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2022/03/18 01:49:38
Subject: Here we go again... Overlord and Ophydians
18/03 - Built 2 Necron Warriors. Played some virtual Arkham Horror.
19/03 - Built 2 Necron Warriors.
20/03 - Drybrushed the Skorpekh Destroyers with VMA Chrome, as well as picking out the chest symbols.
21/03 - Built 2 Necron Warriors.
22/03 - Picked out Skorpekh "base rocks" with Abaddon Black.
23/03 - Leviadon Blue on Destroyer shoulder pads and faces. Went over the base rocks with Cryx Bane Highlight (twice). Seraphim Sepia on chest symbols (twice). Drybrushed foot rocks with Trollblood Highlight. Picked out the one skull on the foot rocks with Steel Legion Drab. Drybrushed foot rocks with Sickly Skin. Went over the skull with Jack Bone. Washed "foot rock" elements with Agrax Earthshade. Went over the girder on one foot with Nuln Oil. Started to build Skorpekh Lord. Removed the Skorpekhs from their temporary bases and slotted them into their actual bases, though not glued into place just yet.
24/03 - Finished building the Skorpekh Lord. Used superglue and baking soda to add lead weights to the base of said Lord. Black Templar'd the Skorpekhs.
25/03 - Plenty of Nuln Oil applied appropriately to the Skorpekhs. Marked out the Skorpekh Lord's footprint on his base with Cryx Bane Highlight, before removing him and blu-tacking him to a temporary base. Undercoated the Skorpekh Lord with Leadbelcher. Went over the 3 Skorpekhs with Aethermatic Blue on their armour panels, then came back with Black Templar for rib recesses and any bits the Contrast had receded too far on previously. Added top hatches to the Thunderer, after finding a spart set while sorting boxes. No idea what they were for originally. Picked out glowy sections on the Skorpekhs with VMA Chrome, as well as doing the post-undercoat drybrush on the Skorpekh Lord. Basecoated cables on the Skorpekhs and the Lord with Caliban Green. Went over the glowy bits with Tesseract Glow. Picked out the Skorpekh Lord's foot rocks with Abaddon Black.
26/03 - Went back in with Tesseract Glow on the little exhaust ports (I think?) on the back of the Skorpekhs I missed the night before. Touched up some spots on the Scout fatigues with Rakarth Flesh. Straightened out the front plate for the Thunderer. Glued the front panel onto the Thunderer, as well as my fingers. Shaded the weapons on the Skorpekhs with thinned Ork Flesh. Tried to use superglue + baking soda to fill some gaps on the Thunderer, to mixed results. Shaded Skorpekh weapons again with Dark Angels Green.
27/03 - Cleaned up rogue superglue and a couple of bits of resin flash from the Thunderer. Highlighted the Skorpekh's weapons with Moot Green. Highlighted cables on the Skorpekhs & Lord with Warpstone Green - apart from a couple I'd missed the first time around on the Lord, which picked out with Caliban Green. Glued Skorpekhs into bases - Skorpekh Destroyers done.
The Thunderer is finally built!
Early days for the Skorpekh Lord
Skorpekh Destroyers
Question for the studio audience... I've picked up a third copy of the Storm Trooper Sergeant I used as the base for my Storm Trooper Officer conversion. I've already got the second one on my desk with parts to try out a conversion with Command Rod and Power Fist, but I was wondering about converting a third one - while he should have a Command Rod, I'm not sure I want to do another Sword or Fist conversion. Should I just give him the dagger that comes in the Scion kit for the Tempestor Prime as a basic melee weapon?
Have also been sorting through some boxes and organising things a bit better, both before my week away and since my return. Amazing what you find when you do this sort of exercise, and what you forgot you had. I should probably update my Pile of Potential list with some of it, but need to figure out what I want to do with it all first - though finding the classic bug-eyed Farseer from the M2O run was a nice bonus.
I did reach an annoying realisation on the 24th - I'd already completed the three squares on this bingo card for "Unit of 2+ Models", between the first unit of 3 Scarab Swarms, the pair of Cryptothralls, and the unit of 3 Ophydian Destroyers. In the same way I mentioned with the other two Plasmacytes being banked for future cards, I'll bank the Skorpekhs in case I make it to a second card, unless anyone here objects. Maybe I should just get cards #2 & #3 ready now...
On the Hobby Bingo front, on card #1 I've managed to complete 11/25 squares so far, though I've yet to complete a row, column, or diagonal, which I'm amused by. The Scouts will allow me to pick up C4 - heh - while the Skorpekh Lord covers the last "Hero or Character" square over in E4. Get those two done, along with the 10 Warriors I built, and we do complete row 4. Guess I know what the next couple of things "to do" are, at least.
To Do - Base for Skorpekh Lord
- Bases for 10 Warriors
- Undercoat Thunderer
- Finish Scouts, probably as Blood Angels
- Finish Skorpekh Lord
- Convert second Storm Trooper Officer, plan third Storm Trooper Officer
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...
Question for the studio audience... I've picked up a third copy of the Storm Trooper Sergeant I used as the base for my Storm Trooper Officer conversion. I've already got the second one on my desk with parts to try out a conversion with Command Rod and Power Fist, but I was wondering about converting a third one - while he should have a Command Rod, I'm not sure I want to do another Sword or Fist conversion. Should I just give him the dagger that comes in the Scion kit for the Tempestor Prime as a basic melee weapon?
