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I like the mutant raiders!

Are the other psychics or do they have some jet pack, anti grav thing to float?

Nice work on all that Nurgley goodness!

Theophony wrote:I really like the Shadespire Wurmspat models. They drop nicely into the Blightkings. I realized I have about 2500points of Blightkings that I need to get back to.

The orange rust is perfect .

Oh yeah, the Wurmspat are lovely. I don't know about perfect but thanks

Paradigm wrote:Lovely Chaos stuff, love the black rather than the green you usually see on Nurgle stuff, and heavy rust and verdigris is excellent.

Yeah it's fun to mix up the pallette a bit

Yorkright wrote: I do love your take on Nurgles followers. That rust and verdigris is how it’s supposed to be done.

Thanks most kindly sir!

Kid_Kyoto wrote:I like the mutant raiders!
Are the other psychics or do they have some jet pack, anti grav thing to float?

Thanks! Jet pack, these ones, you can just about make them out in the second pic, above.

aku-chan wrote:Nice work on all that Nurgley goodness!

WICKEDNESS And thanks! In fact, finished up the stuff from rogue trader. They look best as a horde.

They're all going to get shuffled in with my plaguebearers for variety, because Papa is many and varied in his blessings.

I know the Glitchlings (or whatever they're called) look slightly ridiculous on 32mm bases but hey, it's not the size of virus that matters, right? My AoS case is dangerously full now but 2500 points, portable, is pretty neat.

What's left on the desk? Well, rel-a-t-ive-ly little, at least until I start the Reaper Advent calendar tomorrow (yay!): there's currently Batman stuff - not much - and a lot of Imperial assault. If I want to try to crack 900 then batch painting stormtroopers may be in order We played another campaign mission, as is our want at the weekend. They did... Ok. It was a break in and steal data mission.

I was cruel and hit them with veteran stormtroopers. Amusingly, the wookie got the strength test objective - visions of him smashing a terminal till it magically worked! And the jedi the insight test one, so in that sense they got lucky. This meant 2 out of 3 terminals activated, but they dithered at the start and didn't take risks so only achieved a partial victory (didn't even get close to the third bunker) having a run-in with an experimental AT-ST and needing a daring fly-by lift out from their pick-up pilot. Crucially, to them it didn't feel like a loss, and their next full mission is tracking down Han Solo so they're excited about that... Might mess with them a bit and use my Influence to give them a tricky side mission I mean it's never as easy as just finding the character, is it? And hey, they know that from Mando There are bounty hunters after them now, as it happens...
This is the way,
Graven

Brute force terminal use, partial victory at the cost of near disaster, and now having to track down someone with with plot armor to face the Empire directly ... Sounds like they're getting the full Rebel experience, that must be some excellent game design!

Jokes aside, this IA stuff does sound really fun actually, and a good intro to more narrative gaming, almost an RPG-lite,perhaps, with the consistent progression and GM role? Incidentally. there's a great Star Wars conversion for DnD 5e out there if you ever wanted to lean even more into that, though it might be a little too complex for the kids.

That Nurgle army looks real impressive all together, great stuff.

The narrative gaming sounds like fun, may have to try that with my son . Nice work on all the minis, those nurgle-type thingies are looking suitably gribbly!

I can confirm that IA was a great game for a GM-versus-players setup. My group highly enjoyed it.

--Brian

Intrigued about what the Reaper Advent Calendars for. Random painting or with a game in mind?

Nice work on the nurgle guys graven. They'll be great additions to your force!

Paradigm wrote:Brute force terminal use, partial victory at the cost of near disaster, and now having to track down someone with with plot armor to face the Empire directly ... Sounds like they're getting the full Rebel experience, that must be some excellent game design!
Jokes aside, this IA stuff does sound really fun actually, and a good intro to more narrative gaming, almost an RPG-lite,perhaps, with the consistent progression and GM role? Incidentally. there's a great Star Wars conversion for DnD 5e out there if you ever wanted to lean even more into that, though it might be a little too complex for the kids.
That Nurgle army looks real impressive all together, great stuff.

