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FLGS had a hobby day with a local model making club, for my part I took some primed orks down to get a bit of work done on - was do it there or do it at home, this way I had the incentive to get on with it

Painting up some WW 2 Italian infantry and armour in 1/72 scale for a change of pace. I've had some of this stuff unpainted for 30 years!

Avanti!

Finishing touches on the Callidus Assassin and some base layers on a Knight Castigator.

Painting up some weapon options for some Predators and painted/dipped my custom chapter master for my Renegades.

Built three neurothropes. It was hell getting them to stay on the bases long enough for the glue to bond.

Back to magnetizing termagaunts

Cleaned a lance of Draconis Combine mechs. A Hunchback, Banshee, Panther, and Dervish. Painted the Hunchback.

I don't play or really know anything about Battletech, I just picked a color scheme and decided to make a lance.

Finishing Swamp Thing and Black Flash for Batman, then doing some more work on Zur-en-Arrh Batman and starting some terrain pieces. Might also start on Shang for Malifaux as well, now that I've finished my vintage Misaki to go with it

Painted an MMG team for my US airborne for bolt action

Repairing things! My shelf fell over, many tiny people broken, the saddest times

I restored a squad of Terminators using some spare bits I bought from ebay. I kind of messed them up in a hack conversion job for my 30k army (This was before cheap plastics). They had been just sitting in pieces for awhile. It feels nice restoring some busted miniatures back to combat ready condition.

Last batch of orc bodies from the Mantic Orcs Army set, painted with the Army Painter Greenskins set, and other paints. Mantic has a Black Friday sale going on.

Tutorial: https://boardgamegeek.com/article/27542871#27542871

Need to clean up house a bit so hobby time is limited but I'm going to arm wrestle lazy bum me and start working on the damn terrain! Time to start scetching out modular(ish) terrain board. Some roads and then canal running around. Not 100% modular in that I don't think all sections are going to be 100% rotatable(there are some combos that won't make sense with roads ending middle of nowhere and canal of course is big issue) but scatter terrain/buildings hide some of that.

Next needs to figure how to DO those roads and canals. Was thinking of sanding roads for slight dent to simulate pedestrian walking area. Canal needs to get deeper cut though(about 4cm is doable on my 5cm deep boards)

Just finished up Swamp Thing and Black Flash, Zur-en-Arrh will be done tomorrow (all he needs is his cape, gauntlets and boots to be washed and highlighted in purple). Built another squad of British Airborne for my Bolt Action force though, so all in all I got a fair amount done today. Aiming to have all my terrain finished by the weekend and for my Black Friday orders to start coming in, otherwise I'll start working on the Watchmen for Batman

Today I'm bringing some paints out of the hobby area, coming upstairs to kitchen table and painting alllll day. alone.

ahhhhh

Finished the three oop metal Rangers to give me three complete squads of five.

Cheers,

CB

Working on my Kings of War Undead army. I'm having a lot of fun exploring the multibasing aspect of KoW at the moment. Currently doing the boring work of cleaning and glueing models.

Ponge wrote:
Working on my Kings of War Undead army. I'm having a lot of fun exploring the multibasing aspect of KoW at the moment. Currently doing the boring work of cleaning and glueing models.

I've been learning a lot about multibasing too recently, it's probably my favorite aspect of KoW right now. I haven't tried doing anything fancy, but it's neat to see the amazing things that some people come up with.

Ponge wrote:
Working on my Kings of War Undead army. I'm having a lot of fun exploring the multibasing aspect of KoW at the moment. Currently doing the boring work of cleaning and gluing models.

That game is the best for conversion lovers. I still adore it even if I can't find any opponents out here.

Fell asleep instead of doing anything productive yesterday, debating if I'm going to finish the gaunts.

Preparing terrain for Necromunda, just got the starter set in today. This terrain will function the same as the shorter barricades for the most part. The Escher models have some small fiddly parts, which i'm not very used to. Luckily I managed to not screw one of them up too badly...i'm hoping paint will correct the sloppy cleaning work.

Finished up my ISS starter last night.

Sealed the three oop metal Rangers. Next up is five more Rangers.

Cheers,

CB

Finishing my Combi-flamer acolytes, 3 flagellants, a Jakero, an eversor assassin, and an Adeptus Arbite (crusader). Everything should be done by thursday!

Got my ass kicked in 30PL game #1 of escalation league. 12" max visibility(increasing by 6" on 4+ starting 2nd turn) with deployment zones up to middle of board(but at least 3" from enemy) is REALLY tough scenario for IG to play with Faced dark eldar, made bunch of tactical mistakes(shouldn't have disembarked with plasma special weapon squad as well as flamer squad though thanks to poor rolling was irrelevant anyway) and forgot stuff like doctrine(though not sure I actually ever stood still and fired...) and orders.

Though again wouldn't have changed. It was decided far outside my commander when vendetta with special weapon team tried to get objective but failed. 5 wyches ate total of 18 flamer hits plus whatnot and lost only 2. One even ate lascannon hit to face and lived to tell the tale!

After that painted more blood angels getting first layer of metal for all.

Just bought a copy of Company of Iron (Privateer Press' version of Warmachine without warcasters or heavy 'jacks) and was kind of stunned at how hard to build the models are in this "starter set".

I've built and started painting the warpigs (farrow or something?) I hope these aren't typical PP plastics, as they were terrible to put together, and have lots of obnoxious flash on odd places that are hard to clean up (e.g., the models' faces!)

Since I disliked the models so much, the only way I could get motivated to paint them was to try weird colors for practice (and cuz it's funny). So here's my WIP:



The game does look neat (I find Warmachine too complicated, but this looks like a really nice balance of cool mechanics without too much of that "I didn't know your models could do that???" nonsense that 'machine is full of) but I'm so turned off by the dreadful plastics that I'm not that interested in playing now....!

I'll be laying down some first coats of paint on my Escher gang, and then either assembling the Goliath gang or painting terrain.

I think I'll save the terrain to break up painting the detail on the Eschers - sometimes I need to break from fine detail and just do some drybrushing for a bit!
I also plan to give the December WD a thorough read - I've only had a cursory flick through thus far.

I’m trying to finish off five Skyriggers for tomorrow. Anyone have any advice for when your polystyrene cement is struggling to get out even though there’s loads of it left?

Started painting the last 5 of my oop metal Eldar Rangers.

Cheers,

CB

I converted up four new Plague Marines last night and got them primed. My plan is to start base coats for them tonight. I'm also planning to finish up another Plague Marine I'm working on and to do some work on an Ibram Gaunt figure.

I'm finally going through all my 40k kits and clipping all the bits off the sprues to make a proper bits box. Those plastic bead boxes you get at craft stores and Walmart sure come in handy so you can sort the pieces. This'll save me a little room since I can now throw out a bunch of old kit boxes and empty sprues. I'll end up saving some sprues in case I happen to need the plastic for something, but I've got so much that I'm going to throw most of them out to save space.

I just got some of my Cadian models painted, and a lot more to come..