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Planning a battletech campaign and painting more mechs.

Well working overnight, so I passed the time painting the Clancy Gang from Blackwater Gulch. Using just washes that I made using Les's recipe.

Painting my 5 Sisters of Silence.

Assembled:

Thorn
Goblin Tinker
Stormblade Captain

The Tinker was...interesting to build.

Assembled some Glade Riders for my Wood Elves (I refuse to call them Wanderers).

Also assembled some MK4 Marines for my Ultramarines

My plan today is either nail down the unit by unit organisation of my 9 remaining Infantry Regiment Hives and/or to sort out and post the first draft of the organisation of the Recon Hive Regiments. You can see the WIP of my Hive Regiments (this is a fluff based exercise and a long read) in the link in my signature if you want to throw your comments, suggestions and ideas into the mix.

Finishing up my Support Squad for my 1k sons, starting my second DIY zone mortal is tile, searching for my missing Swordmasters and playing a 3000p game of AoS.

Organising, modifying and assembling Iron warriors for an ambitious project.
My iron warriors army is in such a mess; if it were a film, it would be either 'Manos' or Transformers 2

Finishing up my Tau Breacher Squad (wash, touch ups, helmet lenses), maybe put some paint on those Deffwotch models ive been dragging my feet about finishing, and maybe if im feeling super productive ill start on either some Sniper Scouts or cut foam for more model trays.

Still have a bit of residual flash to clean up (and straightening those multi-laser barrels) and it'll be on to painting.

I hate to tell you this but you've glued all of the wheels on the wrong sides. The arrow of the tread pattern should point down at the front.

Yeah, fortunately that's a pretty easy fix.

icn1982 wrote:
My plan today is either nail down the unit by unit organisation of my 9 remaining Infantry Regiment Hives and/or to sort out and post the first draft of the organisation of the Recon Hive Regiments. You can see the WIP of my Hive Regiments (this is a fluff based exercise and a long read) in the link in my signature if you want to throw your comments, suggestions and ideas into the mix.

Welp, so far I have only managed to partially work out my Recon Hive Regiments, but I did play a 1500pt game - A single full Hive Ranvent Shift (see fluff) against some 'what happened to be available' orks. Lost very badly, but learnt a lot and had fun, so I count it as a win for me. Biggest problem I was having was my chimera's getting in the way of each other, but I can work on that.

Also, if enough people turn up will be playing a session in an Only War Campaign later.

Put 4 Rampagers (WE, FW), new and unassembled, onto ebay.
Not sure if there is a market for them.

Painting some chaos terminators, slow going due to the Tamiya clear red needing three thinned coats.

No I dead how bad chaos terminators are, I suspect *very*, but I like the models and figure on table they are cheap enough in small units to be an amusing distraction, which is the role planned for them, that and small scale assassination of enemy rear area support units.

Typical for GW though, the box has five, they are bought in formations that start at three models... Hope if they ever re-do them they go to six in a box, oh and more chainfists.

I am painting a scenery thing that is cartons of fruits and veggies. They are the most adorable.

For today, get the first draft Recon Regiment organisation sorted and posted for comments, as I didn't manage to complete it yesterday.

I have almost 2,000(Yes. 2,000) Blood Bowl/Fantasy Football figures.

I am painting a Rat Ogre my wife bought me for my birthday. Its a Reaper Bones figure. I'm not a fan of the plastic Reaper uses for the Bones line of miniatures, but this big Rat is cool.

icn1982 wrote:
For today, get the first draft Recon Regiment organisation sorted and posted for comments, as I didn't manage to complete it yesterday.

*Growls* Yet again I haven't managed to get the organisation for my Recon Regiments. I really need a good kick to get it done and posted.

I have however managed to nail down the unit by unit organisation of 3 of my Hive Infantry Regiments.

Guys, give me a hand here, I need some Hive World slang names for Hell hounds, Bane Wolves and Devil Dogs and also what they may be called in the different parts of the Hive (Underhive, Hive City and Hive Spire). This is what seems to be putting me off each time I look at the spreadsheet.

Finished this guy! I named him Francisco. He has a thing for pastels and bondage.

Played the Walking Dead All Out War. Was losing badly in terms of loot recovered until I managed to sneak Rick behind Patrick who was carrying 4 of my opponent's 6 loot counters and then cause mayhem, dragging 4 walkers into Patrick. Ten walker attack dice. It was messy.

Finished painting a nurgle plague lord and started 5 blood warriors

icn1982 wrote:

icn1982 wrote:
For today, get the first draft Recon Regiment organisation sorted and posted for comments, as I didn't manage to complete it yesterday.

