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My main painting effort this month is the Reaper Miniatures Stygian Barge. The picture shows the early stages of sub-assembly, with a 28mm Egyptian guard for scale. Initial work will be basing onto mdf so the model sits flat for gameplay and providing structural strength when being carried. The three separate hull sections don't interlock properly when sitting flat, so I will need to fill the resulting hull gaps. The large separate piece at the back is the awning to go over the stern section, which I am going to leave unattached to make it easier to move models during games. The metal grate at the bow is also separate, as the Boatman can secure unruly passengers in the toxic bilge below it. This is the largest game model I have attempted to build and paint. I'm a little daunted, but it will look wonderful during gameplay.

Painting progress. I think I prefer spray primer than doing it by hand.

Last few models done a few hours ago. Managed to squeeze in my target, and a few extra kitbashes.

Real life has been draining my painting mojo, but I still managed to get something done. The photos are some additions to my mixed historical and fantasy ancient Egyptians. The figures are originally from Dark Fable Miniatures, now taken over by Dragon Bait Miniatures. I'm painting these figures for my daughter to use in a game of Goblin Geese at an upcoming RPG club Games Day. First up we have two sets of Pharaoh's guards: front of some spearmen and back of some swordsmen. I need to tidy up around the eyes, but otherwise they are done. My painting is aimed at being seen at tabletop distance, so close ups are not kind. Next we have some harem guards, dressed in lacquered black armour for distinction. The guard at right is ready to be Pharoah's special helper. The guard in the middle has just seen too much! It's thirsty work standing around being a guard.

And a quick and dirty Pyro

Finished off Sinister and Quicksilver today (Sinister was over a few days)

"Family" shot of all the models painted this month

To finish off a month of MCP - Cassandra Nova

Mer-man, Evil-Lyn, Beast Man, Teela and Ram Man.

The name is Gambit, mon ami. Remember it Also, Logan

Well, just as i had hope - getting the models (and materials) out the other night, even though i didn't have time then and there to base them, gave me the motivation to base them over the last couple of nights. Here's all the models in the storage box: As you can see, i decided against basing the bats. I did dunk one in the basing dirt, and i just thought it looked a little naff. And some pics of individual models - Heroes (plus a couple of other Chaos models i painted recently, just to balance the image): Minotaurs and Orcs: Goblins and Snotlings (sadly missing one Snotling 😞) : Skaven and Rats: seems i forgot to take a pic of the Bats or Spiders, but since they didn't require basing, weren't part of this Slow Grow thing. 😉 But all this does mean that my Warhammer Quest 95 collection is now complete. As i said, i am missing one Snotling, and one Gate, but the prices of these aren't worth it, imo, so i doubt i'll ever fill those gaps, but i do hope that GW will add the Heroes i'm missing to the Made-to-Order list when they get to those armies for The Old World - so far, they did the Bretonnian Knight, but they haven't yet announced plans for The Troll Slayer in the Dwarfs army release, or any others. Finger's crossed though.

Making progress on my Stygian barge by Reaper Miniatures. Shown next to a 28mm Anubis guard, who will be checking the suitability of passengers to board. This model has been a nightmare to build. Even the thick pieces of plastic were slightly warped, so lining things up to fit was a struggle. The mast just wouldn't stay straight with the hot/cold water treatment. In many places the tabs are too small to hold the join properly. I had to glue the awning onto the stern deck poles, otherwise any sideways bump broke the poles off at the base. The one positive was minimal flash needing clean up. Reaper recommends using superglue on the Bones plastic. This model drank the glue and wanted more. Three full 5g gel tubes went into this model. As the pieces fitted so poorly, trying to use a setting spray while attempting to keep pieces fitted would have been a disaster. There is much filling of gaps to be done before undercoating. I had to join the bow section at an angle and fill below it, otherwise the gap in the hull joining to the mid section would have been massive. I can understand why Reaper does not currently sell this model and why so few of the ones from the kickstarter have been built. I almost abandoned it through sheer frustration a couple of times. The details are very good in places. My household representative of Bast has already left his calling card on the model. I had a lot of trouble with warped pieces for the stern railing, the arms of the pole skeletons and fitting the awning onto the poles. The model design has a barrel and anchor poking well out from the hull. The grill on the bow section lifts off to show Charon's punishment bilge for passengers who fail to escape.

The Blob. Not a fan of the model, but he's done.

The He Man himself this month

Been to Canberra once. Maka brrr. The thought of rugging up whilst painting minis is an ancient memory. Yeah, the art of persuasion, especially with the wife, is still alive and part of the fun being married. As long as it's applied with liberal doses of humour and coffee...and pastries...and chocolates....and licorice...and other sweets...and gifts from Tiffanys. 😉

I'm still going with this but keep getting distracted by other things. Going to make an attempt at finishing the remainder (10 hybrids, 6 purestrains and 3 seperate hybrids and the coven limosine) this month I don't know if I'll get it all done, but I'm going to give it a really good try. Also continuing other projects that I've not posted here.

