It really highlights the Rhino size creep. I still prefer the tanks from that era as I preferred the cruder look of everything at that time. I've still got my Space Wolves Predator Anhilator and Razorback from that edition.
Necromunda The ballad of how I lost my mind and decided to paint a ton of stuff
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The Predator Annihilator from then was a bit odd as it was the only tank with a smooth T-62 esque turret plonked on top of the regular blocky body. I always thought the result looked a bit off.
One thing the newer Rhino has going for it is that 10 marines (pre-primaris) fitting inside one is improbable, not impossible.
It was so bad it put me off red in general, I have very few red models. Then came the revelation that was Mechanicus Red (guess what, adding more pigment makes paint cover better. Mind blown!) and the modern GW reds do cover very well, it takes 2-3 thin coats over black to achieve good coverage on everything but large flat areas.
Might paint some red 'uns one day after all, empirical data suggests they have higher movement speed.
Right, that was annoying. The end of the school year is always full of work, so I wasn't expecting to get much done. But getting the old flat sorted out took until the last week of June, and most of July so far as eaten up by work in the new place we both left lying about until we were on holiday. And fair's fair, we did spend a week away on holiday as well.
Anyway, back at base work picked right up, and after final transport damage assessment we realized we did suffer a last minute casualty in the form of one very venerable and irreplaceable Detolf display case, it was just too beat up to reassemble. After a lot of musing (and some mourning) Primegirl had the very reasonable and obvious idea of just getting one of those Billy bookcases with the glass doors. Expensive? Yes. But, more space than two of the old display cases, and it fits nicely with the survivors:
I gained so much space, in fact, that I decided to break out some stuff from deep storage, like my old WHFB Dark Elves, still in their original Beaten Copper / Blood Red paint scheme.
Seen here on my old army banner bearer. Gotta say, my painting improved over the years, but sometimes I am impressed at what early-teen-Prime was able to achieve with what he had back then.
Since I finally have free time worth mentioning, I'm jumping between several projects, trying to find something worth sinking more time into. One of those is doing more of my Squats, still stuck on how to do the bases, but here's the leader nearly done. Not entirely happy with the blue on the power fist, should maybe have kept it red or yellow.
Since I lovemaking myself suffer needlessly pushing myself as a painter, I even gave him eyes. It went pretty well.
Look at that anger. Probably saw somebody using a number 14 spanner on a number 13 bolt to "save time".
Anyway, back at base work picked right up, and after final transport damage assessment we realized we did suffer a last minute casualty in the form of one very venerable and irreplaceable Detolf display case, it was just too beat up to reassemble. After a lot of musing (and some mourning) Primegirl had the very reasonable and obvious idea of just getting one of those Billy bookcases with the glass doors. Expensive? Yes. But, more space than two of the old display cases, and it fits nicely with the survivors:
I gained so much space, in fact, that I decided to break out some stuff from deep storage, like my old WHFB Dark Elves, still in their original Beaten Copper / Blood Red paint scheme.
Seen here on my old army banner bearer. Gotta say, my painting improved over the years, but sometimes I am impressed at what early-teen-Prime was able to achieve with what he had back then.
Since I finally have free time worth mentioning, I'm jumping between several projects, trying to find something worth sinking more time into. One of those is doing more of my Squats, still stuck on how to do the bases, but here's the leader nearly done. Not entirely happy with the blue on the power fist, should maybe have kept it red or yellow.
Since I love
Look at that anger. Probably saw somebody using a number 14 spanner on a number 13 bolt to "save time".
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Nice work on the stunty fellow. My collection has also been outgrowing my storage, so now I too am tempted to look at those Billy shelves.
The Dark Elf banner is awesome. I miss fantasy so much. Not sure where any of my minis have gone over the years. Great work on the squat too.
