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What are you doing today hobbywise?

ChapterAquila92 said:
Since returning home from 50 days at sea, I've largely been taking it easy. With that said, I promised a shipmate that I'd get an Iron Hands paint test model done up for him, so I slapped together Brother-Sergeant Sevastus and Brother Garus from the Space Marine Heroes series and got them primed with Chaos Black and pre-shaded with Leadbelcher. The reason for doing two in this case is to showcase two ways of getting a used dark iron effect quickly and effectively even as a beginner - Sevastus being the wash example using Agrax Earthshade, Coelia Greenshade, and Nuln Oil; Garus being the contrast example using Basilicanum Grey.

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Having done this by hand, I honestly felt that the washes were faster and more effective at getting the cast iron look I was aiming for. Most of the time spent on these models was on the silver trim, which I had done before the Nuln Oil wash.

Apart from that, it's back to building my first six chariots from Victrix for my Ancient Britons collection (I bought enough kits for 18). They're easily among the more tedious 28mm builds I've worked on thus far, and this will be the first time I'm having to build and paint non-vehicle models in more than three sub-assemblies.
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Nice painting on the marines!
 
Had my first two tabletop war games in over a month today.

The first was a WW1 Flames of War game that resulted in a crushing German defeat in no small part due to poor placement of my field guns.

The second was a Romans vs Britons Warhammer Ancient Battles game in which I finally got to field my chariots... only to have them run down by light cav after being charged in what can only be described as a complete route of my army. I'm going to have to read more into what I can do with light chariots, because being able to set them up in skirmish formation is absolutely crucial for maneuverability.

Still, both games were fun in their own way.

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ChapterAquila92 said:
The second was a Romans vs Britons Warhammer Ancient Battles game
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You have a Romans too? You never told me about those...

ChapterAquila92 said:
in which I finally got to field my chariots... only to have them run down by light cav after being charged in what can only be described as a complete route of my army.
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That is crazily embarrassing given that Roman cavalry had a pretty awful track record throughout history...

Caratacus is not impressed with your failures :sour: ;)

ChapterAquila92 said:
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Those chaps look like Warlord to me as I have some myself, as opposed to your Victrix Britons. But then Celts were always substantially taller than their Roman enemies ;)
 
Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl said:
You have a Romans too? You never told me about those...
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Not my army per say, but a friend's army. My wargaming group as a whole is collecting Romans, Gauls, Britons, Persians, and Visigoths.
That is crazily embarrassing given that Roman cavalry had a pretty awful track record throughout history...
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The issue came down to his cavalry trying to run down a fleeing warband and charging instead into my chariots, which were in skirmish formation at the time. He won combat by virtue of only having to fight one chariot out of 6 with 8 equites and rolled higher on the sweeping advance than I did. Probably will require a lot more reading though.
Those chaps look like Warlord to me as I have some myself, as opposed to your Victrix Britons. But then Celts were always substantially taller than their Roman enemies ;)
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Fair point.
 
Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl said:
That is crazily embarrassing given that Roman cavalry had a pretty awful track record throughout history...
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That depends on your definition of "Roman." The Byzantine Empire, better known as The Eastern Roman Empire, or Rome that kept going after Rome fell to the Goths, had some pretty kick-ass cavalry in the form of Cataphracts...
 
Tk'ya'pyk said:
That depends on your definition of "Roman." The Byzantine Empire, better known as The Eastern Roman Empire, or Rome that kept going after Rome fell to the Goths, had some pretty kick-ass cavalry in the form of Cataphracts...
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I’m talking about the Rome we all know and love, that is, Republican and Imperial Rome before the schism between the Eastern and Western Empires. They lost so many battles through their cavalry letting them down that they must have been bad compared to the horsemen of other nations, but then they did focus on improving the infantry Legions to perfection, so I suppose it was to be expected.
 
Tk'ya'pyk said:
That depends on your definition of "Roman." The Byzantine Empire, better known as The Eastern Roman Empire, or Rome that kept going after Rome fell to the Goths, had some pretty kick-ass cavalry in the form of Cataphracts...
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To be fair, Cataphracts were very much a Persian import, and even then they weren't the only ones to make use of them.
Wikipedia said:
Peoples and states deploying cataphracts at some point in their history include: the Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans, Parthians, Achaemenids, Sakas, Armenians, Seleucids, Pergamenes, Kingdom of Pontus, Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, the Sassanids, the Romans, the Goths and the Byzantines in Europe and the Chinese, Jurchens, and Mongols in East Asia.
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Killer Angel said:
Ohhh, page 100!

Actually, i'm searching for a lost devastator with plasma cannon. Does it count?
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Hobby related, so yes. I'm contemplating turning another box of Escher gangers into Chaos Cultists while I wait for GW to ship me my SKULLS FOR THE SKULL GOD!!!... and for my Defiler/Brass Scorpion of Khorne conversion.
 
Killer Angel said:
The original model is gorgeous. Post your final result, i am really curious
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Once I finish building it, I will post the model pre-paint and post-paint. I HAVE to post it pre-paint so I can run a poll.
 
Tk'ya'pyk said:
Do what I do. Play against yourself. Not the most tactically fulfilling choice, but better than not playing at all...
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Kudos to you, I could never do that.

Thankfully, I do get a lot of joy from unboxing miniatures and storing them correctly as well as reading rulebooks and making up army lists. So I'll do that with my allocated Warhammer time.

(Wife, dog and work complain when I don't give them enough attention ;))
 
Spent the afternoon playing around with an old airbrush while waiting for the newer kit to show up, applying Dryad Bark as the base layer on 20 stormvermin, 20 clanrats, 2 deathmasters, a warlock-bombardier, a clawlord, a grey seer, a verminlord deceiver, 30 tempestus scions, and my three "bullgryn" exosuit proxies.

All in all, not bad for nearly an entire pot of the airbrush-formulated paint.
 
Through a bunch of circumstances which where no doubt part of a conspiracy planed by others, I'm now the owner of my first skaven model. It aspires to become a pirate someday, but I'm not sure how it plans on getting it's Broodhorror on a ship.
 
My Broodhorror is stuck in customs in NY state. :(

In the mean time, I'm waiting for that, my GW order (which is understandably running slow since they're still ramping up from being shuttered for over a month), some books I ordered, and so forth. To pass the time I am stripping paint from a bunch of old metal minis. Pair of old terradons, a scar-vet on foot (oldblood? whichever), and so on.
 
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