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Post by: Adrassil
Practically finished basing my Genestealers, would've liked to have completed them, but too tired. Also began base painting some other minis as well.
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Post by: Commodus Leitdorf
Finished repainting my Pistoliers. Not much work was needed as the original paint job was fine. Mostly washes and highlights so it would match the rest of my repainted forces.
Might take a break from the Empire and work on my dedicated Old World force. I have a pile of unused Wood Elves I was probably going to get rid of anyway, now I have a use for them!
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Post by: ced1106
Harry Hierophanty joins the party, to retrieve the artifacts stolen by cultists!
Gloomhaven: Crimson Scales. Cultists proxied by Wildspire Miniature's Monster set's Goblin Shamans, with Mushroom men as Living Corpses, and a shield, proxied with the Living Shield from the Wildspire Miniature's Enchanted Items set, as an obstacle the party picked up during an Event. Harry didn't make it to the end.
Wildspire Miniatures : https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848?ref_=ast_bln
Gloomhaven: Crimson Scales. Free PnP for Gloomhaven : https://www.thecrimsonscales.com/
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Post by: ccs
Two WiP Drukhari Razorwings nearing completion.
They still need:
●A gloss black finish - I've got to get my airbrush working for that
●then assorted detailing + canopies
●& magnetized weapons - tomorrow night
But they're ready enough to fight come this Sat...
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Post by: Adrassil
Had the 1st Tabletop Skirmish game day with the kids and we had a great time. We played Grimdark Future: Firefight 2v2 I got to play as my Gaunt's Ghosts team with one of the kid's robots vs Imperial Guard led by a Custodes blade master and duck knights. We only managed to get through the 1st two rounds , so might have to finish next Wednesday.
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Painted boat with this wee cannon
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Built some terrain.
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Post by: tneva82
Painting legions. Finished 3rd infantry box for both marines and solar.
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Post by: jbeil
Put a layer of bone on my tomb king horsemen.
Just after discovering that apparently, they're a bit crap on the board!
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Post by: Adrassil
That looks so damned cool, dude! I thought it was one of those dioramas made by Artel-W or something for a second there.
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Post by: Adrassil
Despite going through my annual bout of chronic fatigue, I went on a skin painting spree on some old minis I've had sitting around gathering dust. I finished three Hero Forge Assassin chicks, one of which looked a bit like Red Sonya due to similar hair colouring and skin tone. Another, I thought as I painted her she looked like Taylor Swift, but now she's more like Anya Taylor-Joy. As well as a few other minis.
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Post by: ccs
Doing the math on how much Solar Auxillia Support I need to order.
After that there's a bit of paperwork & planning I need to do for the Pathfinder 1e game I DM.
I've been procrastinating on this for a while, but the day of needing it is fast approaching. So....
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Made small adjustments (filing, filling the gaps etc.) to my outbuilding from Renedra.
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Post by: ccs
Finally decided upon a color scheme for my Legion Imperiales Solar Auxilia infantry!
So tonight I'll start painting tiny little people.
This will either go pretty quick or end up taking f o are e e v e r*.....
*(flashbacks of painting Russian infantry for FoW some years ago)
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Post by: Captain Brown
Finished a rebuilt Necromunda tower.
I will post more shots in my painting log.
Cheers,
CB
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Post by: Adrassil
Had the 2nd week back at the kid's gaming club today. We completed the game we began last week, and I took over another team as a kid who wasn't there last week wanted to play as my Gaunt's Ghosts team. My team won because we killed off more HQ units. The kid on my team hadn't won often, so it was good to see him get a win. He also had his birthday the day before. At home I did more work on a Hero Forge mini of medical Halsin from Secret War, he actually turned out looking quite badass. I might give him more times to shine now and an HF mini of Emilia from The Angaran Chronicles. I don't know why I'm going into such effort for her as she either doesn't stay more than one round on the table of the Skirmish game (until she transforms into a werewolf) Or not at all, but I'm mostly doing it to practise painting skin.
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Post by: ccs
Going to turn my Drukhari loose to slaughter sime Imperial Fists this afternoon.
edit: Celebrating victory over the Imperial Fists.
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Post by: Adrassil
Painting an assortment of things. Almost finished Halsin and, I dunno, some other things?
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Post by: bullisariuscowl
working on a soviet AT team
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Post by: ccs
Building some stuff from the depths of a storage box:
Mostly alot of 3e(?) Starter set orks.
A few random non-GW minis still in blisters.
A stray Inquisitor.
Re-basing a few RT Eldar that were mixed in.
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Post by: Snord
Nearly finished my HH Deathsworn. The FW models have lots of character, but they are too short, and rather pricey, so I used the new Mk III bodies plus bits from the Wulfen set. I sourced the heads and grenades separately from Egg Head Miniatures (a great site for HH model bits). Behind the Deathsworn is their Speaker of the Dead (a converted Ulric the Slayer).
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Post by: Adrassil
I almost finished working on Halsin from Secret War and began basing him. I did more work on a cool Inquisitor proxy I bought from Etsy and another version of Attelus. I've also been slowly fixing up my old High Elf Prince Alladhiir Alkanthos mini, sorta inspired by the return of the Old World and because I bought a regiment of archers, Sword Masters, and Spearmen each. Maybe one day, I will get to work on my dragon.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Everything I’ve painted this year, having maintained a 47 day streak of activity.
Shockingly close to finishing off my Age of Darkness Infantry, which means I’ll soon be on to the Dreads and Tanks.
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Post by: leopard
assembled primed and made a start on a Mgea-City residents mob, assembled some league of fatties models, including using the models own weight in filler or so it felt at the time
ordered some 300mm square MDF tiles to make a board for Judge Dredd, necromunda, stargrave and similar sci-fi/near future skirmish games
some wash, green and silver on some more legions stuff, dreadnoughts this time
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Post by: ccs
I'm 1/2 through building a Warlord Titan for Imperialis.
I'll finish it's torso & arms/weapons tomorrow.
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Post by: Adrassil
Finished my Halsin mini; I'm thinking of freehanding the medicae symbol on his chest plate and bag; we'll see. Also did more work on the new Attelus; I've pretty much finished everything except his face, which I'm practising faces up to before starting it.
I began painting an IG proxy commando mini that's part of a group I've had sitting around primed for a while. I did his face in detail to practice. I painted one of them to use as a member of my Inquisition force in the Inquisitor's agents squad. It was a month ago, maybe? I forgot the recipe I used, though, and I used the wrong green on his armour panels, but I think it looks better than the first mini, so I'm actually tempted to go back and repaint the old one.
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Replaced armament for one of my zombie peasants. Changed her axe to a pick.
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Post by: ccs
Even though I've begun painting my Legion Imperialis Auxillia infantry, I'm going to have to take a moment tonight & color code the Ogyn, flamer, & Storm squad bases ahead of Thursdays game.
I just couldn't pick them out visually today once they were all on the table....
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Post by: Adrassil
Finished a couple of commandoes and onto a 4th. They're quite fun to paint, even though I made the mistake of using a layer paint as a base paint for most of the armour, so have to do a bit more work to cover it.
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Post by: ccs
Found an ancient RT era Eldar weapons crew & gun I'm a bitz box the other day.
So I based/re-based it on a resin scenic base.
I'll add it to an equally vintage bunch of Guardians to make a Guardian Defender squad.
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Post by: Adrassil
Finished one commando and began on another. Aw who am I kidding they're blatantly green berets but in SPACE. This is emphasized with one looking just like Rambo. His face was very well sculpted, btw.
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Post by: ccs
Argh, I hate insomnia.
Went to bed & did anything but sleep. Eventually I just gave up & at 4am did the repair work on my DAs that I'd planned for this evening.
While writing up a current list I was amused that my only DA specifics are Azriel & the paint scheme.
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Post by: Kanluwen
Little bit of work on what I'm dubbing "Commandant Carnage" for now.
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Post by: Valkyrie
Building up a custom Terminator Sorcerer for my TS on their next crusade. They fared very well in their last one with an 8-1-0 W-L-D rate, so he's had a bit of a promotion. Using the TS name generator he's Thasmotep the Annihilator.
Mainly a Scarab Terminator, head and back ornaments are from the Internal Master, staff topper is the Fluxmaster's hand.
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Converted one of the hills from Archon Studio to have some diversity from other ones.
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Post by: ccs
Converted an old 5 man DA vet/command squad to serve as a Sternguard Vet squad.
I wanted a way to visually show these 5 are different than other squads (other than only having 5 members).
So I replaced their 4 original bolters with current Sternguard bolt rifles.
