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2024/08/29 16:29:11
Subject: Blockade Builds Terrain (& Guard, Eldar, Space Marines, D&D, Commissions & More!)
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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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!
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Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way |
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2024/08/31 10:49:19
Subject: Blockade Builds Terrain (& Guard, Eldar, Space Marines, D&D, Commissions & More!)
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman
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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?
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2024/09/01 07:45:53
Subject: Blockade Builds Terrain (& Guard, Eldar, Space Marines, D&D, Commissions & More!)
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Boom! Leman Russ Commander
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Have fun with tiny blockade pal, waiting for more of your stuff to roll out!
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40k: Necrons/Imperial Guard/ Space marines
Bolt Action: Germany/ USA
Project Z.
"The Dakka Dive Bar is the only place you'll hear what's really going on in the underhive. Sure you might not find a good amasec but they grill a mean groxburger. Just watch for ratlings being thrown through windows and you'll be alright." Ciaphas Cain, probably. |
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2024/09/01 21:40:45
Subject: Blockade Builds Terrain (& Guard, Eldar, Space Marines, D&D, Commissions & More!)
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Fixture of Dakka
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Impressive forces blockade23. I know it takes a long, long time to lat out an entire army for photographing.
Cheers,
CB
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2024/09/04 00:37:12
Subject: Legions Imperialis I guess?
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman
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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!***
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2024/09/04 01:03:27
Subject: Re:Blockade Builds Terrain (& Guard, Eldar, Space Marines, D&D, Commissions & More!)
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[DCM]
Boom! Leman Russ Commander
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"He fears his fate too much, or his desserts are small, who will not put it to a single touch; to win- or lose- it all."
Montrose Toast
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2024/09/07 13:11:18
Subject: Blockade builds Big and Small Things!
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman
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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!
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2024/09/07 13:42:03
Subject: Blockade Builds Terrain (& Guard, Eldar, Space Marines, D&D, Commissions & More!)
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Boom! Leman Russ Commander
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Love the manor, can't wait to see it once you're finished!
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40k: Necrons/Imperial Guard/ Space marines
Bolt Action: Germany/ USA
Project Z.
"The Dakka Dive Bar is the only place you'll hear what's really going on in the underhive. Sure you might not find a good amasec but they grill a mean groxburger. Just watch for ratlings being thrown through windows and you'll be alright." Ciaphas Cain, probably. |
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2024/09/10 11:17:13
Subject: Blockade Builds Terrain (& Guard, Eldar, Space Marines, D&D, Commissions & More!)
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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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
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Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way |
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2024/09/15 14:01:54
Subject: Random Grab Bag Update #2!
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman
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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.
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2024/09/15 21:18:18
Subject: Re:Blockade Builds Terrain (& Guard, Eldar, Space Marines, D&D, Commissions & More!)
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Bounding Ultramarine Assault Trooper
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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.
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2024/09/17 22:48:16
Subject: Blockade Builds Terrain (& Guard, Eldar, Space Marines, D&D, Commissions & More!)
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Fixture of Dakka
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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
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2024/09/18 00:04:21
Subject: Re:Blockade Builds Terrain (& Guard, Eldar, Space Marines, D&D, Commissions & More!)
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Boom! Leman Russ Commander
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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!
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"He fears his fate too much, or his desserts are small, who will not put it to a single touch; to win- or lose- it all."
Montrose Toast
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2024/09/18 14:08:29
Subject: Blockade Builds Terrain (& Guard, Eldar, Space Marines, D&D, Commissions & More!)
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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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
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Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way |
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2024/09/19 02:13:55
Subject: Blockade Builds Terrain (& Guard, Eldar, Space Marines, D&D, Commissions & More!)
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman
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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.
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2024/09/22 01:12:55
Subject: Hold on, we're Halfway There (on a really tiny prayer)
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman
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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!
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2024/09/22 14:04:41
Subject: Blockade Builds Terrain (& Guard, Eldar, Space Marines, D&D, Commissions & More!)
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Boom! Leman Russ Commander
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nice smol dudes
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40k: Necrons/Imperial Guard/ Space marines
Bolt Action: Germany/ USA
Project Z.
"The Dakka Dive Bar is the only place you'll hear what's really going on in the underhive. Sure you might not find a good amasec but they grill a mean groxburger. Just watch for ratlings being thrown through windows and you'll be alright." Ciaphas Cain, probably. |
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