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As always, an astonishing breadth of activity and interests- I always like looking in here as I never know what (and how much!) I'll find.

Love the Rabbit Bruisers (the ones with the morningstar flails). Cn absolutely hear them saying "I ain't the Easter Bunny, kid," before whaling the thinder out of somebody.

Rock on!

Thanks Meer_Cat, thats probably a thing that rabbit would say...

And speaking of zigzagging interests, while the oathsworn soldiers are getting close to done:


--I also picked back up the slann mage priest from last year, albeit a bit beat up from the ordeal, and made a good bit of progress:

(Loosly sitting together)--
At least partially because I also wanted to paint some of the lizardmen I picked up at the con:


Pretty close to 1000 points, just need to finish these and the kroxigors I also got, and then 6 stands of skinks for a legal list. Not sure on that pillar though--playing with the nebula technique, not sure it works here. Either way, still progress being made...

Weekend update:
Finished up the teradons:


So I started the kroxigors and made some good progress there:


Once they're done, I think I'd just need to finish my plastic krox, and decide what I'm doing with the bloodbowl one I have to have a finished example of every Kroxogor GW made...(they didn't make one for mordheim, right?)

Also assembled some more kroot kinband:


And finished up the Oathsworn soldiers, just need to slide them over into the challenge thread:




And also didn't finish the cat warrior so much as feel done with him, but either way:



Next up, finishing those medusas, maybe doing some kroot, and possibly doing some titans for beep boop next month, (and maybe centerpiece?)

That's one ripped kitty

He certainly is Cap'n Freeboard, though I could have probably painted them more impactfully.

Paint night wise, took this secondhand commissar from primed and blacked in coat to just needing basing:

Did up my artillery to just the wash left:


And got some progress on the Kroot:


Probably will finish up the commissar and medusas tonight, and won't be a bad haul for July.

Did get them done yesterday, if a bit slow posting.
Some medusas:



And the drying but finished enough commissar:



And chilling with his peers at the head of the swarm:


Brings me to 46 for July, whoch is doing pretty good, especially with a con in there.
On to august, and maybe getting some titans and rats done. Maybe.

Vejut wrote:
Cap'n Freeboard

Heresy!

But very nice retro commissar there

Dang it, and I checked too...

Fair bit to show, just not the best at posting.
Started up on a Warlord titan, got the legs up:

Also started the head, and made some progress on the slann:


Slann finished, not my best work, but hopefully get the forest dragon version done eventually:



Also got the first 10 skaven assembled, and did some priming:


Did up a quick color test skaven, and pulled out some new Chronicle brushes:
Skaven:


Brushes new:



Brush after 1 skaven:

(Well, that ain't good...)

And back around to paint night. Trying to batch paint the 10 skaven, got the base colors done:

And painted this goofy guy from ironwind/Ral Partha as my breather mini between colors:


Sadly, priming the titan legs metallic went bad with the humidity, we'll see if I salvage or strip those, otherwise, feels like a good start to august.

Mostly just got the skaven done this week:


Feel it needs a bit more, but not sure what, so its done, I guess.

Closeup on the banner:


Probably switching off the titans, given no real progress this week, but possibly things will speed up a bit with the skaven out the way.

Paint night was mostly doing some mechs to fill out a DCMS lance for CBT, and the monthly challenge.
Cleaned up and primed:


Two-three very thin coats of burnt red, and some pyrole red highlight:


Inktense red highlight and picking out some color blocks:


And trim blocked out, needing to start shading:


Much closer to done than the titan I think...

Wait you mean my brushes aren't supposed to be curved like that?

Your workbench is how I imagine my brain to be, full of projects being built, primed and painted, but in no particular order. I love it.

How do you store all the miniatures?

Pretty sure thats sarcasm, but if not, nah, I expect curling from nylon/taklon, but this claimed to be kolinsky. Kinda disappointing.
I do tend to charge into a project til I run out of gas, then swap without putting it away because "aw, I'll get to it after..." (and then more jump on and it steadily gets buried...)
Storage wise:

Battletech on top

Animal adventurers, oathsworn, and other fuzzy things:

Legions imperialis and the non-travel packed WarGods:

Skirmish gaming and random fantasy:

And Saga and rank and flank armies:


Plus some assorted 40K and warmaster:

And then the epic:

Almost need another display case soon, and theres some stuff packed for travel and gaming as well.

Progress wise, just need freehand and basing on the mechs:


Sadly, didn't really match their lancemate's red. Oops...

Got the mechs done:




Also got the windows done to finish some 6mm buildings:



Also used it as an excuse to base and finish up the hobgoblin:



Plus got some goats assembled--turns out 25mm square, especially when the models are designed for it, need less fiddling:


Titan probably not getting done this month, we'll see what does...

So much going on I don't know what to comment on. It all looks very good, I quite like the hobgoblin he has a very retro feel. The bestigor are nice models, I hope they get rereleased with TOW.

One question, in your storage cabinet photos, on the same shelf as the transparent rude finger hand, there is a giant great wolf monster. Could you tell us where you got that?

The Hobgoblin's an old Ral Partha peice--I think the sculpt stamp on the bottom is like, 2000 or so--its newly cast from Iron Wind, but it likely feels retro because it is.

