So what are you doing today? Hobbywise only.

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**FirePainter**

I am trying to stay motivated to paint my marines and tau in a city that I think I am the only one who knows about miniature games. Also set a goal that I will not buy more minis till I finish the ones I have.... yeah....its slow going

**necrovamp**

Kojiro wrote:
necrovamp wrote:
@Kojiro, that looks pretty cool, and so does you army

Thank you! I'm a huge fan of the setting but not so much the new stuff (and the new FW Spartan is a) horribly pricey and b) horribly powerful). Alas finding parts for such a thing is horribly hard- they're just not out there. I'm considering just buying current LR sponsons off ebay but I'm not sure how they'd look, given the vintage appearance of the rest of the army. Next up is the Dev squad, then the rest of the Assault squad to bring me up to 50 ready marines. Half a battle company should suffice for a bit. Annoyingly my marines seem to have completely missed the grav weapons memo

someone somewhere will have them, keep looking! I'm not sure the modern lass cannons would look any good.

I have noticed a lot of forgeworld stuff is nodding to the past recently. I use GW models from about 5 years ago, but I have my own background and rules.

I've also noticed grav weapons can be hard come by, if I see any i'll let you know!

**gossipmeng**

Almost done my trial farsight XV8 conversion. So far "farsight" has been cut and posed into a standing position with 2 arm mounted plasma rifles. He has no head, but I'm thinking of using one of the square heads from the new broadside kit.

I'm also debating on the back "sensory?" spikes/fins. I might just cut them off and leave them to the actual farsight in my army. At $60 per suit.... I'd be better off with enforcer suits - too bad they are so tall :(

**GrimDork**

Its a DISEASE man! I think today's hobby time will be spent considering whether or not to sell my fantasy empire and skaven armies, and my tyranids and dark eldar. Everything is kind of old so it may not even be worth hawking it, certainly not worth risking fees of eBay, perhaps the swap shop...

Hopefully I finish the small details and get my test sgt done as well!

**PrehistoricUFO**

Man, trying to catalog my enormous collection. Just finished counting my Nids.

Now I have Lizardmen, Space Marines, Tau, Necrons and IG to count.

**SBG**

I built a Venomthrope! It was great, but I prefer the metal over the finecast.

**Bobaram**

Killing me some necrons!

**BladeTX**

Bobaram wrote:
Killing me some necrons!

Watch out buddy! They don't really die!

**Kalashnichris**

Painting a chaos cultist or 2 while watching the last of season 5 of Breaking Bad.

**squall018**

I got a couple of Mantic's zombies and skeletons to try out. Gonna build and get started painting on those tonight to see if I want to buy more to flesh out a Vampire Counts army.

**necrovamp**

Acquiring some space marines for roleplay purposes.

**greenskin lynn**

building a leman russ, mostly done, just have to add the magnets

**GrimDork**

I like the zombies and ghouls, especially if you mix the kits

I have the skeletons but I haven't done anything with them yet.

Still working on getting my old armies paraded out for photos and trying to think about pricing.

**Easy E**

Setting up for a big 200 point Aeronautica Imperialis game this weekend.

**Pacific**

- Painting some more Grenadierkompanie, for Flames of War
- Hopefully a games of Dreadball and Infinity over the weekend.

**chaptermaster**

Working on some Ultramarine Thunderhammer Storm Shield Terminators

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Finishing my second Loot mob hopefully, might be starting the lads extra Tyranids for this years Christmas Day battle as well, Lootas permitting.

**Alfndrate**

Playing Legends of the Old West, hoping that it's as much fun as filbert says that it is.

**infinite_array**

Finally got around to re-varnishing some SAGA miniatures that had frosted after the first time (damn that heat wave we had last week!), and now I'm working on the bases of my FoW Germans.

**cvtuttle**

Completed FW Imperial Defense RoB board. Now moving onto my Crashed THunderhawk RoB board.

**Kojiro**

necrovamp wrote:
someone somewhere will have them, keep looking! I'm not sure the modern lass cannons would look any good.