Thanks mate. Yeah, we've tried a bit of DND but it's a bit much for the wee man. We still have a fair bit of bickering from them but it's good fun, mostly. And they LOVE being Rebel Scum

Briancj wrote:I can confirm that IA was a great game for a GM-versus-players setup. My group highly enjoyed it.
--Brian

Seems that way. Good way to spend an hour or so with the boys.

Llamahead wrote:Intrigued about what the Reaper Advent Calendars for. Random painting or with a game in mind?

Just for the fun of the thing, really. Reaper have some good random stuff so I'm just intrigued.

Gitsplitta wrote:Nice work on the nurgle guys graven. They'll be great additions to your force!

They'll be a nice addition to the carnage my boy enacts upon me lol.

On an exciting note, I painted up the last two figures for Bane's Soldiers of Fortune, Infiltrator Ops and Malicia.

Infiltrator was done using the same military green/black combos as I used for the Mutant Militia, whilst Malicia was done with thin blacks and grey highlights, plus Livery Green for the Venom detailing.

KM have had a huge overhaul and have reached out again. Fingers crossed for more goodies (and baddies) but not going to hold my breath.

Starting December as I mean to go on: batch painting Stormtroopers. It's VERY dull, but working away on basic washes whilst catching up on Discovery is a good thing. Painting Wars whilst watching Trek feels wrong, somehow

And on the subject of the advent calendar: today we had a bag lady with a slightly cthulhoid shopping trolley.

Great for a Mad Hettie (DC/Vertigo character) or any old random, really. What I hadn't appreciated was that this a custom thing done by Mighty Lancer games in the UK alongside Reaper and every one is different. Extra exciting. Beer from Beer advent for scale. Tis the season!
Graven

Definitely an interesting model! Not sure I can say the same about the IPA, but then we're spoiled in belgium

reminds me of some of the models from "The Others: 7deadly sins " boardgame.

CommissarKhaine wrote:Definitely an interesting model! Not sure I can say the same about the IPA, but then we're spoiled in belgium

Well, to be fair we have a fairly thriving brewing tradition in Britain also different, I grant you to Belgium. IPAs have really grown with the "craft beer" movement as hops preserve, season and hide a multitude of sins.
Brief beer-loving digression

Theophony wrote:reminds me of some of the models from "The Others: 7deadly sins " boardgame.

Not familiar with it, but looking at pics I see what you mean. That's got some nice gribbly critters, that has reminds me of that other great sinful game, Helldorado.

Here's what's what just now: Hunter Killer Droids

Red for the Elites, Off-white for the regulars. Colours inspired by the HK 87s in Mando, even though they're usually described in clone war droid brown.

Swashbuckling rogue from reaper today

And rather nice first class British Airways beer

Stormtroopers all got the next later on. Nothing to show, but progress.
Hey ho
Graven

Well, to be fair we have a fairly thriving brewing tradition in Britain also different, I grant you to Belgium. IPAs have really grown with the "craft beer" movement as hops preserve, season and hide a multitude of sins.

Fair enough . my personal experience with IPA's is so-so- the whole 'multitude of sins' thingy you mentioned covered by a sauce of 'we know better' entitlement where they expect you to like beer that tastes like sewer water.



Loving that rogue model, the advent calendar seems very nice so far!

I'll reserve judgement on the beer till I've actually tasted it

Beer critique and minis? My new favorite blog on Dakka. ;-D

Yorkright wrote:
Beer critique and minis? My new favorite blog on Dakka. ;-D

Don't forget comic books

Theophony wrote:

Yorkright wrote:
Beer critique and minis? My new favorite blog on Dakka. ;-D

Don't forget comic books

I completely forgot about that!

Keep up the good work Graven.

