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So as is my habit after big reveal shows, let’s do a rundown and see how it will effect life here in my little corner of the hobby. (TL;DR, not much)

Votan - Look cool. Not that familiar with how the army plays, so don’t know if vital roles are being filled. But the minis look nice. Nothing there is making me want to start a new army, or even pick up a CP for a change of pace.

Tomb Kings - Not a fan of their aesthetics; there is a reason I went with Vampire Counts in the great schism. Nice modern plastic HQs for those who do though.

FEC - army book and new mini drop. Again, not my preferred flavor of undead. Facloner is fun looking, and fits with the army. Don’t need to branch out, I’ve already got one and a half Death armies.

Nighthaunt - Speaking of which... The new poisoner character not doing anything for me. But the new spearhead, perhaps? I have a little over 1,500 points right now. New spearhead adds about 750. Which would let me put down a 2k list. Only thing I already have is the spirit torment, as I have the old one from the soul wars box. Once I burn through all the soulblight, it might be nice to change back to the spooks for a side project. Not a huge fan of getting another army book, but I might just play the speathead, or use New Recruit, although not a fan of online listbilders as a rules source.

Chaos Dwarves - Well, they hit AoS, and embraced it. That kind of “turn the dial to 11” kind of over the top crazy that works with the setting. Although I’m also getting some Warcraft vibes from them, not sure why. Not my cup of tea, but I know a lot of people have been waiting for them.

Underworlds stuff - Not a game I play. I like the chaos dwarves here better then the main range, but still pretty meh. Centaurs are sweet looking though. None of the warbands grab me enough to get into a new game. Not a fan of the units in the Death box for AoS use.

LI - Loads of tiny tanks. Glad they came out with a rules complilation. Not a fan of how things have been scattered. My eyes are not good enough for this scale, tempting as it is.

30k - Not getting more stuff for 3rd edition at this point. Still have a chunk of the 2nd ed box to work on. Mk 2 assault marines look suitably brutal. If I get back on track they might work for my assault element. but we’ll see what the state of the game is at that point, as it might be long enough we are talking about 4th ed 30k.

BL doing the scouring? This is my shocked face. How many dozen books they going to squeeze this for? Pass.

SM - Can’t have a preview show without marines. 5 special characters from the non big 4 chapters. Good. All of them look pretty nice. Weakest is probably the IH. Not my chapters, so pass from me. I can hear the DA players screaming already about the jetbike... Could I use any of the CPs?
Salamander - chapter specific HQ, mario cart, more flammers/foot assaults I already have too many of? Nope. Only thing I want here is the MM guy, as the ETB squad I have didn’t come with one.
Imp Fist - Command squad? Kinda want for my 1st co project. More terminators? would bring me to 3x5 squads of the new scale, not unreasonable. 5 each both reg and heavy intercessors? Actually need for my company. Maybe. I “need” like a third of this, and kinda want another 3rd. So might make sense to buy.
RG - I want a primaris JP captain and another 5 JP troops. Don’t really like the scout walker, and don’t need more phobos until I decide to bump the 10th up to full strength, Pass, as I only want like a third of the box.
IH - Static defenses don’t belong in my marine lists. I could use the HIs, but not sure I need 10. already have the techmarine. nope.
WS - Named chapter locked HQ, and more stuff I have plenty of. Pass.

I have all the units to field the Imp Fist one, which might be fun to do. Mix up the CPs I can put on the table. The others are either chapter loccked with named characters, or have units I dislike. or both.

So we may see me pick up the fist CP. Which amusingly would be all duplicates to stuff I have. No rush. Might be a next year thing if I can push to finish the battle company.

Helmet is goofy. If you want to cosplay, you are going to need far more then that. And for sitting on a shelf looking cool? You can do better for the money.

KT - Deathwatch, looks like the old kill team crossed the rubicon. Will be interesting to see the 40k rules. I’m not necon adverse, as they are probably my next 40k side project after I finish with my nids. Not that the KT is wowing me. And I don’t need a full board of terrain. Keeping an eye on this, but probably a pass. Not against getting into KT, but I spend enough trying to keep up on rules.

So overall a lot of neat things, just not really for me. Might pick up a spearhead of CP, but the timing on those is probably not until I get some of my current projects off the bench.

Blood Knight getting there. Need to clean up the white, then balck wash the horse, more cleanup, etc. But almost done with the basecoat.

Getting the first reds down on the barrow knights. So much fiddly detail on those guys.

I have an empty paint handle. I should put something on it. But need to get those knights done.

Grumble grumble sculpted flappy banners full of detail… harumph.

I actually like painting those banners.

 ShadowsAndDust wrote:
I actually like painting those banners.

I’m torn.

The nice flat sculpted banners are a lot easier.
Blank banners you can do simple freehand to your skill level, or use decals. Or both
But flowing sculpted banners? Buckle up buttercup, and hope your brush skills are up to par.

Spoiler alert: mine are not really.

Going to dunk it in nuln oil to hide the worst of my sins.

Once I’m sober. Today is national tequila and I’m 2 margaritas in.

Have a great night all.

What sins?! Those look great!

Very nice builds and great paint. Rock on!

Blood Knights are ready to ride to battle:


Which wraps up the spearhead:


And the Wight King I did was the last bit for the other one:


And together:


Which is 1,150 points out of my 2k goal. Of course, that’s not counting the other characters I already have done. Making good progress.

So this morning I moved one of the Dire Wolves to the empty handle. Put the base Grey Seer down. I should probably collect my thoughts on their scheme.

Base grey seer.
Black paint on claws
Black Templar contrast on anything that’s not bones, teeth, entrails, eyes.
Clean up as needed.
BA Red contrast alone the edges of skin, scars, shallow wounds, guts, tounges.
Clean up bone, teeth.
Nuln oil the whole model. (This is an army wide thing, but may cover too much of the red work, on the fence)
BftBG on tounge, guts.
BA red on eyes. Might need to grey seer them again if the oil wash darkens them too much.

Thinking of getting a pot of gloss ‘ardcoat to do the claws shiny. Make them pop a little more. Would also go back and do the same to vargheists etc.

Alpha wolf will get some grey around his muzzle.

Very good progress, it seems. Quite a cool looking army.