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Cracking work on the Immortals. I think the glow works pretty well on both the barrels and the eyes. Gives a bit of variety in some pretty standardised poses
Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way
2023/05/21 20:09:47
Subject: Re:Here we go again... Im-more-tals (and a Bilepiper)
@tzurk - Thanks for the kind words. Here's hoping barricades become useful bits of cover in 10th, eh?
@gobert - Thanks gobert. I like the glowy eyes as a thing for the whole army, as at least I can say I have an army I've painted the eyes in on this way Not so sure how well the glow was worked on these Tesla Carbines, but we'll see.
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Progress steps:
Spoiler:
- Sloppity Bilepiper - Basecoated the shaft of the staff with Steel Legion Drab.
- Im-more-tals - Built a unit of five Immortals with Tesla Carbines
- SB - Washed the shaft with Agrax Earthshade (...phrasing?)
- Im-more-tals - Undercoated them with Leadbelcher
- Im-more-tals - Drybrushed with VMA Chrome, as well as picking out the chest symbol with Chrome
- SB - Painted the eye and added some highlightes with Ulthuan Grey.
- Im-more-tals - Blocked in the shoulder pads and forehead with Leviadon Blue.
- Im-more-tals - Washed the chest symbols with Seraphim Sepia (twice).
- Im-more-tals - Used Abaddon Black on the over-spines and rear rib recesses.
- SB - Picked out the pouch on the head-on-a-stick with Wyldwood Contrast
- Im-more-tals - Used Abaddon Black to block in the gun casings, as well as front rib recesses and shin details.
- SB - Went over the scroll on the head-on-a-stick with Skeleton Horde Contrast.
- Im-more-tals - Shaded joints, ribbed cables, etc, with Nuln Oil.
- SB - Picked out the nail holding the scroll to the shaft with Abaddon Black.
- SB - Went over the nail with Leadbelcher.
- SB - Washed the nail with Nuln Oil.
- SB - Reviewed the model for random white spots, filling them with appropriate colours. Sloppity Bilepiper DONE - Im-more-tals - Built the bases
- Im-more-tals - Undercoated the bases with Chaos Black spray
- Im-more-tals - Went over all the remaining armour panels with Aethermatic Blue.
- Im-more-tals - Painted the bases.
- Im-more-tals - Picked out future glowy bits with VMA Chrome.
- Im-more-tals - Picked out the eyes with Tesseract Glow
- Im-more-tals - Went over tesla glow areas with Doomfire Magenta
- Im-more-tals - Basecoated smooth cables with Caliban Green
- Im-more-tals - Highlighted thickest cable with Warpstone Glow
- Im-more-tals - Glued robots onto bases - Im-more-tals DONE
Sloppity Bilepiper - bingo card square C3 True to form - no matter how careful you are with a model that started with a white undercoat, as soon as you take a picture you find some recesses you missed...
Immortals with Tesla Carbines - bingo card square D5 Not 100% sure about the green cables despite the magenta "glow" - might revist that down the line. Thoughts from the studio audience?
Next up on deck is going to be an "easy" 10 model unit, in the form of another unit of 10 Necron Warriors with Gauss Flayers - that'll give me 20 Warriors with each weapon, which seems a good point to take me into 10th. Unfortunately, they're only 110 points in 9th, so I'll only be on 985 painted when they're done, so I may have to find something else to add to tip me over the 1,000 points before the Leviathan pre-order kicks in...
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
2023/05/22 08:54:39
Subject: Here we go again... Im-more-tals (and a Bilepiper)
@inmygravenimage - It's a simple scheme for the Bilepiper skin, but effective. Not going to take credit for creating it, though - that was entirely lifted from a GW painting video.
@gobert - I thought the magenta glow might work - I figure different glows help people remember different weapon types on the tabletop, even if they don't know what the gun looks like. I agree with both of you that a different colour on the cables is probably for the best long term, but at least they're fieldable for now
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Progress steps:
Spoiler:
- Canoptek Doomstalker - Finished building the Doomstalker into subassemblies (legs, torso, 2 x side panels, 2 x "shoulder pads"
- CDS - Undercoated sub-assemblies with Leadbelcher spray
- CDS - Drybrushed all the parts with VMA Chrome
- CDS - Painted the outside of the "shoulder pads" with Leviadon Blue
- CDS - Painted the underside of the shoulder pads (and the recessed vents) with Black Templar.
- CDS - Basecoated the shoulder pad recesses containing Necron symbols with Chrome.
