Dungeon of the Mad Mage - Interlude 2

Introduction

The players decided to open my Book of Many Things instead of doing Storm King's side quests, and so they were visited in their sleep again by the mysterious Games Master[1][2]. He alluded to people ever visiting his arenas once in their lifetime, but somebody wants the adventurers very dead... and is willing to pay for it. Enter...

Skullcrushers command group conversion

Introduction

I bought them off eBay for cheap, already assembled (which is always a mistake, I've come to learn). 

They were mounted on fantasy bases. The champion model had an icon stuck to the end of his glaive with blue-tac. Mould lines and even sprue clippings were still on.

Dark Tides: Audience with the Adeptus Mechanicus

Report to the Rogue Trader

The players started off by summarizing the last session's investigation in reasonable detail, so I had their pagers beep and request their presence at the dropship. They received a request to report to their boss-man, Rogue Trader Varonius himself. They spent some time with back-and-forth communication, but they could not dig out any reasonable lead to follow. At last, Tass the Skitarius mentioned wanting to contact the local Adeptus Mechanicus, to which Varonius assented, and they were on their way.

Speed painting Bloodcrushers

Introduction

The Coronavirus-related lockdown resulted in a sharp decrease in hobby time. With barely any progress, I decided on testing some shortcuts. Note that I don't have an airbrush, and my two criteria were: a) low effort invested b) result looking reasonably good. I am... OK with this.

Dungeon of the Storm King - Chasing the Weevil

As discussed at the end of the previous session, I gave the adventurers a choice of side quests to pick. We could have went to work on the story of one of the characters... but Szivem could not show up, and so the party went after their first imagined nemesis... the Weevil.[1]

Blood for the Blood God!

I was cleaning my sculpting tool after applying the Mordant Earth on the Flesh Hounds, when I felt a small sting. I look down, and the next moment, blood is flowing like crazy. Well, I guess... Blood for the Blood God!

Painting a purple lightning Hellblade

Painting a chaos blade

Wrath and Glory: Dark Tides

After the practice session, we dug into the singular campaign-level published adventure: Dark Tides.

Painting Karanak

Introduction

I looked at the painting instructions that came along with the Flesh Hounds and discovered that the technique is very similar to the Warhammer TV video that I based  the squad on, although the colors are subtly different. And so I decided to try it out on the boss-doggo himself: Karanak, the Hound of Vengeance.

Brass/Bronze

More of a bronze, with a warm cast to it.

Bright flame

Cooling lava

Volcanic rocks

May review & June goals

May was similar to April... but better in every way.

Gaming wise, Dungeons & Dragons is still the unstoppable juggernaut. I had to step in as DM due to reasons, so expect some deviation from the ongoing campaign. Wrath & Glory is also shaping up nicely, alternating every other week. With the available free time, DMing two campaigns is frankly exhausting... but things might go back to "normal" soon enough.

Painting wise, I did publish the last of my pre-lockdown painting articles, and so everything I put out from now on is going to be Khorne-y. Hehe. I managed to finish some squads, even to experiment here and there, mostly with time saving techniques. All in due time.

As for June: the lockdown is easing, but there are still weeks ahead until the first face-to-face gaming event. Online will proceed as above. Same for at-home hobbying. I'll keep it up, if only to hold on to some semblance of sanity. I'll probably switch from Khorne models in the near future (whatever that means, I can't estimate anything under these conditions). I have to do some D&D stuff for whenever we meet again in person, and there's an interesting commission work on the horizon... 

Dungeon of the Mad Mage - Interlude

Due to real life issues, I had to step in as DM. We had previously settled on going back to do some Storm King's side quests, but with no idea on where to start or what to prepare (and the book of side quests lost somewhere), I decided on dragging it out with a short encounter. Needless to say, it took the whole evening to solve.