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20 enforcers done, and the main colour blocks done on 5 Peacekeepers. Should have the peacekeepers done this evening.

Edit: Yup, enforcers finished now. Will do a bit on the jetbikes, which are the last things from the Firefight starter set. It was a lot of fun getting this done, and I was always comparing it to the 2e 40K starter in my head - "Space Marines" vs. Orks and similar model count.

I finally finished my Ahriman! Took me a while and super glad he's done now!

Only a 5-man squad of Scarab Occult to do and all my infantry will be done for my TS! But gonna take a break and do my Zetans for Fallout next!

And also need to figure out eventually why my picture on my new phone comes out so pinkish compare to my older one.

I spent the weekend working on finishing two of my projects. Thankfully I am almost done!

I had to basecoat a few things and the weather was not the best for it. I did it anyway and almost ruined it. Luckily I was able to recover without any lasting damage.

Mental note, before winter comes basecoat a ton of minis before the weather turns so you have projects to last until the spring.

Wrapping up my Necropolis table for an event this weekend

It's based on the original Pacman maze (cropped) and is filled with packed men.

Hah, that's awesome. Great idea and execution!

I finished my two Enforcer Jetbikes. Great models, but I never enjoy painting vehicles. Look good now they're done though!

That finishes the Enforcer part of the Firefight starter. Not bad at all - 71 minis in 15 days. Gonna try to keep my momentum and start on my Forge Fathers now.

Building the last of my Tau backlog - a Broadside, a Sunshark bomber, & a Tidewall shieldline. And 6 Heavy Gun Drones out of spare bitz.

Took a group shot of my Enforcers:


And then drybrushed white onto 80 or so Forge Fathers. Thank god for make up brushes.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Wrapping up my Necropolis table for an event this weekend

It's based on the original Pacman maze (cropped) and is filled with packed men.

And that's the warband and objectives wrapped up too

Weirdly terrifying Pac Man.

Last night I got the first base colour down on 20 Forgefather Steel Warriors. I really like these little guys, I'm glad I went with them over other Space Dwarf options.

Plotting how to win vs/destroy a Knights list with some Tyranids this evening.

This should be interesting as the Nids I'm using [i]aren't mine. A friend asked me to run his army for a few games & see if I can get better results from it than he is.
So I've only got a very specific selection of units for this challenge....
I certain that I'll at least score more pts than he's been managing.

[/i]Edit: Well, I didnt win vs the Knights.
But I did take down 4 of them (2 Huntsman, 1 Wardog, & 1 Tyrant) & only lost by 20some points.[i]

Back on the hobby horse after two days off sick from work. In which I became a bed burrito trying to sweat it out.

Got the drybrushing done on my LI infantry.

Contrast stage is next. Have also decided I’m going to sell of my Chaos Knights. Can’t be arsed.

All the basecoats done on my first 20 forgefathers now. Basecoating with speedpaints is really satisfying, the models feel almost done already.

Have also been looking through Xenos Rampant and having a think about how to represent various groups of models in that system.

First Marines I've assembled... swapping heads for Bladeguard Veteran heads.



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Did some more bits on my Forge Fathers, mostly washes and a bit of detailing. I'm really pleased with how they're coming out - Reikland Flesh over Gryph Hound Orange came out pretty much bang on how I wanted the orange armour to look.

A lunch hour basing frenzy.

All I did is put a wash on 5 models last night before I went off to do other things so not much to report.

Hopefully I'll be able to finish up stuff tonight and I can move on to other projects.

I got a second session in because my daughter fell asleep - all the eyes, wash on the base and base rims are done! 20 steel warriors in 3 days.

More base coating on my heavy weapon armed steel warriors. The sprues let you build heat cannons, autocannons, missile launchers and flamers which is really nice. You can get a lot of mileage out of that one sprue.

For the first time in months, I did some miniature painting last night. Not much, though. Today, I decided to set up a couple of armies for Space Weirdos as I heard about the expansion that came out recently, which was a pain to buy from Wargame Vault as it refused to use my direct debit card for some reason, but I managed to get around it.

