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Man you a freakin' machine at the moment! Excellent stuff, lovely army shot.

Mummies are wonderful. nice job.Glad you went traditional with them. You've made quick work of some key units of your list.

Great group shot Git! They all go very well together. The Bats will look great when they are done, surprised you go with a white undercoat or is that how they came?

That's the plastic, they're black now.

Can't wait to see them!

Nice work on the little green things. They really look like I'd expect a group of them would look on the way to battle.

That group gak is already pretty epic.

Looking forward to see what you do with the bats.

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Bats are done with the exception of the greenery. Pics tonight. Big supply drop tonight too. I'll be working on Thanatos next as his minions (the ghosts) are already finished.

Picless update! *table flip*

Sounds great on both counts Gits, looking forward to seeing Thanatos. Are you giving him a scythe or using straight-up?

Scythe. Haven't figured out how I'm going to do it yet. Necessity IS the mother of invention however. Have to wait until I've got it in my hands before I can really formulate a plan.

Have a local tournament this Saturday where I'd love to debut my Halloween army. Unfortunately it's 1860 pts. and assuming I can get all my chaos demons elements finished (Thanatos & witch) I still won't reach 1850. Also I'd hate to inflict an army I'd never played before on my opponents as it would mean I'd be spending most of the day with my nose in a book looking up rules & penalize them for my slow play. Much as I hate to do it, I might just skip the tournament. I've got firewood to put up, a busted lawn mower that needs to be taken into the shop (which isn't close), a boat to drop off for storage (which isn't close in the opposite direction) and of course a lot of painting to do. *sigh* I miss my gaming friends...

The problem with real life is it's too real!

I have the same problems. Hoping the weather stays nice.

Looking forward to the army shots and new additions.

I’ve carved my own scythe out of scrap before. As far as weapons go, they are probably one of the easier ones to do.

If you have a lot of chores to do, and miss you gaming friends, the obvious solution is to get them to help with the work. This may require a decent fast-talk roll, and/or a lot of beer and pizza. Don’t you have minions you can put to work?

@SL: Too true.

@Nev: Thanks mate. Yeah... I'm not stressed about it and I do have a fairly decent collection of plastic. I may swing by the local model railroading store over lunch and raid their plastic supply to see if I can find just the right thickness of plastic to make sturdy blade. I do have the tools and expertise to be able to make it out of metal if need be. (brass or aluminum plate most likely)


Not being able to find my Zombicide game really put me off my mark. I was able to order more but now I'm playing the waiting game again. I'd really hoped to have all of the massed troops done by now (just had a 4-day weekend), but a honey-do list on Friday, two days of camping and spending ALL FREAKING DAY yesterday helping my wife get a new vehicle really didn't help. I think I'm still OK... but I'm no where near as confident as I was a week ago.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
@SL:
Not being able to find my Zombicide game really put me off my mark. I was able to order more but now I'm playing the waiting game again. I'd really hoped to have all of the massed troops done by now (just had a 4-day weekend), but a honey-do list on Friday, two days of camping and spending ALL FREAKING DAY yesterday helping my wife get a new vehicle really didn't help. I think I'm still OK... but I'm no where near as confident as I was a week ago.

Definitely Git, a new vehicle can be a pain to get into and find, I am in the car business, and can be a long and stressful day.

10 points cannot be too hard to shave can it Git? I understand about the honey do list.... Maybe do it Sunday?

I'm always surprised by how long it takes to actually purchase a car (I'm talking after you've decided what you want and where you're going to buy it). The actual negotiation took only about 30min... the rest was wading for paperwork, waiting for the appraisal of our cars, waiting for them to clean and set up the new car, waiting, waiting, waiting. I think they ended up losing money on the deal simply by the amount of coffee I drank while I was sitting there. It's a nice vehicle. Glad the Mrs. has something shiny and new that she loves to drive. It's just such a PROCESS...

It is quite the process, when I bought my last truck and was pressed for time I said don't worry about detailing it... Normally took 2 hours to detail. I always just tell them write me a buyer order, I go through my own bank. Then said I'd come back to have it detailed.

Appraisal should of been done while you were on the test drive.

Happy to hear she loves her new shiny Vehicle and I'm sure you've been told but congratulations!

