#workbenchWednesday 21/11/18

Back again, on time this week too  ;)

So, how's the old workbench looking?

There is a trio of Reaper Bones Ogres there (77454 Clubber, 77566 Chieftain, 77568 Matriarch) that I'm gradually painting up as Oni for Daisho/Ronin.  Red isn't normally a colour I'd choose to paint, so it has been a learning curve.  I'm also working on some pre-release miniatures, but I can't show them off...

As well as painting (I've been doing a minimum of 30 minutes a day as part of an online challenge) I've been pretty productive on the assembly front.

Prime us!

There is a large selection of various models all cleaned up, based and ready for priming.  Picture is cropped slightly, but there is -

Unit of 3 Farrow Valkyries, Bradigus, Tharn Chieftain, Shaman and Whitemane for HORDES.
8 Black Numenoreans and 24 Mantic Zombies for my Draugr SAGA army.
8 Reaper Bones Goblins as Redcaps, a Giant and bug for Blood Eagle/Dark Age Fantasy.
3 Frostgrave soldiers.
1 Foundry Revenant Vampire/Elf. 
3 Four A miniatures critters and a gremlin that are the kids.
A Death Guard character model for Warhammer 40,000.
A random Reaper Werewolf.
The Yeti from the Black Dragon Tong box for In Her Majesty's Name.
An old metal Ungor from a Beastman (or Beasts of Chaos, or just plain Chaos age dependant) army that I plan to paint up as a satyr.
Some 15mm Forger in Battle Celts/Gauls for a 15mm Blackpowder project.
And finally the Reaper Bones Spirit of the Forest (77184) that I just want to paint for fun.  More extreme base effects ahoy!

All in all it is quite a random selection.  I've also been throwing more random baggies of stuff into the box that I generally put the figures I want to get assembled in, there is more Northstar stuff, along with some Arcworlde figures, and a few more Bones ones, as well as reinforcements for my Normans.

Spent some time over the weekend out with the kids at a local wildlife area and got a bunch of photos of nature for basing reference, so, there might be an article in the making there.

Finally, I finished off  the Grace and Benediction figures for a commission.  Tried to keep it pretty close to the card art without going overly sepia.

That's it for the week then, will get to painting once the kids are asleep.

See you in a week, hopefully with the Oni finished.


Cheers,

John

#workbenchWednesday 14/11/18

Well, I really dropped the ball keeping this updated, right?   My deepest apologies to all 7 of you.

At least I have a few things to show off today.   I've been working at getting my mojo back for painting with the 30 minutes a day for 30 days challenge on facebook, and have had quite a successful run so far.  I've pretty much stopped keeping track of games played as I've been playing a lot more, and my #hobbystreak tallies.

So, the workbench...

Reaper Bones Ogres - to be Daisho Oni

I am currently working on a trio of Reaper Bones Ogres that I plan to use for Daisho at the club, possibly as the start of an Oriental Dragon Rampant force, along with my Savage Wave stuff for Bushido.  Although, painting red might put paid to such grandiose plans...

Just off the workbench is a pack of 6 Mantic Werewolves.  Can't say I love the models, they are pretty underwhelming after the kickass kickstarter preview art, but, I have 120 of them, so I guess I better start working on them.

Very basic paintjob to tie them in with the Draugr, guess I can use them as either "Berserkers" for Viking Haerthguard, or a Greater Warbeast Pack in Dragon Rampant.  At a push they might wok for Konflict '47 too.

I've also finished up a few more Reaper Bones models, the Large Earth Elemental and Well of Chaos.  Probably cost more in basing materials than it did for the models...

Really enjoy going OTT with foliage and stuff on models, I feel a Feral Elf/Wild Hunt/Trees and Golems and Elementals army coming on.


That's not everything I've done recently, but it's enough for now, I'll save the rest for the end of month round up.


Cheers,

John

#workbenchWednesday 08/08/18

So, don't have a workbench shot because it is top secret stuff on it right now, but I do have some things to show off that I knocked out over the weekend.



I've been leaning towards doing more fantasy styled Dark Ages gaming, so I'm looking at Blood Eagle again, and figured I would paint up some Draugr models as quick and dirty generic bad guys.

