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Keep plugging away. You are doing good work, just keep at it.

Great to catch up through here, loving the Tomb Kings. The scorpion looks very cool, nice work on the bronze.

@YWS: Thanks! Not sure how soon I'll get to Hera, but I really do want to paint her.

@Nev: Thanks as always for the encouragement!

@Olthannon: Thank you! My original intent for the Scorpion was for the metallics to be gold, but it ended up looking more like bronze. I'm calling it a happy accident.

So I haven't done anything for this month's painting challenge yet, but I did manage to finish Ionus Cryptborn. Here are the final pics of him:




I am super proud of how this model turned out! I won't say it's my best work ever, but it's up there, I think. Even the base turned out exactly how I wanted it, and it was fun to apply verdigris all over the metal parts of the ruined structure. I look forward to using this guy in games of AoS; he's already getting some compliments in my local gaming group's Discord chat. And even when he's not taking to the gaming table, he'll look good on display! For my yearly goals, this'll count towards Monsters and towards finishing WIP stuff, so it's nice to get some progress towards those. He only counts as 1 model for numbers though, so I've still got a ways to go for that.

In other news, I got some more basecoats down on my Lumineth test model:

Most of the colors have been blocked in at this point, so it'll be on to shades and highlights next. I'm definitely happy with the color scheme; he looks like he should fit right in with the Fire Nation. And in related bigger news, I finally got that window in the weather I needed and got all his buddies primed. So my Summer Side Quest project can proceed. I'll need to make up for lost time!

Otherwise it's been a little bit of this and that. I put a few more Old World skeletons together, but we all know what those look like so no need for another pic of gray plastic bony bois. I also played another game of Old World, this time facing the Wood Elves. That is a tricksy army, and I did get soundly whooped. I played way too aggressively with my Priest on Bone Dragon, and when he died, my army started to crumble as he was my Heirophant. The joys of playing an undead army, I guess.

That's all for now; my entry for the July challenge is going to be the Reclusians from the Skaventide set, if I can find time for them. They're putting in solid work on the tabletop, so they deserve some paint! See you all next time.

That guy's rad. Who doesn't love a Chaplain on a dragon? Excellent work!

Nice work on the dragon, and the fire nation is coming along well.

@YWS: Yeah, dragon riders in any universe are badass! But why would you call him a chaplain? I mean, he is a priest and he has a skull helmet, otherwise he's nothing like a chaplain at all!

@Nev: Thanks!

So it's probably too little too late but I've finally started working on my entry for July's painting challenge:

I've blocked in most of the colors, but not all, and I need to make a touchup pass before I start the shading and highlights. I might be able to get them done other than the bases, as my Stormcast basing theme is more complicated than that of my other wargaming armies and will require more time. We'll have to see.

In other hobby news, I've made the unfortunate but necessary decision to sell my Tyranids. I'm just not feeling inspired to paint them at all, or play with them, and they're taking up valuable shelf space. I'm hoping to put the money towards my car, as it does need some work done on it (the power steering pump makes a horrible sound and it likely will need replaced, and there are other things too). Problem is, I'm not sure anyone local is interested, at least not at the price I'm asking. We'll see if that changes.

And now, although it's been a minute since the GW preview show, here are my thoughts on what was revealed:
New Leagues of Votann models: DIGGY DIGGY HOLE INTENSIFIES! I'm not sure where I'll get the money (the car has priority right now over any major hobby spending) but I want at least one of everything they previewed, and I'll likely want more than one of some of the kits (like the transport). I can make that transport work very well with the theming of my Votann (Grineer from Warframe, and they have a flying transport that isn't entirely dissimilar in appearance).
New Tomb Kings models: I'll probably need both of these eventually as well, and the War of Settra's Fury book. Here's hoping the prices are reasonable, for GW anyways. The models are awesome and a great glow up for the range in general, although they are fancy enough that they really show how dated the rest of the range is!
New Nighthaunt and Flesh-Eater Courts models: Both of these models are awesome! Neither is from an army I'm interested in so I won't be picking them up myself, but it's nice to see those armies getting some cool new toys.
Helsmiths of Hashut: The long-awaited Chaos Dwarves are here, and they look pretty badass! However, even if I was wanting to invest in yet another AoS army, I don't think it would be these. I do look forward to seeing them across the table from me at some point.
New Horus Heresy and Legiones Imperialis models: The Mk. II Assault Marines are pretty cool, but I'm not about to start playing 30k. I couldn't care less about LI. I don't want to rain on people's parade who do like it though, so it's good to see it get some new stuff.
New Underworlds set: I do like the new warbands, but I'm not about to start playing Underworlds, especially since the local scene for it is nonexistent AFAIK.
New Space Marine characters: All of the new characters are amazing, no notes. I particularly like the White Scars guy on the jetbike (like, why did Kor'sarro Khan not get one of those?), and the update to Vulkan He'stan is well done also.
New Marine Combat Patrols: I already have basically everything in these, so I can safely skip them. In fact, most of these are kind of bleh (particularly the Iron Hands one, like wtf GW?). The White Scars one is the only one I would even slightly consider as I don't own an Impulsor currently, my Ravenwing wouldn't mind a few more Outriders, and I could probably kitbash a neat Primaris Sammael out of the bike character.

