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A bit of BFG after 15 years, trying to reverse-engineer my old scheme
Some casual speedpainting while I was helping at our roleplaying club's freshmen event.

The latest additions to Autumn Twilight's battlefleet Rhapsody of Fire: two Dauntless light cruisers Deadly Omen and Raging Starfire, escorted by Silent Dream, a squadron of Cobra torpedo boats and In Tenebris, a Falchion gunboat.



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Very nice, a good subtle differentiation between the ships with the light colours, etc


 
   
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Lovely looking ships. The bases are stellar.
   
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Cap'n Facebeard wrote:Very nice, a good subtle differentiation between the ships with the light colours, etc


youwashock wrote:Lovely looking ships. The bases are stellar.


Or even interstellar...

Cheers Cap and youws. Making such groups is always a bit of an exercise in creating variation without adding more colours. And now there are like 30 more in the queue, oy vey...

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I love how you did the naming on each of these. BFG minis are always tempting. Family shot soon?

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Way too little free time. 
   
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 blockade23 wrote:
I love how you did the naming on each of these. BFG minis are always tempting. Family shot soon?


Not sure whether you mean the scribe-work or appreciating Italian pantyhose metal, but thanks. Both is good, as a famously wise pair of explorers once mused
I might arrange a nostalgic family pic of the whole lot at some point, the fleets did after all exemplify the heights of my teenaged skills back then with all their little turrets and their highlights.

Meanwhile!
5k of Epic: Armageddon, Ill Met by Moonlight.
Patrols met under the onslaught of the tyranid invasion and quickly escalated as marching columns started pouring into the city. The situation quickly dipped to Mechanicus' favor, as they got their big guns onto the field and incessantly pummeled the xenos as they tried to escape the traffic jam at their deployment area.




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Stunning as always. Those epic tyranids are very nice


 
   
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 Cap'n Facebeard wrote:
Stunning as always. Those epic tyranids are very nice


Cheers Cap'n, glad you like 'em.

Meanwhile in a void far far away, another batch of BFG. All painted in a day without too pronounced detailing. Vis Divina and two escort squadrons, Tears of Pain and Winter's Rain.



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All the work is first-rate, but those bases, wow!


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Albany, NY

Absolutely crushing these BFG fleets, nailed that Blanchean pallet. Stunning stands for sure.

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Meer_Cat wrote:All the work is first-rate, but those bases, wow!



Boss Salvage wrote:Absolutely crushing these BFG fleets, nailed that Blanchean pallet. Stunning stands for sure.


Thanks fellas. No model is complete without a proper base, after all

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As always the battle pics are stunning! The BFG ships are looking great too and those name scrolls are brilliant

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 gobert wrote:
As always the battle pics are stunning! The BFG ships are looking great too and those name scrolls are brilliant


Thank you, gobert. More bat rep pics for you, then!

Tragedy in three acts: 3k NetEA Imperial Fists vs. the Machine Church, Reinforce the Right (GT scenario with three waves of troops and randomised deployment areas). The central firebase of the cog-boys proved too tough to crack for the astartes who arrived far from their main objectives and though the battle hung in balance until the very end, eventually the grand magos led their taxi-deprived and thus slowly stretching column of servitors and priests deep into the enemy rear.



Do note the Fists' Devastators' laudable camouflage exercise "Operation Atlas".

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Just brilliant. Makes me want to run out and buy too many tiny tanks.


 
   
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Love the Atlas Devastators

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Man, 30k Mechanicus tanks in Epic are just so good.

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Thank you Cap'n, gobert and Gwyn. Tiny tanks are indeed best in life.

Then again, you could have even more iron on the frontiers... in SPACE!

Finally got around to taking a proper picture of the fleet. Autumn Twilight's battlegroup Rhapsody of Fire in its eternal glory.

This year's new additions at the front (bases with red clouds), everything else painted somewhere around 2009 as a teenager with paints now long gone from the shelves. There's about as much stuff still waiting for their turn in the painting queue.



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Deep in the Outer Boroughs of NYC

What a lovely fleet!

Waaazag da Kan't Stoppable (ORKS) ~6,000 points
Orks-in-Progress, Finished Orks.
Terrain I'm making.
The Darion Sector War Campaign.
Into the Jaws of Hell 40k campaign. 
   
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Legendary Dogfighter





Edinburgh


That fleet looks glorious. If the scheme is that fast, I want to burn all of my paintbrushes in rage ha ha

   
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Cheers Waazag and Ragsta

 Ragsta wrote:

That fleet looks glorious. If the scheme is that fast, I want to burn all of my paintbrushes in rage ha ha


I mean, the scheme is pretty fast in principle and only uses like a dozen paint bottles. The exact hues don't matter. Dark brown, lighter brown, bone, red, orange, yellow, white, black, two washes.

