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Working on my Pig-Faced Orcs from Splintered Light Miniatures (I think that's the one) got 72 of them so far.
They're a tad smaller then I thought, though it looked even funnier with them being so small and yet being rather uniformed.
I like to think that despite their tiny size they're still dedicated to regiments and the like.
If I ever play AoS I have some modded rules (namely goblins with better ws and ld).
Some don't wear shoes, not sure what that's about.

Finished black undercoat (manually basing) for the last squad of BaC legionaries. Ultramarines all have base of blue with a lighter drybrush started and the Dread has mephiston base.




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Working on my Pig-Faced Orcs from Splintered Light Miniatures..

Please post photos when you're done. Like to see those.

Finished putting together all my 'Mechs (and vehicles, and Battle Armour).

No idea what Catalyst makes their plastic multi-part 'Mechs out of, but it's very flexible and does not like plastic glue.

Actually started painting my Warmachine stuff (Retribution if anyone was wondering).

Finishing up my first hobby project for the year, a batch of Infinity minis I bought late last year. Just need to do bases.

I had posted about the "Warped Painting Challenge" my local GW did and am finally getting around to posting up a photo of my entry for it.

The Painting Challenge involved each person getting 6 colors, chosen at random by the person, and using them to paint a model up.
These were the colors I had gotten:My colors?
-Hashut Copper
-Naggaroth Night
-Ogryn Camo
-Fuegan Orange
-Casandora Yellow
-Fenrisian Grey

End result for me was this:


It was a pretty fun thing to do and is making me start looking at my painting projects in terms of how to do things simplistically, rather than the mixing and in-depth process I used to go through.

Assembling the first 6 Reaver Jetbikes for my DE army. This kit is already frustrating me.

Magnetizing two HT kits. Mostly just arms. One on the flying base, one on the ground with magnetized wings. Long process, but I'm liking the customizability. Not liking when I screw up and accidentally glue a magnet in backwards and I have to pry it off.

Afterwards? Probably building another Crone that I have in box, to match my first one. Then a box of Gargoyles, some Ravenors (might make them counts as Shrikes), and then I'll work on my Cryx army. Woo.

I'm putting more paint on my Tau Breachers. Tomorrow I have a 40k tournament, and I'm taking my Khorne Daemonkin army. Should be fun, I just hope it goes better than my Daemonkin's last solo tournament outing...

6 hours cataloguing and placing around 180 Battletech pieces (infantry, tanks, 'Mechs, etc.) into foam.

I need a drink...

Work begins on the Nomad Geckos... well, one of them, anyway. Lots of red and grey, but it's coming along quite nicely. Good, chunky, solid models with some lovely flat panels to blend on.

Gluing my fingers to Tyranids.

Just built some Batman Miniatures and the Punisher.

Trying to decide on what to do for Azazelx's tale of painters thing. I've got it reduced to:

Kings of War army (or two smaller armies)

Squads of scifi (mostly deadzone and misc figures, probably scenery)

Moderns and Zombies (deadzone zombies, mars attacks, WGF zombies and survivors, scenery too)

RPG/Dungeon stuff including dungeon saga and bones.

I can't really decide. I want to work on all of it, but I need to choose one category for the event. Basically responsible for one or more units/squads per month. Any ideas?

Working on an Autocannon team using an old metal lascannon gun carriage with a new plastic Autocannon. currently painting it.

And that's the latest X-wing haul painted up, a Y-wing, the Falcon, and TIE Interceptor, Bomber and Phantom with a semi-successful cloaking effect. Gecko 1 has had his main body mostly finished, need to do the arms now.

I decided on a kings of war orc army, I've been digging up bits and making lists (though just of how much stuff I've got, nothing too strategic yet).