Righty-oh. Terrible picture but last minute proof I finally finished basing the 1 artillery base and progressed the other 2 from the perry ACW artillery box (sorry no cameo from the puppy this time). Of course in my usual crazy "she'll be right" attitude I bought another 70 odd Perry ACW infantry , 7 cavalry and 2 more artillery pieces and crew (I forget I had 2 boxes of perrys ACW infantry in the shed -oh dear). Guess that is part of May 2024's target then lol.

Finished my first large scale model today. A change of pace from the usual, but super happy with how she turned out. She'd been sitting on my desk half finished for a long time, so I'm glad I finally got around to finishing her. Part of an effort to try and finish the myriad of projects I have under way. Planning on taking better / proper pics with my DLSR and lightbox at some stage, hopefully soon.

WIP of the reb artillery for this month. Just the flocking to go now and am currently undercoating the rest of the figures from the boxed set for next month if I don't get to them this month. Blurred background puppy for scale lol. Looks like a busy month for everyone from all the posts. Some good stuff for sure.

Monday April 8 we played a Napoleonic game using Blucher rules, the scenario (from the Tales from a Wargame Shed Blog) covered day one of the Battle of Kulm. In the game victory can be achieved by occupying two towns, Straden and Priesten after 20 Plyer Turns or breaking the enemy Army. The French planned to weaken the Russians with artillery and skirmish fire before closing in to defeat them with cold steel, the Russians plan was a forward defence using the stream as a defence line and hold at all costs! The French successfully closed to skirmish range and then proceeded to roll very badly (that wasn't in their plan)! Meanwhile the Russian artillery was successfully pummelling the advancing French while they advanced to the stream as planned. With turns running out the French finally started to weaken some of the Russian Units with fire and advanced! One of the two objectives, Straden was captured several Russian units were hit hard and destroyed. The Russians were able to recapture Straden at bayonet point and pull their right flank back away from the attacking French! It was looking dodgy for the Russians as the French pushed hard but they had held on as required! Time was against the French a Russian victory ensued! The town of Straden was a crucial French objective, after weakening the town's defenders with a bombardment the French attack! The battle continues to rage around the town of Straden... The French attempt to turn the Russian right flank... See the full AAR and more pictures on the TSOG Blog... TSOG Blog Link

All the brood bros (including the ten previously painted).

Objective: Base and undercoat, possibly build 3 more chariots. So far acheived: Kitbashed 2 carrion, a liche priest, and a casket of souls (also built and sprayed a skaven bb team). The carrion are modified from the dragon liche priest model, who appears to be casting a summoning of one. The liche is a greenstuffed change to make said sitting dragon liche standing. The casket is a crappy print of a box, greenstuff, plasticard and about 20 skeleton models chopped up.

Any progress isngood progress 🙂 Finished a few more x-men

Bit late to start this month so see how I go but I did do a bit of gluing and base coating black for some Perry 28mm Confederate artillery so got that out of the way. You get 18 crew in a box with 3 caissons and a bunch of cannon barrels (like 12). SO I will be a cheapskate and go with 4 crew per gun and I know I have 2 spare painted somewhere so that will give me enough for 5 crews. I also found a local supplier (Battlefield Accessories) who make some cool MDF artillery caissons for all the spare barrels the Perry's provide (3 in a pack and I order 3 packs so going to have quite a few) plus I got some 50x100mm bases to put them on. I am aiming to at least finish off one gun and 4 crew given we are nearly half way thru the month already. Good luck to everyone for this month. looks like plenty going on and a lot done already. Happy hobbying.

I've kind of stayed out of the Slow Grow thread as i usually go through fairly extreme bouts of hobbying, and doing nothing, so i didn't want to jinx the strides i was making - but i've reached a kind of lull after getting so close to the finish line that this is where i'm going to try keeping myself on task. so - i want to finish the basing for my Warhammer Quest 95 collection. the heroes (plus a handful of bonuses) are done: just leaves me with the monsters: I plan to paint their bases black (i didn't do so with the heroes, but i wish i had) and then some Base Ready Basing (probably City Rubble, though some might get Volcanic Soil), and then sealing it all with the sealant. I do wish i hadn't based the Snotlings and Rats (and maybe even the Minotaurs), but i don't think i can get those off again now. Anyway - hoping this will motivate me to finish the project, now that i'm so close to the line. 🙂

Looks cool though. I will need to point people at this when they complain about Forgeworld 😛

Adding Toad to the mix. Might do some terrain next

Humble Bundle is running a Modiphius Fallout Games bundle at the moment. Combo of the Fallout RPG and Wargame rules, and some STLs. https://www.humblebundle.com/fallout-rpg-and-3d-miniatures-modiphius-encore-2024-books

