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Blocking out colors on my "big mutie" chaos spawn

Found some Lego 'Quatro' blocks at thrift store. They're basically toddler lego and are chunky square and rectangular pieces with pegs nearly the size of a quarter wide and blocks that measure anywhere from 2-5" or so. In other words, big chunky blocks.

Have been sawing off the joiner/pegs and making 10mm bunkers and buildings for Planetfall. Gonna use Krylon paint for plastics and add hatches, roof bits, etc. and prep them up properly.

For $3 I've got about 5 decent, appropriately sized objective buildings.

I am a bad, bad man.

Whatever I last said I was going to get done was probably a lie. There's been a lot of inactivity and a smattering of woodwork/tool modification and sharpening, but not a minute of miniature work.

If I'm coming back, I'm going to do it right, this time. You heard it here, folks: The workbench cleanup is happening, in earnest! Picked up 14 small-ish (6qt - a bit smaller than a shoebox), stackable, clear plastic tubs to serve as 'discrete project boxes' - places to store painting-in-progress models, parts and sub-assemblies of scratchbuilds and larger, more complex model kits, etc. A few of those will be set aside for storage of overflow supplies (two, so far, for basing materials, one for oil and airbrush mediums and cleaners), as well. I have nine filled and five more to go, but I'm already seeing more table surface than I have in quite some time. Hopefully, a clearer workspace and the ability to simply pick a (clearly [rimshot] identifiable) box and get stuck in will help me get back into the swing of things. If this doesn't do it, I'm afraid that nothing short of quitting my job and developing an amphetamine addiction would!

I'm about to watch this game of Star Trek: Attack Wing.

It does look like they're going all out, they're setting up what looks like a 6' by 3' board.

http://www.twitch.tv/geekandsundry

Working on some terrain tonight, after I get done cleaning and prepping about 40 lbs of strawberries for the dehydrator.

I bought some of Studio Miniature's the Walking Dead models at a show recently. However I'm not too happy with the Rick Grimes one (he's too scraggly looking, I think they were going for that part just after the Prison where he's comatosed), so I'm sculpting on his iconic coat and giving the guy some more hair (he's balding pretty badly too for some reason). I'll see how he turns out, and after that maybe I'll give reposing the Glenn model a go too, as I don't like how he's holding his gun at all.

I scrounged together another Fire Wasp for future Zone Mortalis games, to go along with the other one I made and the C.A.T. I had to recreate after seeing it a few times in the ModCube pictures:

privateer4hire wrote:
Found some Lego 'Quatro' blocks at thrift store. They're basically toddler lego and are chunky square and rectangular pieces with pegs nearly the size of a quarter wide and blocks that measure anywhere from 2-5" or so. In other words, big chunky blocks.

Have been sawing off the joiner/pegs and making 10mm bunkers and buildings for Planetfall. Gonna use Krylon paint for plastics and add hatches, roof bits, etc. and prep them up properly.

For $3 I've got about 5 decent, appropriately sized objective buildings.

Buildings are finished. Used duct tape on some of the horizontal joins, granny grating for gratings and some of the hex platformer bits I had left over for the hatches/other gubbins.
Everything's drying from it's rust treatment but it's done.

Tonight hoping to get in some Planetfall at the FLGS.

Empty tubs continue to be filled. Areas of the workbench that haven't seen light for months (if not years) are emerging.

Trying out a new themed head design for my Kastelan robots.

 oadie wrote:
Empty tubs continue to be filled. Areas of the workbench that haven't seen light for months (if not years) are emerging.

I wish you luck with not falling into the same pitfall that I usally do: clear the space then fill it again with more half started projects.

Just incase buy some more tubs.

You must not be familiar with me, Inspector #264. That's pretty much all I do.

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I'm at work lol, but I work at an LGS so far I've sold some Bloodletters of Khorne, Shown some prospective players my CSM army, and I'm about to build a 1500 pt list for a game against 'nids tomorrow.

Taking photos of all the models i'm offloading.

might paint later.

 oadie wrote:
You must not be familiar with me, Inspector #264. That's pretty much all I do.