Dysartes,
Maybe just the dagger for variation?
Depends on how it looks, because that outstretched arm could also be for tossing a grenade.
@inmygravenimage - Thanks graven. Definitely nice to get the Thunderer built, though now I need to go back to my previous logs and check which paints I was using for my IG
@Gwyn chan'r Gwyll - Thank you very much. That's 44 models painted as of the start of this post, for 43 PL or 885 points. Not bad for 3 months, especially on a new army.
@Captain Brown - I'm leaning on keeping the Command Rod part of the conversion the same for all three. The other hand holding a grenade is an interesting idea, though - will have to have a look for a suitable part.
@gobert - Thanks gobert. Just working on making some time each day to achieve something, even if it is something small.
@Olthannon - Thanks Olthannon. Having had the Thunderer part-built for a year or two now, it's nice to get it wrapped up.
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Spoiler:
28/03 - Undercoated the Thunderer with Chaos Black. Added second coat of Rakarth Flesh to the Scout fatigues. Added bricks & bits to the bases for the Warriors & Skorpekh Lord. Basecoated most leather sections on the Scouts with Steel Legion Drab. Added ballast to the bases.
29/03 - Added sand to the bases from yesterday. Sealed the sand with thinned PVA. Picked out armour plates on the Scouts with Mephiston Red.
30/03 - Went over the Scout armour with a second coat of Mephiston Red to smooth things out. Undercoated bases for the Skorpekh Lord and 5 of the Warriors. Basecoated the batch of bases - and Skorpekh Lord foot rocks - with Cryx Bane Highlight (twice). Finished the second stage of unpainting a batch of models. Drybrushed the bases with Trollblood Highlight.
31/03 - Drybrushed bases with Scaly Skin. Picked out bricks on the bases with Skorne Red. Tidied up base edges with Abaddon Black. Painted the part-buried manhole cover element I added to the Skorpekh Lord base with Warplock Bronze. Washed Warrior bases with Agrax Earthshade - Warrior bases done. Drybrushed part-buried manhole with Brass Scorpion. Washed Skorpekh Lord base (and foot rocks) with Agrax Earthshade. Undercoated the five Necron Warriors whose bases I'd just finished. Added some Nihilakh Oxide to that manhole cover - Skorpekh Lord base done. Black Templar'd appropriate areas of the Skorpekh Lord. Went through and Nuln Oil'd appropriate areas on the Skorpekh Lord too. Picked out some areas with VMA Chrome on the Lord that I'll be turning gold in the morning.
01/04 - First pass with Seraphim Sepia on the gold areas of the Skorpekh Lord. Blue'd his face and shoulder pads with Leviadon Blue, then did a second Seraphim Sepia pass. Washed his claws and "loincloth" with a 1:1:1 mix of Lahmian Medium:Nuln Oilrakenhof Nightshade. Aethermatic Blue on the Skorpekh Lord armour plates. Added Black Templar to the Skorpekh Lord's rib recesses, and touched up any other bits I thought needed it. Picked out remaining glowy bits with VMA Chrome. Transferred Skorpekh Lord to his proper base. Tesseract Glow over the Chrome. Shaded the sword with thinned Ork Flesh. Shaded even further with Dark Angels Green. Played some virtual Arkham Horror.
02/04 - Highlighted Skorpekh Lord blade with Ogryn Camo - Skorpekh Lord done. Attended Wales Comic Con - which isn't in Wales...
Skorpekh Lord, over and done with
Bases for the next batch of Warriors
The Scouts are coming along...
Nice to get the big lad off the tray - I was getting on OK with the Scouts before he became a distraction. Hopefully I can push on and get them wrapped up this week. I've also got five Warriors ready to push on from their Leadbelcher basecoat, with the bases already 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...
@gobert - Thanks for the kind words, chief. Yeah, I've gone Blood Angels with them, though I fully admit shotgun Scouts probably aren't the best fit for them. I keep getting side-eye from them as they get usurped, though...
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Spoiler:
03/04 - Went over the Scout faces with thinned Midlund Flesh. Completed the unpainting of the latest batch of models.
04/04 - Went over the Scout chest eagles with Jack Bone. Did a first pass on metals on the Scouts with VMA Gungrey. Used some of that Gungrey on the grille on the outflow pipe from the base of the Miasmic Malignifier.
05/04 - Basecoated the bulk of that outflow pipe, inside and out, with Warplock Bronze. Washed Scout faces with Reikland Fleshshade. Drybrushed the outside of the pipe segment with Brass Scorpion. Picked out the Scout fingers with Rakarth Flesh. Shaded the inside and out of the pipe with Agrax Earthshade. Grabbed the base for the Malignifier main building, and painted the edge rim with Warplock Bronze. Basecoated the main area with Cryx Bane Highlight, then drybrushed with Trollblood Highlight. Washed the Gungrey grille with Nuln Oil.
