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Doing the first basecoat on all my exosuits, and I've realised I stuck a bunch of the guns on wrong. Argh. Mantic lack of any instructions has bitten me in the arse.

Oh well. Nothing a bit of hacking can't fix, but annoying!

ccs wrote:
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.

I got that one too from the Kickstarter way back, and it was indeed a strange piece. Soft details and bendy bottom (also leaning on one side), weird hard rings on top. I built mine but haven't pained it yet either.

Other that that I've been sick for a few days so I took a hiatus from painting, but slowly started to resume painting. Painted my Fallout Zetan Drone before getting sick (was a quick job of a couple hours in one evening). Now working on the other Zetan guys.

Did my hacking, kids went to sleep late so only had time to get a coat of wash on my batch but at least that's a step with a long drying time done overnight. I should get an hour or so in the morning to keep moving on it.

Keen to get them done by the 28th, if I do I'll have managed 134 models this Feb, which I think is a personal best!

Reapairing/re-building an old 2" deep foam tray for Konflict 47.

It was originally a pluck foam & cut for...???
Almost all the glue had come loose.
I Picked it up free at the shop from a trade in they took awhile back.
They were going to pitch it, but free foam is still free foam. All I need to salvage it is half an hour & some glue.

Now its rebuilt & holding 90% of my Konflict stuff.

Exo suits have all their basecoats on and some highlighting. They're kinda kicking my arse because the sculpts although nice designs are badly implemented - too much sculpted on detail that has massive compromises due to how the minis were cast. The biggest problems are the grenades and stuff on the belts, which should have just been separate pieces you could glue on or not, but instead are weirdly stretched and distorted.

But I should get them finished tonight, I just thought I'd make more progress this evening!

Details and Decals on my Imperial Guardified K47 Grizzly(now in Cauter scheme) and also basing up a squad of Vostroyans.

Also working on artillery gun crews; whole stack of Imperial Guardmen.

Got my Exo-suits done.

Definitely prefer the Steel Warrior models and kit. These are essentially monopose and like I said I like the design but the actual quality of the sculpts is poor with lots of detail sort of morphing into the general model. A shame. But I did get loads of them very cheap so it's alright. They also take contrast and washes very well, so as long as you don't look too closely they look good.

Iron Ancestors next!

Reading through the Maelstrom books.
I'm a bit underwhelmed by the Crucible of Champions rules.

Don't get me wrong, whatever force I field in our next campaign, I'll certainly make use of them. I just think they could've been.... better. Especially concerning my Gretchin.

I'm also amused that GW doesn't adhere to their own modeling rules.
From Page 7, Representing Your Crucible Champion:
"A Crucible Champion must be represented by a suitable model (e.g. an Adeptus Astartes Crucible Champion must be based on an Adeptus Astartes model, not an Aeldari model ~~~"
So then on P33? We're shown a picture of a Daemon Of The Soul Hunt. Based on the Centaurion Marshal. From Aos/Warcry. So if my Adeptus Astartes champ has to be based on an Adeptus Astartes model, what's their justification for using this as a base for their Soul Hunter??? And then showing it off to us, undercutting the rule they wrote?

Got my two Iron Ancestors mostly finished in some downtime today! Really happy with how they're coming together.

I'll probably sit up and finish them tonight, just washes, tidying up and bases to get them finished.

Forge Father tank and little self propelled gun next. I don't like painting tanks so I hope I can get this one done.

I am planning out my Lamenters army, have to buy some colours, as I apparently never used yellow paint in any projects over the years.

Today I have to paint a pair of TechMarines.
They've earned it.

After a nearby Impulsor was destroyed they went on a Khorne inspired melee rampage vs the opposing Chaos Knights.
Tek 1 - soloed a Huntsman.
Tek 2 - 1st he landed the killing blows on a Rampager. Then he ran over and earned an assist (melee) in taking down a Tyrant.
The only reason it's an assist & not the kill is because chargers fight first. He stripped the thing down to its last wound. Making it easy prey for the deicated melee squad already engaged.