The main argument against them (other than price) that I heard was that they're not dust-tight. And I mean, yes, there's a gap between the two doors, but there's also a gap all around the door on a Detolf, and nobody ever complained about that. No idea what sort of high-end airtight furniture the internet keeps their minis in.
I for one am very happy, I could theoretically buy a few more shelves and space them out differently to get even more storage space, but I think that won't be necessary for a while.
Seems abominable intelligences are assaulting the forums these days. In true Mechanicus fashion I shall do...jack all, and continue my own stuff.
Been chipping away at Squat models, but not much to show that would be interesting, except that I actually did a test run for what the bases may look like. I used my first assembled and primed Exo-Kyn because their bases are big enough to properly show the effects:
I think I am somewhat happy with the "toxic runoff covered by ash" effect here, and may continue using it.
Been chipping away at Squat models, but not much to show that would be interesting, except that I actually did a test run for what the bases may look like. I used my first assembled and primed Exo-Kyn because their bases are big enough to properly show the effects:
I think I am somewhat happy with the "toxic runoff covered by ash" effect here, and may continue using it.
The hobby war rages on all fronts, and I got another face-to-face session in with my 5th edition D&D group. Just in time for that, I finished the miniatures. We designed them together on Heroforge, bought the STLs and had a friend print them.
So here's our Eberron party, from left to right: Jinx, Changeling rogue; Ekemon, Tiefling House Cannith Artificer; Bruna, Dwarf Barbarian; Esma, Formorian Druid; Sankt, Warforged Paladin; Shisendre, feytouched Elf Ranger. They took down an Aboleth at level five, reminding me that two extra party members beyond four utterly break the already pretty useless 5th edition encounter difficulty calculator.
Finally, short review of getting just the STL files: Heroforge charge a pretty penny for the files, and the quality is not quite up there with what you get when you let them print the minis for you, but on the upside you get exactly what you want and it's still about a quarter of the price of getting them sent to you.
So here's our Eberron party, from left to right: Jinx, Changeling rogue; Ekemon, Tiefling House Cannith Artificer; Bruna, Dwarf Barbarian; Esma, Formorian Druid; Sankt, Warforged Paladin; Shisendre, feytouched Elf Ranger. They took down an Aboleth at level five, reminding me that two extra party members beyond four utterly break the already pretty useless 5th edition encounter difficulty calculator.
Finally, short review of getting just the STL files: Heroforge charge a pretty penny for the files, and the quality is not quite up there with what you get when you let them print the minis for you, but on the upside you get exactly what you want and it's still about a quarter of the price of getting them sent to you.
The inevitable has happened, it's summer, so I'm also back at terrain. Seems working on a terrain tile every holiday has become a tradition.
In a case of "what could have been" I went back to the weaponshop tile that I had to hand in unfinished for Yakcomp because of the move. True, the tile was basically done, but I had a lot of fun detail ideas I never got to do, so why not now?
Mounted the "Archeotech" gun to the top, it will receive a sign with an appropriately ridiculous price tag soon, along with some guns and equipment pieces for the front of the shop. Been juggling this an the squats back and forth on the hobby table, will post more WIPs as this develops.
In a case of "what could have been" I went back to the weaponshop tile that I had to hand in unfinished for Yakcomp because of the move. True, the tile was basically done, but I had a lot of fun detail ideas I never got to do, so why not now?
Mounted the "Archeotech" gun to the top, it will receive a sign with an appropriately ridiculous price tag soon, along with some guns and equipment pieces for the front of the shop. Been juggling this an the squats back and forth on the hobby table, will post more WIPs as this develops.
The details are abnormally shallow, some of the details are more painted on than anything, and the scaling was a bit wonky, the cape on the warforged looks like it's from an early 2000s video game up close, but it's nothing that really shows up at arm's length, so it's a luxurious complaint if anything.
