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Who’s the good doggo? Are you a good pupper? Wanna do some tricks? Sit! Stay! Play dead! Rise from the grave and devour my foes! That’s a good dog...



Need to mag the bases for travel, but dire wolves are finished.

Ho Nevelon
Good job on those wolves.
They even look a valid alternative to a cavalry unit.
Filippo

Splendid work on those dogs mate !

Thanks.

They should work to help support my calvary. They are fast, and can run and charge. So they can screen, pin stuff in place while I maneuver, or just eat things. 2 wounds each with a 5+/6++ save is not easy to sweep aside, and 2A, 4+ hit 3+ wound (no rend, 1D) can actually hurt light things. Hopefully they won’t disappoint on the table, but I have high hopes for them.

So I finished the last barrow knight, which brings to a close my army on parade summer project.


Here is the summer stuff. I’ll get a full pic with everything when the sun is out, as it’s not all going to fit in the lightbox. I took more pics but don’t feel like fussing with editing them right now. I want to get some nice unit pics stitched together.

Also at the point where not everything can live in the travel boxes. Most everything can, but Manfred takes up too much space. Once I’m done painting everything in the primed pile I could probably get everyone into 2x9L boxes and a 4L. Although I might be able to get by with 2x4 and a 9 if I leave one tall unit on the shelf.

Nice job getting your summer project done. I think I'm screwed on mine, just too many other things came up. But, I did get a decent scheme nailed down at least. I look forward to seeing the full shots of your project, and your whole Armies on Parade entry when it's done.

That's super cool. Congrats on wrapping the project. That unit of wolves turned out really sweet. Way back in the day, my unit of dire wolves was one of my favorites in my army, alongside the fell bats. Keep up the fight.

The army looks amazing, great job on completing the summer project.

ZergSmasher wrote:Nice job getting your summer project done. I think I'm screwed on mine, just too many other things came up. But, I did get a decent scheme nailed down at least. I look forward to seeing the full shots of your project, and your whole Armies on Parade entry when it's done.

Life likes to get in the way of progress, but as long as you moved forward a little, all is not lost. I hope to get the full pics this weekend.

youwashock wrote:That's super cool. Congrats on wrapping the project. That unit of wolves turned out really sweet. Way back in the day, my unit of dire wolves was one of my favorites in my army, alongside the fell bats. Keep up the fight.

I almost picked up some bats, but was kinda “meh” on the sculpts, and from both a game mechanic/army theme I like the vargheists for the same role. One that was performed by carrion in my old WHFB days. Sometimes you just need to wing over to the backfield and mess up things and eat people.

Zambro wrote:The army looks amazing, great job on completing the summer project.

Thanks. The overall army is far from done, but this is a good point to pause and work on some other things.

So did a little work in the photo editor.






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In painting progress, done with the drybrushes and most of the washes on the 2 marines. Need to so the second blue clean up pass.

Clipped the last 5 necrons, built 2. Ordered the doomstalker so I have the CP.

Finished cleaning mold lines and assembly on the indomitus necrons. Doomstalker should be showing up today.

I should take inventory to make sure I have enough projects primed for the winter.

There's always brush-on primer.

 ShadowsAndDust wrote:
There's always brush-on primer.

In the past I used smelly primer. But have been on rattlecans for a few decades now.

Built the doomstalker. I was mostly pushfit, the only things that needed glue were the shoulder pads and to stick to the base.

I haven't noticed any sort of smell with Vallejo's black primer, but the Warpaints Fanatic grey primer does smell like farts.

 ShadowsAndDust wrote:
I haven't noticed any sort of smell with Vallejo's black primer, but the Warpaints Fanatic grey primer does smell like farts.

“Smelly Primer” was the name on the pot of the stuff GW sold back in the day. IIRC. It’s been a bit. I should dig into the pile of mostly dead’s paints not in normal rotation and see if I still have any.


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This is the lot of all my soulblight, including some older stuff. Not that there is a huge amount of it, but there are a few notable things, like Manfred.

Nice work! Loving the soulblight gravelords, excited to see what's next.

 Nevelon wrote:

 ShadowsAndDust wrote:
I haven't noticed any sort of smell with Vallejo's black primer, but the Warpaints Fanatic grey primer does smell like farts.

“Smelly Primer” was the name on the pot of the stuff GW sold back in the day. IIRC. It’s been a bit. I should dig into the pile of mostly dead’s paints not in normal rotation and see if I still have any.

I had no idea. I thought you were talking about how the smelled.

