Completed Warbringer & two Slave Ogres!

 I did complete the Warbringer over the Thanksgiving break and then promptly dove into a side project of two Slave Ogres for Necromunda.  Up next, Valkyries and Vultures for Aeronautica.

I think the Warbringer brings my total Titanicus force to around 2,000 pts.  It also means I can field 2 Maniples in a fight, before adding any Knight household support.  Still looking at adding a Psi-Titan when they are back in stock as well as some more Reavers and Warhounds.

The Ogres were great to do as a side project, totally changing up the color pallete to bright orange, green, and purple flesh tones.

Again, up next is 4 Valkyries and 2 Vultures in colors similar to the Marauder Destroyers painted previously.

Starting Dominion

Top-Down of the 3-way

This past weekend, I played some Necromunda with my brother and best friend.  We threw down a three-way fight: Escher-Orlock-Palatine Enforcers.

This was followed by setting up a Dominion campaign between the three of us.  My best friend is playing The Goddesses, an Escher Gang.  My brother is playing the Palatine Enforcers of Sector 225.  I am playing my Orlock gang, the Lowland gang.

We got the skeleton setup and the territories selected.  Our first moves, the Goddesses moved into a Stinger Mould Sprawl.  The Lowlands faced off again the Palatine Enforces in a Stand-Off.  While the Lowlands succeeded in taking down the Enforcer Captain, multiple members of the Lowland gang were taken out of action and the gang bottled.  The Lowlands retreated from securing the services of the Rogue Doc.

The Occuption phase moves have all been planned out and we know the games we need to play - just have to play them!

Van Saar Gift Gang Complete

Completed Van Saar Gang

I surprised myself on Saturday.  I completed the Van Saar gang I am built and painted as a gift for a friend.  Having a deadline to get a project done is a great driver.  I have completed two gangs now in about six weekends of effort. We will see if I deliver it in person or not.

The gang is likely far from optimized.  However, 10-models provides a lot of options for when he eventually gets to play.  By him having a gang, it means we can setup a get-together in the future themed around playing a weekend Necromunda campaign.

Gift in its packaging

The Van Saar models were fun to paint.  They are the first set of models I used the black contrast on and the results were solid. I also leveraged the Grey Seer base to allow for more precision and touch-ups throughout.



Up next is spending some time on my Kharadron Overlords, especially with the new book being out.  Starting off with the foot Endrinmaster and a set of three Endrinriggers.  Busy next few weekends with lots of other stuff going on, I probably will not get the opportunity to play more games of AOS before the league bumps up to 1,500 pts.

Van Saar in Work

Completed building out the Van Saar gang that is my second gift gang.  It will be the primary project on weekends for the next few weeks.  I really have about 3 weeks to work it and send it.  Two of those weeks I am on business travel during the week!

I am going with green as primary for the armor and yellow as the primary for the weapons.  I am going to use blue as the secondary color for both.  The base colors of the suit will be black.  Lots of work to do.

Second Necromunda Gift Gang

I am embarking on another Necromunda Gang as a Gift project.  This time it will be a Van Saar gang with Gor Half-Horn as the attached Bounty Hunter.  Gor Half-Horn is the first beastman I have painted.

The Fireslayer Flesh contrast paint worked great for his skin.  For his fur I used Aggaros Dunes.  The yellows, bright green, and bright blue are all contrast paints.

I have begun to keep Greyseer on hand to let me touch up areas that need to be repainted.  It has worked great to touch-up skin and create better separation between areas.  The Orks let me be pretty messy and still achieve a nice result.  For anything not Orky, I definitely need to be cleaner.

 

Ragnir Gunnstein

Steady Front shot

Ragnir Gunnstein is the second Squat for Necromunda.  He is an Ammo-Jack and can fill in as a grunt in a gang. 

Both paint schemes for my Necromunda squats use colors similar to my Kharadron.  He was fun to paint.  I used a mix of Contrast and regular paints.  I really like using contrast for hair colors, the effects are always solid.  The yellow shoulder pad is another great example of the Contrast paints.  His green pants and the metal is not a Contrast paint.

Using non-Contrast after contrast, lets me hide areas where the contast flowed into other areas, which makes the mini look better overall.

I have always liked the stout-folks.  Both Necromunda squats are now in my collection, ready to make some Credits.

Rotating GIF

Eyros Slagmyst

Eyros Slagmyst is a Bounty Hunter for Necromunda.  He is wearing a piece of archeo-tech that gives him increased strength and life, but makes him incredibly thirsty.  In the underhive, the best source of water is other lifeforms.

This model was a great chance to see how Contrast paints performed on cloth.  I also eschewed the use of metal paints on the model (the base as it), going with the dust brown and dark grey as the metal colors on the mini.  The only traditional paints other than some touch ups, I used on the green tubes and weapon.

Fun model to paint, most of the model was painted just Sunday afternoon.  The skin and base having been painted with some other minis.

