Echoes of Eisenstein - upscaling madness with the XIV

[Sherrypie]

5k of Epic: Armageddon, Ill Met by Moonlight.
Patrols met under the onslaught of the tyranid invasion and quickly escalated as marching columns started pouring into the city. The situation quickly dipped to Mechanicus' favor, as they got their big guns onto the field and incessantly pummeled the xenos as they tried to escape the traffic jam at their deployment area.

 

 

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[Firedrake Cordova]

Those Tyranids look great! Are they 3D printed, or old Epic models?

[Sherrypie]

56 minutes ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

Those Tyranids look great! Are they 3D printed, or old Epic models?

Neither, being older multipart metal forumware models. My opponent has a lot of that stuff.

[Sherrypie]

Meanwhile in a void far far away, another batch of BFG. All painted in a day without too pronounced detailing. Vis Divina and two escort squadrons, Tears of Pain and Winter's Rain.

 

 

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[Firedrake Cordova]

They really do look lovely

 

Do you have any other BFG fleets to do?

[Sherrypie]

3 hours ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

They really do look lovely

 

Do you have any other BFG fleets to do?

 

I've got dozens of more ships for this one to go, as well as debating whether I'll keep the old ones as they are or touch them up a bit at some point. Then there's a pretty neat scratchbuilt Tyranid fleet of some 2000 points from the same teenage years that could easily be expanded as well as some untouched Eldar ships in the storage. I'm also looking at converting an Ork fleet from AI planes and scrap, as iz good an' propah. Plus planets, asteroids, space stations and the like. So yeah, there's always a project or ten for many fun games :D

[Firedrake Cordova]

Ah, I was hoping you'd say "Orks" - they're my favourite BFG models ...  

[firestorm40k]

18 hours ago, Sherrypie said:

Meanwhile in a void far far away, another batch of BFG. All painted in a day without too pronounced detailing. Vis Divina and two escort squadrons, Tears of Pain and Winter's Rain.

 

 

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Lovely work - I do believe I spotted these in the DRPA showcase group on Facebook?  

 

BFG is having a miniature resurgence at my local gaming group, a ciyple of chaps have been getting into it after picking up some of Scourge Scenics models, they're trying to get others back into it!  Alas, I had to sell my BFG stuff almost 10 years ago  I had Imperial and Chaos fleets. 

[Sherrypie]

@firestorm40k yes, they went up there as well.

 

Hopefully you'll get many good battles with the new stuff once you'll build a new fleet too ;)

[Sherrypie]

Tragedy in three acts: 3k NetEA Imperial Fists vs. the Machine Church, Reinforce the Right (GT scenario with three waves of troops and randomised deployment areas). The central firebase of the cog-boys proved too tough to crack for the astartes who arrived far from their main objectives and though the battle hung in balance until the very end, eventually the grand magos led their taxi-deprived and thus slowly stretching column of servitors and priests deep into the enemy rear.

 

 

Do note the Fists' Devastators' laudable camouflage exercise "Operation Atlas".

 

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[Sherrypie]

Finally got around to taking a proper picture of my BFG fleet. Autumn Twilight's battlegroup Rhapsody of Fire in its eternal glory.

 

This year's new additions at the front (bases with red clouds), everything else painted somewhere around 2009 as a teenager with paints now long gone from the shelves. There's about as much stuff still waiting for their turn in the painting queue.

 

 

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[Firedrake Cordova]

Really nice - they look like they've jumped off the (John Blanche) box art and onto the tabletop

[Sherrypie]

On 11/30/2024 at 10:12 PM, Firedrake Cordova said:

Really nice - they look like they've jumped off the (John Blanche) box art and onto the tabletop

 

Thanks FC, that might indeed be so :D

 

For something completely different: challenged myself to try some speedpainting. Needed to make a handful of table decorations for a wedding party, so here's a bunch of random minis from ye olde boxes on wires ready to be stuck into little flower pot dioramas for children to gawk at (possible casualties expected, so no valuable minis have been harmed in the making of this gag).

 

The whole lot took about 15 hours or so. Now if only I could muster similar speed for projects I actually care about  >:E

 

 

Click the pic to see them details (such as they are :P)!

[Firedrake Cordova]

Really nice result for an hour per model.  Quite a lot of board non-appropriate though  

 

I'm trying to place the Chaos Space Marine model - can you remember where they are from?

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[Tallarn Commander]

Cordova, it looks like the Chaos Space Marine model is from the 1999 plastic Bezerker boxed kit. Although the pistol looks more like it's from the 2002 plastic Chaos Space Marine boxed kit.

[Sherrypie]

The body is an old plastic Berzerker, yeah. All models here are just random stuff from other people I've had lying about in a box for a decade or two, mainly leftovers from my cousin after they decided to quit miniatures. The bits are going to be all over the place :P

[Sherrypie]

A small 2k game of EpicAU, Night Lords vs Mechanicum. The astartes attempted a speedy overrun of the harbour, but bounced hard from the wall of robots and got blasted with rocket artillery until they slunk back into the burning waves.

 

 

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[Firedrake Cordova]

Looks fun!  

[Sherrypie]

With the new year fast upon us and the holidays spent mainly coughing my lungs out, it's a good time to see what, if anything, was achieved last year.

 

 

Finished models 2024

 

28 mm:

- Imperial lady
- 20 table ornaments

 

Epic scale:

- 5 tech-thrall bases
- 6 Krios tanks
- 3 Minotaurs
- 2 Baneblades
- 12 Leman Russes
- 6 Basilisks
- 8 field guns
- 24 guardsmen bases
- 50 blast markers

 

BFG:

- 10 torpedo markers
- 3 planets
- 2 Dauntless light cruisers
- 1 Falchion
- 3 Cobras
- 9 Swords
- 1 Murder cruiser

 

So that's some 160+ things finished, of which maybe a 100 or so count as actual models if we're feeling generous. While it's certainly better than the previous year, a big chunk of those happened in few dedicated bursts of speed-painting, such as the three-day Guard marathon before Ropecon or the BFG waves at the end of the year. I also bought way, way more stuff than I finished, with heaps of LI and KT plastic piling up to smother me in my sleep. In 2025, I'd like to see a bit more steady pace at the painting station, like putting something out every month at least. On the other hand, I did also put out quite nice battle rep pics and learn my way around the new camera, so there's been constant hobbying throughout the year which will continue as well.

 

So what's on the platter this year?

 

A lot of small scale things at least! Guard, Mechanicum, some biomechanical titans perhaps, more BFG ships and terrain and so on. I'm drowning in tiny tonks :D
I've still got a handful of kill teams in the queue and some on the drawing board, as well as more suitable terrain for that package. Still haven't read the third edition rules, though :P
Maybe some 28 mm 30k? The destroyer squad made earlier is kind of crying for its turn on the painting table...

[Firedrake Cordova]

That looks like a very productive year, even despite Nurgle's efforts! Looking forward to the BFG models...  

[Sherrypie]

4 hours ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

That looks like a very productive year, even despite Nurgle's efforts! Looking forward to the BFG models...  

 

I did build a good bunch more, but most of the year was spent fiddling with bits more than anything actually constructive. Dark gods willing, this year should break above 200 if I'd just start with finishing some of the stuff that's been waiting for years before building new shinies :P