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Olthannon wrote:Looking good man, I have some of the old rangers as well to mix with my new ones.

They seem slightly bigger, but not hilariously so. Different bases make it hard to judge. I'll try to get some pics of them side by side.

Dirk Reinecke wrote:Looking good, looks like the New Eldar are ace.

I love the fact that the new stuff fits in so well with the old stuff. Nothing wrong with the aesthetics of the range, just needed to be in plastic.

So I lost power the Thursday, and it seems that something might have happened to my laptop. It was working fine until this morning until it told me it was out of juice. I tried a couple different ways to get it some power, but nothing seems to be working. Still some hope, but not much. I can still connect via my iPad, and am putting photoscape on my game PC. Which is where I'm typing from now. I'm a bit of a fossil, and like to do my text entry with a keyboard and a mouse. Hate doing anything more then a quick reply on my phone/tablet. Next step will be to try to see how I can sync my cameras with my PC. Shouldn't be hard (he says, fingers crossed)

Slowly building stuff, need to paint more as well. But right now having fun with tech issues.

Enjoy your weekends all!

--Nev


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OK, side by side is seems a little worse then I thought. The new guys do have a little bit better posture, but not the crazy stance difference of early firstborn marines vs. new ones.



Where the workbench is at today.


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This is with my new camera, and on the PC. Don't have all my fonts and settings. Came out OKish. Better than nothing.


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And the rangers are built. Bit of fun with them. Still need to decide on heads, but that can wait.

Bikes are zipping along. Need to magnetize the flight stands, and clean and build all the riders/gunners. Everyone gets a helmet. There is a time for protective headgear, and jetbikes is one of those. Not just for crashes, but to keep your face from being blown off. One of the reason I didn't glue the heads on the foot rangers is that I saw a lot of interesting ones on the bike sprues. It's so refreshing to have compatibility in the Eldar range.

Edit: Was able to test and borrow a spare charger for the laptop. Looks like the old one got borked in the outage. Working now. New power brick ordered. Glad it’s just a $30 part, and not a new computer.

First bike built, riders not glkued on for painting. Still need to magnetize the flight stand.

No paint down recently, need to fix that. I’d like to get the marines off the paint handles to make room for another 5 to do next month.

Charger seems to be working for now with the laptop. Hopefully it is the fix and keeps running.

Those two-seater bikes look pretty cool. Looking forward to the paint.

Oh, new toys.

CB

youwashock wrote:Those two-seater bikes look pretty cool. Looking forward to the paint.

Captain Brown wrote:Oh, new toys.

CB

Yah, quite happy with the new guys. Glad I got over my hangups and hit ebay for the half box. I suspect they are going to wait until spring to get primed/paint. Which honestly is not that far off. But I still have a lot on my plate. Put the second blue on one of the marines, need to finish them. We are almost out of month, and I’m going to need the space to start up the March challenge. Which will be more marines, probably the assault intercessors. But I like to start with a clean deck, and still have a lot of work to do. I should also get the speeder done. Put the drybrush on it’s silvers the other day, so it is making progress.

So we wrap up another year of the painting comp, I put together another composite.


Just a pic for now, I’ll do the woolgathering part over the weekend with coffee. Need to get ready for work now.

Here's to another year. Great work, Nev.

Took the day off work as a snow day. Did a little building after shoveling. I’ll try painting later.



Only ended up swapping one head for the rangers. I should glue them down now. Also the lady in the middle could use a scope on her rifle. The stock alt build that leaves her with a free hand is with the scope detached and her using it as a monocular. If I’m not using that bit, it should go on the gun.

Put the blue on a second marine last night. I should start on the guns and the other 3. Or finish the 2 and get them to the ready to base/decal step. Or both.

All my Rangers are metal from RT/2nd. Is this the first time they have had female sculpts?

 youwashock wrote:
All my Rangers are metal from RT/2nd. Is this the first time they have had female sculpts?

There is the lady from Blackstone Fortress? But otherwise I think so. I’d have to search the archives to see if there were any others. But 2/5 of the foot rangers and 2/6 of the bikers are women.

Nice build, I've just finished my Autarch and working through the rangers, think I will leave my jetbikes until last.

Looking forward to seeing you painting them up!

I need to figure out how to build my autach. I’m guessing backfield support, leave the forward stabbing to the one on bike. Going to wait til after I get the codex, but magnets is the obvious answer.

