Bones 4 and Ravenwing

So one of my dogs needed surgery. He is fine but tends to behave post surgery if I'm not running around the house. For modeling and painting that is excellent news!

First up some Bones 4 assembly. The base Bones material has improved quite a bit. Some of the Kickstarter is Bones Black an improved more solid form. I've done a few Bones black models in the past and the detail is excellent and a very solid model.

Really looking forward to the purple portal. I also tried the reaper metallic green and blue paints. First with a pumpkin knight and genie.

It makes an interesting effect. Which leads me to 40k this week.

So mostly worked on expanding my Legion...err successor chapter of the Dark Angels. A bit of building and basecoating (some Blood Angels snuck in too!)

Then I decided it was time to attempt my ravenwing units. I've had them for a while, but painting black armor made me nervous, enough that I always decided to paint something else. Instead of a dark grey highlight I decided to go with a drybrush of Reapers sparkling blue (blue metallic paint).

I liked the overall look. About half done with bikes, need some more details, backpacks etc. However my main goal was to finish the two Dark Angels aircraft.

I almost didn't want to seal them in their canopy, but I really like how they turned out! Of course I feel like I need more Ravenwing now.

No painting tomorrow, Endgame Movie and boardgames.

Starfinder, Current 40k

New week and vacation arrives. Vacation often winds up getting little hobby time since there are always more house and cleaning projects to do! Plus I never quite get to finishing the gaming basement. Anyway, first with mini progress

The Shadowspear models are amazing. I mostly left them as is. I did swap the yelling captain for a Dark Angels helmet. Most of this set will got to the dark Angels but I think the Lt and autocannons will go with blood Angels. I think this fully cements that the knights I'm getting this week will go to House Orhlacc to back the Angels as opposed to bieng crazy with Word Bearers. Think the Word Bearers might go big tank with traitor guard instead. 

Of course all this gets problematic because Bones 4 arrived and needs unboxing, building, and washing.

Against the Aeon Throne

My group decided to give Starfinder another shot. A combo of timing and in my opinion weak first book led to Dead Suns and Starfinder not working well for us. So a couple of us decided on our Friday off to give it a try. So I gmed the first module of Aeon Throne.

Wow, this to me was a great introduction to the system and setting. The party arrives to a colony to deliver supplies and are immediately attacked by two drones around the planet. 

Sorry, not a lot of pics, focused on learning rules. I tend to use the Starfinder Pawns, since my mini collection doesn't really cover Starfinder well. 

The opening battle I think was easier to get the feel for space ship combat without the frustration my group felt in Dead Suns. While I'm still curious how it will be with bigger ships to gm, but I do like the system now.

The rest of the module focuses on freeing the colony, looking for their friend, and investigating the ancient ship that caused all of this. The freeing of the colony made for some great story moments. To the point that when the rest of our 5e group arrived, the Starfinder players convinced them to join this campaign! Both had been less than impressed with Starfinder, but went with it. It went so well we gamed later than normal and almost finished the first module!

Everyone is looking forward to book 2, so it seems Starfinder is in the rotation!

Battle of Vigilus part 2

So, after the crazy rush paint and build of the Orks, I imagined what I could do in 2 weeks. Would I finish Dark Angels..... Nope managed to build and basecoat a tank. Also basecoated a bunch of Nurgle models but no real painting.

However, I did make it to a second Apocalypse game. Abbadon tried to assault an Imperium region. However, no chaos force was listening. So Mortarion due to an old promise to Horus (take care of the kid) a large Nurgle force came to help (majority of chaos players were Nurgle).

We also had a massive side attack on the Imperium by the Eldar..... And I do mean massive!

My mission was to hold a pipeline, capture an Inquisitor trying to get to a ship, and take over a water purifier. My opposite side of the table had a guard army. The nurglings really were the MVPs. They deployed forward on objectives and took an insane amount of fire. They actually eventually took the water purifier. My plague tower and Mortarion were decimated by the superheavy tank. 2d6 damage a hit! Took 27 on the plague tower in one turn! The fetid plague drones held the platform allowing the plague burster crawlers to destroy the Inquisitors ride. A summoned group of plague bearers then ate him. Overall a fun game. I really have to better deploy plague Marines. My Glotkin knight and many others never got in. Overall Eldar did the best, and chaos lost (abbadon and his force were destroyed).

Next is in two months. Debating working on Primaris Dark Angels, Eldar soup, or finally paint Wordbearers. Choices.

Bad Moons da best!

Made it to the battle almost entirely painted! This was a crazy game 20 players all bringing 200 battle level then we added super heavies! A great group of players who had fun without getting upset when models got shot to pieces! Also everyone was easy going about those of us with less 8th edition experience.

So, everything had some paint my deffakoppas were the only thing that didn't pass for fully painted. Had to do some packing

So, got there and had a ton of fun. I had two units become the MVPs.

So the gretchin unit (gobbos) are sitting on one of the objectives. They held that the whole game. One turn it was actually the primary. I put them forward on it as a joke that they didn't know any better. Now they did have back up

Basically supporting them was a unit of lootas, Ork shootas, painboyz, mek with shield and another gobbos unit to soak up wounds. Plus the Imperium players had so many orks moving right at them, this was a hard enough nut no one wanted to crack. The game runner joked my Bad Moons payed everyone else to distract the Imperium so he could get something from that spot. Seems to have worked. The Ork rush was big.

But my other mvp, was the often maligned on the internet, Stompa.

The Stompa destroyed one of the large knights in one turn. Another turn a superheavy tank and a bunch of basilisks. Another turn a bunch of leman russ and most of a standard imperial knight. He also took an insane amount of shots, holding on one turn with 1 wound! But eventually went down. Was a great overall game and crazy stuff happened all over. This week I'm working on some Nurgle tanks for the sequel in two weeks.

But I'll end with a few more pics of the mayhem.