Dungeon of the Mad Mage: Snake boss fight

Summary of last session, which I missed: we beat a golem, some undead, and a mage commanding 3 undead minotaurs. Good job. Now on to the fun stuff.

Black fur (Contrast)

Painting a Gold Dragon

Introduction

This year's first larger commission piece, this Reaper Bones dragon has become golden due to a clear Heroes 3 influence.

Maggotkin of Nurgle vs Slaves to Darkness, 19.11.2022

After a 7 month hiatus, here I am back for Age of Sigmar! The prize of Gallet scenario was played out between my no-Plaguebearers or galetian veterans of any kind Maggotkin versus a horde of Chaos Warriors.

Painting Chaos Space Marine Bikers

More Word Bearers on the production line: these old timey bikers.

Reviewing and converting Chaos Bikers

Kit review

Disappointingly boring. Given their very specific weapon options in the codex, I expected all that to be in the box. Instead, there are 3 identical sprues to build the 3 bikers. This means they will all have the same chest, backpack, front plate, and a choice of two heads. If you assemble yours, make sure to mix it up using any other chaos marines kit, or at least that's what I did. You also need to do that for the weapons.

Conversion & magnetization

I assembled the champion first, using only options from the kit. I also glued in his bike combi bolters, as he cannot replace them. I also needed to see where they fit, as the instructions are lackluster.

Painting Furry Force themed Possessed

As much fun as it was to convert these guys, it took a long time and I grew tired of them. Time to slap some paint on!

Converting Furry Force themed Possessed

I suppose you know about this gem (also part 2 and part 3). Now up until this moment, all my conversions have been utilitarian. If I'm missing the right model because it's OOP or whatnot, maybe the right wargear, I'd convert it. I never 'got' themed conversions. Until this one clicked...

Painting metal Havocs

As is the case with many of my OG marines, I bought these guys ages ago. After updating them to current standards, I painted them as Word Bearers, as usual.

Assembling Chaos Havocs using the old metal/plastic hybrid kit

I broke out this old Havoc kit for assembly. Of course they are tiny compared to the current iteration of Chaos Marines, and they are supplied with 25mm bases. Time to fix all that.

M.A.G.U.S. - It's alive!

The adventurers started by retiring for the day[1]. They went back to the sea-side entrance and slept, keeping watch in rotation. The rest cycle went by uneventfully, with Shamil sharpening his dagger and Dalibor drawing plans of the dungeon.

Lord Discordant finished!

Wrapping up the Lord Discordant

With the base and model painted separately, and the LED work done in interwoven steps, I could finally finish this model.

Painting a Lord Discordant

After the Venomcrawler, comes its master. The LED work in the model and base is kind of similar, but I painted them up separately.

Magnetizing a Lord Discordant

The Lord Discordant was hard to magnetize - the Astra Militarum tanks were a breeze compared to this. It doesn't look as on the box art due to fitting issues - here goes.

Adding a LED light to a Lord Discordant

I learnt stuff while doing the Venomcrawler. I decided to put the switch on the side, instead of underneath.

October review and November goals

October was OK. The Furry Force squad is done, as are some Chaos dreadnoughts - already battle tested in the one game of Warhammer I got to play. We finished our WFRP adventure. That's about all.

November will see us return to the dungeon in MAGUS, and hopefully in D&D as well.

On the hobby side, there's a new painting competition announced. The miniature is currently going through the last phases of building up the base - soon to be primed. During downtime, I started on the remaining parts of The Giant Monsters Commission™ - I need that shelf space freed up!