So, game happened. And not vs. The Boy. Shocking, I know. Local GW is starting a crusade event.


My list is a dysfunctional mess of old stuff. Mostly I wanted to get the classic RTB01 boys onto the battlefield, just so they can claim to have fought on every FLGS, every basement that I’ve ever thrown dice down on. I added the old metal dread and the classic TDA captain to round out the retro theme.

Opponent is someone I knew from AoS, nice guy, but new to crusade/9th. Well rounded little sisters list. 2 BSS, rets, canoness and celestine. Mission is assassinate, he’s the attacker. My captain starts under the building with the ML combat squad on top, dread is behind the wall out of sight for the pic, but in LoS for a lot of his stuff.

First turn he moves up, shoots a bunch of wounds off the dread, and then charges with the saint and kills it in CC. Ouch. I don’t have a lot of units in this list, so that hurt.

No meek prey is the captain, so he steps out for a little vengeance. He’s packing the rapid fire 4 relic bolter that re-rolls wounds vs. non vehicles, and the WL trait that MWs on 6’s to-wound. He shoots up the saint and her bodyguard, and then steps in for CC, but fails to put her down.

Celestine flys out of CC, leaving my captain exposed to shooting. Lands up on the building with the ML guys. He unloads into my army, some into the troops, but save some nasty stuff for the captain. Probably should have started with him, as some cold dice and good invuln save sees him still standing, and quite mad.

He starts walking up the center of the table, an avatar of death. Supporting fire from the stalwart marines both thins down the sisters, and put down their saint. But not for long...

She gets back up and clears the building turn 3. The canoness starts a drawn out fight with the marines on the ground. Some shots land on the captain, but nothing seems capable of stopping him.

Eventually he makes it to the backfield and crushes the last of the sisters there. The canoness is slowly working through the tac squad, but he should be able to make it back to finish her off. But lo! Back from the dead the saint swoops down to avenge the sisters slain by his hand. In a brutal display, the Ardent sword lays low the good captain, ending his reign of terror.

Victory sisters.

MVP was my captain, he killed 3 separate squads, not quite single handed, and put the saint down once (which doesn’t count as one of those kills) The relic/WL trait is kinda nasty, but so was the power fist.

I had the tac sarge alive at the end of the game, to his saint and mangled canoness.

From a narrative POV, kinda glad I lost. These are not units I’m going to field in my general crusade list. I’m going to start with phobos recon and fast moving units, on the search for the captain and his lost patrol. Tune in later for the next chapter! It’s a bi-weekly thing, so works nice with my free weekends.

Nice to see you getting a game in. Sisters are pretty good, although hit heavily by the recent nerfs. Your opponent's list sounds pretty brutal for a friendly game and you still almost won, so good job!

I really do look forward to seeing what you do with the new Aeldari stuff. The assembled Shroud Runners look great and should be a ton of fun to paint; easily some of the coolest of the new models (but then I love bikes so maybe I'm a bit biased lol).

We weren’t really using strats, as it was partially a teaching game. So we both could have leaned into making it more competitive. My build was intentionally soft, to include the tac squad. In a PL game there is no reason to bring a bare-bones ML/F squad with nothing on the sarge. In the crusade list vs. my son I rearmed and re-equipped them to MM/M c-melta/powerfist sarge. I was also only 24PL due to how the math worked out.

My next list is going to be phobos LT, Chaplain, incursors, outriders, and supressors. The idea is as points go up to add more line units, intercessors etc. and drop the recon stuff.

Painting the eldar should be fun. Things come full circle. When looking for arctic camo for the phobos, I looked back to the rangers. But they were painted back in ’15; I’ve come a long way since then. So the cloaks are going to be more like what I’ve been doing for guys like the phobos chaplain/librarian. Armor is going to be grey, rather than the black from most of the craftworld. Helmets still red, and most of the other elements will match. Although the rangers use a paler leather than the deeper brown of the the rest. Matches the armor; similar, just less saturated.

Captain, my Captain...

Sounds like a fun game. Neat to work a story into it, too.

My goal is to get his new plastic version done when I reintroduce him into my lists.

So not a lot of paint progress. I was hoping to clear the decks for March, but that never happened. Moved 3 of the guys off the handles to start this month’s comp entry. The idea is to get them going, finish off the last 2 guys who are at the ink stage, and then stagger guys until everyone is done.