(#5 is a HB, so no need to change)
Now I just need a bit of putty work & have to paint them up for Sundays game.
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Converted my converted Archon's hill as I was not happy with a previous result.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
The Dreadapalooza is underway.
Well chuffed I was able to pick out the individual rivets, as they really brighten up the sarcophagus.
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Post by: Not Online!!!
Twin auto cannon plus missiles looks mean.
Probably need to get myself another dread.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Not quite happy with the fist.
I think I’m going to do the base of the fingers in black again. Looks a bit too Iron Hands for Dark Angels as it is. May reserve judgment until the morning, and try a heavy Nuln Oil wash first, knock back the shine.
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Post by: Adrassil
Started a batch painting my five final Green Berets IN SPACE! Minis. I painted the first five individually as I don't like batch painting ten dudes; batch painting five is more than enough, in all honesty. I also applied a shade wash.
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Post by: Maréchal des Logis Walter
Preparing long in advance the script for our next mini campaign in summer, continuing the story we've been on the last two sessions.
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Post by: ccs
Starting work on the 2nd 1/2 of my not-at-all-meta GK force.
So tonight I'll be:
●converting several old Servitor models to carry plasma cannons,
●building two LC Razorbacks,
●building the 1st of 3 Venerable Dreadnoughts.
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Post by: ced1106
This Gloomhaven: Crimson Scales scenario takes place at some docks, which the designers creatively used the T-shaped maps for. However, my tablecloth is boring bleach blonde, so I figured why not see what the board looks like with some Loke Battlemat foldout water maps. Yes, that purple bug and the guy with the pointy hat are the heroes.
Hero miniatures are available free as the Crimson Scales .stl files. : https://www.thecrimsonscales.com/
Lizardmen Miniatures are by Wildspire Miniatures, from the Monster Set, available retail.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/WildspireMiniatures/page/B343BFEF-3714-440E-9750-50FC66D51848
Walls are WizKids's prepainted Village Set. Other terrain from Mantic.
Maps are from Loke Battlemat's "Box of Adventure: Coast of Dread". LB is currently running an RPG terrain book KS, with vinyl clings to customize your terrain. Take a look if you play RPG's.
KS: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gamingbooks/the-terrain-set-2-rpg-battle-map-books-with-scenery-decals
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Finished off the first Contemptor last night.
Well. I say finished. Still needs transfers and basing, but those are for later.
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Post by: Adrassil
Finished the base painting of the leathers of my Green Berets IN SPACE! Then, I finished highlighting the leather and the armour. Now, onto their faces.
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Post by: Adrassil
I actually had another couple of steps to go to finish my Green Berets IN SPACE. I fixed up their black fatigues, and now I have to highlight them. I also base-painted their faces and hands. I was tempted to skip doing hobbying and going straight to bed tonight, but I fought that away and did the painting as my Green Berets are on the cusp of finishing them, so may as well get closer to finishing them. I'm working through minis I have already primed, but I'm tempted to prime up some Angaran Chronicles soldier minis as they have skin and bare faces I could use as practice before working on my main ones.
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Post by: Adrassil
Finished painting the faces and hands of my Green Berets IN SPACE! The one with the Rambo head, I used to practice pale skin. For a while, he looked more like Noah Antwiller (The Spoony One, a YouTuber I used to enjoy the videos a lot and still do, his old stuff, anyway. Who's now a dick who lost his mind a long time ago), But now he seems to look like Sly Stallone, thank the Emperor. I just have to highlight the black fatigues and base them. I also primed and zenithal highlighted my Angaran Chronicles soldiers, now ready for painting. I might start them next, dunno.
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Post by: ccs
Some easy hobbying tonight.
Converting a few old Servitors to carry Plasma Cannons.
They'll be mounted in lascannon Razorbacks & serve as some fire-support for my Grey Knights.
1 down, 2 more to go.
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Finishing my earth elemental conversion.
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Post by: ccs
Today/tomorrow/Sunday - I've got to finnish the assembly of a Drukhari Void Raven Bomber before the pairings for our escalation league go up Sunday evening.
Looks like a pretty simple kit.
That way I'm ready for whatever day my opponent is good to game.
Thankfully there's no paint requirement in our leagues/Crusades etc.
So that's this weekends minimum plans.
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Post by: Maréchal des Logis Walter
After a 2 month long hiatus, I'm gonna take some time to make progresses on my manticore. It's been highlighted but it's waiting for the airbrushing of the camouflage pattern.
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Post by: Captain Brown
Started working on some old metal Eldar Swooping Hawks. In protest of the Space Marine Month for the Unofficial Monthly painting contest.
Cheers,
CB
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Post by: Adrassil
Mostly finished base painting two of my Angaran Chronicles soldiers.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
New toys deployed directly to the work bench.
First of two boxes nearly built.
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Converted another plastic tree from Archon.
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Finalized my Crusade Engine enemy team for The Doomed
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Post by: Adrassil
Mostly finished (besides basing) three of my Angaran Chronicles soldiers. A human, the sergeant, and an elf and dwarf. Quite happy with them so far! Maybe I shouldn't have used washes, as they are far too glossy. I tried to use my Mod Podge "Matte" varnish to try to make the dwarf less glossy, but it seems to have done the opposite. I showed him to my Dad, and he said he was a bit less glossy than the elf and human, so tired another layer. I hope when it dries more, it'll be less glossy. I based the sergeant on an old fella in my town who has such an awesome moustache it isn't funny, lol.
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Post by: Adrassil
I wanted to finish three more Angaran Chronicles soldier minis but only managed to mostly finish two. But that's five out of ten, with one that's pretty much base-painted, so that's cool.
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Post by: ccs
Finishing up building my Void Raven Bomber.
A few more bitz & then a basecoat.
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Post by: Adrassil
Didn't do much today, just fixed up one of my soldier's faces as I accidentally got some Nuln Oil on it and began painting the face of another one as well as a few other things.
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Post by: ccs
Tonight I need to paint a Medusa from my Archons Court.
It punched a landraider to death in melee.
Because i paint so slowly I have a running joke that my models need to "earn thier paint". So they have to do something notable in play.
Well, I guess punching the last wound off a LR with just a combat weapon qualifies....
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Post by: Adrassil
Much to my pleasant surprise, I managed to finish a 7th Angaran Chronicles soldier. This one is an elf with a shotgun. He looks alright. I'm surprised as I'm tired as frig, and while I would've liked to do more, but intended to do less. So, yeah, I don't know what I'm on about, lol.
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Post by: Commodus Leitdorf
Well after being gone for most of February I'm back to get some painting done! What did I do in this case?
Decided to do something a bit different and paint up some Battletech.. Tried Contrast paints, worked mostly okay but the Yellow didn't come out how I wanted to I had to add extra highlights. But overall I'm happy with how it came out.
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Built Medieval Cottage from Renedra.
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Post by: Del Mingus
Finished these guys.
It was my first try at doing layered highlights. Took ages but happy with how they turned out.
Just need to do the Lieutenant and Royal Warden to finish off the models from my 9th Edition starter set now.
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Built wattle fencing for my medieval village.
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Post by: Adrassil
I spent too much time making a new list to playtest my Angaran Chronicles: The Skirmish Game. To mostly playtest horde vs horde combat, hordes made up of multiple different races and weapons. I also painted an 8th Angaran Chronicles soldier and fixed up another mini version of Anargrin, which I wish to send to my friend as a gift.
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Post by: Waaagh_Gonads
Rebased night goblins with short bows for WTOW, and finishing Wakandan lamp posts for Marvel Crisis Protocol, and ripped up a teeny tiny newspaper for the base of the new core set Black Widow.
Quite a bit done today….
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Post by: ccs
Built some more LI Malcador Infernus tanks tonight.
Tomorrow I'll start on the Valdors.
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Post by: Adrassil
I mostly base-painted my two remaining Angaran Chronicles soldiers except for their faces. Then applied washes. So they're ready to start layering up. Then have to base them.
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Post by: Maréchal des Logis Walter
A friend is coming along after church, we'll have a round of Bolt Action
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Post by: Adrassil
Finished painting my final two Angaran Chronicles soldiers and began basing them and rebased that Anargrin mini.
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Post by: leopard
painted up six more goblins for Heroquest, this afternoon I'll be working more on some modular tiles for Judge Dredd and/or any other similar 28mm urban skirmish game
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Post by: Captain Brown
Some old metal Eldar Swooping Hawks.
