

Love where you are going with the Mystery Machine, any chance a tiny pitbull painted to look like Scooby might be done?

Happy Bday to the offspring, no way can you have a organized bitz box. My bitz are in a few bins and bags laying around and are in no way "organized".

Glad your on the mend, should have those few stone put back on in no time.

Still loving the mystery machine . Have fun with the bits box - I find most bits-box related things to be quite therapeutic!

So, something to chase the ball around on the fields, and a battle-ready Mystery Machine. Just needs the special Hasslefree Mystery Gang!

Jinkees! MM is looking good.

Slinky wrote:Mystery Machine is looking good - Old Man Smithers who runs the amusement park won't know what's hit him

He woulda gotta way with it too!

Yorkright wrote: Love where you are going with the Mystery Machine, any chance a tiny pitbull painted to look like Scooby might be done?

Happy Bday to the offspring, no way can you have a organized bitz box. My bitz are in a few bins and bags laying around and are in no way "organized".

Glad your on the mend, should have those few stone put back on in no time.

Lol out for birthday pizza tonight so well on the way. Cheers bro. Tiny scooby... Maybe.

CommissarKhaine wrote:Still loving the mystery machine . Have fun with the bits box - I find most bits-box related things to be quite therapeutic!

Fiddling with your bits EHHHHH?

shasolenzabi wrote:So, something to chase the ball around on the fields, and a battle-ready Mystery Machine. Just needs the special Hasslefree Mystery Gang!

Mad Cars do a 20mm version. But, out of stock just now

youwashock wrote:Jinkees! MM is looking good.

To appease Papa, I started on Felthius and co

Some minor conversions in there. Early days but going down a crusty classic white and green for them.

And did a bit of best buddy beasts from Potter.

Lupin is a bit further along.

Nice figs. Of course, means I need to do Lupin proper and Sirius

Nice birthday with the boy. He liked his pack of raven guard transfers and bits. Whether he does anything with them is another matter.

Mantic sent me apologies for not yet sending the Wild Hunt expansion, and are apparently going to send me that AND the big box of evil this week. So might dive into that. I'm not fussy lol,
Graven

First world problems of not getting the free stuff , oh Mantic, you should take care of the ones who still promote you. I keep hearing 3rd edition KOW is great, but local shop won’t allow it . Burn us 14 times.

Hope the new Nurgle guys he’ll finally appease Papa for you. Now you just have to worry about getting hooked on spice or eaten by worms.

Potter pups look good, why do you have all these cool models that I want to paint too. As for the DG, I will always have a soft spot for that army in my oozy bitz. Can't wait to see how you paint them up.

Theophony wrote:First world problems of not getting the free stuff , oh Mantic, you should take care of the ones who still promote you. I keep hearing 3rd edition KOW is great, but local shop won’t allow it . Burn us 14 times.

Hope the new Nurgle guys he’ll finally appease Papa for you. Now you just have to worry about getting hooked on spice or eaten by worms.

I'm not a KoW fan particularly. 2nd left me cold.
Still coughing and spluttering. Clearly, need to do more.

Yorkright wrote: Potter pups look good, why do you have all these cool models that I want to paint too. As for the DG, I will always have a soft spot for that army in my oozy bitz. Can't wait to see how you paint them up.

Because I am a nerd-whore.

What's next? Well in attempt to get ahead, I decided to tackle a very boring task all at once and start painting all the bases and base inserts on minis primed white to black. 30 figs done in a very productive, if dull, hour. This means that I can pretty much get on with anything and everything now as I see fit. The problem, incidentally, is that because KM resin is so brittle you really have to leave it on the base tab or risk severed ankles. It's an annoying trade-off.

Still, a big box came today. A big box... Of Evil!

Also The Wild Hunt. So a good day of nerd loot.

The Wild Hunt is interesting as it's the first non-KS expansion. I was initially a little wary as I like choice, and this set comes with only 2 new agents, Hellboy with mahoosive sword and a new back-up agent, Alice Monaghan. However, I'm also acutely aware of the paralysis of choice that can plague games - it's one of my niggles with The Walking Dead, in fact, as there's now almost too many characters to pick from. What The Wild Hunt adds is playability and longevity in spades, with a raft of new monsters and, more importantly, 3 brand-new Case Files (scenarios).

Eligos is the new boss, and there's a dozen new minions (5 different types) for him to bother agents with - I especially like the giants.


The Box full of evil is well... Full!