I quite like skirmish games too but yeah, it is nice to have a big rank and flank game every now and then. Good luck on the mancave lol. Squatters rights should see you through the right? 😀

To be fair, I would never have finished this immense project without the kind and generous support I've received from this hobby and gaming community. So, thank you all very much for allowing me the opportunity - krefey and others especially for creating this forum site. Gus, I did do a tally once but can't remember the exact figure, but yes it's in the thousands. More than enough to cover the various engagements of the Russian campaign. Working on coaxing my gaming buddy to have a big game but he's more into skirmishes these days (life, you know) than full-blown large-scale battles. BIG, your endeavour is just as impressive mate. Kept me honest whenever I looked in on your posts. Even though I no longer follow Games Workshops apart from watching a few YT streamers, I do still love what I've collected from Games Workshop over the years. Anyone who loves minis as we do will understand. And I still refuse to offload my Eldar even though the wife is on my back constantly to offload them. I figure she has designs on my mancave/studio. Devious woman. Lol. Take care all.

Yeah not only is the size of your collection awe-inspiring, the fact you have so many painted models is breath-taking. I have thoroughly enjoyed following on with your adventures.

Oh I think you have mini's and then some. I am happy with a few hundred I reckon you must be in the thousands surely, yes? Lucky bugger. Still you painted them so Kudos to you Sir! I think my lead pile is pretty small for naps but yeah, always something to be painted (and I am not to the scale you have done). cheers

I'm going to paint all the bone and bases on the tomb kings. Fingers crossed I do more, but I'm also planning to paint the games room, and maybe install a ceiling.

I'm the Juggernaut!

Pretty easy to pick this month's project given I did absolutely zero painting on last month's project 😉

well, i didn't finish them in April - pretty much didn't hobby in the second half (probably longer) of the month - and while i did finish the project i listed, i didn't get to the stretch goal i set myself, the 3 remaining heroes from Advanced Heroquest - so i'll list them again here.

Yeah, sighted this site many times ove the decade. Love the individual portraits of the commanders; adds something to the text. Currently diving deep into English Civil War so focus is directed there (like Sauron's Eye) but aware the entire 1812 campaign is available for further gaming. At least I have the minis to cover any engagements. Lol. Cheers.

You do a lot of choice to keep you engaged and enjoy all your hard work with the whole 1812 campaign. Have you checked out the Napoleon series? I saw this and its has some great scenarios and that just from Oudinot's advance between 26/7 - 1/8/1812. https://www.napoleon-series.org/military-info/battles/1812/Russia/Pultusk/PultuskChapter3.pdf plus loads of other stuff. Hopefully a few hours type games so more manageable for a quick result. Sounds like a lot if fun when you can fit it in. Happy gaming!

Still 6 days to go! After the Dawn service and march tomorow (and then the 2 up at the pub) should be some good hobbytime peeps. All the best for ANZAC day - lest we forget! Looking awesome there Krefey. You have been rather busy mate - noce work.

pretty awesome gotta say. Nice paint job. Flesh tones are pretty amazing! Thanks for sharing.

Psylocke done. Just Bishop and Nightcrawler to go

More X-men finished. 3 more of the currently available range to go.

better shot of casket

WIP shot. ... Which is to say I've managed very little so far this month.