- CDS - Shaded those recesses with Seraphim Sepia, twice.
- CDS - Re-undercoated the base elements attached to the legs with Abaddon Black
- CDS - Picked out the elements supporting the glowy spheres on the side panels with Black Templar, as well as the piston hub on the leg section.
- CDS - Went over the outside of the side panels with Aethermatic Blue.
- CDS - Painted the inside of the side panels with Leviadon Blue.
- Necron Warriors - Glued weights to the underside of 10 bases, covered those with superglue & baking soda, and filled the divot in the top of the base with the same.
- CDS - Painted the glowy orb on the side panels with VMA Chrome.
- CDS - Went over the Chrome on the orbs with Tesseract Glow. 4/6 sub-assemblies done at this point.
- CDS - Painted the Doomstalker's faceplate with Leviadon Blue.
- CDS - Much Black Templar-ing of the torso.
- Overlord - Built the base
- CDS - Built the base
- CDS - Painted the barrels of the Twin Gauss Flayer with Incubi Darkness.
- CDS - Picked out main/known glowy areas on the torso with VMA Chrome (was unsure at this point what I was doing with glowy bits on the main cannon).
- CDS - Went over the aforementioned glowy bits with Tesseract Glow.
- CDS - Shaded ribbed cables with Nuln Oil.
- CDS/OL - Painted the bases.
- CDS - Worked on base elements attached to the legs at the same time as painting the base.
- CDS - Made up a 1:1:1 mix of Lahmian Medium, Nuln Oil & Drakenhof Nightshade, and used this to shade the lower leg claws, pistons, end of the Twin Gauss Flayer, and both ends of the big cannon on the Doomstalker's back.
- CDS - Shaded the recesses in the lower leg claws with Black Templar.
- CDS - Glued the leg section to the base.
- CDS - Aethermatic Blue'd the heck out of the upper sections of the legs.
- CDS - Shaded some joints with Nuln Oil.
- CDS - Basecoated smooth cables with Caliban Green.
- CDS - Went over Chrome areas on the big cannon with Striking Scorpion Green.
- CDS - Tidied up the base rim with Abaddon Black.
- CDS - Picked out a Scarab inside the pipe I'd missed with Leadbelcher.
- CDS - Did a tidy-up pass on the torso with Black Templar.
- CDS - Over-brushed the Scarab with Chrome.
- CDS - Painted the Scarab with Aethermatic Blue.
- CDS - Assembled the torso & side plates (not gluing it to the legs for now) - Doomstalker DONE
Spoiler:
Canoptek Doomstalker - bingo card square C2
I would've finished this thing off on Friday, but I was at UK Games Expo, so couldn't.
Maybe the impulse buy of Ashes of Faith from my LGS wasn't be best idea, in terms of keeping bought vs. painted under control. On the other hand, I didn't have any of those Cultists, only one set of SoS, and can always find a use for more Scions.
Bingo card update
Spoiler:
Yes, we have our first complete column! Achievement unlocked: Complete one column or row on t'bingo card.
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
Ah, so this thing still works - and this is post 9,000.
Mental note: Don't commit to not posting post 9,000 until you hadve something to post in your PLOG - that would explain nearly a six month gap between post 8,999 and 9,000.
Unfortunately, just after the above post we ran into a bit of daftly hot weather, which completely killed any desire to paint. I'd gotten five Warriors about 50% done, and the other five built, but just didn't have the energy/desire to get on with the job.
Given not getting them done had stopped me posting, though, I figured I'd get those five done so I could get back to posting on here over the festive period - time to start countering some of the donkey-caves on here, methinks.
I do expect 2024 to get off to a slow start, with the possible exception of those other five Warriors - in theory I'm buying my first house in Jan, maybe Feb, depending on how much longer the vendor's solicitors hold things up for.
Question tied to that, though - what would people recommend as a starting airbrush set-up, in the year 2023/4?
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@Olthannon - I'm pretty sure I missed that pipe scarab until I was 97%+ done. Hopefully the Doom Song has now expired...
@gobert - Yeah, random little scarabs on other models are definitely something you have to watch out for with these more recent Necron sculpts. While it isn't in the same wave, part of the reason I've not put a Spyder together is all the internal scarabs, and trying to figure out how to approach them.
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I'm not going to go through the steps I used to finish these off - there is a bit of tidying up to do, and my poly cement wasn't playing ball this morning, so the Warriors haven't been stuck down just yet. Downside of trying to get them done before travelling.
