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Been taking advantage of sick leave. These 2 titans ready for transfers and weathering, 9 knights ditto, 6 knights almost same stage and finished paintings for apoc game

so i got in my kings of war Vanguard pledge earlier in the week, and decided to start building it.
I've started, and nearly finished, with the Basilean warband

My thoughts so far
I like the resin used for the three heroes, and like that the ogre guard had multiple arm and helmet options

Plastic Man-At-Arms, i don't like the oversize guards on some of the sword options, and i think it could have benefited from some kind of markings on the sprue to help match bits up.

sisterhood-personal preference, i don't like poses that require balancing on one contact point (in this case a foot)

panthers-one pose, probably more trouble then its worth to try and repose it

paladins-people are going to feth up and lose that little circle that attaches on the back of the helmet i'd imagine

sergeants-spears want to bend

sisterhood scouts-no comment really

Overall, as the first warband from my pledge i've built, i'm pretty happy with the models and look forward to painting them

Finished up something really sexy!



Yeah, I can feel the jealousy!

tneva82 wrote:

Captain Brown wrote:
Decided that my first attempts at colour matching to my previously painted OOP Eldar Jetbike have failed and it is getting another bath in Simple Green to try again.

Cheers,

CB

That sucks. Not being sure of how you painted previous models. My IG models are in bit of similar situation. Not noticable with infantry but vehicles new one I painted was clearly different to previous ones!

tneva82, too true. Usually I am quite good at matching (you can see in painting logs as I have lots of old miniatures), but this one is proving to be difficult. Oh well starting again.

Elbows wrote:Finished up something really sexy!

Spoiler:

Yeah, I can feel the jealousy!

Elbows,

I assume you are using these to slow movement and not stop bullets?

Cheers,

CB

Yep, just filling the table to make it feel more realistic. Will have some movement penalties for infantry models, etc.

Decorated and Painted Urban (Hex pavement from Miniature Scenery) bases and readied my urban assault teams to be pinned to said bases.

Finished assembling 40 Nightlords marines. Lots of resin heads and shoulder pads used.

Started painting the second Rogue Trader War Walker.

Photos of the first one in my Eldar Painting log.

Cheers,

CB

Received dreadnought bits from eBay yesterday at noon. Finished the dreadnought today around noon. Only had some minor ruination of the arms by my matte-finish spray...but I'll cope. It's a Chaos dread.

Starterted working on basing for first titans. Also did basing for 3 nob biker when I realized those still remained from saturday apoc game. Oh and packed all miniatures bar those. 6k orks is a LOT of boxes and 2 bags filled brimming. Def had to drop idea of taking stompa. Since I use public transport rather than own car could not take 2 bags AND stompa(nevermind 2) so stompaless 6k list it is. Good to know I have 6k painted orks + painted stompa+near painted stompa!

I won't be killing anything of note in apoc game but maybe I'm at least hard to chew meatshield. Though as only 2k or so covers all the boyz and grots so not that tough on 2nd thought...Ah well. Good thing they are just plastic soldiers so army being wiped without anything return doesn't hurt.

Assembled into sub assemblies a battlewagon yesterday, today I'm priming it, all the many bits...

soooo many bits

Undercoated my Night Lords, and kitbashed a Primaris Lieutenant.

Playing game of at. First big taste of uneven points. About 1650 vs 2015. Smaller mortis will have more command points and can pick own mission once larger side has decided on his which helps

Unboxed speed freeks. Holy cow this is a lot of plastic and the board looks fantastic. Going to pull the terrain first and see if I can make a kill team board out of this stuff.

After that it's just a long wait until my Tehno figures arrive from Russia so I can mod the crap out of these Orks.

Continued painting the second Rogue Trader War Walker. Jetbike came out of it's bath of Simple Green.

Cheers,

CB

Participiation on apoc game cancelled due to stomach illness so assembled 2nd reaver for Legio Mortis to stage where I can paint(2 pieces plus missile launcher lack magnets as I ran out) it. Was planning to assemble after apoc game though so not even really good replacement.

Pity. Was hoping to see 6k orks painted on table.

More on the battlewagon, sweet mother of gork that thing takes some painting, got through about half a pot of VMC Sepia Shade already.

Nice though

Finished building (i.e., folding cardstock) the Neon Lotus scenery pack from Infinity. Going to use it for Pulp Alley since we don't play Infinity.

 privateer4hire wrote:
Finished building (i.e., folding cardstock) the Neon Lotus scenery pack from Infinity. Going to use it for Pulp Alley since we don't play Infinity.

I would strongly recommend it.

I ran a small (due to geography) Kings of War tournament today. I was great fun, definitely looks to become a standard calendar item.

Finally beginning work on my Death Guard army. A couple Foul Blightspawn.

For attempt two, back to trying to colour match this last Eldar Jetbike. Matching a paint scheme that is over 20 years old is proving to be a challenge, GW and other paint suppliers have been changing their paints quite a bit over that time. Although amazingly, my Ral Patha Royal Blue is still liquid.

Cheers,

CB

Giving back in to the madness!

So got the Jet Bike as close as I think I am going to get it. If the weather breaks I will try to seal it.

Cheers,

CB

Got one of my friends from ancient hustorical gaming into Kings of War!

Made a list of my daemons (that my wife didn't buy for me) to put them up for sale. I'm done with GW games.

Sculpted some new helmet bits for my bits shop!

Today I made some more flock to top up my supplies

Painting up an oop metal War Walker and a whole lot of plastic and resin weapons to mount on it.

Cheers,

CB

Assembled 3 more knights(bringing total to 18...) and worked painting on second Legio Mortis Reaver(nearly done for pre-transfer/weathering stage) as well as continued basing Legio Victorum.

Been busy adding some watercolours to my latest drawings in the Grotlife Sketchbook. Using a lot of green funnily enough. Actually loving working with watercolours!

In more 3D hobby activities it's been fixing magnets to the undersides of my latest batch of 1:300 aircraft now prepped and ready for painting.

Repair day; got home from gaming at a friends and when I opened the car door my Warmachine case fell out and threw my newly painted Man-o-Wars all over the street.