- basecoat black (spray)
- brush some dark brown sloppily over most things (big brush)
- overbrush lighter brown (big brush)
- add some bone and yellow to the light brown for detail work (medium brush)
- highlight a bit until a bit too bright for your liking (med-to-fine brush)
- detail in orange for the lights (fine brush)
- drown it all in umber and black washes (big brush)
- touch up the detailing a bit again. NMM shines, bright lights with yellow and white etc. (fine brush)

Most of my time is just spent waiting for the washes to dry or fiddling with the basing

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Talk about fast, though: challenged myself to try some speedpainting. Needed to make a handful of table decorations for a wedding party, so here's a bunch of random minis from ye olde boxes on wires ready to be stuck into little flower pot dioramas for children to gawk at (possible casualties expected, so no valuable minis have been harmed in the making of this gag).

The whole lot took about 15 hours or so. Now if only I could muster similar speed for projects I actually care about



Click the pic to see them details (such as they are )!

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A small 2k game of EpicAU, Night Lords vs Mechanicum. The astartes attempted a speedy overrun of the harbour, but bounced hard from the wall of robots and got blasted with rocket artillery until they slunk back into the burning waves.



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Great battle pics, everytime I see that board I’m in awe! The bfg fleet are mighty impressive as well, seems the scheme looks more challenging than its description. Really cool idea for the table ornaments for the wedding, hopefully the kids enjoyed them (and probably quite a few big kids I expect!).

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 gobert wrote:
Great battle pics, everytime I see that board I’m in awe! The bfg fleet are mighty impressive as well, seems the scheme looks more challenging than its description. Really cool idea for the table ornaments for the wedding, hopefully the kids enjoyed them (and probably quite a few big kids I expect!).


Cheers gobert, at least they were all accounted for at the end of the festivities so nobody attempted to eat any

With the new year fast upon us and the holidays spent mainly coughing my lungs out, it's a good time to see what, if anything, was achieved last year.



Finished models 2024

28 mm:

- Imperial lady
- 20 table ornaments

Epic scale:

- 5 tech-thrall bases
- 6 Krios tanks
- 3 Minotaurs
- 2 Baneblades
- 12 Leman Russes
- 6 Basilisks
- 8 field guns
- 24 guardsmen bases
- 50 blast markers

BFG:

- 10 torpedo markers
- 3 planets
- 2 Dauntless light cruisers
- 1 Falchion
- 3 Cobras
- 9 Swords
- 1 Murder cruiser

So that's some 160+ things finished, of which maybe a 100 or so count as actual models if we're feeling generous. While it's certainly better than the previous year, a big chunk of those happened in few dedicated bursts of speed-painting, such as the three-day Guard marathon before Ropecon or the BFG waves at the end of the year. I also bought way, way more stuff than I finished, with heaps of LI and KT plastic piling up to smother me in my sleep. In 2025, I'd like to see a bit more steady pace at the painting station, like putting something out every month at least. On the other hand, I did also put out quite nice battle rep pics and learn my way around the new camera, so there's been constant hobbying throughout the year which will continue as well.

So what's on the platter this year?

A lot of small scale things at least! Guard, Mechanicum, some biomechanical titans perhaps, more BFG ships and terrain and so on. I'm drowning in tiny tonks
I've still got a handful of kill teams in the queue and some on the drawing board, as well as more suitable terrain for that package. Still haven't read the third edition rules, though
Maybe some 28 mm 30k? The destroyer squad made earlier is kind of crying for its turn on the painting table...

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Nice work, Sherrypie! Excellent painting, all round. I admire those that can consistently paint the smaller scale stuff, and do it so well.
   
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 youwashock wrote:
Nice work, Sherrypie! Excellent painting, all round. I admire those that can consistently paint the smaller scale stuff, and do it so well.


Thanks youws! I want to get a good chunk of tiny stuff done early this year, so I get to drive around with a silly number of tiddly tanks

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Nice work, Sherrypie Good luck with accomplishing your goals this year. I'm personally looking forward to more BFG. The 28mm 30k would be cool for me too.

   
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 Syro_ wrote:
Nice work, Sherrypie Good luck with accomplishing your goals this year. I'm personally looking forward to more BFG. The 28mm 30k would be cool for me too.


Thanks Syro, I'll see what I can do

At least get a game in between early year academy deadlines, it seems.

4,5k of NetEA, Ill Met by Moonlight. The Machine Church gave the eldritch machinefolk a good ol' kicking and repo'd all of their toasters.



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Looks like a cool battle. Lore wise, it certainly makes sense for Necrons and Mechanicus to be fighting.

   
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 Syro_ wrote:
Looks like a cool battle. Lore wise, it certainly makes sense for Necrons and Mechanicus to be fighting.


Heh, so it does. For the time being, the geriatric robots aren't having it too hot.

Meanwhile, Gothic today to start the year! Finished off Warrior of Ice, Thunder's Mighty Roar and Lamento Eroico as well as some volcanic globes.




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