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Spraying my matsudan, slapchopping some zombies and then a little bit of exploratory building of some Mantic Dwarves I've had for ages with some Oathmark Heavy Infantry. I'm planning to use the Heavy Infantry to make 20 Ironbreakers and 10 Hammerers, and then beef out the remaining hammerers to 20 with 10 Mantic Dwarves.
They actually scale alright with the Oathmark guys - roughly the same height, a bit bulkier but not outrageously so. And Oathmark heads fit alright on the one body without a head, which is nice because they're much more dwarfy and characterful than the Mantic heads. I can also use the spare hammer heads to turn some of the axes and maces on the Oathmark sprue into hammers, which is nice!

Writing up on my blog thread about my mega battle wagon project that I've been working on for the last few months. If you want to check it out, here's the link:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/818879.page

Assembling more city of Ash Night Runners for ToW, with a few conversions, so they aren’t all the same couple of poses…





Valete,

JohnS

Reviewed some custom printed parts I have purchased for future conversions (one of my upcoming units will be my first unit that is mainly assembled from printed parts) and at first I was worried everything was not in scale just right.

...But since no one seemed to mind my Praetor, maybe it will be okay.

Decided to pull all Solar Auxilia boxes I have out of storage for inventory and take stock of what's left to build, including all of the rifleman sprues to see how many Tercios I could make from them.

Too many, need to build stuff, not just hoard it.



So, to make a dent in the pile I built a Dracosan instead, as a warming up for the repetitive madness that is.. 95 models, give or take, as the command sets come with an extra model.

At least I have another Dracosan and Leman Russ to look forward to afterwards.

About to start the last half of assembly on a TK Bone Dragon.
I'm rather tired of building TK stuff.... But the end is in sight. 1/2 the Dragon & 1 sphinx to go.

Made quite a lot more progress on this newest version of Attelus Kaltos' Hero Forge mini today, he's very close to being done. Him and the cute PanO Fusilier girl, too! I should be doing terrain, but I want to get them done first! The NMM on Attelus' sword is looking better, but I have to get both sides of the blade to look as good as the other. I also have to finish his leathers, too.

Kept going with putting together some Hammerers.

I love North Star kits. Body, 2 arms and a head and you've got a model ready to go, but lots of options to customise and kitbash too if you want. My perfect sweet spot when it comes to plastic.

Okay finally finished off the last couple of Skaven I had base coated.



Three of my Skaven Packmasters done and ready to lead my Rat Ogres to their inevitable doom. Not much to say about them, I painted them like all my other Skaven. Much like all older GW models they have nice chunky detail so they were fun to paint.

Alright, next up I'm casting some spare parts for another project so hopefully I'll have them done for the weekend.

Attempting to spray paint over 3,000 points of Tomb Kings, and realizing that storing spray paint cans on their sides may indeed ruin them.

Built the other Dracosan, tomorrow I'll start on the infantry, promise.

Made quite a lot more progress on new Attelus Kaltos. Worked on highlighting his leather bits and tried to smooth up the transitions on the other side of his sword. Also, almost finished my cute PanO Fusilier chick, just have to highlight her rifle and base her, now.

Ah, my Japanese infantry for Flames of War has arrived.
96 tiny metal dudes to get cleaned up, sorted, based, & primed by Sunday....

Calling this version of Attelus Kaltos (mostly) finished! Might want to fix a few things up later. Still proud of how he turned out! Yey.

Reading my second copy of Warhammer 40,000 compendium from 1989.

Painting moar Skaven!

Valete,

JohnS

Built half of an Auxilia Basilisk and a Centaur AFV, fun little build. Tomorrow I'll do the infantry, promise.

Built a unit of Galahad power armor & a unit of Mk.I Automated Infantry with HMGs for my K47 Brits.

I really dislike building those metal MK.Is.

I painted the vine on fours separate xenos ruined walls scatter terrain by Mantic. Decided to try paint four of them for the each of the next few nights. Got ten left plus another box, now. If I keep that low, and incentivize myself by painting something I want to after it, I might push through it.

Built the second Centaur Hippogriff, the Centaur and Praetorian tank from the Armageddon set, along with completing the Auxilia Basilisk.

I gotta say..

Been putting some colour on my Wargames Atlantic halflings, which I'm building to proxy the Age of Sigmar: City of Ash Spearhead set. I used the Baker rifles from the WA British riflemen set, chopped them off at the wrist, and popped them on halfling arms to make guns like the set's Grenadiers. The goose is a metal Gangs of Rome one.

Plastic Commisar Yarick built & base coated.

I finished painting the vines on the set four xeno strong hold ruins scatter terrain bits, including the turret. Then I assembled the alien jungle plants.

Building the Hammerers and Ironbreakers got me so excited that I jumped into assembling my Oathmark Elves as High Elf Archers and Spearmen.

I'd been intending to do them as LOTR Noldor but I've decided I'm going to make a High Elf army for Warhammer instead. They fit just about on the 20mms if you put them at a slight angle, which doesn't look too bad especially on the spears. I've never been a fan of the basic infantry for High Elves from GW but I love the Oathmark kits. I have some Heavy Infantry I'm going to build 16 White Lions out of and bulk my Swordmasters from IoB to 16 and also my Pheonix Guard. And an ill conceived box of Mantic Elf Cavalry that are going to be used as Silver Helms (the Oathmark Cav is miles nicer but unbarded).

Was supposed to do something else, but instead I built my Tempestus Aquilons and the accompanying Volkus terrain.

Huron Blackheart & his Masters of the Maelstrom are now assembled.
Basecoating to come soon.

We had a rained in day, so I was quite productive. Finished painting the vines on on the 1st kit of alien ruins or fortress I think it's called? I also primed and zenithal highlighted the 2nd half of the alien fortress.

Spent a bit of time sorting through sprues to get the next stage of my High Elf building underway. Some WA Skeleton Chariots with spare horses are going to be High Elf Chariots, and I've rooted out some cloaks for the Oathmark Heavy Infantry for my White Lions.

My sprue clippers died on me though! Disaster!

Painted up a pair of KT ammo markers, smoke grenades and halfway through two minefield tokens, but need to rebase those to better blend the tokens into the base.

I finished the Marshcrawla Sloggoth last night. Which I began back in the old thread lol.

Priorities have shifted.
My girlfriend needs space for her diamond art supplies & board to go that is easily accessible in the apartment.
That means I am moving some projects that have languished out of my area and into my storage unit.

Once that is settled, we will see what I work on.
I really should finish off painting my Wookiee Legion force.
But I will probably build something new instead...