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Packed some of my City Fight terrain, very difficult with the larger buildings. Loads of popcorn foam added to the boxes.

Cheers,

CB

Assemble and paint a unit of Genestealers.

Hopefully I can be finished before bedtime!
Unless I get drowned in the dreadful mouldlines :(

Worked on these guys last night (except for the snake/hive tyrant - he's an ebay purchase)



Working on a Neurothrope built from bits tonight. Debating between adding the little arms or tentacles.

I keep packing for the move. It scares me how much I do have to pack.

Cheers,

CB

Started painting up a Plagueburst Crawler. Love the model and can't wait to finish it

I am trying to finish my Tyranids (painting wise) and I am working on a secret army project for 40K that I started back in October 2017. Shooting for a May 2018 completion, three color minimum and full basing on all models, + decals and vehicle stripes, markings, etc.

Also trying to get up the nerve to finally start working on all the models from my Kingdom Death Box. Those models are so intimidating!

I glued the torsos of my two dreads to two different positioned legs one advancing and one straight, then to the 60mm bases which do look better than 50x50 monster bases they originally came with.

Entered the paint competition, to test out the new paint/ styles.

I am apparently stripping minis and trying to assemble some squads out of a terrible terrible trade.

Steel bases arrived for my 15mm ancients, so just finished assembling four stands of knights and priming the bases - should be finished tonight and ready to run in DBA tomorrow.

Bit more on Inquisotor Greyfax and a few Chaos Berzerkers

I have some unexpcted hobby time. Alas, what's next is magnetizing bases. Time permitting it's then swapping GW bases for acrylic ones on my marines. Kind of regretting some of my use of Zap a Gap on feet..

So packing slowed as I came to a conundrum...I have quite a number of models in the soft foam meant for the GW Hard Cases...but as I added extra foam inserts over the years to make storage easier without having to get more cases. As I was only transporting one army at a time to game. I have a need for a simple solution to pack those soft foam inserts. Anyone know of some boxes that would do the job?

Cheers,

CB

Well, last night/yesterday I forced myself to paint four stupid dwarfs which have been sitting on my desk for a year (after an abandoned Mordheim project). I didn't enjoy it, and I'm not overly chuffed with the results, but of the 8 "desk inhabitants", I'm down by half.

Now if I can just finish three other fellows and then this big Ogre...MUST CLEAR DESK LINE.

I am painting up a tiny frog, which is not the easiest thing to do when you are low on sleep.

Captain Brown wrote:
So packing slowed as I came to a conundrum...I have quite a number of models in the soft foam meant for the GW Hard Cases...but as I added extra foam inserts over the years to make storage easier without having to get more cases. As I was only transporting one army at a time to game. I have a need for a simple solution to pack those soft foam inserts. Anyone know of some boxes that would do the job?

Cheers,

CB

You have my sympathies, moved last year, still not entirely sure where all the stuff I packed came from. Ended up with a lot of A4 archive boxes and a mahoosive roll of bubble wrap plus a stack of the "really useful boxes". models in two or three layers on bubblewrap.

As for the soft foam bits, have a look at archive type boxes and see if any are roughly the right size, if ones a bit to long or wide stick a bit of bubble wrap or polystyrene sheet in there (or rolled up newspaper)

 amazingturtles wrote:
I am painting up a tiny frog, which is not the easiest thing to do when you are low on sleep.

Tired enough I thought you were painting a real frog.

 ChargerIIC wrote:

 amazingturtles wrote:
I am painting up a tiny frog, which is not the easiest thing to do when you are low on sleep.

Tired enough I thought you were painting a real frog.

It's a good thing it's still winter here and there aren't any frogs around otherwise i might have.*

*do not paint real frogs, that would be the saddest thing.

Undercoated for the first time in 10yrs, 10yr old chaos black spray still works and smells glorious

Sat down to start painting my Leviathan dreadnought yesterday.

And then I painted the entire thing.

Statement Redacted. - Edit.

Built, primed and painted the Azyrite Ruins that I picked up at the FGS yesterday.

Also building the Kharadron admiral that came in on Friday.

Finished the majority of my two UCM longbows, all I need to do tonight is clean up some spots and then highlight

Built and painted another hive tyrant after sitting around for 2 hours and not being able to get a game in.

Swapped some parts to get a Bonesword/Rending Claw Flying Tyrant:


Also used my new Roll maker to experiment with tentacles:

leopard wrote:

Captain Brown wrote:
So packing slowed as I came to a conundrum...I have quite a number of models in the soft foam meant for the GW Hard Cases...but as I added extra foam inserts over the years to make storage easier without having to get more cases. As I was only transporting one army at a time to game. I have a need for a simple solution to pack those soft foam inserts. Anyone know of some boxes that would do the job?

Cheers,

CB

You have my sympathies, moved last year, still not entirely sure where all the stuff I packed came from. Ended up with a lot of A4 archive boxes and a mahoosive roll of bubble wrap plus a stack of the "really useful boxes". models in two or three layers on bubblewrap.

As for the soft foam bits, have a look at archive type boxes and see if any are roughly the right size, if ones a bit to long or wide stick a bit of bubble wrap or polystyrene sheet in there (or rolled up newspaper)

Too true. Just finished some more and I am certain some terrain will have damage, but that happens in games as well.

Cheers,

CB

Just painted up an old Dire Avenger Exarch as an Autarch. While I don't agree with the Autarch placement in the Eldar fluff, I'd like to have access to one because I like this model, and he's a reasonably cheap HQ. I don't think he's any good but we'll see.

Still plugging away on my Adepticon forces. They are nearly done, with the only basecoating left to do being a Daemon Prince and a few more Cultists. Then I just have to put some texture on some bases, but that will be easy. Only worry there is running out of texture paint!

Finished painting the UCM Longbows.

I think the ink may have been a bit too thick at points so once I view them side by side with other forces may go back and mute it.

Just need to finish packing Guard, Sisters and Eldar and all my figures except a handful for painting will be stored away for months. (Although I think I will try to keep one army accessible so I can play some games...just do not tell Mrs Captain Brown)

Cheers,

CB

I've managed to turn a stack of soot covered MDF into most of a large building today. Hope to finish it shortly.

...and another two-pound stack of MDF being slowly turned into a building. I sure appreciate the TT Combat levels of detail, but Christ they take a while to build. These are the last two of my big buildings to do. I will not be sad when they're finished.

Then I just have to wait for a dry/warm day to prime and paint them.

Priming and assembling Intercessors. I've been working so hard on this league stuff I never got around to building my tourney list!