Necromunda week 2

A successful second outing for the Yellowjackets, in another gang fight against the 103rd Disgraced, an orlock gang with military pretensions.

A short game, I first inflicted five hits with Harkan's heavy stubber against a ganger....of which none wounded. By the second turn I picked up my momentum. My leader, 'king' Rogan, scored a wounding hit with his boltgun, and Harkan hit just once with his stubber, wounding the enemy and knocking him from his platform. Humorously, it was the fall that took him out of action. Axel came out of the tunnels, running into the open and flaming the Disgraced's leader. With three down/out, they bottled and I won. 

Post game, Rogan gained Nerves of Steel, Graf and Kyne gained a BS bonus, Brannan became a Weaponsmith and Bryce became Impetuous. None completely bowled me over, but Rogan is now pretty hard to pin. 

Territory...could've gone better. I had 5 guys to work, so I started with my settlement. Lo and behold, some unwanted tag-along juve joined my gang, taking me into the 10-12 income bracket. Great. Then I took a calculated gamble. Reasoning that I was going to take a financial hit for moving up a bracket, I decided to roll 3 dice for my second archeotech hoards. Rolling 4,5 and.....spinning dice.....moment of suspense....bounced off some guys ratskins...4. My lucrative archeotech hoard got gutted out and became a pathetic set of ruins. 

At the trading post Rogan got offered a silencer and a weapon reload, which I passed up on, just buying a laspistol for the unwanted juve.   

Rogan also insisted on the following piece being published in the Sourbridge Rag (edited for spelling, grammar, punctuation, and occasionally, violent diagrams)

"To the piece of filth that followed us to our tech stash. You know who you are. I wouldn't spend any time around the Junkyard if I was you"

Space Hulk! Genestealer painting step by step

I promised myself I wouldn't even take the cellophane off space hulk until I'd finished Bo5A.

I kinda stuck to that. In an unprecedented display of efficiency, I finished the 5 armies box (minus thranduil, who needs a rework), savagely tore open the box and started devouring it's contents. 

Obviously I know how I'm painting the Blood Angels, I just need to replenish my stock of the right reds. I was completely clueless with the genestealers, so I made it up as I went, kind of with the creepy, 1995 video gane version loosely in mind. Below is the step by step (note- bases and claws aren't done, as I'm undecided on them, and in any case the bases will be done en masse)

(White undercoat)

1. Airbrush the 'flesh' VMC violet. Progressively lighten with VMA pale bluegrey, VMA white, concentrating on the back of the bulbous head, the face (from 45defrees above) and the tops of the hands.

2. Wash the recesses and areas wher the flesh meets the carapace with a 50/50 mix of violet and black, watered down about 1:8 paint/water

3. Wash the veins with 1:8 VMA light sea blue/water

4. Highlight the eye sockets, mouth, veins, knuckles with the original progression ( violet/pale greyblue/white)

5. Block in the carapace with a 1:5 mix of VMC light turquoise and black

6. Edge highlight the carapace staring with 1:5 light turquoise/black, through light turqiuse to white. 

7. Paint details, eyes teeth/tongue to preference.

Never really liked Tyranids, but in a space hulk context Genestealers are the ultimate baddies. Hopefully I've done then some justice whilst maintaining an element of speed (3 hours work roughly)

Now just three more batches and the broodlord, then I can start on those glorious terminators...

Space Hulk!

Hoooo yaah!

Bo5A- the night of basing

So I was off my tits on energy drink when 
I got home from training, so I decided to start the basing. About. 90 minutes later, I've based everything that's painted. I still need to paint the base edges black, but that's best done when the grass is set

As always, the basing makes very rough models seem very cohesive. 

The painting queue...

Bo5A nearing completion

So now all the units from the core box are painted, it's mainly down to the laborious chore phase. Painting the sanded bases Battlefield Brown was not exactly fun, but bring everything a step nearer completion. Somehow, I have an extra unit of dwarves, painted em without realising. The eagles and ruins got a base coat too

To do-  

Evil characters

Good characters

Eagles

Beorn

Finish basing

Bo5A update

Ugh, I'm sick. But I broke the back of the infantry painting of my BO5A set

Goblins, wargs, and warg riders done, men of Dale done, elves done, dwarves. ( still on sprue) but mostly done. I think they'll take maybe another concerted day of painting to finish the dwarves, the eagles, and the characters, then maybe a day of basing, which is always a slow process, then I can get some practice games in while I paint the funky stuff 

The painting standard is deliberately low, I just want to get then done and give the impression of blocks of colour. Generally, I've been airbrushing a primary colour, picking out the hands and faces, weapons and armour, then heavily washing the whole frame.

My aim is to have everything done by the release of the final movie this winter , so we can play a huge gar beforehand!

Necromunda Week 1

A successful first outing for the Yellowjackets, getting into a gang fight with the Misfits, Steve's Goliath Gang.

Harkan, my heavy stubber guy, managed to open the bloodshed by wounding Ghostface. My leader, Rogan Ironfist, took the Misfits flamer out of action with his boltgun, after the flamer burned Lynch and took him down.

Axel, my flamer-toting heavy, took his other heavy out of action, and the Misfits chose to bottle out rather than take unnecessary injuries. 

After the battle, Lynch survived against the odds and got an advance (+1BS)

Due to underdogs, winning, and scoring a wound, Rogan gained a killer reputation

Harkan got an extra attack (not too useful on a heavy?), Axel got +1WS (again, not blinding).

I worked my two archeotech hoards, spore caves, tunnels and settlement, to earn a ton of creds (110 after upkeep!)

Trading, I bought a Ratskin map and a grav chute, which I gave to Harkan. I also hired a scummer (we weren't allowed to for the first game), an evil-lookin guy called Knave. 

Steve was unlucky with his injury rolls. His heavy rolled a 6 on multiple injuries, ending up with a leg, arm and head injury, horrible scars, impressive scars, and captured by me! Poor guy...

All fear the Yellowjackets!