Stormravens

          My A.D.D. is in full swing. I mount the Stormravens. Then started picking out the details. Just using a darker red was not bring out the fine details of the mini. I choose to go old school, back to the days of the BAs with yellow weapons and black panels.
          I was having a bad chipping problem. All those square, sharp edges were getting chipped some how. So I polyurethane the mothers. I will have to spray a matte finish on them before I can continue.

Thursday Night gaming

Canceled! I got stuck at work until 7:30. Only thing to do is drink scotch and block in some Auxilia.

The wine corks and some progress

          I always mount the dudes to old wine corks. The fake corks hold staples better. The natural cork starts to fall apart after the third use. Lucky me, Momma and friends drink the "two buck chuck." I get hand fulls of the fake corks every time I see her.
         Each is held on with a chunk of blue tac and an industrial staple. They become easier to hold. Also I don't drop or knock them. With metal miniatures they do become top heavy. That's why the generals, characters always get a scotch cork with the wood piece on the bottom. Those below are BTD and are metal. To keep them up right when not in my hand they rest in a solo cup 3/4s full of BBs.

          I finished 2 of the Auxilia and the wound marker dude for the final unit. I am happy with the way the brown tunic came out. The picture I took is crap. Bad lighting, or wife touched the camera, and I had not finished my first morning Dew.
         

          While chipping away at the last of the Auxilia my A.D.D. kicked in. I started to block in my BA Stormravens. I primed them with the army painted red. To give the red depth I hit them with a watered down P3 dark red. The cockpits were painted yellow and inked green. I like the idea of the night vision/electronics flooding the the cabin in that Mountain Dew colored light.


         Also I primed up the last BTD Auxilia dudes.

Never learn, TV shows are retarded

          Exactly, I never never learn. I am back to watching Netflix as I paint. Of course I spend more time watching than painting. I have been getting jack all nothing done. Its not like I am watching some cool. Just  crap TV seasons and they are crap.
          That's it no more Netflix. I am going back to podcasts and tunes.

Thursday Night gaming

          Game night returns. It was Fred and me again. We got a very late start, 7pm. There are no pictures, as we were drinking without dinner in our bellies. We skipped the tourney objectives and had a slug fest over a central building. We ended in a drunken tie with our wives coming to drive us home.
          The game was 3000 points a side. Fred played Imperial Fists. I got some Stormraven models about a year ago and they sat in the mountain. Until tonight and with Fred's OK, I played the Blood Angel's list version 2.12.
          They look evil. I was worried that the 4 one shot plus 3 Bloodstrike missiles would be too powerful.  I did get off the all 12 Bloodstrikes at once. They crushed his Terminator detachment but did not break them. I will need a few more games to judge if they are under priced. Fred wisely never let them effect his battle plan.


          I replaced one of my Tactical squads rhinos with 3 gun ships at 75 points each. My thinking was that 6 AP4s at 30 added to the 6 AP5s would make them a Detachment breaker. The mistake I made was taking them with a Tactical Detachment. As 6 Razorbacks are cheaper and give you the same danger close support.
          I should have taken the Stormravens as transports for my Assault Detachment or as their own Detachment. The problem is once the Bloodstrikes are gone, they need to be danger close.
          Blood Angels V2.12 is pretty solid. I never felt short of activations or unable to counter what Fred threw my way. I will continue to test drive the list over the month.
         

28mm Roman Auxilia

          Group shots of the tan tunic group. All are BTD minis, except 2 in the command group. I know no shields or bases on any of these. The shields and basing will been completed by the client as per his request. That made the job much easier to complete.

28mm Roman Auxilia

          This is the last unit of auxilia. I was smart and saved the easiest of the tunics for last. They will all have brownish tunics and green details. But I am starting to itch to paint something else. So this time I went straight to the command group. They are all Warlord minis. I have been holding off on this group as they are more dynamic in stance and the detail is a bit higher. On to the WIP.

          The first group is blocked in. Their tunic have been completed. Some washes have been applied to the armor. I may finish the skin and and armor highlights this week.
          The second group is cleaned and awaiting primer. It has rained both night after work and it is going to rain most of today.