It's the 1st week back for the Wednesday kid's miniature game club I run, so we might playing it then!

Repairing a huge lot of 2nd+ hand tau drones.

Its a royal PITA having to drill out nearly 40 shattered flight stand nubs.
I really wish people would take care of thier minis....

But the end of the repairs are in sight!
All I need are 5.5 new flight stands, 3 (at minimum) antenna, & 1 techno looking bit to make a scratch built shield drone or such.

Alright I buckled down over the weekend and managed to get some progress done on two of my projects! One I even managed to complete which is nuts given how it's been sitting in a box in my pile of shame for 10+ years.

Finishing my Mordheim warband inspired me to continue painting the unit that I stole models from to make my warband. I only had 3 more men to complete to finish the unit, so here they are!



And with these guys done my Mercenary Swordmen detachment is complete!



Overall I'm just happy this is off my pile of shame. Now I can focus on other stuff I have prepped on my painting desk I've been putting off for far too long.

Also I managed to get even more done for my Dark Elves.



So with these guys done I only have 5 more done to finish the unit. Right now the command group is base coated an on my painting table. Hopefully I'll have it all done this week!

Last night I finished my heavy weapon dudes, and now I've started my squad of ten jump pack Forge Fathers. Jump packs are actually usually for their exo-suit types but I thought they looked quite silly due to how chunky the suits are, adding the jump packs really makes them look silly to my eye, so I stuck them on some normal steel warriors to make a sort of "assault squad" of space dwarves. If everyone is too tall, jump up and hit them in the face I say.

Building this astrolabe from Reaper.

As is? This is a gak model.

The lower 1/2 & bottom of the mechanism is made of crappy bendy Bones plastic (gray).
The 3 rings? Are a crappy smooth hard plastic. I want to say maybe 3d printed.
Details are soft - smooth. Poor even by Bones standards. Early Mantic stuff has this beat.

My copy is also seriously warped with a right tilt. No amount of heating has helped it. :(
The base was also warped - though this was fixed by mounting it to a large generic base.
To fix the lean? I'm going to have to tear it apart & insert a brass rod from ring housing all the way down through to the base.
Way more work than should be needed for a Reaper mini.

Because it's the first Kid's miniature game club tomorrow I thought it'd be cool to play a game of Space Weirdos, so I did a playtest today. A team based on Attelus and his people from Secret War vs a Custodes team, both I made. It was rather one sided with a distinct victory to Attelus and company, mostly because the layout of the terrain didn't suit Space Weirdos much. Not enough LoS blocking.

Got a little bit of mistake correction and detailing done on my jump-dwarves. Looks like I'll be able to get the squad totally done tonight - 10 in 2 days is not bad.

After that come 18 exo-suit dwarves. I like the models but I only came to own 18 of them by mistake, so it's gonna be a bit of a mission getting them all done!

Painting preatorians for 40K

Working out 3 or 4 Warmachine solos to paint next week, will assemble later in the week.

Built my first ODST Tempestus Aquilons Kill Team member.

Working on building a movement tray for another unit I'm almost done with.

Also tried to repair some fraying brushes and ended up making them worse. So I chucked them which I really should do more often. I have a ton of spare brushes I buy everytime I'm at an art store that just sit there unused as I struggle with brushes that haven't has a fine tip in months.

I've been working at building the Emperor's Children Box and combat patrol I bought at launch.
Still deciding if I can get value for the codex, or if I should just use the damn code for the app myself. Won't be playing them before the next edition change either way.

I built 6 Noise Marines, 6 Flawless Blades, and Lucius Sunday.
Then 5 Tormentors & 5 Infractors over the last 2 evenings.
Pieces clipped off and arranged for the next 5 Tormentors, waiting to be cleaned up & assembled at my next opportunity.

Got 4 more SM Captains partially painted (base armor color).
I should get them all finished by the end of the week.