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Not Online!!! wrote:Awesome.
even though it's high elves
Good job Gobert. Man i miss WHFB.

Thanks not online, sorry to make you like some Elves, I’ll have to do something chaotic to right the world!

Olthannon wrote:Absolutely superb, I can only exalt such incredible Asur finery. I really like the light wood colour on the chariot, Reminds me I should get some bases for my chariots and bolt throwers. The lava bases are such a good idea.

Thanks Olthannon, High praise from a fellow Elf fancier . The chariot wheels were dead simple, just a wash of Celestra grey over white, who needs contest paints! Good luck on our chariots and bolt throwers, I look forward to seeing them.

Over the past few days I’ve been doing the odd bit on the Void Panthers display board. First I mixed up some Celestra and Administratum grey which relieved my fear that the silk emulsion wouldn’t take the acrylic paint. I then dry brushed Ulthuan Grey and pure white over everything before adding Boltgun metal to lots of the details



Next I painted a few bits gold and added some colours to a few cables using Speed Paints. Next I picked out some tiles and roads in a mix of Black Templar and Basilicanum Grey



Next I’ll wash pretty much the whole board with Agrax Earthshade

Thanks for looking

That army is 10 pounds of old school goodness in a 5 pound bag. Awesome work, gobert! Eltharion looks so good center-stage like that.

Absolutely loving seeing the Tiranoc chariot, and the collection of those classic miniatures together is a beautiful sight to behold!

The display board's coming together really nicely too.

That chariot looks really fun thank you for sharing.

Nice the board looks fantastic. I've got some plywood at the back of the house I need to make into a board. Looking forward to seeing how you go.

Congrats on finishing the elf army! No small feat, and looks great on the display board! The 40k board is also coming along great.

youwashock wrote:That army is 10 pounds of old school goodness in a 5 pound bag. Awesome work, gobert! Eltharion looks so good center-stage like that.

Thanks youwashock, they do look pretty good together like that don’t they!?

Bellerophon wrote:Absolutely loving seeing the Tiranoc chariot, and the collection of those classic miniatures together is a beautiful sight to behold!
The display board's coming together really nicely too.

Thanks Bellerophon, it is quite a classic mini the chariot, finally glad to have my first fully painted army. They look even better together I think!

makeitorky wrote:That chariot looks really fun thank you for sharing.

Thanks makeitorky, welcome to my plog. Thanks for commenting, it’s the encouragement on here that keeps me going

Olthannon wrote:Nice the board looks fantastic. I've got some plywood at the back of the house I need to make into a board. Looking forward to seeing how you go.

I can highly recommend it Olthannon! A display board makes them look even better I think! I wish I’d have gone a bit thicker than the 6mm mdf I used, the Panthers board is sagging under its own weight. I might need to straighten it with some batons I think

mcmattila wrote:Congrats on finishing the elf army! No small feat, and looks great on the display board! The 40k board is also coming along great.

Thanks mcmattila, I’m dead chuffed how they finished up, and I’m glad others like them too!

On the last day of holiday I snook in a quick bit of painting, throwing most of a pot of Agrax at the display board until I ran out

It was also the old style Agrax, so I’ve gone off brand and ordered some Army Painter Strong Tone as a replacement. The internet and dakka suggest it’s a decent replacement so we’ll see.

I also sat down and made a good start on finishing my newest Army and daubed some contrast on the Tomb Blades that I forgot to paint when I did the rest of my Necrons.

These guys should be done pretty quickly by my standards. I’m then torn what to paint next. I’m tempted to start on some Armour for the Panthers, either a Land Raider, Rhino or Predator. I also have a nascent air force for them with a Storm Talon ready one started and Storm Raven to collect from the post office. Then I also have the Blackstone Fortress: Escalation Guardian Drones, some SMH Plague Marines or some Khorne AoS/WHFB guys… decisions, decisions! (Feel free to make suggestions)

Thanks for looking

Land Raider or Escalation Drones would be awesome.

 youwashock wrote:
Land Raider or Escalation Drones would be awesome.