WIP
Cheers,
CB
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Post by: Waaagh_Gonads
Painting base layers on a Wakandan tree terrain piece for MCP, and likely cork up 10+ bases for my re-basing of night goblin army for WTOW
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Post by: leopard
going over in my head last nights game of Lord of the Rings, plus priming a few TT combat kits prior to assembly (containers, happy with a dark grey for the interiors and easier to prime them first)
also planning for further painting on the Easterlings I used as quite obviously poor performance is down to only being part painted and not their commander in any way shape or form
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Post by: Adrassil
Yesterday it was the miniature gaming club for the kids. They played Grimdark Future: Firefight 2v2 300pts of Human Defence Force (Not-Imperial Guard) with a Custodian Blade Acolyte and 300pts of Orc Marauders (Ork Kommandoes) vs Alien Hives Soul Snatchers (Genestealers) and Elven Jesters (Harlequins) The poor Soul Snatchers and Elven Jesters lost pretty handily the Soul Snatchers being tabled completely. The poor kid playing them had terrible luck with his dice rolls. At the start an Ork Kommando ran near the middle of the map and somehow managed to survive the charges of three separate Genestealers without suffering any damage at all, somehow and managed to kill at least one by himself, then another with the help of another. It stopped the Genestealers dead and that was one of the big reasons they lost.
Today I made a new miniature carrier with a plastic container with double sided squares on the bottom. It worked out pretty well. I also base painted one of my Gaunt's Ghosts proxies after priming them. I also made more Grimdark Future: Firefight lists for the kids to play, printed out a couple but my printer has decided it has a paper blockage despite there being none.
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Post by: ccs
Writing up a Legion Imperialis list for later this afternoon.
We've both been building new things so I'm thinking this will be a battle of Malcador Venators vs Spartans....
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Post by: Adrassil
Mostly finished two of my ten Gaunt Ghosts proxy minis. Now, onto a third.
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Post by: Pointer5
I wrapped up an ancient Ork deff kopta. Now all I have to paint is a mega armor warboss for my Ork combat patrol.
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Post by: greenskin lynn
working on assembling some of the monsters from the KD:M gambler chest that i still have around despite having long sold off the base game and most of the other elements
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Post by: ccs
Built a 2nd Drazhar sans base & tactical rubble.
He'll soon be mounted in a Venom.
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Post by: Adrassil
Finished a third Gaunt's Ghosts proxy mini and started a 4th. Been busy so it's a slow but sure process.
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Post by: ccs
Nice slow day today, so I'm building through my Imperiales backlog:
3 Malcador Infernus
2 Malcador Valdors,
2 Baneblades,a
Box #2 of Solar support,
another box of solar Infantry,
2 Warhounds,
& 1 Reaver Titan
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Post by: Adrassil
My awesome Ghamak Not-Lionel Jonson mini/diorama arrived today. I fixed up the bits on it, but as a display piece, I had to fight the urge to work on him. *Sigh!* Instead, I finished the 4th Gaunt's Ghost proxy (this one looks a lot like Colm Corbec; I even gave him a smoking cigar in one hand). I also made another carry container.
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Post by: Adrassil
The miniature game day with the kids was on today. They painted some minis then we played a game of Grimdark Future: Firefight. It was meant to be a four player all vs all but that translated to the kids as "all vs me". I played as the Elf Space Pirates which was only three minis and, well, I got overwhelmed and killed but made a pretty good account of myself, but it was a lot of fun. I exaggerated how upset I was at being ganged up on the kids loved it, lol.
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Post by: Kanluwen
Started building my Solar Auxilia box.
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Post by: Loyalwatcher
Just finished off my first Great Cannon (after stripping/repairing!)
Edit: just noticed in the photo that I missed a bit. So finish*ing*....
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Post by: Waaagh_Gonads
Drybrushing 80 25x25mm bases for rebasing my night goblins for WTOW
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Post by: McDougall Designs
Finishing up the build process on my FEC army set. I love the new ghoul kits.
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Post by: Adrassil
What does having calloused, sore fingers mean? That's right! I'm assembling some Mantic Deadzone terrain. I began building my Military base that's been sitting around for a while now. I'm assembling it like the box art as I think it looks cool, and I'd like to have more sets of diverse, non-damaged building terrain. I also made a new carry case using double-sided squares in a plastic container.
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Post by: BrookM
Been a good while since I last did something hobby-related and this has been a fun, stress-free build spread out across two days: my armoured legate. Now, before it's pointed out, this is for a group event amongst friends and for a custom campaign, so we're not 100% stuck to some of the sillier restrictions the stock list has.. So instead of a standard Leman Russ, my warlord drives around in a Vanquisher with flare shield, delicious. All of it from the new kit, minus the commander's head, which is from the Cadian Castellan kit.
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Post by: Adrassil
Finished assembling a 2nd building for my Terrain Crate Military Compound.
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Post by: Not Online!!!
i never understood the limitation on the commander.
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Post by: Uptonius
Assembling a second basilisk and base coating it and a hydra.
Spraying the tracks of 14 vehicles ranging from baneblade to chimeras.
Painting the weapons of a chimera.
Prepping the fiddly bits from 13 vehicles for base coating.
If time permits I'll assemble another squad of Krieg.
Gotta love spring break. Campus is a ghost town.
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Post by: lord_blackfang
It's convention day, I'm heading out to demo One Page Rules: Grimdark Warfleets with the Space Battleship Yamato fleet I've been grinding the past few weeks
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Post by: Overread
Those look really cool!
I wish OPR would do more with their warfleets game and models!
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Did some adjustments to plastic buildings.
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Post by: ccs
Building a box of Drukhari Incubi.
Drahzar has proven to need some friends.
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Post by: Adrassil
Decided to give my fingers a break and did some painting instead of assembling Terrain Crate buildings. I painted a couple of dead not-Death Korps of Krieg minis for my diorama of Attelus and Adelana from Secret War, ambushing some cultists and a not-Death Korps of Krieg tank crewman. Then, I began painting another Gaunt's Ghost proxy.
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Converted one of my zombies.
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Overread wrote:Those look really cool! I wish OPR would do more with their warfleets game and models! Cheers! Yes I think it was a mistake for them to fully reskin it to 40k factions - whilst having no resemblance to BFG gameplay (Void Admiral is the ruleset for that!) - it was the perfect medium to properly start their own IP in. The gameplay was a pleasant surprise tho, it turned out way more satisfying than expected. They accomplished the most important aspect of naval (fire arcs matter) in just a few sentences of rules, and damage tracking hits perfect balance between simplicity and degrading profiles. ... I'm tempted to write One Page Dystopian Wars now.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Aiming to finish my four Deimos Predators. And when the parcel arrives, assemble ten Assault Marines. Four with Chainsword and Combat Shield, two with Powersword and Combat Shield, then four with Chainsword and Volkite Serpenta.
That’ll round out a squad of 20.
If there’s still time, crack on with the Laser Vindicator too.
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Post by: ccs
The hobby plan for today is to finish building a Reaver Titan for Imperialis.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Nearly finished my four Deimos Predators.
Not happy with the frontal view, so gonna dig out the ram bars and get those sorted. Should balance it out.
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Post by: Adrassil
I've been typing up the backstory of Craftworld Dalorsia from my Secret War continuity to send to The Northern Exile to read out in a video. It's been great because it forced me to write down why exactly Raloth Arlyandor has such a high opinion of humanity, so much so he's willing to cooperate with Attelus and company and go into a bit more detail about how they influenced the timeline up to the events of Secret War and how they learned of the prophecy they are trying to prevent.
This also inspired me to do some more work on my Eldar minis, too!
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Trying to remember whether or not I bought a copy of the current Tyranid Codex, and if I did, where the bloody hell I put it.
Also starting to get the metallics down on the Laser Vindicator. Because pew.
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Post by: ccs
Building more stuff for Legion Imperiales.
2 Warhounds, & 2 Knight Acasteus (sp?) today.
After that all I've got left in the build pile that's not specifically Astartes stuff is a squadron of Lightnings....
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Post by: Adrassil
Had the miniature gaming day with the kids today. We played Grimdark Future: Firefight Everyone vs Me again, but this time, I controlled two teams vs the kids' three. It was 300pts of Orc Marauders (Ork Commandoes, effectively), Future Robots from the Future and another team of Future Robots from the Future, a custom faction made by me, versus a team led by Attelus using my Independent Inquisition faction and a High Elf Fleets team led by Farseer Faleaseen. It was cool to see Attelus and Faleaseen fighting side-by-side. It ended in a tie as both sides held three objectives each. Forgot to take photos, though.
I then painted up a new jetbike for the scenic base for Autarch Raloth Arlyandor and fixed his paint job up a bit. I'm very happy with the paint job so far!