So in summary, I want the new Votann stuff, and I want the new Tomb Kings heroes, but the rest is just not really for me. I'm not in a major hurry for either of those things I do want, so I can relax for now. Meanwhile I need to keep on painting.

Your work on that dragon is fantastic. Well done!

If you can’t get them all across the line, try to finish at least one. And a blacked and tidy base is fine for entry.

Oof. Sorry to hear about the car troubles. The sad fact is we need them to live in this country, and they are not cheep to have and maintain. Hope it’s nothing too major. GL finding your nids a good home. The mechanics of selling has kept me from thinning my collections.

I knew there was going to be a number of things that would catch your eye in that last reveal show. Grab them when you can. One perk of having everything in the CPs already is that you should be able to put it down on the table when the rules drop and play a game with them.

@Josh: Thanks very much, I had a lot of fun working on him!

@Nev: Yeah, while I'm grateful to have gotten a car (but sad that it took the death of my grandfather for it to happen), I do hate the necessity of it. They are a necessary evil, especially where I live (we have city buses, but they run so infrequently that they might as well not bother really). As far as the Tyranids, so far there hasn't been any interest from anyone to buy the whole collection at once, but I've already had one or two people express interest in some items from it. So I'll probably have to piece it out, which will be a headache but at least it'll sell (hopefully).

I'm still here, and I'm still painting. This time around it's back to the Nehekharan Desert and my Tomb Kings, where my entry in the monthly painting challenge is the High Priest on Necrolith Bone Dragon. I'm going from painting a living dragon to a dead one, but trust me I wouldn't want to meet this one any more than the other one! Here's where it's at currently:

Lots of work left to do, but mostly it'll be detail work from here on out. GW really knocked it out of the park with this model, the first new addition to the Tomb Kings range since well before Fantasy ended. I've been having a blast with it so far. For those curious, the rocks on the base have a lot of white spots because those are little skulls and scarabs that I'll go back and pick out with other colors (using Contrast/Speedpaints).

In gaming news, my local gaming group recently finished our Age of Sigmar escalation league, and I finished 3rd (out of 9 who started, and two of those ended up dropping due to life stuff). I won all but two of my games, and those were against relatively experienced AoS players (playing Flesh-Eater Courts and Ironjawz). Most of the rest (including myself) were new to the game. I had a blast and learned a lot, but now I've got to learn some of it all over again, as the new GHB has changed some things, most notably Battle Tactics. Meanwhile I'll just keep on painting, these Stormcast aren't going to paint themselves, and I wouldn't mind giving the Kruleboyz a try soon (I'll have to find the cash for their Faction Terrain and Endless Spells first).

As for The Old World, I actually will be entering a tournament in a couple of weeks (actually less than 2 whole weeks). Thankfully painting is not required, as there's no way I'll have my whole army painted by then. I fully expect to get my ass handed to me, but that's okay, that's how it went when I was trying to learn 40k too. I'm treating it as a chance to road trip with some buddies and get 3 games of Old World in. I just hope I can find some time before then to get some practice games, just to make sure I have the mechanics of the game down so I don't completely embarrass myself. I also want to finish the Bone Dragon before then so at least my centerpiece will be painted.