Thanks! It's nice to have some new blood in the driveway. A year ago we had 5 cars, all either 10+ years old or over 100k miles. Now we've got a 2014, 2015 and one of the two remaining older vehicles is headed for the scrap heap... leaving only my old Dakota (which we need for garbage, firewood & other dirty jobs). Three cars will be much more manageable that 5. (at least until Thing 1 gets his license next year)

Congrats on the new purchase.... Remember if she's happy your happy(ier)

My latest is going on 286K.

As for thing1.. That time will come soon enough. so to save you some time ( since I seem to get the jist that you didn't feel it was the best use of your time) I looked around for you and found Him the perfect car.


Doesn't come with a girl but I thinking it shouldn't be a problem.

Happy to help. ... as always. Oh did you notice it was green? and has a five star safety rating.. Bonus...

Overall NHTSA safety rating: 5 star
MPG: Up to 13 city, 22 highway
MSRP: From $62,495
Wheel size: 20" diameter, 9.5" width
Horsepower: 707 HP ( hull points)
Engine: 6.2L V8

He'd have to fight me for it... and he'd lose...


This is one of those days where I can't wait to get back to my paint brush... Very excited about the supply drop (Thanatos, witch & Dracula).

Stopped by the hobby shop. Picked up two cans of Dull Coat and a sheet of 1mm thick plastic sheet. That should be thick enough to be sturdy while still giving me complete creative control on the design of the scythe. Might do something fancy will it... we'll see. Need to do some research as to how real scythes are designed (bend in handle & placement of extra hand-hold).

I also picked up some really neat extra bits for a side project I've had in mind for a long time. Going to be a bit of a surprise. Hope it works out like I plan.

Here I thought Thing 1 would want a "Bug".......I'll get my hat

See what I did with the car....

I am excited for a group pic tonight and the bats! I am always terrified to use dull coat... I had a FoW army I ruined right before a tournament spraying it with dull coat. I wanted to cry, I just gave up and gave them to my friend to sell on Ebay for me.

 Spacewolverine wrote:
See what I did with the car....

I am excited for a group pic tonight and the bats! I am always terrified to use dull coat... I had a FoW army I ruined right before a tournament spraying it with dull coat. I wanted to cry, I just gave up and gave them to my friend to sell on Ebay for me.

Ditto here... sealer in general has me terrified. I've been painting for 4 years now and I'm fine going back and touching things up.

We eagerly wait for the next installment

Supply drop!

Drac, witch and thanatos all were picked up today along with Drac's wings. More importantly the zombies arrived! The whole chaos marine part of the army doesn't happen without them! Have an important last-minute honey-do project that I have to accomplish... but if someone would be so kind to post after this, I should be able to finish up the bats and get you a pic tonight, as well as a pic of the Thanatos build (which should be a pretty simple conversion.

Converting Lilith into a broom rider is going to be a challenge. Not the broom riding part, but her whole body is turned in a way that won't really help with the illusion. Will have to ponder that when the time comes (after Thanatos). Luckily the zombies will work well. Just trying to decide if I can keep them on their current bases (which are 25 mm but shorter than a GW base), or if I should carefully remove them and put them on standard bases.

For your scythe you may be able to find the right piece (or pieces) of sprue to carve into the handle shape; GW do have plenty of curved sections in their sprues these days... might even have a piece with the side handle in place...

Then you could use the flat plasticard to make the blade and still be able to cement the two together.

It's too bad that the stuff GW uses isn't more of a Thermoplastic. You could use heating elements to help bend them into better shapes. Though I wonder if focused heat could allow you to do that with some of them- because being able to just twist torsos and bend joints as you want, without having to cut, file and GS them would be fantastic.

Bats are done. Now all you "poppers" out there are going to complain because they don't pop. They're bats... if they pop, they starve! Deal with it.

I think they look pretty sharp, even as a "popper"

Bats/furies look good. Poppin fresh good

Here's the first WIP of the build for Thanatos. Removed two arms and flames from left hand. Scythe blade and mount are drying. Should be an easy task to attach them to the staff.


Here's the build with the scythe head included. I'm proud of that. Note the inset on the mounting sleeve.