Settling in

I've just received the last shipment of stuff and am testing all the gear, inventorying damage etc...   So far one Computer, a UPS, a bowl and the Forge World Stonecrusher Carnifex  have all taken hits.  Fortunately the Carnifex looks like an easy repair!  The Computer is looking like , dead Motherboard, CPU and CPU Cooler at the very least. 

I have managed to see a game of 6ed played and have reviewed the new rules.   Looks a little fussy, some good stuff mixed in with a big uptick in how many dice are rolled in a given turn with all the snap shots.  Not sure what I think about that yet... seems like a lot of fiddling for the effect but I want to reserve my opinion until I've a couple of games under my belt.

On the painting front I'll start with the repair of the Carnifex and then move on to some raging heroes Wyches surrogates and a faux Nurgle daemon thing( also from Raging Heroes).  I'm hoping to kick off painting efforts Wednesday.

Arrived!

We've landed in Japan in the middle of a cold... cold... typhoon.  number 4 I think.  Blogger has decided that, since I'm in Japan I must, of course, be Japanese!   I do read it a bit but not nearly enough to decipher technical computer speak.    At any rate now I'm awaiting the arrival of the minis!  I'm told that they'll be here "In two weeks".... boy does that sound familiar!

More later!  still getting acclimated and set up! 

Mata ne!

On the Road

The minis are all gone, paint and tools too.   Its only temporary of course!  The whole kit and caboodle has been shipped to Japan.  I'm told the stuff could take two months to get there so I'll not be painting anything until then.  Time to see about getting from here to there myself! I'll log in when I can and visit the usual suspects from time to time.

See you on the other side!~ 

Swelter

FoW Polish Infantry and Objective Marker

 Some infantry and an objective marker (destroyed Stuart light tank) finished up.  Looking at the pictures now I may go back and do something with some of the helmet nets but I'm in crunch time for packing up the house so it may not get done.  I did locate some artillery to add to the force and will try and knock it out before I ship out.

These were entertaining to paint.  I started with everything primed in US ARMY GREEN.  For the uniforms I washed gryphonne sepia to tint them towards the uniform color I was after and followed up with 2 washes of devlan mud to lock in the brown.  The belts and pouches were brushed on using reaper khaki mid and re-brushed with a khaki highlight before washing in devlan mud.  the skin was vallejo light flesh washed with ogryn flesh. helmets were calthan brown and ogryn flesh, boots black and guns were vallejo gunmetal washed with badab black.

The bases were dressed with wood filler then painted calthan brown then dry-brushed basic flesh and washed with the ubiquitous devlan mud.  I mixed a couple of static grass colors...  one very bright green and one very burnt green to get a summer grass mix.

Otherwise the packing up of the house proceeds apace and posts will remain spotty until after the move.

Polish 1 AD WiP

 More work done on the Flames of War Late War Polish.  These are intended to be from 1st Polish Armoured Division, 10 Brygada
Kawalerii Pancernej, 1 Pułk Pancerny, A Squadron and a couple of Regimental assets.



I've run out of small white stars for the flanks of the tanks so work will pause here for a bit and I'll jump over to the infantry component while I wait.  I also need to dig up or fabricate some Firefly turrets and barrels.

In other news I'm packing up the house and moving to Japan for a while.   The main impact here is that posts will be erratic for a few months while I'm getting torn down and reset.  Many of the larger projects will be pushed to the back burner in favor of things I can work on more readily as I travel.

Court of the Archon assembled

The Court of the Archon in its basic configuration is complete today with the addition of the Lhamaeans.  These last two models are single piece Finecast.  They were easy to work with and I've got another one in the process of being converted to alter the pose.  I have a few alternates to add in yet... a converted Lhamaean (just to vary the pose) and a couple of Ur-Ghul that will use the remaining heads from the Finecast kit but use another body... again for variety.

Moving now on wrapping up Greasus Goldtooth and prepping the squiggoths and a Forge World Vampire Hunter that I came across recently.  The Kabal is particularly keen to add the Vampire but it had been partially constructed and only retains the first page of instructions so I'll be a little bit sorting it out.  My primary concern is the engineering of a flight/display base for it as its not immediately clear how such a base would be attached.

Dark Eldar Sslyth

I love scaly aliens!  The Sslyth were both fun and aggravating to work with.  They strongly resemble the old 3ed WHFB Chaos Snakemen which was nostalgic but, where the old snakemen were metal minis, these were Finecast...

The Finecast has great detail but on kits this articulated it was just plain fragile. 



Accidental contact with a sword or other protrusion resulted in the minis either catapulting across the room as the somewhat rubbery material behaves like a frail spring!   Just a little tap and the figure practically achieves orbit!  anything stronger than that and the limbs would just break... as the glued joints are actually sturdier than the casting itself the break would often be at someplace other than the actual join. 

An additional issue is that one of the swords has a stubborn curve in it which resisted my "working with resin" attempts to straighten.  It did recover from its letter "C" original curve to one that it much less eye catching but it was never fully corrected and so one of these fellows is likely to be a hazard to his mates!




The figures are also very light in the sense that they do not have sufficient weight to stand on their own except under ideal circumstances.  Since I've been playing with water effects for this unit I had the happy coincidence that the depth of water effect I've been using actually adds weight to the bases making these minis very stable! 

While I'm happy that they ceased falling over if looked at or, god forbid, brushed while moving a neighboring miniature I still have some concerns about their durability as playing pieces and their storage/transport survival rates.  On the plus side I do still have a lot of old metal Chaos Snakemen so if these don't survive I can always re-purpose some of those!   Who knows... maybe even a unit or two of mercenary Sslyth are in my future!