That's vampires, giant bats, undead mounted Knights and a friendly wolf.


And that's Luchador Hellboy and the gang from Hellboy in Mexico, Oni, floating heads, loads of undead Knights and conquistadors, and 3 more bosses, from Darkness Calls.

Very impressed with the cast. Hard plastic, but almost no flash/mould lines. Great sculpts, really high production values.

Bit of a mad weekend. Boys are performing all weekend (gang show, it's a Scouts thing) so my life is just shuttling kids even more than usual. Ah well. Doubt I'll get some painting done in between but will try. Still, managed to open our box of wave 4 transformers, pulled a Super rare Megatron (very exciting, I mostly play cons), and only missing 3 rares - a very good box indeed.

Till then
Graven.

Ooh Hellboy.. Box is looking good. Love the work on the DG, and that Lupin is colling pretty cool as well.

That's pretty extensive. Nice!

CommissarKhaine wrote:Ooh Hellboy.. Box is looking good. Love the work on the DG, and that Lupin is colling pretty cool as well.

Thanks. I need to fix my Ott Light to get a proper pic.

Gitsplitta wrote:That's pretty extensive. Nice!

Cheers!
Boring busy work continues: the bases all got another couple of layers of tan and grey. It's *very* tedious but worth it in the long term. Also, I'm not in a focused painting mood anyway atm because RL is distracting.

Did do a bit more Pottering...
Moaning Myrtle:

I know that green is not necessarily canon for potter ghosts, but screw it, I like it. I've tried to make the sink full of water (pva) and look like it has splashed over, discolouring the stone.

Not sure if it's worked but still.

And finished off Werewolf Lupin.

And The Grim too.

Dodgy pics, my Ott Light has packed in

And the Sorting Hat


On the subject of green, started Batman's greatest foe:

?‽¿You were expecting someone else?¿‽

Better view of the cloth.

And a bit more on Felthius:

He and his crew need green on their pauldrons etc, bronze edging and then orange wash in all the recesses. Steady progress.

Had a mahogany spillage, disaster. Managed to rescue all of it on to the wet palette - guess that's one way of experimenting!

Hey ho
Graven

Awesome progress update, graven. Things are coming along.

Nice progress; I feel like you really captured Lupin the werewolf!

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Awesome progress update, graven. Things are coming along.

Cheers. Steady. Not sure about awesome, but steady

CommissarKhaine wrote:Nice progress; I feel like you really captured Lupin the werewolf!

It's a lush fig. Cheers!

Looks like the sorting hat has sorted out all the green paints for you to use . Moaning Mertle looks good in green as well.

Riddler better watch out for Ivyif he starts claiming the greenest title .

Moaning Myrtle looks amazingly like the actress!

Theophony wrote:Looks like the sorting hat has sorted out all the green paints for you to use . Moaning Mertle looks good in green as well.

Riddler better watch out for Ivyif he starts claiming the greenest title .

Well, it's not easy being green

Slinky wrote:Moaning Myrtle looks amazingly like the actress!

That's the thing. Km sculpts are quite astonishing in that regard.
Tonight has been a night of blocking in.

Lots and lots of blocking in. That's Lupin, Sirius Black, Filch, Colin Creavy, Tonks, Peter Pettigrew, Mad-Eye Moody and Dobby all fully blocked in, plus further work on Riddler, Tom Riddle (hey!), Starfire, Cho Chang and lots of bits of cloth on Bane's Mercs.
Onwards!



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Crikey. I've just realised I'm nearly nearly at my dakkaversary. 10 years on the 24th. Better do something cool!

Woo! Maildrop!

Now the real question is, which heads to use on Zod and Feora? Helmets or no?
Really looking forward to Cyborg Superman; going to do him in yellow lantern scheme (black/red/silver). Not a huge fan of the character, but I like that storyline and LOVE that he gets to be a member of the Lantern Corps in game.

Nice supply drop! I vote helmets on the Kryptonians, gives them more of an identity on the tabletop and they look like really solid likenesses.

Be careful with Aquaman's trident, the most ludicrously spindly piece of resin I've ever set eyes on!

Paradigm wrote:Nice supply drop! I vote helmets on the Kryptonians, gives them more of an identity on the tabletop and they look like really solid likenesses.

So that's a vote for helmets? I'm surprised tbh but ok, cool

Paradigm wrote:
Be careful with Aquaman's trident, the most ludicrously spindly piece of resin I've ever set eyes on!

Yup, I'm terrified