What are you doing today hobbywise?

Painting Stormcast and Nighthaunt from the Storm Strike box set. I've put all Seraphon painting on hold until the new book comes out and I just can't bring myself to paint any Aelves or Greenskinz at this point in time.

 

Did you get Mortal Realms too then? I received the first issue from my uncle, who saw the adverts on TV and knew I liked Warhammer, a couple of weeks ago. After wondering what to do with the load of Stormcast and Nighthaunt I got with it, I’ve decided I’m going to Bretonnify them after being inspired by some pics @Warden found here and loads more I found by simply typing in ‘Bretonnian Stormcast’ into Google (the Nighthaunt will make good Battle Pilgrims if I find bodies, legs and heads somewhere and connect them up). Ruleswise I would have to use them as Sigmarines in Matched Play, but I’ve been working on another unofficial AoS faction like my Gloomforest Spawn called the ‘Order of the Sacred Lady’ to give them more of a Bretonnian feel in friendly games. Now to find some Bretonnian knight helmets...

 

I have to admit that the stormcast conversions make me want to consider making a small Warcry warband of Khemri-fied stormcast.

 

Took an hour this morning to assemble my Ironjawz Ardboyz and start on the Weirdnob.
Looking to finish building the Ironjawz SC box, so I can practice some battling by my self(Ironjawz SC vs Seraphon SC)

I know maybe a lot will change with the new battletome, but I am still looking for my first AoS battle experience

Gr, Imrahil

 

On batch 2 of 3 of my Saurus Guard (painting in 5's) whilst wistfully looking at my Kroxigor, still on sprues.

 

Join the club, I've largely still been busy with my Fantasy projects, so I haven't had time to work on my Fyreslayers yet.

Maybe this year

 

I have finally begun painting again after a long hiatus from the brush.

 

Another duty watch, though this time an after-hours build night so I didn't take much with me to work on. Nevertheless, I've been focusing on building riders for the remainder of my ripperdactyls and for my terradons, the latter of which I've decided to equip with sunleech bolas.

Apart from that, I've been contemplating selling off many of the spare parts I have left over from several projects to free up living space in my bachelor pad. Whilst I will need to do a proper inventory of everything when I get home, most of these have been Imperial Guard kits (including at least 3 boxes of Cadian infantry that are merely lacking torsos), Mk III and Mk IV space marine parts from when I built my Horus Heresy Salamanders (mostly shoulder pads and helmets), some seraphon (including an unbuilt carnosaur/troglodon that's only missing the saurus hero for it and that I otherwise have no use for), and skaven.

Feel free to PM me if you're at all interested.

 

Yes, my sister got one for me so I thought of making good use of the Stormcast rather than selling on. Then I had that reminder of hating 'Easy to build' kits. Hurt my fingers trying to get one model to close properly.

Now my other toy store that I visit often is stocking Warhammer, now that and an art shop is stocking the stuff that is close to an actual Warhammer shop. All I can think of is "Does it count towards the reward system?" If so I will be swimming in points
Then it makes me wonder whether I will be needing to do examples for them, because another fave bunch of people that do a lot for me.

 

Base layers done at last. Dont worry though, they are mainly 'armless. You're welcome...

 

Technically it was yesterday, but what the heck:

I practiced building scenery.


Gr, Imrahil

 

So, today was the Superbowl, and my local gaming group had planned a Superbowl party... only we didn't watch the Superbowl. Instead, we had our Blood Bowl league's season play-offs!

My Grey Coast Scuttlers skaven team came in second place to the Goldtoofs, a greenskin team, but nonetheless outperformed the human and dwarf teams who won 3rd and 4th place respectively. This incidentally determined the new divisions come second season: the skaven and dwarf teams will be facing wood elves and ogres in one division, and the greenskin and human teams will be facing lizardmen and halflings in the other.

As it happens, the greenskin player and I will be playing with two teams each (wood elves and lizardmen respectively), and we've already sorted out how we're settling potential conflicts of interest.

 

Unfortunately, no. The greenskin team made it its mission to delay me as much as possible, especially throughout the second half of our game, preventing me from scoring a second touchdown. Adding insult to injury, a sneaky goblin popped up a trap door behind my line near the end of the first half and scored their team's second touchdown.

Anyway, setting aside Blood Bowl for today, I tried my hand at Kill Team for the first time with a local player at GW. As I had brought my Salamanders for a potential take-all-comers game, I fielded a list of six Salamanders, half of which were veterans, against a Tau drone swarm with a stealth suit and two pathfinders packing rail rifles. On Turn 2, my veteran sergeant, armed with a combi-melta, slagged the stealth suit through cover at long range with a lucky pot-shot after a 12" sprint to a better vantage point. His rail rifles were giving me the most trouble however - by the end of Turn 3, he had put down both the veteran sergeant and the thunder-hammer-wielding melee specialist with, as he admitted, the help of wall hacks (sensor drones). Whilst my attempt at roasting them alive with a combi-flamer was unsuccessful, I inflicted enough flesh wounds and casualties by the end of Turn 4 that he was forced to take a break test and promptly failed, winning me the game.

Overall, I enjoyed it. Not as fast-paced as Warcry, but it at least got me the opportunity to play with my painted models for a change. Apparently the biggest time waster is figuring out line of sight, to which I responded by pulling out my laser line.

 

Plugged away into the wee hours of the morning on my arch-warlock before going to bed.

I wasn't satisfied with the work I had already done previously, so I first gave him a bath in oven cleaner to strip away the thick layer of contrast paint (surprisingly, the silver base layer held true even after vigorous scrubbing with a spare toothbrush and picking away the rest with a dental tool). I decided that drybrushing was the better option , so I reprimed the model with Chaos Black, and started applying [Tamiya] gunmetal to his armour. The backpack, totem and warpfire projector instead received [Tamiya] bronze, followed by a lighter drybrush of [Tamiya] copper as a highlight.

White fur done with Administratum Grey, followed by Basilicum Grey and a drybrush of Pallid Flesh; chin with Cadian Flesh with Pallid Flesh highlights; and fangs with my usual Wraithbone and Skeleton Horde approach.

His robes currently have a drybrushed layer of Mechanicum Standard Grey, but I'm thinking of giving him midnight-blue robes with the use of a contrast paint (possibly Aethermatic Blue, but likely needing something darker), and currently prepping to do green glowing effects with Moot Green on warpfuel lines and goggles.

I'll be posting photos as soon as I get home from work.

UPDATE:
Instead of contrast paints, I decided to use Drakenhof Nightshade for his midnight blue robes. Following that, Moot Green was drybrushed for the glow effect, followed by a light drybrush of Wraithbone.

 

Had a 2500pt Salamanders vs Dark Eldar game scheduled for today come store opening, and now just waiting on my opponent to show up. Barring that, I'll definitely be looking at the new Warcry cards for Seraphon, and it's also looking like I'm spectating a Blood Bowl game between wood elves and halflings later on.

 

Finally got my mom into kill team and assembled her models; adeptus custodies

 

Took to building a kroxigor for my Lizardmen team in Blood Bowl. Most of my time on it was spent hollowing out the now-partially-clenched hands now that it's no longer wielding a weapon, first drilling out most of the material with progressively larger bits up to 3mm and then going to town with a hobby knife.

The base prep was done the same way as it was for the rest of my lizardmen team: a layer of .01" thick styrene sheet over the top surface, and punched out the ball placeholder hole with, well, a spare ball placeholder with the spikes removed.

 

Good work! That kroxigor looks really nice