I had some home renovations I had to get done on the weekend which cut into my hobby time. Then I was so tired I just ended up playing videgames mostly.

That being said I did manage to get some work done on my Dark Elves and build some movement trays. Going to base them tonight and maybe, I've I have time, finish up the last of my Spearmen.

 skrulnik wrote:
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.

Almost done with the procrastination assembling (because I should be painting things that are primed instead of adding to assembled backlog).

3 models left and all Emperor's Children I own will be ready for priming...

2x Lord Exultant
1x Lord Kakaphonist
1x Daemon Prince
1x Lucius

12 Noise Marines
6 Flawless Blades
10 Infractors
20 Tormentors

I also assembled a box of Mechanicum Knights and a box of Krios tanks for Legions Imperialis Mechanicum.
Additionally, the Dawn of War Onslaught boardgame minis - a Chaplain, Judicair, Bladeguard Ancient, 3 Bladeguard, and 3 Eradicators.

Powered through and got the main colour down on my tank. God, I hate painting tanks.

I know, if I had an airbrush I wouldn't. But I'm a brush guy.

Missing my Quar delivery while at work

Got a wash down on my tank in a quiet period today. That's the main colour finished, so hopefully tonight I can get the other areas done.

Got a Fiat 626, squad of Schreckwulfen, squad of Centurions, and a squad of Aquilas built for my K'47 Italian Axis force.

Got my Forge Father tank done. That's all the minis from the Mantic range that I wanted for my Demiurg army done, all that's left is to finish the Brokkyrs and Militia figures which I'll do in the same scheme in case I want to use my force as Forge Fathers for Firefight or Deadzone.

I'm going to give them greyish skin and rust coloured beards though, because I really dislike the "short human but we're aliens actually" Forge Fathers. It made more sense when they were abhumans.

Sitting pretty on a pile of Quar sprues and writing rosters!

Got the first couple of colours on my Brokkrs.

Usually the process of painting minis makes me like them more, but it's not working with these guys. Ah well. At least they were free.

Painting a TechMarine.

Alright after putting it off long enough I finally managed to finish another unit for my Dark Elves!

All I had left was my front rank command models. I put it off somewhat because I was having trouble getting the banner to fit without obscuring everything. I almost thought I'd have to cut it off and use a brass rod. In the end though I made it work, behold!



With these last 5 done I now have my whole unit of Dark Elf Spearmen complete.



So now I have two of my core units done. Now while I still have a bunch of other Dark Elf warriors to paint, since I'm building to create a specific list I'm going to hold off on them for now and focus on finishing my core. That means next up is a unit of Dark Riders.

It also means I have to do something I hate....painting horses.

That's a really striking scheme!

I did a few more coats on these Brokkrs.

Still don't like them and I had a headache last night which made me like them even less. But they're nearly done at least!

I suspect I will like the militia that come next even less!

Quar, now with actual assembly!

I split the 3 different Coftyr infantry kits with a buddy

I then split my half into a Coftyr patrol (pictured) and a Gwynt patrol (a subfaction with 3d printable conversion bits) (coming soon)

Finally did a bit more miniature painting today, almost finished my not-cyber psycho squad.

Got some paint on the militia.

Weirdly they ARE growing on me - they're very cartoony, but at least it seems like that's what they were aiming for!

Basking in that warm feeling one gets whenever they table/nearly table an Eldari force.

My Flesh Tearers achieved a decisive victory over the space elves in this evenings league match.

I also had the pleasure of dispelling my opponents odd belief that Drop Pods arent very useful.
I'm not sure why he had this opinion, but he doesn't now....

Practically finished painting my not-Cyber Psycho squad. Made them real black ops looking. It was a good practice for painting black without dry brushing as well as progressing more on a couple of others.

Having fun with it!

Finished my Terminator Command Squad (see the Horus Heresy Hobby thread for pics).

Almost finished my newest version of the main character of my seven samurai style sci-fi novel, Azakir Halgriv, in his stealth suit, which was a part of the pack with the not-cyber psycho squad and the not-Trauma Team set. I might redo the line on the sidewalk of his base. He's mostly finished, just have to finish his visor.