Five more Warriors - 20 with Reapers and 15 with Flayers completed now
One thing I have invested in since y'all last saw me was some storage from KR Multicase - using some of the custom layers. As it stands, one case is now holding almost all my 'crons (or it will when I'd tidied up these Warriors), bar a Psychomancer and three Ophydian Destroyers (where the springiness of the models terrify me).
KR Multicase tray currently holding 30 Warriors - today's five to go in there, but not sure what will happen with the last slot
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Points Log (recalculated for 10th, using the 06/12/23 MFM)
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
Congrats on 9000 posts! Good to see you back with the Necrons, quite a force you must have now. Hope the momentum carries to the new year and the new house!
Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way
@Captain Brown - Thanks for the kind words and the congratulations. Given some of the shapes the new Necrons end up in, custom foam seemed a good choice to protect them.
@Olthannon - Cheers, chief.
@gobert - Thanks for that. According to my Google Sheet I'm using as a log, going by the latest MFM document I've got 1,470 points painted, so I'll be over 1,500 once the other 5 Warriors are painted. 80 models today, though that includes a Plasmacyte I've painted that doesn't have a Destroyer unit to go with (I believe they're with the Destroyer units now, right, rather than their own datasheet?)
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Back in the Steel City today, after being away for Christmas. Tonight's task? Get my poly cement flowing again, so those Warriors can be glued into their bases, then start looking at basing the next five. They've been built, and the area for their feet marked on the base, but the bases aren't built yet.
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
One thing that is almost new for 2024 - I used it briefly before I went back to the family at Christmas - is a change of paint palette. I want to be clear that I'm not taking credit for this, though - it's something I saw on Instagram, and I can't recall who's post it was.
Rather than using a tile, I've picked up a silicone fidget popper thing off amazon. The one I've got gives me 28 small wells to work in, though I'm unlikely to be using them all at the same time. Once I'm done, I can leave the paint to dry, then invert the little silicone cup and peel the paint off, giving me a clean surface for next time. Seems to be working well so far, at least for small volumes of paint. And, unlike the tile I've been using for years, it doesn't have about half an inch of paint built up on it.
In non-painting news, I made my first and second blog posts in nearly five years at the start of the year, giving my thoughts on the cards revealed for Arkham Horror LCG during the spoiler season for the upcoming Hemlock Vale set.
From an AHLCG perspective, I think I know what I want to write next, but I'll need to wait for the set to be out, which is mid-Feb. If I want to keep to a fortnightly schedule, I'm going to have to come up with two other topics before then, probably not AHLCG in nature.
Anyway, got those five Warriors glued into their base and touched up, so they've joined their brethren in that blue foam tray and have been packed away.
To follow up on my response to gobert in my last post, here's a list of what I've completed for my Necrons so far:
Spoiler:
- 1x Overlord
- 1x Royal Warden
- 1x Skorpekh Lord
- 1x Plasmancer
- 1x Psychomancer
- 3x Canoptek Plasmacyte
- 1x Canoptek Reanimator
- 1x Cryptothralls (and I'm surprised we haven't seen a clampack with some alternative poses yet)
- 5 Deathmarks
- 3 Skorpekh Destroyers
- 20 Necron Warriors with Gauss Reaper
- 15 Necron Warriors with Gauss Flayer
- 5 Immortals with Gauss Blaster
- 5 Immortals with Tesla Carbine
- 12 Canoptek Scarab Swarms
- 3 Ophydian Destroyers
- 1x Canoptek Doomstalker
By my reckoning, that's 1,470 points as of the last MFM, which will rise to 1,570 when these next five Warriors with Gauss Flayers are completed.
Speaking of those Warriors, I have undercoated and made a staart on painting them - as well as building the bases - but writing those blog posts, work travel, and the cold weather means I've not gotten as far yet as I'd like. Still, some progress is better than no progress.
I have made some more progress in packing stuff from my cabinet, though:
Spoiler:
30 Plaguebearers, 3 bases of Nurglings and a pair of characters
28 Poxwalkers, 2 Daemon characters and an Ultramarine, with room for these 5 Necron Warriors when I get them done
I suspect layer 3 will end up being Blood Bowl stuff.
