N18 Necromunda: The Power Wars
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@Punktaku Thanks, glad you like it. I enjoy the sinister and grimdark take on those Hellraiser Space Elves. It's not even that they are just bad people, they have chosen to be sadistic torturers and slavers and pirates to save themselves from being consumed by Slaanesh by causing pain and suffering to others whenever they can. You could say they are just driven by survival instinct and found their own special way of dealing with the fate of the eldar race. They do terrible things however and are probably terrible people, no doubt. But it is more complex than just black and white, it's a whole folder of dark-grey tones.
But I get that they are not for everyone and are a pretty niche faction because you can not really sell such a faction to young hobbyists resp. their (grand)parents.
Anyway.
Sobek has gamed a game! Yay! Ecstatic outcries! Dancing!
It's been quite a while, probably half a year since our last game as my opponent had to travel a lot for work. Such a nice guy and actually a close game, I think I lost by one or two victory points only, despite having but a single corsair left on the board by the end with Daniel having barely lost anyone of his mixed forces of Veteran Guardsmen and Tempestus Scions. I will need some more games to get used to the fragile nature of elven Kill Teams, but with superior movement (+3 inch extra movement except for when charging into close combat) and easy access to power weapons I can't just stand back and watch the sunset. Those Corsairs are designed for close to mid range and risky, aggressive play.
Ork Kommandos would probably have been a better team to start learning the game, but honestly I don't get enough games in to switch teams all the time. I think I'll just play some combination of Dark Elves from now on. Can't wait to paint some more!
But I get that they are not for everyone and are a pretty niche faction because you can not really sell such a faction to young hobbyists resp. their (grand)parents.
Anyway.
Sobek has gamed a game! Yay! Ecstatic outcries! Dancing!
It's been quite a while, probably half a year since our last game as my opponent had to travel a lot for work. Such a nice guy and actually a close game, I think I lost by one or two victory points only, despite having but a single corsair left on the board by the end with Daniel having barely lost anyone of his mixed forces of Veteran Guardsmen and Tempestus Scions. I will need some more games to get used to the fragile nature of elven Kill Teams, but with superior movement (+3 inch extra movement except for when charging into close combat) and easy access to power weapons I can't just stand back and watch the sunset. Those Corsairs are designed for close to mid range and risky, aggressive play.
Ork Kommandos would probably have been a better team to start learning the game, but honestly I don't get enough games in to switch teams all the time. I think I'll just play some combination of Dark Elves from now on. Can't wait to paint some more!
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Daniel took some more picts, here's the one he sent me. Must have been taken after my Felarch got shot by a hot-shot lasgun and some very (un)lucky dice rolls. Good thing that I am currently reading Andy Chambers' Path of the Dark Eldar Series where it is said they drag their fallen from the battlefield to have them resurrected or basically regrown (think Star Wars Bacta Tank), as it is a dwindling race already. Hurts less then.
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changed some minor things on the remaining two Corsairs.
Guy an the left got a new head, girl had an Splinter Pistol and got a Shuriken Pistol that remind me of flintlock pistols and such you associate with your archetypical Carribean pirates. Fits the Freebooter / Raider theme better I guess.
They look less delicate than Splinter Pistols, more like you could use them as improvised close combat weapons.
I don't expect to have much hobby time this week. But I might find some time to read. I can't not buy books I'm afraid.
Guy an the left got a new head, girl had an Splinter Pistol and got a Shuriken Pistol that remind me of flintlock pistols and such you associate with your archetypical Carribean pirates. Fits the Freebooter / Raider theme better I guess.
They look less delicate than Splinter Pistols, more like you could use them as improvised close combat weapons.
I don't expect to have much hobby time this week. But I might find some time to read. I can't not buy books I'm afraid.
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Two months no looky-looky.
I made another Escher Ganger from spares I had lying around for a while.
Gang Sister w/ Autogun, Stiletto Sword and Stiletto Knife. Simply because I wanted to make a thingy for Necromunda for a change.
Quite pleased, though it looks like a mess of colours and materials before primer. Hope you like her.
I made another Escher Ganger from spares I had lying around for a while.
Gang Sister w/ Autogun, Stiletto Sword and Stiletto Knife. Simply because I wanted to make a thingy for Necromunda for a change.
Quite pleased, though it looks like a mess of colours and materials before primer. Hope you like her.
@Jon Reinhardt Thank you, will do. Wanted to finish the Dark Eldar Killteam people by end of the year before returning to the Underhive in full force. If I don't paint all of them Space Elf Pirates now I won't ever I'm afraid.
Speaking of which, I may have found another Lokhir model over on ebay in Italy for quite cheap (because it was already painted and was missing the sword arm bit).
Could not resist making a new model for the Corsairs Felarch w/ rifle loadout...
Speaking of which, I may have found another Lokhir model over on ebay in Italy for quite cheap (because it was already painted and was missing the sword arm bit).
Could not resist making a new model for the Corsairs Felarch w/ rifle loadout...
Speaking of Returning to the Underhive...
