My Assault on Assault on Black Reach Part 13 and more!

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These guys are due by midnight, Saturday, and I am playing on a team tournament all day SAT. Pretty much got five days to finish them off. "Days" is a little misleading there, I should say five days worth of painting time. I got all the base colors blocked in, so all that is left is shading and highlighting. This deadline is bearing down on me, but it is my own fault. I will prevail! Here are a few more base coat pics:

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From Mars' Project Blog

We had our first round of the Planetary Empires campaign come to a close. In the narrative the planet's vegetation has become hostile, as if it is feeding off the violence raging across the planet. Huge vine-like thickets have begun springing up over night. So to reflect this I put a little flock on the tiles to look like clumps of tower vegetation.

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In addition, I had it so that whomever won the most Cities of Death victories in the first round got to claim the Hive City tile, Halcyon 5. It was a draw between myself and one other player, and so we rolled off. I ended up getting the hive, go Dark Angels!

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Lastly, I implemented a bounty system where in players can place bounties on other players units. The first player to kill them can collect the bounty. Your's truly and his Ven Dred proved hard to kill so a bounty was placed on him by our bug player, Steve. Pat, from this blog right here, collected the bounty in hail of Long Fang fire, and was paid accordingly:

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The brand is apropos I think.

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T

My Assault on Assault on Black Reach Part 12

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I was just getting to the good part on the dred, the highlighting, when I realized I needed to jump ship. Things got a little hectic last week and I was enjoying the Planetary Empire campaign games so much that I kind of blew off painting. Now I have just 10 short days to complete 10 models for our local club's painting challenge. So the dred is going to get shelved while I finish the tac squad, so I got them underway last night.

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About a model a day to meet the deadline. I will shamefacedly admit, this will be a close one...

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T

This Blog Post Was To Be Epic

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But it ended up being a "had to be there". For those that were there, we had a great time with a game day for our planetary empires campaign we launched over the last two weeks.

For the first round we were only playing 1k points, and on a 4x4, so we could have a couple of games going at the same time in The Shed. I meant to take a bunch of pictures of this 40k bonanza, as almost everyone there got in three games, fueled by beer and grim dark dark grimness! But, I was having so much fun that I forgot. So instead you get a few pictures of a few games, and Larry's smoking hot ork boyz mob!

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From Mars' Project Blog

From Mars' Project Blog

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T

Not Slacking, Promise!

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My brushes have been resting as I was trying to build my DA force up to a level where they can be used for a forthcoming campaign and some events.

My hobby time has been filled with knives, files, and glue, as illustrated above. That is all done now, so back to the dreadnought. I should have an update soon.

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T

My Assault on Assault on Black Reach Part 11

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From Mars' Project Blog

Got some work done on the dread this weekend. I even found a few spare bits from a Dark Angels sprue I must have had at some point, to spruce it up. I am a pretty big fan of dreds, and am really enjoying painting this.

On Friday, right before I got off work, I was talking some terrain with Magnus from Magnus' Project Log. I got home and decided I should paint on some of the stacks of plastic craters I had sitting in my game room/storage building, affectionately referred to as, "The Shed". When Planet Strike first came out, before any reviews hit, I had preordered and paid for the crap-terrain-crater-things. They had been sitting around collecting dust,because they pissed me off. Anyway, I sat on my porch with some big brushes and listened to the Mariners game. It turned out alright (The painting, not the game. The game was dismal with the Mariners sucking it up as usual...)

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From Mars' Project Blog

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T

A Whole Grip o' Stuff

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I am elated, and more than a little proud, to show off this Njal. I didn't do it, my younger brother did. I used to call him my little brother, but he is taller than me, so I had to switch up to "younger". Anyway, I think this model is an awesome achievement, as I can remember just a few months back as I sat with him and showed him the basics of line-highlighting and blending. He has made an incredible leap with this model, and I am proud of him. Here is a few more pics:

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From Mars' Project Blog

Still more "stuff" amidst our whole grip is that myself and some old, and new friends, are kicking off another Planetary Empires campaign. I am using the same tiles I did a year or so back. I snapped a few quick shots of them reconfigured for this planet, before they become all worn-torn and grim-dark-dark-grimness as our battles rage across them:

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From Mars' Project Blog

Lastly, I am still plugging away at my AoBR project. I started on the dred, but might change to the tac squad if they are better suited for our club's next painting challenge. Speaking of that, there were some pretty cool entries listed this month, so if you have a second and a yuku account, go here and vote for what ya like.

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T

My Assault on Assault on Black Reach Part 10

From Stuff I Have Painted: Space Marines

From Stuff I Have Painted: Space Marines

From Stuff I Have Painted: Space Marines

Company Master Brother Nemiel ready to assault Black Reach. In all I am pretty happy with him. There were a few areas that could have used a little more, but my deadline and sanity demand that I move on. I was stoked with the way the sword came out. I was trying to keep it as black as possible as I wanted him to have one of the Dark Angel's sacred blades. Enough talk, though some more pices. Including some of the termies and my damnable banner.

From Stuff I Have Painted: Space Marines

From Stuff I Have Painted: Space Marines

From Stuff I Have Painted: Space Marines

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T