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Redoing the bases of my minefield markers and about to make a start on a Scion.

Also painted up a Highlander 'mech.

Kitbashing Oathmark Heavy Infantry into White Lions. Just adding some cloaks from Fireforge Teutonic infantry and Victrix Fantasy sprues to the axe wielding Heavy Infantry. Working well so far, the cloaks stick out a bit which looks cool but I'm having to be careful with how I put them on their bases to allow for ranking up.

I'm really pleased with how the North Star kits are looking so far, and I am going to test fit some north star cavalry elves onto mantic barded horses to see if I can maintain the cohesive look for the army while remaining WYSWYG.

Last night I built my elf chariots using the skeleton chariots from Wargames Atlantic and their horses. They fit perfectly onto the yokes for the skeleton chariots which is great. The biggest PITA was cutting the puddle bases off the warriors I'm using as chariot crew, but I managed it with only one foot damaged that I rebuilt with a bit of shaved plastic. Keeping them off the chariots for now so I can paint them all before gluing everything down.

I'm getting ever more excited about the prospect of a finished High Elf army as I go, I wanted a "Good Guy" army to do intro games with and I felt my Dwarves were not the best choice because they don't really let you play the whole game. High Elves have a little bit of everything and are nice and elite, so doing an intro game of Goblins vs. High Elves should have the right classic feel and aesthetic but also give my opponent a chance to try out all the different unit types.

Tonight I will build Kravek Morne.

Finished painting a Krieg Commisar

I've been working on making a custom 3d printed nightlords predator tank. It's just your standard 30k demos pattern, but I'm adding spikes, skulls, and other iconography to it. ( and to those that complain its 3d printed, does have some Games Workshop plastic on it. The main section of this front spike is actually from a rhino or some other sort of vehicle, and some of the spikes are made from sprue). I'm also going to 3D print a Nightlord's logo for the back ramp/door thing.

Wrapped up the minefield markers and about done with this Scion.



Next up, priming some random pieces of Volkus terrain, for that next rainy day off.

I was able to pick up some old metal LOTR Ringwraiths on Ebay relatively cheap because they were missing their arms.

Luckily I already had some with arms so I can cast replacements in greenstuff. The last one of which I just finished. Now it's just a matter of putting them all together and basing them. Soon I will have 9 mounted Ringwraiths to go with my 9 unmounted ones.

White Lions regiment is finished now, just digging out my unpainted Island of Blood to have a look at them. I'm going to add 6 North Star Swordmasters to the unit from IOB and 2 Sea Guard. They'll be a lot less fancy but I'll put them at the back of the unit and I think it'll be okay. I'm also planning on using spare parts from the Pheonix Guard kit to add two more to that unit, but that will involve greenstuffing some cloaks I think.

But not far from having all the infantry done.

As a complete surprise, tonight I will be building my MTO Steel Rook & Kroot Hunter!

They just arrived. No shipping notice, no tracking #. And at least a month earlier than I expected mto wise.
Also no invoice in/on the box.

Finished the Despoilers! A good day.

Next up a Land Raider Explorator. I've already built and basecoated it alongside another tank in advance (basecoating both together saves time), so it's moving right on to the edge highlighting stage of the armour plating, then the steel and other details.

Worked on the Volkus scatter terrain and primed a pair of Scions along with a Kasrkin sergeant, will see if I can get them done this weekend.

Also made a start on reading Hot Spots: Draconis Reach, looks like I'll be rebooting the campaign at some point for sure now.

Continuing to replace Imgur links to Dakka saved ones. Orks are done, half way through the Eldar.

Today was a bit of a slog - I had two pretty brief bits of free time to work and I tried to get some assembly done.

I'd glued my Swordmasters to 25mm rounds thinking I would use them for LOTR. But I've decided to use them for WFB, so I've had to submit to my most hated activity- rebasing! I got all 10 of them done in one sitting.

Then tonight I sat up way too late when everyone was asleep making 10 Phoenix Guard. I like these guys, but assembly is a pain. The torso doesn't seem to sit properly on the legs, and you've got to be very careful with all the halberds, winged helms and cloaks to make sure they can rank up.

I'm gonna bulk up both units with some Oathmark Heavy Infantry and some spare halberds and winged helms. Should get to 16 Swordmasters and 12 Phoenix Guard. All I have to do then is rebase my Seaguard and I'm done with High Elf infantry.

Tonight I am reading my 2nd edition Chaos Codex.

Working on the forearms of my new monster. Running low on Greenstuff too.

Going wash & layer up the paint on my Rogal Dorn for my HPC, then decal maybe if the paint gods are kind. Weathering tomorrow?

