Slow Knights

I have slowly been working on the nights.  I washed them and began applying layers to the red and yellow areas this past week.  Hopefully, I will get these guys done in the next week or so.  Then I need to decide what is next on my list.

Slowly coming together

Basecoats for Knights

This past week I was ill-disciplined when it comes to modeling and painting time.  I did manage to convince myself to not be lazy on Sunday night and began adding more paint to the Knight Banner.  I With some discipline this coming week, I should be able to complete the three of them before next week.

House Vorrherr Banner (In-Work)

A Paragon Walks

I think I have finished painting my Warlord Titan.  It will be a Paragon of Ithraca, I have not chosen which of them it represents.

On of the Nine Paragons of Ithraca

Kharadron Start Collecting Box as Expansion

A few weeks ago, I picked up the Kharadron Overlords Start Collecting box as an expansion to my collection.  It added the Thunderers and Endrinmaster to my model collection and adds another Gunhauler and three more Endrinriggers.  This past Sunday, I dove into assembly and completed the Thunderers and partial credit on Endrinriggers.

My intent is to get these and the Gunhauler assembled and primed by next weekend and hopefully get in a 1,500 point game.

Work continues on the Warlord Titan as well, I am at the stage of applying transfers and touching up, I think.

Busy Weekend

I had a busy weekend away from home and thus very little hobby time.  Last week's efforts were mainly layering on the Warlord Titan, building up the white and blue.  This coming week, working on the gold and metal on the Warlord Titan.  After the Warlord is complete, probably back to Bolt Action 8th Army.

Warlord Painting Continues

Simple update for this past week - painting of the Warlord continues, base colors are complete.

A Warlord comes together.

This Warlord will likely represent one of the Nine Paragons of Ithraca or the idea I had previously for the Ithraca Phoenix.  The Ithraca Phoenix is a Warlord constructed from the salvaged remains of the Paragons of Ithraca in the wake of the Battle at Calth.  Since I want to add a second Warlord eventually, they will become a pair from the Nine.

I do not aspire to fielding all Nine, although that would be very cool...

Knights barely stand up to their knees!

Warlord in Progress

I did not work on miniatures over my vacation as I was away from home.  However, over the past week, I have begun working on my (first) Warlord Titan for Adeptus Titanicus.  The model is amazingly detailed!  I have also begun putting some paint on my banner of Knights.  I also got a Reaver for Christmas from my brother.  I will eventually get to playing a game of AT.

Universal Carriers Complete

 This past Friday was a down day for me, so I finished up the pair of Universal Carriers.  I have not added any numbering or significant iconography as it didn't seem like something there was much on the reference images.  In addition, my Matilda also does not have much iconography.  This completes out 2/3 of my initial 1,000 points of British 8th army.  A 10-man infantry section, 1 Lt and Attendant, and 6 Pdr gun are left to paint - but after a break to work on some other things.

The FLGS community's excitement has also shifted from Bolt Action and Warlord games in general back to Age of Sigmar as well as Warhammer 40k Kill Team.  Add to this people getting into Wyrd Games range, Maulifaux and The Otherside!  Lastly, there is the other World War II games - Blood Red Skies and Cruel Seas, which hold much more interest for me than the Wyrd Games.  We will see what the new year holds.

Up next for me is the Warlord Titan for Adeptus Titanicus and a small Kill Team of Orks.

Universal Carriers In-Work

Some slow progress this past week on my pair of Universal Carriers.  Both are equipped with anti-tank rifles.  They will transport the two sections I finished last week.  Again, schemes inspired by the images on tank-encyclopedia.

Pair of Universal Carriers

Expanding 8th

Royal Engineers and 5-man section

I was more disciplined this past week with painting.  I got the 5-man Royal Engineers (viewer's left) and the 5-man Infantry section painted.  These are intended to ride in a pair of Bren Carriers; the next thing I plan to paint.  I intend to paint the carriers based on the images on Tanks-Encyclopedia's page on the Universal Carriers.

The Strumpet complete

The Boring Strumpet

I finished up the Boring Strumpet Gunhauler last week.  This completes painting up my new 1,000 pt of Barak-Mhornar.  In addition, it completes 1,500 pts of painted Kharadron Overlords, but not what I want to field for 1,500 pts.  I will probably pickup the starter box for a third Gunhauler, Thunders, and Endrinriggers.

Over the holiday weekend, I played two games at 1k pts.  The first was against a new Stormcast list, which was just difficult.  Even against what seems like half the army, I felt unable to effectively defeat units.  A 12" range for most of my weapons makes engaging a threat effectively also a setup for being charged.  Lastly, the hardness of Stormcast makes it hard to knock them down and keep them down.

The second game was against a Goblin Spider list.  I did much better, which I attribute to us both rolling really poorly.  My opponent put about a third of his army out of position, while also not committing his general and sorcerer/monster-spider to the primary fight.  This let me fight a third of his army with ~two thirds of mine.  Once I won that fight, I was able to collect my forces on my objective and finish off the out-of-position third.  Both of us rolled poorly all game, but I think my victory came down to poor positioning on my opponents part.

Balloon Distraction

For the past few weeks, I have been working off-and-on upon my second Kharadron Overlords Gunhauler, the Boring Strumpet.

In-Work Boring Strumpet

I recently changed up my 1,000 point list to field two Gunhaulers instead of the Gunhauler and Frigate.  The Boring Strumpet has a a Drill Cannon instead of a Sky Cannon, giving it 6" more range for a bit less damage.  This also freed up points to bring in the Skywardens, giving me even more board presence overall.  Sadly, the two games to compare with were both against Stormcast, which were able to roundly defeat my list using ~50% of the army (bad rolls may have played a part, but still).

As I look ahead to 2,000 points, I am considering leaning into the Gunhaulers more and going with a Grundstok Escort Wing outside of the mandatory core of 3x Arkanaut Companies.  We will see if over the next few months I am motivated enough to paint up another Gunhauler, another 3 Endrinriggers, and a final Company of Arkanauts.  It may be all for naught as the Kharadron Overlords seem to struggle in my local meta and trying to actually use the range of miniatures versus the "optimized" lists.

First Component of Commonwealth Platoon

Easy simple update to share.  I got my first British and Commonwealth 8th Army section completed.  I will be adding probably two more groupings of these guys to complete my Infantry Platoon.  As I have previously shown, there are two Bren Carriers, an Engineering Section, a 5-man Rifleman section, another 10-man section, Mortar and 6-pdr Artillery piece.  I think the Bren Carriers and Engineering Section and 5-man section will make a good next component (after a brief detour to work on the second Kharadon Overlords Gunhauler).

Infantry Section, Matilda Infantry Support Tank, & MMG Team

I have also started the process of writing down map-campaign rules for the group of us.  I have identified a good map and pulled out the old Warhammer General's Compendium to reference as I write things down.   Relooking at the campaign aspect has helped, I think.  I have aspirations of adding an Armor Platoon of M3 'Honeys' possibly supported by the Grant, but that is in the long run.