 Solarnopsis wrote:
Nice work! Loving the soulblight gravelords, excited to see what's next.

Sunday morning coffee musings time. What is next?


So all the necrons are on deck. I would like to clear the space the nids are taking up for them. Some of that will be September’s project. The subject of the monthly comp is “Chaff” and that’s pretty much all that’s left in the box. Going to start with the nerogaunts, as that’s 100% their job, and move on to the rest as time allows.

October is prime time to get more undead painted. I’d like to get some of the scraps out of the pile. Like those 3 nighhaunt left, of the 6 barrow guard needed to finish the second unit. Alternatively, I might just continue painting nids, and do the neurotyrant for the comp, and keep pushing though gaunts.

Due to the tie vote, we know November’s comp topic is “All your base are belong to us” Two ways this could unfold here. One is the Mounted Wight King. His base has a lot going on. Alternatively, I re-upped my sub for Warhammer+ and will be getting the spirit seer. Who also has a lot of base action. If I can get his ordered, built, and primed in time.

December is the open round, and should be marines.


Probably the Jump Intercessors, as I am kinda interested in getting them done, and am woefully behind on my company goal for the year. Again.

I should also paint a tank and the 2 other centurions. As the large monster handle is going to be in use for Nov, and maybe Oct, I should aim to do one now in Sep, and the other in Dec.

Still plenty of stuff after all that to carry me through the cold winter into spring. No need to buy and build before priming weather is gone. I do have a number of things still on sprue. A chunk of 30k stuff, which has again lost its luster. Not planning on playing the new edition, but still would like to plug away at what I have. Giving some time for the army builders to get updated and I might poke around and see what I could do. The concept of a viable army gives me structure and motivation. I also have an impulsor/gladiator I could build, but still one in the primed pile. The box of BGVs is also speaking to me for a few reasons. One is that I poached one guy from my last box to make a captain. Which left me with a nice Codex-complient 5 man combat squad, but not a game legal amount of minis for units in 10th. The other 2 could be done up as part of a 1st company command squad, or more officers. Tempted to make a thunderhammer/heavy bolt pistol captain to match the new BL mini they announced.

GW just announced a upcoming price hike. Do I need to panic buy? Probably not. Do I need to get some more grey plastic so I can spend my Sunday mornings clearing mold lines? Maybe. I need a few more units for the battle company, but think I can wait until summer and 11th for that. Might just end up being the IF combat patrol. The nighthaunt’s new spearhead is tempting as a painting project, and I also like that game format. Plus it would boost my collection of spooks to a legit legal army level. I still want a box of zoenthropes for my nids. Might actually pull the trigger on those. Old kits are more likely to have their price “corrected” to modern levels. And I want to wrap up that army for now, so it would be a good time to grab them, There are still plenty of Eldar I covet. Mildly tempted to get the MTO stuff. I own half the seer council as it is, and am not overly fond of the ones I don’t (sorry bugs and moose). The avatar and PLs one is more tempting. I already have a metal avatar though, and Jain Zar. But the new plastics are real nice. Sure, they are pricy. I think I’d rather have the new then the old for most of them. I really only want 4 of them, and that’s a chunk of cash to drop for old metals. Granted, $45 a pop for the new ones isn’t cheep. I still need to pick up some plastic aspects, storm guardians, and the rest of the PLs (and maybe the avatar). But not a lot of rush on that. I do need to be better about painting the ones I have first.

Talking though that I think I will grab the last of the bugs now. The rest can wait.

And the coffee is empty. Time to face the day! Enjoy the rest of your (hopefully long) weekends everyone.


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 ShadowsAndDust wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:

 ShadowsAndDust wrote:
I haven't noticed any sort of smell with Vallejo's black primer, but the Warpaints Fanatic grey primer does smell like farts.

“Smelly Primer” was the name on the pot of the stuff GW sold back in the day. IIRC. It’s been a bit. I should dig into the pile of mostly dead’s paints not in normal rotation and see if I still have any.

I had no idea. I thought you were talking about how the smelled.

(you responded while I was typing)
Heh. Nope. That was the name of the pot back then. And it did smell different from the other paints.

Reminds me. I picked up a fresh rattlecan at the store yesterday. Should add it to the YTD spent list. And probably prime today, looks nice out.


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Also in the news, primed everything in the pile. Went down to the store, got in 2 games of spearhead. Won one, lost one. Today was the last day of the league, and I placed second. Payed both my soulblight spearheads, and I think I like the wight one better. The vamp one has better stats, but fewer tricks, crtis, etc. wights was just more interesting to play.