So yeah, lots to do. I 3D printed some additional models but forgot to take a picture of them (it's some Ushabti with bows for the Tomb Kings), and sadly I haven't had time to work on my Summer Side Quest entry. I'm gonna have to crunch if I want to get my Fire Nation elves ready. Whatever happens, you'll see it all right here.

Well done with the dragons! The bone dragon is particularly cool. Good luck with the Old World tourney, sounds like it'll be a blast.

Looks good. Keep at it!

One of these days I should seriously look at The Old World, but too many game systems, so little time. And I’ve been having a lot of fun with AoS.

@Olthannon: Thanks, I do love me some dragons. And the Old World tournament was a lot of fun, I'll have more to say about it below.

@Nev: Thanks as always! I think Old World would be right up your alley, especially considering you used to play WHFB. But I understand completely about not having time; it's the main reason I don't play Horus Heresy, and haven't been playing 40k for the better part of a year now, just not enough time to do everything, especially on top of a full-time job. I have been enjoying AoS and Old World a lot, and I've even found time for a couple of games of Middle-Earth.

I managed to finish my entry for the August painting challenge, Weathered. So without further ado, here are the pics of the High Priest on Necrolith Bone Dragon:



While definitely not my best work, I'm happy with how it turned out. It's a fantastic sculpt by GW. It's also pretty awkward to transport to games, meaning I might need to bite the bullet and get a bespoke foam tray for it. Either way, it's out of the pile of opportunity and across into the finished group as #26 for the year.

And here are #27-29, a group of three Skeleton Chariots:



I'm pretty happy with these models as well. The reason for the somewhat awkward positions of the riders is because I didn't assemble them, I only had to figure out how to get them to fit into the chariots. If I had been the one to put them together, I'd have planned better. Still, I think they look alright. This unit helps me with my goal for finishing partially completed things, because they were already partially done when I started (I didn't start them, but they still count as partially painted). Now I need to assemble my other chariots (the ones that came in the starter, and a set of three that were new on sprues in my FLGS's used model bins). I do love me some chariot action!

Now, as for that Old World tournament, I had a really good time. I got to play three games against three awesome opponents (the last of whom was the guy I rode to St. Louis with to play in the event). I went 1-2, which is honestly better than I expected (I defeated the Warriors of Chaos, but lost to Vampire Counts and my friend's Wood Elves). What models I had painted got some nice compliments, and some of the armies I saw at the event were VERY well painted, and that's one of the best things about wargaming tournaments in general. One of the players even had a Grand Cathay army (unpainted unfortunately), so it was nice to actually see the models in person for the first time (they are pretty neat). This was my first tournament for a game other than 40k, and I'm sure it won't be the last, at least not if I have anything to say about it!

While I was at the store for the tournament, I picked up a neat little Reaper Bones dude to use as a Tomb King:

I got the idea to browse the Bones section because I saw a fair number of third-party models being used, both 3D printed and others. I might browse the same sections of my local shops to look for any nice models that would work for my armies, as Reaper Bones are a lot less expensive than GW models! One thing about the guy I picked up is that he has paired blades, which just happens to be perfect for one of the Tomb Kings magic items (a set of paired blades that give more attacks depending on how many ranks are in the enemy unit the model is fighting). So now I have a sculpt for a Tomb King/Tomb Prince with that item.

That's it for now. I'm very doubtful I'll be able to make a lot of progress on my Fire Nation elves before the deadline on the Summer Side Quest, but maybe I can make something happen. We'll see.

Bravo! That bone dragon is excellent. Really nice work on the bones, really nice work!

Lovely painting on the Bone Dragon. That's a nice Reaper piece for Undead indeed! Good idea to look at 3rd parties, I think Northstar does Undead Revenants and Skeletons that could be good for Tomb Kings for example.

Great work on the big guy. And the chariots. What do you use for the bones?
TK are probably the best army for 3rd party stuff. Undead Egyptians is pretty common.

Need to do a face-off picture with the two latest dragons. Nice stuff, ZergSmasher!

@Olthannon: Thank you very much!

@Ragsta: Thanks! I did look into Northstar's models, and while their skellies are decent they don't really look like Tomb Kings at all. I appreciate the suggestion nonetheless.

