What are you doing today hobbywise?

Progress on the Japs is ongoing. All 30 bodies from the infantry kit are mounted on bases, with 16 out of 30 having their weapons (2 LMGs, 2 light mortars, 3 SMGs, and 9 rifles). 2 SMGs (including an officer with a sword sidearm) and 4 loaders (2 LMG, 2 light mortar) are the only specially designated models left to build - the rest will be rifles.

In other news, after sorting through all the kits in my pile of shame, I've got a stack of stuff that I'm planning on selling at up to 1/3 of retail price depending on condition:

• 3 Primaris Repulsor kits (still wrapped in plastic)
• 2 Taurox Primes from SC! Tempestus Scions kits (1 untouched on sprue, 1 with partially pre-built turret [autocannons, twin gatling cannon, storm bolter])
• 30 Tempestus Scions from SC! Tempestus Scions kits (missing backpacks, bases, most special weapons... would honestly recommend more for conversion work or building tempestor primes)
• 3 Commissars from SC! Tempestus Scions and SC! Astra Militarum kits (untouched on sprue)
• 1 Primaris Redemptor Dreadnought kit (still wrapped in plastic)
• 1 Space Marine Company Command kit (missing Company Ancient banner pole and bases)
• 1 Space Marine Centurion kit (weapons and plating only)
• 1 Skaven Plague Monks kit (untouched on sprue)

While sorting, I also dusted off a Corvus Blackstar from over a year ago that I intended on using as a conversion base for a Vendetta gunship (at least, once all the Inquisitorial adornments were removed or covered.)

 

Just surfaced from a game of 6th Edition 40K with my dad, Tyranids vs Chaos Space Marines, 2000 points. It was a very close and hard-fought fight but after goodness-knows-how-many turns my Hive Mind army emerged victorious.

 

Worked some more on my Perry Foot Knights. I have all but three of them finished, although I have a couple that need their arms adjusted to fit properly.

 

Started teaching my wife how to play Warhammer 8th Edition (!!!!! !!!!!) so we'll see how this goes...!!!!

I'm pretty stoked about it. She's about as sharp as you can get (IQ 145 or something crazy) and is a big book reader who has recently started reading fantasy books (mainly Brandon Sanderson which I was also pretty please about as a Stormlight Archive reader).

Fingers crossed!!!!

 

Something arrived in the post for me today



These along with my new Squig Hoppers have heartily topped up my collection of stuff to make

 

Well, I've finally sorted out how I was going to blot out the Inquisitorial sigils on the Corvus Blackstar: really thin plasticard, and a lot of Tamiya-brand plastic cement.



Planning ahead for the paint scheme, I'm going to be looking at a semi-naval camouflage with white or sky grey underbelly, not unlike the late-WW2 RAF Day Fighter scheme.

Apart from that, I'm still in the process of whittling down the pile of shame:

• The tauric demigryph knight is finally on his base and now sharing a shelf with a bloodwrack medusa and an ogor tyrant.
• Parts left over from multiple Horus Heresy space marine tactical squad kits were cut from their sprues, assembled where required (heavy bolters, missile launchers, and 30+ Mk IV torsos), and stored in a parts bin less than a quarter the size of the original box. I probably have enough plasma guns to equip a 10-man tactical support squad in Horus Heresy now (you know, to go along with the flamer squad and melta squad I've already built for my Salamanders).
• The Realmshaper Engine is finally built (sort of; the supports holding up the dias at the top are not glued to the rest of the pyramid).

I also managed to unearth some 27 old Dark Eldar models - 1 metal archon with splinter pistol and staff, 10 warriors with splinter rifles, 6 warriors with splinter cannons, 6 warriors with splinter pistols and blades (wyches?), and 3 spare bodies lacking arms. These models may be a bit dated for starting a Drukkari army for 40k, especially since I can only field enough to meet the minimum requirements of a patrol detachment, but it's given me ideas as to a possible non-Imperial army further down the line.

 

Picked up a Sisters of Battle Cannoness for a conversion I want to do during my vacation.

 

I ran down to my FLGS and spent some Christmas money to buy Direchasm, the Ironjawz Warcry box, and a couple other things. I also based the Perry knights I've been working on. I'm hoping to have them done in the next day or so, but we'll see. Finally, I built two test models from the Oathmark humans box I got for Christmas, one spearman and one hooded archer.

 

Oh, right! And PAINT! I bought paint!

 

I need to get a specific paint when this lockdown is lifted in Ontario.

 

One thing about this hobby is that most practitioners always need a specific pot of paint for a specific reason!

I personally need more square and rectangular bases (20mms, 25mms, Cavalry and Monstrous Infantry bases). There’s a great shop not that far from where I live that still has a good stock, just hope they still have some after this lockdown

 

I took a quick break from the foot knights to build five Ardboys to start my Orruk Warclans project for the year.

 

I would offer you some from the pile I have leftover from my WFB days, but I suspect I may need them in the near-ish future.

But in the meantime, I did my Canoness conversion: https://www.lustria-online.com/threads/tkyapyks-modeling-attempts-scratchbashers-beware.22996/page-3 (scroll down to the last entry)

 

I had more time, so I painted a couple things.

My unit of foot knights is complete, except for the three sets of arms I don't have yet. I also got this guy painted to start my major project for this year, a new Orruk Warclans army for AoS.

 

I spent most of the previous night math-hammering the viability of clubs vs spears on saurus warriors and came to this verdict:

Other than that:

• I've gotten around to priming the Vendetta with [Tamiya] Medium Sea Grey underneath and [Tamiya] Ocean Grey on top to get started with the modified RAF Day Fighter camo scheme. Now I'm waiting for a good day outside to do the rest by airbrush.
• The Penumbral Engine from the Forbidden Power expansion set is finally built. I'm still working on the endless spells provided in the same kit.
• Perusing through a Primaris Gladiator kit to see how I could effectively convert it into a grav equivalent of a Taurox Prime with autocannons and missile launchers. I'm already seeing the need to replace the twin las-talons with autocannons, which will be the easiest conversion. The missile launchers on the other hand may require some plasticard work since I'm interested in building the turret with a set-up approximating a manned version of the BMPT Terminator weapon system, as well as figuring out what I want to do with the mini sponsons in the vanilla kit - I'm thinking decorative smoke launchers, personally, even though the Taurox doesn't have access to them for some reason.
• With all the sprues left over from building models and whatnot, I started building the scaffolding for what I hope to end up turning into an AoE-esque watchtower terrain piece for my Lizardmen. I can kind of blame finding Miniature Hobbyist for this one.

 

That is most kind, but I couldn't deny a fellow Warhammer Fantasy fan of his square bases, that would be just too cruel

 

Modified Day Fighter pattern applied.



Not the most precise application I could have done, and I could definitely apply more dark green (the khaki drowned most of it out), but it works for what I'm after.

 

I put basecoats on the other four Orruk 'Ard Boyz.

 

A little vanity project I conceived over a year ago, now finally entering the last stages of assembly.



The railgun was from a broadside battlesuit kit that I also cannibalized for the arm on the Imperial war-bot, which itself was a cannibalized AT reaver titan torso with a spare AT warlord titan head.

Overall, I'm having too much fun free-posing walkers for the tabletop, if the Primaris Redemptor Dreadnought I did nearly a year ago was any indication. Sotek help me if I start collecting Gundams...

EDIT: Here are some better photos, now that the plastic cement has finally cured.