Warhammer World Grand Reopening

So yes, I went to this shindig. I know that it was ages ago now, but I thought I would share a few things that particularly struck me that I've not noticed else where on t'internet.

Love dem shields...

Vomiting trolls

Many tanks

Love the wings on this vulture (Valkyrie?). Also didn't even notice the munition train in the background

Where there blame theres a claim.

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Summer Happened

Hello!

So once again summer came round, my hobby time fell through the floor and my posts dried up. But fear not, I am going to get back into the swing of things, hopefully.

I also noticed that my blog has not crept of 6000 views, which is pretty cool if you ask me. Thanks for hitting refresh all them times whoever you are!

So, some things that distracted me were...

Warhammer world!

Some mega hot sauce. I mean this is some serious flavour in a bottle.

Went up a Welsh mountain in the typical early summer

Found a rusty landy

Started playing x-wing more. Yay more expensive miniatures to buy.

Went to Norfolk for a wedding shindig. Street Morris Dancing broke out

Learned that peacocks can actually fly. Or at least jump

Watched a rugby match. Go Wigan!

Went to Geneva for an awesome wedding party with  awesome russians

Went to Rockfest Barcelona

A friend kept on falling asleep after drinking beer!

Upon my return to blighty. another mate promptly fell asleep in the pub. For like an hour. Must be the way I tells them.

Got close enough to hack that portal

Found a rusty boat

Watched Europe burn beneath a tidal wave of ufos

Went up another mountain in the traditional british summer. This time in the Lake District

I started reading the Mistborn trilogy. Awesome.

Finally, I came "this" close to being a Nightwish fan, but it turns out that it is just that one song after all.

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Hobby Doldrums

An alternative title may have been 'On Ambition Overtakes Skill'.

Not sure when this'll actually go up, but I'm writing it in early May, and I am stuck, and I have been stuck for what feels like a couple of weeks. Summer is haltingly beginning and so hobby time is drying up slightly, but that doesn't really help with the fact that I have really struggled to make any tangible progress over recent weeks. Very frustrating.

Progress with what you say? Well, remember my spawn from last April (what do you mean you don't? Go here)? I decided it was time to sort out my Iron Warriors, and that their supposed mix of demon flesh and armour would be a good start point for me to experiment with before cracking on with the rest of the army. 

My plan was for a mottled purple flesh that would work nicely next to the dirty silver of their armour. I tried and failed. Then I thought that a blue may work. I don't think that it does.

So I tried several different things, and went back to black undercoat a few times too.

Here are my failures...

Still quite like the purple to blue gradient on the tentacle up there. That might stay.

Longest WIP ever

Many, many moons ago, when I were but a nipper I put in an order for random bits and pieces from GW mail order. I picked up a few odds and sods with no real goal. Rule of cool and all that. I only actually started to paint one guy, and I thought that the bold red basecoat was a decent start point. 

Yes, here is my tech priest dude...

I also built a couple of plasma cannon servitors...

 And here are the team. The colours come out a bit better here...

Think I may go back and dirty up the tech priest but overall I'm pretty happy with how he turned out.

Models painted... 51

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More sneaky types

Here are the rest of the squad. I put some effort in the build to make them look a bit more important than the others. I think of these as squad leader and his number 2.

Models painted... 48

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Sneaky Ratlings

Painted up the first few Ratling conversions. I'm not that happy with how they turned out, to be honest. I tried a few new things out and they kind of back fired in general I think. Fairly disappointed but I'm glad to have them done.

These guys are based on some mantic dwarfs (dwarves?) with some IG bits mixed in and the sniper rifles are from Anvil Industry, which are just fantastic.

Models painted... 46

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Vindicare

So this guy has not been promoted to my favourite assassin. I have used him the battle report that I posted earlier and he underperformed a bit, so I'm basing this on looks and overall satisfaction. The brown and blue were adapted from the Culexis, but I think the green worked really well.

Here is my previous post.

It would be right about here that I would add a team assassin photo but I never took one. Naughty me.

Models painted... 43

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