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Filing down a talon on my Plague Drone that had its end previously snapped off. It's too tiny and narrow to glue something on and have it stay, the only option that will actually last is to file it into a smaller talon and of course the other to make them match...

Also experimenting with Nurgle's Rot over Blood for the Blood God. They aren't as bad together as I had feared, in fact they look pretty good. The problem is that Nurgle's Rot is too close to the skin tone of the plague drone and it's blending in too well to pop. Granted it's not that big a deal for nurgle models, but I'm considering covering it with BFTBG again if I decide I liked it the other way. Tomorrow I think I'll put the finishing touches on the rot fly and then move on to the rider.

Going to take my shiny new wave 4 stuff for x wing out for a couple of scraps.

Gon' put some metal colors on mah cygnararararararararar

After a delayed start (some keys where locked inside some houses) I got in 1 full turn of Dystopian Wars in only 8 hours

Looking forward to seeing what you do with your remotes Loki, they look a bit more like the nomad remotes than I thought.

Today? Looking to get in a game or three of deadzone with any luck.

sunday- i will get a game of 40k in after noon, will hopefully break my 4 game loosing streak

I finally found time to paint 11 Eldar Guardians, the Avatar of Khaine, 6 Dire Avengers, 5 Dark Reapers and a Fire Prism.

!!! So happy !!!

Got to play deadzone twice yesterday. Love it. Gonna have to try to cobble together a battle report today, or soon.

Woohoo GrimDork!

You've been waiting many, many months to have a try at the actual full game, haven't you?

Yes. Yes I have. Worth it, fun game.

At long last, I have acquired some more yellow paint (and the old Iyanden Darksun no less, which is the best yellow I've worked with!), so in theory I should be able to get back to work on my pre-Heresy Imperial Fists and finish off my last couple of Malifaux models.

Since today I finished the dragonborn questline, I still have a week of kolidays so I'll Finish my chaos spawn (just foot do some LGS touch ups) and then I'll build the five guys I've been outing off making.

Started early on some Malifaux today, with any luck I can finish off the two crews and get some photos up in the next couple of days.

I now have the paints to work on my Imperial Fists again, but I'd forgotten how unfun painting yellow was. The end result looks fine, but 4 layers, a wash, another layer, another wash and then another wash just for the armour is a little slow

Wow Ouch. I prefer to use yellow only when I can get a decent result through my airbrush. I have to respect anyone with that much patience for manual brush work Especially on clunky old space marines.

Hopefully this morning I'll get part way through the photos I took of a couple of Deadzone battles, I'm hoping to put together a battle report, or something a little looser, by the weekend. Of course the Wii is no longer functioning correctly (I think the sensor bar is out), so my laptop has been conscripted in it's place =/ No chance to do the editing in the evenings, but if Madame Toddlerington doesn't get her Dora, no chance of anything but horrible crying all night

 GrimDork wrote:
Wow Ouch. I prefer to use yellow only when I can get a decent result through my airbrush. I have to respect anyone with that much patience for manual brush work Especially on clunky old space marines.

At least it's not GW Marines, they're Anvil Industry sculpts are are light-years ahead of the GW ones. But yeah, it is time consuming to say the least, and while doing the Veterans and Boarding Marines was fun, I'm now slogging through 20 Tactical Marines that aren't very varied and a lot less interesting. Still great sculpts, but 20 'guys with bolters' is going to get boring...

1 down, 19 to go.

I need to get back to airbrushing some stuff, my Leviathan needs paint but I think I'm out of propellant.

Looking forward to the DZ batreps.

going to get my first game in with the new ork book!
thinking of running the ghaz force org. i really like the sound of 5 elites, da choppa of da ragnarork, and the mega force field.

Well technically yesterday, but..

Got my first game in with the new ork book.

Orks v Orks with my next door neighbour (and most frequent opponent)

Good time had by all. Warpheads bouncing around like superballs (both had Da Jump) but kept mishapping into stuff...

 GrimDork wrote:
Wow Ouch. I prefer to use yellow only when I can get a decent result through my airbrush. I have to respect anyone with that much patience for manual brush work Especially on clunky old space marines.

Hopefully this morning I'll get part way through the photos I took of a couple of Deadzone battles, I'm hoping to put together a battle report, or something a little looser, by the weekend. Of course the Wii is no longer functioning correctly (I think the sensor bar is out), so my laptop has been conscripted in it's place =/ No chance to do the editing in the evenings, but if Madame Toddlerington doesn't get her Dora, no chance of anything but horrible crying all night

If I remember rightly you can use candles in place of a sensor bar as a temporary fix. Or just pick up a cheap replacement.

I started a new army. So I am working on my first unit of space marines. After 14 years of playing 40k I finally joined the adeptus astartes

I've been working on a mercenary mordheim war band the past couple of days. Going to try to do some more work tonight.

Going to try to finish the basecoat colors before I apply some wash on 50pts of Cygnar

I went to the Bovington Wargames Show and bought some new toys.

Rereading Necromunda 2nd ed to get my brain caught up on the rules again. Getting back into playing after a long hiatus.

Assembling trueborn.

Planning out some Necromunda/ork industrial scenery.

As if I didn't have enough terrain already (Have a look at my blog for my original terrain http://compel-gaming.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/welcome-to-checkpoint-station.html ) I took advantage of the sale to buy the Fortified Sector set.

It's a big ol' box, with a whole load of parts for £50 - Or £40 in the current sale. It arrived on Wednesday.



By this afternoon, I had progressed to this, with all the clipping and some filing done too.



This evening and tonight, I began building. The first thing I'm going to show off is, well, the parts I didn't use, they mostly didn't fit in with what I was planning.



Then we have the small Military Garage - a companion piece to the Civilian Garage I made and use regularly in my games.




And finally, Checkpoint Station is reborn, bigger and better than ever. - And, of course, even more impractical for a normal deadzone game, it basically takes up half the board. However, with luck, I can add some scatter terrain inside the station itself to help.





Now I really do need to get on with the painting.... However I imagine my 'what am I doing today, hobbywise?' will involve 'picking up and hovering lots of tiny little shavings of plastic from around my flat as a result of my terrain building blitz.'

Sweet, i love seeing people work with battlezones terrain.

For my part, i finished getting the last two dr who minis ready for my gift diorama, a couple of black tree designs daleks. They're currently airing out/drying/curing after their undercoat.

Watched jealously as two folks played the original Rogue Trader in 15mm using Laserburn miniatures.

And they were the old, lead Laserburn miniatures.

The Auld Grump

Now that's oldschool...

And that was me 25+ years ago

Working on my charity commission for the NOVA Open Charity Foundation Hive Fleet Behemoth team. All proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders!

I basecoated 7 pewter Lictors (including a 2005 army box LE one!) and weaponized a Warrior with a LW/BS combo, then cleaned mold lines off of 3 Raveners and began assembly. I also sorted bits and found 7 Deathspitters and 2 sets of MC Devourers!

Tring to make a press mold for necron scarabs, as I want to do some "swarm" bases.
I don't think it's illegal to do unless I sell them, Whig I don't plan on doing.