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Built another 5 Wracks for my Escalation League Drukhari.
Built a Farseer Skyrunner.

I cleared off the dust-covered painting table and have begun assembling a Soviet infantry platoon for Bolt Action.

New to the game, which looks really cool, basically a product-evolved 40k. I wonder if they ever had 40k-ish rules using this system. I bet they did.

Had a game of Five Parsecs from Home last night, then rolled up my next Campaign Turn so I've begun assembling the next enemy squad for my next encounter using the trooper box from Stargrave. Because they're so small in scale and their bases are so thin I also used Green Stuff to rise them up a bit on their bases to make them look less short. I also almost finished my last member of Arlathan Karkin's retinue.

While digging through an old storage box the other day I unearthed some truly vintage Skaven still in thier blisters.

So I built them tonight. (Base coating in the morning)

Awww I have always had soft spot for that vermin lord model

Though it was terror to face back in days I first encountered it.

Love those old Skaven! I have a bunch of them mostly to play Warhammer Skirmish. Fun to paint too.

As for me....still being lazy but I'm in the process of working on more Dark Elves once again.

Adding a unit of Dark Reapers to my misc forces tray of my Eldar


I'm finally building a box of Dark Reapers I took as part of a trade last year.

For as much as I dislike finecast, it does have a silver lining!
While it's usually super annoying to clean up it's also very easy to cut/trim/mod.

Wich in the case of these Reapers is a huge +.
Because I really don't like the stupid looking targeting fins on the Reapers heads.
Being made if finecrap though makes it's easy (if slow) to trim those off & keep the head/hair looking good.
If I were trying this on the metal versions of these models? It'd be way waaay harder. Maybe even impossible.

Finished five more old metal Harlequins.


Cheers,

CB

Assuming I finish work at a sensible hour, I'll be making some more progress on some Kasrkin. I'm pretty happy with the test scheme.

Built 6 zombies.

Finished 4 out of 8 Stargrave Troopers to represent the corporate goons my Crew will fight in my next Five Parsecs from Home encounter. I was going to batch paint all eight, but halfway through, I decided against it and batch painted the four instead, which I think was the right decision, even if I have to work on the last four tomorrow.

Built Wattle/Timber Outbuilding by Renedra.

Trying to figure out what the hells wrong with my printer.

I went to print out some stuff for tonight's D&D/PF game and - nothing.

All I get is the not-at-all helpful message "Printer is in error state."
Yeah. No I figured that much out when nothing happened after I clicked print.

And so the fun begins.....

Finished painting the Stargrave minis for the enemies of my next Five Parsecs Encounter. I would've played it, but I spent too much time making a stupid meme about said encounter lol

Fixed up the Attelus on a rock like the old Chaos Terminator Lord a bit. I noticed the rock had some of the paint worn off, then I varnished it, so hopefully, it won't happen again. Then I completed my 10th Encounter of Five Parsecs from Home, and it was a ton of fun. Not-Attelus killed four of the eight Corporate Security enemies, all with his Auto Rifle, which is ironic as he isn't the best shot in the original material, lol. Might be to do with that I finally painted on a very basic OSL from his pistol's muzzle flare.

Worked on some scratch built scatter terrain for Necromunda or 40K.



Cheers,

CB

Building 2 more units of Drukhari Scourges .

Began painting one of my Death Cult assassin proxies I bought off Etsy. I was hesitant to begin painting them as they're plastic and 3D printed, so the details weren't as distinct as a resin mini. While I was proven correct, it wasn't as bad as I thought, and I'm enjoying painting her a lot. Doing her in roughly the same classic colour scheme as the Death Cult minis from the old Inquisitor game.

Been working on Attelus' face as I tried to fix his eyes, but frigged that up, so tried fixing that, and it just escalated from there. I think I managed to fix it up, but not too happy with him now. I also began painting my 2nd Death Cult assassin proxy and I'm quite happy with her so far.

I did a bit more work on my 2nd Death Cult Assassin proxy and rolled up my next Campaign Turn for Five Parsecs from Home still got to fight the Encounter.

I finished my Death Cult Assassins today, based them and everything. A whole lot of miniatures I ordered also arrived today, so I've been assembling them and prepping them. I now have all the minis I need for my 2,000 point Grimdark Future Inquisition force, so that's pretty cool.

using sponge painting to highlight my proteus tank for my iron warriors.


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Worked on some scratch built scatter terrain for Necromunda or 40K.



Cheers,

CB

They look Awsum. How'dya make them?

