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MongooseMatt wrote:

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

Those look great, I prefer them to my efforts, lol, you have a much lighter grey than mine that contrasts better with the reds.

May I ask what recipe you used? I might steal it for my future Space Wolves, lol.

Actually, it is the same I use for my Space Woof infantry (which is same colours as large vehicles, but with a slightly different approach).

1. Spray undercoat Mech Std Grey
2. Basecoat Dawnstone
3. Wash all over with Agrax
4. Heavy drybrush Dawnstone
5. Light drybrush Admin Grey

And that is about 80% of the models done!

The red is just Khorne Red, Agrax wash, Mephiston drybrush.

Simples!

Cheers! That's not actually too far off my method, but I base coated Vallejo Intermediate Blue (which in spite of the name is a medium grey) and drybrushed Dawnstone. So probably your scheme is like mine just shifted one batch of greys brighter.

Found myself working on some Eldar flyers the other day - getting close to finishing these. Need to add some transfer then it's an oil wash, a spot of weathering and then round off by finishing the bases:

 zedmeister wrote:
Found myself working on some Eldar flyers the other day - getting close to finishing these. Need to add some transfer then it's an oil wash, a spot of weathering and then round off by finishing the bases:

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Looks great.

I haven't touched my Eldar yet, can't decide whether to do a Mymeara scheme or duplicate the scheme that I used on my 1st edition ones many years back...

Nice fleet! Personally, I’d look at something new to tackle

Yeah, maybe. Eldar look good in so many schemes, it's hard to go wrong with if the execution is right.

I yoinked the Ares Gunship for the Legio Custodes as soon as it was released - for obvious reasons, this model paints up very, very quickly...

Looks great! Is that freehand on the side?

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Looks great! Is that freehand on the side?

Hell no Came from the Heresy Custodes transfer sheet.

Yeah, that's looking good.

Do like the Aries (and the orion which I hope they'll get round to). Nice chunky model

Been working through a few more of the Forge World models.

Quite like the Aruvs Lighters, they have a certain cuteness to them:



And the Astartes Ground Assets, done in Heresy-era Thousand Sons colours:

The Arvus is certainly a cute little thing. It's a flying brick that shouldn't work and has no guns worth speaking of, yet bravely zips around the wartorn hellscapes of the galaxy.

Adorable, really.

Am I the only one bummed out that GW didn't do this Deff Skwadron tribute using Aeronautica Imperialis models?

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/01/11/deff-skwadron-return-to-katch-da-squigeon-in-an-epic-edition-of-battle-report/

How could they justify playing a game that is not supported or avalible outside of Direct and whit half the model lineup only avalible from FW? This game has taken up place alongside Dreadfleet, sooner one accepts that, the better.

Buy the plastics, 3D print the resins, use/adapt the 2007 rules. Only way to play the game.

They should just make Aeronautica Imperialis; The little pig. Nothing but Arvus lighters simply moving around the board, players adoring them in favour of rolling dice. Maybe racing to pick up cargo before the other players beat them to it.

Kind of like an aerial Hungry Hippos set in the grimdark future.

I've not worked on any Aeronautica projects in well over a year now, but with the Dakka Painting Challenge 100 and an AI event I'm going to in a few weeks, I picked up some Imperial Navy flyers fromm eBay for £35 all in. Thunderbolts are lacking a bit of detail thanks to thick paint jobs, but for what'll be a speedy job to get them on the table, they'll be fine.

Plan is to pick up some Valkyries and couple more T-Bolts to round out the roster.

A wee update. Playing on Monday so keen to get these to table top quality. I was going to do an all over brown oil wash to tint everything but maybe I should just pin wash to keep the white primer?

Very nice!

Finished 150pts of Navy for £35. Missing some Valks to finish the force but we ain't getting those now lol

Looks great! With the decals and the weathering they look really nice, I love how striking they are and the red-nosed guy really stands out nicely (I assume an ace?).

Maybe I'm being silly since GW just killed AI, but I really feel like starting a new Imperial squadron with a more unified colour scheme. than my previous attempts.

Cheers! Ace indeed, figured I'd use the noses to add a splash of colour and denote the aces. Half tempted to put a red nose on all of them though!

Have to say ASS, I love your Imperial Navy, gives a real feel of different theatres compared to mine. I also noticed you added chipping, something I may have to go back and add as I think mine are missing a little somethin' somethin'. Would be keen to see if you do decide to go for another squadron.

I managed to pick up Skies of Fire with the cards for Imperials and Tau for cheap so I've got three more Lightings to turn into missile platforms, two Valkyries and a bunch of Tau!

Made a start on my remaining plastic Eldar, with a couple of Hemlocks and a Vampire Raider to complete the list.

The Eldar look so fun to paint. Sadly I think I missed out on getting ahold of any of them.

Amazingturtles if you PM me with what you want I may be able to see if my local GW(s) have the plastic kits in stock. Better than being scalped on eBay.

