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I'll hopefully get around to building that new lictor.

 SilentScreamer wrote:
So what are you are all doing today for games like WH40k, WHFB and other war games? Me, I'm planning on making a Skaven army list and talking to my friend a bit more to try and convince him to purchase a dwarf army he's interested in, how about the rest of Dakka?

gonna work on one of these boys after doing some work on irrelevant gak




I'm not sam steele, this is just some stock I found.

I'm finishing up some elves for kings of war

Had the game day today with the kids finishing the game from last week. The game was a bit of walk over for one side (Inquisition led by Attelus Kaltos and Eldar led by Farseer Faleaseen both from Secret War) the Chaos and Infected Colonies didn't do well at all (I was playing Infected Colonies lol) which was a shame, but we still had fun. The kids who got their minis painted them with Speed Paint after I primed them white and they really enjoyed it might post some photos later.

Built the legs for a Warlord Titan.

Ain't skipping leg day!

I managed to fight the urge to assemble new minis and finished the Beastmen from my Blackstone Fortress box; I just have to base them. I batch-painted them, which I usually hate doing, but there were only four, so it wasn't too bad. Now all the antagonist minis of Blackstone Fortress are finished, I still have yet to finish all the protagonists besides the Man of Iron, which I'm considering re-painting anyway. A lot of them would be pretty cool minis for my eventual GF Inquisition List(s).

Working on painting one of my improved and updated classic Necromunda tower.

Cheers,

CB

Broke my promise and decided to assemble the playable characters of Blackstone Fortress as, with most of the antagonist minis finished, I may as well do them next (also, they might make good agents for my Grimdark Future Inquisition force, as I said before). I was also wrong before, I hadn't finished all the enemy minis for Blackstone Fortress, as I still had the Chaos Lord leader to finish. So I assembled him as well!

Planning on basecoating a squad of Soul Drinkers Assault Marines today, as well as making some roads for a Heavy Gear Blitz table.

A session of putting decals on airplanes turned into a frenzied session of putting decals on airplanes after I spilled decal softener all over the decals awaiting transfer.
Put decals on some imperial lightning figher proxies (de haivland vampires)

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5399948

Finally got the sticks in and printed a bunch of sides for paint racks to organise my dropper bottles. Several drawers full of paints, washes, enamels andsoforth I can finally find without having to spend half my available hobby time wondering if I had that one color or not (hopefully also cutting down on buying doubles going forward)...

More work on the plastic-card replacements for the original cardboard Necromunda terrain.

Cheers,

CB

The other day I had an idea for an Autarch conversion for my Eldar.
So I'll begin working on that this evening.
I still need a few bitz, but I can get the project started....

I'm also going to build a box of those new AoS melee Orcs with the flails that just released.

Painting 15mm Romans that I got from a friend this evening, after spending the afternoon at that same friend's celebration of life.

I began and almost finished Amallyn Shadowguide from Blackstone Fortress, and I've gotta say, she's a fun mini to paint. I painted her in the colours of my Craftworld Dalorsia from Secret War rather than Biel Tann, which is the Craftworld she's from, so, frig it, now she's a different character. And I began to paint the Chaos Lord Obsidius Mallex, but he's also the same colours as my homebrew Chaos Marine Warband.

I've had an idea of making somewhat modular Dungeon tiles. Mostly to use in Skirmish games like Frostgrave and Rangers of Shadowdeep and the like. Over the weekend I decided to put my idea to the test!




Using Craft foam I got from the Dollar store I cut out rough 1" squares, glued them to a piece of MDF I got at the art store and just roughed up the foam with a pencil and rolled up Tin Foil. Leading to something looking like this as a test Tile.

Didn't look like much from the start but I proceeded to hit the whole thing with spackle to fill in the gaps then sealed it all with a mix of black craft paint and Mod Podge. Then applied my usual dry brushing technique for stone leading to this



I'm glad I did a test run as it allowed me test the technique and see some problems with how I applied it


1) I added the cracks with a pencil BEFORE applying the spackle. This lead to the cracks being filling which was not what I wanted, and I had to spend additional time cleaning those out.
2) I had to go and get another bottle of Mod Podge as the one I had was kind of thick even when mixed with the Black paint leading to chunky lines and streaks that the Dry brushing picked up.