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Post by: Kanluwen
A little bit more work on a Marshal for the Solar Auxilia.
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Replaced damaged base for my custom made earth elemental.
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Post by: Adrassil
Practically finished painting Autarch Raloth Arlyandor's new jetbike for his scenic base. I'm thinking of either taping or freehanding some patterns on the nose of the jetbike, but not sure yet. I also began fixing up a Farseer proxy based on Farseer Macha in Dawn of War 3 that I use to represent Farseer Faleaseen of Dalorsia. I wasn't too happy with her, and I hope to paint her up to a place I can be proud of.
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Post by: ccs
Finished Grey Knight Dreadnought #2/3.
One of these days the shop will get #3 in....
Next up: a pair of GK Razorbacks.
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Post by: Adrassil
I made more progress on Raloth, his scenic base, the Emperor's Children Chaos Marine he decapitated especially and Faleaseen.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Gonna assemble some Assault Marines for Heresy. Mild kit bash using Volkite Serpentas from the Jetbikes, and Power swords from the command sprue.
Once done, it’ll be a 20 man squad, which is nice.
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Post by: Maréchal des Logis Walter
Painting the last 4 minis of my IG army
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Assault Marines again today.
Then a free choice of painting my Sicaran Venator, or get my new LI stuff assembled, ready for spraying.
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Post by: Maréchal des Logis Walter
And there you go, IG army complete! Next up I'll undercoat some US infantrymen and tackle this army. Going to use army painter dip, so they should be real fast to get out of the way.
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Post by: blockade23
Hilariously enough, used my terrain building skills to build a model set for seafloor spreading as my students are learning about continental drift. Hobby adjacent, one might say.
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Post by: Maréchal des Logis Walter
Next time they tell you your hobby skills have got no practical.use, slam that in front of them and let them amaze at how wrong they were
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Post by: ccs
So this being Easter.....
While various things were cooking for Easter dinner I built the last model needed for my 2k pt GK army. A Venerable Dreadnought.
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Post by: Waaagh_Gonads
Assembling MCP terrain and models.
Started painting the Wakandan Cyber Truck.
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Post by: Adrassil
Put gloss varnish on Raloth's and Faleaseen's gems, then set up some terrain to have in the background for the file I want to send Northern Exile, but I'm not happy with how the photos turned out, in all honesty.
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Post by: Valkyrie
I've been painting up a 1/35 model of the Soviet SMK, a prototype two-turret tank that performed ok-ish before getting passed over in favour of the KV-1.
It's almost finished but I thought "what else could I add to make it look move lived-in", and the first thing that came to mind "vodka".
Made up a couple of little crates of vodka, obviously the crew appear to have had their fair share already.
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Post by: DarkBlack
After 2 years at it, finally finishing up my 15mm Romans.
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Some converting of scenery pieces.
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Post by: JNAProductions
Bought the Kroot Hunting Box.
Assembled most of the models-everything on 32mm bases and smaller.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Finishing off my Sicran Venator (zoom zoom pew pew), clearing the decks for a week or two of Epic scale shenanigans.
Got an Astartes Infantry and Astartes Support box to build, and arriving in the next couple of hours, a Civitas sector box. With two sets of Civitas ruins being procured on Saturday.
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Post by: Maréchal des Logis Walter
Gonna start base coating these US infantrymen before I dip them when I'm back home
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Post by: ccs
I've finally gotten back around to building my 30k stuff!
Tonight a Typhon & a Sicarin Venator rolled off the assembly line.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Little boxes, for a hillside, and they’re all made out of Plastic Crack.
That’s right, more Civitas Imperialis Administratum buildings. Might build one for height tonight.
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Post by: cuda1179
I'm adding scouts and Jump pack Intercessors to my Ultramarines and Blood Angels. The Blood Angels are a kitbash of Stormcast and Marine parts to give a baroque armor. I'm having trouble figuring out how to do that with the scouts though.
Are Heresy Solar Auxiliary legs/torsos close enough in scale to 40k Marine Scouts?
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Post by: Waaagh_Gonads
Off to the FLGS tonight to watch movies on my ipad and pain a Wakandan Cybertruck and Hydra tank for Marvel Crisis Protocol
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Post by: ccs
Built Sicarin Venator #2 this evening.
actually playing 30k is getting closer....
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Post by: jthewarrior
Moooaaarrrr skullz for the SKULL THRONE!!! (painting marauders for my TOW Chaos Warriors army).
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Post by: Kanluwen
Built the third of my Aethon Heavy Sentinels.
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Post by: Commodus Leitdorf
I haven't even gone near my painting desk in weeks now. However this weekend I intend to do a massive clean up in preparation of finishing a pile of minis I have sitting around. My whole workspace is dusty as all heck.
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Post by: Kothra
At the bare minimum I want to put some grass on my Assault marines and varnish them, then maybe build these Tetras.
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Post by: ccs
Painted a 1/2ling mini for our next D&D game.
Well, most of a 1/2ling....
Turns out I'm either out of my go-to light skin tones or they've dried up to the consistency of pale Caucasian rock. :(
So I guess I know what my next gaming related purchase is going to be.
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Post by: Adrassil
I finished another Gaunt's Ghosts proxy and finally got back to working on them. I took a break after the game with the kids on Wednesday, and I have started another.
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Post by: ced1106
The creators of the Gloomhaven: Crimson Scales unofficial fan expansion will have their own Gloomhaven-alike ROVE KS in a month, so I figured I'd help out by writing a review -- and PnP tips -- on Crimson Scales, a free PnP for GH.
CS: https://www.thecrimsonscales.com/
ROVE: https://addaxgames.com/
My CS thread with mini proxies by Wildspire : https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/103935-wildspire-miniatures-gloomhaven-crimson-scales-thread/
Thank goodness for online PDF's so I can take screenshots!
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Post by: DarkBlack
Getting 15mm Landsknechts ready to paint.
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Post by: ccs
Cutting foam to house my World Eaters
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Post by: Captain Brown
Finished converting a metal Farseer, now to start painting.
Cheers,
CB
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Post by: Waaagh_Gonads
Cleaning the mold lines off x2 54mm Inquisitor Eldar Rangers to paint next week. They have waited in a box more than 20 years to be done, and it is time.
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Post by: Captain Brown
Put on some paint...only two colors though.
Cheers,
CB
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Post by: ccs
Tonight, after almost 2 years..... I will finally get around to building the Spartan that came in my Heresy starter box.
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Post by: Del Mingus
Finally finished the last model from 9th edition starter set, which was the lieutenant with shield.
Going to make a start on some of the termagaunts from my Leviathan box. Hoping to get them assembled and primed this weekend.
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Post by: CragHack
Finalizing building Necromunda Ogryns. Those resin hoses are a bit annoying. But will be 100% worth it.
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Post by: ccs
Finished building the Spartan I began the other night. Then I knocked out the Contemtpor that came in the HH starter.
Next up?
The rest of the HH starter set Marines.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
The MkVI pads are a wee bit fiddly, but take your time and they’re alright.
Also, if you’ve built any to date? Careful cleaning up the bodies. They have short pegs to help with aligning the arms. I managed to clean a couple right off, which made their arms a bit of a sod.
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Post by: ccs
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:The MkVI pads are a wee bit fiddly, but take your time and they’re alright.
Also, if you’ve built any to date? Careful cleaning up the bodies. They have short pegs to help with aligning the arms. I managed to clean a couple right off, which made their arms a bit of a sod.
Oh yes, I'm familiar with the HH Marines & how much of a pita they are
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I diverted half of them for a project last year & cursed the designer every time I dealt with their decision to cut should pads right down the middle. Let's take a small part & make it into two smaller parts (so we can have perfect little studs on it)! Brilliant. Pure genius. More than a few now tiny bitz had to be retrieved from under the desk....
Now I'm just getting around to finishing of the rest
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Post by: Adrassil
Based three Hero Forge assassin chicks I painted a while back and finished the standard bearer of my Gaunt's Ghosts proxies. The most amount of work on minis I've done in pays. I did magnetise the heads of my Lion El'Jonson proxy. I'm using the helmetless head with slicked back hair from the Dark Angels Company Veteran kit and might green stuff some long hair on him as well as the helmeted head with the kit.
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Post by: Captain Brown
Base coat of the farseer conversion is on, now the detail work.
Cheers,
CB
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Finished painting my current Epic collection, and got the black undercoat on my all Volkite Kratos, ready for the coming few days.
