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Classic colours on the Eldar, a good bunch of characters you’ve knocked out fast. That wraith knight is looking good already, good luck getting through the highlights!

Thanks y'all! With summer ending I've been back to work, plus watching Tiny Blockade afterschool, plus I took a short term commission, so I'll be less spam-y with my posts in the immediate future until we get childcare figured out. But this commission will let me do a review of the rampart modular terrain from Archon Studios. So silver lining?

Have fun with tiny blockade pal, waiting for more of your stuff to roll out!

Impressive forces blockade23. I know it takes a long, long time to lat out an entire army for photographing.

Cheers,

CB

So I decided that I'm going to continue the master plan of slowly working my way through my project boxes, and as part of The Independent Characters Hobby Progress Challenge, I've decided to work on these little guys, with the IDEA that, hey, I'll be ale to finish them relatively quickly. ***

Current Goal: All the Infantry in the entire army (Whatever was in the starter box, plus one additional box of auxilia support (and I think I bought another box of auxilia infantry, so maybe that too? It's in the photo. Color scheme for the Spireguard is simple.

All contrast paints for the infantry.

Flesh Tearers Red for the Uniforms
Apothecary White for the helms, cloaks, and backpacks.
Black Legion black for the boots and guns.

It matches my vehicles from much earlier this year.

Thousand sons are base coated gold, then with just the Flesh Tearers red (although I may experiment with a translucent red over them as well)

Add in the sentinels and ogryns, and thats everything but the titans complete.




Onward.




***Shh, that wraithknight is completely imaginary!***

Great army plan and great goal- rock on!

As Rob Schneider tells us in the hit movie The Water Boy "You can do it! You can do it all night long!"

An incredibly random bag update today!

First up, Painting progress!




Finished this sprue of tiny guys. Only four, five? to go! Contrast paints, then an agrax wash on the red and black to add some depth and find any gaps that I missed. Easy, if sort of mind numbing, to do.

Then onto a commission update that I needed to do.

Using the Rampart Eternal Cathedral Kit.





Client wanted these to be able to represent barricades for GW terrain set up rules, so that's what they will be! The only building is, in my typical fashion, two buildings with a triangular base that will fit together. Which is nice as it's the only based option. Everything else will still connect together (and be jungle-ified)

Finally, another huzzah update.



The LAST (I SWEAR) Purchase for the medieval village! I cannot wait to crack this baby open and actually use it (after I'm done with LI and the commission, of course).

Main pan is actually to build two more wall segments for the castle and then either incorporate the manor into the wall OR build a clone of it into the wall and then have this wherever I want it. Eek! As usual, my eyes are bigger than my hobby time.

Keep building!

Love the manor, can't wait to see it once you're finished!

Those little guys sure paint up quick! How are you finding the cathedral? It looks a gorgeous kit and the jungle theme sounds super cool. I’m also well jealous on the empire terrain, sadly my empire stuff is a long way down my paint list

I'm made progress on the super tiny guys! Work time is precious and not often available, but I've managed to finish the first sprue of the Thousand Sons Cohort

Progress so far:
Painted:
1 x Solar Auxilia
1 x Thousand Sons

Remaining
3 x Solar Auxilia
1 x Thousand Sons

Unbuilt
1 Whole Box of Solar Auxilia Support



Here's a close up on some details


Sorry for the weird background, it's really hard to photograph these guys on the sprue.
Tsons colors - GW Gold Primer Spray Paint, Flesh Tearer's Red, Black Legion Black for Weapons, then Ulthan Grey and then Apothecary White for the whites, then a wash of Seraphim Sepia over all non white parts, Nuln Oil Gloss over the black weapons.

Question: Should I base what I have now (bases are already painted) to feel more accomplished? Or simply plow through the rest of the on sprue guys?

 gobert wrote:
Those little guys sure paint up quick! How are you finding the cathedral? It looks a gorgeous kit and the jungle theme sounds super cool. I’m also well jealous on the empire terrain, sadly my empire stuff is a long way down my paint list

Here's the progress! Finished construction, got a base on it, and detailed the base. My goal is to spray paint and prime today or tomorrow given that weather later this week is predicted to be not the best.




