Painting green cloth

 

The adventures of Legorlas Green Leaf: Into the dungeon

I skipped two sessions right after I joined the party and I might stay an occasional visitor. Still, I'm always happy to rip and tear through enemies in bear form. Yes, this happened plenty during this session.

So anyway, after we defeated the enemies in the goblin castle, the adventurers fought some more then retreated to Phandalin, which they found devastated by the icy attacks of a dragon. Some villagers have been kidnapped and they had 2 days to rescue them. Obviously, they decided to go another way, right into a mega-dungeon. They tore through some undead and other monsters, then decided to shorten the dungeon crawl and only have the interesting encounters pop up. Enter Legorlas, just back from a ritual to save the soul of his twin brother, Legholas, killed by a mighty devil. I told them all about it during a short rest. Those who were already full played midget spinner.

On we went, right into a huge hall covered in bones. The paladin had a bad feeling about it, and soon enough red lines tore through the floor. Animated by the foul necromancy, skeletons attacked us (represented by the dice).

Painting Escher gangers/Kasrkin

With the Escher Kasrkin conversions done, I took my sweet time to paint them. I struggled coming up with a paint scheme, until I realized that if you create your own custom gang in Necromunda Underhive Wars, you can customize their clothing. This looked like a perfect father/daughter activity, so I let my 6 year old dress up the girls however she wanted. It's not very optimal to have a 12 strong gang with no equipment, but whatever. Once all done, I did my best to replicate the coloring. I often hear that I paint my minis is pastel colors, and no variety. Well, brace yourselves.

Mission #3 - Raid the excavation

The imperials drew up their heavy defenses on the outskirts of the excavation, with the main forces protecting the center structure.

Mission #3

While Castellan Mother Theresa was raiding the Ork camp, the more mobile Orkish forces, lead by the new warboss Gitstompa, were speeding through the desolate landscape. He had no time to waste. Let the old boss consolidate the boyz. He had to offer a scrap, and a good one, with propa' loot and e'rything, or he won't stay boss for long.

And lo and behold, the boss craves and Gork and Mork provide. Standing up in his saddle, prodding Missiz Muncha to leap across a crevice, Gitstompa spied humie structures in the far distance. And was that... exhaust smoke? Gitstompa whooped, swinging his choppa wildly. 

'Boyz, da humies are at it again!' he hollered, uncaring whether his boyz heard or understand. 'WAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!' Well, at least they heard that. He swung his choppa a couple more times, trusting the boyz - his boyz! - to follow his meaning. The '32.5 Minuterz' steered their deffkoptas right, with the squighog boyz going left. He wanted it the other way around, but good enough.

Soon, the unsuspecting humies were just in sight, bustling around their blocky buildings - good and strong, but not spiky enough - and strange metallic structures half-buried in the sand. Well, they'll get to that later. Time to issue the order of:

'WAAAGH! DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!'

Painting Atican city fighters (squad)

Continue with the rest of the squad. With the path now laid out, I considered doing some fancy stuff at the end.

M.A.G.U.S. - Season finale part 2

The party continued their mad dash towards the center. As the battle intensified in the distance, the lords of the armies lazily circled each other in the air and flinged spells of unimaginable power at each other. Several missed their targets, closing off areas of the cave or resulting in large fiery explosions and clouds of dust.

Note to self: if the characters are unbeatable in combat, send a few environment effects at them.

Painting Atican city fighters (characters)

I experimented with the urban camo cloaks on these 3 models which have larger cloaks than the regular infantry, taking ideas from Gaunt's Ghosts.

Dark red cloth (Contrast)

Orange plasma coils

 

Dungeon of the Mad Mage: Hungry, hungry minotaurs

After some debate, the adventurers decided to skip enslaving the troglodytes (and the associated rewards), instead returning and liberating the children they bought from the dark elves. In the meantime, they also tanned (as well as they could) the skinned rune-engraved hide fragments of the behir. Then, it was on to the next level!

The stinking troglodyte warrens were quickly replaced by a creepy, fog-filled maze. Antrius deployed his mage hand to wave a cloak in front of them, at least dispersing the fog beneath their feet. Guided by a floating light, the adventurers bypassed an area of red fog in between three stalagmites painted with bloody icons[1] and soon stepped into the territory of hungry minotaurs.

Painting Fiends of Slaanesh

Time for a squad of another needlessly overdesigned, overengineered and overcomplicated GW miniatures. Now that I got that off my chest, they do look awesome after painting, though. The only problem is that painting so many details is more of a chore than fun. Doing the first step took over an hour on 3 models. So even with this boss painting scheme from the Warhipster, it took quite a long time. Anyway... 

M.A.G.U.S. - Season finale part 1

After the summer holidays, the entire crew reunited for the season finale. The adventurers reached the heart of the underground kingdom: an enormous cave with entire settlements all over, and strange suspended ball-like structures in the middle.

September review and October goals

I definitely did not round it all off in September. The start of the school year hit way harder than expected.

D&D is the one stable leg my hobby life always gets to stand on. Yay us. Still on the same level of the dungeon, though. If we don't go through this in October, I'm rage quitting.

Surprisingly, we made it to the end of our MAGUS campaign with a two-part finale. Well, not every character made it. Stay tuned. We might start something new this month.

No Warhammer this month. Sustaining one game per week for the RPGs above was enough of a struggle.

Okay, cool. How about painting? Not very good. I went on a hiatus in the first half of the month, as my eyes frequently hurt by evening. But I'm back, and I painted some commission characters, as well as some low effort monsters. 

As for October, it's really time to finish some Guard infantry (base coats laid on, time to highlight) and round off the commissions to paint more of my own stuff. I'm way behind on my 1 mini/day goal, but I primed a bunch of fantasy minis, which should go by quickly and improve the statistics.