Though to be honest, given I’m using the black undercoat at the main colour (lazy tosspot is lazy), depending on my oomph across the coming days, I could conceivably have that done and dusted by the end of Wednesday.
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Post by: ccs
I unexpectedly get to play Legion Imperialis tomorrow evening!
So I took a break from the tediousness of building HH Marines to get my Solar artillery built & base coated.
8 tiny Basilisks & 8 tiny Medusa are now ready (sans final paint job) to lay waste to the enemy.
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Post by: Adrassil
Began assembling my new Mantic Terrain Crate military base kit again as it's school holidays so no Kids' miniature gaming club so thought it be cool for them to have some new buildings to play on when they come back.
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Post by: lord_blackfang
I have been reduced to this, after Great Escape Games FUBAR'd the paperwork on my massive Dead Man's Hand pledge and it was rejected at customs, if I want to have an old west table for this convention season. XPS foam over a PLA printed armature. Proxxon goes bzzz.
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Post by: Waaagh_Gonads
The last novel I needed to complete my HH hard back novel collection arrived from Poland today (Flight of the Eisenstein which I have been chasing for 2 years). Only a handful of novellas to go....
Paper back copies of varying printings sit behind the hard backs.
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Post by: Adrassil
Finished assembling my last two buildings from the Terrain Crate Military Compound kit, as well as a couple of turrets and a radar dish.
I'm not sure whether to prime them and paint them or assemble my second kit, a Landing Pad, next. But I'm thinking of painting, as it'll give my poor fingers a rest, lol.
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Post by: ccs
Back to slogging through building HH starter set Marines.
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Post by: Miguelsan
Finally started my Leviathan Screamer Killer.
M.
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Post by: BrookM
Auxilia. Solar Auxilia! My backorder finally came in, so have been busy building nothing but tanks as of late.
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Post by: General Kroll
Been painting a tonne of Legion Imperialis infantry and dreadnoughts. Great fun.
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Post by: Kanluwen
Another rifle section of Auxilia.
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Another piece of terrain made.
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Post by: BrookM
More Auxilia, the Aethon is really starting to grow on me. Have made it stand a bit taller than it actually should, the left leg piston almost falls out of the cylinder, but worth it for a more braced, commanding pose.
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Post by: ccs
Going to be doing a HH inventory.
I've got 10 more Marines from the HH starter set left to build.
So I thought now would be a good time to add up what I've actually got HH wise (just HH specific models - IE; stuff that came in HH branded boxes)
Then I'll decide how to build those final 10 Marines.
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Post by: Commodus Leitdorf
Haven't really touched a paint brush in weeks. Over the last few days I just decided to buckle down and finish something I had based waiting to paint for awhile.
Bought this sprue awhile ago and now have more stuff to add to my finished terrain pile. I lost a piece however, so I have to improvise and make a replacement connector but you cant really notice it.
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Post by: Kanluwen
The last Solar Auxilia Rifle Section from my 3 battlegroups.
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Post by: ccs
Very large, very slow, multi-player Flames Of War game this afternoon/evening.
I got most of a LI Reaver Titan built in the downtime throughout the game.
Just have to finish the weapons & insert some magnets/pins tomorrow.
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Post by: Maréchal des Logis Walter
Second American squad let's go
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Post by: Adrassil
Realised that the school holidays are ending in a couple of days, so my miniature gaming club is starting up again this Wednesday, and I haven't started painting the buildings of the Military Compound kit so the kids can play on new terrain. So, I started painting away. Decided to paint them like the box art because it looks cool. Not a fan of painting terrain, but getting through it!
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Post by: ccs
Built a HH Rhino.
Now to build the squad that'll ride in it....
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Post by: Tyranid Horde
Worked on an AT Warlord Titan, got the base colours down with some masking.
Worked on my BB Rat Ogre and my Ogre team.
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Post by: Adrassil
Made more progress on my buildings, applying grey wash and wiping off the excess with a tissue. Trying for a bit of a dirty look, and it's looking good! Also realised school holidays doesn't finish until the 28th so have more time to get them finished, which was good.
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Post by: ccs
Flipped a coin - Heads: work on more HH Marines OR Tails: build a Scorpious Whirlwind.
The Scorpious won.
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Post by: Adrassil
Fiinnished...? My first two buuildings? Today? Not sure. And began painting another Gaunt's Ghost proxy. Hoping the weather is good tomorrow to prime the other two buildings.
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Post by: tauist
Looking for a Epic scale Autocannon I dropped on the floor last weekend. I've looked everywhere and the damn thing is just not getting found. Its like whenever you do laundry, you lose exactly one sock, mysteries of the world which might never be solved..
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Post by: Tyranid Horde
Blocking in metallics is in my future this evening (sadly) for my BB team and my warlord titan.
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Post by: ccs
tauist wrote:Looking for a Epic scale Autocannon I dropped on the floor last weekend. I've looked everywhere and the damn thing is just not getting found. Its like whenever you do laundry, you lose exactly one sock, mysteries of the world which might never be solved..
I hear you.
I swear there's a wormhole under my hobby table that only swallows things roughly SM shoulder pad size or smaller.
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Post by: boyd
Blocked in my Death Guard Lord of Virilance for base colors and gave him a wash of Agrax.
Blocked in the base coats for 24 Bretonians Men-At-Arms. Added Stirland Mud to their bases. Blocked in the base coats for 24 Archers.
Getting anxiety about how to paint my knights.
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Post by: ccs
Today the world Eaters fight back-to-back battles.
1st up, Necrons. Against a relatively new player returning from some distant dusty past edition. He gets to fight a "softer" version of the list.
2nd is a veteran players Space Sharks Marines. He gets a much harder iteration.
Both should be good games.
Edit:
Ok, I was wrong about both being good games.
The Necron game was close fought model-wise, though I did beat him soundly on VP.
The Space Shark Marines? :( I all but tabled him in two turns. I lost a single ex.8bound.
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Post by: BertBert
My Talons of the Emperor kit arrived, so I'm gonna take a look at the sprue and start cleaning up Valerian's legs and torso. Still waiting on some replacement bits for the repose, so I'm not not going to get it all done today. Also debating on how to change Aleya - got a SoS flamer in the mail because I feel like that's her main thing, but I also want to showcase the large sword. Maybe it's going on her back.
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Post by: Adrassil
Yesterday, I primed and zenithal highlighted the two other buildings of the Military Compound kit. I then began painting the red parts. I was planning on painting the red bits on both but it got too tedious and too late so only finished it on one.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Now you mention red parts? Just remembered I’ve a bunch of coloured citadel sprays in the Magic Box O’Stuff. Originally bought for Sector Mechanicum scenery, I’m now wondering if I might be able to put them to use on my Epic scenery.
Hmm.
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Post by: Captain Brown
Finished my converted Farseer.
Cheers,
CB
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Post by: Adrassil
It looks very cool, CB! Liking the sword and stars on the cape, especially!
Anyway, I decided to make the wall longer of my Military Compound kit and I had to pull apart another building to get the wall bits and replace them with floor parts. It wasn't fun, but got there. I then upgraded the wall, making more work for myself and painted the red parts on that wall and a barracks-like building which was my goal for the night. Now, onto the black parts.
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Post by: Adrassil
Finished painting the black parts of the Military Compound and began applying red wash to the red parts.
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Post by: Adrassil
Finished my Military Compound today! And very happy with them. Now, I have to start assembling the Landing Zone, which is a separate kit, which is one big building and one small one, so it should be much easier. Was going to start assembling it today, but too tired. Might post some photos tomorrow.
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Post by: ccs
Giving 3 of my World Eaters leftover HH powerfist/L.claws to serve as eviserators.
And, since those are all right hand bitz, swapping their plasma pistols to the left hand.
Also building a box of LI Arvus Lighters.
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Post by: Adrassil
I realised I also wanted to work on the extra things for the Military Compound, such as a couple of fortification walls and a couple of turrets (I couldn't find one, though) as well as a few other things. I primed them and realised I likely don't have enough Mechanicus Standard Grey to use on the landing pad, so might have to place that on the back burner.
I also taped out some hazard stripes on said walls and began painting them, which was not a lot of fun, will get it done tomorrow, hopefully.
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Post by: ccs
Finishing the landing gear on my LI Arvus unit.
Then it's time to build 16 more LI Basilisks.
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Post by: Waaagh_Gonads
Yesterday I bought pith helmets with gas masks from Anvil Industries for my Kasrkin, and from Victoria Miniatures pith helmeted heads and hollowed out pith helmets for regular guard (newer models such as lord solar and cavalry) to fill out my Preatorians.
