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Nice!

Still slaving away on my Vanguard...

One day they will be done... one day...

Working on my entery for Paradigm's Monthly Painting Challenge. It's going well, for now at least.

 GrimDork wrote:
I think its only an issue when reading on phones. And maybe when taking photos from places like facebook that tend to have the larger photos as the ones you get when you link to them.

A couple of photos for what I'm working on, do you guys favor the taller or shorter domes?

Spoiler:

For what it's worth I like the look of the taller domes. it also seems like it would be easier to move minis around underneath them?

Finishing up the magnetizing of my Onager's weapons, and then onto Assembling my Skitarii Rangers.

At first i thought magnetizing the onagers weapons was going to be hard, but it ended up being pretty easy.

Some more work on the ship now.


Edit: Wrong thread! It is what I did today though.

Put the finishing touches to 2 more minis; a CSM and a Death Cult Assassin, bringing me to 290 for the year. With any luck, I'll hit the big 300 within the next couple of weeks.

Debating what to enter into the Fast and Furious comp:

- Ravenwing Bikers
- A few more DCA
- Ravenwing Land Speeder
- Possibly a CSM Raptor
- whatever else I find in the bits box...

Just did my first painting evening in about two months! One death korps trooper, have been crazy busy on the farm and just entering a few weeks of quiet time so will try to up the work ratio in the evening!

Painted a bridge and messed about with a table layout.

Painted Warwitch Deneghra.
Perfect de buff lady.

At the mo I am waiting for the paint to dry on Pink Horrors and Khorne Bloodletters, while I have a couple of Chaos Space Marines and Khorne Berzerkers to finish off tonight.

 Ascalam wrote:
Nice!

Still slaving away on my Vanguard...

One day they will be done... one day...

I know the feeling, bro *hug*

I' m still working on my Skitarii Rangers too. Granted, I haven't been painting that much, but they sure are taking time. Hopefully it won't take that long now

Working, but at lunchtime I have plans to finish building some Ironstriders and then laughably fail at resisting the temptation to pre-order some Wave 7 Xwing!

I'll probably end up ordering the scum stuff by default. I wanna see a bit more of the cards/mechanics for the other two before I get them though. If they help make some of my existing ships more fun/useful, then I'll probably get them even if I don't *love* the aesthetics, but otherwise I may let them pass.

on my desk in front of me i have a base of Battle Masters Chaos Archers which should get finished today. A squad of Assault Marines for my homebrew chapter that have been basecoated and not much more. A squad of first generation ork-genestealer hybrids for my Green Brood that just need a bit of edge highlighting and are done. And a squad of Possessed CSMs that have been barely started.

Painting martial artists for a Fistful of Kung Fu whilst listening to Depth Charge's Nine Deadly Venoms.

Painting a squad of dirty communists for Bolt Action. Maybe I will redo my SU artillery tank.

 larva_uk wrote:
Painting martial artists for a Fistful of Kung Fu whilst listening to Depth Charge's Nine Deadly Venoms.

I was really tempted to pick up those martail artists at salute. Wish I had.

Having to clean and prime another 16 Thunderbolt Mountain Greater Goblins, as the organization of two of my units changed (from embedded archers, to a rear rank of supporting archers).

Tedious, tedious, tedious.

MB

Honestly not sure if I should admit to it or not, because it involves crayons and pretending to be five.

Raging out at pieces of background card not staying up when trying to take pictures... I wound up just taping the damn thing to the wall.



Aye I had fun laying out some of the terrain that I've came up with this past month out. I rarely manage a game, and even then the lighting where I play is horrible. I thought then that I'd take a picture of some stuff together for the benefit of people who can't be there to see it all. Meh, I'll post some more pictures in my Fallout thread (shameless plug, plug, plug...), but have that at least for tonight.

I have a giant sheet of newsprint I take to the wall when taking photos.

MB

Sweet table.

Going to continue converting up my IG Storm troopers with plasma and melta guns. got 4 and 4 done so far and now GS them to look like kashkins.

Oh! And priming replacement Orcs/Goblins for two units that I changed the composition of.

They used to have archers embedded in each element, but I decided to change the element types from the DBX equivalent of Blades (the rules I use, Hoplon allows for their equivalent of Blades, called "Swords" to be dual-armed with a missile weapon, as do the rules Fields of Glory for Medium Infantry to be armed with what they call a *Bow which allows for a minor amount of bow fire from a primarily melee unit) to having a row of Supporting Archers behind the unit, and to change them to what Hoplon[bi] calls Barbarians, Fast (DBA/MMs's Warbands, F and [b]Fields of Gloriy's Heavy/Medium Infantry with the Impact Foot Close Combat ability.

This narrows their frontage from 4 elements across and 2 deep, to 3 elements across and deep (which means that I needed one figure for each element to replace the bowman/orc, and three figures per unit to add an additional element).

And then I needed one additional boworc to fill out the row of supporting archers (which will rarely be used, as they only tend to be used when charged, which the Orcs are rarely going to let happen, since they are classed as Impetuous.

They won't be trying to charge any Rohirrim, as the rules allow them to ignore Knights or Cavalry for Impetuosity, but against Arnor, Gondor, Dale, Elves of Any Kind, or against the First Age Edain, or Second Age Hill-Men, they are rarely going to get to use the archers.

The rules do allow for the Archers to act as an independent detachment though, and move out in front of the unit (thus slowing down their impetuosity, by cutting off their LOS to the enemy, but a unit of 3element of Archers is not going to do much more than keep an enemy disordered for a turn or two (until they charge and destroy the Archers).

But....

Cleaning Thunderbolt Mountain Heavy Great Goblins and Archers (I wish that Tom would make some freaking Heavy Archers - The current ones are sculpted such that doing any conversion work on them would not be much different than sculpting an entire Damned orc).

Oh! And I am picking cat hairs out of the primer as they dry.

Much simpler with the Tamiya Primer, since it is not as Cakey as primers like Krylon. So the cat-hairs don't get embedded in the primer, but turn into floppy sticks of primed cat-hair that come off with a quick bushing with a stiff, broad filbert brush.

MB

Painting a Red Army command team for bolt action.

Organizing my new The Army Painter Mega Set with the rest of my paints and putting some varnish on a mounted Norman Warlord. The first figure I've painted in quite some time. A little rough to be sure, but I'm proud of it regardless.

Trying to find a scanned version of RT Rhino instructions.

Got in a few 50 pt games of x-wing trying to help my opponent decide on a list to take to a doubles tournament later in the month.

Dual warthog y-wings managed to score a couple of victories but my solo Kath Scarlet managed to get herself shot down by a 'fat' Horton Salm. Didn't help that she ate a maxed out proton torpedo early on and took another pounding from the advanced proton torpedo later in the game

Experimenting with pigments and wethering effects on my tanks. Also I need to paint two units of ultramarines for my wife for the game at weakend.

It's Homecoming time for Luke Skywalker.



Hopefully the noble forces of Law and Order can avoid their third defeat in a row.

I hate that damned wookiee.

Going to put a Soviet mortar team together.

Painting Aurora for my Convergence army and then some Pan O for my Infinity.