06/04 - Drybrushed the Malignifier base with Sickly Skin, as well as painting the inside of the bottom of the outflow pipe and one of the "mouths" of the base with it. Picked out the drips on the outflow grille with VMA Chrome. Picked out skulls on gloves & shotguns on the Scouts with Chrome at the same time. Shaded the Sickly Skin areas with Seraphim Sepia. Added Nurgle's Rot to the drips on the grille and the two areas with maggots I'd hit with Seraphim Sepia earlier. Washed the drybrushed area of the base with Agrax Earthshade. Went back to go over the metal areas on the base I didn't work on the first time with Warplock Bronze. Drybrushed all the bronze areas with Brass Scorpion. Washed all the bronze/brass with Agrax Earthshade. Began the assembly process for a pair of Armiger Helverins.
07/04 - Went over the base of one of the elements of the Malignifier I'd left off with Warplock Bronze. Went around the base of the Malignifier picking out bolts with Gungrey. Finished building both Helverins to the end of stage 1 (full torso). Washed the bolts on the Malignifier base with Nuln Oil. Basedcoated the ribbed piping on two parts of the Malignifier I'd kept off with VMC Basalt Grey. Picked out the fly wings on the outflow pipe with VMC London Grey. Drybrushed the base of the ribbed pipe bit I painted bronze earlier with Brass Scorpion. Shaded fly wings and ribbed pipes with Black Templar. Washed the bronze bit with Agrax Earthshade. Basecoated assorted boils with Averland Sunset.
08/04 - Tidied up the boils with Averland Sunset. Picked out fly bodies with Fenrisian Grey. Built the Helverin hip assemblies. Washed the fly bodies with Drakenhof Nightshade. Painted the fly heads with Mephiston Red - outflow pipe ready to glue to base. Basecoated the one section I'd undercoated white with thinned Screamer Pink. Washed the fleshy bit with Druchii Violet. Glued the outflow pipe into the main Malignifier base. Assembled the "b" legs for the Helverins. Drybrushed the fleshy bit with Pink Horror. Picked out the boils on the fleshy bit with Averland Sunset.
09/04 - Went over the boils on fleshy bit with Averland Sunset. Washed the boils on the base with Reikland Fleshshade. Picked out the tops of a few of the boils with P3 Jack Bone. Washed the boils on the three pipe sections. Re-basecoated various bits on the three pipes - and the secondary building - with Sickly Skin. Assembled the "c" legs for the Helverins. Applied Nurgle's Rot over the Sickly Skin on the pipes. Used Screamer Pink to basecoat various bits of organs on the secondary building. Basecoated the Warplock Bronze on the secondary building.
10/04 - Washed the Screamer Pink bits of the secondary building with Druchii Violet. Did a second pass over the bronze to tidy things up. Highlighted the Screamer Pink area with Pink Horror.
11/04 - Drybrushed bronze areas with Brass Scorpion.
12/04 - Washed the bronze areas with Agrax Earthshade. Picked out some silver metal details with VMA Gungrey. Washed the Gungrey with Nuln Oil. Basecoated main hull with Death Guard Green, though a second coat will be required.
13/04 - Second pass with Death Guard Green. Third pass with Death Guard Green. Nipped in to pick out a bronze ring I'd missed with Warplock Bronze. Washed the green and that bronze ring with Agrax Earthshade. Drybrushed with Loren Forest. Applied a patchy drybrush of Ogryn Camo. Basecoated the three skulls with Steel Legion Drab, then went over that with P3 Jack Bone. Washed the skulls with Agrax Earthshade. Picked out the various boils with Averland Sunset. Washed the boils with Reikland Fleshshade. Picked out the tips of the two "about to explode" boils with Jack Bone - Miasmic Malignifier secondary building done*
WIP These guys are making progress, but are a bit confused by other things moving through to completion before them
There's a reason I'm not in the pit crew...
I'd say these pipes are done, but I'll have to adjust effects when they're on the building
Didn't realise the end of the pipe was out of focus - whoops! More technical paint to be used when going through final assembly, methinks.
Done Secondary building from the Miasmic Malignifier done - need to work on the primary when I get back
Anyone else have problems with the coverage of Death Guard Green over a black undercoat, btw? Given it is a Base paint, I'm disappointed that it took three passes for a smooth(ish) base.
I'm going to see family for Easter, so I won't really be able to crack on with more on the main Miasmic Malignifier building (or the Scouts) until I get back. I am taking a Blood Bowl team with me to build, though, so there'll be some hobby progress in that regard to keep me going.
Tackling painting the big building from the Miasmic Malignifier will be the priority when I get back, but painting the "outbuilding" has me feeling a bit more confident about it.
#hobbystreak day 89 (as of 13/04)
* - Done for the purposes of saying stuff is done - I may well revisit it with some technical paints (Nurgle's Rot, Typhus Corrosion, Nihilakh Oxide, Blood for the Blood God) when the main building is done, but it is done enough to be usable on a table now...
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...
2022/04/14 19:12:28
Subject: Here we go again... Miasmic Malignifier Secondary Building
I'm really enjoying all the gloop. May Papa bless and keep you! The pink is a fab contrast to the goo. I like your scouts too, very old school. Yes, DG green is weak sauce. I use Vallejo Heavy Green instead if I want a decent base green over black.
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2022/04/16 19:02:08
Subject: Here we go again... Miasmic Malignifier Secondary Building
Good steady progress on the scouts. The nurgle building looks pretty cool. I never knew the fun of painting papa’s minis until recently, may he bless you upon your return (in the painting sense, not covid!). Exciting tease with the titans; traitor or loyalist?
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2022/04/30 10:09:27
Subject: Re:Here we go again... Miasmic Malignifier - praise Grandfather, and hand out the pustules...
