Where’s that noise coming from? The overwhelmed sobbing?
Oh right, it’s me.
Seven more on the pile.
BATG Score: +49
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I’m so behind on CDO. You’ve been busy (both painting and buying)!
Looking forward to seeing the wraithguard in your scheme
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Oh dear, I thought I’d posted these already:
Two packs, eight tiles.
I have the Wraithguard on the painting table at the moment, but it’s been a crazy couple of weeks and I’ve not had much time to work on them. They’re finicky little beggars, too, so it might be a little while.
Still, eight on the pile.
BATG Score: +57
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I don’t have a problem. You have a problem.
A few evenings ago, I was checking to see what Zone Mortalis terrain was available on Amazon and I must have mis-clicked without paying attention because this arrived today:
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Amazon checkout makes it very easy to make impulse purchases.
Anyway, I’m not 100% sure how much all of this counts for…
In terms of models, the set includes:
- 10 Delaque Gangers
- 10 Escher Gangers
- 4 ZM Columns
- 2 ZM Long walls
- 5 ZM Short walls
- 9 Barricades
- 5 Crates
- 5 Objective Markers
- A tentacle coming out of a grate
- A turn marker
- 4 booby traps
I’m not going to count the turn marker or booby traps as models, since they’re so small they’re more like debris and will probably end up on a scenic base.
That means this is 51 models for the time being. I mean to sell the gangs since I don’t actually want to play Necromunda, but they’ll count towards my total until I can offload them.
I’ll have to do a big scenery painting binge at some point, or I’m going to fail all my goals for this year! It’s not like the terrain is actually hard to do, but getting things built and primed has been a real hassle this year and I want to see if I can use some cheat codes with spray cans or airbrush to save some time on it all.
Yaaaayyyy over 100 
BATG Score: +108
I don’t have a problem. You have a problem.
A few evenings ago, I was checking to see what Zone Mortalis terrain was available on Amazon and I must have mis-clicked without paying attention because this arrived today:
Amazon checkout makes it very easy to make impulse purchases.
Anyway, I’m not 100% sure how much all of this counts for… let’s count it!
In terms of models, the set includes:
- 10 Delaque Gangers
- 10 Escher Gangers
- 4 ZM Columns
- 2 ZM Long walls
- 5 ZM Short walls
- 9 Barricades
- 5 Objective Markers
- 5 Crates
- A tentacle coming out of a grate
- A turn marker
- 4 booby traps
I’m going to count the crates as a single model, because they’re getting glued to a single base and given a rough speedpaint treatment.
I’m not going to count the turn marker or booby traps as models, since they’re so small they’re more like debris and will probably end up on a scenic base.
That means this is 47 models for the time being. I mean to sell the gangs since I don’t actually want to play Necromunda, but they’ll count towards my total until I can offload them.
I’ll have to do a big scenery painting binge at some point, or I’m going to fail all my goals for this year! It’s not like the terrain is actually hard to do, but getting things built and primed has been a real hassle this year and I want to see if I can use some cheat codes with spray cans or airbrush to save some time on it all.
Yaaaayyyy over 100
BATG Score: +104
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This arrived today:
A Zone Mortalis Hive Warzone! This box came out with the Zone Mortalis terrain as a bundle set, and contains (almost) 2 sets of columns and walls, 2 sets of promethium relay pipes, 1 set of platforms & stairs, and 1 set of barricades and objectives.
It was a genuine bargain, it’s still in shrink and it’s super sold-out. The pipes are out of produciton, the columns and walls are sold out everywhere, and the whole thing cost me much much less than the separate parts would have. Thank you, random eBay seller!
I have no regrets.
Counting it up though…
The contents are:
- 12 columns
- 8 walls
- 2 long walls
- 2 doors
- 2 wide doors (I note there are double columns but not double doors. Cheeky)
- 1 set of promethium relay pipes (supposed to be 2 sets but only 1 was in the box)
- 9 barricades
- 5 objective markers
- 5 crates
- A tentacle coming out of a grate
- A turn marker
- 4 booby traps
- 2 sets of stairs
- 16 small platforms
- 2 wide platforms
- 12 railings
- 4 ladders
- 1 lift
As before, I’m going to count the promethium relay pipes as 4 models each (because they’ll get chopped and changed), I’m going to count the crates as a single model, and I’m not going to count the booby traps or the turn marker.