So I got the containers mostly done. First off, the somewhat simplistic chem shop:
This was kept rather sparse detail-wise, on the one hand because my headlore is that the guy wants to keep his shop discreet for one reason or another, the other being that it's final position is here:
I also finished the signs for the weapon shop:
And to finish off, some shots of the fortune teller's home, because every place in the Imperium needs awyrd hiding in the open respectable medium to lay the good people the Tarot of the Emperor.
The effect I was going for here was "somebody with more enthusiasm than skill paints some stars with a spray can" was surprisingly hard to get it to look like it was done by somebody in-universe with not much skill, and not like I'm not able to draw a decent star. I think I kind of managed.
Also, all those zodiac symbols? Most of them are astronomical planet symbols, the ones on the back of the container are the solar system, another thing nobody will ever ever notice (and I did have to cheat, some of the symbols on the outside fields are dwarf planets or moons).
Still some details to flesh out, will mount some more guns in the weapon shop, add some railing and a few crates here and there. It's a lot of fun doing this, but it's amazing how much time the detailing consumes.
This was kept rather sparse detail-wise, on the one hand because my headlore is that the guy wants to keep his shop discreet for one reason or another, the other being that it's final position is here:
I also finished the signs for the weapon shop:
And to finish off, some shots of the fortune teller's home, because every place in the Imperium needs a
The effect I was going for here was "somebody with more enthusiasm than skill paints some stars with a spray can" was surprisingly hard to get it to look like it was done by somebody in-universe with not much skill, and not like I'm not able to draw a decent star. I think I kind of managed.
Also, all those zodiac symbols? Most of them are astronomical planet symbols, the ones on the back of the container are the solar system, another thing nobody will ever ever notice (and I did have to cheat, some of the symbols on the outside fields are dwarf planets or moons).
Still some details to flesh out, will mount some more guns in the weapon shop, add some railing and a few crates here and there. It's a lot of fun doing this, but it's amazing how much time the detailing consumes.
"Oh I'll just paint some crates and stuff" is one of those phrases that suddenly takes you down a four-day hobby journey. Granted, Primegirl and I were doing plenty of other things around the apartment as well, but all time I had spare was spent bending over the hobby table.
So, here's what that did:
This is what the weapon shop looks like at 96% done, still adding a hatch to cover that hole on the emergency exit.
I mounted a VERY old sword (I think it's from a Mordheim Miniature) with some bolters as a sales display
Some attempt at humor from the sales staff
And then I finally realized what this dreary down-sump mall needed to lighten things up. A string of lights! So I bent some wire around some, uh, more wire. And no, I do not know what possessed me that I glued the whole thing down before painting it.
Wanted to do this tomorrow, but the hobby ghost possessed me and forced me to finish the project, the lights are glass beads I got in a bulk set at a discount store for not much, was planning to use them as eyeballs on a Nurgle mini I never did.
So am I done? Ahaha, no, the crates I mentioned yesterday are still half-ready, no cover on ground level sucks bad, so I need some sight-blockers there. But then I'm done and will take some proper pictures.
So, here's what that did:
This is what the weapon shop looks like at 96% done, still adding a hatch to cover that hole on the emergency exit.
I mounted a VERY old sword (I think it's from a Mordheim Miniature) with some bolters as a sales display
Some attempt at humor from the sales staff
And then I finally realized what this dreary down-sump mall needed to lighten things up. A string of lights! So I bent some wire around some, uh, more wire. And no, I do not know what possessed me that I glued the whole thing down before painting it.
Wanted to do this tomorrow, but the hobby ghost possessed me and forced me to finish the project, the lights are glass beads I got in a bulk set at a discount store for not much, was planning to use them as eyeballs on a Nurgle mini I never did.
So am I done? Ahaha, no, the crates I mentioned yesterday are still half-ready, no cover on ground level sucks bad, so I need some sight-blockers there. But then I'm done and will take some proper pictures.
Dwarf planets? Don't you mean Squat planets?
Great scenery all around, I would love to play on that board.
Great scenery all around, I would love to play on that board.
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