...and just in the nick of time! Truth be told I didn't think I'd have the time, but in the end I did what any responsible 40-something would do, I put aside adulting for a few hours and instead said: fuck it, I want to paint my miniatures!
And promptly did so.
lol, anyways...I'm really happy with how it turned out. Technically, this still needs another coat of matte varnish followed by 'ard coat over the eyes, tongue and entrails that are hanging out of the trunk. However its raining and with 100% humidity outside, and I don't want to risk the varnish fogging, so that part can wait till this front passes thru in a couple of days.
Anyways, here are the completed pics:
Whatever that huge skull belonged to has been dead long enough
for the local flora to grow through it, and die as well.
Just a close up of some of the requisite human skulls.
An overhead shot of the entire model, base and all.
Yeah its been an awful month. However Saturday I was finally able to get some hobbying in and tried to make up some lost time on my baby squiggoth. That way, when the weekly round up posts you won't be seeing my prior post (again) for the what....3rd? or is it 4th time?
Anyways, I'll just show my latest WIP pics and then get back to it as I have less than a week to finish this project all up!
All inked, now for the dry brushing!
Have opted for those being entrails, lots of blood for the blood god paint to come on that trunk!
This wouldn't fit on a killa Kan's 60mm base, so I stole the
ginormous one that came with the Venom Crawler.
A bit light of a blue for da Deff Skullz, but I'll darken up before the end...
Just a quick post for an equally short amount of hobby time this week. I managed to steal and just about an hour or so this afternoon to at least try and achieve some sort of minimal progress on my baby squiggoth for Dreadtober. Honestly, its the only hobby time I've had all week, and the next isn't looking any better at the moment.
The zig-zag looks a bit more consistent on the ass-end.
Nonetheless, the baby squiggoth has achieved the infamous 3-color minimum. I like the base idea for the blue/black hull, though it needs a bit more refinement. It doesn't have to be perfect though since as I've mentioned before, it is the Orks we're dealing with here.
Eh...not too far off from my initial idea. Though this is a bitch to do amidst the hull's detailing and recessed gribbly bitz.
Am hoping I can get more done this week, otherwise it'll just be a late month crunch-time run I guess.
It was a pretty busy week, however I did manage to get the turret situated, meaning it now swivels freely. It was a bit laborious sawing off the insert that went into the hull with a little hobby saw. I did end up with one gouge due to getting a bit crooked in my sawing, but I caught the issue before it got too bad.
Its ugly but it works...mostly.
Still lacking green stuff, I instead just cut a few small squares of plasti-card to fit the square in the hull (where said insert had gone previously), and then glued 'em in, one atop the next until they sat flush with the top of the hull. Once dry I made an 'X' to find the center and drilled in an 1/8" hole to fit a magnet. Likewise I did the same with the bottom of the turret.
Unfortunately...it doesn't line up on center as I had hoped/planned. But hey, its the orks right? Right. Of course, the more astute amongst you may have realized that that's all but an admission that I can't line up a turret any better than an Ork/grot. To that I say: Thanks for paying attention Neverness, now sit back down and be quiet!
just as planned....
Additionally...not only is the turret now out of a proper center alignment, but my counter-sinking didn't go quite deep enough meaning there was an appreciable gap between the turret and hull. Thus I cut a rectangular, plasticard 'ring' to fill the gap. With that taken care of, all is now primed and ready for paint.
Lastly, I'll be putting this on the ginormous base that the venomcrawler came with (necessitating the purchase of another for the crawler) as this wouldn't fit on a killa-kan's 60mm base. This week is looking ugly, but I hope to have some hobby time at some point...maybe. :-(
My last effort for this community event came in the form of my old (and now long since sold) Salamanders' Dreadnought. For 2019's entry, I'm hoping to actually finish my Baby Squiggoth which is essentially a 'counts-as' Killa Kan.
RAWR!!
I hadn't touched it in a while due to some serious gaps and the need for greenstuff (my mortal enemy) to remedy them. However I never got to the FLGS to buy any, nor did I order any either as I didn't want to pay for shipping charges on the stuff. So, I instead set about trimming/shaving down the interior portions that lock the top and bottom halves together and in short order, the gaps were a thing of the past and I was able to glue the kit together.
What to do about that gap? hrmmm...
Also note the dud anti-tank rounds stuck in the forward and side hull!
That said, there still is one awful gap behind the head that I may yet need GS to fill. Its probably all the more noticeable after I made a bad air bubble look like battle damage. Yay me.
Shall I paint the stuff coming out of the trunk as ropes? Sausages? Entrails? Oh, and yikes! Look at that gate I missed on the back of the turret!!
This ought to fit on a 60mm Killa Kan base...well, maybe.
There is still a bit of clean up on the sides as well, but nothing too, too bad, mainly beneath the ropes on both sides. The turret itself still needs the most work however. For whatever reason, it was designed so that it would sit stationary and at an angle. It can neither swivel nor point directly forward which is rather annoying.
Kindova dumb design choice if you ask me...
As such, I figure I'll just saw off the insert from the turret bottom, smooth it out and then countersink a magnet into it. As for the hull top...I dunno, I guess the easiest method would be to fill it with greenstuff and then mash a 2nd magnet into that. Unless of course I can scrounge up something else to fit into there and countersink a magnet into that instead.