Tonight I work on M'baku's [MCP] cape and skin, and clean/ sort my games room after a big purge at a local buy, swap and sell meet on the weekend.
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Post by: Adrassil
Finished taping and painting the hazard stripes on my two barricades, as well as the turret and a few other things. Also applied washes on the red parts. Waiting for them to dry to apply a grey wash to the entirety of the barricades.
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Post by: Just Tony
Looking for STLs on thingiverse that might work for Ork Trukks.
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Post by: Phoenix Lord
I'm painting some heightbound with a pre heresy colour scheme for a friend.
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Post by: theCrowe
I’m drawing pictures of birds making a Burrows and Badgers themed webcomic that nobody reads or asked for.
Also attempting to finish a write up of the second Tonks Tournament Semi-Final that I can only assume more people would read than care for my bird comic, if I actually got it written up.
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Post by: Waaagh_Gonads
Undercoating about 6 MCP models and continuing to paint M'Baku
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Post by: ccs
Finished the additional 16 LI Basilisks this evening.
Brings my artillery detachment up to 24 guns.
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Post by: Adrassil
Had the game day with the kids today (only one came) and we had a ton of fun playing Grimdark Future: Firefight and he really liked the new buildings. It was close, but he won. He defended and I attacked using the new buildings and such as his fortress. Forgot to take photos, of course.
After I got home, I assembled my Landing Pad, that'll be cool to play on next week!
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Post by: Commodus Leitdorf
Spent some time clearing off some stuff I had purchased recently. Actually managed to get a bunch of stuff started as well! Might have even more done by the end of the week. But for now I managed to get 5 Oathmark Skeletons finished.
Pretty straight forward and easy to paint. Mostly using them for D&D and Frostgrave. Only thing I will say about them is that the limbs are a bit spindly. I snapped them off once or twice accidently. Otherwise they are great sculpts!
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Post by: ccs
Building a squad of 10 HH Marines with rotor cannons.
After these guys I think I'm done building infantry - unless I decide to add another character or two.
For HH I'll have:
1 character
2 tac squads
1 melta squad
1 rotor cannon squad
+ plenty of vehicles & dreadnoughts
Might add a unit of bikes or a landspeeder - just because I think they look cool.
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Post by: CragHack
Progress from 04 14 to now.
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Post by: Adrassil
It's been ages but I finally rolled up my next Encounter for my Five Parsecs from Home campaign. I've been painting my landing bap but I'm a bit tired of painting terrain so decided to have a go of Five Parsecs, but then realized I've got to paint nine new minis for the new encounter so, yeah. Might start assembling and painting them later today.
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Post by: Noctivague
Putting some paint on russian napoleonics, and earlier I tried to finish the assembly of landsknechts pikemen. I failed, will come back to them later.
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Post by: Adrassil
I assembled and primed the new Stargrave minis for my next Five Parsecs encounter. I also applied some Milliput to their bases to make them look a little less like midgets compared to my other minis. The Milliput is probably going to take ages to cure, but oh well.
Then, I painted a dying Death Korps of Krieg proxy for my diorama and made more progress on a Gaunt's Ghost proxy musician (bag pipes, of course) that's been sitting around for ages, halfway base painted.
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Post by: Adrassil
Finished painting the Stargrave minis for my Crew's enemies in the next Five Parsecs encounter. Also applied the astrogranite paint in their bases.
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Post by: ccs
It's 30k day!
*Finishing up building a Sky Hunter squadron (marine jetbikes) for 30k.
* Trying to find the best SM options to deal with having to kill 30k Custodes (2 of my 4 opponents only have Custodes :().
And then I'm going to type up an alphabetical list of all the special unit & weapon rules my own units have. This'll part of the project will take awhile....
As is these things are scattered between 4+ sections of 2 books & have zero page references. It's incredibly tedious to have to keep looking through 2 books/4 sections as you're learning a new system.
For my force that ends tonight.
After that I'll see about printing 30k unit cards
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Post by: Valkyrie
I won a couple of awards for my Karl Gerat diorama and a rather weathered Soviet SMK.
The Gerat mortar and the Panzer shell-carrier have around 1000 parts total, the tracks are individual metal links that have to be joined with around 12" of brass wire, and the base is just foam with a wood veneer surround.
The SMK also has metal tracks, and I added a couple of vodka crates to the fenders because...well you can't have a Soviet tank without vodka.
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Post by: Adrassil
Those are awesome Valkyrie! The diorama is especially awesome! Congrats on your win.
Back OT, the kids' miniature gaming club was on today and we played Grimdark Future: Firefight 2v2. It was fun. I played as the Elven Jesters with Not-Genestealers, vs Chaos Marines and Future Robots from the Future! They won.
At home, I played my next Encounter of Five Parsecs From Home. Which I frigged up a bit with the set up as I hadn't played in ages. But if I played it properly it'd have been more of a blood bath than the game turned out to be. Was fun, though!
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Post by: Commodus Leitdorf
Making more progress on stuff on my painting table. Been putting a lot of work in to get a full 2000pts ready for the Old World by refreshing my old Empire army. But also being distracted by other projects. Decided to get a Dogs of War Cannon I had been working on for 6th edition done. Figured I can use it for the Old World too.
I have base extenders for the crew and I know its on a round base but eh, It looks better on a round base. Now Im going to work on finishing a pile of old metal Skaven I have, mostly just because.
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Post by: Captain Brown
Nice work Commodus Leitdorf.
Keep at it CragHack.
And Valkyrie, those were some great vehicles and diorama.
I am working on some of the last old metal harlequins.
Now the Death Jesters are already done, so the Solitaire next (since I have two and can only field one, I will do one in the old classic mode and one in a newer scheme.
Cheers,
CB
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Post by: Waaagh_Gonads
Stripping and removing mold lines on IG Praetorians.
Painting Immortal Hulk and MODOK 2 for MCP
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Post by: Tyranid Horde
Crunching through armour trim on my warhounds and warlord titan for some games next week. Soul destroying.
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Post by: Adrassil
Begun assembling some Mantic Deadzone robots.
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Post by: Scott
Nothing today, but over this weekend the plan is:
* get the cardstock Alpha Strike Battletech buildings properly affixed to bases.
* finish the painting and bases of 3 mechs, then varnish them.
* purchase a bag of sheet styrene and transform a bag of hoarded packaging into more scatter terrain.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Rivets.
So many rivets. But they do break the monotony of black up.
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Post by: ccs
Kit bashed a HH Moriat {sp?} with jump pack & 2 disintegrator pistols.
I'll see how he does against Custodes tomorrow & decide if I should build any more copies.
If I do build more I'll also need to do so on more of a budget.
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Post by: Adrassil
Finally forced myself to start painting the black bits on my Mantic Landing pad. Pretty tedious, but got to keep reminding myself it's for the kids.
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Post by: tauist
Started building my LI terrain as I wait for my Civitas City tiles to ship. Built a couple domes from the Manufactorum set, and now cracking on with my first ruined building.
The inside parts on the lowest floor are still blutac'd, will refine em a bit more before gluing them on. Also,, the piece needs some sort of base, contemplating on whether to go with the Old World unit trays, or with the classic 100mm x 150mm rectangle TOW bases.. I used just plain plasticard for my building bases before, but they are prone to warping at the edges and are difficult to place on a 3D table with slightly irregular surfaces.. Then, once the big pieces are in place and glued down, I still need to add more battle damage to the walls and add the extra rubble/gravel/texture paste. With epic scale, you cannot rely on the detail of the GW plastic bitz alone, it will end up looking toylike, you need to add smaller texture to the piece in order for it to read as being "realistic" in terms of sense of scale
It's challenging to make interesting looking terrain from the existin 3 kits (Civitas buildings, Ruins and Manufactorum), but I reckon I can make things work, as long as I dont hold back on the amount of bitz used for any single terrain feature. Those uninspiring looking buildings in the GW box art? Using only pieces of any single kit, which results in boring and monotonous looking boxes. Probably means I will need to buy more of these kits before I can have enough of stuff for decent tabletop coverage, but if that's what it takes, so be it. Great looking terrain is a top priority for me
Finished for today, here's what I got assembled for now
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Post by: Tyranid Horde
Here are a couple of war doggos for my AT force. Aiming to get done by Wednesday:
I "completed" a Rat Ogre for my Skaven team. It definitely could have more work done to it but it's grand for now.
Team Photo:
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Post by: ccs
Began painting up a unit of 40k Khorne Jakals.
There's a running joke that my models must "earn their paint".
Well, these jakals truly earned thier paint last weekend during a 24 person/48k pt Apocalypse game.
