I once said they were finished. They are, but these last 3 were left overs from the Cali trip. I never finished painting, based or flocked them. Now the Tomb Kings are done!
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| Fabtotum 5 axis |
Lucky me! Some one in Cali was selling off parts via the Facebook group. I got a new cable. My free time yesterday was spent installing and putting it all back together. Everything went back together and powered on. No missing pieces or extra parts! Only the probe doesn’t work. I don’t think it will effect printing.
Today before the games I will try to get some test prints done. Then back to where I broke the cable, printing building panels.
I think this project started way back in 2015. Now it is 2019. What happened? I retired, sold my house, everything went into storage, moved to Argentina, bought a house, got married again, got residency, mom got sick, dad had a stroke, sold a house, moved back, bought another house, and got all my stuff out of storage.
Now in 2019 I wonder who bought all this shit?
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| World Eaters from UK, Italy, and Fight club |
Where do I sit now? Well I got more stuff than I remember. Plus a butt ton more that was ordered during my Argentine escape. There is no way I will suffer supply issues. Of course now seemed almost like I planned it with the 30K Horus Heresy supplier C&D by GW.
More importantly I have started up again. It took so long to get started as I had lost the box of french bases. Some fool label the box as trees! Anyways some dudes got painted.
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| INF bases |
More arms that don’t stay on;
Original color scheme post;
I have settled of white primer. WE white will be foundry Austrian White 67B, highlighted by Italeri Gloss white. This combination with the use of a wet palette keeps the white from looking chunky, and like cake icing. WE blue will be foundry Prussian blue 66C, highlighted by Bavarian cornflower blue 73C. Red will be model color’s Red 033, highlighted by Cavalry brown 137.
First group finished in years
So far;
World Eaters Bare Metal = 354
World Eaters Painted = 30
World Eaters Armor Based = 16
World Eaters Based = 21
Detachments Completed = 4
Objectives = 3
More left overs getting finished up from last year. This group was primed and taking up painting sticks. They will represent the Hill tribes or Latin allies.
Oh I struggle with hand painting shield. I practiced drawing them over and over again. There is a big difference between a pencil and brush, paper and curved lead. Being the smart guy I am, I did start with the back row. Their shields will be mostly hidden by the front rank.
At arms length its ok. Up close, I suck! One side is easy to do. The mirror image is much more difficult. Also getting them the same height is never happening.
The bases will get flocked all together as an army. Otherwise there is no way they will look the same or look like they belong together.
The goal for the 2019 will be continuing the Warmaster Weekend efforts. This up coming year will be Samurai, Araby, Romans, Successors, Spanish. These are the mugs to get done. And done they will get. Unlike other New Year goals, I started already.
Samurai WIP
Cartho WIP
Roman WIP
Araby I am pretty happy with the regular arab infantry. The elite purple dudes will most likely end up as place holders until I find a better choice.
The fields are kind of busted. Past the end of their life. I will be slowly making them useful again, with a finish date of AdeptiCon. I ripped all the hedging and crap stones of the edges. The fur was cut down to fit the building (old glory) and to extend the walls. The wall pieces are from Terrain Concepts.
Tomb King WIP.
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| Magnetic warmaster bases |
Last of the Epic stuff being finished off before breaking out the 30K World Eaters. One more detachment of speeders for the IF army. Every slot in their case is full. The Fists are complete for now. Only thing missing to field every option is the AA platforms.
Metal squares were added to the bottom as a counter weight.
The Blood Angels never see the light of day. They are one of my largest space marine armies. All old school as they were the first army painted? Maybe.
Sadly they rarely get taken out. Mostly due to the list never getting settled. There is some constant fight over the stormraven gunship. Which is exactly what has been sitting on my paint table for years. Now all of them are done.
The BAs need some BA specific objectives and then I can say they are done. Yet somewhere hide is a box of the Italian’s Blood Angel sculpts.
I also got around to finishing the tractor part of the trailer trucks.
I got 6 blisters of Ashigaru (spearmen) 30 each. Little to no mold lines. They do come with more flash than you would normally see. Almost like the mold was wearing out. You have to inspect each helmet, flag, sword. Each dude gets his stand sanded. It takes about 20 minutes to clean up 30.
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| From my initial order |
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| Shirakawa. Famous ancient Japanese village. |
Rank distance is too tight for a spear that long. Warmaster stands are double based as standard. So no choice.
The Samurai did not use shields. The upper arm guards acted as a semi-shield? (I can’t find the reference) They fought in open order. The weapon system determines fighting style.
I will place 6 to 7 not 10 per base, and they will not be shoulder to shoulder. Nor in a tight well dressed line. More warband looking.
By using 7 per base, I will save 1 stand plus a dude per unit. Out of the 180 Ashigaru w/ Yari that came, I can get 8 units instead of 6.
21ish individual dudes in open order won’t allow for the GW 2d warmaster paint job. Speed painting and planning is critical or the project will never finish.
I have white glued them to paint stirring stick, 1/2 a stack for easy traveling, all facing the same way, well spaced with the second row offset. This helps in painting the same item all at once and being able to get in-between dudes to reach the backside.
These lads have been on the paint blocks for months. They never got any love with my warmaster problem. Two weeks ago I started clearing off my painting. Everything have assed and awaiting some love, got it. They were mostly finished last year. I edged the bases, flocked, and sealed them this year.
The grey dudes need wounded markers and a firing line.
These dudes were missing the flag guy. Who knows what happened to the original flag guy? The Egyptian Artillery Officer was badly chipped and needed repainting.
The metal dudes are from the “Flag Dude’s” on sale box. The actual manufacture is unknown. The wounded guy is from Old Glory (15mm) and the die box is Pendraken.
Half the plastic dudes are from this set. The special command British officers are HAT
Starting off the year buying a store. That will add 1600+ minis to the mountain. It was bought last year. But I had ready close the financial year out. So it is counted this year.
When they said they were closing I contacted the owner and requested to buy all the remaining stock. 10mm Samurai stock. I didn’t take any of the Blood Bowl or giant Japanese temple stuff. Everything came in less then 2 weeks. One huge box.
After kitting out my 10mm Samurai army, I will sell the rest off. Frank will get first pick (asked 1st), then the lads, Facebook group, and the rest off to eBay.
Three white boxes full of terrain, one full of minis, and six army starter boxes. Plus extra terrain that didn’t fit in the white boxes. 1520 minis and 112 terrain pieces. There are at least 3 terrain pieces I will recast, as there is only one. (bridge, straight wall section, etc)
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