@inmygravenimage - Cheers, graven. While I've painted Poxwalkers and Plaguebearers previously, I think this is the first time I was actually using Death Guard Green on something.
@gobert - They may not be the fastest unit I've painted, gobert, but they're moving forwards slowly. Which fits with the initial Necron theme of the revived thread, when you think about it As for the Helverins, they'll be Loyalist, though I'm not sure which House just yet. I've got the Castellan & Helverin battleforce box and a copy of Knights Renegade to go with them at some point. Should be a decent start to a House.
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Spoiler:
14/04 - Started on the Warplock Bronze for the main MM building.
15/04 - Built two of the Khorne BB team players
16/04 - Built two of the Khorne BB team players
17/04 - Built two of the Khorne BB team players
18/04 - Built two of the Khorne BB team players
19/04 - Built two of the Khorne BB team players
20/04 - Built two of the Khorne BB team players
21/04 - Basecoated more of the Warplock Bronze on the MM building. Removed the balls, coins and markers from the Khorne BB team sprues.
22/04 - Finally finished basecoating the bronze.
23/04 - Drybrushed all the bronze with Brass Scorpion. Collected the Store Anniversary Inquisitor from my local GW. Started the process of washing the bronze with Agrax Earthshade.
24/04 - Finished washing the bronze with Agrax Earthshade. Started adding silver metallics in with VMA Gungrey. Shaded the Gungrey with Nuln Oil. Applied the first coat of Death Guard Green. Started second coat of Death Guard Green.
25/04 - Finished the second coat of Death Guard Green. Applied the third (and final) coat of Death Guard Green. Shaded the green with Agrax Earthshade.
26/04 - Drybrushed the green with Loren Forest. Lightly drybrushed the green with Ogryn Camo. Basecoated the three big skulls on the icon with Steel Legion Drab. Went over the skulls with Jack Bone. Shaded the skulls with Agrax Earthshade. Basecoated ribbed pipes and fly wings with VMC Basalt Grey. Shaded said pipes and wings with Black Templar.
27/04 - Painted fly bodies with Fenrisian Grey. Washed fly bodies with Drakenhof Nightshade. Painted fly heads with Mephiston Red. Basecoated fleshy bits with Sickly Skin. Went over Sickly Skin with Screamer Pink. Washed fleshy bits with Druchii Violet. Drybrushed the fleshy bits with Pink Horror.
28/04 - Touched up the drips on the front fleshy pipes with Sickly Skin, ready for some Nurgle's Rot to be applied later. Painted pustules with Averland Sunset - so many pustules... Played some virtual Arkham Horror in the evening.
29/04 - Picked out the pustules on the skull icon I'd missed with Aveland Sunset, as well as evening out some of the others where the yellow was patchy. Glued one of the three pipe pieces in place. Washed all pustules with Reikland Fleshshade. Picked out the recessed middle of some unexploded pustules with Jack Bone. Added some appropriately-placed goo with Nurgle's Rot. Picked out assorted small details that needed tidying up before assembly. Glued Miasmic Malignifier into its base. Glued the two remaining pipes into place (as they attach to the building and the base). Played some virtual Arkham Horror in the evening. Used Nurgle's Rot to link areas on the Malignifier to areas on the base.
30/04 - Went in with Carroburg Crimson, Nihilakh Oxide, more Nurgle's Rot and even a spot of Typhus Corrostion for final detail work - Miasmic Malignifier done
12 Khorne Players resting before a game - any chance of slotless Blood Bowl bases at some point, GW?
The main event - so many pustules, man...
I may need a larger light box at some stage.
Well, that ended up being more of a marathon than a sprint. The amount of bronze trim to pick out, the need for multiple coats of Death Guard Green to get a reasonable finish, and being away from paint for a week, etc. Glad to get it out of the way, though I guess I need to work up some other Death Guard to go with it, aside from 28 Poxwalkers.
We have a Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK, so I'm hoping to finally finish off the Scouts, and get on with the next unit of Necron Warriors. That, and I need to find the Forge World box with the extra stuff for the Khorne team.
Square B1 filled on the bingo card, so that's 13 squares on the first on completed, and 2 on the second. Get the Thunderer and Scouts done and we're up to 15 on card #1, as well as completing the first column. Not bad, not bad...
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...
2022/05/01 18:31:08
Subject: Here we go again... Miasmic Malignifier - praise Grandfather, and hand out the pustules...
@inmygravenimage - Thanks, graven. I do wish I'd done a bit better of a job on a couple of the seam lines when preparing the model, but that's on Past Dysartes...
@Captain Brown - Thanks, Captain. I can already foresee that storing this thing will be a pain, and Grandfather aid me should I ever need to take it anywhere...
@Olthannon - Thank ye kindly. They definitely help break up the green & bronze.
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Spoiler:
01/05 - Replaced the sword arm on a Storm Trooper Sergeant with the Scion Command Rod. Removed the hot-shot laspistol arm at the elbow. Removed the shoulder pad and upper arm from the Scion Power Fist. Drilled the holes for a pin in the Fist and elbow, as well as in one foot to attach to the base.
02/05 - Removed the original cables from the power fist. Glued the Officer into the base. Rigged up a replacement cable for the power fist & glued it into place. Added a piece to hide a small gap at the shoulder. Built up the base with the usual steps. Undercoated the Officer.