They killed 920 pts worth of Imperial Knights & Tau!
Granted, they were coming along behind 8Bound/X8bound & Khorne heavy armor (Typhons etc) & playing mop-up.
But vehicle kills are still kills....
And they only lost 3 models.
So they will be fully painted before they hit the table again.
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Post by: Adrassil
Made more progress on my landing pad; the black parts are mostly finished now. I wanted to finish all of them but ran out of time, especially because I'd gone back over the old bits and the new bits when they dried. I also fixed up the red parts too. I'd also accidentally dropped my Attelus mini and had to glue back on his sword and the end of his automatic pistol.
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Post by: Tyranid Horde
Titans!
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Post by: ccs
Work continues on the Jakals.
Today I finished thier pants & any Skulls hanging from belts, icons, etc.
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Post by: Adrassil
Had the kids' miniature game day today. Only one kid came, but we had a ton of fun playing Grimdark Future: Firefight. We played a siege game; I played as 300 points of High Elf Fleets defending with an autocannon turret worth 70 points, while he attacked with 600 points of Future Robots from the Future (a faction I made in Army Forge Studio) Despite losing two of my five units in the first two rounds. I made a good account of myself, killing a lot of the robots before I lost another unit, and my remaining two units failed their will tests and ran, so he was victorious, but I didn't mind at all. My guys made a good account of themselves.
When I got home, I worked more on my landing pad. Finished the black parts and got a lot of the way through washing the red parts. It's looking much better now.
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Post by: Commodus Leitdorf
Just plowing through my pile of Skaven at the moment. They've been sitting in a box for almost a year and I figured I'd just work on clearing them off. Dont have enough for an army, but as a fun painting project they have been great. Mostly just paint them in between sessions of refreshing my Empire army for the Old World.
Just more rats to add to my done pile. 11 in total with 8 more soaking to strip the paint off of them.
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Post by: ccs
Trying to decide what colors use on my Jakals assorted metal bitz - leg armor, chains, weapons etc.
In the meantime I'm tallying up a 1k pt DG list for a possible game tomorrow & re-organizing all the Plague Marines into 10e squads.
Also pondering investing in another 2 Rhinos for them....
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Post by: Noctivague
Bitten more than I could chew. I am trying to paint the 40k Leviathan box set minis, deadline friday evening.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Gonna make a stronk start on the Cerberus tonight, looking to get its tracks and main gun done in metallics at the very least, with a view to finishing it tomorrow.
Weekend I want to get at least one Praetor painted, as I’ve got my first HHv2.0 game a week on Saturday. Which is nice.
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Post by: Gimgamgoo
Filed, glued and magnetically based my MTO Stone Trolls ready for painting.
Checked my ancient painting schemes notebook (started in 1999) and according to that, the first 3 I painted used Midnight Blue/Storm Blue (black hex top pots?) as base colours. This was replaced with Necron Abyss (white top Foundation paint) for the 3 I bought later.
Now all of those colours are probably replaced, discontinued or renamed many times by GW.
I can't even find a good replacement on the old; https://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/paint_range_compatibility_chart
Any suggestions by those of you old enought to remember those paints I named and familiar with the new ranges?
Cheers!
Need to match my ancient...
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Post by: ccs
Playing the most stress free game of 40k I have in a long time.
2v1 game. 2k DA vs 2k Deathguard.
For my 1/2 of the Deathguard I brought 50 Plague Marines & 2 Icon bearers.
My job is simple: score objective points. Maybe opportunity kills.
My partner? He's doing all the fighting/killing.
So far we're winning 50something to 12.
I've lost 7 models atm
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Post by: Uptonius
Working on another 65 of these fools.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Finishing painting my Legion Ceberus. Taking a half day from work on account my Brain Is Melted, so looking forward to extended mind-breather hobby time.
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Post by: Adrassil
Yesterday, I finished applying wash to the red parts of my landing pad last night. I would've liked to paint the yellow, but delayed it until today when the red wash had dried.
I finished painting the yellow and hazard stripes today. I then began applying the dark grey wash to the landing pad. I frigged up, though, as when wiping the excess off with toilet paper, it began to break down and left lumps. Is there anything better I can use if anyone knows?
Thanks!
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Post by: Skywave
Gimgamgoo wrote:Filed, glued and magnetically based my MTO Stone Trolls ready for painting.
Checked my ancient painting schemes notebook (started in 1999) and according to that, the first 3 I painted used Midnight Blue/Storm Blue (black hex top pots?) as base colours. This was replaced with Necron Abyss (white top Foundation paint) for the 3 I bought later.
Now all of those colours are probably replaced, discontinued or renamed many times by GW.
I can't even find a good replacement on the old; https://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/paint_range_compatibility_chart
Any suggestions by those of you old enought to remember those paints I named and familiar with the new ranges?
Cheers!
Right now, Kantor Blue might be a good match for those. I still got a Necron Abyss pot (nearly untouched) and compared both on my pallet, and while they are definitely not the same shade of blue (Necron is darker), I think it would work good enough here, especially if you go over a black undercoat. I use Kantor a lot over black primer for my Nids and that create a dark base that might match Necron Abyss pretty decently.
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Post by: blockade23
Not modifying the originals, and a surprising lack of rubber bands in my house means I can only glue and secure one piece at a time. Finished half of this today (working around a newborn's schedule). See more on my Project Blog.
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Post by: ccs
Kit bashed myself a 30k Mortiant (sp?) SM character with jump pack & two disintegrator pistols.
This ones made from the legs/chest/head/arms/shoulder pads of a 30k SM & the back/jumppack/plasma guns & cables of a 40k Inceptor.
Other than one of the cables turning out to be off center (it'll get fixed) I'm quite pleased with the result.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Painted my two Heresy Praetors, completing my first cabinet, and I’ve built the first of three boxes of Legion Fast Attack for Legions Imperialis.
A very nice kit to build, and nowhere near as fiddly as the Legion Support set.
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Post by: Captain Brown
Gathering parts for a terrain piece.
Cheers,
CB
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Also built a squadron of four Sicaran, this time with Heavy Bolter Sponsons.
Tomorrow I’ll blitz the two remaining boxes of Legion Fast Attack, and hopefully get it all base coated in Mechanicus Standard Grey.
Or I’ll do a squadron of 28mm Jetbikes.
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Post by: blockade23
Was going to finish building the Warhammer Fortress that I've been holding onto forever, then realized that I need to save one of the walls to break apart as a template to build more walls, so I finished what I could, naturally got distracted, and built a small courtyard building to go inside the fortress.
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Post by: ccs
Building a 2nd HH Rhino.
Mostly for use with my 40k Deathguard as I need the MG armed Plague Marines to actually get into range/to the objectives in a timely manner. Plodding 5" on foot did not cut it the other day.
So....
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Post by: Maréchal des Logis Walter
Starting the basecoating of a few more US soldiers for bolt action, commander and his aid, bazooka team, and sniper team.
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Post by: Gimgamgoo
Skywave wrote: Gimgamgoo wrote:Filed, glued and magnetically based my MTO Stone Trolls ready for painting.
Checked my ancient painting schemes notebook (started in 1999) and according to that, the first 3 I painted used Midnight Blue/Storm Blue (black hex top pots?) as base colours. This was replaced with Necron Abyss (white top Foundation paint) for the 3 I bought later.
Now all of those colours are probably replaced, discontinued or renamed many times by GW.
I can't even find a good replacement on the old; https://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/paint_range_compatibility_chart
Any suggestions by those of you old enought to remember those paints I named and familiar with the new ranges?
Cheers!
Right now, Kantor Blue might be a good match for those. I still got a Necron Abyss pot (nearly untouched) and compared both on my pallet, and while they are definitely not the same shade of blue (Necron is darker), I think it would work good enough here, especially if you go over a black undercoat. I use Kantor a lot over black primer for my Nids and that create a dark base that might match Necron Abyss pretty decently.
Thanks for that. I don't have a Kantor blue to check, but I went through a ton of my other paints trying to find a match to the old Necron Abyss. Closest match I found was one from Two Thin Coats called Abyss Blue. I'll see how it goes over black. Then I'll get them newold Stone Trolls done. :-)
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Post by: ZergSmasher
I'm using the magic of Contrast paints to get some Scouts painted.
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Post by: Skywave
Just started 10 Tzaangor with pistol/chainsword here. I don't remember how I did my first 20 (regular double hand weapon), like the order I did thing on them, but those will be a slow-ish burn. No real quick way around all the trim, armor, gold deco and the skin. Let's just say I won't be batch painting them that much because it's a lot of work everytime!
