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WAAAGH – Mek Gun Carriages

Posted on March 27, 2016

I’m super happy with how these guys have turned out. The problem with vehicles tends to be how to deal with flat panels of paint — they’re either uninteresting, or messy if you aren’t careful with the washes.

I was not careful with the washes. Because ORKS WAAAGH!!

Mithril Silver and Alaitoc Blue base was pretty easy. I kind of wazzed Reikland Fleshshade all over the metal, more on the bottom than the top. Drakenhof Nightshade (blue shade) all over the blue sections. Then SW Soft Body Black into the recesses in places.

I then painted up a bit with the Alaitoc, and it mixed with White and added some Mithril Silver in.

They didn’t look great at this point, but weathering saves the day! I took some foam and stippled Mithril Silver and Tin Bitz in places. Then I dragged out the old SW weathering powders, which I still haven’t truly figured out how to use, and put some Dark Yellow into the dusty areas of the front and wheels and MIG pigment fixed it in. Then a little bit of Ushapti Bone dry brushed to help out, because I got bored. 😛

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WAAAGH – Mek Gun Grots

Posted on March 23, 2016

These guys were pretty great to paint. Quick and simple. I’m using Vallejo Goblin Green, because GW doesn’t have a colour that is identical to it’s old GG, but Vallejo does. Weird. Steel Legion Drab for the brown, Mithril Silver metal.

I decided to use GW Reikland Fleshshade and SW Flesh Wash here. The nice thing about greenskin flesh is that it’s a lot easier to not fuck up. Human skin is pale, and pale colours are hard. We look at human skin all day every day, so it’s easy to tell when it’s wrong. No gretchin at my office to tell me I painted this wrong!!

I noted when I started this project that I don’t actually have any Ork painting projects on this blog. Way back when I started it, I’d finished most of my existing Orks already, or I hadn’t figured out the format I wanted to use for it so I wasn’t blogging about it.

The bases are super simple — black it out, because I primed white, then Codex Grey, Fortress Grey and scorched grass from GW basing.

The carriages will be up next, and then (hopefully) the guns!

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Blood Bowl – Ogre

Posted on March 19, 2016

I think he’s done. I’m too tired to pull out the camera and take real photos. Maybe when I have a bigger place…

Lots going on here. I’m pretty happy with it on one hand, but on the other hand I’m less happy about how dirty it all is. The contrast is really nice, and from 2 feet it looks great, but there’s no smoothness to it.

Here’s some colours:

SW Flesh Wash is SO YELLOW. Put that in the crevasses of the skin and went back with a damp brush to spread it out. Took the midtone colour and painted up the highlights again a bit. A bit of the Vallejo Flesh Wash, Seraphim Sepia and SW Amethyst.

Used Vallejo Fluorescent Yellow the broach, with some Sepia. Got to use the Vallejo Goblin Green for the little knoblar!

I think I’ve got some common colours at this point. SW Amethyst, Heavy Body Black, Flesh Wash. Vallejo Skin Wash, Bloodletter glaze, Seraphim, Nuln Oil, Reikland Fleshshade, Mithril Silver. I’m planning less and pulling paint out of the drawer more. Maybe that’s why it’s dirty? Or maybe I’m just impatient?

Work-in-progress

Blood Bowl – Ogre Basecoat

Posted on March 15, 2016

Since I got back onto this Ork wave, I really needed to finish off my outstanding Blood Bowl stuff first. Thankfully, I’m waiting on one more Supa Zzap Gun before I start painting them, so I’ve got time!

I picked the GW Ogre Paymaster as my Blood Bowl ogre, because it’s an amazing model and I’m stoked to be able to paint it!

His basecoat is super simple — Mephiston Red, Alaitoc Blue, Steel Legion Drab, Dheneb Stone skin and Mithril Silver.

After the last thing I really painted didn’t work out the way I wanted (and apparently I don’t have photos of the rest of the team I finished…) I wanted to go back to the Mr. Wappelly roots I was working on before I got lazy with the Skorne, which means highlighting my basecoat. So I took the Dheneb Stone and mixed it in a few different layers with the other bases to highlight it. The skin I mixed the Dheneb with just Skull White. You usually don’t mix with White since it tends to pastel, but in this case that pastelling is ok since I’ll be adding a bunch of glazes over it to bring the real colour back.

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WAAAGH – 40k Triumph and Treachery

Posted on March 11, 2016

I bought Triumph and Treachery from Mr. A. Andrew. It’s a supplement from Warhammer Fantasy Battles, but while reading it I realized there was very little in the rules that were specific to Fantasy. So I wrote some rules for translating it.

This link also includes the rules Duke and I have been using for 40k. They’re super restrictive, because we wanted to play a certain type of game. I feel like there’s some room for loosening the restrictions up a bit, but then I read my gaming club 40k chat and think that maybe there isn’t. 🙂

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByaAQGMZC_bHVjlkRWhKR0JGRFU

A couple things I need to focus on next time — making sure that “enemy players” are selected in each of the 4 phases. Fantasy has 4 distinct phases that you do things to other people in, but 40k in some cases only has 2 — shooting and assault — there is nothing* you do to your opponent in the movement phase, and not every army has a psychic phase**.