IPAs are over-produced and over-rated in the USA. An unpleasant trendy fad. Meh. OTOH, the English beers available here are not so good. I suspect that it is a case of the English drinking up the good stuff and exporting the mediocre stuff, which is what we do here in the USA. That swill from America you chaps see is not even good enough to feed to hogs. ( the literal definition of Swill.)

RE:Kent. Have you been recently overheard in Mayfair?

I love the variety of minis on just this page. Total eye candy.

Wow, a lot to catch up on, although not surprised All the Gellerpox/Nurgle stuff looks so great, really menacing with the subdued color palette!

Hola,

CommissarKhaine wrote:Well, to be fair we have a fairly thriving brewing tradition in Britain also different, I grant you to Belgium. IPAs have really grown with the "craft beer" movement as hops preserve, season and hide a multitude of sins.
Fair enough . my personal experience with IPA's is so-so- the whole 'multitude of sins' thingy you mentioned covered by a sauce of 'we know better' entitlement where they expect you to like beer that tastes like sewer water.
[spoiler]I'm from Mechelen in Belgium, our brewery has won several world beer awards (Brouwerij Het Anker), so I'm quite spoiled . I'm a dark beer fan, and we happen to have some of the best dark beers around where I live: Gouden Carolus, Cuvée van de Keizer, Rochefort,Palm,...)
Loving that rogue model, the advent calendar seems very nice so far!
I'll reserve judgement on the beer till I've actually tasted it

Generally, unless it's Sours, I'm pretty open to different beery experiences. I do love a dark ale myself

Yorkright wrote: Beer critique and minis? My new favorite blog on Dakka. ;-D

Whaddaya mean NEW?

Theophony wrote:
Don't forget comic books

Fair lol. Really enjoying Justice League Dark, continues to be excellent, but Canto is the best thing I've read this year. Sort of a twisted Oz from the perspective of tinman slaves.

Yorkright wrote:
I completely forgot about that!
Keep up the good work Graven.

Shame on you and thanks

Red Harvest wrote:IPAs are over-produced and over-rated in the USA. An unpleasant trendy fad. Meh. OTOH, the English beers available here are not so good. I suspect that it is a case of the English drinking up the good stuff and exporting the mediocre stuff, which is what we do here in the USA. That swill from America you chaps see is not even good enough to feed to hogs. ( the literal definition of Swill.)

RE:Kent. Have you been recently overheard in Mayfair?

I love the variety of minis on just this page. Total eye candy.

Hops can hide a multitude of sins. It's interesting to me as Kent is the heart of hop growing in the UK, so the beers are traditionally hoppier than other English ales. I did have excellent Pale Ale many years ago when I greyhounded round north America at the Vancouver Island brewery.
Mayfair? Funnily enough I made chow mein last night though I'm not a hairy handed gent


Well, a quiet couple of days, little one has been poorly, and wife and I a bit under the weather as well - not Covid (tested to be sure), just a bug, but pukey kid means no sleep for any of us, really. Tis the season, I suppose.
Updates on the beer and reaper calendars:

Lovely, strong, unfiltered beer that I'm very partial to (got a couple of cans in the back fridge, in fact) and a cracking wee bat that's going to be painted bright green for beast boy. I did say (maybe just to myself) that what I was really hoping for from this was some Reaper animals (for to paint green) and maybe a male Tiefling (for Blue Devil). I'm particularly thrilled as it is a totally random assortment you get - no two calendars are the same. It's fun to see what other folk are getting over on the Mighty Lancer Games fb, obviously there's some duplication and an idea of what else is out there, but they've gone out of their way to use a really diverse array of figs, albeit mostly fantasy but then that's Reaper.