I have noticed a lot of forgeworld stuff is nodding to the past recently. I use GW models from about 5 years ago, but I have my own background and rules.

I've also noticed grav weapons can be hard come by, if I see any i'll let you know!

Believe me I'll keep looking. The whole project is just a giant indulgence for me but part of that is doing it right, because now I have the skills to do so. It's just so frustrating. I was considering using the bastion lascannons but they're too large I think. Everything else is too small :(

**SBG**

cvtuttle wrote:
Completed FW Imperial Defense RoB board. Now moving onto my Crashed THunderhawk RoB board.

You should post a picture, I'd like to see it.

OT, I brought 3 Carnifexes, a ripper swarm and a Hive Tyrant up to 3-colour tabletop spec. I'll be doing shading, details and gooey bits tomorrow most likely. I'm not looking forward to converting, painting and magnetizing 24 MC devourer arms... I may wait to see what the new codex brings. Hopefully terribly overpowered venom cannons.

**Ascalam**

Taking pics of my Daemons, now in my gallery.

Decent camera, lousy cameraman

Planned out my next painting project.

Not much, really.

**Flood**

I have the house to myself this weekend so in theory I should get lots of building and priming done for my marines.
In theory.

**Pacific**

Ascalam wrote:
Taking pics of my Daemons, now in my gallery.

Decent camera, lousy cameraman

Planned out my next painting project.

Not much, really.

Ascalam, I found this guide to be extremely useful: http://cipher-studios.com/2009/09/photographing-miniatures-by-ryder-gaddis/

It's quite an extensive guide, if you really want to go quite far, but in simple terms (with a stripped-down version)
- daylight bulb put behind/above the miniature
- piece of grey or coloured card below/behind the miniature, rather than white.
- digital camera is better than camera phone because of lens speed

I've got a set-up using the above that I can lay out in 2 minutes, my photos aren't the best by any stretch but are ten times better than what I was doing previously.

**MetalOxide**

I will be spending my GW vouchers on some new paints, auction off some of my 40k stuff (I'm quitting 40k), making some new army lists for my Aleph force for Infinity because I got Phoenix the Myrmidon Officer, a Garuda with HMG and another Deva Functionary. Lastly I will be painting the Axis from the Dust Tactics revised core set.

**Ascalam**

Pacific wrote:
Ascalam wrote:
Taking pics of my Daemons, now in my gallery.

Decent camera, lousy cameraman

Planned out my next painting project.

Not much, really.

Ascalam, I found this guide to be extremely useful: http://cipher-studios.com/2009/09/photographing-miniatures-by-ryder-gaddis/

It's quite an extensive guide, if you really want to go quite far, but in simple terms (with a stripped-down version)
- daylight bulb put behind/above the miniature
- piece of grey or coloured card below/behind the miniature, rather than white.
- digital camera is better than camera phone because of lens speed

I've got a set-up using the above that I can lay out in 2 minutes, my photos aren't the best by any stretch but are ten times better than what I was doing previously.

I'll give it a look, thanks

I have a decent digital camera, but the lighting in my game room sucks diseased monkey wang

What i really need to do is build a proper light box, but time is not my friend...

**ThunderFury 2575**

Starting chemical weapons nurgle L&TD

Steampunk imperial guard ( cadians with brettonian kettlehats and some empire parts for good measure)

And dark eldar! yay!

So much other things to name! but i don't want to rant!

**GrimDork**

Still watching bones 2 and mars attacks go crazy on kickstarter, but I may continue my soft tradition of picking up a random model from a different state (so far its just a hell pit abomination from Wisconsin) if I can find a game store .

**Dysartes**

- Finished painting the bases for two models I'm going to be sending weetyskemian to paint. Should get them in the post on Monday.
- Started building a base for a Space Wolf Iron Priest.
- Put Mephiston and a 2nd ed metal Terminator in a jar to strip the paint off them ready for a repaint.
- Pretty much finished painting Dirty Meg (a pirate solo for Warmachine)