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The time has come to paint some graves.

Primed a 3d printed atlas mech from battletech. Dropped it accidentally and lost an arm. Pitched it while thanking my lucky stars that I didn’t follow my impulse to get an entire army in the material.

Almost finished my Solitaire proxy. I'm pretty happy with him so far! My simple, quick paint style doesn't do it justice. I also began painting my Fuegan proxy, using a similar style as my Fire Dragons, side lighting then going over with Contrast paint.

Fixed up my Solitaire proxy a bit, and now he's practically finished. I got to do his gems and the gems on practically all my Eldar minis. Just gotta find a quick easy was of doing it like I did for power swords.
















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Made more progress on my Fuegan proxy. Not sure how much he'll stand out so I'm trying to make him more colourful. Also did more work on my Solitaire proxy.





Just a few fix ups.

Finished bar the decals my test print Mk II recon squad, currently printing a test Rhino.

and waiting for the IPA to turn up

I began finally assembling my Chaos Space Marine Kill Team and my Chaos Lord in Terminator armour. I also assembled my Karandras proxy and would've assembled my Jain Zar but couldn't find the instructions.

Pre-ordering 10th edition goodies

Prepping for tonight's D&D game.

Returned my lightbox/photostudio after watching a guide on miniature photography explaining why you shouldn't use those.

Bought some dark cloth at the market today and will be setting up a proper two spotlight lamp photospot for my upcoming (already finished) challenge thread entry.

 Leopold Helveine wrote:
Returned my lightbox/photostudio after watching a guide on miniature photography explaining why you shouldn't use those.

Bought some dark cloth at the market today and will be setting up a proper two spotlight lamp photospot for my upcoming (already finished) challenge thread entry.

A lot of photo setup depends on how much you want to spend and how much space you've got to setup and often leave it up. Lightboxes are popular because the commercial ones pop up and pop down very fast. So you can just get the whole thing up and used and down and packed away pretty quickly.

More lights, backdrops and more tend to take more room up and are slower to setup. Ideal if you can take your time/have space to leave it up.



Heck a lot of my photos just end up being snapshots with two boxes pushed together (one base one backdrop) and then firing the flash at the wall.

Built & primed a bunch of single blisters from my backlog tonight.
Mostly Warlord Games special editions/LEs.

And another Canoptek Spyder.

Started putting together the models from the Leviathan box set.

Assembled Jain Zar, a couple more Chaos Marines, and a new Felarch, and I've gotta say; I was damned impressed with Jain Zair. Her level of detail was amazing, and she wasn't too busy either. Her parts were assembled very well; I look forward to painting her.

Now, I'm making rules for the Eldar Corsairs in the Army Forge Studio app for Grimdark Future and having fun with it. I like the rules, but they might be a tad OP, lol.

Started work on the Leviathan miniatures. Got two Dreads built (very nice!), two Neurotyrants (very small), the Screamer Killer (very fiddly), 4 Neuroloids (very squiddly), and both the Terminator characters (very chunky) done.

A buddy essentially gave me Terminator the miniatures game so I built and primed the figures today

Built another Warpsmith for my IW/generic CSM.

No one came to the TT Skirmish game night, so I had a game against myself. It was a Grimdark Future: Firefight "king of the hill" game of who has the most units in my big white Mantic Deadzone building. "Harlequins" vs "Chaos Marines", and despite being outnumbered almost three to one, the "Harlequins" won, with none of them dying. It was fun. I used the measurement rules meant for the 4x4 board on a 25x25 board (One Page Rules have "Kitchen Table" rules that effectively halve all measurements), and it worked well despite the smaller size. It was fast and furious; it's much more fun than using the "Kitchen Table" rules which just slowed the game to a crawl in my experience.

When I got back home, I painted a test miniature of my new Corsairs, and I'm pretty happy with him. I was going to paint them like my first squad, but the colour scheme, while I think it looks good, it makes me think too much of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It's similar, but I plan on replacing the red. I'm trying out black, so I'll see how that works out.

In the midst of some rather agonizing real-world-work, I'm taking breaks using the quite excellent tables crafted by Zinderneuf, along with my contribution of the court ball, https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/493584.page#11536744 and having some stress relieving fun with my Apprentice Navigator Ulysses Selakhos Kubernetes, flying through the Helstrom Sector.

