Tiny...tough to paint...Goblins

Attempting to replace my Goblins for my fantasy gaming which I sold on eBay a year or so ago.  I picked up some Reaper goblins sculpted by Tre Manor (one of my favourite sculptors) without realizing how small they were.

The colours didn't come out the way I wanted, but...they're goblins.  I'll try to do the other six.  They're on 25mm bases which are quite big for how tiny the models are (and sadly the archers are even smaller).

My eyes aren't what they used to be and I'm definitely struggling with painting stuff this small.

Games!: 40K, 8th Edition

Got in a game of normal 40K tonight vs. my buddy John and his impossible-to-beat Dark Angels.

I actually won the game by driving hard to the scenario objective (and fleeing the table...effectively).  A somewhat silly game, but fun regardless of the minimal casualties.

A strong finish for May!

Finally got off my ass and made some forward hobby progress.

I scrounged around and found just enough leftover bits to do another seven man Plague Marine squad, and I slapped together five Games Workshop skeletons to add to the seven I did a month or two ago (12 seems a good number for dungeon crawl baddies).

Slowly stumbling along...Negavolt Cultists

I assembled and primed these guys several months ago when I picked up Blackstone Fortress.  When that game turned out to be a bit of a dud (just not terribly interesting), I let these guys sit on the desk forever.  In the rush to staying on track with 10 models/month, I painted these up the other night just to get them out of the way.

2019: 47 painted models (does not include terrain or minor paintjobs on stuff like Star Wars armada miniatures, etc.)

I may never even use these guys but they work as a crazy sci-fi baddies for future endeavors.

Serpenting the Waves, Part Tres.

A third Wave Serpent assembled for my...unreasonably large Eldar grav fleet.

Chaos Terminator Lord

Not super excited with the result (my dip is going bad and I'm resisting buying new stuff...) but here is First Captain Astrakos - an evil doer of generous proportions.  Inspired by an old John Blanche kit-bash from the 2nd edition Chaos Codex.  I will probably print a pretty banner for him later to replace the scribbled one.

Bonus Wraithlord

Picked up another Wraithlord (i.e. Eldar Dreadnought) on eBay for a good deal recently.  I was planning to make a Wraithseer out of it, but maybe later.

Ugly Bugs.

I've been really struggling with hobby motivation lately.  I ended up forcing myself to paint another squad of Warp Spiders.  End result?  Pretty heinous eye-bleaching colours.  I started with a vague idea in my head and it simply never came through on the miniatures.  I'll keep them and use them, but this kind of result is not helping my hobby-mind set...

I got these guys used and nasty on eBay:

Games! Warhammer 40K, 8th Edition

After having a couple of rather uninspired games of 40K I had a great one this past week with a buddy.

A Knight Household's keep is under siege...

 

We did a 1,500 point game of Tokenhammer.  We changed one additional thing in our game which added a lot to the enjoyment factor.  We removed the re-roll Stratagem.  We allowed re-rolls from other sources as normal, but none of the basic 1 CP re-roll strats were employed.

It was a really nice change.  It meant we were unable to re-roll the climactic moments of the game which are caused by dice.  Nothing is less exciting than rolling a '6' to blow something up...only to have it immediately re-rolled to avoid any extraneous harm, etc.

 The besieging Wandering Sons make use of a wooded hill for cover.

 Two armigers, piloted by brother and sister prepare to defend their home.

 The Thousand Sons arrive to help the surprised rogue Knight household.

 The rogue Knight "Sine Nomine" prepares to engage the besiegers.

 Siegemaster Tropios Juut commands the attack, putting a Typhon Heavy Siege tank to use, shelling the fortress.

 Additional support is provided by a number of rapier batteries.

 "Sine Nomine" charges into the threat.

 The Typhon, belching smoke, fires a round which detonates inside the Knight, destroying it and blowing up the bridge.  Debris damaged the Typhon severely and injures the nearby Daemon Prince.

 "Sine Nomine" falls into the acid lake which provides the household with a moat.

 The armigers advance, prepared to defend their keep.

 Cyzo Astor, Techmarine of the Wandering Sons runs to repair the damaged rapier battery.

 One of the armigers advances to take revenge for the destruction of the great Knight.

 Cyzo Astor confronts the damaged armiger, slaying it with scrap code, meltagun fire, and flamers.

 One armiger is damaged heavily early in the game from a lucky conversion beamer shot.

 The Knight's keep in all its besieged glory.

 Thousand Sons Space Marines occupied key positions while the heavily armored Knight and armigers took the brunt of the assault.

 Wandering Sons renegades engaged from the treeline with missile launchers and boltgun fire.

 The armiger ignored the acid scoring its legs (it suffered three wounds to the acid lake!) and advanced, spewing autocannon rounds into the treeline.

 More Thousand Sons space marines occupy the structures of the keep.

 A Daemon Prince and Sorcerer move past the burning and damaged armiger.

A second rapier spent most of its existence spewing endless bolt shells into the opposing force.