Yeah, that was kind of my favourite too. I might even get my printer working again and make some Chaoter icons to go on the doors. However, I also got the Labyrinth board game for my Birthday last weekend, so I might jump the minis from that up the queue, probably with some slapchop to get them play ready quickly

In other news, the Void Panthers display board is complete (I’m counting it as 5 minis, the board is 1 and there are 4 ruins). The Army Painter Strong Tone I used to replace the old Agrax just wasn’t up to the standard, it kept bubbling and wasn’t staining or really recess shading very well. In the end I ended up making a wash from brown and grey Speed Paints using glow improver and strong tone to bulk it up. It ended up much darker than old Agrax but it still looks decent enough.











I also took some pics with the Panthers in place;








Some arty ones





And the whole gang







Some of the bases don’t match the board perfectly, being much greyer and blacker on the bases, but I think it’s close enough and sets the scene nicely. I do however need to figure out a backdrop similar to my mount doom pics for the Elves.

I also managed to squeeze in a bit of work on the Tomb Blades as well, getting the first stage of glow done on one of them



Thanks for looking

Hey mate,

That display board came out perfectly. So evocative! They look brilliant all together - can't wait to see what they look like with a backdrop. You've inspired me to try something similar for some of my armies too.

Tomb blade glow looks promising.

I also vote for Land Raider next...they are a long time guilty pleasure of mine and hopefully 10th makes them useful on the tabletop again!

Congratulations Gobert this looks amazing. I love the tiled floor, must have been a lovely kitchen at one point! love the shot of the Land Speeder, cool action shot! Nice progress on the Tomb Blade as well.

 tzurk wrote:


I also vote for Land Raider next...they are a long time guilty pleasure of mine and hopefully 10th makes them useful on the tabletop again!

Absolutely go for a Land Raider. I was looking at one yesterday for my Successor chapter but I told myself off because I should be focusing on my Votann

Spectacular, both the display board and seeing the whole Panthers army together. What a pleasure must be to play with/against them!

Seems like you are back in full swing Gobert.
That tomb blade looks amazing with your sheme!

tzurk wrote:Hey mate,

That display board came out perfectly. So evocative! They look brilliant all together - can't wait to see what they look like with a backdrop. You've inspired me to try something similar for some of my armies too.

Tomb blade glow looks promising.

I also vote for Land Raider next...they are a long time guilty pleasure of mine and hopefully 10th makes them useful on the tabletop again!

Thanks tzurk, I can highly recommend having themed display boards, I think it was Guardling that put me on to them, and I havent looked back. Can’t wait to see what you come up with for your armies. I think the Land Raider seems pretty popular, so I’ve left its box out , just need to paint the inside first ‘cause I’m a lunatic!

Olthannon wrote:Congratulations Gobert this looks amazing. I love the tiled floor, must have been a lovely kitchen at one point! love the shot of the Land Speeder, cool action shot! Nice progress on the Tomb Blade as well.

 tzurk wrote:

I also vote for Land Raider next...they are a long time guilty pleasure of mine and hopefully 10th makes them useful on the tabletop again!

Absolutely go for a Land Raider. I was looking at one yesterday for my Successor chapter but I told myself off because I should be focusing on my Votann

Thanks Olthannon, it was pretty cool to put together. The kitchen floor was one of the first ideas I had, just lots of little squares of card. The bigger ones outside didn’t turn out so well as their edges turned up with the glue. Glad you liked the action shot, it’s one of the main reasons I built the board. Very restrained of you not buying the Land Raider, I’ve been buying stuff despite having a few years worth of minis to paint in my drawers

muette wrote:Spectacular, both the display board and seeing the whole Panthers army together. What a pleasure must be to play with/against them!

Thanks muette, complete armies are one of the greatest part of the hobby I think, sadly though, the Void Panthers don’t get to take part in games

Not Online!!! wrote:Seems like you are back in full swing Gobert.
That tomb blade looks amazing with your sheme!

Yeah, it seems that way, funny how the hobby doldrums come and go!

Last night I slapped some glow on the rest of the tomb blades. They’re all now at the same stage as the first one

There’s actually a surprising amount of glowy bits on these guys. So much that I’ve nearly finished watching the extended edition of The Fellowship of the Ring whilst painting them

Thanks for looking

Very nice work on the board Gobert! The details and coloring looks top notch!
Good work on the pictures too. The one showing the speeder floating behind the building was my favorite!