Not sold on this beer at all as a concept, I suspect herself will swipe it. There's always a couple of crazy beers that don't appeal to me that she ends up with - e.g. Lembic fruit beers are, in my opinion, Satan's armpit secretions but she quite likes them. So this "quirky" beer is all hers. However, the pile of baby dragon bones is just amazing for fantasy battlefield scatter - as the boy pointed out, what a great deadly or mystical terrain marker for AoS. I'm sure I'll get something fig wise I don't like at some point - a chibi, knowing my luck (not a fan of chibi/kawaii aesthetic) - but still, it's a lot of fun.
The beers were otherwise tasty and this pleases me

Viterbi wrote:Wow, a lot to catch up on, although not surprised All the Gellerpox/Nurgle stuff looks so great, really menacing with the subdued color palette!

Thanks mate. Papa's is a very broad church
And today, a tiny Halfling and a great big beer.

She'll have you. And the beer, most likely.

Onto finished figs - Agent Blaise and General Sorin:

Sinister chaps, aren't they?

And the hovertank

Nice wee group

Not pictured: a lot of tedious work on snowtroopers.
Mmm, festive...
Graven

Minis and beer. Hard to wrong. Speaking of which, I think I'm going to go crack one.

Generally, unless it's Sours, I'm pretty open to different beery experiences. I do love a dark ale myself

If you need a rundown/buying advice on Belgian beers, drop me a PM

Loving the work on all the minis; the advent calendar keeps on giving good stuff so far, it seems as well. Enjoy the beers, and good luck on the boys in white .

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Minis and beer. Hard to wrong. Speaking of which, I think I'm going to go crack one.

Good plan. Apparently to really up the hits on insta I need to add more bewbs, but I don't really have the rack for it.

CommissarKhaine wrote:

Generally, unless it's Sours, I'm pretty open to different beery experiences. I do love a dark ale myself

If you need a rundown/buying advice on Belgian beers, drop me a PM
Loving the work on all the minis; the advent calendar keeps on giving good stuff so far, it seems as well. Enjoy the beers, and good luck on the boys in white .

Lovely offer, but post here and spoiler block for all to enjoy or not as they wish

So, in light of the weather... Snowtroopers!

Frosty actually here, rather than snow, but still.

Rather like them.
For advent today, a tiny kobold to defend large beer (no doubt from thieving Halflings!)

I really like Cloudwater Vs Brewdog IPA - although it's LETHAL - and it definitely combines the best of both brewing traditions.
Had an excellent game of IA with the boys. I used influence to change the mission, so they were off to upload a virus to an Imperial facility.

They were ambushed. And then, glory of glories...

It's a trap! open fire! Just perfect.

They learned from past mistakes, however, and whilst almost everyone was seriously wounded, the wookie sprinted to the terminal and uploaded the virus meaning they just managed to escape. Good times! Off to find captain Solo next.
Onwards - more stormtroopers to follow...
Graven

Those Blightkings look bloody brilliant. You can almost see the flies buzzing in the air around them.

I always knew Wookiee’s would give someone a virus, stinky animals.

The IA models are coming along nicely.

 Red Harvest wrote:
IPAs are over-produced and over-rated in the USA. An unpleasant trendy fad. Meh. OTOH, the English beers available here are not so good. I suspect that it is a case of the English drinking up the good stuff and exporting the mediocre stuff, which is what we do here in the USA. That swill from America you chaps see is not even good enough to feed to hogs. ( the literal definition of Swill.)

I would imagine only the larger companies export, so you never see the microbrewery stuff make it past the local pubs. The biggest horror I had going to Canada was the bar near the hotel selling "Premium import cider" at about £13 a pint... it was Strongbow, a cheap mass produced chemical abomination. Mind you this place also sold Traditional Irish Curry. I have absolutely no idea what that would have been. I dread to think!

anyway, the Imperial Assault figures seem to be coming along very nicely indeed!

I'm enjoying the minis and the beer! Always tend to like Brewdog's stuff, the weird ones are interesting to try at least.

IA seems like a really fun game, maybe I'll keep my eyes open for it. I appreciate your mini play reports!