*You can tank shock. That’s nearly nothing.

** Everyone but Tau can have one, but psychers just aren’t as popular in 40k as wizards are necessary in Fantasy.

I also want to allow people to buy new Maelstrom Mission cards with Victory Tokens, because I think they would be pretty fun to sacrifice your win-currency to get more win-currency.

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Drone – Breaking Stuff

Posted on March 7, 2016

Russ and I have been having a small contest about who can break the most stuff while flying. The other day I broke one of my wings, in addition to 4 legs and 4 props. My frame is not a common one, so I had to get 4 new arms custom made. to keep it balanced right. The up side is that when I break the next leg, the guys who made these arms can make me 4 new ones and I’ll only need to replace one leg!

It’s getting to be nicer out, and I look forward to learning how to fly this thing without flying it into the ground repeatedly! Right now our problem is that we fly in tennis courts because the grass is so wet and our electronics are so exposed.

Work-in-progress

WAAAGH – Tankbustas

Posted on March 3, 2016

Many many years ago I split an army box thing with Mr. Tall Paul and ended up with a bunch of orks that I had no intention of using. Like these tankbustas!

Terrible story though. After I had started sculpting that bomb on top of the squig, I spoke with my fellow Ork nerds and discovered that the Gorkamorkanaught doesn’t have any Fire Points. Which is absolute garbage. It’s like the designers looked at it and thought “we should give it transport capacity, but make it so no ork player ever wants to use it”.

So these guys may get left in this state for a while, since I was going to put them into the ‘naught and have them shoot out. As it is, I’ll be more likely to go with the prevailing wisdom of stuffing it with 6 Burna Boys, with 3 upgraded Meks to repair Hull Points as it goes. And that bomb probably won’t get strapped down for a while.

Work-in-progress

WAAAGH – Mek Guns

Posted on February 28, 2016

Duke convinced me to play 40k again, and then had the audacity to make it an enjoyable game. Asshole. So for the first time in ages, I was motivated to build some things this weekend!

I’ve been inspired by this guys Mek Guns post, which is especially good since I had an entire trukk box in my bitz box. I didn’t have a Mek Gun box though, so I don’t really have any guns to use on them! I pulled out some ForgeWorld Supa Zzap Guns I bought many years ago. (partially related: The last FW I painted was from the same purchase, it was this [massive picture] flak trakk I brought to Astro 2013).

Also, some grots from the FW grots kit.

Just need to find a gun for that last carriage!

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Santa’s Workshop

Posted on February 14, 2016

As part of the CHOP! Game Sales and Trade day on February 21st this month I’m cleaning and organizing some old hobby stuff.

I found this item, that really shouldn’t be taking up space in my house anymore. It’s an old diorama I made for one of the Park Royal Games Workshops contests. I love it, but it’s not useful and won’t ever be useful so I’m going to rip the grots off it and throw the rest away.

However, I need something to show of it, so here it is to fill my blog with 2 month old holiday cheer!

Work-in-progress

Drone – First Day Flying

Posted on January 25, 2016

Things moved quickly once our parts came in. I think that’s the story of this project — “hurry up and wait for parts”.

We both got functioning machines assembled and had to quit for the night. I then spent many hours researching software tuning, configuration, etc, because while I can’t wrap my head around volts and circuit diagrams as well as when I was in Physics 12, I can understand computer software and command line stuff.

We had a minor blip where one of the calibration processes killed Russ’ ESCs, but we had 2 spares so he replaced them, re-calibrated and was all good. Then outside.

It was a cold, but clear day at Strathcona park.

We brought a camp table to put our laptops. Yeah, this hobby has laptops at the park. 😛

This is my little copter!

Our collection of broken propellers. We dramatically dropped our prop-killing frequency when we turned off the failsafe feature. This feature keeps your motors spinning when the copter loses radio. The idea being that if it loses radio while in the air, it can slowly float to the ground. However, in our case mostly we were shutting off our receivers after it had crashed into the tennis court fence, or the tennis court tennis net, or just the ground, and having the motors still spinning meant they were snapping off.

I had one super embarrassing moment when I lost control, and it started to come down, but then …I think it lost radio, and just fell out of the sky from 20 feet…about 8 feet from a local jogger. That could have been so much worse. >.<

That fall broke one of my copter arms, which we epoxied back together (but it isn’t perfect). I also chopped off an antenna because it was floating around, so now my receiver has only 1 antenna. (which doesn’t seem to be working great) And lastly, my receiver isn’t always turning on anymore. And we don’t quite know why.

It continues to be both an interesting, and a frustrating hobby. But at least it’s a hobby that gives a good amount of research. <3 researching things. 🙂

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