NovemberIX

Honestly, I can't really paint any other color Well, that and a lot of the BnC painting challenges during which I watched a lot of endurance racing, you'd be surprised how much painting you can get done when you don't sleep for 24 hours... As for the Hyperios, it'll need some glue and some reinforcing, but with luck it'll be back on the shelf, hopefully far enough away from errant warp empowered paws.

I try every few years to post up an army shot on November 9th, this year I planned ahead and actually got everything laid out to get a few shots. Much as I wanted to bring out both of my tables, my living room only fits one these days, so I had to get a little creative and stagger the shots. This is pretty much everything save one drop pod that I completely forgot on my shelf. Without further ado, presenting the November Warriors, The House Garaipena, and a couple of sisters from the Order of the Frozen Flame.

So it's been about 3 years since I last did an army update on Nov 9. I finally got a chance this weekend to bring everything out and put it on the table to get some pictures. Last time I did this, it took two 6x4 tables, I couldn't quite fit the second table in my living room anymore, so I had to make due with two separate shots. First up are the Flyers, Troops, Terminators and Specialists. In the background are the two test pieces for my sisters, and an imperial knight pilot. You might notice a Damocles command Rhino has found it's way in. I had actually forgotten it when I took the tank shot, so it ended up with the troops for completions sake. Following up are the Tanks, Dreads, and Knights. I've got a couple of fun tanks like an Ares and a Razorback Rikarius. Sadly shortly after this picture was taken, my cats decided the table was the place to chase each other, my Whirlwind Hyperios didn't stand a chance... Hopefully next year will see some additions, I'd love to finally start tackling the other factions in my DIY!

Part of me would like to think that it also has something to do with the reduced number of studs across the body in addition to the blood and skulls bits like the sponsons, turret and especially the fuel tanks. If I were to do it again, I'd probably take it a step further and smooth some of the gaps to reduce the studs even more.

I finally got around to printing the batteries from my last post. In doing so, two things stuck out. 1. I really shoulda measured properly. While they work well enough, they are a little small for the space they're meant to fit in. 2. The details are a shallow. The next step is to try painting them up anyway to see how they look, if all is well, then I'll just glue them up and all will be well. If not, then back to the drawing board to resize things and give it another shot.

You can get them single by the bottle, but the sets are all four.

Besides the much afore mentioned Primaris. I've got a simple retcon: Razorbacks have been around since the heresy. Why? Cause they're cool! I also think from a modeling perspective the Deimos Rhino with weapons from a tarantula sentry turret would look pretty cool.

I've been thinking about this thread for a while, and in the end I kinda figured it's not so much that GW has priced me out, but that they kinda stopped selling to me. Most of my army is in legends, more going with every edition change, what firstborn kits there are left I've already bought for my needs. It is also a little hard to reconcile that a tac squad costs as much as a land raider used to. I will admit, I usually say I'm out, and that I've made my last purchase for my army/backlog but then something new comes out and I find a way to justify it. Except for now my backlog has grown pretty extensive, and the new monopose way models are being made doesn't really appeal to me, so I'm effectively out.

The problem is that's not what this issue is about, it's about saying you can't compete directly with GW by making models that fit their (and other) game system.

I mean, I could be playing one page rules, so why does GW get to decide what my dwarf guild looks like?

By that token, does that mean anyone who makes a gothic terrain should also not be allowed just because GW made their own gothic terrain? I mean you can argue that ghamak designs mimic elements of GW products, but they aren't the GW design. They have a different aesthetic at their core. That's the sniff test. not some nebulous, can someone buy it instead of a GW products. By that logic Pepsi Co. could never exist because Coca-Cola was already on the market.

Oppositely, I wish there weren't grooves on the 30K Rhino for the headlights. One of the things I did when I built my resin ones was not add the lights because I didn't like the placement, but the new plastic kits have that indent on the armor. An indent for the dozer blade or tow hooks isn't too bad, but I figure that has more to do with sprue design than anything.

I'm a dreadhead, but it's an agreement on the redemptor scale dreads, the Boxnaught is the iconic ideal of a dreadnought, the new primaris stuff just doesn't have the same appeal. Aesthetically I guess it fits with primaris, but it, like the rest of primaris, looks like the it's from a GI Joe product line, un-ironically tacticool.

So the subject of this first blog post is gonna be rather innocuous, I've had kitbash fellblade with custom bits from blood and Skulls industry for a few years now. I had used the original sponson with a set of twin linked lascannons from Blood and Skulls more or less jammed in to count as the Quad linked lascannons. But not so long ago (or at least it felt that way, it's been a year at least!) I decided to retrofit the sponson with something that looked a bit more space marine. I like the way they look, but the back of them is rather plain as I had plans on kitbashing in some lascannon batteries from a storm talon. While I did find the bits, I also found out that they wouldn't work due to size and shape concerns. That's why today I decided it was time to 3d model some up. It started with a drawing, most people would use a proper CAD program of some kind, I've got access to plotter software. So step one is a 2d layout. A couple steps on conversion later, I turned it into an SVG, then imported into Blender. and from blender finally into Photon Workshop So you might see there's a minor aspect difference between the two 3d files, it's because I didn't actually measure the space for the ammo mount at first (I know, I know, measure twice cut once) but as this was a kinda slipshod afternoon faff about, I'm not too worried because it turned out that with a tiny bit of Y axis crunching I can now fit two plates per ammo mount, which kinda makes sense for a quad lascannon. It'll still be a bit before I can get around to printing, painting and glueing them up, since my print room is off limits right now due to kitten shenanigans, but hey, at least I got my next blog post planned out!