Over the last week I joined a fun challenge over on the instagram (#24hourtile) that was all about creating one single ZM tile in 24 hours.
This did not necessarily mean "in a single sitting", so I stretched it over four days to not worry about glue or paint drying times and eat, work, shi*t, sleep or even take a walk in between sessions to get back to work focused and knowing exactly what to do next.
First two hours were just digging through my collection of terrain kits and parts to figure out what I actually wanted to do with that tile.
I had ordered a 3d-printed ruined ZM tile from Spain via etsy a while ago that I wanted to use and I also wanted to dust up the floor tiles of my modular Zone Mortalis for Kill Team anyway. This challenge was as good an opportunity as any to finally get going, with some extrinsical motivation and positive stress to push through.
So what did I do?
You may remember that when I had finished my new 3x3 Underhive board I foolishly made another tile with a ruined Enforcer Precinct, which meant I needed two more adjacent tiles. The original idea for these was to simply use the Hab Blocks I had created years ago by cutting up Sector Fronteris hab units and stacking them up, but they were simply too large so I gave them away to 40k folks.
Here' a rough layout of the 24hourtile and some modular elements for the adjacent tile, about two hours into the challenge:
Here's what it looked like before paint:
And then on to some painting.
Add some dry pigments to dust it all up
And here we are, after ~16h30m total over the course of four days... 24hourtile done and dusted. Pun intended.
EDIT: In the pictures it looks much brighter than it is, against the black background and photos taken with an old smartphone, the contrast is way higher than it is in reality.
Hope you like it and find inspiration and motivation to work on your own terrain some.
Cheers.
Over the last week I joined a fun challenge over on the instagram (#24hourtile) that was all about creating one single ZM tile in 24 hours.
This did not necessarily mean "in a single sitting", so I stretched it over four days to not worry about glue or paint drying times and eat, work, shi*t, sleep or even take a walk in between sessions to get back to work focused and knowing exactly what to do next.
First two hours were just digging through my collection of terrain kits and parts to figure out what I actually wanted to do with that tile.
I had ordered a 3d-printed ruined ZM tile from Spain via etsy a while ago that I wanted to use and I also wanted to dust up the floor tiles of my modular Zone Mortalis for Kill Team anyway. This challenge was as good an opportunity as any to finally get going, with some extrinsical motivation and positive stress to push through.
So what did I do?
You may remember that when I had finished my new 3x3 Underhive board I foolishly made another tile with a ruined Enforcer Precinct, which meant I needed two more adjacent tiles. The original idea for these was to simply use the Hab Blocks I had created years ago by cutting up Sector Fronteris hab units and stacking them up, but they were simply too large so I gave them away to 40k folks.
Here' a rough layout of the 24hourtile and some modular elements for the adjacent tile, about two hours into the challenge:
Here's what it looked like before paint:
And then on to some painting.
Add some dry pigments to dust it all up
And here we are, after ~16h30m total over the course of four days... 24hourtile done and dusted. Pun intended.
EDIT: In the pictures it looks much brighter than it is, against the black background and photos taken with an old smartphone, the contrast is way higher than it is in reality.
Hope you like it and find inspiration and motivation to work on your own terrain some.
Cheers.
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Creating hive terrain is so much fun aint it? I find it very relaxing whilst still being exciting. Great job on this tile by the way, it simply screams Necromunda.
It is indeed. Relaxing is the perfect word to describe it. Thank you, glad you like it.
The grey dust pigment appears way lighter than it looks in reality though, might be because of the dark background and my phone hyperventilating.
By the way, painted the alternate loadout Felarch for my Hellraiser Elves Killteam:
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That's the metal body of an old-ish Dark Elf corsair named hero, Lokir Fellheart, who was re-released as a generic Dark Elf character for a while and is now mostly OOP, to my knowledge.
Trollmeat I totally agree with that comment about checking your pockets before washing.
Wife: "Why was there a rusty piece of tin in your pocket"
Me: "Oh I hope you didn't throw that out. Its going to be an underhive ventillation shaft terminus"
Wife: "Of course it was."
Wife: "Why was there a rusty piece of tin in your pocket"
Me: "Oh I hope you didn't throw that out. Its going to be an underhive ventillation shaft terminus"
Wife: "Of course it was."
And I guess I painted the final model for the Dark Eldar pirates warband for Kill Team ! And two extras !
Added Hydra Gauntlets to the Hekatrix model to use her as a Shade Runner (basically a Pirate Ninja with Knives that slices people running past them).
Decided I won't paint five Wyches and a Hekatrix for the one game in ten years I might be running the Drukhari Commorites team that is not all splinter rifles.
I mean, I got what, like two or three games in this year? And I still need to learn to play my Corsairs team, which has a lot of build options that play similarly-ish to mixed Commorites - power sword wielding Corsairs with that sweet 3" extra movement are somewhat similar to Wyches anyway I guess.
However, I painted the two regular Wyches as well to add to my collection of models for Inquisitor. Potential boarding action scenario with Dark Eldar and Rogue Trader crew. Or things might go terribly wrong when Magos Eisenstein tries to summon Slaanesh daemons from the Warp and instead opens a gate to the webway with Dark Eldar Wyches jumping out to murder those Slaaneshii Pleasure Punks. Got ideas for days.