03/05 - Basecoated the bases for the Officer, Karanak and a unit of Flesh Hounds (hereafter referred to as "the bases") with Cryx Bane Highlight (twice). Drybrushed the bases with Trollblood Highlight. Drybrushed the bases with Sickly Skin. Picked out the bricks on the bases with Skorne Red. Picked out the assorted skulls with Steel Legion Drab. Went over the skulls with Jack Bone. Shaded the bases with Agrax Earthshade. Tidied up the base rims with Abaddon Black.
04/05 - Basecoated the Officer (apart from the Rod of Command) with Basalt Grey. Also travelled for work.
05/05 - Shaded the grey on the officer with Nuln Oil. Basecoated the fatigues with Skorne Red. Picked out the grenades with Caliban Green. Picked out the bedroll with Battledress Green. Picked out the face with Midlund Flesh. Played some virtual Arkham Horror.
06/05 - Touched up the face with a second coat of Midlund Flesh (from a new pot). Washed the skin with Reikland Fleshshade. Basecoated the sections which will be gold with VMA Chrome.
07/05 - Tinted the Chrome with Seraphim Sepia. Shaded the bedroll with Athonian Camoshade, Shaded the grenades with a 2:1:1 mix of Lahmian Medium/Nuln Oil/Biel-Tan Green. Picked out silver metallics areas with VMA Steel. Added a second coat of Seraphim Sepia to the gold. Washed the Steel with a 2:1:1 mix of Lahmian Medium/Nuln Oil/Drakenhof Nightshade. Tidied up the base rim slightly with Abaddon Black. Washed the red fatigues with Agrax Earthshade. Touched up a couple of rogue metallic spots on the grey with Basalt Grey. Washed those spots with Nuln Oil. Picked out the bionic eye lens with Retributor Armour. Remembered to pick out the arm panel details with Chrome. Used Blood for the Blood God, Waystone Green & Soulstone Blue appropriately - Storm Trooper Officer done.
A bit of a step-by-step look at the conversion...
Karanak and the Flesh Hounds, with painted bases - though I need to do the fiery bit on the top of Karanak's pile o' skulls...
The finished Officer - Captain Johann Moxley, perhaps?
Yeah, I know. I said I'd get to work on the Scouts next, and I'm immediately off doing something else that isn't the Scouts. On the other hand, I had a bank holiday weekend available, and this Sergeant had been on the desk for a little while.
I think I need to get some more 25mm bases, as I really couldn't find mine while doing this, which is odd - I was sure I had a box of them somewhere, but could I find it today? No, but I had plenty of 30mm lipped bases. Off to the eBay for a restock...
I've left Karanak & co with their bases done, bar some flames on Karanak's skull pile. It was a little more awkward than I thought to get under the dogs to get to their bases, but I think they've come out OK.
Sorta-kinda random question - anyone know of a source of suitable bits for making Crozius Arcanums, or a third party making suitable weapons?
Spoiler:
Updated hobby bingo card following turning this officer around - as a conversion, he fills out one of the "Kitbashed Model" squares, specifically B3, completing column B. 14 squares on card #1 finished, and still 2 on card #2 (as well as a theoretical 1 on a card #3). Still want to wrap up column C next, if I can.
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...
2022/05/07 21:55:06
Subject: Here we go again... =][= Storm Trooper Officer with Power Fist
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2022/06/02 22:50:33
Subject: Re:Here we go again... Ryza Ruins & Necron Warriors
@MegaDave - Thanks MegaDave. It's the second time I've done the Command Rod swap, though last time I used a Power Sword instead of the Power Fist. Think I'll do a third with the Scion dagger to give me the three =][= Officers I might want to use at this point. I'm also going to look to convert up the three specialists (Medic, Standard Bearer & Comms Officer) for a ST Command Squad.
@inmygravenimage - Thanks, graven. You might be onto something with that CoD piece, if I can find any of them.
@gobert - Cheers!
@Olthannon - Thanks, Olthannon. Haven't gone back to the hounds just yet, as you might notice from the below...
@ghostmaker - The plasma pistol one seems to be more expensive to pick up, though I did just get a reasonable deal on a pair of them. Thinking I'll be using one for a comm-link guy, and maybe as a medic, but I'll need to figure out my Dremel to get rid of the boltgun on the chest of either.
@ph34r - Thank ye kindly. Not sure how much use a power fist on him will be, but it looks cool, and I'll take that
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08/05 - Worked on modifying a Plague Marine icon and the back of the Helbrute's fist to get the two to marry up. Removed the Eye of Horus from the spiky frame/chestplate as well.
09/05 - Used some Liquid Green Stuff on the Helbrute fist.
10/05 - Built 2 Assault Intercessors (minus backpack)
11/05 - Built 2 Assault Intercessors (minus backpack)
12/05 - Used more Liquid Green Stuff on the Hellbrute fist
13/05 - Cleaned the following in warm soapy water - Finecast Nurgle Daemon Prince; FW Khorne BB Team Booster; FW Max Spleenripper; FW BB Khorne Bloodbeast. Played some virtual Arkham Horror.
14/05 - Started assembling the Nurgle Daemon Prince
15/05 - De-sprued & undercoated the two cross-shaped ruin sections from a Ryza-pattern ruins set. Kept each ruin in its two pieces, and masked them with blu-tack.
