Christmas Plans

Best part about christmas is having time off to do hobby nonsense.

This year I've got a full week off work, the first 3 days of which will probably be taken up with family and such but after that I should be able to get at least one or two dedicated hobby days.

Firstly I want to get the last of my DeadZone terrain sets asssembled and primed/basecoated, I have a lot of the Ruins sprues to mix in with the buildings so should get a nice varied tabletop.

I also want to start on the Tabletop Wargames Necromunda stuff, between that, my Shanty Town and the Deadzone stuff, I'll have a pretty good little urban skirmish game set up now.

Miniature wise, I want to try and finish Grukk and start on the Mega Nobs and Mek Gunz as well, at least get some basecoats down, this year I might even finish my Orks (unlikely as I have over 100 unpainted Boyz still)

Another week with some paintng!

Another Wednesday night in the Scythe painting with folk, a good evening with some good progress made on Grukk.

Really fun model, can't wait to use him in a game once he's all tarted up.

Glad to be back in a regular painting rhythm and painting with friends, added two new people to our little group with week so there was a lot of good chat.

Part way through last night, pushed the highlights on the face, bronze on the Boss Pole and some weathered red on his power claw, decided to keep some warmth to the colours up that arm to add emphasis on his awesome Klaw.

Bit later on, some more on the metals and a shoulder pad, a different red but similar weathing, this is Grukk post "Death" so he's been battered about a bit!

I told you I'd paint something...

Actually got some work done on Grukk and his Squig (I'm calling him Bitey), had a good night painting for a few hours with the guys in the Scythe, haven't done it in a while, looking forward to doing it again. I'd primed the model the night before with the airbrush, using black but then a zenithal burst of light gray, which has really helped the greens stand out.

First Pass of the skin and the leather jacket, went for a brown jacket as I wanted some warm colour in the centre and getting colder on the arms and banner

 

Always a lot of fun hanging out with some like-minded people, drinking tea laughing at freaks and painting some models, its such a change from the usual type of painting where its you alone in your room, it's probably one of my favouite things to do and I wish I got to do it more often.

The Squig was a lot of fun to paint, those teetch are really cool, need to push all the highlights a bit on him though

 

 When I got home I started work on converting an Ork Trukk to go with a Rebel Grot gang for GorkaMorka, I'm happy with the progress on it so far! This is a Lugga, its grot powered, so I built a bit fan with a crank, it works but is in no way practical, not that this would stop Grots.

The crank and blades really spin and the handles rotate too, need to add a top deck and some boarding planks.

Old Boyz and Daemons

This week I took a little trip to Warhammer world with the lads of Corehammer, while they took part in a pretty amazing looking, but long, Apocolypse game, Newt and I had a lovely little fight with my Orks fighting the Daemonic hordes led by Fateweaver. Took a very silly list and decided to Tellyport 30 boyz down, but then didn’t turn up till turn 4 due to some atrocious rolls, really fun game with lots of fluffy moments, Ghazkull roaming the board getting frustrated that he couldn’t pin down the Great Changer of Ways and taking it out on a Daemon Price, or at least trying to, only to be cut down as the Daemon was empowered by otherworldly energies and was generally a sneaky git.

 

Unfortunately, Warhammer World is having a bit of a refurbishment right now and there was little in the way of a miniatures hall, so next to nothing on display, which was a shame, but all in all, a great day of gaming with some top blokes.

 

Tonight will be a painting group session, going to start on Grukk Face-Rippa after Ghaz let me down, I think it’s time for the old Ork to step aside and let a new boss take over for a bit.

A Return, again

House moving kind of ruined my momentum, painting wise, I've still managed to get some games in at least, mostly 40k, reigniting my love of the Orks, I know I use my Space Marines a lot more, because they're so comparitivly easy to transport, but I think the effort of lugging the Orks is worth it now, they're just so much fun to see in action, it does sometimes feel like I'm just watching them, rather than being in direct control!

Also, I got something I've been meaning to or thinking about getting for long time, yes, its sad and nerdy, but I got a Warhammer 40k tattoo, and Ork Skull with crossed Axes, somewhat like the one at the start of the current codex!