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Had to replace the FEP sheet on my 3d printer, good times all round as it was a right mess.

To reward myself for powering through that misery I made a start on my MGSD Aerial.

Assembly (just need do more work on bases scatter rubbish) of 5 Marvel Crisis Protocol models.

Painting solos (6) for warmachine

Base coated a large batch of Space Marines today,
built the new Nightbringer,
built a Kroot Lone Spear (very nice model btw)
painted 1 SM Captain - 1st model of 2026.

Getting the leather done on these Blood Axe boyz. Lots of straps and pouches on these models.

Edit to add: Sat up a bit later with a cider and did the grenades, teeth and gun metal too. And went around correcting mistakes.

Painting wraiths for Warmachine

Last details and strong tone wash for these 20 Orks. Have to decide if I want to bother doing the eyes on them or just do the base rims and call it a day tomorrow. I normally always do eyes on my boyz but these Mantic ones have much smaller faces and much less prominent eyeballs so I'm not as sure.

The CCS assembly line never ceases....

Tonight saw the assembly of 2 Imperial Bunkers & 2 sets of Aegis Defense Lines with quad guns.

I went all the way and got the bases done on my first 20 Mantic Orks so now it's on to doing the next 20!

Had a lot of fun painting them even though the models are quite flawed (lots of lost detail on the sides of the models). Just haven't painted an Ork in something like 16 years even though they are by far my biggest faction and it was really fun to get back to it. Turns out I really don't get tired of painting greenskins.

Today I sorted through my massive box of Orks to get my old lead 2e Kommandos, my 5e Kommandos with Snikrot, my metal 3e Dreadnaught and my looted vindicator.

I'll strip the Kommandos because they've been painted over twice, but just repair and touch up the others. Should make a decent 1500 point list for Mantic Firefight when combined with a couple of Stormboyz and some mule transports.

And before bed I got the cyan and black onto my 20 Brawlers. It's weird that they all have wolverine claws as their melee weapon rather than an axe or something, but I suppose it will make them stand out!

Finally got my Konflkt 47 Brits onto the table for some action.

Crashed and burned on all my painting test models.


Giving up on painting for a while. Too depressed.

Sounds like you're being pretty harsh on yourself! Hope you feel better soon.

I got the boots and pouches done in a little quiet patch this morning when my wife brought our toddler out. The baby slept the entire time without a peep, which was awesome.

There's so much leather on these guys and it's definitely the worst hit by the soft detail areas that it takes two passes for me - one to do the big leather areas and another to do the straps and belts. Once it's done though I'll be really "over the hump" with these guys.

Edit to add: Sat up and did a bunch more with this batch, just gotta correct mistakes and do two more stages now. Should be finished tomorrow. Not bad - 40 minis in 8 days!

Starter working on my Ahriman. Progressing well but taking my time to get more blending on his robe and cape than my regular models. Also it's my last character model in the army, so just loving the progress there, army is getting closer and closer to being done!

Painting the base for Tigra for Marvel Crisis Protocol.
Undercoating either 20 Praetorian IG infantry, OR undercoating 6 Praetorian IG Mortar teams.

Building a Tau Gunrig.

I’m taking a hiatus from the hobby and the forums. It’s not bringing me joy right now, and I need to focus on my mental health and some personal responsibilities.

Appreciate the community. I’ll check back in when things are better.

I've done the same often over the years. See you later, take care of yourself!

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
I’m taking a hiatus from the hobby and the forums. It’s not bringing me joy right now, and I need to focus on my mental health and some personal responsibilities.

Appreciate the community. I’ll check back in when things are better.

Take care of yourself out there mate.

I started painting, but my Battletech Mercenaries kickstarter finally arrived so I decided I wanted to play with that instead.

I've been putting off reading the rules for the longest time but now I don't really have an excuse.

Last steps on my Blood Axe boyz. Waiting for the grey speedpaint to dry and then a strong tone wash for all of them and black base rims.

I sorta have some grading to do tonight and I'm trying to motivate myself to do it in between coats.

Building a 3rd Tau Gunrig
Next up, a Tau Sunshark Bomber.

Add those to the Kroot lone Spear I built the other day &....
I'll be the support half of the team next time my friend & I are Tau partners in our multi-player games.

Painted up 4 Ripper suits. Goofy models, but like everything, once I painted them I kinda liked them a lot more.

That's all my starter set Orks done, next are the Enforcers.

Todays progress: Got 25 Germans 3/4 painted up for Bolt Action. Not a single one actually finished (yet).

Started a batch of 20 HE Spearmen. Mistakes learned from Swordmasters, will try to do as much as possible with airbrush. And not paint basing paste twice, ffs.

Did a lunchtime painting sesh. Need to do that far more often.

Building a British 17pdr for BA/Konflkt 47.

I found out my Tesla cannon is NOT up to the task that needs doing. :(
Fine, I'll bring proper AT gun to the party.

Painted some small parts of my batch of 20 enforcers. Pondering what to do next - I think with contrast it can be good to pick out the smaller areas to make them stand out more before you apply the main coats so you don't go over them. Bit different to traditional paint where you can paint over the larger layers.

Edit: Sat up later than planned doing the main colour blocks. And as predicted, there was a lot of overspill I'm gonna have to go over with opaque paints! Ah well, lesson learned.

Assembling a couple of British Rifle squads for Bolt action/K47.

Highlighting and fixing mistakes on my 20 enforcers. Got the wash on the bases too. Just need to do the base rims and fix some black areas and they're all done.

I'm going to magnetize around 150 miniatures for storage.

And now I'm going back through & adding packs & other bitz of gear to 3 squads of BA/K47 Brit riflemen from last night.
Pack, pouches, teeny tiny individual grenades, helmets, etc....