Back

Left Side

Right Side

A Pair of Mercs

Despite business travel in the middle of the week, I managed to get two of the Hired Guns painted up (as well as flesh on most of the rest).  These are a mix of contrast and regular paint.  The contrast continues to help with speeding up things like flesh and cloth.  I have avoided using it on flatter, more matte objects that I want to look like hard plastic or painted metal.

Mad Dog Mono

Grub "Lumpy Nox" Targeson

Both of these guys have to different primary colors, which I think will help them standout on the table top and hopefully stand apart from the gangs they assist.  They have been fun to paint, each being an individual small project.

Also this weekend, I dove into Aeronautica Imperialis and picked up the starter box and the items that will probably only get the single printing.

Underhive Mercs to Paint

Six unpainted Hire Guns

Six Hired Guns to paint up to support a tentatively planned 1-day (maybe 2-day) Necromunda campaign, this fall.   Each of these characters gets to be painted up differently, which is a nice break from generally patch painting.  The color ranges on them will be varied.  I will need to avoid to much neutral tones on them.  They will be fun to paint.

On the  playing-more-games front, I am currently involved in a deep dive into the Blackstone Fortress.  The game is fun to play, but the owner has yet to paint the minis. I should setup a game of Blood Red Skies, Bolt Action, or K'47.

Gift of a Gang

The Core Gang

 I finished up the core gang of ladies this weekend.  I am happy with the result.  It was great to paint them up and I am excited to give one of my best friends the gang as a gift.  The mix of Contrast paints and normal layer paints worked well and the result is bright and colorful gang.  I am looking forward to eventually having a long-weekend campaign against them.

My wife still needs to finish up Kria the Huntress.

In their foam, spare spot for the fancy Huntress

On-Going Escher Effort

Last week I did not have an update as I went on travel for work Monday.  Over the past two weeks I have steadily getting paint on the Escher ladies.  They have been fun and different to paint, with lots of bright colors throughout and experimenting with contrast paints.

6 no-primer showing

I decided to do two things as I worked on them this weekend.  The first was to spend time on individual models; bouncing around on a model and fixing white areas and getting each gal worked on up to what would be traditionally called "based."  This let me focus on hunting down areas and feeling more "complete" with each model worked on.

Contrast on the Ladies

Last week, I dove into painting up the Escher Gang as the gift for my friend's birthday.  For the most part, I have enjoyed the results.  I am a bit concerned about dark colors washing out bright colors, both leaking over the light color or showing through a bright color.

Prior to Brown Leather 

The next colors are going to focus on the hair and adding a pink to the ends of the hair and feathers.  More to come next week!

First 5 colors on the models

Escher: A Gift for a Friend

Over the long weekend, my brother and I decided to do a set of gifts for my two best friends from college for their birthdays.  The first one's birthday is in ~6 weeks.  I asked them both which of the gangs on the Necromunda they liked best.  The first responded Escher and Deleque.   I went with Escher.

Gang All Built

It is also an opportunity for me to dive into the new Contrast range, while avoiding using them for any of my existing armies, gangs, or other projects were the painting palette is decided up.  I am excited for the project, but I think I will be challenged by the timeline.

I also completed last week the pair of Ambots!  These guys were good fun to paint.  With any luck, by the end of year, I think it is possible for me to have all the things to put on a weekend Necromunda campaign.  Goal is four gangs, with bounty hunters and supporting caste.

Just mining equipment

Necromunda: Ma T and Grendlsen

Ma T, champion of Buck's Outriders

This past week I started to tackle various projects I have in my hobby queue.  Until today, many of the items I had planned to tackle were rounding out projects mostly done or single miniatures.  But projects finished - Orlock Champion #2, Ma T and the Squat Bounty Hunter, Grendl Grendlsen.

Ma T is a kit-bash of an Escher head and Orlock body.  It is not the cleanest conversion, but it works functionally.  The model was easy to paint the color palette was already clearly set by the other seven models.  She is sporting fancy hair, but is still mostly blonde with a spot of blue.  The blue is a nod to each Project Blue November, when my spouse dying her hair as part of Diabetes awareness.  Ma T is the avatar of my wife in Buck's Outriders.

I picked up Grendl Grendlsen at Warhammer World.  I have a disused fantasy Dwarf army and my Kharadron Overlords.  I could not pass up Grendl as I knew he would be good fun to paint and hopefully field at some point.

Nearly Complete Gang

On Friday, I finished up 7 of 8 of my Orlock gang.  I have yet to get the Escher body to start from as a base for my second Champion, Ma T.  I played a game of Necromunda on Saturday and enjoyed it.  I am looking forward to the opportunity to convert a model and potentially convert a few more as upgraded versions of my gangers in a campaign.

The men of Buck's Riders

Slow Progress

Did some more layering on the Orlocks.  I lost a bit of steam on painting the past few weeks.  The layers make them much brighter and will hopefully make the safety oriented color theme really pop on them.  I intend to do a second wash over the brighter colors to get more grim on them.

Orlock's In Work

A little work done this weekend on the Orlocks.  I got all the main colors on the minis and washed them.  Layers are next to make the orange and yellow positively pop.