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  • W.A.Rorie

    XIVth Legion build

    By W.A.Rorie

    So am I back from Indiana. I have to head back to move In-Laws into a Retirement Center, in a few weeks. And of course everything goes sideways at work moment I get back. So hobby time has been non existence. Silver Lining is LGS not get Saturnine until Monday, so I can get everything I need to do first i.e. my XIXth Legion and Exorcists  Call to Arms Vows, that I have not started. And won't have time this weekend.   I did start on building one of My XIVth Legion Commanders, not sure w
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  • GSCUprising

    Jagieŀŀo inspects their prizes

    By GSCUprising

    The Resistance have finally captured the war machines they believe they require to make their stand.   Brutus, the Malcador, reliable, dependable the spine of their battleline. She will not fail them. She will hold the line, her battlecannon roaring, her sponsons blazing as she paves the way for the Resistance's advance. The Iron Duke, his twin Earthshaker cannons blasting holes in the enemy's fortifications. He guards those retreating and the wounded behind his massive blast shield
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  • zulu.tango

    Wrapping Wreckas

    By zulu.tango

    Hit the throttle on the Wreckas last week. I've been painting pretty slowly this year all things considered, decided to change that with this project. Finished up free-hand on a few items, got the squigs painted up, did the bases and oil washes last week resulting in a final project I'm pretty happy with!    I dug out some of the leftover terrain bits I had from the sector imperialis/Chalnath terrain. I put a fine terrain paste around those bits and then put in some sand to act as larg
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  • Bouargh

    Square Pants Bob

    By Bouargh

    Hi Folks,   Today’s blog entry is a little bit specific as it deals with something different from my usual inputs: instead of reporting hobbying progress, I will talk about a trail I did for a new technique (à la TITH – i.e. something that is not new in general but new for me).     The technique is often reported on purpose of adding details and create battle damages or war-torn marks on miniatures. But beyond painting damages, the sponge might be used on purpose of
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40K Feast & Famine

Rogue Trader Tourney Recap

Game 1 Loss to Sisters with a Knight Great opponent coming into this with no recent games. A good learning game to start the day and get on my feet. That said it was a total rout. With more time he'd have wiped me off the board. At the outset terrain placement is a big problem. Thank the emperor I didn't bring a baneblade. Movement was hugely constricted. Obscuring created weird avenues of sight.  Challenge. Learning when to reserve is a key weakness for me. I continue to have a bad m
Captain Caine 24th

Captain Caine 24th in 2023

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Xenith's Hobby Hangout

BatRep: Alpha Legion v Death Guard 30k

Not so much a batrep as showing off my friend Dom's gorgeous DG army. I'm trying to get in some practice games for WHFest, and Dom has been working hard on these awesome DG so we got a game lined up!   Alpha Legion - No RoW Vigilator - nemesis, dagger Librarian - telepathy, force axe, power maul, pinning wlt.    Contemptor talon - 1x melta, grav fist, 1x las, fist 2x rapier grav cannon 5 fulmentarus, 3 fists, 2 axes 10 Effrit - daggers   10
Xenith

Xenith in Battle Report

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40K Feast & Famine

Magnetized Bases, Trench Reference - Muddy fun

Magnetizing Carry Cases.  During transport at Adepticon my sentinels had to go in a box as they were too tall, and their antenna broke off. All of them. Time to make up some more carry cases. For many years now I've used plastic tubs lined with 26ga steel to carry my magnetized models. I use hot glue to set the metal in place. Though this worked fine on smaller plastic totes, I don't think the hold is good enough for a larger tote - too much weight. I think some kind of construction a
Captain Caine 24th

Captain Caine 24th in 2023

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Brother Nathans...everythings...

Angels test. And lictor wip

Done some work last few days on multiple things. Not my most efficient method but hey. So started painting a lictor iv had from a bin buy. Had no talons but had thrse ones of a dnd model i will hopefully work on soon. They are bland detail wise compared but wirkable i think. Its nids and lictors they shouldnt be cookiecutter. There should be variety. Til we see what happens with lictors with the leapers announced. (Sound good to me)   And then blood angels. Or more apprioately my storm
Plz motivate me blog

Huzzah I posses the power to cut foam

So I recently bought a proxxon hot wire cutter in a fit of realising I'm hitting 30 and have never made a foam ruin.   Using my very big jiggly totally not smooth wrinkle less brain I decided the best way to go about doing this was drop a hundred quid on something I'd never seen before.      Well after a few hours this afternoon I'm happy to report I kinda know how to work it.   My goal now is to melt my way through many a sheet until I have a 3rd ed esque city
Mr Farson

Mr Farson in Terrain wip

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40K Feast & Famine

Apr 10 2023 WIP - Dorn, Uniform, Servo-Skull

Rogal Dorn #1. Casting Defect Texture. Previously I laid down the Tamiya putty texture, and added some brass handles. I lost my metal files somewhere... so the flame cuts still need re-working. Using various files, sandpaper, and a hobby knife creates a varied texture. This is too uniform. I'll either re-work it, or hit it hard on Rogal Dorn #2. In law, legal briefs are never done, just due. Just the same in Hobby, there's always more to do--but, I need an army ready for 10th edition upcom
Captain Caine 24th

Captain Caine 24th in 2023

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"A Spiritu Dominatus, Domine, Libra Nos"

Well that was odd few months.......