My deathwatch guy came in 3rd in the mini of the month comp. Kinda surprising, a lot of cool entries.

They are moving Sundays to kill team and underworlds instead of spearhead/combat patrol. I should look into KT.

Nice big pile of primed stuff, and good progress for the year so far!

On paint on/airbrush/polyurethane primer, pretty much everything I've painted on here has used it. Whites seem to be a bit hit and miss depending on the animal spirit of the paint and day for coverage, but blacks and colored ones generally work pretty good for me. Vallejo and Pro Acryl both are decent and the big bottles last a good long while. Less sure on durability, had some rubbing issues on corners with whites from handling during painting,less so in play, but I don't play as much.

I know there are paint on primer options. I’m just an old grognard stuck in my ways.



So this month is chaff. Started some neurogaunts. Just put their grey seer down. Move a cent down to glare are me. And hopefully get painted. Coms got his clean up blue, needs the wash next.

So I had the day off, dentist appointment first thing, and I was hoping to be all sorts of productive. That mostly kinda didn’t happen. I did get a lot of work done on the nids. Zoes showed up, and I built them. Neurogaunts need to be checked over and touched up, but are almost finished. Spare marine I built a few days ago and primed. In KT you have the option to field a assault intercessor grenadier. I never build one with the stock bits for it, but remembered I still had this ETB in the pile of shame. I should just build the last guy so I can move the instructions off to the done pile and tidy up.

double post. Fun with lag.

Wow. So much stuff you could potentially get on with. I'd be crippled by so many options!

I like the finished AoD - the big boy in the middle (Manfred?) makes for a great centre piece, especially with the flowy cape.

Tell me more about Warhammer+. I've click into it a few times, considered it, the ultimately not gone through with it. Is it worth it?

 Zambro wrote:
Wow. So much stuff you could potentially get on with. I'd be crippled by so many options!

I like the finished AoD - the big boy in the middle (Manfred?) makes for a great centre piece, especially with the flowy cape.

Tell me more about Warhammer+. I've click into it a few times, considered it, the ultimately not gone through with it. Is it worth it?

I really like the way Manfred came out, even if he is one of the older parts of the army. And that cape is a high I’ve been trying to recapture since I did it.

Warhammer+ used to be a much better deal. They trimmed a few things back (replaced a voucher for the main GW with a discount coupon only for merch)

The thing is, none of the parts are worth it individually. But there are a lot of parts.

Subscribe for a year and get a free mini. I think the year sub was around $60 (IIRC if you go for the year sub, you get like 2 months free). Free minis are cool, but only ~$45 cool, they do tend toward bigger diorama level thing, especially this year.
You have access to the vault. Old WDs and books that have been updated. It’s not a complete collection, and from what I’ve heard the rules have been cut. But if you want to catch up on old fluff it’s there. If it’s there. Also, poorly organized and the reader is not the best. You can probably find old ripped PDFs on the web. Not used this much personally.
Full unlock of the Apps. Kinda. You still need to buy the codexes to unlock content. Honestly I forget what limits the free side of the app has at this point. I think it’s like a $5 sub individually for each side 40k/AoS. If they still offer them ala carte. and you don’t prefer newrecruit/battlescribe/other
Discount codes and coupons. I know I get some for being subscribed to the newsletter, but others I think are from the W+ sub. Used to be a $10 or $20 voucher, but that got changed to a coupon for 10-20% (I honestly forget) off the merch site. So if you want overpriced mugs or wall art. Some of it looks cool, but the price is high to start, and even with a discount, I’d just rather use the hobby budget on more minis.

Oh, and you get access to the W+ app and all the shows there. Some of which are good.
I like Loremasters. They do reasonably deep dives into assorted topics.
Painting guides can be helpful, but get repetitive. It’s the GW system. Watch them highlight up the layers. Occasionally they will drop something out of the ordinary like the basics of color theory.
The actual animations. Generally pretty well done, but the volume is not high enough to justify the sub price.
Battle reports. Can be fun to watch, especially if you are trying to get up to speed in a game.
Interviews - Sometimes they drag BL peeps, or rules devs out and talk about stuff.
Game show-y stuff? Quiz shows, scrap building. other stuff. More of this these days, I think to help fill out the schedule.
Generally you get 3-4 things dropping a week. Some of which you may care about. Many of which you could find equivalents out on youtube.