Realizing I need to fill all those interior holes. That's a to-do item for today then (should be easy, just put in the bits that allow the pieces to connect to each other)



One of my personal goals for this commission was to make ruin piles look slightly more convincing and 'realistic', hence the piles of debris.


Regardless of beliefs on debris, this is gameplay terrain and thus all the upper story edges are playable with limited debris fields because I want you to be able to put bigger bases up there.

Pretty happy with them so far, with the exception that I wish there were more of the little gargoyle exterior heads. I'll run up a full review when I'm finished.

Keep building! Got a LOT of work to finish by the end of September eek.

I really like the Rampart terrain designs, I also added floors to my buildings.
That triangle set up is quite useful to add a bit of modularity to terrain pieces.

I think I might have a few of the gargoyle heads if you want them...but I would have to check.

I only did bottom floors myself.

On the rubble question, just say that the remainder of the building was pulverized into dust by 40k weapons.

Cheers,

CB

Excellent small detail work!

The cathedral is an amazing kit and building up nicely.

For my two cents, base the figures as you finish a few, not just for the sense of accomplishment/completion, but also for a change of pace, to keep the interest levels up.

It's all good either way though. Rock on!

The little mini guys are looking cool. So much detail in such tiny figures! Those completion endorphins are always good, so I say base them up.

The Cathedral is developing nicely. I’d say you have a good mix between realism and playability right now with the rubble

 gobert wrote:
The little mini guys are looking cool. So much detail in such tiny figures! Those completion endorphins are always good, so I say base them up.

The Cathedral is developing nicely. I’d say you have a good mix between realism and playability right now with the rubble

Thanks! I was able to prime what I've got the other day, so I should get a few coats of paint on it by the weekend.

@Meercat - I've cleared another sprue of the Auxilia, and I think I will base them. I'm halfway done with them now and honestly could use a slight break from painting the same 4 colors.

@Cap'n Brown - Wish I had seen this like two weeks ago! But now I know for the future - I had to clip the pieces that clip the walls together in half to cover all the gaps in the interior walls.

@Tommygun - I've actually decided it's my new favorite way to build ruins. As one whole piece then cut into two. I did one a ways back that was three pieces, but was 11x14 inches so it works that way. This is roughly 6x6 inches total.

So going on people's advice to base what I had, I'm SO glad I did.

Full sizing the photos, not because I'm an amazing photographer, but because they're so damn tiny that it makes sense. Spoiler in effect.

First up, the whole detachment - it's half of the marines you get in the starter box I believe. So I have another version of this halfway painted (mostly the red).


I used the smallest decals from the 30k HH Burning of Prospero 28 mm sized kit for the banner. It looks like there is somethign wrong with the banner, but its just a tiny sliver of plastic sprue debris. I blew it off right after this.


These were the first ones I built up. I'm a bit annoyed at the fact that you end up with four different extra minis for the sprue - one terminator, one assault marine, and two regular marines. So between two sprues I'll have about 8 extra minis. So naturally, I'll be stretching the terminator pieces to make two more bases rather than just the one you get, as well as two more assault marine bases and one more basic marine base. maybe with some blood splatter to show dead marines (plus bits from the tank sprue that have marine torsos.


Now the Prospero Spireguard - I have two more sprues, this is the entire group from the starter set, but I purchased an extra box set of the Auxilia. So this times two.

First up, just the troops.


The whole platoon.


The Commanders - same decal usage of the HH 28mm Tsons options.


Finally here's the entire group. Not spoilered.



Thoughts on the bases? I am going back and forth from blacking the edges to leaving them sort of marbled and natural.

Also if you looked closely enough you could see I've primed and zenithaled the terrain!

nice smol dudes

More photos soon, but I finished all the Thousand Sons Legions Imperialis Marines Huzzah!






Also made the decisions to black rim all the bases. Finished the Tsons, now onto the last of the Auxilia. I will post photos when I finish painting and assembling them and the Tsons again, but wanted to show that there was progress! I'll need to prime more bases sadly, which with the current flood like weather conditions is not happening for a bit, so I'll do what I can. Also made good progress converting a few bases to have fewer guys but also dead guys to ensure no leftover epic marines.