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Getting some metallics on these lads.
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Post by: Adrassil
I've been quite productive today as we got rained in by crappy weather. Did the hazard stripes on a defensive wall and a pill box which I finished. So, that's almost all the landing pad and the defensive buildings with it, which is cool.
Also, did a bit more work on my Attelus and Adelana diorama from Secret War, including finally getting the balls to glue the dying/dead not-Death Korps of Krieg minis on. I will go over the details more in my thread dedicated to the project.
Here are a couple of photos.
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Post by: Commodus Leitdorf
Was stuck indoors most of the weekend and I decided to actually focus on a project. Making good progress too! Will show it off when I actually get it done but I took a side trek and decided to paint a model for my Gnoll Warband/D&D.
One Manticore! Its one of the Nolzur minis I hacked off the pre-sculpted base and made a new one on a 60mm. Larger than the standard 50mm but I plan on using this guy more for Skirmish games and a kind of special character for D&D. He came out fine although I am a bit iffy on the skin, I feel like I could have done better. Overall though I am happy with him.
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Post by: bullisariuscowl
Finishing what I started.
By that I mean my Iron Warriors Contemptor Helbrute, of course...
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Post by: ccs
*Writing up a 1k pt DA list for Thur afternoon.
*then a little more work on my Khorne Jackals.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Think I’m gonna make a start on speed painting my Legion Fast Attack stuff. Hopefully at least the two dozen Land Speeders.
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Post by: Adrassil
Had the miniature gaming club with the kids today. It went well despite some drama at the start over the placement of a turret and who got to play who's faction, but once that was done, we had fun. It was two kids vs me in a game of Grimdark Future: Firefight, the scenario being "Whoever has the most points on the field at the end of the game wins". The kids insist on playing such a complex scenario as they don't like playing objectives. I played as two teams of 300pts each, the kids a 300pt team each. I played as Not-Gaunt's Ghosts, fighting alongside not-Death Korps of Krieg led by a not-Custodian Bladesman. We didn't finish, so we will finish next week. I've been winning so far, killing several of their minis and their turret while not losing any of my guys yet; a couple have been stunned so far, including poor Not-Larkin.
When I got home, and after finally finishing my damned Landing Pad, I began batch painting my three remaining Gaunt's Ghosts proxies.
Here are some photos of my set-up to show my new landing pad.
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Post by: CragHack
Primed Blood Bowl Vampires. Haven't really painted such small miniatures, will be interesting. And, hopefully, will sell well on ebay
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Post by: Adrassil
Pretty much finished my Gaunt's Ghosts soldier proxies today. I would've begun basing them, but I was too tired.
I also did a bit more work on my Attelus and Adelana vs. Cultists diorama. I applied a couple more bits of diorama tile paper, which I will post more photos of in my blog, but will do that tomorrow as, again, I'm too tired.
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Post by: ccs
Hopefully playing some Gaslands this evening.
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Post by: toasteroven
Trying to get back into the swing of things with some Hero Quest painting.
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Post by: DarkBlack
My interest in Sci-Fi has been sparked recently, so finally getting some paint on my Space Station Zero project (that also opens the door to deadzone).
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Post by: Commodus Leitdorf
Haven't picked up a paint brush in a few days. Weather has been too nice so I've been outdoors. Might actually get to some model building today.
Also moving some minis around and cleaning out my display case so I can put all my WHFB armies in it instead of my AoS armies...especially since my Stormcast army has been nuked :(.
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Post by: Adrassil
Finished basing my Gaunt's Ghosts proxies. I also fought my 13th encounter of Five Parsecs from Home. It was a bit of a walk over for my crew led by Not-Attelus and his crew of characters who are totally not ripoffs of other characters from Secret War, lol.
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Post by: ccs
Off to try some more new stuff in Horus Heresy....
I've got a "core" list of 583 pts & then every other week I've been completely changing up the remainder. Usually about 400 pts as we do 2v2 games @ 2k per side.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Working on my remaining Jetbikes.
Whilst the speed paint/contrast bit is a pain (needs two stages, so doubling the drying time) they’re otherwise pretty quick to paint.
But, also doing the weapon options, so got three Multi-meltas, and six each Volkite, Heavy Bolter and Plasma Cannon to do.
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Post by: Shadow Walker
Started working on my zombies and their textured bases.
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Post by: toasteroven
Fun, very dramatic model.
I've been painting bases, trying to get a bit more creative than I normally do.
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Post by: Skywave
Finished my 10 Tzaangors, and moved on to paint one of my Wall of Martyr bunker. Fun little piece to take a break from more involving project!
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Post by: ccs
Got home this evening & found my MTO Tempest Speeders had finally arrived.
Both looked to be in excellent condition.
So now I've got a pair of speeders soaking in a big bowl of soapy water.
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Post by: Adrassil
Thanks, Toasteroven!
I made more progress on my Reaper chick. When I rolled my next Five Parsecs encounter, I got a Unique Individual, and that Unique Individual turned out to be a precursor wanderer, which I think this mini fits. Her or a Corsair Felarch with a shuriken rifle and power sword, which I assembled. I'm happy with my druid, but not so much her face, which I'm trying to fix. I also assembled a few other minis and finally applied a wash to my GW Eisenhorn mini's base after...years, maybe?
Here are some more photos.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Gonna do some more on the Jetbikes.
Been putting them off for reasons I can’t quite really explain, and there’s not a huge amount needing doing.
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Post by: blockade23
Finishing up some small scatter terrain and walls for my as-yet-unnamed fantasy village project.
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Post by: Just Tony
Sorting out an entire Empire army, which came to us pretty much in lots and really didn't cost us anything.
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Post by: loki old fart
Searching for a mini of a bird/pack animal for dnd, and failing miserably.
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Post by: Adrassil
Finished my 14th Campaign Turn of Five Parsecs from Home. Was a challenge as for that the range of weapons were reduced to 9''. Was fun!
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Post by: lord_blackfang
Painted this for an old west themed contest
Presenting Sister Smith & Sister Wesson in...
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Post by: Captain Brown
Nice work lord_blackfang
Starting on these two old models.
Cheers,
CB
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Post by: ccs
Working on weapon bitz for my older than dirt Deathguard squads.
Blightlaunchers seem a bit hard to come by atm - so some of my DG will be using Deathwatch grenade Launchers (whatever they're called).
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Post by: Valkyrie
I've been building some teeny tiny planes for an I-400 submarine aircraft carrier.
Yes it's weird as it sounds. Built by the Japanese in the 40's, one planned use of these "Seiran" planes was to drop plague bombs over San Francisco and LA. Luckily however the Japanese surrendered before the plan could be carried out. The I-400s were the biggest subs ever built up to that point, and all 3 were scuttled by the Americans.
It's a gorgeous kit by Tamiya, but the fiddly-ness of the Seirans is pretty ridiculous.
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Post by: Commodus Leitdorf
Summer is in full swing so the amount of painting I'm going to get done is going to slow sadly...I really wanted my Empire Army refresh to be done...or at least mostly done but sadly I couldn't get it finished in time. So with plans on cleaning out my hobby space I figured I'd just get another model out before the cleanup.
One Engineer from the Old Metal Steam Tank that I based coated last year this time. Finally got around to getting him done! Now just have 1 and a half Engineers to go! although they will have to wait it seems.
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Post by: ccs
Doing DG paint scheme tests on some unfortunate misc figures.
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Post by: Adrassil
Did quite a bit of painting on a few minis here and there. Fixing up chipped paint and such. I started properly painting an Inquisitor with a great sword proxy I base painted ages ago and a couple of Mantic robots to represent a character in my Five Parsecs from Home Crew. Also begun working on a another Zero Suit Samus statue I got ages ago.
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Post by: Mad Doc Grotsnik
Grim Black my Cataphractii, do the tracks on the third Rhino. And probably do more metallics on three rhinos.
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Post by: ccs
Searching futility for a missing pair of minis for a D&D game in a bit.
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Post by: DarkBlack
Getting a force of 15mm Vikings (for ADLG) ready for paint.
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Post by: Adrassil
More painting minis, the Mantic robots, mostly. Uhh, some other things. Working on my enemies for my next Five Parsecs Encounter.
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Post by: ccs
Put the basecoat of green on a random orc whose been sitting on my desk for nearly a year.
Not sure why this mini at this point.
But now that he's started I'll pick away at the details a bit each day.
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Post by: Adrassil
Finished painting the enemy units for my...maybe? Next Encounter of my Five Parsecs campaign. I did a few other things, too.
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