Finally managed to tear myself away from playing Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader so I can prime my new minis. I also started to paint anotjer Death Cult Assassin as a test mini.

Pushing myself back into the 40K hobby this last 2-3 weeks after a roughly year long break.
To sum up the last few weeks:
1. I did a lot of reorganizing of my hobby room. It had turned into a bit of a storeroom over the last year, to the point where I couldn't even freely move more than three steps into it. Got my paint racks set up, with my Pro Acryl, Scale75, GW Contrast paints all set up (and the GW paints all transferred into dropper bottles). May need to find somewhere to put another rack for my Kimera Kolors, don't really like keeping them in a desk drawer due to the whole "out of sight, out of mind" thing.
2. Played two games of 40K with a friend of mine so far. I like the current edition, but I sat out for most of 9th, so I'm not the best judge. Been playing since 2nd, so I've seen all sorts of things come and go.
3. Started assembling some of the Necrons from my old Indomitus box and Imperium magazine subscription. I already have a massive pile of classic 2E Necron Warriors, Immortals, and Destroyers as the core of my army, so I'm adding a few extra options to it.
4. Just got the last issues of Imperium yesterday, so I'm currently building Szeras for my Necrons.
5. Need to tackle more reorganizing of the hobby room. Get rid of all the worthless bulk Magic cards taking up space (keeping the good stuff). Get rid of my Hirst Arts casting supplies, probably sell the molds on Ebay or something and just toss the old plaster.
6. Start assembling the models that are all still in boxes. That's a lot. A lot a lot. *sigh*
7. Paint. Probably need to stock up a few more pots of the Contrast paints I need for my Ultramarines. I use a 1:1 mix of Talassar Blue and Ultramarines Blue (thanks, Juan Hidalgo!), as I don't like how dark the current UM color scheme is. I like the lighter blue of the old 2E Ultramarines. And while I have the Coat D'Arms UM blue, it's a pain to use. I'll probably use it on my vehicles via airbrush.
8. Still need to decide on a unified color scheme for my Necrons. They're a bit of a mismatch. The ones I painted years ago are green and dark steel. But I've picked up a lot on Ebay over the years to bulk them out, hence the mismatched colors. I just checked Ebay prices today on classic Necrons, and are they expensive now. I have almost $1000 in just Warriors alone.

I managed almost to finish three of my six new Death Cult assassin proxies. They're a real challenge for my fine motor skills, but I'm enjoying working on them. Once they're done just got to finish my Station Forge flamer tank, and that'll be my whole 2,000-point Grimdark Future Inquisition Force finished.

This evening, after stuffing myself on Christmas dinner, I anticipate opening the Legion Imperialis starter set.

Later, once home, if I dont slide into a food coma, maybe I can get started building some of it.

But truthfully? I'll probably pass out on the couch while trying to read enough of the rules to tell what guns I want on things.

Edit:
Building has commenced!
One tiny LI Malcador vs a 40k Runtherd.:

Forced myself to do some painting today and managed to mostly finish my 3rd new Death Cult assassin proxy. I've been too tired to do much, mostly because I've been staying up too late playing Rogue Trader. Should've learned my lesson by now, but alas. I'm not a binge drinker, but a binge gamer.

Taking a break from painting things to indulge in my true passion; deranged Ork conversions.

So I've taken it upon myself to make another Weirdboy, as my other one didn't fit the "everything Squig" vibe I'm going for nowadays. So he has a Squig hat.

Today will be the final building frenzy of 2023.
I will build:
●14 kits from my backlog (things I've owned more than 1 year)
●the rest of the Solar Aux 1/2 of my Legion Imperialis starter.
●the Imperial halves of 2 Aeronautica boxes.
●3 Wave Serpents
●all the new Necron stuff that arrived the other week
●both the Christmas grots

If I've got any glue left after all that? Then I'll continue building stuff until I go to bed....

Plotting out a Hobby Streak for 2024, where I want to do something Hobby every day of the year.

However, I have at least a trip to Orkney on the slate, so will have to factor in how I want to compensate for that. I’ll be flying, so taking paints, tools and kits feels impractical.

Mostly want to get myself painting lots. I figure aim for a unit a week, or for my growing HeroQuest collection, a Dungeon a week, with the idea that should be a comfortable way to breakdown the monotony. And I suspect there’ll quite swiftly come a tipping point where I have all the monsters painted for the main set, and I can then pile into the expansions.


And change it up week on week. So, week one, HeroQuest, week two, Legion Imperialis, week three Horus Heresy, then loop back round. Given my Heresy collection is significant, I think I’ll slot in extras to quieter weeks for the other two.