Overall I'm happy with the results, I just have to apply it to something...bigger

I have an idea for publishing my first board game and want to find a manufacturer or factory. However, there are many things to consider before manufacturing, such as the minimum order quantity (MOQ), price, and shipping fees (since I heard that China is a great option, so I need to consider shipping costs). Does anyone with successful publishing experience have any advice? Also, I found a company called Eastar, but there aren't many reviews to refer to. Has anyone ever cooperated with them before?
https://www.eastarboardgame.com/

 Evali wrote:
I have an idea for publishing my first board game and want to find a manufacturer or factory. However, there are many things to consider before manufacturing, such as the minimum order quantity (MOQ), price, and shipping fees (since I heard that China is a great option, so I need to consider shipping costs). Does anyone with successful publishing experience have any advice? Also, I found a company called Eastar, but there aren't many reviews to refer to. Has anyone ever cooperated with them before?
https://www.eastarboardgame.com/

Can't say I have; all I can do is wish you luck, dude!

Back on topic: I made a lot of progress on Obsidius Mallex. He's very close to being finished. I made the mistake, though, that I primed him red, but to keep him consistent with the rest of my Chaos Marines, I painted his pipes black. and there were so many pipes it took longer to paint them than the gold trim, lol.

I also began painting the Rogue Trader Janus Draik and I'm looking forward to painting him so gaudy. So, so gaudy, lol.

I rattled out some titans for a hobby weekend to tabletop ready in 3 days (add a day for building and priming). I am panel lining these bad boys tonight:



Also painted up a Crimson Fist for a pal of mine and finished the freehand over the weekend:

This evening I plan on building either:
●my 3rd Baal Predator
●another unit of Skyshroud Runners

Tonight's build (tomorrow night I'll build all the riders)
●Skyshroud Runners x3
+
●Skyweavers x4
●Windrunners x3

Janus Draik is almost done. I decided to paint his face white like he'd powdered it and a red blush on the cheek. I kept going MYESSH the whole time I painted him because of the episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadephia where the gang re-tells the story of the cracking of the liberty bell to involve Patty's Pub to try to make it a historical sight for tourism. In the episode, Not-Mac and Not-Dennis dress up as dandies and try to sound British as they plan to change sides, and they walk down the street going 'MYESSHH!' Over and over, lol. Man, I love Always Sunny so much.

Finished the Necromunda tower.


Now working on a pair of Death Jesters in metal.

Cheers,

CB

Maaaaaan did this take awhile. Between cutting up the foam, gluing it in place, running tinfoil over it all for texture applying the spackle and THEN carving out the cracks in the stone...

At least most of the work is done. Next step is to seal it with Mod podge and black paint. The actual act of painting it shouldn't be too difficult as its just going to be dry brushing various greys afterwards. I might even be able to get it all painted tonight.

Finished two old metal Death Jesters.


Cheers,

CB

For a change of pace to nids continued spiders. Soo many small details.

 Captain Brown wrote:
Finished the Necromunda tower.


Now working on a pair of Death Jesters in metal.

Cheers,

CB

beautiful

Thanks laam999. Today I visited the hobby store in Burnaby to get some more plastic card to do some more towers.

Cheers,

CB

Built all of the riders for my skyshrouds & sky weavers.
Next up, the final box of skyshrouds....

Managed to do some painting today. I began on the Ecclesarchy dude and the Navigator dude from the Blackstone Fortress box. I got a fair way through both.

Tonight I'll:
●finish building that final unit of Skyshrouds
●find just the right arm for an Autarch conversion.
●then build some other small kit/single mini from my backlog - gotta keep chipping away at it.

Tomorrow morning, weather permitting, I'll get everything I've built this past week or so base coated.