It turned out that I still had some of the Games Workshop Army of the Dead plastic models from the Lord of the Rings line still on the sprue lying in a box near my desk, so, they seemed like a good starting point.  I wanted to avoid the usual ethereal paint scheme for them, opting for a variety of grubby browns and black, to better represent mouldering corpses rather than ghosts.

I quickly knocked out one each of a plastic Army of the Dead trooper, metal Black Numenorean, and a Spectre from Otherworld games.  Nothing groundbreaking with the paintjobs, Army Painter Leather Brown colour primer, Strong Tone wash, then paint the skin Ash Grey, hair and beards Skeleton Bone, armour and weapons Machinegun Metal (AKA Platemail Metal IIRC) and the black cloth Necromancer Cloak (Robe?) then apply a Dark tone wash to the metals and some of the brown cloth, and soft tone to the skin and hair.  Job done.

Not so Solid Crew

So, in rather short order I managed to get 12 Army of the Dead troopers, 3 Black Numenoreans and 2 Spectres painted over the weekend, and so began some grand plans to make this into a Dragon Rampant/SAGA force, seeing as I have a huge Lord of the Rings backlog to draw from.

Almost feels like cheating

 Sure, they won't win any awards, but they definitely look the part for a bunch of mouldering corpses.  I have another 4 Warriors of the Dead, 3 Black Numenoreans, a RedBox Sorcerer, Reaper Viking and Uruk-hai Berserker primed up ready to go, as well as a spare copy of the hooded Witch-king.

I've also based up enough Army of the Dead to be able to field 6pts of Warriors in SAGA, or 4 units for Dragon Rampant.  I might have to see about getting some custom movement trays to be able to use them for War of the Ring too.

I am Batman.

The rummaging through the LotR backlog also turned up enough metal Morgul Knights to build 16, as well as 10 Riders of the Dead, plus a spare King and a Standard Bearer, which I think I'll end up putting on an oversized base.  There is also a load of Trolls, and other random gribblies like Wraiths, Wights and Bat Swarms, so I have plenty to be getting on with.

Well, I'm the Dark Knight.

That's it for the week, just building up more LotR figures and planning a massive army.  Hopefully that's the productivity back on track.  Still haven't been keeping track of #hobbystreak, but I have been doing a little each day.

Until next week,

Cheers,

John

#workbenchWednesday 01/08/18

Wow, actually on time this week...   So, how's the old workbench looking?

Pretty sparse for sure, although, I am working on some stuff that I have to keep under wraps as it is pre-release industry work.  Just the Razorback Crew to do for Mike's army to finish it off.  Which means, I must have finished all the Razorboars, right?

Ghost Pig - Way of the Hamurai.

Right.  He asked me to do a couple of them in the same "Sin City" style that I had done my Grymkin in, so I obliged, with one being done identically, and the other to have an orange glow.  Not really much area for glow effects as even the eyes are armoured on these little piggies.  He likes the final result, which means I am now doing some test pieces for him for Legion of Everblight.

Nephilim Soldier

Naga Nightlurker

Went with the Soldier and Naga as test pieces, because, well, I had them already, and it shows the scheme on a model with and without any metal areas.  Turned out pretty good if I do say so myself.  I'd like to do a selection of different test models with various 'glow' effects in a bright red, green, yellow, pink, purple, orange, blue and so on, as well as different tints on the armour, and a selection of Tamiya Clears for the blood and whatnot.  I reckon this would work for all the Hordes factions, and probably Cryx too, although, I'm not too sure with all the Warmachine ones.

Off to the side of the workbench currently looks like this.

Awwwwww, they're only ikkle.

None more brown.

First up is my Dwarfs from FourA Miniatures that I'm painting up for the SAGA Rampant! Challenge, along with some of the oldest kiddo's Goblins that she is painting for Hordes of the Things, along with the remaining Butcher's Guild figures to paint for Guildball, a Foundry Viking I am painting up for Blood Eagle/Saga, both Stormcast warbands for Shadespire, and a varied selection of models that I'm planning on doing for Blood Eagle.  There are Black Numenoreans and Army of the Dead from the Games Workshop Lord of the Rings line, plus a couple of Wraiths or Spectres from Otherworld Miniatures that are all planned as part of a Draugr Warband, along with some Reaper tombstones, and some Northstar miniatures (Crowmaster and Crow from Frostgrave and a Dwarf from the OGAM range) and finally a Footsore Shaman.