IA has the advantage of being a 'closed' game, so there's no more things to endlessly purchase.

--Brian

Fifty wrote:Those Blightkings look bloody brilliant. You can almost see the flies buzzing in the air around them.

Cheers old son. I really did enjoy them, and I think they'll look prety stonking (and indeed, stinking) on the table over festive period!

Theophony wrote:I always knew Wookiee’s would give someone a virus, stinky animals.
The IA models are coming along nicely.

Tsk. He's a very versatile guy lol. Funnily enough, he wouldn't have succeeded if hadn't been shot and enraged (bonus die on a subsequent test). Another highlight was when they tried to slice (hack) a door panel), failed, and the guy with the vibro-knife literally sliced it open. Great moment.

endtransmission wrote:
I would imagine only the larger companies export, so you never see the microbrewery stuff make it past the local pubs. The biggest horror I had going to Canada was the bar near the hotel selling "Premium import cider" at about £13 a pint... it was Strongbow, a cheap mass produced chemical abomination. Mind you this place also sold Traditional Irish Curry. I have absolutely no idea what that would have been. I dread to think!
anyway, the Imperial Assault figures seem to be coming along very nicely indeed!

Oh, I have experienced similar horror of alleged "premium" imported ales, it's so depressing! Microbrewed stuff often doesn't travel well. We are very, very spoiled in Glasgow, though. And thanks! I am actually adding bits and bobs to other figs here and there, as I hadn't fully appreciated the need to distinguish Elite villains from regulars - so you might notice that the officer now has a red cap badge and stripe on his blaster, for instance, and I've painted in the face plates of a couple of Royal guard black (a bit like the Champion).

Tyranid Horde wrote:I'm enjoying the minis and the beer! Always tend to like Brewdog's stuff, the weird ones are interesting to try at least.

Glad to be of service we spent my 40th a couple of years back in a Brewdog pub trying all the strangeness. My wife had bought me shares so we got discount also. It was... messy.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:IA seems like a really fun game, maybe I'll keep my eyes open for it. I appreciate your mini play reports!

It is! And because the game has "finished" (no new expansions) folk are often offloading collections (baffling to me, but there we are) - we got the core set (RRP £80), the first four full expansions (£40-60 each), all the wave 1,2 and 5 boosters (£15 each) and a few extras for £120. The app gives it added longevity, as it takes on the role of the Imperial Plyer/Narrator, so there's more of a mystery element plus of course, solo play.

Briancj wrote:IA has the advantage of being a 'closed' game, so there's no more things to endlessly purchase.
--Brian

On the other hand, there is a LOT of stuff.

So what with #mandomonday and all, here's the next batch of Stormtroopers:

And individually

Jet Troopers in Rebels colours

Heavy Stormtroopers. I'm pretty happy with how they all came together in the end.

On to advent matters. Today, a frosty Barbarian archer and a "light" beer.

This annoys me: Light is a style of ale, not a faddish low-cal thing. I suspect this is to be drunk cold and disposed of. I had the Cloudwater and it was indeed excellent, along with an Irish Red ale (meh, red ales should have a rich depth of flavour - this was just... meh) and an IPA so forgettable I can't even think of the name. The Barbarian, on the other hand, is another great model, very Frostgrave (not that I play it) - but I just really like these characterful wee fantasy figs. I strongly, strongly suspect I'm going to let the kids paint the majority of them (although the wife REALLY like the Halfling adventurer from the other day ) as a xmas project. Mad Hettie (Day 1) is still the absolute winner so far, though the bone pile is up there.

Am taking part in the Gaslands Secret Santa. I haven't Gasland-ed in ages, but I thought it would be nice to put together a box of cool cars and bits for someone. So many folk are stuck in the house unable to get good toys, I thought rather than making something I'll do a glory box. Does that sound reasonable, or should I make something instead?

Merrily we roll along,
Graven


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Just realised - 9 figs to go to crack 900!