Presently, he's landed on the hiveworld or Sulcoit, where he got into a who-can-be-the-most-snotty-to-who match with Squire Hewalt Hezal. The bureaucrat wanted to shake him down for money. Ulysses lost his temper and challenged the fop to a duel. They agreed to go settle it quietly, but it turned out that the squire was only trying to get him into a quiet place, where he could have his guards murder the Navigator.

However, Ulysses, though rather average in other respects, is an excellent hand with a blade, and was gifted with two power axes of surpassing quality by a local Squat Hearthlord (a friend and ally of his father). So much so that each counts as a following fire weapon (if he kills a combatant with the first blow, he can keep attacking as long as there are other targets adjacent to him).

Still, four average human guards with ordinary swords against one very skilled combatant with a couple of very excellent weapons is no sure thing, and though he won, it was close-run.



The Navigator then forced the bureaucrat to provide him with political leverage and they essentially entered into a partnership of' "you can trust me as long as you don't turn your back..."

All worked out quite nicely from these tables. I think it has been a really nice story telling stress reliever.

There are times when even a half hour of jeet-kun-do doesn't get it. Today, I just needed to delve into some sci-fantasy fun!

I put a dead Praetorian on one of my Kill Team Gallowfall autopsy tables.

A bit more progress on my Corsairs. The test mini is looking better and better, much to my happiness. Also finished my custom-made Grimdark Future and Grimdark Future: Firefight rules for Arlathan's/Enandra's Inquisition faction from Secret War. I hope they ain't too OP lol

Finally got around to getting a case & foam trays (mostly pluck foam) for my Skaven.

So I'm currently watching some late night TV & plucking foam to fit my rat-men units.

 Adrassil wrote:
A bit more progress on my Corsairs. The test mini is looking better and better, much to my happiness. Also finished my custom-made Grimdark Future and Grimdark Future: Firefight rules for Arlathan's/Enandra's Inquisition faction from Secret War. I hope they ain't too OP lol

Curious to see this guy. Got any pics?

Took an army shot of my Excoriators now they're finally out of storage:

Those look amazing Horde!

 NapoleonInSpace wrote:

 Adrassil wrote:
A bit more progress on my Corsairs. The test mini is looking better and better, much to my happiness. Also finished my custom-made Grimdark Future and Grimdark Future: Firefight rules for Arlathan's/Enandra's Inquisition faction from Secret War. I hope they ain't too OP lol

Curious to see this guy. Got any pics?

Yup, just took a few, so here he is!

Finally began work on a new SM project - an armored column of Predators.
In order to get the most hulls in the list I had to give in & make it a BA force.
So, atm, 1,170 pts worth of Predators are sitting on the end of my hobby desk:
Baal x3
Annihilator x3
Destructor x3

Other than a SM character & a Rhino, I'm not sure what I'm going to fill the remaining 830pts with to bring it up to 2k
I was hoping that the Deimos pattern Predator would be included in the FW HH Legends. You know, since it has a nice new plastic kit & all.... But nope.
So now I'm hoping it'll have gotten mixed into the rest of the Legends stuff.

I'm also pondering converting a Stalkers guns to be turret mounted so the tank looks more like a Predator variant than an AA themed Rhino.
But I've got 7 more tanks to build before I need to worry about this.

Made more progress on my Elf Space Pirates, and comparing them to my old ones, illustrates how much I've improved over the last year since I painted my first squad. Using magnifying glasses has aided that improvement a lot, I think!

priming the orc side of the Osgiliath box following three more MESBG games, two wins over Dead of Dunharrow with Mordor then a crushing loss to Rohan with the same list.

also priming some Mk 6 Breachers for my XIV

finally test print of a Zone Mortalis wall section to see how well it comes out

As well as working more on my diorama, I did quite a bit more work on my new Corsairs, mostly my Felarch, and he's almost finished.





Decided to make the fabrics black on a whim, and I'm glad I did, as it didn't turn out too bad at all!

printing some wall sections for Necromunda, also for a Zone Mortalis Heresy game coming up.

the GW kit is good and actually not a bad price all things considered, however it lacks enough actual walls, a box of just the wall sprue with the long wall and the short wall, just that sprue, in multiple, say four of, in a box would be wonderful

since thats not possible.. 3d printing it is

Printing the Necron sheets & pulling the minis I'll need for a game tomorrow afternoon.