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Nice to know I am not the only one, pleasue to meet you.

Watched/managed a couple of games of x-wing at the local library game day. In a crowded environment where it's harder to focus, I'm just as happy helping people keep track of abilities and tokens as I am playing. I need a bit less going on to focus, plus there were enough players to have even sides if I didn't participate.

Gonna look into painting some Imperial Assault models today.

Gonna prime the AT-ST right now.

Finished my martian robot and tiny tiny shrunken humans. They're so cute.

I really like the finish on your big stompy robot! The little human soldiers are hilarious, I need to paint one of my sets.

Giant stompy robot is giant and stompy!

So, after last weeks mission where our brave Rebel heroes got the living heck beaten out of them by Darth Vader, they've now been captured and placed in a cell.



Fortunately, a mysterious voice managed to open the cell door, giving them a chance to escape.
First things first, the Rebels heroes had to make a race for the equipment cache (the black crate).



Which went well enough, to be fair, although the smuggler Jyn Odan got wounded off the bat. The err, problem came up, what to do AFTER they got their weapons. They needed to get to the other corridor, unfortunately, there were some enemies standing in the way...



Some enemies.

And that's... Kinda how it ended really.



The rebels got completely penned in the top corner there by legions and legions of stormtroopers until they eventually fell, and got captured once more and transported to the Spice Mines of Kessel.


Weeks later, Rogue Squadron performed a daring raid to rescue some high ranking officials from Kessel. Fortunately, there was room in the shuttle for these guys too.

Got myself some sweet new Death Korp, probably building up a Quartermaster Retinue

Looking for upcoming game events in the region.

Waiting for De Bellis Antiquitatis 3.0 to arrive in the mail.

Painting 1/72 Mongols.

I love how much bad luck the rebels are having, really makes me wanna play

Yeah those rebels got screwed.

They've won a few missions, but yeah, they're having a bit of a time of it. I think the problem is, they tend to make a few very bad decisions at the start of the game which snowball into a total disaster.

For example, in this one, they left Jyn Odan, the smuggler, who is the least tough member of the force in the cell and visible to enemy fire. This basically let me run a stormtrooper in and, well, gun her down.

A better choice would have been to ensure Jyn was properly protect, then use her second to make a run for her equipment. Jyn's main strength is responding to enemy actions. So, for example, if she's armed, she can potentially immediately shoot back at someone activating near her. Or, alternatively shoot back at someone who just shot at her.

This would have meant that, once she had her equipment, I would have been much warier about shooting at her and probably would have gone for attacking an unarmed party member instead.

Gonna work some more on my Bloodletters of Khorne. I've got seven more left in the box to assemble, and I plan to start painting some of the ones from the other box I assembled and primed a while ago. If I make progress I'll probably post some pics in my P&M blog. Not sure when my FLGS is going to have another tournament; I just need to have my Daemonkin stuff assembled by then!

Just got finished painting these guys:



Nothing fancy but they get the job done. They ought to look fairly better after a dip too. I've got 5 of the heroes and Luke on my table as well, though I'll be painting those individually. Everything else is gonna get a pass from the airbrush for the basecoat at least before I go at them with the brushes.

Going back to my S.T.A.L.K.E.R. stuff after an absence its back onto the terrain churning wagon. So I've started on another building that'll eventually give me enough for a small village. This particular one's based off of one of the cottages from DayZ.

Priming 10 Nyss Hunters.

Painted most of EBaldur for my Circle.

Still needs some washing./Drybrushing and to be based.

Working on some 28mm Frenchists for various games, based for skirmish with trays to be added when there are enough of them to justify it..



Also priming more 15mm WW2 stuff for a D-Day landing game next weekend, some Russians for a tournament a bit later next month, oh and a pair of 1:600 WW1 bi-planes have been primed, though I need to work out exactly what they actually are so as to work out what colours to put over the primer.

On holiday all week to get stuff ready for a few events so hoping to make a bit of progress, the Frenchists are a nice break from WW2 dull colours

Finally decided to finish the base up on my old Space Hulk Terminator, good old yellow and black hazzard stripes.