What did you do today.

[Jye Nicolson]

Nice pirates! Do they have a ship yet?



I spent quite a lot of time hobbying today but this little fella is the only one that officially moved the backlog in the right direction. And technically I won't even use him.

I generally prefer the Primaris models and more to the point having restarted from scratch after 8th edition I have tons of spare Intercessors, so normally I just put the bigger bodies on smaller bases when I need firstborn. This time that wouldn't do though - this otherwise upstanding looking fellow is one of the Fallen, from well before Cawl's little project. He's the model I'll be giving to you fine folk to use if I can get some Fallen Hunts going in Crusade; I get XP if I can take him out, you get RP and XP if you can protect him.

This involved taking the Space Marine Captain from Start Collecting: Space Wolves and Dark Angeling him up, so to rebalance the scales I had to take a dread from Combat Patrol: Dark Angels and wolf it up a notch.



Don't talk to me or my son ever again etc etc.

[jus]

@Dave: Love the swirling free hand design on that Chrome mox. Great blending techniques there. I like blending .
@Karantu: ...hmm that base. What could it be? We'll just have to wait and see. I should get started with my submission.
@prim: The Pirates, they look great. I really like the one in green looking through a telescope, are they reaper?
@konrad: Love it. The subtle cream shading in the creases of the coat really goes with the white
@The other Dave: Great. Disgustingly so. Is the the secret smoke wash on display? what was the recipe for that again?
@jye: The idea of having an actual fallen model as an objective. LOVE it! I'm a big fan of narrative objectives, they just make the game that much more fun.

[The Other Dave]

@The other Dave: Great. Disgustingly so. Is the the secret smoke wash on display? what was the recipe for that again?

Kind of - I use it to shade the leadbelcher basecoat, and again over the grey before I do highlights on that. It's about a 50/50 mix of Vallejo Smoke and Vallejo black Game Ink, and about the same amount again of matte medium, then further thinned with a whole bunch of water. Like 1:1:2:4 smoke / black / medium / water? Smoke is just magic, and while the Vallejo colored inks are sometimes kind of meh, their black ink is really nice.

[Primarch]

@prim: The Pirates, they look great. I really like the one in green looking through a telescope, are they reaper?

The guy in purple pants is by Reaper. The other minis are from Black Scorpion.

[Jye Nicolson]

Today the backlog is going in the right direction.

[The Other Dave]

Nice! I've had my eye on that kit for a while - it's definitely one of those "I can't believe it's easy to build" deals.

(Man, I need to break down and get the Cities of Sigmar book at some point.)

[Jye Nicolson]

You can play her in Warcry now too (hence her tagging along with the Gryph Hounds) - any Order faction can take her.

She's not *amazing* but pretty solid - decent movement, tough, decent damage.

[Jye Nicolson]

Why so green? Well the greens were in the room I was painting in and a lot of other colours weren't.

I'm set for the next Plamojuku day I can get to so back to 40k in prep for the next Nagoya games day (fingers crossed for the rumoured early SoE ending in Aichi).

[The Other Dave]

Green is good! I'd seen discussion on twitter of painting them up in Sons of Horus "off-jade" or whatever you call that color, too.

[The Other Dave]

Finished up some more knights for Titanicus:


I think I may just power through and do the last 6 Questoris knights I need to do to wrap that project up - so I'll get to work making their bases tonight.