What are you doing today hobbywise?

Random scatter test. Need a nice mix for Blood and Plunder as we will be playing islands and also some New England coasts. Definitely will have multiple Palm trees on the rest of the bases. Quick note the coconut ground scatter is amazing! It has solid color and texture, I love this stuff for bases.

 

Today... After I wake up (stupid insomnia ruining any semblance of normal sleep schedules)... weather allowing that I can go outside and do some priming, I shall be looking to paint my sexy pinup model lizardman. I bet you all know the one. How many of you have that very 3d printed model?

My one is the... Uh... Knockers... not included option, because I find that my lizards are sexier when they are biologically accurate

 

I noticed those.

On one hand, I'm not impressed that they've gone for a significantly different scale to Warlord's Epic Battles line all because Hudson shares the late Bryan Ansell's petty grudge toward 15mm (or thereabouts) figures, thus denying mix and match potential. But then on the other hand at least they're not trying to copy something that has already been done by someone else, and from their history of preferred periods so far it looks like they won't be interested in doing 17th Century (at least not for a long time) so I won't be kicking myself for having bought into the Warlord Epic ECW range (which have less individually-based figures than the new WA ones) anytime soon.

I also wouldn't have chosen Samurai as the inaugural range for the scale (though @Warden will be pleased).

However I can't fault them on the value-for-money front, 200-300 individual men (though some are on various levels of multibasing) in a box for the same good price as the majority of their 28mm sets is excellent, on par with Warlord prior to their last price rise and better than Victrix. Certainly if they get round to releasing periods that interest me more I'll keep them very much in mind.

 

So I lied. Or more like I fibbed. I intended to do some fantasy conversions using Perry historical 1800s Sudanese and the newer war games Atlantic Roman citizens box. It turns out the heads are different joinery and I'm going to have to adjust when I build these to include extra time to overcome that.

So they've been shelved. I'll probably start building the six boxes worth of Aztecs I have to do. Or paint what is primed.

 

I don't think the differences would be too much to worry about... the Madhist Ansar bodies can have greenstuff necks sculpted into the sockets to accommodate Citizens of Rome heads and the Madhist Ansar heads can have their ball joints trimmed off to fit them onto the Roman necks. Job done.

A little bit of extra work, yes, but nothing hugely serious.

 

Correct. And I'm no stranger to doing this. It was just more time than I had initially intended for the conversions last night. So I'm going to have to take a stab at it later.

I'm probably going to be building a whole bunch of Aztecs for the foreseeable though

 

Just finished (barring maybe a few touchups) my pinup lizard. Used her as an excuse to test out some of the vallejo xpress colours I hadn't had a gander with yet, as well as a harmless method to test patterning. Was aiming to copy the Chinese Water Dragon, decided not to go so thick with the brown banding on the tail because I really liked how this green looks and didn't want to cover it too much.


Thinking I'll make her my Bloodbowl team's cheerleader. I'm sure they'll be really encouraged at this pretty lady shaking her haunches at them.

 

Trying out some things using cheesecloth again, this time as a camo wrap for space marine power packs.

 

Jungle terrain coming along nicely. Over ten years of plants finally being used!

 

What's the undergrowth basing mix?

Also, today I've been building more knights for my paint-and-take activity at the event next weekend, and I painted two knights from my personal box as knights of Skalitz. Check the blog for photos.

oh, and working. Working was also hobby related today.

 

I used coconut or coir as the base. It has amazing texture and color.
Just to be a completion man, I started with a CD covered the hole with tape and then primed it brown. Then added modge podge and let it set up for a minute before sprinkling the coir on top. Once it dried I added the trees and the foliage. One thing I did to add durability and some color change was poured a little Future floor polish to help seal the coir. I was careful as it darkens it dramatically so best for under foliage. Once that dried I added a wash of terrain wash that is diluted with Future, this really is the Philosophers stone of hobby materials, to give it more realism. Should have painted some of the plants better colors. I have a few dozen more so I'll get to it. Sealing when all are done with gloss then matt.

 

Releasing these

https://www.myminifactory.com/tribes/WargamesAtlantic/posts/The_Monday_release_trundles_in-42840

 

We released Hittite infantry on Atlantic Digital today.

I'm building a model in Dendra armor.

and I'm working on research for more new sets.

 

All hail the master of the flesh-spiral-orb!

 

Today I've primed 5 wargames atlantic Sneakfeet conversions. I've also begun the process of building a bronze age chariot.

 

I am slowly building a very angry, roundish, battle-happy, lizard thing with an equally battle-happy, greenskinned, brutish creature that rides it into battle.

 

The Atlantic Digital team released these today, which may be relevant to everyone's interests. (Posting here because I did the manual updating. and thus this is something hobby related I did today.)

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-394894

 

Other than that, I have been building models for the next paint and take table: Landsknechts!

Made this separate post to reserve text space. I will add to this post later.