Started painting my two Imperial Bastions. I guess the news about painted terrains made me want to have mine done

 NAVARRO wrote:
Working on the forearms of my new monster. Running low on Greenstuff too.

That's unbelievably awesome, dude!

No time for any proper hobby stuff but I have been reading my 6th ed Warhammer Fantasy rulebook in free moments.

I love this book. Reading it, I have to say I really prefer the conversational tone of the rules writing to the more legalistic approach taken in a lot of more modern games. I also enjoy from a pedagogical standpoint that they often repeat themselves, as it helps to drive home the ideas and helps in remembering them.

6e was the edition I played the longest so it's burned into my brain in any case. The only part I struggle to remember is the different distances for panic due to other panicking units, panic due to broken or destroyed units, and stuff like the distance a character needs to be from a regiment to be untargetable. I wish instead of having varying 4", 5" and 6" distances they'd just all been 5" instead or something!

Managed to get the Kasrkin sergeant done, more or less.



Also chipping away at the Volkus scatter and doing some preliminary work on a rebooted solo campaign for BT.

Sorting out my Elf cavalry this morning and picked up some second hand saurus for cheap.

The mantic Elves fit nicely on the Oathmark Horses and vice versa, which is great. I'll use Oathmark bodies on barded mantic horses for my silver helms and use the mantic bodies with oathmark arms on unbarded oathmark horses down the line to do some glade guard.

I'm happy about this because I was a bit annoyed at myself for buying the Mantic cavalry and then a few months later the much nicer oathmark kit came out, but now I have a decent use for all the kits.

I made SpruGoo for the first time and made a couple of thin sheets, and while one was still pliable used it and ripped it up to add some skin to my Night Lords Predator tank, base coated my first Night Lord, which is supposed to be for this month's painting competition, and blocked in the red on his plasma rifle. Cringing inwardly, knowing that I'm screwing it up very badly, I also added in the black on the Blaster, and now have to redo a large chunk of red. At least I'm using ProAcryl, so it coats pretty well. These unsteady hands are trying their best, and this is exactly why I prefer the building side of things to painting XP

Built 3 more TK Ushtabi with great weapons.

1 Sphinx & 1/2 a TK bone dragon to go & everything TK I own will be built.

Then comes a lot of base coating.

That's the Explorator done, very quick!

Now on to something unusual and exciting: Rewards of Treachery Dark Furies. The general opinion I got after probing the 30k community is that people prefer Rewards of Treachery be depicted not with the original unit in AL colours, but rather a top-to-bottom AL unit with WYSIWYG equipment.

Accordingly, this'll be my first unit that's almost entirely assembled of themed prints I got off etsy. I generally prefer working with plastic, but here the options seemed worthwhile. And the upside is that cleaning up printed parts is very fast. No mould lines!

Not much getting done, mostly paint stripping on models I want to repaint. But in the mean time I decided to finish an NPC I can use for D&D or any other skirmish game.




So one traveling merchant 3D print I bought. Not much to him, just base coat, wash, highlight. He's a background character so I don't need to get too crazy with him.
Anyway, ow to clear off another small project I've been working on.

I assembled 15 metal Blue Horrors that I've had in a bag for who knows how long.

Then I de-sprued 5 Melusai Archers to clean & assemble today.

I've finally finished painting my first Samurai group! 68 models, 2 units of pike ashigaru, 2 units of gun/bow ashigrau, 1 unit of spear samurai, 1 unit of spear cavalry, and the general stand.

Now I just need to check if my airbrush still works to varnish them, and add the tufts/static grass.

Painting old metal Necromunda.

CB

Had the kid's miniature game club today. We played 350pts of Grimdark Future: Firefight, this time on a 4x4 matt instead of our usual 22x30. It worked well. It was Attelus and Karmen's team vs a team led by my sci fi novel main characters, Azakir and Sela. The scenario was Smash and Grab. I got trounced. My dice rolls were awful, so much so, the kid who plays was somewhat empathetic because usually he revels in my pain, lol. Was a lot of fun though, especially for him, which is the whole point of the club, so it worked out well!

Getting a little bit done here and there - finished rebasing (urgh) my IoB elves onto WFB appropriate bases. Made some chariot bases by sticking together some 50mm bases using 25x50s to hold them and 25x25s to fill in the gaps.

And knocked out 6 "swordmasters" from the Oathmark elf heavy infantry kit to make my Swordmasters up to a 16 strong regiment.

Next is adding 2 extra Pheonix Guard and 4 extra Sea Guard, along with two characters on foot from the same kit.

Part of me wishes I'd just done everything with the Oathmark plastics - I just love how they look, even though the IoB plastics are very nice.