One more Grimghast Reaper and a secondhand Cairn Wraith for my Warcry band. I figured I didn’t want to put a ton of time into the Wraith since he was already mostly dark blue. #warhammer #ageofsigmar #nighthaunts #paintedminiatures #paintedminis
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Finished up some spoopy bois for my Warcry band. Three Grimghast Reapers. #warhammer #ageofsigmar #nighthaunts #paintedminiatures #paintedminis
It looks like my local group is going to get into Stargrave so I started looking into models I might want to use for a crew. Since I already have Comet the Chimp from Hydra Miniatures (Galacteers faction from their Retro Raygun line) I thought it would be fun to do a pulp sci-fi themed list. I was thinking of doing a ragtag band of misfits so I can use a variety of models.
Just as with the Comet image above all the images below are stock photos from Hydra Miniatures.
I decided that the Nihilakh didn’t look great on the lower ectoplasm of this guy (user error) so I tried using Nighthaunt Gloom. I went full strength which I think turned out too dark. When I get the next one built I will try thinning it out to see how it looks. I don’t plan on using any Glaivewraiths in my Warcry list since they seem overcosted which is why I only initially built one for a color test model. #warhammer #ageofsigmar #warcry #nighthaunts #paintedminiatures #paintedminis #paintingminis #paintedminiatures
This is one of the best art books I have read. Not only is the art great (the cover painting Speaking in Tongues is spectacular) but the artist commentary was outstanding. The way the chapters were structured by the artist narrating about around a theme or the materials & techniques made it very interesting. This added another layer on top of just looking at the art. For example reading about why Youll switched from acrylics to oils was fascinating.
I was pleasantly surprised at how much personal information was included in this book. Everyone around Jim appears to have been extremely cooperative and open and Jim’s personal journal entries were quoted quite often. I have to admit that the first part of the book covering his ancestors and his very early youth were not all that interesting to me but then once we hit the high school years it was all fascinating through to the end.
I hadn’t been aware of all the television commercials Jim did early in his career but was delighted to discover that many of them are available to watch online. I got a real kick out of watching the Wilkins Coffee spots in particular.
I decided to go with Nighthaunt Gloom on the lower portion of this Glaivewraith test model. It came out darker than I wanted so I will thin it on the next model. Still happy with the arms & spines in Nihilakh Oxide. Cloak is #vallejo Burnt Red. #warhammer #ageofsigmar #paintingminis #paintingminiatures #nighthaunts
Finally put a couple of decals on the first Firefly, now it just needs matte varnish then I will try my hand at pigments on the tracks & road wheels.
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I had been really intrigued with the Mechanicum from reading just a bit of lore about them in the game rulebooks so I was excited to read this book once I got my hands on a copy. I really really enjoyed the story although I had some trouble visualizing how the different battle engines would look relative to each other.
I have always been into cyberpunk so that probably explains why I was drawn to the denizens of Mars. After reading this book I will probably pick up Adeptus Mechanicus as my second faction for Kill Team despite a friend of mine finding them tough to play. I just like the aesthetic so much I can deal with not being able to win many games.
Taking a cue from the Drunken Samurai Painting blog I thought I would try to lay out a plan for what I want to accomplish around building and painting in 2021. I will hopefully post my actual results next January to see how well I did.
I might as well address the elephant in the room first: I am pessimistic about the pandemic lockdown so I am not counting on playing any games at my FLGS before October (if not the end of the year). The best I am hoping for is just a few games at a trusted friend’s house.
If I am lucky we might be able to squeeze in a couple more games in our Kill Team campaign. It would be nice to start our Dragon Rampant campaign also.
I played a four player game of Games Workshop’s Warcry in November (the one and only time I have played anything in person since the pandemic lockdown started) and quite enjoyed it. Since I had already painted the Horns of the Briar Queen warband for Underworlds the logical choice for my first Warcry warband were the Nighthaunts.
I will be able to use the Chainrasps from the Underworlds warband in Warcry (although since I am not willing to buy an entire box of Chainrasps just to get a Dreadwarden I will have to proxy him with the Briar Queen). After reading about the faction I decided that the Warcry box for Nighthaunts was a good value so I picked that up in December.
