More Shaltari

Yup!

Having little hobby sessions at my desk at work is awesome. This morning before 9am I got the Firedrake put together.

Nice model. I get the impression, from the experimental rules, that this thing could be quite tasty!

Dreadball-tastic!

Well I'm ready for Season One of the GoG Dreadball Cup!!

I plumped for the Zzor as they were one of the races not already snaffled up by the GoGs and I also thought they looked fun to paint........however.......

....Locusts? Locusts don't exactly fill me with dread. Don't get me wrong: if I was an African farmer with 5 Trillion locusts eyeing my lettuces I would be concerned. But I ain't. So I ain't.

Wasps. Much scarier.

So let me introduce the starting line up for the West Side Wasps.

DropZone Arrives

I thought I'd break up the Eddy and Tea Urn show temporarily!!

DropZone Commander has arrived in the world of Von: please say hello to the Scourge. They've been sat patiently waiting for some paint and the challenge of painting non-40K stuff prior to our GoG day in August was too good an opportunity to miss.

As usual I've deliberately kept the colour palette small and learning from previous outings with small scale models I also wanted to keep them fairly bright. So a bit of Army Painter Alien Purple + Citadel Caledor Sky and Lothern Blue and here we are.

Hunter MGT

Reaper AAGT

Invader APC

Warrior Horde

Marauder Medium Dropship

The Vehicles

So that's DzC sorted (and no I'm not tempted to go off and purchase reinforcements.... ahem....)

Also fixed the Scots for SAGA today that a cat wiped out previously: long story. Re-based them as well and now just need to paint the fixed bits. I have extra blisters to expand to a 6point army but that's not going to happen before our GoG Day. Maybe next time.

Next up are the Orx Dreadball team now officially christened Brusier Dorxmund. Pics to follow once I have some paint on them.

The daemonic incursion continues.....

The next unit in my fledging daemon army is one of 20 bloodletters...... And boy do these come in lots of parts!

2 separate legs, head in two pieces, body and two separate arms. Lots of cutting and filing off the flash lines for them to be ready but I still think they need some green stuff filling around their waists and foreheads. Definitely a job for another day......

Anyway, the champion is a conversion using an old bloodletter axe, from when they came with those, and a beastman body. This makes him stand out a little, which will mean I have no excuse when he dies in a hail of fire because I've put him at the front of a unit.

I've used the same resin industrial bases which ties them into the rest of the army and also gives them a pleasing weight on the bottom.

Following the green stuff, a paint job in traditional red awaits I think.

Rounding off the week.....

Well I'm just about to be off for a week camping and doing all sort of family so I thought I'd post the last of this weeks efforts.

Some more DZC stuff and some of the new shiny bits for my Eldar.

Have a good week folks!!

Converted ork war bikes finished - cyboars!

Here they are, completed and ready to oink onto the tabletop :)

I haven't really highlighted any of my other orks as, frankly, there are just too many of them! I also rely on the "look" of massed boyz making up for this. But I couldn't go that route with these chaps as they were just crying out to be highlighted, so everything got a highlight or a dry brush, except for the metal that I decided to leave as it was to look grimy.

Sarky B******d!

I was chitter chatting to Urn during my game against the BFG last night and I happened to mention that I had been quite productive lately on the hobby side of life. Urn's response was "yeah. I saw that on the blog......oh" all delivered with a big cheesy grin. Git.

But he is correct. I have been remiss in posting lately.

So to round up my recent activities:

Old school Wraightlords stripped and the best bits rebuilt as War Walkers which are nearly fully painted
Crimson Hunter constructed and painting has commenced
Painting underway on the new Avatar
Warightknight constructed and undercoated
DW KoB land forces prepared and now undercoated
Dreadball team prepped and undercoated
9 Eldar Jetbikes painted
6 more Jetbikes undercoated

Yeah! Been busy!

I'm been trying to use spare time better and it is succeeding at the moment. Lunchtimes at work, the little time before and after work and all it takes is a little box of hobby bits on the corner of the desk and you can quickly get shifted lots of the prep work that needs doing before painting. Obviously you need an understanding boss and colleagues who accept your oddness. ;-D