Not the most exciting update, but proof I'm not dead, at least
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
2024/01/27 16:24:07
Subject: Re:Here we go again... Even More Warriors
We've not hit the end of January, but we have got the first completed models for the year out of the way:
The other half of the unit of Warriors that were done just before Christmas
I'll be doing another bingo card this year - and hopefully even completing it! - so between the two groups of five I feel justified in checking off square E2, as the first "Unit of 10+ Models" entry on the 2023 card. I'm not keen on the 2024 Bunker thing, so I'll stick with the painting side of the 2023 card, thank ye very much.
Up next is mainly going to be moving to new house, but I've got three bits of terrain undercoated that I intend to work on while everything is going on. In this case, I'm talking about two Thermic Plasma Regulators and a Haemotrope Reactor, both from my Imperium subscription. They've been undercoated with Leadbelcher, though I think the Reactor needs a touch-up pass on that undercoat, then we'll be starting things off with a Nuln Oil wash. I figure the two Regulators can count for one scenery square, and the Reactor can count for another - any objections from the crowd?
In moving prep news, I used the last layer in that other KR case to pack three Blood Bowl teams in, including their painted Big Guys, so that was handy.
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
2024/01/29 20:43:09
Subject: Re:Here we go again... Even More Warriors
@gobaert - Good to know, though I need to find where they box they're in ended up (or how to get to it).
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So, I'm now in the new house - not unpacked, by a long shot but I'm in. The terrain I was working on is in a plastic box... somewhere, so I decided to get a new project cycled through that would be quick and simple.
Hence some more Scarab Swarms - though at 15 completed now, I'm starting to wonder how many is too many...
Usual steps and basing apply, and these were glued into the painted bases this morning:
I should probably have a play around at some more interesting basing options for the next three I do, but these will do to shake some of the painting rust off.
Next up is another three base unit, but not of Scarabs - no, this time I'll be working on three bases of Nurglings. Easter break means I probably won't have them done in a week, but I'll be looking to make a start. Going to try to get them undercoated as soon as I've posted this...
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
2024/03/25 09:44:12
Subject: Here we go again... Tiny Bitey Robots Go Boom?
Glad to see you’ve found the painting sticks post house move. Scarbs are a fun way to get back in the zone. Looking forward to some cheeky nurgling bois next
Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way
2024/04/15 19:52:28
Subject: Re:Here we go again... Happy, Smiley Plague Children
@gobert - Thanks gobert. Scarabs are a nice simple way to get back into the swing of things. Hopefully this group will fit in with the ones I painted nearly five years ago now - sheesh. And I think I found another box with three bases in during the move...
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OK, three bases of overly cheerful plague-ridden terrors completed. As with the last three bases of these I did, I've gone for a mix of skintones on each base, even if the majority are a similar green to the Plaguebearers I've done so far.
Due to how they go together, I kept the various segments of each base apart, and didn't glue them to their bases - or build the bases - until the Nurglings themselves were completed. Even if some of the detail is obscured by the row in front, I feel better knowing it is painted.
Steps:
Spoiler:
- Undercoated with Corax White
- Touched up undercoat with Ulthuan Grey
- Picked out all horns with Reikland Fleshshade
- Went over all horns with Athonian Camoshade
- Decided which front, middle and back segments I wanted to go together, and labelled the corks appropriately
- Placing the three nurgling schemes to try and avoid them sitting next too each other too much.
- Applied second coats of Athonian Camoshade and Reikland Fleshshade to the appropriate Nurglings
- Shaded the third colour of Nurgling with a 2:1 mix of Lahmian Medium & Druchii Violet
- Picked out guts, wounds & tongues on the green & flesh Nurglings with Screamer Pink
- Shaded the maggots coming out of one Nurgling's guts with Seraphim Sepia (twice)
- Picked out guts/wounds/tongues on the Sickly Pallor Nurglings with Druchii Violet
- Picked out eyes and boils on the green and flesh Nurglings with Averland Sunset
- Found where my pot of Khorne Red was, saving me buying another pot.
- Shaded the Averland Sunset bits with Reikland Fleshshade
- Picked out drips from things with Ogryn Camo
- Added Nurgle's Rot over the Ogryn Camo
- Shaded the Screamer Pink bits (and some bits on the blue Nurgling's with Druchii Violet
- Basecoated all the teeth with Steel Legion Drab
- Went over the teeth with Rakarth Flesh
- Shaded the teeth with Agrax Earthshade
- Picked out the eyes on the blue Nurglings - and did a few highlights - with Ulthuan Grey
- Went over the rocky bits at the base of each stand with Cryx Bane Highlight
- Shaded the rocky bits with Agrax Earthshade
- Glued the bits of the three bases of Nurglings together into... clumps?