A brand new character is coming to the World of Legend this week, as Lady Élisse Duchaard fills the air with magic astride her lethal unicorn Ariandir. As one of the first totally new miniatures released for Warhammer: the Old World, she deserves a paint job fit for the Lady of the Lake, so we caught up with Ed from the Warhammer+ Painting Team to find out how his version of Lady Duchaard came to life. Warhammer Community: How did you approach painting her? Ed: Originally, we chose the miniature as the basis of the Citadel Colour Masterclass video ‘Equine Hair Techniques’ because the unicorn Ariandir has the physique of Bucephalus* himself and there is a huge amount of open space that lets us paint in our own texture as shown in the video. After that, I found I just couldn’t stop, and the model almost painted itself! For special characters I like to try and replicate the superb ‘Eavy Metal schemes, and we can see when looking at the miniature that after using colder greys and desaturated colours for Ariandir the scheme is balanced with warmer colours across Lady Elisse. I used Wraithbone as a base for all of Élisse’s cloth, skin, and hair and relied entirely on glazing darker paints into each section to build up to the final colour before a few subtle highlights. For the cloth, I relied on mixing increasing amounts of XV-88 into Wraithbone and glazing this down into the recesses. For the skin tones, I repeated the same process by glazing into Cadian Fleshtone and then glazing down again with Doombull Brown, and for the purple flower pattern, I mixed in Barak-Nar Burgundy. Keeping this same bright, pale Wraithbone base lets us keep the surface looking soft and delicate. The Staff Of The Elements gives us an opportunity to punch some really vivid cold colours onto the model, and I pre-painted the surface with Dawnstone glazed up to White Scar before glazing Temple Guard Blue and Sotek Green across the surface. Painting true metallics follows the same principles as the rest of the model, and for our rich golds I started with a basecoat of Retributor Armour before glazing in Gore-Grunta Fur mixed with Reikland Fleshshade and some Rhinox Hide into the darkest recesses. WarCom: That’s quite intense, what was your favourite part of the process? Ed: I find any form of glazing really relaxing and got into a good groove of spending long periods of time slowly shifting the warmer colours of the Lady down into darker colours, so really most of the model was a joy to paint! I think my very favourite part though was painting the flower patterned lower half of her dress as this was quite challenging to deep recess shade a solid line and then glaze with such a dark colour like Barak-Nar Burgundy directly over the pale finish of Wraithbone. I had to go in and tidy back up over several areas, but it was so rewarding when I finished that section. WarCom: We imagine that quite a lot of paints were used in addition to those you’ve already mentioned, can you give us a breakdown of what you used? Ed: Not a problem, I’ll break it down by each section to make it easier to see what was used where: WarCom: That’s over 40 different paints across the model, do you have any tips to make painting the miniature easier? Ed: I built almost the whole model but kept the upper body of Lady Élisse separate so that I could get my brush into the cloth around her stomach, as well as have full access to the staff and chalice. Mounting these on a Citadel Sub-Assembly Holder made it much easier to work with. While not related to making the painting easier, I think a good way of tying Lady Elisse into your army, is to paint the shield detail swinging from the ivy in the relevant colours of your chosen Duchy. Finally, a top tip for using tufts is to lightly drybrush the tips with a brighter colour, again I opted for Wraithbone on both, so that there is some paint on them. This two-tone colour can look more realistic, and it also brings the surface finish of the plastic tufts closer to the painted surfaces around them. Thanks Ed! Lady Élisse Duchaard will be available to pre-order this Saturday alongside a wide assortment of returning kits for the Kingdom of Bretonnia, Tomb Kings of Khemri, and Orc & Goblin Tribes. If you want to pick up a bunch of these paints at the same time, head into your local Warhammer store, where the Pick n Mix paint bundle gets you every tenth one free. * The legendarily muscular mount of Alexander the Great. The post Make Élisse Duchaard Shine with Painting Tips From the Warhammer+ Team appeared first on Warhammer Community. View the full article

Needs an impractically large banner pole. Is this one of your latest metal acquisitions?

A brief break from all things Nurgly to add another Furioso dreadnought to X Chapter.

Some aerial reinforcements for the herd.

Ok so I am looking for some feedback on my idea for the beastmen paint job. The previous photos showed the Razorgors and I want something a little different for the actual Beastmen. I really see this army in three different parts. The Chariots (which will largely be brown as I am boring), the Beast's that are pulling the chariots (as in the Razorgors and the Tuskgor that are to come) and finally the Beastmen. So I figure if I go with a lighter tone on the Beastmen it will help them stand out from the rest of the army, especially those that are on board the chariots. Let me know what you think of this Ungor Raider..... And for reference here he is about to get eaten by one of the Razorgor.... Thanks for reading.

Well it is time for another long overdue update. I have been active, but as usual don't tend to show things in progress. I hit a snag with the beastmen when I discovered I had run out of static grass that I wanted to use on the bases. So there was a pause in progress while I waited for that to arrive. But, if I am talking about basing it must mean the first of the Beastmen are ready to show off? Well they are almost.....see below. These are the 3 Razorgor's that are going to be in the army, however, they will be pulling chariots (hence the elongated bases). For ease of painting I decided to do the creatures, chariots and crew all as separate assemblies. I think that the Razorgor's are some of my favourite models that I have done so far and I also think they are some of my best paint jobs to boot. The herd running free; at least until I get the chariots done and them harnessed up. I think I will try to continue this colour scheme onto the Tuskgor's that are pulling the other chariots, but I am experimenting with a pale skin tone washed in blue for the actual beastmen. Hoping that the contrast will help the crew stand out from the chariots and beasts. From a distance you can't quite see how poorly these models fit together. I really should have spent more time filing and filling. But I was over it and wanted to get some paint going. I have had to convert the chariots to fit the Razorgors as GW never actually made a model for the Razorgor chariot option. So hopefully they fit ok without looking like they are on too much of a crazy angle. I think these models really evoke the frothing madman appeal of the Beastmen, not sure the rest of the range is quite so out there though. I hope that once I settle on a paint scheme for the actual Beastmen I will be able to knock them out fairly quickly. I have the 30 Ungor Raiders on the painting station at the moment and they are "assisting" with testing some paint schemes. We will see if I end up happy with them. Thanks for reading.