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A very nice haul then AOV. I have seen some of the moaning about the dragon, from a lot of the usual suspects, but the design has been in the open for an age and people knew what they were getting. If anything it is quite a characterful mini and is dirt cheap. Are the resin casts nice and crisp? Just a shame that the rulebook(s?) seem to have quite a few errors that could have easily been rectified.

@Az: You have painted more than enough rank and file recently, just treat yourself to something bigger (I am assuming a phone autocorrected Knight?).

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
A very nice haul then AOV. I have seen some of the moaning about the dragon, from a lot of the usual suspects, but the design has been in the open for an age and people knew what they were getting. If anything it is quite a characterful mini and is dirt cheap. Are the resin casts nice and crisp? Just a shame that the rulebook(s?) seem to have quite a few errors that could have easily been rectified.

@Az: You have painted more than enough rank and file recently, just treat yourself to something bigger (I am assuming a phone autocorrected Knight?).

Yeah not sure what went off with the rulebook lol. Complete cluster feth but nothing that can't be worked around. The resin casts are beautifully done- I think, by Prodos?

Looking forward to seeing what you do with your haul.
My only complaint with the dragon, is lack of textured base. I think the base being the same as the heroes would have given it a sense of scale.

Yep, looking forward to seeing this stuff get painted! Any plans regarding what order they'll be painted in?

And could you possibly grab a couple of shots of the dragon showing its size and a few angles? Still can't decide whether I like it or not.

Pretty sure Az was getting at 'Keira' as in 'Knightley' as in 'knight'. Nerdfest09 used the same epithet for his, so perhaps the Aussie version of rhyming slang is 'substitute a tangentially related word'. (in other words, just like the English version but without the five and dime-ing... sorry, rhyming...)

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Looking forward to seeing what you do with your haul.
My only complaint with the dragon, is lack of textured base. I think the base being the same as the heroes would have given it a sense of scale.

They also didn't sculpt the crown in his mouth (around his tooth), but I suspect that probably involved making his teeth a lot bigger...

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:
Kiera is coming along nicely there. Hopefully one day I'll be able to work on some centrepiece projects like you guys .../sniff

Errr... wrong thread mate??

Hey when you are confused with Damo it's either a really good thing, or a really bad thing. But Kiera was a nickname for his knight "Kiera Knightingly"

Also eagerly awaiting my dungeon saga book of misspellings and wrong pages

 Theophony wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:
Kiera is coming along nicely there. Hopefully one day I'll be able to work on some centrepiece projects like you guys .../sniff

Errr... wrong thread mate??

Hey when you are confused with Damo it's either a really good thing, or a really bad thing. But Kiera was a nickname for his knight "Kiera Knightingly"

Also eagerly awaiting my dungeon saga book of misspellings and wrong pages

Get ready to be amazed lol. There's a good few!

PS> I did wonder wtf he was on about there, I'll be honest! lol. Like I said in my earlier post though, there won't be any hobbying besides packing minis into Really Useful Boxes/ Crusade cases! Mid-November I should be back in action though

Soo not much got done today besides packing up my Dark Eldar into a Crusade case. I'm having to put the Raiders/Ravagers/Venom/Reaper in a RUB (Really Useful Box). Also found my Voidraven and (another!) Raider-unassembled. Just got some stragglers from my Necrons namely flyers, CCB a few FW Necron Acanthrites and my Immortals. Already got my Blood Angels, Dark Angels and the majority of my Necrons and teeny tiny Chaos force packed up. My Stormcast Eternals are proving to be a nuisance transport wise. The Prosecutors, Lord Celestant, and Lord Relictor are a bit on the chunky side, height-wise. Need a deeper box to fit them in. Skaven and Beastmen aren't an issue really since most of them are in bits.
All my Mantic stuff is packed into their relevant boxes. Haven't really done anything with KoW or Dungeon Saga yet, and all the Battlezones tiles are already in boxed up. Deadzone- all that stuff is comfortably packed away in the rather spacious box it came in.

Can't wait to move in at ++REDACTED BY THE INQUISITION++ . So much more room to play around with!

