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I have been working ont he campaign book for the Fifth Annual Airspace Aeronautica Imperialis Campaign.

The usual, painting more boyz!

Playing zombicide after work tonight. Maybe some other stuff too.

Just ordered 3 IG command squads, 40 conscripts and another 20 reg guardsmen and am now trying to figure out the fastest and laziest way to paint them all (I'm thinking airbrush)

 Corinthius wrote:
Just ordered 3 IG command squads, 40 conscripts and another 20 reg guardsmen and am now trying to figure out the fastest and laziest way to paint them all (I'm thinking airbrush)

Airbrushes and washes are your friends here. A simple basecoat -> highlight (optional) -> wash technique can get IG table-ready in no time.

Working on #2 scratchbuildt Mega Dread... and getting distracted by WoW

Got a sweet deal on a bunch of orks!! $600 worth new or so with a case. Got it for $50, parents cleaning out the house haha!!

Played several kill team games tonight - found the SW kill team to really love the small board size and loads of terrain

Also used a BA sniper and assault squad combo which worked well

Realising I suck at basing. Trying to make a muddy field for a base is hard.

Converting 10 sets of Twin Linked Devourers and they are doing my head in.

 carlos13th wrote:
Realising I suck at basing. Trying to make a muddy field for a base is hard.

Try covering the base with a thin, slightly lumpy layer of modelling putty/plasticine and then covering the whole shebang in sponge paint.

I have a tub of the stuff intended for doing decals on walls, which i use for mud effects for my Daemons. (Polyvine Sponge paint - Molasses)

A thick layer, then about 2 days to dry.

Then add patches of grass. Mordheim turf worked well for me.

If you want a more future look get a wheel from a toy bike or tank. Roll it through the gloop as it is nearly dry, and it'll leave tire tracks. Add a little water effects/mod podge to the depressions when fully dry to represent rain collecting in the dips,

Making a gaming table, a project which became a whole lot easier when I found out B&Q do 8ft x 4ft MDF with free cutting.

Probably slapping together a couple more modular structures out of dead zone tiles.

Trying to decide if ii want to back DBX or nab a few more infinity minis.

 Ascalam wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
Realising I suck at basing. Trying to make a muddy field for a base is hard.

Try covering the base with a thin, slightly lumpy layer of modelling putty/plasticine and then covering the whole shebang in sponge paint.

I have a tub of the stuff intended for doing decals on walls, which i use for mud effects for my Daemons. (Polyvine Sponge paint - Molasses)

A thick layer, then about 2 days to dry.

Then add patches of grass. Mordheim turf worked well for me.

If you want a more future look get a wheel from a toy bike or tank. Roll it through the gloop as it is nearly dry, and it'll leave tire tracks. Add a little water effects/mod podge to the depressions when fully dry to represent rain collecting in the dips,

Thanks for sharing this, I think I am going to have to try it!

Painting some burnas!! 2 Down, 13 to go

Finished a unit of tankbustas at my paint station at work, and started another.

Painted another of my ancient ork bikers, nearly done with my unit of 12.

Built some razorwire sections for my fortifications.

Painting two tactical marines. And wishing it was my birthday already 'cause I'm getting a predator.

Trying out Secret Weapon crushed glass for the first time. It looks like it has a lot of potential but then i went and spilled it all over the base -_-

Got most of the base coating and drybrushing done on my old converted Trygon that I'd been procrastinating doing anything on, also made up a base that I'm pretty pleased with for him (was going for making a hole in the ground for him to come out of and I think I pulled it off). Started on making some wings I had lying around work to make a third Flyrant (one that had previously just been the Swarmlord, but is magnetized) so I can run the Skyblight Formation. Overall, decent day for progress!

Finally got all of my plague undercoated and now the flesh is done for all 8. Still a ways to go, but I can see the light at the end of the project for my first two deadzone teams so I'm fiddling with a marauders list to figure out what to clean and paint next.

Also got some paint down on a couple small bits of DZ scenery, needs a few more applications from the airbrush and then I've got to decide if I'm going to dip all of my scenery by brush or just hit it with multiple flat coats. I'm afraid, having airbrushed the undercoat, that the paint will be particularly prone to chips/gouges even under a couple of layers of sealer... but the woodstain would probably eliminate that problem entirely... just a matter of getting it applied evenly without streaks or missing pools (some you can mask with weathering, but only so far).

Today I painted another Mordian iron guard. I ordered some Victoria Minitures dress uniforms to work on a couple converted scout sentinels. I cleared my table and got 3 heresy dark angels, 6 IG, and 10 Fields of Glory romans ready to be painted.

While i'm at work tonight, I am going to go by memory and plan out what needs to be built and painted to finish my IG. I am going to look up cameras and lighting so I can start a project log for my IG.

Hobby-wise? Procrastinating.

 Ascalam wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
Realising I suck at basing. Trying to make a muddy field for a base is hard.

Try covering the base with a thin, slightly lumpy layer of modelling putty/plasticine and then covering the whole shebang in sponge paint.

I have a tub of the stuff intended for doing decals on walls, which i use for mud effects for my Daemons. (Polyvine Sponge paint - Molasses)

A thick layer, then about 2 days to dry.

Then add patches of grass. Mordheim turf worked well for me.

If you want a more future look get a wheel from a toy bike or tank. Roll it through the gloop as it is nearly dry, and it'll leave tire tracks. Add a little water effects/mod podge to the depressions when fully dry to represent rain collecting in the dips,

Thanks mate

I built 7 Deathwatch Marines today, each one from a different Chapter, all in different poses, using a collection of pieces from the Tactical Squad, Sternguard, Vanguard, Sevrin Loth's Command Squad, metal Deathwatch conversion kit, Command Squad and Marine Commander sprues. Even threw in a CHS studio Howling Griffon pad to make a guy with twin Grav Pistols and a Jump Pack.

helping a friend build a Lizardmen Battalion

Building another Dz building for my urban warzone table. Will be trying to get some paint down on my plague strike team and possibly do some airbrushing on some terrain.

I intend to finish my Elysian squad today.........If life doesn't get in the way...

There is so much possibility for the day!

At some point I am going to the local game store (tonight). Before then I may work on DZ or maybe paint the gold on 2 warjacks for my cygnar.

Going to try to finish some of the models on my desk, and probably play some Evil Genius or Shadowrun Returns.

Got some 40k in today.

First was a 2400 point 2v1 game with Dark Angels, Ultramarines and a Knight (me), versus Tau and Necrons (them). By turn 5, there was complete and utter carnage, with the Knight's last HP being stripped by Gauss (much to the chagrin of the Tau player who got the other 5!), a squad of immortals holding their ground against a Space Marine captain with TH for 6 rounds, 1" from the board edge, and general slaughter on both sides. Hero of the game has to be my terminator Inquisitor with psycannon, who took out an Ionhead, a Doomsday Ark and a full squad of Fire Warriors before finally going down to a Destroyer Lord's warscythe. The final score was 12-12, a draw!

Second was a 500 point SW (me) vs Tau (same guy as before). It was sheer chaos, with the only models being left when the game ended on turn 7 being 2 drop pods and a Hammerhead. I won 5-4 on Kill Points, but considering I didn't fail a single save on the first turn of shooting (500 points of Tau vs 1 Grey Hunter squad) and was 3-0 up at the start (First Blood, Warlord and a KP from one JOTWW) my opponent did a great job of almost pulling it back, and fluff-wise easily claimed victory in the end.