*Growls* Yet again I haven't managed to get the organisation for my Recon Regiments. I really need a good kick to get it done and posted.

I have however managed to nail down the unit by unit organisation of 3 of my Hive Infantry Regiments.

Guys, give me a hand here, I need some Hive World slang names for Hell hounds, Bane Wolves and Devil Dogs and also what they may be called in the different parts of the Hive (Underhive, Hive City and Hive Spire). This is what seems to be putting me off each time I look at the spreadsheet.

Honestly those already sound like slang names. The Bane Wolf (That's the poisoned one, right?) could be nicknamed something about the Underhive, since those are supposed to be gross. Or 'Xeno Toilet'

Rihgu wrote:

icn1982 wrote:

icn1982 wrote:
For today, get the first draft Recon Regiment organisation sorted and posted for comments, as I didn't manage to complete it yesterday.

*Growls* Yet again I haven't managed to get the organisation for my Recon Regiments. I really need a good kick to get it done and posted.

I have however managed to nail down the unit by unit organisation of 3 of my Hive Infantry Regiments.

Guys, give me a hand here, I need some Hive World slang names for Hell hounds, Bane Wolves and Devil Dogs and also what they may be called in the different parts of the Hive (Underhive, Hive City and Hive Spire). This is what seems to be putting me off each time I look at the spreadsheet.

Honestly those already sound like slang names. The Bane Wolf (That's the poisoned one, right?) could be nicknamed something about the Underhive, since those are supposed to be gross. Or 'Xeno Toilet'

With the bane wolf (yes the chem wolf) I was thinking in certain parts of the hive it might be known as a pacifier - its chem gas being non lethal and used to pacify worker riots. I imagine the Bane Wolf (Melta one) would often be used for cutting through or clearing ruins and debris (as most hive debris is plasteel, ceremite and rockcrete). I imagine the Hellhound would be used to clear Underhive areas of shanty towns.

With my week off beginning 23rd January confirmed by work, it's time to make sure my Loyalist Iron Warriors are ready to bare their colours with pride.

That means assembling the shell of two more MkIII Deimos Rhinos, and getting the last of the resin (three Deimos Rhino kits and 10 Lascannons) all scrubbed up and ready.

Rest of this week will involve the last of the build, and next week undercoating and basecoating (god bless spray cans and my spray booth, especially given typical British January weather).

That should leave me a clear 9 days off to get as much painted as I possibly can.

For perspective, my 3,000 points are currently....

2 x 20 strong Legion Tactical Squads
1 x 10 strong Legion Tactical Support squad with flamers
1 x 5 strong Legion Tactical Support squad with plasma
1 x 5 strong Legion Tactical Support squad with melta
1 x Legion Terminator Squad (Tartaros pattern, Volkite and Lightning Claw)
1 x 5 strong Custodes spear squad
1 x Calladius Grav Tank
3 x Domitar Battle Automata (with added Flakk missiles)
3 x Castlex Battle Automata with Darkfire Cannon
3 x Deimos Rhinos
1 x 10 strong Havocs, all with Lascannon (may split into two squads of 5. Still weighing up my options)
1 x To Be Converted Warsmith (possibly in Tartaros Armour?)

Deadline of 23rd June 2017 seems a long way off....but when you're out the house 14 hours a day, and your weekends are already pretty packed, it definitely pays to aim well ahead of schedule....

Am also tempted to order up two sets of FW transfers, make it all super spangly?

Making a Jagdpanzer III/ IV with the casement off of a StuG III mit 88 (though mounting a long 75mm) and front glacis stolen from a Jagdpanzer IV.

Because I couldn't make a normal tank for my Germans if I tried...

Putting stuff together for my DA Battle Company. Right now, it's the Assault Squads on foot that are coming together.

Purple-washing 4 fiends. Then I'll probably drybrush em. Then all detail work tomorrow. Before my 12 new fiends arrive on Thursday.

Textured the bases and primed a Terminator sergeant and five Eldar pirates...then primed them.

Then the post showed up with a Farseer and another Pirate...so I stripped them in the magnasonic and textured their bases - then primed them.

Then I painted that Terminator sergeant and dipped him.

Then for some reason I started to paint the pirates...and then the Farseer. I'm about 75% done on the pirates and may go try to finish them right after I type this. I also cleaned up my work desk and re-did the power management around the desk (and restocked the magnasonic with fresh Super Clean).

Also put in a couple of posts on the Oldhammer blog I've been working on.

If I get bored I may set up my new Phoenix Lord for painting too.

Salivating over the Triumvirate models that will (hopefully) be mine in a few days