- Glued the clumps of Nurglings to actual bases
- [BASING OCCURS]
Bingo card update after the Nurglings are completed:
Spoiler:
I should probably finish off something that's been WIP for a while next, rather than starting something new. There are a few projects on deck that would fit there, so I guess I've got a decision to make...
General question - if my goal is to paint more GW models than I buy this year, should I count any Miniatures of the Month I claim as "purchased"? Would currently be the difference between breaking even, and having one more model "bought" than painted...
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
2024/04/26 21:25:34
Subject: Here we go again... Happy, Smiley Plague Children
@Captain Brown - Thanks Captain. The Nurglings aren't too bad to paint, even if I am undoubtably making things tricker for myself with the three-colour mix.
@gobert - Cheers gobert. I figured with the first group I did that if they were all green, they'd just be blobs - with the mix of skintones, there's more visual interest there. in my Pile of Shamer 2024 record-keeping post I've ended up with two net totals for the year, one including the free model and one without. If I can get/keep the without-free-models total in a green state, I'll be happy.
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With the Nurglings out of the way, but both wanting to continue with Daemons for now and clear something that was on my 2023 "Pile of Shame", I brought back Karanak and the unit of 5 Flesh Hounds I'd previously gotten to based status. A little under two years is a long time for them to be on hold for.
Steps
Spoiler:
- Karanak/Flesh Hounds - Basecoated their hide with Khorne Red, shockingly (two coats required).
- K/FH - Basecoated any fur with Rhinox Hide.
- Built 10 more Plaguebearers
- K/FH - Stippled the transition between Red and Brown with mixes of the two, to soften the transition.
- K/FH - Washed the hide & fur with Druchii Violet
- K/FH - Drybrushed the fur with Warpfiend Grey
- K/FH - Lightly drybrushed the fur with Ulthuan Grey
- K/FH - Went back over tail spikes/blades & noses I'd missed with Rhinox Hide
- K/FH - Washed the tail spikes/blades & noses with Druchii Violet
- K/FH - Drybrushed skin with Wazdakka Red
- K/FH - Painted neck fans with Bugman's Glow
- K/FH - Washed neck fans with Carroburg Crimson
- PB - Added weights to the 10 bases
- K/FH - Painted tongues & inside of mouths with Screamer Pink
- K/FH - Washed all tongues & mouths with Druchii Violet
- K/FH - Highlighted tongues with Pink Horror
- K/FH - Basecoated teeth & claws with Celestra Grey
- K/FH - Shaded teeth & claws with Nuln Oil
- K/FH - Basecoated collars & embedded Khorne symbols with Warplock Bronze
- K/FH - Went over the collars with Brass Scorpion
- K/FH - Went over any embedded Khorne symbols with Runelord Brass
- K/FH - Shaded both sections of metals with Agrax Earthshade
- K/FH - Added some Nihilakh Oxide to collar recesses
- K/FH - Picked out eyes with Ulthuan Grey
- K/FH - Highlighted teeth/claws with Ulthuan Grey
- K/FH - Went over eyes (and the flames on Karanak's pile of skulls) with Averland Sunset - Flesh Hounds DONE - K - Glued third head/face on.
- K - Drybrushed the fire by that one leg with Ember Orange, Wazdakka Red, Khorne Red, and Abaddon Black - Karanak DONE
Pictures All 5 Flesh Hounds, demonstrating that my photo booth might not be wide enough
Unit as two groups
Karanak, the Hound of Vengeance
Getting those finished has also checked off boxes A1 and A2 for the bingo card - 20% of the square completed, at least, though I'm fairly far behind where I need to be if I want to complete one card this year.
I see we've had another MFM released, ready for the Custodes and Ork Codex releases. A quick look at my log for what's been completed shows minimal changes - my Daemons and Death Guard are completely untouched, while my Imperial forces have dropped by 55 points overall (and are now back below 2k, annoyingly), while my Necrons saved 25 points (but are still over 1,500 points - and are currently my largest single-faction army ready for 8th onwards).
While these two doubled my points total for 2024 so far, it still feels odd to have painted four-and-a-half units and barely cleared 250 points painted.
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
2024/05/16 19:50:52
Subject: Here we go again... Unleash the Hounds of Flesh
@Mothsniper - A fan of the bricks, I see? Aye, they help break up the otherwise often monotone-ish bases, though so do elements from the bits box if I don't bury them in too much ballast.