Looking forward to all of that Para

Well, the tournament today did end up going a little better than my Daemonkin's first solo outing. I ran a Blood Host with Khorne's Bloodstorm. My first opponent was a Dark Angels/Black Templars player. Nice guy, but he had a relatively weak list, and in our game the dice screwed him over very hard. He mishapped a terminator squad off the board, then rolled a 1 on the mishap table. My Heldrake came in on turn 2 and basically barbecued most of his tactical marines over the course of 3 turns. At the end of turn 5 I actually tabled him, and the only units I lost were the Spawn unit that was running with the Chaos Juggerlord and my Soul Grinder, although I lost a couple of models here and there from other units. Basically my biggest tournament game win ever. The second game was against the TO (a good friend of mine) with his ringer list (he was playing since we had an odd number of players otherwise). Said ringer list was a mean Eldar list (beautiful Ulthwe Craftworld models, though). A Wraithknight, 2 squads of Warp Spiders, a big blob of Guardians with 2 Bright Lance platforms, 2 3-man scatbike units, 2 fire prisms, and a squadron of 3 Hornets. He probably took out half my army on turn 1 (he siezed the initiative, the lucky bastard!) while staying well out of range of retribution, and by turn 2 I just conceded as it was just not fun picking up my models anymore and not getting to even hit back. Game 3 almost ended up as bad. My opponent was running a Drop Pod army including a Skyhammer force, as well as a CAD with some Grav Cents, Tiggy, and Coteaz in a nasty deathstar blob (and yes, he got invis). 5 other drop pods had melta + combimelta tac squads. At least I managed to kill some stuff and my warlord survived to the end. The best thing that happened was right at the end, he used Gate of Infinity with Tiggy, and mishapped into ongoing reserves. Since it was the end of the game, I got Slay the Warlord from that. My only survivors were a summoned Skull Cannon, some Summoned Flesh Hounds, a Raptor squad, and my Juggerlord. So in summary, one game that was one sided in my favor, and two that were horribly one sided against me. I need to learn how to make more competitive lists if I want to do better in these things.

Painting lascannons and missiles for my metal Thunderhawk.

Having verified I can scrounge up to 2000 pts of KoW orcs by borrowing some bones monsters... Need to make a list or two to give some structure to my paint queue. I think I'll start with a unit of dual wielding Morax as their ability to mulch units is axpotential lynchpin of my strategery.

Painting skulls on Abaddon's trophy rack.

Couldn't find any background on any Tyranids Abaddon fought so the alien skull will remain unpainted for now. Might have to steal the colour scheme from a friend's 'nid army!

Put together an army list for an AoS game with a combined force, 1500 pts SDK. See the AoS army list section.

Completed two rhino apc's and about half of my usariadna starter set.

Tempted to buy a vendetta!

Assembled my Shaltari starter and did some initial dry fitting on my M3 Alexander and Cyclones to see what needs to be painted before I glue them.

I assembled my end times Thanqoul and Boneripper.... worst kit I ever built, so many unessesarily small bits with odd angled contact points especially on thanquol. I also started using the MTG set editor to make magic reference cards for Warhammer Fantasy

Got another game of 40k in earlier today. I used the same Khorne Daemonkin list as I played the tournament with yesterday; my opponent played a Chaos Thousand Sons-style list with a blob of Terminators (and a Terminator lord), two small cultist squads, two 3-man Mutilator squads, two 3-man Obliterator squads, and a Skyshield Landing Pad. He had Mark of Tzeentch on everything (probably not a good idea at all, especially on the cultists). We played Maelstrom of War mission 5, and I won 11-8. I was one wound away from tabling him when the game ended after turn 6, but that last Obliterator just refused to die. The only major thing he killed was my Juggerlord, and that took almost his entire army's shooting, plus an assault from his Obliterators, to accomplish, but it did give him Slay the Warlord.

My Star Wars: Age of the Rebellion GM screen arrived today.

£17 for a booklet and a bit of cardboard. Maybe getting into RPG's isn't a good idea after all.

Haha, ouch. They usually get you on the extra crap, I try to stick to the core rulebooks for a set and move on.

Gonna try to paint some orcs today.

Painting a squad of anvil industry republic pulse-mechs for my homebrew sci-fi game. Unfortunately though the models are stunning, my painting skill is #%_€!*@.

Getting started on dark elves. And bitterly wishing I'd stocked up on lothern sea guard when IoB was still a thing.