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
Cheers! Ace indeed, figured I'd use the noses to add a splash of colour and denote the aces. Half tempted to put a red nose on all of them though!

Up to you, but I think leaving the red for the aces works well. The yellow + light grey is striking enough for me on the regular dudes.

Have to say ASS, I love your Imperial Navy, gives a real feel of different theatres compared to mine. I also noticed you added chipping, something I may have to go back and add as I think mine are missing a little somethin' somethin'. Would be keen to see if you do decide to go for another squadron.

Thanks! It's been a long time since I painted them, I don't actually remember the colours I used on some of them so couldn't add to them even if I wanted, haha. AI aircraft are definitely fun to paint though.

Though I don't think yours are missing anything, perhaps you could add a bit more weathering either in the form of chipping or some more grime in the recesses and such to create more contrast?

I enjoy just flipping through the original AI books and looking at all the different colour schemes, which has probably led to my Imperials being all over the place in terms of their schemes, haha. Though reading the Double Eagle book recently, it seems the Imperial forces were a mix of different colour schemes.

If I started another Imperial squadron, I'd probably be thinking something similar to your scheme, but maybe a touch darker on the grey and maybe not yellow as the secondary colour.

I managed to pick up Skies of Fire with the cards for Imperials and Tau for cheap so I've got three more Lightings to turn into missile platforms, two Valkyries and a bunch of Tau!

Made a start on my remaining plastic Eldar, with a couple of Hemlocks and a Vampire Raider to complete the list.

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Looks great! I'm tossing up buying more Tau/Eldar before they go completely out of stock, never been a big Tau fan but got them because they were in the starter, now I've developed a bit a soft spot for them.

My Eldar are really lacking Vampires and the Tau are lacking Drones, but they're all out of stock now, might have to look into 3D printing some proxies.

Not really reporting on a project, but I got a game of Aeronautica in last night. Six people made it to the evening alongside various other systems in play.

Used low flying rules to bring in buildings and tried out a bombing run mission for the first time!




150 points - Navy vs Orks - Bombing Run

Cool!

Looks cool!

I've managed to get a few games in over the past couple of months, no photos though.

I will admit, even though I personally don't like the hex system for AI, it's been a real boon for getting people into the game. It's one of the few games that I can genuinely teach someone to play within an hour or so, and mostly just need the quick reference sheet to teach someone almost all the rules. The main time we end up going back to the book is to double check ranges, not sure why they didn't put the ranges on the quick reference sheet!

I really need to design and print some manoeuvre dials, as people like to have their counters face down so the opponent can't see what they've picked, but that makes it fiddly to find the one you need.

I think I have been a fan of the hex system used for AI for that exact reason, we had quite a few folk mosey around our tables (a few battletech and KT players) purely because of the hex system and the manoeuvres sheet. I suppose that's the benefit of it being more a board game, it's quick to explain and quick to pick up.

That being said, I'm definitely finding a benefit to adding the extra rules into my games now. The "competitive" missions add quite a lot to the game and actually force a bit of thinking in your list building as you can't just blow things out of the sky to win, and adding buildings just to add some risk to your moves is a cool bit of granularity that doesn't add time to the game.

Agreed on the dials, the tokens are grand but you spend a lot of time searching for them if you're not organised (like me). X-Wing tokens are what I was thinking of trying to make.

One of the big downsides to the hex system is I never bought a larger hex board, and now I can't buy one, so we're stuck playing with the ones that came in the boxed set. We can put 2 boards side by side, but that results in a wide but narrow field.

We start with the tokens being organised, but after 1 or 2 games they're completely mixed up.

order a hex mat from deepcutstudio, these are the three i recommend:

https://www.deepcutstudio.com/product/wargames-terrain-mat-aerial-battlefield/

https://www.deepcutstudio.com/product/game-mat-aerial-countryside/

https://www.deepcutstudio.com/product/wargames-terrain-mat-aerial-fields-3/

Order it 6x4, use the print-o-mat feature to add the hex overlay. Alternatively order mat of your choice without hexes and get a transparent hex overlay from tablewar:

https://tablewar.com/collections/geomats/products/6x4-geo-mat-hex-grid

If you're going that route, I can also recommend PWorks Sky of War mat: https://www.pworkwargames.com/en/gaming-mats/117-537-sky-of-war-wargames-terrain-mat.html#/1-material-pvc_vinyl/6-size-3x3_92x92cm

I'll have to look into those. Back when AI first released I did look at a place that did custom prints to add overlays, I don't remember which company, but I didn't do it as by the time I added the cost of the mat, the cost of the overlay, then shipping to Australia, the price seemed to high to justify it.

What size mat are you playing on and what size would you recommend? The GW starter set ones are too small, the fold out ones they sold were better but still on the small side, but for playing games after work in the office I can't get something too excessively large.