The platform set wasn’t in my plans, since I’m looking to use this as a single-storey-only terrain set. Even so, I feel like the wide platforms, the stairs and the lift will count as 1 each, while the rest are just accessories.
So that comes to a grand total of…
51 on the pile.
F in chat, please everyone. I might actually need to reorganise my hobby cupboard to fit all this in.
BATG Score: +155
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Also I painted something!
Here are my Yibraesil Wraithblades:
I miss my photo box 
I had originally thought I would start an Aeldari army made almost entirely of Wraithguard, but honestly I found these guys really finicky and unforgiving.
Although I’m happy with the colour scheme, I don’t think I’ll be doing any more of them. I’m going to call this project done for now.
After my flurry of terrain purchases I’m going to need to step up quite a bit to clear my backlog by end of year… and hopefully I don’t get brain worms and buy more stuff in the meantime.
5 off the pile!
BATG Score: +150
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Okay! The great climb back up the mountain continues! Enthusiasm expedites progress!
This weekend I grabbed ten Chaos Warhounds out of the cupboard and applied speedy painting techniques:
- Brown undercoat
- Drybrush Rakarth Flesh
- Wash Targor Rageshade
- Paint the fur Basilicanum Grey
- Wash the weird bits Terradon Turquoise
- Wash the gross bits Volupus Pink
- Wash the ribs and paws Carroburg Crimson
- Drybrush everything Wraithbone
- Eyes and teeth
- Bases
Just a few hours for all ten. They don’t look special, but they’re done. Ready for that tabletop that they will totally see if those friends I have who were very excited about playing The Old World ever actually play it.
Ten off the pile. I can see my house from up here!
BATG Score: +140
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Only a small update today. Two dudes for my Heresy militia:
I also assembled a lot of the pipes from my terrain pile, but those don’t count.
2 off the pile.
BATG Score: +138
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We had a long weekend down my way so I took advantage and got several hobby things in.
First I did a heap of priming:
This lot consisted of all the pipes from Kill Team Nachmund and the individual Thermal Plasma Conduit sprues I’ve picked up over the last few months, the barricades, the bases of crates from the barricade sprues, and some infantry for my Heresy Militia.
Then I painted the crate stacks, because they seemed like they’d be simple enough to do in an afternoon while quite tired:
These are counting as one model each.
Then on Sunday I managed to squeeze in my annual game:
A pretty new and pretty awesome game store is open nearby, and they ran a learn-to-play Horus Heresy game. The organiser was explicitly hoping to revive the 90s-style game store game with lots of focus on narrative and everyone getting excited about individual dice rolls and it was great fun. Everyone bought 500 point (ish) forces and plopped them down, but my side was a person down so I got to run 1000 points. Amazingly, I took the fewest casualties of any force on the table, losing only an Ogryn, three grenadiers and a Leman Russ turret, lots of fun, and it left me feeling vindicated about my choice to focus on Horus Heresy as my “playing game”.
Hopefully, of course, I’ll get in more - but at the rate I’m going over the last couple of years it’ll be ambitious to play more before the year is out!
Two off the pile, but a lot of fun has been had.
BATG Score: +126
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Some paint, some game. The dual threat post most grey worshippers can only aspire to.
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It was great! One of the guys at the game day said he was impressed that everything I’d brought was painted. I said “they’re not” and he looked confused until I opened the other half of my mini case.
If he only knew.
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I got a wave of inspiration and decided to test out a colour scheme, so I painted five Horus Heresy Death Guard:
I absolutely cheated my way to victory with these fine lads. I started with Wraithbone all over, then:
- shoulders and bolters Vallejo Gunship Green
- skin in Darkoath Flesh
- leather in Army Painter Hardened Leather
- metals in Vallejo Copper and Vallejo Steel
- sponge weathering with Rhinox Hide
- cover the whole thing in diluted AP Strong Tone
I got them done in a pair of afternoons; one for the slightly-darker test model and one for the other four and basing.
