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Painting up some Bushido goblins*.

*Sorry, I cant remember what they're actually called, or the faction without the box infront of me.
But they look like goblins.

We went to a nearby town about an hour away for grocery shopping today, but got back home with plenty of time to work on my new Azakir mini in his Stealth Suit, and I did, calling him finished! Kinda, I think there's more to be done on the blade of his sword, now I think about it!

Rounding out my darling anteaters with a bit of stowage. Some parts are from the original plastic IG weapons team, we spared no expense.

Had the kid's game day today. We played Grimdark Future. The mission was Sabotage which wound up a tie as we ran out of time. At home, I did a bit more painting and now lying in bed watching some Play on Tabletop.

Painting and varnishing some resin printed terrain for warmachine.
Lots of lines visible, but don't care as it was free....

Built a slightly flawed Trajann Valoris... he's just missing a head.

Made more progress on my Unit 9 minis. Just have a couple more to go!

Demoing wargames (I'm taking Forbidden Psalm and Dracula's America) at the grand opening of a new 4-floor youth center in my city today.

But itching to pull out and leave them with an empty building to show off to the mayor and the press, because my club and I will be the only people not getting paid to be there, while providing literally the only content, and we were told to remove our branding from the tables because we are making the people with cushy jobs that do nothing all day look bad.

Just hide all your banners until the visiting press arrive then break them out .

That's some bs Blackfang, sorry to hear it!

I've been laid low with an absolutely shocking headcold since the weekend (well, I'd like to have been laying low but actually I still had to do all my usual stuff) so I haven't got much done after my very productive streak since January.

Today I got a Luke Skywalker I'm painting for a friend's birthday present finished and some wash down on some Veer-myn.

Base coating & then maybe actually painting a SM Drop Pod.

Called in sick today to finish my conquest army

Ended up assembling these ancient skellies during a super dull D&D game.

Several are missing skulls - so they're set to receive bits of black fuzz inside thier helmets.

 Waaagh_Gonads wrote:
Painting and varnishing some resin printed terrain for warmachine.
Lots of lines visible, but don't care as it was free....

Great success.

First half completed and moving onto second half - rubble, difficult terrain, hill/dias

I got a box of D&D miniatures to open after dinner! Food was nice as well. I’m trying to build a collection of miniatures so I can have a bunch of monsters to put on the table for any encounter. But ironically I haven’t got a single duplicate of any commons this year yet.
So hopefully I get some in this set lol. But I may go on eBay and buy a bunch of commons like wolves and such. Since it’s always cool to have a pack of wolves for low level encounters.

Didn't get much done this week. Started on a few Skaven models and built a movement tray for a unit of Mercenary Ironguts I'm using for my Empire army.

Got some more colours on my 20 veermyn. I like these models, fun sculpts.

Feeling the sci fi fatigue a bit though! I think I'll change course to doing some Fantasy stuff soon.

Building 2 squads of British MKII Heavy automated Infantry for Konflkt 47.

and painting up some Bushido goblins.

Printing something big.

That's gotta be 28mm battletech, right?

Got some more done on my sci fi rats. I need some Palid Wych Flesh before I go on, but they're coming together nicely.

Indeed! I'm subbed to the Tribes of Locust Labs and out of the blue she presented an up-scaled version of her "Full Metal" mech to all tribe members.

Still printing out the last parts of the arms, so in the meantime I did an up-scaled print of a variant of the top-mounted gun with my own printer, who doesn't love a RAC?



Too big for the light box now though.

Finally got around to working on some Stargrave Automotons for my long-awaited next Five Parsecs from Home Encounter. Pulled out some new Milliput for the rocks on their bases, and it was so nice to work with compared to my old stuff that'd gotten hard due to disuse. The Milliput also seemed to set within a couple of hours, but I'm leaving it overnight, just in case.

I also made more progress on a Jill Valentine Statuette, too.

So I put a dent in my pile of Skaven I have on my work bench.



I managed to grab these guys relatively cheap. I initially only wanted one for a Skaven Mordheim warband but I kept running into Ebay listing where they were going for only 6 bucks. Seeing as how so many people don't seem to like these guys and try to get all the other versions of them I got lucky and was able to build a unit. Now fully based and magnetised.

In addition I got another 5 Stormvermin done



So far my Stormvermin through the ages unit is almost done. I still need about 5 more of them as I want a unit of 25 but I can wait until I find a decent lot online. No need to rush as I'm just happy to get them off my todo list.

Painting continues on the Bushido goblins.
Tonight was weapons & hair.

Primed and zenithal highlighted my Stargrave Automatons. I was planning to paint them, but caught up working on my Jill Valentine...figurine? She's too small for a statuette but I'm pretty sure she's bigger than a miniature...hmmm.

Anyway, ran out of time, so didn't make any more progress on the cyborgs. With my Jill done I'll have the holy trinity of female characters with the surname "Valentine" in miniature form, Ivy Valentine, Jill Valentine, and Faye Valentine. Although, I have to repaint my Faye Valentine figurine as I painted her a few years back and it didn't turn out terribly well, in all honesty.

Basecoated 40 assorted British infantry, 6 MK II Automateds, 1 17pdr, & a Ram Kangaroo for Konflict 47 today.

Also printed out the British 47 list + general BA British units my force uses.
Now I won't spend the game squinting at my phone.

Sadly the quest for just the right kaki/tan continues....

Finished my first 20 veermyn. Quite happy with the colour scheme, looking forward to doing the next 20!

Did my first Quar, a simple Coftyran rhyfle section. First time in a while not painting with Contrast - in fact I went out and bought a paint shaker to revitalize paints that have been separating untouched for a decade or more.

Today it was the kid's game day and we played my rules The Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game. It was the main characters Anargrin and Raleas from my novels with two-five man squads of elite commandoes vs a hordes of extremist Jaroaite and Jaroaian cultists led by a Priest of Jaroai. Was a lot of fun, we did a "Kill more Points" game, we ran out of time, but victory narrowly went to Anargrin, Raleas and the Commandoes, it was really down to the wire. It was a ton of fun.

After getting home, I forced myself to put aside my precious Jill Valentine figurine and work on the automatons, made a lot of progress they're close to being done!

Practically finished my new Cyborgs. I'm quite happy with how they're turning out.