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^Man.. I wish I loved painting space marines as much as I seem to have loved purchasing them a few years ago

From the dead, I arise!

Dug through my model stash and found an AoBR boy suitable for adding to kb_lock's Dakkanaut-painted Ork mob project. Cleaned the mold lines before work and am now pondering hypothetical conversions. Can't decide whether to go hog wild, keep him stock, or get ambitious and do one of each type!

Started priming the DZC Resistance set (Hannibals, Gun Wagons, Jacksons, and the AA turrets for my Lifthawks).

Still need to prime the infantry, Kraken, and Lifthawks themselves.

Had a 40k battle yesterday. Never taking IG vehicles again.
Hellhammer got shot out on T1, and then I got tabled by T3...

*grumble*

 Selym wrote:
Had a 40k battle yesterday. Never taking IG vehicles again.
Hellhammer got shot out on T1, and then I got tabled by T3...

*grumble*

But vehicles are hilarious! Tauros look like party-wagons.

Dettol bathed and scrubbed about 25 Mordians. Another batch in the jar, still.

Found out that I'm close to getting banned from using my excessively plasma Leman Russ in friendly games due to his obscene luck. Across the past few months it has overheated once, with 5 heat rolls per turn. It also very rarely misses, averaging 3/5 dead-hits.
It's fuelled by tears and insults at it having a blue glittery paint scheme.

Batman minis came in! Now I just need to base the commission then it's down to the dark streets of Gotham!

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

 Selym wrote:
Had a 40k battle yesterday. Never taking IG vehicles again.
Hellhammer got shot out on T1, and then I got tabled by T3...

*grumble*

But vehicles are hilarious! Tauros look like party-wagons.

Dettol bathed and scrubbed about 25 Mordians. Another batch in the jar, still.

Found out that I'm close to getting banned from using my excessively plasma Leman Russ in friendly games due to his obscene luck. Across the past few months it has overheated once, with 5 heat rolls per turn. It also very rarely misses, averaging 3/5 dead-hits.
It's fuelled by tears and insults at it having a blue glittery paint scheme.

Lol

Sadly, however, my meta has developed to the point where unless you're using the SM codex, and are in heavy cover, vehicles have become useless.

 Selym wrote:

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

 Selym wrote:
Had a 40k battle yesterday. Never taking IG vehicles again.
Hellhammer got shot out on T1, and then I got tabled by T3...

*grumble*

But vehicles are hilarious! Tauros look like party-wagons.

Dettol bathed and scrubbed about 25 Mordians. Another batch in the jar, still.

Found out that I'm close to getting banned from using my excessively plasma Leman Russ in friendly games due to his obscene luck. Across the past few months it has overheated once, with 5 heat rolls per turn. It also very rarely misses, averaging 3/5 dead-hits.
It's fuelled by tears and insults at it having a blue glittery paint scheme.

Lol

Sadly, however, my meta has developed to the point where unless you're using the SM codex, and are in heavy cover, vehicles have become useless.

Glad I'm not in your meta then. Vehicles are part of what make the game fun and visually appealing to me.
As for what I'm doing today, I'm basecoating my Soul Grinder. A couple of coats of the old Scab Red (basically equivalent to the current paint Khorne Red) for the skin, then some Leadbelcher for the metallic details, and of course Mephiston Red for any red bits that aren't skin (like the panels on the legs).
Of course, I also have to go to work, so I may not get it all done today.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

 Selym wrote:
Had a 40k battle yesterday. Never taking IG vehicles again.
Hellhammer got shot out on T1, and then I got tabled by T3...

*grumble*

But vehicles are hilarious! Tauros look like party-wagons.

Dettol bathed and scrubbed about 25 Mordians. Another batch in the jar, still.

Found out that I'm close to getting banned from using my excessively plasma Leman Russ in friendly games due to his obscene luck. Across the past few months it has overheated once, with 5 heat rolls per turn. It also very rarely misses, averaging 3/5 dead-hits.
It's fuelled by tears and insults at it having a blue glittery paint scheme.

I run two myself, though I use the Solar Auxilia list, which means no sponsons, but no overheat either. Why hello there MEQ-heavy store scene!

finished up the batch of sde heroes i was working on, and had decent enough weather to clear coat them.
next up, the enemies from the vampire guy expansion (von carlston or something like that)
once i get through them, i'll finally have all my old sde stuff finished, and then its off to the kickstarter stuff (thankfully i only went with the basic pledge, so while its a good chunk, i'm not completely swamped)

Finish my first runestalker if I manage to get the damn sword effect right

Working on a pair of 28mm Rubicon tanks,



Panzer IVH, just in base colours at the moment before the highlighting, weathering etc is started, will be a winter theme similar to the M4 below.



M4A3 76mm, the basic weathering almost finished, the tracks still need black lining then its on to the pigments.

Both nice kits, the M4 nicer to build than the panzer by a long way.

Painting has been pretty basic, base colour spray then oil stains and washes intermixed with varnishing, no actual highlights as yet on either though there will be a bit of drybrushing on both before the pigments start for some nice wet mud...

I painted a goat

Thats one hell of a beautiful goat.

No wait, that sounds wrong..

That goat is wonderful.

Ahhh

I love that goat..


This isn't getting any better, damn you for painting a goat so well

Ibex you had to goat to a lot of trouble over that one.

It's very late...

...That's such a nice goat, it's made me forget what I was doing.

Oh! Battles count here too? In that case...

Played my first Necromunda game. Unfortunately, we had to bypass a few rules to learn them easier. I swear I'm missing something about the "gang member down," rules. My gang leader was, "down," for most of the game!

Then we learned about weapon malfunction. Maybe giving my gang leader that flamer was a bad idea...

I finished first models in my new Tau army.
The only thing left to do are the bases, once they arrive. ( I ordered some special ones )

Wishing it was autumn dam Japanese humid summer!

Got to get on with my LoER competition piece!!

Click the comp banner to check it out.... maybe even have a go!

Assembling a Daemon Prince, a kit bashed Chaos Lord on Daemonic Steed, and a Exalted Hero of Khorne. Going to be working on a unit of Chaos Knights next, then the long work of assembling the AOS Starter Box.

Oh well. Say what you will about them, the Sigmarines are super easy to paint.

May be rained out from work. If that's the case, I'll be trying to paint a bit. Either the next Infinity mini in the line or something totally different.. not sure yet.

My P&M blog got featured today.
Wooohooo!

woo, another hour or so of work, and i'll be done with the current batch of sde stuff. then i'm moving on to something else, i'm ready for something army like and uniform, instead of super individual looks everywhere

Working on more KM Batman stuff, and getting annoyed at Ra's Al Ghul! Why oh why does such a nice model have to be so far out of scale that I'm hesitant to use him with the other models?

Armatures. Armatures everywhere. ...Or just this one. =P

building some knight model stuff as a break from sde, which i thankfully finally finished up with

I've started painting up some fantasy stuff. I've gone to 15mm for some epic battles (and I can use my Spartans a la 300).
Currently I'm working on Camels, Goblins and Wizards.

Still working on my Soul Grinder, just one more drybrush coat on the skin, then a glaze. Still more work to do on the non-skin parts, but it's coming along nicely.

I'm currently waiting on my 10mm Zulu War stuff to arrive from Pendraken.

Never really worked in 10mm before, but done plenty in 15mm.

In the meantime I'm doing lots of research.