Work is sucking hard, so not a lot of motivation. Still need to move forward.

So Cursed City is going to be on a 2 week MTO at the original price, and then later this year back in the store at a regular option. Which I’m guessing is going to be at a higher price. So I’ll probably put my name down for a copy now and save a little. Next time I’m down at the FLGS.


Some Assault intercessors ready to go.


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Got the blue ink on the two guys. Was going to paint more, But I made the mistake of sitting down in my recliner, and now have a napping cat in my lap. Oh well.
Edit: She woke up before bed time, so I was able to get the base blue down on the 3 new guys.

One guy done, moved a new guy to his spot. Need to edge highlight the other one, and then he’s basically there as well. Bases and decals can wait for a bit.

When painting the new guys I realized I never glued their arms on. Will make it easier to get their backs and shoulderpads done, but a little wobble at this stage.

Hope everyone’s weeks are going well.

--Nev

Nice, the next company is progressing well!

Vejut wrote:
Nice, the next company is progressing well!

My goal for the year was to get 20 more brothers done for the company, and 10 are at various stages of progress on the bench right now. I took stock as the primed pile was getting low for 3rd co units. Just the hellblasters and aggressors waiting. Stalker intercessors in the to-prime pile, with the ABR and Assaults in progress getting paint. To build is 10 more basic riflemen for the back half of squads. One of my initial thoughts was to make some of these guys work for Kill Team, but not sure how I feel about that with the new rules. When marines eventually get some real rules, I figure I’ll need to make new guys anyway. And they might end up joining the 10th co. in camo. Another thought that works kinda along those lines would not to make a KT, but gear guys up like a command squad. Comms trooper, field police, some specialists, but not strictly the old KT ones. Of course, they should be Company Veterans, and outside the 10 squads of 10 marines and outside my count. Field on the table as veteran intercessors. Although I feel I should source some vet shoulderpads, not sure how many I have kicking around. anyway, I should build at least 5 basic guys just to keep the primed pile topped off with marines for me to paint over the year.

Some work:


Broke out the GS, superglue, and magnets to finish the final step for these guys. My GS is really old and stale. Not sure if that’s actually a thing, but it was real hard to work.

Next up to build is the autarch. Going to magnetize both arms and the backpack, just to future proof it, but I suspect my primary build is going to be JP/Glaive/Fusion. Although the reaper launcher is probably going to get some use with backfield camping. I was thinking about just glueing the glaive on, as the chainsword is very niche, but if they ever do open up options for other builds (like wings) I might want the part to move. The only reason not to run the JP is to ride in a transport, which with the new Falcon rules might need to happen.



Assaults got some more basecoats down. Cleaned up the speeder a little. 3 ABRs are waiting for now. Moving right along.

Glued the helmet on. The Banshee one is wider, would not let me get a good angle on the head. Not that this one is great, but better. Arms and back magnetized. Glaive should have glued, but kept for future options. It’s a no-brainer choice from what I’ve seen. Just did the fusion gun and missile launcher for now. Spinner seems a viable choice, but not one I think I need in my list, so it can hang in the bits box for a while. Jump pack is probably going to be my default build. It’s a little pricy, but gives him a lot of movement and options. The basic no upgrade keeps the points down, and lets him ride in transports. Per the reports, Falcons get turn 1 DS/deploy like drop pods. Him and some Fire Dragons can get into a lot of fun that way.

Anyway, that’s the last of the Eldrich Omens box built and in the to-prime pile. Which is getting full. But spring will be here soon.

Put some more layers down on the marines. Plugging away. I’ll try to grab pics next time I’m at the bench. Few more basecoats to go.

Work continues to suck, but they are listening to me, so things might improve. Did my taxes tonight, will be nice to get the rebate checks. Also hit my 5 years at work, so got a pile of reward points which I was able to turn into amazon gift cards. Guilt-free money all over the place. Which is a good thing.

New Tyranids spotted on the deep augers. The combat patrol is tempting. Do I need 36 more termagaunts? No. Would it help carpet the table in gribbles? Yes. Do I need a tyrant on foot a/o swarmlord? Leaked stats say yes. Do I need warriors? Probably. Do I want to drop that kind of cash? One perk of it being a new combat patrol is there is no fear of missing out. It should be around for a while so I can take my time. I am in for the codex and parasite when they drop though. And plan on getting the Eldar book and pre-order cursed city this weekend. Good thing Friday is a payday.