Some of you may already have noticed this, but I don’t actually collect Death Guard. It’s not on my project list. I just had them lying around from my Sons of Horus but I’ve very much gone off that project - the colour scheme I chose is just too fussy to replicate.
I don’t think I’m going to call these guys a project, for now it’s just going to be these five guys. For some reason I don’t have any of the mkVI right side shoulder pads (?!) even though I didn’t use them to build Sons of Horus. These five borrowed shoulder pads came off Heresy vehicle sprues, and I’m pretty sure I don’t have enough to finish the squad. Also not enough bare heads but that’s a separate issue that can be easily rectified.
Anyway, that’s the long story. The short story is maaaybe my Heresy Militia are going to get some friends and five off the pile.
BATG Score: +111
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It’s starting to get to that part of the year where I need to make some sweeping moves to get into net negatives, let alone achieve my goals for the year. That’s going to mean some more low-effort projects interspersed with stuff I actually put energy into.
One such low effort project has been completed this evening, the pile of Zone Mortalis barricades I’ve accumulated from the two big Necromunda boxes I bought last month:
They got a lot of pre-work in the priming stage, with me dancing around the priming station making various assays in black, brown, and steel.
In the end, though, I decided to hide most of that with dark brown craft paint and then roughly splatter successively more-orange layers on, before finishing up with some steel detailing and a little sponge weathering to add some depth back.
Sometimes you’ve got to experiment to realise you don’t need to experiment, you know?
A productive afternoon, and eighteen off the pile, which brings me back under a hundred!
(For now)
BATG Score: +93
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Okay, well it looks like the 30k Death Guard are a new project. I got very excited about the colour scheme so I spent the weekend crafting a slow-grow list for them and made a few mail orders.
The first among them was a MkIII Command Squad, more for the bodies and bits than wanting to build it as per the box:
The second was ten more MkIII Marines, and a set of heavy weapons to upgrade them.
These two purchases together were all I needed for my first 500 points.
The customisation of Horus Heresy is what really has me hooked. I just want to fish through my mountain of bits and put together dudes.
Like the rapier battery and Centurion I built out of the other leftover MkVI parts I had (I found the shoulder pads!). They’re all ready to prime, just waiting for some decent weather. I absolutely intend to get 500 points done by the end of the year, but we’ll see how we go.
For the time being, fifteen onto the pile.
BATG Score: +108
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I find E. FuzzyDoom blog posts best consumed in small groups for maximum whiplash.
Excellent work on the rusty terrain!
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Oh boy. I knew the moment I hit “post” on that one that I was lying to myself - but here I am, nonetheless!
Thank you! I’m nearly on to more rusty terrain, too…
For today, though - Death Guard!
I’ve been holding off on posting these because I wanted to post them all in one go. There’s a bit to get through!
First up, a very warmly-lit and very low-ranking commander model:
A simple kitbash using the shoulder armour and under-arm helmet from the Horus Heresy Command upgrade sprue. An easy start. The face looks excellent when not lit like this, I swear.
I miss my lightbox.
Next though, a pair of Rapier Quad Launcher crews who have suffered a little from a phone camera filter to make them less warm:
I had to do a little bit of repair on the quad launchers, since the back seats were missing when I got them. I used teeth off the Solar Auxilia dozer blade as the rear rails, and I ended up using a massive pin to hold the models onto their bases. Sadly I couldn’t preserve the lovely bases they came with, and redid them to match the rest of my armies.
The crew were built from basic Mk6 Heresy marines and some Land Raider crew which I had lying around. I also used some brass rod drilled into the top to make the gunners seem more gunner-y.
Finally, a ten-man Tactical squad:
I mostly painted these guys over the weekend, but they spent a while on my desk waiting for their bases to get finished off. I’ve decided I like the Mk3 marines better than Mk6, because while beakies are awesome, the bonding studs on the shoulder suck.
The heavy weapons squad is still on the painting desk. While I intended to take a bunch of time off this week and get a lot of things finished, that hasn’t eventuated. So, they’re waiting.
Here’s a group shot for the time being:
Today though, I can proclaim a delirious fifteen models off the pile.
BATG Score: +93
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Sometimes the best projects come from
not projects.
Nice job capitalizing on the Death Guard motivation! Nothin wrong with a quick on and off the pile.
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