NB: The Dark Eldar Scourge and Talos/Cronos were a bit tricky also due to all the little arms and wings poking everywhere

The Old Gods demand a progress update on the House Stark knight

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
The Old Gods demand a progress update on the House Stark knight

EDC

This is on hold while I sort my place out. Long story short though, the internet provider I signed up with, is yet to actually provide the service I'm paying for lol. On top of that I broke my phone and I still haven't moved in properly yet due to life being a

Though on a more hobby related note. I grabbed 2 copies of Betrayal at Calth- one for my brother and one for me in the hopes of doing a bit of Legiones Astartes. I've yet to pick a Legion, but Word Bearers are looking like a winner for the moment. I'm open to suggestions though.

Maybe we should do a "who is doing what Legion poll" between us and try and get as many covered as possible. I am leaning towards the Chaos side too...Word Bearers would be great to see.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Maybe we should do a "who is doing what Legion poll" between us and try and get as many covered as possible. I am leaning towards the Chaos side too...Word Bearers would be great to see.

I set one up if you haven't looked already... Here's the thread link

Now, I've been without internet at the new place for 5 weeks courtesy of British Telecom fething things up. Here's a few tidbits I've managed to do now I'm (sort of) settled in.

On a slightly different note, my snotty email to Prodos this week seems to have paid off.Overall, I think I've sent 40 emails in 3 months, chasing them up for my stuff. The majority of which, went unanswered. No more Prodos stuff. EVER. Worst KS experience ever. I will supposedly be receiving the majority of my AvP pledge rewards. So that's the box set with 5 Alien Warriors, x1 Alien Praetorian, x1 Alien Queen, x1 Crusher/Bull Alien, x2 Predator Hellhounds, x1 Pred-Alien, x1 Pred Berserker. Errr I think that's it. So I will now be waiting on the Predator Youngbloods (basically the ones from AvP1 movie), some resin Facehuggers and objective markers.

Now for piccies. Enjoy and thanks for viewing.

Legion Vexilla (standard bearer basically)


Kurtha Sedd and a Legionnaire- going to be a Dark Angels Legion chaplain though...


Angry Cataphractii with Lightning Claws


Legionnaire with Bionic eye and combat knife (they're huge btw)

Awesome. The LC Cataphractii dudes looks wicked.

EDC

Yeah, that's a great pose on that guy!

As much as it sounds like it's been a ridiculous hassle, I look forward to seeing some AvP stuff painted up. Are you getting any Marines?

evildrcheese wrote:Awesome. The LC Cataphractii dudes looks wicked.

EDC

Paradigm wrote:Yeah, that's a great pose on that guy!

As much as it sounds like it's been a ridiculous hassle, I look forward to seeing some AvP stuff painted up. Are you getting any Marines?

Yeah the LC Cataphractii was actually an example in the instructions. I was like I'm doing that for sure!

Paradigm wrote:As much as it sounds like it's been a ridiculous hassle, I look forward to seeing some AvP stuff painted up. Are you getting any Marines?

Only the ones that came with the game. I'm not that bothered about Colonial Marines, to be honest. Give me freaky alien monstrosities any day though!

**Edit: Not sure if preferences for alien monsters is a good thing!

I forgot to mention that I also snapped up this gorgeous set of Freeblade decals from GW. These should prove useful for my ASOIAF themed Knight. Probably the first time ever that I've seen GW tie in a release with a video game! Strange times indeed!

Fair enough. I agree to be honest, the Marines while nice are nothing new, whereas the Predators and Aliens themselves are really nice. I don't need the game, but price pending I may pick up a Pred or two to paint up.

There was talk of plastic Aliens and Preds from Prodos ages ago, any word on if that is still happening? Or have the fethed things up too badly to take that kind of gamble?

 Paradigm wrote:
Fair enough. I agree to be honest, the Marines while nice are nothing new, whereas the Predators and Aliens themselves are really nice. I don't need the game, but price pending I may pick up a Pred or two to paint up.

There was talk of plastic Aliens and Preds from Prodos ages ago, any word on if that is still happening? Or have the fethed things up too badly to take that kind of gamble?

They've got a severe case of "skint mate" at the moment I think. But they can't accept any buyout offers which was mentioned a while back(I think it's Mantic looking to eat them) until AvP is sorted. If Mantic does eat them, that would be a powerhouse. Prodos' casting quality with Mantic's excellent games would be awesome.