The more bits you like, the better the deal is. But none of the bits justify the cost. And a lot of the parts can be found free elsewhere. I think it’s worth it. It’s roughly the cost of a box of marines for a year. I get enough entertainment and use out of it to justify that cost to myself. But if you were already vested in other army building apps, were more in tune with bat reps and revies on you tube, had a hard drive full of old PDFs, and didn’t ccare for anime? Hard pass. Unless you really like the mini of the year. In which case you are spending like $20 more for all the extras for a year. Alternatively, just sub for a month and binge watch all the content you want, test out the features, and see if it’s worth it to maintain a sub. If all you care about is the shows, this is probably the way to go.

Progress:


Coms is ready for edge highlighting.
The second batch of 3x gaunts got their flesh wash, next is reds
Cent got his first blue.
Gunner still needs his second blue.
Started building a second Gladiator. FLGS is doing a tanksgiving event, take it from box to table for an event. Going to try to honor that, although the temptation just to paint the one in the primed pile while I buld this one is strong.
Built the last ETB assault interccessor.

Nice progress, I'm always here for neurogaunts. Excited for the tank and impressed by the number of painting handles you own

 Solarnopsis wrote:
Nice progress, I'm always here for neurogaunts. Excited for the tank and impressed by the number of painting handles you own

I’ve got 5 normal and one large monster handle. Strongly recommend them to everyone, especially older people. Takes the strain out of holding the mini, makes it more natural. I’m sure other companies besides GW make them, or you could just mount minis on corks or pill bottles. But I do love the ones I have. Actually reasonably priced by the standards GW tools, which are generally high quality, but 2-3 times what they should be priced.



Gaunts are ready for teeth and touch ups. Go a lot quicker without eyes.

They don’t have eyes, how do they see? They are synaptic nodes, they see with the eyes of the bugs around them in network.
They don’t have noses, how do they smell? Horrible!

The back cap of the tank is just dry fitted. So I can pop it off and run it as the open topped impulsor transport. Same as the last one I built. The weather this week looks to be nice. Once I get the hull done I might prime it so I can start painting it while I finish building the turret/options.

Also need to finish up those marines so I can run more gaunts across the handles.


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3 more gaunts down and off the handles, 3 new ones up.

Broke from my scheme for a test. Normally venom/pus sacks are painted yellow with a green wash. One of these guys had one on his base, and I just used the tesseract glow paint. Looks promising. Will need to try it on a larger scale if it ever comes up.

Primed the stuff in the pile. Which was the hull of the tank, Zoes, and a random marine. Still need to finish building all the random parts.

The last 2 gaunts are almost done. Final touch ups and basing needed, and that’s a wrap for the squad. Will move over to random termagaunts next.

Still need to work on those 2 stalled marines.

So went to the FLGS and got in a game of KT. Took the Angels of Death, which is the “normal” marine one. Was a 3 way game with a guy and his young son. Kid pulled out the win. I forgot a tone of rules, not that they were exactly playing tight themselves. The Dad was going easy on us, was not pulling out all the stops he could have. But it was mostly a fun little training exercise. Was fun, I need to sit and sort out a more solid game plan. And maybe work up some more phobos guys. Pick up a box, make some specialists.

New Ultras just leaked, and revealed on WarCom. Do I need a TDA Calgar? I never got the last one. But I have the gravis one. No rush. Sicarius looks fine? He’s doing the blinged out captain thing. Do I need another one of those? Not really. The Victrix guard? Those guys I need. Like 2 boxes worth. They will solve a lot of my 1st company command squad issues. While I’ve kitbashed a few HG over the years, getting the actual box would be nice. Such cool looking minis.

What do you do with all your old models that get replaced with new ones?

Do you have a section in the back of your army which is filled with old Marnaeus Calgars and Honor Guard?

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
What do you do with all your old models that get replaced with new ones?

Do you have a section in the back of your army which is filled with old Marnaeus Calgars and Honor Guard?

It depends?

If there is still a use, they stay on the active shelf. For example, I could still field my old RT terminators, so they stay. I don’t have enough new ones painted to replace them all.

For models that are more of a straight upgrade, the old one either goes into the swap shelf (Actually a drawer these days) or down onto the overflow shelf in the basement. While I have new TDA characters, I might still want to use the old ones if I want to attach them to the old squads, so want to keep them on hand.

Nobody gets thrown out, nobody gets sold. Just pushed farther back on the shelf, and covered with more dust.

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Finished the last Neurogaunts. Just need to base the lot of them. Decided to move the rippers down to the active handles. They are more chaff-like for the month.