Part of me does hope they release more beastmen with TOW, but the prices are getting up there beyond my willingness to pay, so not sure I'd get them even if they did. Luckily, I go to a lot of old gamer flea markets and have a large pile of shame, so I may end up with a beastman army anyways...

Big wolfy guy is Cnebba from Mierce. Not sure they're still making him, mine's been sitting a good while. IIRC they also had some less large ones named Creoda and "Creoda's pack"

Ah Mierce, of course. They do still sell him, but he is definitely not cheap

It's always a whirlwind to see what you've been up to, but this time my gosh! Tremendous work and imagination on display.

I have to admit I'm tempted to get in an Aegyptus, the armies are very cool. Then I see something like you're doing here and the next thing I know, the bank is naming a new wing after me...

Keep up all the good work- it's always a treat dropping in to see what you've done.

Thanks Meer_Cat, that is really appreciated. If you ever do get into WarGods, they do games on the HMGS con circuit, and its a fun little game. I hear you on the cost though, because metal models.

Tuesday paint night wise, kind of between things. Painted the next group of three armigers, just need basing:


Also broke out some of the latest haul from Wally's Basement, started some Land Speeders:


And mostly finished except basing some old plastic 6mm dradnauts:


Also cleaned up the werewolf barbarian, again, just needing basing tonight:



And picked up another 3D print from reaper, pretty flexible quality resin. Got him painted up pretty quick, albeit pretty basic:


Titan is looking unlikely, but hey, doing a bit more titanicus at least.

Nice work on everything.

I keep seeing people paint battlemechs and really want to get back into that. But have enough stuff in the PoS that’s never going to see the tabletop as it it. But it might also be the fact that I’ve been playing Mechwarrior 5 on the computer. So I’ll just have to live vicariously through others for now.

Is that reaper print meant to be one of our dangerous Australian marsupials?

Thanks Nevelon. And battletech wise, there's always the option of painting up your favorite MW5 ride as a monitor mascot...

And Cap'n Facebeard, yep, they called it a "Drop Bear", pretty obviously a koala, and I tried to match the photos that came up when I googled it for the paintjob.

I haven't checked in for a while. You've been busy! I really like your work on those red Battlemechs. The Thunderbolt is much more dynamic than I've ever seen. Is that an official model?

Thanks JoshinJapan, it's from the eridani light horse set, as the jumping Thunderbolt. It comes not glued to its jump cloud, and has matching pegs to its base, while my attempt at painting the cloud was bad. I liked how it looked without, so I went with it.


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Also hobbywise, did actually get to some basing, though too late to paint:


You can also see the jump jet exhast cloud bit next to the mad dog, like I said, wasn't really working.

Delayed weekend update:
Whole lot small finished projects got done.
Dreadnauts:


Werewolf I just got tired of looking at incomplete.


Ended up too glossy from.the wash, and could have done the blend in the sword better, but again, tired of looking at it.

And 2nd third of the armiger banner got based up:



Made a little forward progress on the warlord titan, thoigh not gonna be done this month:


And since a buddy wanted to start spearhead but beastmen aren't in any more, started kitbashing up some wolf-goat taurs for seekers in a hedonites list:
Test, partway done:


And liked it so started the rest:


Also, made some assembly on the next pink tank batch:


We'll see how far any of this gets...

Paint night report, as usual mostly screetching in another direction.

Finally sat down and did the 6mm rat-ogryn, at least to across the table standards:


But most of the evening was kicking out a gladiator (sculptor and caster unknown and recently picked up secondhand):


His loyal pack of hyenas for the arena:

And his favorite weird mutant (some creature from Cell entertainment, probably their 1999 line):


So this afternoon is probably going to be another base-o-rama rather than a final titan push as I was considering. Do now have a goofy arena group, so not nothing!

Nice hyenas, and there's 3 of them so you can imagine they're the hyenas from Lion King

...if I'd been thinking, that would have been a good color scheme to pick. Technically was planning for the fourth to also be part of the group with the gladiator though.

Did some of the basing:
Hyenas:



Ratty boys:


Probably not getting time to make them fully done this month, stuff the next three days, but easy start to next one.

Or I could have an extra day due to outdoor stuff getting rained out, and.get them done:
The gladiator set together:


And closer up:



Then the tiny huge ratty boys:



Of course, I would find the 4th when they were done, but hey, another project...

Looking good!
Those are some itty bitty rat people.

Thanks aku-chan, they are kinda small--easy to paint because of it though!

For instance, got the fourth of them I couldn't find done sunday:



Also made a little terrain progress on the towers I bought from diabolical terrain, shoild be done just in time to get a few more at fall in:

Need to figure out how to clean up around those windows after I do the reflection smear.

And started trying to set up my next project. Pinup lizard, spoilered for nipples out, and a stack of self made city bases watimg for tiny perfectionist marines to stand on them:


Some burrows and badgers badgers, possibly my challenge models for absolute unit, if I don't go with the assault mechs I picked out :


And trying to decide if 5 wide is enough with the new WGA ashigaru 10mm guys for warmaster, feels a bit narrow for the 40x20, but they'll lool odd if I mix the readied spear poses in, and I'll lose base count if I use the pairs...


I will say haven't tried nipping them yet, but I do share the general worry about fragility--had one pike break in three peices just so far, though in a way I could push back together and hit with some plastic glue. Hoping to get some stuff done or near done tonight at paint night, but we'll see.