16/05 - Basecoated one side of the ruins with Cryx Bane Highlight. Need a bigger brush.
17/05 - Found a bigger brush. Basecoated the other side of the ruins (and the edges) with Cryx Bane Highlight.
18/05 - Filled the divots in the top of the Assault Intercessor bases, as well as adding weights to the bases of them and the Bladeguard Lt., including sealing them.
19/05 - Did a second coat of Cryx Bane Highlight on the Ryza ruin sections. Not after perfect coverage over the black undercoat, but better than I had.
20/05 - Drybrushed the Ryza ruins with Trollblood Highlight.
21/05 - Undercoated the bases on the next five Necron Warriors.
22/05 - Basecoated the Warrior bases with Cryx Bane Highlight (twice). Drybrushed the bases with Trollblood Highlight.
24/05 - Tidied up the edges of the Warrior bases with Abaddon Black. Picked out the bricks with Skorne Red. Washed the bases with Agrax Earthshade.
25/05 - Basecoated all the grills on the Ryza ruins with Warplock Bronze. Picked out the big bolts with Leadbelcher.
26/05 - Undercoated the other five Necron Warriors. Picked out the window frame elements on the Ryza ruins with Gungrey.
27/05 - Painted assorted metal details on the Ryza Ruins using Brass Scorpion, Gungrey, more Brass Scorpion, and Runelord Brass for the pipes.
28/05 - Played my first game of 5e D&D as my first time using Roll20 (session 1 of maybe 3). Drybrushed all ten Warriors with VMA Chrome, as well as picking out the chest ankhs with Chrome.
29/05 - Picked out the cables on the with Warpstone Glow, Mephiston Red, Gal Vorbak Red and Incubi Darkness. Basecoated the control panels with Basalt Grey. Went over the control panels with Black Templar. Went over the "foot rocks" on the Warriors with Cryx Bane Highlight.
30/05 - Picked out some more metal details on the Ryza ruins with Leadbelcher and Brass Scorpion. Went over a couple of glass panels with Caliban Green, and some dials with Sickly Skin. Picked out the domed light on one ruin with Fenrisian Grey. The great Agrax-ing occurred.
31/05 - Removed blu-tack masking, tidied up around it, and assembled the Ryza ruins. Went into the intersection recesses with Cryx Bane Highlight.
01/06 - Washed the intersection recesses with Agrax Earthshade. Added some Typhus Corrosion and Nihilakh Oxide in places. Washed a couple of panels I'd missed the first time with Agrax Earthshade - Ryza ruins done. Used Agrellian Earth to add some texture to the chestplate of the Helbrute.
02/06 - Washed the Necron Warrior chest ankhs with Seraphim Sepia (twice over the course of the day). Drybrushed the foot rocks with Trollblood Highlight, then Sickly Skin. Applied Leviadon Blue to the Warrior shoulders. Went over everyone with Nuln Oil as required. Did first pass with Black Templar Contrast. Went over all the armour (including the face) with Aethermatic Blue Contrast. Washed foot rocks with Agrax. Did second pass with Black Templar, to darken gun casings and fill the rib recesses. Incubi Darkness on the guns. Went over the areas that need to be glowy with VMA Chrome. Picked out cables with Caliban Green. Tesseract Glow on the glowy bits. Went over cables with Warpstone Glow. Glued into bases - Necron Warriors done.
WIP Shots Second half of this group of Warriors, with bases, before undercoating.
The Ryza ruins in their pre-Agrax state
Finished products Ryza-pattern ruins
10 Necron Warriors with Gauss Reapers
Finding that my Civilization V install works may have messed with my productivity. On the other hand, wins with Rome and Greece cross three more achievements off the checklist, including a random combination of religious tenet and many allied city states during the Greek game (though no requirement to be Alexander to get it). And then I accidentally beat it again with Englad, getting a Culture win while I was trying to finish off a Science victory. Puts me on 90 out of 286 achievements... after 300+ hours of gameplay since I bought the game. Definitely wish some of the achievements on Steam showed you how far along you were, like the "Buy 1000 tiles" one.
Nice to get these Ryza ruins out of the way - the sprue has been sat on my "coffee table" for a while, so at least they're wrapped up. Not sure where one set of the barricades has wandered off to, though. Quite happy with how the Runelord Brass has come out, for my first time using it - may have to find other uses for it now.
Pretty happy to be able to turn that unit of Warriors around mostly inside one day - on the other hand, I'm still not getting anywhere with the Scouts. That puts me up to thirty painted Warriors, though I'm going to do a once-over on Monday, when I'm back from UK Games Expo, in case I need to tidy anything up. This was the unit I took back to the family farm with me to assemble at Easter, and I think they got squished a bit in my rucksack, as some of the ankles have twisted.
8 spots left on the first bingo card - two of them being Lords of War, though I don't want to claim individual Armigers for that - that seems like gaming the system a bit. Thunderer and Scouts should be the next priorities, but we'll see.
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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...
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2022/06/03 07:34:11
Subject: Here we go again... Ryza Ruins & Necron Warriors
You were asking about Crozius bits? Varous banner tops is what I've used in the past.
