Primarch of Death

   I'm currently residing at an empty home with no distractions, yet I still almost forgot about the blog!  My family has left for vacation and this gives me all the time I like to get some hobbying done.  I've gotten no hobbying done.

  But my son, being far more industrious than I am sometimes, has spent a few weeks touching up his Lord Mortarion.  Using the airbrush and some putty-based conversion (to replace broken and lost parts), he spruced the model up quite a bit and now has a sexy monster ready to grace the battlefield.  I was so impressed that I waited for him to leave for school one day and I took some pics.

  This was a massive upgrade over the last attempt- this happens after a few years pass and drop that experience and growth.  I'm really proud  and he's looking forward to slapping him down against me.  Mortarion almost fought against my Necrons, but he's being saved for Ultramarines 2.0.  The Plague Wars will never be over!

  Have you been working on anything lately?  Let me know what kind of upgrade work you've slapped down recently in the comments below.

Happy Hobbying!

Hive War over flats!

   The Carrion Queens stumbled upon the patch of buildings during their exploration and decided to adopt it as a hideout.  Unfortunately for the Escher, word travels faster than air in the Underhive and other gangs quickly became interested.  The first to challenge was the Silent Ones.  

  As the silence hung over the territory, it was broken with the shuffle of feet, quiet whistles, and the occasional clank of something being disturbed.  It wasn't long before the crack of an autogun launched the action and the cacophony started.

  The Dark Hand snuck up the stair to take a shot at the opponent standing on a high position and nearly fully exposed.  Unfortunately, Yagoth didn't maintenance the weapon and it misfired and jammed.  This wa not a good start...  From here, the Escher simply advanced with guns blazing.  Ducking and diving, the Delaque were suddenly on the defensive...

  The only response they could muster at the moment was to send Dendrah into the fire to use his suppression guns.  The autopistol didn't register a hit but the hand flamer easily crossed barricades to immolate one of the Eschers.  This broke Jelena's nerve and sent her scurrying for cover and sent a message across the gangs.  Unfortunately, this moment was the only successful one in a short battle.

  Marika, hearing the whine of the passing sniper round just past her ear, leapt forward and overcharged her plasma pistol to disintegrate a trench-coated opponent.  Across the battlefield, Rhosinn charged and chopped down another.  A third Delaque finally passed out from a bleeding injury caused by Olina's bullet-spray and this was enough to prove the loss.  Cxauth called for the retreat and the Silent Ones quit the area quickly and quietly.  

  This was the second battle for the Delaque where the Carrion Queens owned them.  It doesn't seem like the 'diplomatic' faction has the ability to stand up to these animalistic enemies!  While the Sump Dogs are running the Ash Wastes, the Silent Ones are going to have to figure out how to take out these vicious gangs.  

  More than anything, this was an inaugural battle for this newly-painted terrain.  We did it very fast and matched the scheme for all my other stuff.  I really like it and the wife (and daughter, who participated too!) thought that it really added to the immersion.  I agree.  After all, that's the point of good battlefield terrain!  Now to get those Delaque finished painted...

Happy Gaming!

Workers are going home...

   My last many posts have been about the construction project I've adopted- the new TTCombat terrain for our Necromunda games.  And we've finished this set this weekend!

  It's not the best paint job.  In fact, I decided that the rust-effect is the best as it hides the brushstrokes and adds that color that I was looking for.  This also matches the theme all too well considering that the Underhive isn't known for its pristine appearance.    

  We also took advantage of the airbrush for the grey and yellow.  It was a great learning experience as getting the paint to the proper consistency takes practice.  Unfortunately, we still have some learning to do and it turns out that yellow is even more difficult through an airbrush than with a paintbrush.

  For quick work with little experience, I'm pretty happy with the results.  Let's see:

  After layers of copper and silver came the sprayed layers of yellow.  That wasn't fun.  Then came the rust...

  Hours of work, including a little bit of weathering, and boom!  We now have something other than walkways and furnaces to battle over.  

  Remember that this is only one set of the Slum Blocks and one set of the Slum Stacks.  I still have more to build and paint, but this already presents enough terrain to have a good battle.  Have you been working on the setting of your games?  Let me know in the comments below.  

My name is not Jonas.  Happy Hobbying!

Construction update

   It's been a busy week and I've only gotten one game of 40k in, so I don't have too much to report.  But I've been hobbying a little and got some primer on the buildings.  

  It took two cans of primer to get all of this stuff caught up.  I found out that MDF absorbs paint so much that I had to prime to prime to prime before I can even consider putting paint on.  The thick puddles of primer on the surfaces made me nervous until I returned a couple hours later to find the wood-brown color still poking through.  Wow.

  But now that I'm up to this point, it's time to start considering the colors.  I'm even going to recruit my daughter to help as she's artistic and I have an airbrush that we all need practice with.  

  I'm really excited to have some Settlement-worthy terrain for my Necromunda battles.  I even realized that this new stuff is just as good for the Underhive as it is for the Ash Wastes.  And remember that I have way more to build, so I can even differentiate the two settings if I need to...

  This leads me to the first model built out of the Ash Wastes.  It was very, very fiddly and the pieces are so tiny that cutting off the frame-nubs was very stressful for me.  But the stress was very rewarding as the model is really awesome and reminded me of building fine model airplane kits when I was a kid.

  I kept the driver and gun-caddy separate so that the model is easier to paint.  Also, having a spare quad just lying around the battlefield might be a tempting reason for the gangs to scuffle...

  The battlefield is coming!  Have you been working on anything?  Let me know in the comments below.  Happy Hobbying!