Tales of a hobby butterfly

I have been trying to decide on a colour scheme for my empire army for a while now.

I hear all the cool kids go with Averland so tried painting up a unit in black and yellow, but I struggle making black look right so tried a few other colours, blue and yellow green and blue so on and so on.

So I decided to leave it a bit and worked on some other stuff.

Then whilst eating a battenburg cake it hit me pink and yellow would be swish on the table.

This also gave me a chance to try out the newish speed paint pastel colours which was a cool bonus.

also gave me a chance to try out the krautcover mud effect which looks pretty cool and was simple to apply, the fixing agent that is used to hold it together works very well so should reduce the chance of the bases shedding over time

The crew move up towards the troops guarding the supplies.

Splitting into two teams, cooties stays back with the medic and Rostand to cover the other twos advance as they try to get into the trenches to outflank the defenders.

Rostand uses the calm before battle to dig for extra loot and finds nothing but stinking mud.

Cooties takes aim at the enemy and squeezes off the first shot of the battle, it’s a good hit, the target let’s out a muffled groan but keeps fighting bringing his machine gun to bear, seeing this the crew duck down behind the crates Corelli is too slow and takes a minor wound but nothing he can’t deal with.

Whilst the enemy is otherwise occupied, the other two keep pushing forwards towards the trench line trying to get the drop on the defenders.

Wolfgang drops into the trench followed by his team mate knife drawn and ready, a strange mewing noise coming from behind his mask.

They creep up to the corner and watch as the enemy move off towards the fire fight happening to there right.

Cooties keeps his nerve and fires again, he is painfully aware that he only has three bullets left.

Corelli stays put behind the crates and binds his wounds.

Rostand stumbles forward  to protect the others from the enemy scrambling out of the trench.

Wolfgang charges around the corner and stabs at the enemy causing a wound, startled the enemy fights back lashing out with a dud grenade as a makeshift club the fight carries on untill a lucky hit takes Wolfgang out of the fight.

Knife in hand and letting out a scream the nameless scrambles up the wall of the trench and charges into the enemy that is pinning the others down with his machine gun.

The knife does it’s work taking an enemy out of action, allowing him to then collect a supply crate.

Rostand hacks away with his shovel causing some damage but then takes a trench club to the face taking him out of the fight

Cooties aims and fires avenging his fallen comrade.

Corelli jumps into the trench trying to grab another supply crate.

With one round left cooties takes a shot at the last guard easily taking him out of action.

The trench maggot slowly squirms towards the fresh corpses.

With two of the creates in their possession and two members of the crew down and possibly dead they decided to withdraw to lick their wounds and resupply before venturing out into the fog on the next mission.

Back at the bunker the quarter master awards the crew 70 requisition points. Also both crew members that were down at the end of the mission pull through though not completely.

Rostand has developed tinnitus reducing his presence by 1 and wolfgangs wounds became infected meaning he will start the next mission suffering with a disease reducing his effectiveness all round.

Some of the requisition was spent on a flare gun to provide some light on night missions and will be useful to flame some monsters later on.

Cooties now has a bandolier and a reload for his rifle.

Corelli has a lantern to provide constant light for the other crew members.

The rest of the requisition will be hidden away in a safe place for use later.

Picked up the forbidden psalm and the last war rules at salute.

Because of the bankholiday this weekend I got out of work early on Saturday so decided to spend the couple of days off building a board and some models to get the game on the table before Tuesday.

Been having fun painting these models apart from the good trim everywhere.

If Im not careful I may actually get a project done before flying to the next shiny thing ..

I did pick up some Rubicon vietnam Anzac at salute and some gringos 40s dwarfs that are kind of calling to be painted

Played a couple of games of 40k recently and have really enjoyed them, thought it would be cool to try another army rather than guard all the time.

Luckily I was gifted a big box of chaos marines, helping me start my decent into chaos.

I have always found black a bit of a  challenge to paint so watched loads of YouTube videos on the subject and in the end followed the black legion painting guide from midwinter minis.

I’m pretty happy with the result, I did try black contrast and black speed paint but both looked odd on the marines armour.

I tried good old martian iron earth on the bases but it just made the models look dull so decided to try my hand at a flamey larva/Deamon base and am very happy with the result

The marines are raised up on bits of roughly broken up cork and the bubbles in the hot stuff were made from craft beads.

Only another 30 or 40 to paint gold trim on so that will be fun…

The long term plan with these funky chaps is to get it all painted and ready to rock for which ever dungeon crawl I fancy playing at the time

There are orcs, goblins, undead , trolls,ogers, Deamons,dragons and a scorpion centaur and loads more, all pre slots.

The sculpts are super cool, time to start splashing some paint.

This chap has been in the painting pile for a while.

Every good ork horde needs a Gargant so these chaps are starting with a slasher Gargant which is one of the smaller varieties of ork stompy goodness.

Unfortunately I lost his head a long time a go so after some bits box diving I found the gubbinz and twisty bits to form  a kind of head