So its been a crazy few months in my personal life. The end result has made me a better person and I am very happy the direction my life is going.  But I did bust out the brush and dice getting the Adepta Sororitas out for some boarding action and resumed painting.  Unfortunately I may have to repaint the less than 10 models completed to match the robe technique I'm using for the black robes. 
W.A.Rorie

W.A.Rorie

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40K Feast & Famine

Making the Uniform of the Death Korps of Krieg 143rd Siege Artillery Reg.

10 Year badge today?! Well then.   Making the Mask The Russian GP-5 is a great start. I watched 'Iron warrior's' youtube video and that talked me into making a foam face section with the GP-5 parts. He apparently had followed from Janovich on Etsy and youtube. So, I ordered some 5mil foam and got to work. I'd never done any work with this flexible foam; it's all new. Iron warrior also has a downloadable stencil you can buy to just cut out the mask section. This is very handy. I ha
Captain Caine 24th

Captain Caine 24th in 2023

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40K Feast & Famine

Krieg Display Board 2023 Pt 7 - The Ritual Site; Campaign Streamers, & Operations Order

I'm going to have to set this up in the basement tonight to get better pics...   WORK IN PROGRESS PICS So, the initial considerations were (1) truck space; (2) tournament imposed (convention center space) limit to 12x structural 3x5' bases; (3) man portability; and (4) entering the technical display category. We figured we wouldn't get a structural display spot as they are limited, and really couldn't transport it anyway, so we'd just go in the 3x2 category. So, I set about making
Captain Caine 24th

Captain Caine 24th in 2023

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40K Feast & Famine

April 2023 WIP - Creed, Dorn, & Kasrkins

10th Ed. Blues Well, I can wait and paint nothing. Or, I can cast a wide net, hoping something, anything, I paint is actually usable in the new rules. Well, the old malcador infernus will keep coming out to play until she's relegated to legends... but for the most part I think I want fundamentals ready for June 2023: Commander, Infantry, heavy weapons, special weapons, vox, leman russes, etc. I mean the other option is to sit and paint nothing, wait for a meta to emerge and race to catch it
Captain Caine 24th

Captain Caine 24th in 2023

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40K Feast & Famine

Krieg Display Board 2023 Pt 6 - Forging the Narrative

Narrative Army List. I wanted an actual story to accompany the board. Getting the lore to match up to my armies is more difficult than one would think. Why is Agrippina supplying this? Why is Krieg part of this mission? Anyway, the basic narrative is that Angron is being summoned on Armageddon. I've got the whole thing written out, but in short - 10's of thousands sacrificed in blood daily. Full Divisions are going mad and in open rebellion. Thousands of psykers mind's have exploded (the cl
Captain Caine 24th

Captain Caine 24th in 2023

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40K Feast & Famine

Krieg Display Board 2023 Pt 5 - Adepticon Showcase, After Action Review

Showcase. We made it two years running! So, after games 1-3, we got the invite to set up from 8:30-11:30PM in the corridor to the event hall with the other displays. It's great to talk with hobbyists over techniques and all their current projects. Notably, the lighting is much dimmer than in the convention hall for the team tournament. So, flame effects show much better.  I wore the Krieg uniform for quite a while, but eventually it was just too hot and I’d been on my feet since
Captain Caine 24th

Captain Caine 24th in 2023

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40K Feast & Famine

Krieg Display Board 2023 Pt 4 - Spotlights, Sandbags, and 143rd Siege Reg. Uniform

Krieg Display Board 2023. Spotlights. This year I wanted spotlights. The forgeworld version are long OOP, and when they show up on ebay every other year they're about $50+. Zinge makes great spotlights. However, I also need a stand for the spotlight. Kromlech makes a great heavy weapon base with a tri-pod. It's a bit too tall for my liking, but it'll work. I chose to put it on a 65mm base because I wanted to hook up electrical. I gave it a quick zenithal with the airbrush on Castellan
Captain Caine 24th

Captain Caine 24th in 2023

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Xenith's Hobby Hangout

Battle Report: Blood Angels vs Chaos Knights Round 2!