"But me no buts! Our comrades get hurt. Our friends die. Falkenburg is a knight who swore an oath to serve the church and to defend the weak. He'd be the first to tell you to stop puling and start planning. Because what we are doing-at risk to ourselves-is what we have sworn to do. The West relies on us. It is a risk we take with pride. It is an oath we honour. Even when some soft southern burgher mutters about us, we know the reason he sleeps soft and comfortable, why his wife is able to complain about the price of cabbages as her most serious problem and why his children dare to throw dung and yell "Knot" when we pass. It's because we are what we are. For all our faults we stand for law and light.
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2017 Model Count-71
2022/06/03 19:52:43
Subject: Here we go again... Ryza Ruins & Necron Warriors
More great work on the Necrons. You’re really pulling together the army fast with this hobby streak you’re on! The Ryza ruins pieces look cool too, really neat base coats that the wash pulls together well. Hopefully you get some inspiration to get the scouts off the desk so we can see the FW stuff progress!
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2022/06/03 19:59:25
Subject: Here we go again... Ryza Ruins & Necron Warriors
@inmygravenimage - Thanks graven. They might be a touch clean, but they're definitely usable on a table as they are now. We've had a branch of Element Games open in Sheffield recently that stocks some of the AK Interactive products, so I may try out some of their grimes on the ruins at some stage.
@Llamahead - Banner tops are another good shout. Might be a little more accessible than CoD pieces these days, too.
@gobert - Thanks gobert. By my reckoning (and including the one Plasmacyte that needs a unit), I'm up to 1,300 points (or 66 PL) so far this year, which isn't bad going. With a bit of luck, I may even hit 1,500 points by the end of H1.
@Olthannon - Thanks Olthannon. What do you think of the scheme on the Deathmarks, below?
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03/06 - UK Games Expo day 1. Managed to get Cursed City at 30% off RRP, which I was happy with. Tried the new MTG Commander decks from the Baldur's Gate set. Played a copy of Radlands that my friend picked up.
04/06 - UK Games Expo day 2. Tried Agents of SMERSH and a playtest of the Heroes of Might and Migic III board game.
05/06 - UK Games Expo day 3. Tried Calico, Bearithmatic & Copra, the latter of which should be going on KS later in the year.
06/06 - Started putting together five Deathmarks. Had to fill some gaps in the shoulder pads with Liquid Green Stuff - I may have been overzealous when trying to get rid of the sprue connector marks.
07/06 - Finished putting together five Deathmarks. Ye gods the arms were a pain.
08/06 - Added weights to the Deathmark bases, as well as sealing them in. Started to base the Deathmarks.
09/06 - Based the Deathmarks, including sealing the bases with watered-down PVA glue.
10/06 - Undercoated the Deathmarks with Leadbelcher. Drybrushed the Deathmarks with VMA Chrome. Undercoated their bases with Abaddon Black. Basecoated the bases with Cryx Bane Highlight (twice).
11/06 - Drybrushed the bases with Trollblood Highlight, then with Sickly Skin. Picked out the bricks on the bases with Skorne Red. Tidied up the base rims with Abaddon Black - bases complete. Touched up feet (and any other missed areas) with Leadbelcher, then picked out the chest ankhs with Chrome. Shaded joints (etc) with Nuln Oil. Applied Aethermatic Blue to the Deathmark's faces, avoiding the central eye. Used Black Templar on the spines, gun stock and hand guard.
12/06 - Went back in to the shins with Black Templar. Applied Leviadon Blue to the feet, legs & hips. Second stage of Leviadon Blue to the arms and hands. Put together the leg assembly for a Canoptek DOOOM!stalker.
13/06 - Added weights to the Doomstalker base, as well as filling the divot in the middle. Finished adding Leviadon Blue to the Deathmarks, going over the torso this time.
14/06 - Put together three out of four segments from a set of Plasma Conduits.
15/06 - Put together the fourth segment from the Plasma Conduits set.
16/06 - Undercoated the Conduits with Leadbelcher spray.
17/06 - Basedcoated the Scouts hair with P3 Rucksack Tan.
18/06 - No HH box for me, but maybe once my LGS gets a restock. After swearing blind I had a Khorne Red somewhere... I had to go into town and get a Khorne Red (and a Gryph-Hound Orange).
19/06 - Glued together the organiser trays for 7 Wonders Duel I picked up at UKGE, and sorted the core game and two expansions into them so they all fit in the core game box.
20/06 - Picked out small wires/pipes and tanks on the Plasma Conduits with Khorne Red. Washed the conduits (carefully-ish) with Nuln Oil. Went back to hit some bits I'd missed with Khorne Red the first time.
21/06 - Picked out ribbed cables, piping, and some details on the conduits with Retributor Armour. Painted smooth pipes and plaques with Runelord Brass, though I'll review them tomorrow in case of missed bits.
22/06 - Did some of the tidying up with Runelord Brass, Retributor Armour & Khorne Red.
23/06 - Painted the end grills on each pipe with Runelord Brass. Picked out a handle and a couple of buttons with Brass Scorpion.
24/06 - Shaded any additional Khorne Red elements with Nuln Oil. Shaded the grills at the end of the conduits with Agrax Earthshade. Shaded other brass and gold details with Agrax Earthshade. Remembered to undercoat the canister/battery things from the Conduits.