A board that size truly does take a few litres of wash
For bigger projects where the exact color is not that important, I have started mixing matte medium and black acrylic to create a darkening wash.
A bit cheaper but the results may vary.

Why no games with the Panthers? I imagine hard with current WH40K, but I've been enjoing using my classic marines in One Page Rules games a lot lately. Life finds a way!

Great work onto those 5th Ed high elves, the terrain is coming along great.

Ezki wrote:Very nice work on the board Gobert! The details and coloring looks top notch!
Good work on the pictures too. The one showing the speeder floating behind the building was my favorite!

A board that size truly does take a few litres of wash
For bigger projects where the exact color is not that important, I have started mixing matte medium and black acrylic to create a darkening wash.
A bit cheaper but the results may vary.

Thanks Ezki, I did think about creating my own wash, but in the end laziness won out . I should probably do so when I make the extension board(s) I’m planning with the crashed Aquila Lander

muette wrote:Why no games with the Panthers? I imagine hard with current WH40K, but I've been enjoing using my classic marines in One Page Rules games a lot lately. Life finds a way!

None of my mates play Warhammer :’) and I don’t have the time to go to a club. Maybe as the kids get older I’ll have more time, but until then I’ll carry on enjoying my painting. The one page rules stuff does sound good, the massive rulebook and all of the add ons are a bit of a turnoff tbh

itsonlyme wrote:Great work onto those 5th Ed high elves, the terrain is coming along great.

Thanks! They’re a labour of love and it was a great satisfaction to get them completed.

Just a quick update for now. These guys landed on my desk today and were cleaned up ready for priming. I’m thinking a prime of black and zenithal grey before slapchopping them up. Their features are a bit soft so it might not work too well on Jareth and Sarah. I can also confirm that the plastic is quite soft so was a bit of a pain to clean up, but a quick brush of polycement smoothed them out nicely.


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I fancied some painting and Lord of the Rings watching tonight, and I pushed on past bed time to finish up the Tomb Blades. Recipe was the same as previous Necrons, Gauss blaster green washed in the glow recesses, black orbs and ardcoat to finish off the orbs.







And with that I’ve completed my second Armg which is also my newest. I’ll have to get some pics on the Panthers’ board to show them off again now that they’re fully complete

Thanks for looking and the encouragement along the way!

No brakes on the gobert paint train!

The Panthers look amazing on their board, and the Necrons are done now, too! Awesome work, man. Super excited to see the Labyrinth crew. I have only had the chance to play it once, but it was an amusing game.

Nice tomb blades Gobert! They look really cool. Looking forward to seeing the Labyrinth minis, they look really characterful.

Tomb Blades look awesome - inspiring me to get mine assembled!


But I wanna see Bowie now

youwashock wrote:No brakes on the gobert paint train!

The Panthers look amazing on their board, and the Necrons are done now, too! Awesome work, man. Super excited to see the Labyrinth crew. I have only had the chance to play it once, but it was an amusing game.

Yeah it seems they don’t work, but surely the Land Raider will slow me down? I’m excited to paint the minis, and I just took delivery of the Goblins and Fireys expansion. The Fireys are particularly cool. Sadly there’s no Humongous expansion so I’ll still have to play the game with a card standup piece :(

Olthannon wrote:Nice tomb blades Gobert! They look really cool. Looking forward to seeing the Labyrinth minis, they look really characterful.

Thanks Olthannon, it was fun to paint a small batch and get them done really fast, it was quite a squeeze to fit them on the Necron shelf that they share with my Orks.

ItsVaughany wrote:Tomb Blades look awesome - inspiring me to get mine assembled!
But I wanna see Bowie now

Thanks ItsVaighany, welcome to my plog! Good luck assembling the Tomb Blades. There’s a few tricky pieces that are also quite fragile, but they’re still cool minis. As for Bowie, he’s part way through slapchopping, but sadly I forgot to take a pic. I’ll get the expansions to a similar state this week and hopefully the whole gang will be next on my painting desk once I’ve painted the inside to the Raider.

Another weekend, another Grand Prix to watch! Bit of a dull race, so I managed to get a good bit of the Land Raider done. I washed it with Druchi Violet first, then smoothed out he flat surfaces with Dawnstone mixed with Druchi. Then I got the metallics done with Leadbelcher and Retributor Armour before some Zandri Dust on the seating areas. Washes next before some fun with screens and lighting

Thanks for lookokg

Yeah, I lament the lack of a mini for Humongous as much as I lament the lack of Garthim minis in Dark Crystal.