Keep on painting!

Any time you can complete a kit and have no leftover parts is an obsessive-compulsive victory- rock on!

The ensemble looks great and having so many, painted to such a good standard, gives them a perfection en masse that even stands of four or five can't compete.

Army shot, please! Followed by Jell-o shots!

I love whatever GW is calling Epic these days. And I really like how each of your units really stands out. They are unique and they still look like they are all a part of the same force. Really well done!

Small marines are looking very nice. If they had made this a 40k game instead of 30k, they would have my whole bank account

September Hobby Progress Challenge Results!

Completed:
2 Thousand Sons Infantry Sprues (23 bases, included 2 Command Bases, 3 missile launchers, 3 plasma gun bases, and others)
3 Auxilia Infantry Sprues (27 bases, including 3 command bases, lots of axes and infantry)
1 Bonus Little Walker!

Incomplete:
1 Auxilia Infantry Sprue

So definitely a large success if not complete success. Here's a group shot as people have requested.



Remainder Spoilered


October Goal:
Complete the last auxilia sprue
Complete the Ogryn and Walkers
Build and paint the Titans
Finish the Terrain Commission *** Priority***

Great looking force blockade! The cathedral looks like a ridiculously massive building for them, kinda perfect for Warhammer!

 gobert wrote:
Great looking force blockade! The cathedral looks like a ridiculously massive building for them, kinda perfect for Warhammer!

Thanks! The cathedral is actually for 28mm, but good to know it looks like it could be for the LI bois.

Now I'm planning terrain for LI.

To be fair that mighty cathedral next to those tiny people seems as true scale warhammer as you could get lol

Nice to see scratch-built terrain of such quality; the big manor house and the 'reclaimed by nature' terrain are my favourites. I like your colourful chaos army as well.

Thanks for the kind words all - I do love building my terrain. I likely will need to build some things to go with all these Legions Imperialis. But for now, the biggest little things I have!

Two Warhound Titans (small scale!)

I'll be honest - I royally screwed up the legs on one. Legs facing one direction, feet another. Didn't catch it until the armor stage and was absolutely annoyed. Ended up cutting at the joints because I use plastic glue and then repositioning. So instead of two standing one I have one standing one and one that is, well, running forward. I'm going to use some plaster hirst arts molds pieces to give these bases more life and eliminate some of the flatness that seems boring.



Leg progress and set up.


Up close and personal!
Went double missle launchers as I can say he's anti-infantry or anti-building/vehicle.


The second one is still in progress, but will likely be volkite and melta. But I will appreciate C&C about what to build the second one as. I honestly don't care enough to magnetize, and i'm not going to spend more money on this game by buying FW weapon packs for the warhound unless I know I play it a lot.

Cool mini titans . Having recently read betrayer, I vote Ursus claw, but I’m not sure that’s a standard loaf out. If it’s not, then mega bolters are the coolest

Two twin teeny tiny titans together today.

Nice.

The Legio Walks Once More!

In searching for an appropriate paint scheme to match my Thousand Sons, I stumbled across the Legio Xestobiax - their purple, white and gold color scheme matches perfectly with the colors of both the Spireguard and the Thousand Sons themselves. Coolest thing about the fluff on these guys is that the forge world - Zhao-Akhad - literally figured out how to create ghosts from former crew and pilots and haunt their own titans (something something short story somewhere).

Sigh, it's like they wish they were Iyanden or something.
Also, do I have a problem with ghosty bois and or haunted giant battlesuits?

Anywho - still haven't named Warhound #1 here, taking (moderately serious) community suggestions.






Super happy with the scheme so far. I will likely edge highlight the white panels and further highlight the gold with ghenna gold. I may drybrush the steel as well, but in the color panels the silver/industrial metals are more muted. I love the purpleish tone to this Army Painter Broadsword Silver which I used as the base, then hit with Nuln Oil.

I'll do green on the weapon tips/glow effects and the eyes.

Warhound #2 is in progress too, but I found that I had more willingness to complete one over trying to pace and do both.

Keep painting!