@Nev: Thank you! For the bones, all I did was spray the model in Wraithbone, then did an all-over coat of Army Painter Speedpaints Pallid Bone, followed by a drybrush of Army Painter Bony Spikes and a very selective edge highlight of Army Painter Pale Sand (which was probably too light but...eh).

@YWS: Dragon face-off, eh? I'll think about it. The bone dragon is bigger than Ionus' dragon, Cthorak, but I suspect Cthorak would be faster since he's, well, not dead.

Just a quick proof of life. I haven't really painted anything else since the bone dragon and chariots, but I have assembled some stuff. I kitbashed myself a Mortuary Priest with a banner since in the Mortuary Cult Army of Infamy (from the Tomb Kings Arcane Journal) you can make a Mortuary Priest into your Battle Standard Bearer. I used spare parts from the Necrosphinx kit (which is a treasure trove of Tomb Kings bits) and this is what I came up with:

I was glad to find a use for the banner from the Khemrian Warsphinx, as it's a really neat looking thing. I kind of wish I had cut the staff in his right hand down a bit further (I used a spear from the kit, and those are pretty long so I did cut it shorter), but it looks okay. I'll need to glue something into the base as the model is very top heavy, but that'll be easy.

I also picked up and assembled one of the new Kapricus vehicles for my Votann army:

I built it as the Defender since I don't have any Hernkyn Yaegirs to transport with the Carrier yet. I'll get another Kapricus if and when I get some Yaegirs. I did make the main gun swappable; the barrels don't even need magnets as friction holds them just fine, but the clip for the Magna-Rail cannon and the charge pack for the Rotary Cannon did need magnets to be swappable (it was not hard to do). I didn't glue the model to the base as I want to be able to reach the underside easier for painting, but otherwise the model is fully assembled. Yes, I probably should have left the driver out to paint her easier, but you won't be able to see the parts I can't get a brush on so I figured what the hell. It's fine. I do love the look of the thing, and I'm sure I'll enjoy painting it.

The challenge theme for this month is Chaff, so I plan to paint up some Hobgrot Slittaz for my AoS Kruleboyz. I'll need to get them primed, so here's hoping we get a nice calm and non-humid day for it here soon.

Ooh exciting. I want to get my grubby mitts on the new Votann at some point soon. I'm hoping there might be a little Christmas box with them in I can snap up. I'm keen to get that Kapricus and give it wheels.

@Olthannon: You should, but right now good luck on getting the Ironkin Steeljacks (nobody's got any for sale, not even the eBay scalpers!). Hopefully GW cranks out a bunch more of those. The Kapricus is my favorite of the new models, and honestly it might look good with wheels (maybe the ones from a Sagitaur?).

Another proof of life. I have been getting some paint down. Here's a WIP shot of my entry in the September painting challenge, some Hobgrot Slittaz for my AoS Kruleboyz army:

Army Painter Speedpaints for the win, once again. I do need to shade the metallics, and maybe add a thinned down wash to the Hobgrots' skin to make them look a little dirtier (but I do want the light green to show, so I'll need to take it easy). There's only so much I want to do on these guys though, they are just expendable chaff, not heroes or anything, and honestly they probably won't get much table time without a major rules change. I will probably add some blood effects to the weapons and stuff, make them look like they've done a bit of backstabbing. I always love an excuse to add blood to weapons! No I'm not a psychopath, don't go calling the law on me...

I've also been painting up one of my 3D printed Tomb Kings priests as kind of a palette cleanser. Here's where I've gotten to on him:

I gotta say I've been thrilled with the Brownish Decay Speedpaint for all the mummified models in my Tomb Kings, it just seems to suit mummies pretty well. The model itself is, like the rest of the 3D printed stuff I got in my initial lot of Tomb Kings, from OnePageRules. I'll need to shade and highlight the gold, as well as the blue cloth, then there are a few small details to pick out on the front of the model (some kind of bone tchotchkes or something).

If I finish out the Hobgrots and that Priest, that'll put me even with my total from the last couple of years (40), then I can finally beat that number and be officially out of the funk I've been in. I've got plenty of Tomb Kings stuff on deck to help pad out my numbers further too.

Hobgrots and preist are coming along well. Keep up the good work!