July/A bit of August Roundup

Very little progress hobby wise. The weather has been great so spent most if it outside and the times when the pang to hobby has hit, it's been too hot in my office.

I managed to get a wee terrain piece, a couple of Gargants, and some Chaos stuff for an upcoming battle painted, including some rather weird Slaanesh Knights that came out of necessity and what was to hand;

some 28mm Dark Eldar legs, heads and weapons, and for a couple of hours cutting, gluing and painting, they turned out just fine (i think!).

Other than that, I picked up some Rogue Trader IG stuff randomly, and have some actual games planned.

Next up - The ever looming Squats... Maybe this month will the time for them to be painted? 

Back to the little guys - Epic

 After a nice wee break painting 28mm for Bolt Action, I decided to crack open the box of shame and fished out the remainder of the order I made to Vanguard back in June.

3 not-sicarian battle tanks, 1 not-fellblade, some daemon princes and some not-knight errants.

I wanted to make the 30k tanks part of my Iron Warriors army, however I feel that black/silver paint scheme is tough to make look interesting at this scale, unless I can learn non-metallic metal painting somehow.

So instead I went with a bit more of a eye-popping teal/turquoise colour that I've became fond of recently, mixing in some green/grey.

I also decided to heavily weather them, partly to tone down the bright colour, and also to make them look ancient and war torn.

I really like the effect for how simple it was, and I'm now sorely tempted to do a whole 30k army like this.

The Daemon Princes were done as one for each of the major powers and require a bit of tidying up/detailing, as do the Knights, which will be added to my Mars AdMech forces eventually.

Epic - Chaos: Army on Parade

Following on from yesterday's post about the importance of cohesive basing, i've dug out my Chaos and ran a brushful of 'Mournfang Brown' around all of the bases, as they were quite, eh, chaotic before!

I don't know if i can be arsed with putting grass tufts on them all yet, especially as my new bag of static grass is a wee bit of a different colour to the one i've used for everything else so far.

Anyhoo, i've taken the opportunity to get all the spiky lads, lassies and everything in between out on a table for a big family photo.

I'm toying with the idea of doing this for them all now, as i think i've got recent Eldar, and IG ones somewhere, so would just be a case of digging out the others.

we'll see how bored i get in the coming days/weeks!

Epic - More Greater Demons

Painted up the last of my unpainted Chaos metal and despite me saying it before... "I think this concludes my collecting of Epic Chaos minis for the time being, at least until i can get more games in and enjoy what i have so far..."

We shall see! (i'm still looking out for Moritarion and Fulgrim models...)

Anyway, Magnus is a good-get. He is getting hard to find at a reasonable price, and unlocks a lot of options for me to field a decent sized Tzeentch force.

I went with the 'red' style of paint job for him, which i think i prefer to the 'blue-space-monkey' look of the GW 'Eavy Metal one.

Along side him as another Keeper of Secrets for Slaanesh. Shame its the same sculpt as my other one, but i couldn't find the alternative one and it came in a job-lot.

It also gives me some more options for larger Slaanesh forces, so handy to have regardless!

Epic - Final Chaos (for 2019 at least!)

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

I thought i'd close out the year of hobbying with a couple of late additions to my Chaos forces. As before these have been given a quick and dirty paint job to get them ready for the table in 2020 hopefully! (that's my excuse at least as i pretty much painted them in the dark, with my old glasses prescription, and i'm only now seeing all the issues as i take some close up pictures of them).

This now gives me a decent sized Khorne army with the addition of the rather wonky looking greater demon/titan - Lord of Battles and some flaky fire support from the Cannon of Korne, as well as some extra lesser demons for Tzeench and Nurgle.

2019 has been a pretty lacklustre year hobby wise, with very little being played or painted - outwith the last 6 months of piecing together this Chaos force and having a game with it.

As I've been making a very conscious effort to be 'more intentional' with my purchases, as well as downsize where possible i really do feel a lot more in control of the lead/plastic mountain. I'm hoping to carry this in into 2020 and further pare down what i horde, and get more use out of what remains.

I won't do a full blown 'Hobby goals 2020' post this time, instead i'll keep it short by repeating that mantra;

"Own less, play more."

Something i am quite interested in is trying to learn and play some of the other versions of Epic, such as Epic 40000 or Armageddon, as well as play test Imperious Dominatus as it develops. I realise this may be a bit of a pipe dream, but i do feel like i'm starting to hit some frustrations with NetEpic that i wasn't really aware of as a kid, so i think that these later rule sets may fix some of these issues?

Other than that, i want to get more use out of my FFG X-Wing and Imperial Assault collections.

Everything else in my view is living on borrowed time, so i may have to pack it away into storage lest it be eBay'd on a whim!