Land Raider already looking snazzy!

 youwashock wrote:
Yeah, I lament the lack of a mini for Humongous as much as I lament the lack of Garthim minis in Dark Crystal.

Land Raider already looking snazzy!

I’d seen that they did a Dark Crystal game too. Mrs gobert loved Dark Crystal, but tbh the Labyrinth game is a bit dull. The minis are cool, but the basic game is, well, basic. Ok to play with the kids, but not enough jeopardy. I’ll give it another go with all of the expansions to see if that helps.

In the meantime I’ve managed to get the interior of the Land Raider pretty much done, just the light on the roof to go. Since the last post I went with a slightly lighter shade on the purple surfaces. I think it’s a bit closer to the Land Speeder cabin now (for future reference it was 2:1 Dawnstoneruchi violet). The metallics all got a wash of old Nuln Oil, soon I’ll have to switch to the new version. On the engine area I played with a few different speed paints and contrast paints to get a bit more variety. The brown over silver looks pretty good I think. Then I got on to the screens! I started with the greens giving them a bit of a glow and some a bit of a sense of something on the display. A few were done in red too, also having a glow but not sure that’s as good as ok the green.




I also spent a bit of time getting my printer back up and running. Once I got that sorted I set off on some iconography for the Raider

I gave the ironing setting that came with the latest software a go, and I think it works pretty well. So well I’ve even decided to print some covers for the weapon openings. They should be done in the morning Ad. Will cover up the ugly gaps.

Thanks for looking

Looking great. Love the detail on everything inside that transport. It’s giving me motivation to paint up the three vehicles I have sitting in my bench waiting for internal details.

That is an interior that you can be proud of!

Lovely work on the LR internals, the screens look excellent.

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Looking great. Love the detail on everything inside that transport. It’s giving me motivation to paint up the three vehicles I have sitting in my bench waiting for internal details.

Thanks jazzy, there’s a bunch of details that I felt had to be painted. I only wish that I’d not glued in the sliding internal side doors now! Maybe on the next one!

Not Online!!! wrote:That is an interior that you can be proud of!

Cheers Not Online, it’s been really fun to paint, and I’ll have to display it with the front open disgorging Terminators!

Probably my quickest print to painted thing to date, printed Saturday night, primed Sunday morning and finished Sunday night! The panel was free on thingiverse from gynovin and looks pretty cool in place, and even better painted. Some of the details were a little fuzzy, but the new ironing setting means the flat surfaces are really smooth (if only there were a setting for vertical and curved surfaces!).

And with that the internals were complete


So with that it was time to put the Land Raider together and take some moody shots before I put the top hatches on



The last 2 are pretty cool how the light shines on the engine and the Mechanicus symbol. I’m really pleased how the internals turned out. The printed parts, despite not being that visible just finish the look. I’m claiming the internals as a completed mini and the external will be another, albeit much bigger job.

That leaves me with my current conundrum, so I go Black or Gold for the outside. All of my regular Marine vehicles are black which is a good contrast to the Gold marines. However, since it’s a Terminator transport and they’re going to be Black I’m thinking the Land Raider should be Gold. What say you guys?

Thanks for looking

Very nice interior there, great background for immersive photo sessions.

Gold is one of those colours that I personally feel is very hard to get right in large areas, especially if you're using metallic paints. Black with blingier details for the elite unit would be my choice.

 Sherrypie wrote:
Very nice interior there, great background for immersive photo sessions.

Gold is one of those colours that I personally feel is very hard to get right in large areas, especially if you're using metallic paints. Black with blingier details for the elite unit would be my choice.

Thanks sherrypie, I’m already getting itchy feet to start on the terminator to go with their ride! I think you’re right on the large areas of gold. I was wondering how best to paint such large flat panels and couldn’t come up with a decent idea. So I’ve gone with Black. I used a new primer though and it doesn’t seem quite as nice as my usual choice. It seems to have a much rougher finish than I’d like but it is much more matte too. I might give it’s quick brush coat to see if that helps any