What did you do today.

[Jye Nicolson]

That is a ton of minis @Primarch, great work! And fine looking ones to boot.

Today I had a great game against @Mephiston, his Guard versus my Tyranids. I had some lucky saves but mostly got shot up real bad by tanks - but just killing the bugs is not enough, they're very sneaky scorers and quite a lot of points were put on the board by the little ones while the big ones were dying just a bit too slowly for Chris' plans to work

So the tank commanders can very justly post a victory, but their superiors might look at the strategic map with some concern...

[The Other Dave]

I've been chugging away at my Epic collection, although I'm very much in the "just painting more of things I already have so it's not so exciting to look at" stage




Just another lasrifle tercio for the Auxilia and a couple storm eagles for the Fists and I'll have everything I currently own painted up. The next wave of releases has been delayed in Japan, which gives me and my wallet some breathing room, which I'll use to work on my Underworlds backlog and rebase some of my jankier Epic terrain.

[Jye Nicolson]

I've been working on the assembly backlog rather than painting but I did slap some contrast on this fellow in case I decide to run some Genestealers this weekend.

[me_in_japan]

today, I booked a hotel for Naghammer! fwiw, if anybody else is considering booking somewhere, hotels seem quite full, at least the one-person-one-night kinda hotels. I ended up getting a room in the hotel Kiyoshi Nagoya, which is up near higashi betsuin station. I'd've gone for the meitetsu one nearer the venue, but the website was giving me crap and not loading (repeatedly) and kept upping the price every time I reloaded it. So yeah, if anyone is thinking to get a room, my advice would be to bust a move and get one soon.

Looking forward to a weekend of games, good company, and hopefully too much yakitori and beer

[Jye Nicolson]

I've been sneaking in some assembly but it's definitely a low hobby time for me due the *avalanche* of JRPG releases (pun intended, thanks FF7 Rebirth).

Ryu ga Gotoku 8/Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth was incredibly good, unless you're judging specifically by the apparent English fluency of folks in Hawaii, in which case it was terrible. Their Japanese was surprisingly pera pera though!

[me_in_japan]

Coincidentally, I've been playing ff7 the original one, but on the switch. Just wave after wave of natsukashi. Also very nice watching my son play it all these years later. I'm also getting close to finishing Warhammer: Total War 2 with the vampirates. I've long since beaten the vortex campaign, but I'm bent on total map domination, and the dark elves and skaven were giving me gyp this week. But, they've been beaten back into their rightful place, and there's not much standing between my fleets and the east coast of Araby. Hopefully I'll be done by the end of the week, at which point I'm determined to stop playing vidya games completely and focus on painting until naghammer is done. Wish me luck and mental fortitude...

[The Other Dave]

My sister's been visiting, so I haven't been doing too much hobby, but I have been rebasing and repainting some of my more long-in-the-tooth Epic terrain. (You can get 2mm-thick MDF in A5-sized sheets ten to a pack for about 1500 yen, for those interested in the terrain-basing arts.) Then they (finally!) are releasing some new LI models at the top of March, so I put in a pre-order for those as well.

[The Other Dave]

So here's the terrain... t'rain I have to admit, a nice solid piece of MDF makes for a much better base than a hunk of corrugated cardboard.




(Can you tell I didn't have enough foliage to fill out all the trees I have? Saved by the fact that burned-out is very thematic!)





Thanks to Titanicus and Dropzone Commander, I have lots and lots of undestroyed structures, so these will all be counting as "concealing terrain," which is a bit harder to move through and, while infantry would still vastly prefer them to open ground, a bit easier to winkle them out of than buildings.

[Jye Nicolson]

That's great terrain!

I kind of want to see a 32mm scale battle on it, with confused soldiers towering over Lilliputian buildings.



As usual game day got me to paint *something*, even deep in the videogame perfect storm (Granblue Fantasy Relink is very good, if you like boss fights). This is one of the new Lictors, assembled in the most compact and transportable pose.

Speaking of transportability, my list for tomorrow included a Tyrannocyte. One look at the thing next to my case and I decided to change my list rather than show up with a small plastic football and a handful of snapped off tentacles.

[The Other Dave]

I got my box of Solar Auxilia support units the other day, so I got cracking painting: