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Grantholomeu wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 24, 2022 1:08 am

Got my one (1) model done for the month.

Lovely (in a sinister spooky way of course) as always. The base is great. I do love me a well flocked base, but for this figure something shadowy, cobblestone-y, or creepy swampy, gnarled root-y maybe?

@Konrad

She's a font of life that doesn't let anything around her die, so I went for the green grass, and a little bit of dead plant-matter so it didn't look too stark, but I wanted to stay away from dead stuff because it'd go against the lore kinda.

Grantholomeu wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 29, 2022 5:54 am

@Konrad

She's a font of life that doesn't let anything around her die, so I went for the green grass, and a little bit of dead plant-matter so it didn't look too stark, but I wanted to stay away from dead stuff because it'd go against the lore kinda.

Ah! I see! The colors on the figure and the model itself were giving me a "Corpse-Bride meets Mary Poppins" vibe. But i get it now.

Another month, another Underworlds Warband to play at our monthly Ichinomiya day!

Not sure this was the best place to express my fealty to Luxion Purple but what are Underworlds warbands if not a place to try rando colour combinations?

How did they end up doing?

For the peanut gallery: Jye and I went to our Ichinomiya Underworlds club meetup yesterday and had our first event for the release of the new season. Quite a few people showed up and it was good fun! My takeaways were: Mollog with a Tooth and Claw Nemesis deck wasn't nearly as oppressive as I was worried it might be, maybe because a lot of the more modern Rivals and Nemesis decks let you score for doing things besides worrying about Mollog. (My one blowout was versus Sepulchral Guard, the classic target-rich environment Mollog loves.) Lady Harrow's Mournflight with Daring Delvers was really good as long as my two-dodge defense rolls held, but struggled if I lost a couple models early - it still is one of my favorite warbands to play and I may keep them in rotation. Still, overall I was impressed with balance, even between Rivals and Nemesis, and as Jye noted on the day we had a whole lot of really close games.

The Gorechosen did surprisingly well with their base rivals deck and the two new ones - though as you said I think pretty much everyone but Sepulchral Guard did well, poor old skellies. I went 3-2 and one of the losses was a brilliant 14-13 game that I was just happy to have been a part of.

Their mechanic is neat - you start with one token on each fighter and can spend it for effects (ala Aetherquartz), but you get one for inflicting or taking damage, inspiring when you get 3. This gives you a bunch of mini-Mollogs where the opponent has to deal with the risk of inspiring you as they try to chip you down. A bit like Mollog though you're also often praying those early two dice attacks actually go through - it's definitely a team that wants any accuracy bonus it can find.

Overall though I was just really happy with how healthy the casual format seems to be for this ostensibly competitive game. Like I said I don't think I've ever seen so many close games, it was an absolute blast.

I'm racing to assemble and prime a backlog before it gets too cold, and today's priming adventures are suggesting the window is very narrow. Conditions are precisely bad enough to cause problems without making you quit

If there's enough passable priming days before the end of the year I expect to play Votann and Blood Angels in early 2023 (along with some new Underworlds teams). If not, they can stay grey plastic until spring and I'll play literally anything else.

Jye Nicolson wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 08, 2022 2:57 am

I'm racing to assemble and prime a backlog before it gets too cold, and today's priming adventures are suggesting the window is very narrow. Conditions are precisely bad enough to cause problems without making you quit

If there's enough passable priming days before the end of the year I expect to play Votann and Blood Angels in early 2023 (along with some new Underworlds teams). If not, they can stay grey plastic until spring and I'll play literally anything else.

I am a big fan of black gesso priming, if you are going all grimdark and base black, it is good stuff. I picked up a bottle of Mr. Hobby Aqueous primer, white primer you can brush on. Have not given it a try yet, but the Gorkamorka-forta is undergoing a drastic "レニューアル" and will be testing it out this winter. Ork scrap projects are great for testing out new techniques. If it looks bad...eh...made out of junk anyways.....

Yeah brush on might be the way to go if there's a real emergency. My Sanguinary Guard squad for example is reliant on another box that I ordered from GW directly and could conceivably arrive after it becomes too damn cold . Brush on might get the last couple of models across the line and keep me warm into the bargain.

Most likely though I'll shift my army playing schedule around and paint the grab-bag of random primed stuff in my total backlog during meetings and when the figure skating is on TV

Working hard to get through all this resin.

Who said a banner couldn’t be a weapon! Ramming Speed! (Ok, so I may have gone a little overboard lol!)