25/06 - Picked out skulls with Jack Bone, dials with Sickly Skin, and that one screen (and light) with Caliban Green. Basecoated the power cells with Khorne Red, then shaded with Nuln Oil. Basecoated the active plasma coils with P3 Arcane Blue (twice, in some places). Thinned some Meredius Blue with some Lahmian Medium* to form a wash, then shaded the plasma coils with it. Mixed P3 Turquoise Ink and Coal Black, then shaded the coils again. Highlighted the coils with a mix of Arcane Blue and Menoth White Highlight.
26/06 - Mixed a lighter mix of Arcane Blue & Menoth White Highlight for a final highlight on the plasma coils. Picked out a panel on one of the conduits I'd missed with Runelord Brass. Picked out the gun cores on the Deathmarks with Runelord Brass. Shaded these brass elements with Agrax, as well as the skulls on the console. Shaded the little upright on top of the Deathmark guns with Nuln Oil.
27/06 - Went over various bits of the Deathmark gun casing with Black Templar. Picked out the non-ribbed cable on their guns with Caliban Green. Highlighted those cables with Warpstone Glow.
28/06 - Tidied up gups with a bit more BLack Templar.
29/06 - Basecoated glowy bits with VMA Chrome.
30/06 - Picked out a couple of lights on the Plasma Conduit Console with Retributor Armour.
01/07 - Went over the Deathmark Glowy Bits with Tesseract Glow, in a couple of phases (to avoid unfortunate fingerprints). Picked out the chest ankhs with Seraphim Sepia. Deathmarks done.
02/07 - Went over the two lights on the console with Blood for the Blood God.
03/07 - Tidied up dial faces on two of the Conduits with P3 Menoth White Highlight. Added some detail to the dial faces with Mephiston Red and Warpstone Glow. Picked out the needles again with Abaddon Black, then Leadbelcher - Conduits done.
Completed 5 Necron Deathmarks
One set of Thermal Plasma Conduits, from the cover of an Imperium magazine
I decided to almost invert my Necron scheme for the Deathmarks, going mainly with Leviadon Blue on the armour, with just the faces getting Aethermatic Blue. I figured the darker colours were more fitting for a sniper unit in general, though whether Necrons would opt for such an approach is another discussion entirely.
With these guys done, and the changes from the latest MFM applied to my Necron collection, I'm currently at 1,300 points (or 66 PL) with everything counted, though there remains one Plasmacyte that cannae be fielded yet. Still weighted towards HQ & Elites, though I have plenty of sprues of Troops to work through. I do want to make a unit of Immortals, but I'm not sure yet what I want to build them with - but, having put the Deathmarks together, I'm aware I'll have plenty of bits left when I'm done.
The Plasma Conduits were picked up on a whim as part of an order from Forbidden Planet, though I think I have another set knocking around from the Conquest series. I know I have a couple of Regulators and Haemotrope Reactors built but not painted, for sure, so I guess I'll add to these as I go along. Went with the scheme from Imperium, as I didn't have any brighter ideas, and I'm reasonably happy with most of how they came out, with the probably exception of the dial faces.
They may have been the first time I've used Runelord Brass in a significant fashion, and I like how it looks, so that make come into play more over time.
So, what's next? Well, these models have been lurking on my desk for a while, so I guess it is time to pick them back up again... ...please ignore the Plaguebearer behind the ruin - he's there to remind me of the right final look
This group features 10 Plaguebearers, and the two smaller ruins from the 9th ed Command Edition box for 40k. The latter have been undercoated in Wraithbone, but that's it. The Plaguebearers are the same group I mentioned back on page 1, in March last year. The swords and bases are "done" for all of them, bar adding any technical effects (such as Nurgle's Rot or Nihilakh Oxide), and half of them have had their first coat of Athonian Camoshade on their skin.
Let's look at the bingo card(s) at the end of H1...
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To complete card #1, we're looking at the following: - 2 Lord of War units (2 x 2 Armiger, or 2 x Armiger & 1 x Castellan?) - 3 VEHICLE or MONSTER units (Thunderer, Doomstalker, Doomstalker) - 1 Kitbashed model (Storm Trooper Officer #3, or first of the ST Command Squad) - 1 Unit of 10+ Models (10 Plaguebearers) - 1 Unit of 5+ Models (Those Darned Scouts)
Not a huge number of slots to complete, but a fair amount of work to do still, especially when only 3 of those 8 are even built at this point.
Hobbystreak, to end of current notes, is up to day 170.
* - Shockingly, despite mixing elements from the P3 and Citadel paint lines, the universe did not end. Or, if it did, the reboot was swift and painless.
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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...
2022/07/12 19:41:54
Subject: Here we go again... Plasma Conduits & Necron Deathmarks
Finished Forge World Elysian Army 
Finished Tau Sept Cadre 
Finished Ork Waaagh | 
Alaitoc Eldar Warhost 
Finished Order of Our Martyred Lady - Sisters of Battle 
Finished Necromundian Imperial Guard Regiment 
rakenhof Nightshade. Aethermatic Blue on the Skorpekh Lord armour plates. Added Black Templar to the Skorpekh Lord's rib recesses, and touched up any other bits I thought needed it. Picked out remaining glowy bits with VMA Chrome. Transferred Skorpekh Lord to his proper base. Tesseract Glow over the Chrome. Shaded the sword with thinned Ork Flesh. Shaded even further with Dark Angels Green. Played some virtual Arkham Horror.