Yes really. This is apparently a thing. So take that as a warning before proceeding because you know me...oh, and be sure to read the red text before clicking the link before it.
Also, just to get it out of the way first, you can blame Neverness for this post. He called me Monday afternoon, handed me the molotov cocktail (so to speak) and told me to run with it on here. Dumbfounded and disbelieving at what I was reading, I looked to My Beloved Wolfy who simply said: yes. (doing so with a wicked gleam in her beautiful eyes).
Whether or not the following is an entertaining post or total crap I couldn't tell you at this point as I've written and deleted it about a dozen times now, no doubt losing some of its venom along the way, but i'd gotten way, waaay off topic, and repeatedly.
I wouldn't trust his signature consenting to anything!
From behind her screen, the DM looks around the table at her fellow gamers, all with D20s in hand: Okay, so who's on point?
In this crummy world we all now are forced to slog thru on a daily basis, now we can't even run to hide in our imaginary gaming worlds without first reading, filling out and then signing yet another fucking consent form available for free here (yes, they're quite serious about this). What comes next character generation? Or pseudo-therapy sessions with the DM just to make sure all is good? I can assure you that you'll be hard pressed to find a DM out there with the proper schooling for this shit.
Roll for initiativ-oh wait, yeah never mind..
That PDF linked above has freaking safe words for fuck sake! This isn't some sort of BDSM dungeon (LINK IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!!!!!!!), no-just a gaming one.
Who the hell wants to play with kid-gloves on? Don't we have enough of that crap to deal with in real life? Looking back to my old RPG days, it was more like this: 'you what?That bothers you does it?' As I look around the room at who you had thought were your friends but now instead resemble a pack of grinning hyenas with blood dribbling out of their toothy grins.
In this post-PDF-cosenting gaming world, how the hell do you start these gaming sessions exactly nowadays?
Is it like this: The lights are dimmed in the living room, save one in the middle for whomever has the floor. Geeks and gamers sit in a circle, empty cans of mountain dew, Monster energy drinks and the empty bags of munchies strewn about,...slowly Rothgar' the Ogre's player stands, shuffles to the center of the room and looks about glumly (all present then speak in character):
Hi. me Rothgar.
Hi Rothgar.
I...well, Rothgar is murder hobo.
Followed by grave looks and down cast eyes from all present. Rothgar's player sits, ashamed.
Next the DM speaks: Thank you for sharing Rothgar. Who's next? How bout you Saia, mistress of the dark arts?
*****
God I can't wait, where do I sign up?
Man this is group gonna be great-wait wha? Consent forms...for-huh? I thought we were role playing?
...aaaaaand there we go, now that everyone's signed their consent forms, and we're clear on what's good and what's not. So, is everybody ready to roll some dice for some savage rated G combat vs. this cuddly Cthulhu here?
So what the fuck do you want when you game? Do you want grim-dark sci-fi or fantasy? Or do you want mildly hostile yet heavily armed teddy bears? Do you want a dark, dank dungeon, or genestealer infested space hulk? Or would you rather fight in a padded, softly lit room?
This?
News flash kids, the latter is a fucking insane asylum! Google that shit and you'll see how much fun those really are!
Or this?
I dunno. I...I just don't know what the hell the gaming world is coming to. Here, just skip that stupid PDF and just use this instead:
Warning: if you use this the party will only make it worse for you!
I pilfered the decals from my defunct Eleventy First Weird War II army, and as such the Quar shall now bear that name in battle!
For once I actually followed thu and finished something when I said I would! (don't get used to it...) I finished up my universal carrier for for my Konflikt '47 Quar. Its a fairly simple (and tiny!) tank to paint, but was enjoyable nonetheless. Especially as its so rare that I paint a 28mm scaled tank of any sort these days.
The homes of the Quar's country folk bear a striking resemblance to Hobbit homes, so the Hobbit door/roundel is actually quite appropriate.
Aside from the box art and the standard google search of images, I looked to both Admiral Drax and Neverness for some painting inspiration. Of course it wasn't all that hard I suppose, as this is really just a little OD green box on treads, but sometimes its fun to see what others have done with this same model first.
Note the troop compartment's grubby interior.
Borrowing from Neverness (and I'm doing so heavily in this post) I opted for some outside/natural light photos of the finished carrier. Furthermore, I took a page straight out of his playbook since he isn't using it himself currently (though admittedly not by choice) and took some 'on patrol' pics in what he so eloquently calls Backyardistan, lol.
Over there! I heard something over there!
Hunkered down in concealed positions.
Conveniently for this pic (and not needing to mow Backyardistan) it hasn't rained in weeks resulting in these 'picturesque' dead spots.
I had cobbled together a Tesla AT gun for this carrier to tow but I dunno, I'm not too thrilled with it. So I may just skip using that and for the time being use this as the in-between-games-personal transport for my Lt. and FO., and as a recon/harasser in games (assuming that I ever actually play one)
I got into 40k when I was 19, and my state of personal finances has been all but destroyed ever since.
Basically I'm just your standard issue gaming geek.