My goal is to get two Myrnmourn Banshees, two Grimghast Reapers and the Extoller of Shyish completed in the first half of the year. Since the Glaivewraiths seem to be overcosted I decided to prime one of them to use for testing a new color scheme that is slightly different rom the Underworlds models.
If I am able to get in a couple of games this year and enjoy this faction I may pick up a box of Spirit Hosts at some point (probably not this year though).
I had been sitting on a box of Soviet infantry for a couple of years without doing anything with them but last year a friend of mine was selling the starter box at a great price and since I had been wanting to get an Allied tank for What a Tanker it was a no brainer to buy the set since it included a T-34/85.
In December I completed 80% of the first LMG/rifle squad plus a few small supporting pieces like command models and a flamethrower unit. This year my goal is to complete enough models to field a 1000 point list, the only way that will happen is if I include the T-34/85 since it will clock in at around 275 points.
I don’t expect to get in a game of “normal” Bolt Action this year as I am not sure anyone in my group has enough points painted but I would like to get in at least one game using the unofficial Firefight skirmish rules.
Last year some friends painted up ancient naval fleets for Poseidon’s Warriors in 1:1200 scale so I painted up one test model as I thought I might want to build a Rhodian fleet. The test turned out well so I would like to buy the additional 15 or so ships to fill out a complete fleet and get those completed this year.
Last year a few people in my local group picked up this game and one of them wrote up rules for additional pantheons beyond what are in the rule book. The game is really intriguing and since it is miniatures-agnostic it should be relatively inexpensive to field an army.
I was interested (as always) in playing a less popular faction so I was looking at the Sumerians, ? Unfortunately it proved a bit harder to find models for the rest of the army relative to more popular armies like the Macedonians so I haven’t bought anything yet.
One of my friends pointed out this really neat stone giant sculpt by Duncan Louca that would work quite well as Anu the sky god:
That led me to another set of Duncan sculpts, a neat set of hags which would work well for Dimme-Kur and Her Sister:
Depending on how this year goes I would like to get a small OGAM army together this year.
I haven’t played this in a couple of years but I did start working on one of my primed Sherman Fireflies this month and just need to apply decals and varnish it. This year I want to finish the other Firefly and the three Sherman Vs as well as the HMG platoon (four stands).
A friend and I each picked up a starter set of this at the end of the year because it was on sale cheap and we were both interested in trying out some modern armor. This is a light “beer & pretzels” version of Team Yankee in some respects but with the low model count buying a full box of TY models is overkill. We swapped sprues so he has four T-64 Soviet tanks and I have two American Abrams. I want to get both done this year but not sure yet if I will model them as the older M1 or the newer IPM1 or the M1A1.
I am not sure when I will get to play this but do want to finish the remaining models from the 2-player starter set (all of which are currently primed): two mutant hounds, a Deathclaw and a Zetan.
I have a couple of Plague Marines primed but don’t really need to paint them as I have enough models for a full team plus a sideboard. I would love to start another faction (Adeptus Mechanicum intrigues me) but realistically with everything else I have lined up it won’t happen this year.
I always like to have a few palette cleansers on deck and will definitely finish at least the two models I just primed: Max Graves (who will make a great Roland Banks for Arkham Horror: the Card Game) and Comet the Chimp.
WIP Soviet infantry, this is the LMG team from the first squad, a full second squad and a second sniper team. I cranked through the tunics & trousers on all 14 of them today. Hoping to finish them off tomorrow so I can move on to something else.
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WIP DP-28 light machine gun team for one of my Soviet rifle squads. Finally getting close to done on the 14 soldiers I have been batch painting.
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Soviet 82mm medium mortar team for Bolt Action. I glued the models on the base but still need to apply some Vallejo dark earth paste to blend in the metal bases before I apply grass, tufts and rocks.
First time trying this and quite like it. Nice big corked bottle, too. 4.25/5
Pauwel Kwak by Brouwerj Bosteels in Buggenhout, Vlaanderen Belgium