Ah, nice to see the Autarch without the tactical rock, the cloth parts look much better now once they don't need to defy gravity :p Thanks for sharing!

That's a very nice looking build Nev. Well done!

MobileSuitRandom wrote:Ah, nice to see the Autarch without the tactical rock, the cloth parts look much better now once they don't need to defy gravity :p Thanks for sharing!

I’m not generally opposed to tactical rocks. But this guy’s was completely wrong, for the reasons you gave. The entire flow of the model wants to go the opposite way he was standing. Just not using the bit helped immensely.

Gitsplitta wrote:That's a very nice looking build Nev. Well done!

Thanks. I had a lot of fun building the new Eldar. Great kits, with a lot of options, which is refreshing. Hopefully the weather will give us a nice day to prime. I could just risk it on an iffy one, but I’ve got a full plate at the moment.

Put some washes on the marines this morning. Which is a little out of order, still need to do the red basecoats. But it was a quick thing to do before logging in.


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WIP picture

Marines chugging along. I like the look of your Autarch. The reaper version has a cool flow.

 youwashock wrote:
Marines chugging along. I like the look of your Autarch. The reaper version has a cool flow.

I agree, of the options that’s my favorite. Who gets more use on the table will depend on the codex.

Which will eventually probably be a new guy on a jetbike. I’ve got my old one, but he looks real dated at this point.

So arms are off and first layer of red down. Next step is the back cables that are almost never seen, and the blue cleanup. And the brown wash on those who need it first. Plugging along. Hard part with all the arms off if to keep track of who’s are where.

Was hoping to hit the FLGS for a game, but we got a bit of a snowstorm here. It it clears up early afternoon, might still make it down. If not I might head down tomorrow to pre-order Cursed City, and maybe play some AoS. Ordered the new Eldar book via Amazon. Gift cards to burn. Should be here sometine next week.

Enjoy your weekends all, stay safe and warm.

The game looks like real fun. Excited to read updates from the league and how your Phobos fare. I tried them against my friend's Necrons, but wasn't enamored with them. They lacked the punch to get those nasty space skeletons down. My sisters did this a lot easier

Good progress on all things blue and happy to see more Eldar coming our way!

Didn’t make it down yesterday due to snow. Going to head there to place my CC order, maybe impulse buy something. Sundays are supposed to be the AoS path to glory campaign. Don’t think I’ve got the rules for that.

Did some painting yesterday. Lot of layers, not a lot to show. But everyone should be ready for their second blue coat.

I feel like I should be building something. Probably should clean up some stealers. Although who knows what the new codex is going to do to them. Starting to get real leaks.

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Clipped 2 stealers, started cleaning them up. Sage got his second blue coat.

Went down to the FLGS, watched some AoS, but didn’t bring an army. Don’t have a copy of the Path to Glory rules, and need to brush up on the rules a bit. Pre-ordered a copy of Cursed City, and grabbed Imperium #3, with a pot of Macragge Blue and 3 assault intercessors. Couple of problems with them. They are not as easy to mod as the ones in the indominous box. More personally relevant is that they have sculpted iconography for Ultramarines. You might think this would not be an issue for me, but since the days of RTB01s, I have alway put my chapter markings on the right shoulder. Some HQs and specialists might swap, but not for the rank and file. So these are going to have to be carved and smoothed down, which seems a waste. I am also going to need one to lug around a bolt rifle to fill a slot in a regular intercessor squad, so we’ll see how we can mod that. If not, it’s not a huge deal, I just need to replace the body I poached for the apothecary.

It's good to see that you're still plugging away at the Marines, including the Land Speeder. I look forward to seeing how you approach the Eldar.

Sounds like you got the snow that rolled through my area a few days ago. Weather in my area is going to be much nicer this week; might even get some priming in! Your Marines are coming along nicely.

I really did consider subscribing to Imperium, but I've already got 2 Marine armies and don't want to start a third (and if I did it would be Black Templars, not Ultras), and I don't really want to start Necrons either, despite the fact that I have a cool color scheme idea in mind for if I did start them. So that definitely kills it for me, but at least my wallet is breathing slightly easier.