Turelio's Hobby Hoard

I haven't posted much stuff, and it's for a few reasons. I'm not going to go into huge detail her because, mainly, it's boring. The main reasons are: 1) Work is destroying my time - I now do a week of a set shift, then move onto another time slot for a week, then back to another. I am not used to shift work like this, and it's messed with my sense of time and energy, so I'm not too motivated. 2) I'm prepping for surgery - I have some long overdue arm surgery coming up that will see me out of action for a few weeks. I've been trying to get this sorted for about 8 months now, so as the time gets closer, I start to freak out and plan ahead a bit. That's eating into my free time, as are strangely timed trips to various parts of the city for related tasks. 3) I've been building stuff. In prep for my time off, I've been building stuff to paint while I recover. I'm planning a bigger blog post on this, but "cleaned some bases" isn't...

So this should be a quick post. Over the last week, in small moments of downtime, I've constructed some semi-pre-built terrain. Over MOAB a few months ago, it was pointed out I might have been running Malifaux demos, and I had forgotten my terrain. I remembered that Bitz Galaxy had some plastic boxes of trees, so went to grab some. $40 later, I had a cluster of tightly packed trees to use for terrain... And then didn't run demos. Oh well, I've got some trees... They have stayed in their boxes until last Friday. I had grabbed some MDF terrain bases from Aetherworks, and while watching Critical Role, I dunked the bottom of each tree into pva, then placed it on the base, sticking 2-3 trees on each.  Pictured above are a few of the tree stands. I quite literally had the upended lid of aquadhere, lowered the tree base (they have some stands fashioned like roots) into the glue, and sat the, on the base. Leaving them overnight let them set solid. I also used this opportunity to do...

So, this is a quick update on what I've been up to. Mainly I've been focused on assembly lately, with only a few actual painting sessions. The Dwarves are from Mantic, and despite the fact I didn't plan ranking them up until halfway through the build, they ranked up pretty well! The two men are from the Wyrd multipart kit, and will form two of four demo characters for Through The Breach. The crouching guy will be the caster of the group, and the other will be the doctor. Finally, I got some paint on a few more of my McMourning crew. I grabbed a few hours when no one turned up for games to get some basic work done.

Just a quick post for this little model!  This was a mini I painted for the 6th OzPainters Challenge, with the theme of Dark. Initially I wanted to do it as a graveyard scene, but while I was hunting for bits I found a plinth I had got from Weisern on OzPainters a few years ago. I wanted this to be a quick job, so I just did some plain texture on top and painted the model. I initially wanted to paint it took look like a moonlit scene, but it quickly moved towards a blue-tinted black and white scene. This was also my first time trying out NMM in a more serious fashion, and I think I am getting slightly better at it, but also have a way to go. The scythe was a good area to practice on though, as it let me get a chance to try this on a large flat surface and blend something a bit more, which I haven't done in a while.  It's also the first Rackham mini I have ever painted, so it's a small item on my painting bucket list ticked! The mini can be voted on as well w...

So after dinner last night, with Critical Role running in the background, I sat down and started to learn one of the biggest Kickstarter games around, and the biggest I have in my games library: Kingdom Death! Hooray! That's right, Kingdom Death: Monster , the game of simulating the ever growing profit-and-loss spreadsheet of a doomed multinational company! Wait... No... Come back! I joke, it's a really cool game. Those are just character sheets. I swear! So, I've glanced through the rules a bit, and watched a 'how to play' video while putting the Butcher together, so I had a brief understanding of the rules. Luckily, the game is designed to play the Prologue event first, after assembling the Prologue sprue (Kingdom Death being the first company I have encountered to arrange a game intro like that, which I appreciate).  But before I did that, I decided to grab the cards I was likely to use out and sleeve them, because I paid too much for this game to dama...

A quick update on some things I've been keeping busy with lately. I might break these out into more detail descriptions later, but this is a quick "get it posted" chance. Some malifaux models in various states of painting, a broken Pandora Avatar, a finished Rackham Familiar of Dark with better photos due this week, and the start of an enormous Kingdom Death build...

Time to get back to these mini photos! This one is Lilith, the Master of the crew I have been showing off lately, and one of the few Masters I have been genuinely scared of when I started learning to use them! Lilith is the Mother of Monsters, and one of the more fearsome powers within the Neverborn faction. Taking the place of her sister, Nekima, who should have been in control of the Nephilim when the humans were first pushed back through The Breach, she has a pretty nasty reputation.  One of my first times using her, I was in a situation I hadn't been in before: I'd been reading up on her crew casually for well over a year knowing I was interested in playing them, so I already knew a few of the tricks.  She worked a bit better than expected, and I'm almost lucky that I didn't take her in a grow list. Admittedly, the board was laid out as a large crossroads, but it allowed her to dictate a large swath of the board as off-limits, and quickly di...