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Stunning pics as ever sherrypie! That beach landing board looks amazing

 gobert wrote:
Stunning pics as ever sherrypie! That beach landing board looks amazing

Thanks gobert, always a pleasure

Also, tonks! Getting somewhere with the first 30+ ol' smokers of the Selenite 4th Home Army. Commissar tanks' flagpoles get some attachments post-painting.

5.5k of EpicAU, IW vs. Mech, 10'x4' table. The IV legion pushed aggressively forwards into the robotic boogaloo, perhaps too deep and too greedily even, as their frontline was raked by endless rain of plasma mortars and their Mortis Warhounds blown apart by the massed Ordinatii beams. After four rounds of white-bled attrition, both sides were in broken tatters but the Mechanicum had held firmer. They had won the skies and retained their biggest guns, leaving the Iron Warriors little choice but to eventually concede the field.



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Also painted a happy little Minotaur battery for the game.

Those action shots are gorgeous mate. Great to see the effort paying off!

I knew these guys were small but seeing the detail you put into them next to those little costume glass gems really put the scale into perspective. Super impressive, thanks for sharing!

 tzurk wrote:
Those action shots are gorgeous mate. Great to see the effort paying off!

I knew these guys were small but seeing the detail you put into them next to those little costume glass gems really put the scale into perspective. Super impressive, thanks for sharing!

Pictured for your viewing plasure

And yeah, small stuff is small. You can hold a company of soldiers on your palm and peer into their eyes that aren't much larger than a needle tip. It's very fun to paint at the scale, even I might occasionally actually finish some models

I just multiplied my yearly total of painted minis

WIP, all painted to tabletop condition within three days. I wanted to have a LI / EA compatible force for demonstration games at Ropecon last weekend (ended up running some 20 hours of demos, great time). Very tight schedule, had to cut corners a lot. No flags, decals, proper damage, good NMM and so forth yet and the field guns are missing their whole crews. Still pretty happy with the general outlook.



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What a marvelous army shot! "In mass lies perfection" indeed (in deed)- great work!

Three days?? Well done, S-pie Those blast markers are ace as well.

Thanks Meer_Cat and Boss, sometimes quantity truly is a quality of its own

Excellent work especially in such a short time

Dear lord that's a magnificent looking army regardless of time frame. Respecting the hustle hard over here, mate

Thanks Cap and tzurk, now I just need another deadline or something to actually finish them too

Meanwhile, gaming! Of slapstick kind, where everyone sucks!

Epic: Armageddon, 3k. The Machine Church met the Tzeentchian hordes of the Lost and the Damned in a battle of thoroughly fumbled command networks and misfortunes, as both sides bled and stumbled forwards hopelessly. Even kicking airman Jones into the empty fuel tank instead failed to get the birds flying. No breakthrough was achieved nor any formations properly destroyed, though the price in blood and oil rose high for everyone on the burning sands. Neither side achieved any real objectives nor was there any meaningful difference between the casualty tiebreakers, ending in a true, futile draw.



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Superb action shots as ever sherrypie. Amazing work getting the whole army finished in 3 days is mighty impressive.

 gobert wrote:
Superb action shots as ever sherrypie. Amazing work getting the whole army finished in 3 days is mighty impressive.

Thanks gobert, though it's still quite far from finished it's at least tabletop ready

On the finished side, the smaller artillery pieces got done.



The bases are a bit rough, as these were originally sprayed with wrong colours, but they're now close enough for fieldwork.

Evidently it is the month for artillery! Thanks for confirming for me that LI is my next project of choice to finish. Your Epic-scale things are inspiring.

 blockade23 wrote:
Evidently it is the month for artillery! Thanks for confirming for me that LI is my next project of choice to finish. Your Epic-scale things are inspiring.

Guns of August, a coincidence? One wonders

And thanks!

Gorgeous work as always mate. Really love the atmospheric shots with the boards as well, the terrain and the blast effects are great.

Thank you Tzurk, doing my best for the vibes

From small to smaller, painted some torpedoes for BFG in a couple of hours for yesterday's game, where my Imperials ripped some Chaos nasties a few extra vents.

Those are wicked cool! Very well painted and look like fun to play!

Extra vents indeed.

Props for the 8 bit stars on the bases!

Cool little torpedoes, love the effects you’ve added to the bases.

Thanks Cat, Cap and Gob

I'd have raised some of them higher on wires and made 3D backblasts, but only had a couple of hours to whip these up so maybe later.

3k NetEA. Dark Angels made an attempt at a lightning strike against the Machine Church, but the unyielding purity of steel prevailed and the astartes were scattered onto the streets, slick and glistening with the all-soaking rain of oil.



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It looks so professional. The photographs, the montage, the scenery, paintjobs, all is at an amazing level.

 muette wrote:
It looks so professional. The photographs, the montage, the scenery, paintjobs, all is at an amazing level.

Glad you like 'em, all of it is purely self-taught hobbyist stuff though. My daily grind with physics education doesn't even synergise with this stuff in any particular way, just striving to become better at it over time

I like the dense urban layout. Fantastic stuff.

Awesome battle pics! Love the lighting almost as much as the minis!

How do you get so much detail on the epic sized bases? Are you a glue them all together then weather type person? I find that with their little clip bases they don't really give me much space to play around with detailing on their flat bases (Other than blood effects)

I want to try some with my last group of Auxilia, but the scale is so small I don't want to crowd out the minis.

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:I like the dense urban layout. Fantastic stuff.

gobert wrote:Awesome battle pics! Love the lighting almost as much as the minis!

Cheers fellas

blockade23 wrote:How do you get so much detail on the epic sized bases? Are you a glue them all together then weather type person? I find that with their little clip bases they don't really give me much space to play around with detailing on their flat bases (Other than blood effects)

I want to try some with my last group of Auxilia, but the scale is so small I don't want to crowd out the minis.

I remove most feet blobs and disks under my Epic models. Can't really recommend this for anyone who values their time

But generally, I make my bases first and paint the models separately, then add the now clipless models on top with superglue, let them dry and hide any unsightly bits with paint and powders next day. Or in an hour or so to then wonder why my brush has suddenly been destroyed by superglue The bases themselves are easy to make: I glue down or sculpt one interesting feature, like sand bags or a larger piece of funky scifi plastic, then dab some PVA around it and sprinkle on some "battlespice" and fine sand. In my case the spice is whatever is floating in my cleaning box that day. I keep a small 1-2 dl box at my workdesk where I can collect all mold line shavings, leftover cuts from conversions too small to be properly stored, 3d print support bits, dry splotches of glue and so on.

So in essence this


turns to this


The crowding issue is real. I don't like overtly crowded bases on human-like models (tyranids and such would be fine as teeming swarms), so there is some art to choosing how many figurines work with each particular base. I've settled on 3-4 infantrymen on most of my things, with five old marines being fine on the bigger 40 x 20 mm rectangles and on few Auxilia bases where there is a tight firing line in action.

My Aux-based Guard needed some Chimera equivalents and my lazy arse couldn't bother to print any right now. Instead I spent a few days prototyping the BattlePotato, a shortened and wingless Arvus with moldcast Rapier tracks and a laser turret.