@gobert - Thanks, gobert. I followed the guide from the box/build leaflet on the fur, and I'm glad I did, as I probably wouldn't've thought of it otherwise.
@Captain Brown - Keeping at it, Cap'n! o7
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How have we been on this page of the plog for over a year?
Having gotten the pack of Flesh Hounds off the list in the last update, I managed to find which box I'd put the WIP terrain bits I started in January in, and decided to crack on with the two Thermic Plasma Regulators. Typically, they weren't in the box I thought they were in...
When I packed them away, they'd been basecoated with Leadbelcher, washed with Nuln Oil, then drybrushed with Necron Compound, as was the Haemotrope Reactor. The platform pieces then had a single (I think) coat of Rakarth Flesh, but were still somewhat streaky.
I started off just working on the Plasma Regulators, then eventually decided to do some work on the Reactor at the same time, generally to avoid wasting too much paint.
Steps
Spoiler:
Key TPR - Thermic Plasma Regulator
HR - Haemotrope Reactor
PB - Plaguebearers
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- TPR - Added some details with Mephiston Red while my water was still mostly reddish. 2 coats, then change the very red-tinted water.
- TPR - Added another coat of Rakarth Flesh to the platforms.
- TPR - Basecoated the little plaques with letters on with Runelord Brass.
- TPR - Went over various bits of piping with Warplock Bronze.
- TPR - Went over some of those bits of piping with Brass Scorpion.
- TPR - Basecoated the plasma bits with P3 Arcane Blue (twice).
- TPR/HR - Shaded cables with ridges with Black Templar Contrast.
- TPR/HR - Basecoated the two big domed lights on each model with VMA Chrome.
- HR - Basecoated the little plaques with letters on with Runelord Brass.
- TPR - Used Macragge Blue, Averland Sunset, Khorne Red & Warpstone Glow to pick out some of the cables.
- TPR - Shaded plasma coils with P3 Meredius Blue mixed with Lahmian Medium.
- TPR - Shaded the plasma coil recesses again, with a mix of P3 Coal Black and P3 Turquoise Ink.
- TPR - Drybrushed the plasma coils with mixes of P3 Arcane Blue and P3 Menoth White Highlight to, well, highlight them. Added more MWH to each mix to pump up the glow.
- TPR/HR - Applied Cassandora Yellow Shade to the Chrome'd lights.
- TPR - Hit any non-dial screens with Death Guard Green.
- TPR - Picked out some pipework detail on the platforms with Hashut Copper.
- HR - Used same Hashut Copper to pick out various small details on the piping.
- TPR - Picked out the two smaller skull swih Screaming Skull.
- TPR - Much Agrax Earthshade came into play, on the platforms, the non-silver metallics, and the skulls.
- PB - Based the unit.
- TPR/HR - Picked out the inside of little dials with Celestra Grey.
- PB - Undercoated the unit with Corax White.
- TPR/HR - Went over the inside of the dials with Ulthuan Grey.
- TPR/HR - Picked out the needles on the dials with Abaddon Black
- TPR/HR - Went over the black sections of the Cog Mechanicus (except the huge one on the HR) with Black Templar.
- TPR - Basecoated the other halves of those Cog Mechanicus icons with Celestra Grey.
- TPR - Went over the Celestra Grey with Ulthuan Grey.
- TPR - Picked out keypad keys with Ulthuan Grey, Macragge Blue and Khorne Red.
- TPR - Basecoated various small lights with VMA Chrome or Retributor Armour, depending on desired final colour.
- TPR - Went over the Retributor Armour with Blood for the Blood God.
- TPR - Went over the Chrome with Soulstone Blue or Waystone Green to give two other colours to the lights.
Pictures
I'm both impressed and amused that when I've checked what I've got painted against the big MFM update that came out with the dataslate, exactly one model changed points - my Canoptek Doomstalker, which went up by ten.
I'm going to get caught by one of these eventually... right?
Anyway, what's up next? Well, I'll continue tinkering with the Haemotrope Reactor that's WIP, but the primary focus is going to be the unit of Plaguebearers I undercoated on Friday. I'm going to be trying to do them in the blue skintone I've used on some Nurglings and characters before now, as well as trying out a couple of paints I've not used before, in the hope of avoiding having to use any black on them...
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
2024/07/03 14:00:55
Subject: Here we go again... Time to Regulate (the Plasma)