Ah, so sprued Aliens and Predators aren't likely to materialise, then. I'll just have to pick up a set of the (admittedly very nice) resin ones at some point... And then do some house rules for BMG, because Batman vs Predator kind of needs to happen...

 Paradigm wrote:
Ah, so sprued Aliens and Predators aren't likely to materialise, then. I'll just have to pick up a set of the (admittedly very nice) resin ones at some point... And then do some house rules for BMG, because Batman vs Predator kind of needs to happen...

Yeah, plastic is hugely expensive for them to run, compared to resin. I think they've got maybe a literal handful of plastic Predator sprues, but that's it. The rest is a pipe dream at the moment.

Batman vs Predator would be fun! Though preferably written by someone that's not Prodos lol. Apparently the rules for AvP are pretty messy. But without having played the game I can't confirm that lol.

5 weeks...damn. Hope you are settled/settling in well now though. I had not seen that thread, I rarely venture out of news and rumours and the blogs section really.

I still cannot believe how badly the AVP backers have been treated.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
5 weeks...damn. Hope you are settled/settling in well now though. I had not seen that thread, I rarely venture out of news and rumours and the blogs section really.

I still cannot believe how badly the AVP backers have been treated.

Yeah thankfully my Kickstarter experiences have been 90% positive. Creature Caster and AvP are the ones I've been waiting longest for!

So I finally got hold of the majority of my AvP stuff this week. Had a bit of a flick through it last night and can confirm that I now have the correct version!

A few pet peeves, though-

The door stands (basically a small black disc with a slot across the top) make a bloody mess of the cardstock doors when you try to slot them in. Far, far too tight. I'll just use Space Hulk doors instead. The Pred with the Combi-stick you get is verrry flimsy. Though, surprisingly the Smart disc is pretty damn impressive for such a thin bit of resin. The tiles you get aren't anywhere near the quality you get with say, Space Hulk, but they're not bad! The models overall are excellent. Haven't had a chance to look through the rules yet.

Also had a bit of a play with some of the additional beasties, such as the Pred-Alien, Crusher Alien, Alien Queen (disappointingly she's missing a set of vestigial arms) and Praetorian Alien. The Crusher is MASSIVE. Really, really big beastie. Pred-Alien is also pretty impressive!

Pics to follow in the next post.

Looking forward to it!

You might try coating the edge of the cardboard door with superglue...though if its really tight that won't fix anything.

Good to hea you got your stuff.

Look forward to seeing your pics

Hello all, apologies for going dark on the blog- so much life crap in the way at the moment! I've not really had a chance to play with the AvP stuff, as I am somewhat sickened just looking at it.

ANYWAYS. I have managed to get a wee bit done today by test painting a Legion Dark Angels marine.. Still very WIP as I started a bit late tonight. So far he's been primed, base coated Abaddon Black and dry brushed with Etherium Blue for highlights. Might need to go back and do the eye lens on him again though.. He's also got a green shoulder pad, to show he was recruited from Caliban.What do we think?

**god dammit I forgot the fething smartphone rule when taking photos...

Looking good. The green shoulder pad is cool idea, is that from the fluff or just something you've come up with?

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
Looking good. The green shoulder pad is cool idea, is that from the fluff or just something you've come up with?

EDC

Tis fluffy. In Master of the First it describes how the marines from Terra were in all black armour, but those from Caliban marked parts of their armour green to honour their home world.

++SUPPLY DROP INBOUND++

Hello all, welcome back. Gots me some lovely models to add to the 30K stuff... Can't wait to get started on em!





And

That is a lot of resin, have you won the lottery

Nice test DAngel too.

@Thraxas: Nope. Just lucky that way

So not too long ago, I promised some pics of the AvP stuff. My brother had a play with some of the kits today and to put it mildly, they're "fiddly as feth". They really are verry small. I should have put a scale pic up.. Next time maybe.

Here's some Predator dogs and a wee bit more on my Horus Heresy Marine. He's had some basing gubbinz put on- the Urban basing tutorial looks ideal for Betrayal at Calth models since there's a lot of fighting going off in those underground archologies. Plus, a couple of models I knocked together this evening