So, along with getting that lot primed up, I also have a growing collection of stuff mid assembly/basing.

There are various Reaper Bones ogres and a Giant, alongside a rock monster, foo dog and fountain, along with a metal werewolf and a vikingy guy who will join the Draugr.  There is also the Dragon Tong for IHMN as well as some Tharn that have been there for months now.  Finally, a Red Box Sorcerer who is also going into the Draugr collection.

Lastly, done a bit rearranging in the games room to try and keep things tidy/make better use of space.  It is quite disheartening how few painted forces I have in relation to the amount of figures and rulesets I own...  Guess I have to keep working on those double-duty ones right?


Well, that's it for this week, not really kept track of what I've been doing on a daily basis but that pretty much covers all I've been up to since my last weekly update.

Cheers,

John

Month in Review - July 2018

Well, that's us heading deeper into the latter half of the year, how are the #hobbyresolution2018 going?

1 - Transfer my flip-top paint collection to dropper bottles. (83/519)

Haven't done any this month.   Although I did pick up some 20ml syringes and needles to hopefully expedite progress.

2 - Organise and run a two day Warmahordes event, (1/1)

Done.

3 - Make £500 selling old models. (20/500)

Not sold anything this month.  Might have a buyer for my pile of Island of Blood Night Goblins soon though. 

4 - Maintain the Blog with weekly and monthly updates. (22/52 and 7/12)

Started to lag badly with this.  Weather hasn't helped as it completely kills my motivation to even move, nevermind take a bunch of pictures and sit typing.

5 - Go to 2 Gaming Shows or Conventions. (2/2)

Done.

6 - Play 6 New Opponents. (6/6)

Done

7 - Play 100 Games (53/100)

Not had the motivation or energy to game.

8 - Play 6 different Board Games. (5/6)

None played this month.

9 - Play 3 New Games or New Editions of Rules (3/3)

Already complete.

10 - Paint 4pts of Normans for SAGA. (4/4pts, 21/28 models)

Already Complete.

11 - Maintain Butcher's Guild being fully painted. (0/3 Models)

Nope. 

12 - Paint remaining Deathguard for Warhammer 40,000 (0/50 Models)

Nope. 

13 - Paint Waiqar half of Runewars Miniatures Game Starter (0/26 Models)

Guess what?  Nope.

14 - Paint a 15mm Hordes of the Things Army (14/14 Elements)

Complete.

15 - Paint a 75pt Warmahordes List (73/73 Models)

Done.

16 - Paint the Hog Wild Malifaux box (6/6 Models)

Complete.


So time for some numbers then?

Painted  44 models this month, and assembled at least 60.  The stuff that was sidelined on the workbench remains there.  Should be getting back to that soon.  Been kinda busy with commission stuff so haven't done any stuff for myself.

Played  3 games of 100, so, that average of 2 a week really took a hit. 

Have now finished 8 of my Hobby Resolutions,not added any extra this month.

Current #hobbystreakday - no idea, kinda lost track of updating.

Yearly painting tally is 256 miniatures or elements painted (151 for myself, 105 for commissions)

I've also grabbed a bunch of pictures, so, fingers crossed, I can actually do a #workbenchWednesday post tomorrow.

Cheers,

John

	Amount	Task	Completed
	519	Transfer Paint to dropper bottles	83	16%
1	1	Run April Fuel Daze 2018	1	100%
	500	Make £500 selling old models	20	4%
	61	Maintain Blog	29	48%
1	2	Go to 2 shows or conventions	2	100%
1	6	Play 6 New Opponents	6	100%
	100	Play 100 Games	53	53%
	6	Play 6 different Boardgames	5	83%
1	3	Play 3 New Games (or new editions)	3	100%
1	21	Paint 4+ points of Saga Normans	21	100%
	3	Paint Guildball Butchers	0	0%
	50	Paint remaining Deathguard	0	0%
	26	Paint Waiqar starter for Runewars	0	0%
1	14	Paint 15mm army for HotT	14	100%
1	73	Paint 75pt Warmahordes list	73	100%
1	6	Paint Malifaux Crew	6	100%
8	1391		22.72%
4	100.00%	January, February, March
4	100.00%	April, May, June
0		July, August, September
0		October, November, December
8	50.00%