After the absolute kicking I received from Ted's Chaos Knights, I was eager to temper myself against them once more and see if I can beat them - he's the only person in my club to beat my Blood Angels so far, and they won't stand for it! The last game was an absolute whitewash, something like 40 - 95, and so I wanted to approach this one a little better, and using basically the same army I used before. We tried to set up the terrain more like GW's tourney maps, with the 4 large obscuring pieces
Xenith

Xenith in Battle Report

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40K Feast & Famine

Krieg Display Board 2023 Pt 3 - More 40k Zeppelin Construction

Warhammer 40k Zeppelin... So, the Rob Hawkins blog entry from 2013 (appropriately entitled "Oh the Humanity") really remains the key inspiration.    Length You can see it's actually fairly big. It's also then a pain to transport on it's own. Lots of fiddly bits on the bottom. Unfortunately I also wanted double heavy stubber emplacements on the top, matching old WW1 artwork. This doesn't really work for transport. It needs to lay on one side. And though it does stand upright..
Captain Caine 24th

Captain Caine 24th in 2023

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GreenScorpion Workbench

A look on 2022, the current status of 2023 and some plans for the future

While the years before 2022 were mostly focused on building a lot and doing a little bit of painting, in 2022 I focused much of my hobby time on painting stuff. In part it was due to changes in my professional and personal life, as I finally got the chance of working remotely rather than having to change city (or country) every few years and the stability of staying in one place along with my collection made things much easier. Even though the work related change only happened mid of the
40K Feast & Famine

Krieg Display Board 2023 pt 2 - Building a Defense Line and Trenches

Krieg Diorama 2023 Ok, still catching up to where we are presently. So, back to the making of the board itself.    Constraints/limitations.  Space. Firstly, space is an issue. I'll need to transport this by vehicle. My truck only fits so much. I have to drive 7 hours to Adepticon. It's cramped. I have a truck bed, but March does not have pleasant weather in Minnesota/Wisconsin/Illinois.  Rules. Second, the rules of the tournament only allow certain sizes. I suppose ea
Captain Caine 24th

Captain Caine 24th in 2023

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40K Feast & Famine

Krieg Display Board 2023 Pt 1 - Making a 40k Zeppelin

Death Korps of Krieg Display Board 2023 - Adepticon and Beyond.  So, I'm catching up from work these past two months. 100+ hours in, but never finished. Anyway, step one, I'm building a blimp display board this year. Last year was great. I got a lot of really great feedback at Adepticon and on B&C. People were really kind. But, the question is how to improve it? The problem with going to a new army is that I have to paint a new army, and make a new display, and learn all the rules. Huge
Captain Caine 24th

Captain Caine 24th in 2023

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Brother Nathans...everythings...

Purity seal

Not quite a mini but is 40k. Have finished another purity seal. This one for my post apoc airsoft loadout. More learnt on this one and given new ideas for next one. Seems stifinging fabric with paint is a winner that prevents the fonts inks or paints bleeding and charing edges seals the stitching together nicely. Must plan out my fonts wording better for the next one
Brother Nathan

Brother Nathan in Purity seal

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Xenith's Hobby Hangout

Hobby Goals for 2023

So in my various painting logs, I tallied all the painted points and models I managed to complete in 2022 and then set some optimistic objectives for models I'd like to get painted to round out some armies in 2023 - turns out that several small goals across nids, eldar necrons and Titanicus add up fast... Thankfully the warlord is maybe 10% of the year total, and that's all done bar the basing. This is also before I get to the Alpha Legion I want to paint. If I add in gift-warhammer I've receive
Xenith

Xenith in 2023

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Xenith's Hobby Hangout

Battle Report: Blood Angels vs Chaos Knights

So another quick battle report write up, this time I had a game against the Chaos Knights of a fellow local club goer. This guy kicked my ass last time against my Eldar, so I thought I'd bring out the Blood Angels to see if they could fare any better. Spoiler: They didn't.   1500 Blood Angels Arks of Omen (Elites): Primaris Chaplain on Bike - Warlord (gift of foresight), relic (Armour indomitus - 2+, 3++, +1W), angel exemplar (artificer - mantle) mantra of strength Sanguinary
Xenith

Xenith in Battle Report

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Xenith's Hobby Hangout

The Warlord Walks!

So after the renewed enthusiasm for AT that came from getting a game in at WHW, I've decided I need to get the rest of my titans built - so far in the pile of shame were the 2020 christmas box maniple - a warlord, reaver and 2 hounds. Lacking any larger titans, I decided to tackle the warlord first, assembling, breaking the toes a lot to try and make him stride forwards, then spraying with a lot of leadbelcher.    Paint job at 80%, missing transfers. I didn't like how I did the checks
Xenith

Xenith in Adeptus Titanicus

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