Added Hydra Gauntlets to the Hekatrix model to use her as a Shade Runner (basically a Pirate Ninja with Knives that slices people running past them).
Decided I won't paint five Wyches and a Hekatrix for the one game in ten years I might be running the Drukhari Commorites team that is not all splinter rifles.
I mean, I got what, like two or three games in this year? And I still need to learn to play my Corsairs team, which has a lot of build options that play similarly-ish to mixed Commorites - power sword wielding Corsairs with that sweet 3" extra movement are somewhat similar to Wyches anyway I guess.
However, I painted the two regular Wyches as well to add to my collection of models for Inquisitor. Potential boarding action scenario with Dark Eldar and Rogue Trader crew. Or things might go terribly wrong when Magos Eisenstein tries to summon Slaanesh daemons from the Warp and instead opens a gate to the webway with Dark Eldar Wyches jumping out to murder those Slaaneshii Pleasure Punks. Got ideas for days.
Enough Space Elves for the time being!
I needed a palette cleanser after all that Kill Team goodness. Actually, not only did I put a different painting project on my painting desk, I literally took my painting desk somewhere different as well (including myself).
Some hobby friends from a German forum organized a meet and paint so we joined forces over the weekend to get some long hours of painting in. I even got to play some Warcry, in fact I got more games in than I had played over the last two years (3 > 2 ...).
And what better palette cleanser after months of sharp edges than some kitties?
Look at them playing around!
One of the guys there was a Necromunda player from Munich who immediately told me these cats were pretty dang expensive for what they (can) do, but oh well. The re-worked models have really grown on me (some of you may remember there were early sculpts of Phyrr Cats that had been binned and re-sculpted because people on the Internet did not like them) and now we have mostly hairless, muscular, bat-headed little monsters. But yeah, the leaping pose (of the original sculpts) in particular was utterly terrible.
Think of running them alongside one of my Death Maidens regardless. Rule of cool and such.
I mean, these games are not well balanced anyway and I have never seen Necromunda as a competitive game. In addition, the vast majority of my hobby time is converting models or painting models on my own, so I go for models I like the look of or think I would enjoy painting. Which then leads to me wanting to use those models in games.
That said, I did (slightly) convert some of those ugly skink rats from the Wyld Runner box for another project to use as Beast House themed Genestealer Cult familiars. Should be on the right base sizes so why not use them for my Escher Gang as well? Could have taken them along to the painting weekend, but here we are.
Looks like I am back to painting the Gangs of the Underhive? Finally home!
I needed a palette cleanser after all that Kill Team goodness. Actually, not only did I put a different painting project on my painting desk, I literally took my painting desk somewhere different as well (including myself).
Some hobby friends from a German forum organized a meet and paint so we joined forces over the weekend to get some long hours of painting in. I even got to play some Warcry, in fact I got more games in than I had played over the last two years (3 > 2 ...).
And what better palette cleanser after months of sharp edges than some kitties?
Look at them playing around!
One of the guys there was a Necromunda player from Munich who immediately told me these cats were pretty dang expensive for what they (can) do, but oh well. The re-worked models have really grown on me (some of you may remember there were early sculpts of Phyrr Cats that had been binned and re-sculpted because people on the Internet did not like them) and now we have mostly hairless, muscular, bat-headed little monsters. But yeah, the leaping pose (of the original sculpts) in particular was utterly terrible.
Think of running them alongside one of my Death Maidens regardless. Rule of cool and such.
I mean, these games are not well balanced anyway and I have never seen Necromunda as a competitive game. In addition, the vast majority of my hobby time is converting models or painting models on my own, so I go for models I like the look of or think I would enjoy painting. Which then leads to me wanting to use those models in games.
That said, I did (slightly) convert some of those ugly skink rats from the Wyld Runner box for another project to use as Beast House themed Genestealer Cult familiars. Should be on the right base sizes so why not use them for my Escher Gang as well? Could have taken them along to the painting weekend, but here we are.
Looks like I am back to painting the Gangs of the Underhive? Finally home!
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That first picture is so evocative of drafting rooms of old. Incredible vibes. Top level painting as usual
Thank you so much! Yeah, I see what you mean. We have already made a reservation with the venue for next year, we'll have an even larger room, more dedicated gaming space and probably more attendees.
Hope I can make it to the UK for a Yak Meet or SumpCon or similar event as well some day. That would be great.
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Made good use of the momentum to get paint on my Phelynx as well. Minor conversions with the heads to have lizard cats instead of ugly rat cross-breeds.
Look at them playing in the yard!
Wait, now they're up on the roof! Come on down lil' lizzie-kitties, feeding time!
Also worked on one of my Escher gals.
Remember Oura?
Some time last year I felt like giving her another close combat weapon so that meant re-painting her right arm and a shock whip. Still one of my favourite models from my Necromunda collection I guess.
Expect more Escher Gang Updates more often.
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