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A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The board looks like the metal of the inside of an ancient steampunk starship, and the terrain is a bunch of walls all connected together in the same steampunk style to form number of interconnecting rooms. On the right of the board are the xenomorphs from Aliens pretending to be Genestealers, painted in a very dark blue colour. On the left are the six hulking and putrid Death Guard in large military green amour with all sorts of tentacles and demon faces coming out of the armour, and at the far side away from the camera are six Ultramarines of broadly the same shape armour as the Death Guard, but it's a rich blue and doesn't have tentacles and demon faces in it.

A closeup of my Death Guard Fighter, who is wearing hulking green armour with a HUGE toothed mouth in his chest armour going across his whole abdomen and chest and wielding two plague knives, facing off against one of the xenomorph "Warriors", which is down on four legs and looks like it's about to pounce. To the side is a smaller xenomorph more upright behind a set of ammo crates.

A close-up of a Space Marine aiming his boltgun (complete with a 3D-printed muzzle flash weapon effect) at one of the Tyranid Warriors, while a second one lurks just around the corner behind him.

We had our rematch of the Death Guard vs. Tyranids vs. Strike Force Justinian tonight, and because tomorrow is a public holiday we all stayed slightly later and managed to finish the whole game, AND I won 8-7-4! 🎉 (We did slightly fuck up one rule up about injuries and so my Heavy Gunner did better in close combat versus the Space Marine leader than he should have, and ended up killing the leader.) Instead of ten Genestealers, my friend playing the Tyranids took three Tyranid Warriors instead and used, uh... some different type of Aliens miniature for them that looked very cool.

The Death Guard felt extremely thematic, it was just a slow, steady, plodding advance across the battlefield, and they were hard enough to kill that they were difficult to dislodge from the objectives once they were on them. My plasma gunner was my MVP, he only shot three times but each one was a killing shot, taking out two Space Marines and a Genestealer. I also took the dual-plague-knives Fighter for the first time and he did okay, but he definitely served well as an extra close-combat threat beyond just my leader. The Disgustingly Resilient rolls were a lot swingier this game than usual, I either did fantastically well (my Plasma Gunner took nine damage from the Space Marine sniper and would have died but ended up rolling so well he only took four, and subsequently ended up vaporising the sniper in his own activation), or really badly (my Fighter took something like ten damage in his first melee combat and saved NONE of it), with nothing in between.

As with the first game, we had a couple of very cool cinematic moments, my Fighter facing off against one of the Warriors and a Genestealer, and one of the Space Marines shooting at another of the Warriors while one lurked behind him ready to pounce.

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Posted on 31 March 2024, 23:45

A photo of Space Marines, three Assault Intercessors and three standard Intercessors. They're all wearing standard massive Space Marine armour with big shoulder pads painted in a deep rich red, the Assault Intercessors all look like they're mid-stride and are wielding got pistols and chainswords, and one has a grenade in her hand and looks like she's about to lob it. The other three are holding big boltguns, two look like they're in the middle of firing and the third had hers held upright in one hand while she points commandingly with the other. None of them have helmets and they've all got either mohawks or very short cropped hair and various cybernetic implants. Their guns and chainswords are all black and they've got various brown leather pouches attached to their waists. The bases are done up to look like battlefield mud, it's all dark brown and wet-looking and splattered part-way up their shins, and there's some swampy-looking grasses and green goopy swamp water on the bases too.

And with that, the Intercession team is complete! So very happy with how these came out, but let me tell you, I am not doing this much edge highlighting ever again. 😂

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Posted on 28 March 2024, 21:22

A photo of just one of the Assault Intercessors, she's in a very dynamic pose and is in the middle of running forwards while aiming a chunky bolt pistol in one hand and in her other is a chainsword like she's about to swing it at whoever it is she's aiming at once she gets there. Her armour is a deep rich red colour and all the edges of the armour plates have a lighter red highlight around them. Her skin is black and her hair looks like it's been done in cornrows.

My converted Intercession team is now completely done bar the basing and decals! 🎉 The magnifying headset and the absurdly fine brush I bought were definitely both excellent purchases, there's no way I'd have been able to get the eyes done this well otherwise.

I included the second photo because I just CANNOT get the edge highlighting properly visible when they're sitting on the table like in the first photo.

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Posted on 21 March 2024, 22:19

Another Sunday, another game of Kill Team!

I didn't actually play tonight because I didn't have a great night's sleep last night and absolutely did not have the mental capacity for it, but I DID supply the terrain and it looked absolutely fantastic. It was Plague Bearers vs. converted Skaven Adeptus Mechanicus, but because there were 12 Plague Bearers and 11 AdMech we only got through two turns, final score was 5-4.

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Posted on 17 March 2024, 23:12

A photo of a group of six partially-painted Space Marines, three Assault Intercessors and three standard Intercessors. They're all wearing the standard massive Space Marine armour with big shoulder pads which has been painted in a deep rich red colour. All the guns are black and they have brown leather pouches strapped to their waists. The armour all has lighter red strokes along the edges of the plates, and the only completely unpainted bits are the heads.

THE EDGE HIGHLIGHTING IS DONE!

::collapses in a heap::

I didn't even do the "proper" pin-sharp do-it-with-the-edge-of-the-brush thing except for the very lightest highlights at the very end, on the tops of their kneepads and along the edges of the armour in front of their faces, but man that took a while. I only managed to do two each night because it was that tedious, no way in hell would I be doing an entire army like this. Very happy with the results, though looking at the photo it's not super-obvious with the lighting there, but trust me, it is in person. 😅

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Posted on 15 March 2024, 21:48

Making slow but steady progress on my Intercession ladies. The bit that's REALLY going to slow me down is when I get to doing the edge highlighting on their armour. 😬

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Posted on 9 March 2024, 17:25

A photo of the three measuring gauges from Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. One is long and thin with stylised skulls and a red pentagon. The other two are two halves of an isosceles trapezoid with a white circle, blue square, and black triangle on three of their edges, and half of a large skull with a knife under it on either side. All three pieces fade from a dark metallic blue to a bright copper colour, on the dark blue side I've added rust pigment so it looks like it's been rusting, and on the copper side I added a verdigris effect.

The same three combat gauges as before, but without the rust and verdigris effects.

The "barricades" from the Into The Dark set. Instead of being actual barricades like in the original Octarius release of Kill Team, they consist of four stacks of large ammo crates, two things that look like a portable generator/engine on wheels, and two sets of what look like propane tanks and big lead battery type things. They're all dark and silvery.

With my week-long cold I unfortunately didn't manage to get much miniature painting done at all, but I DID paint up my second batch of combat gauges to match my Into The Dark terrain, with a dirtied-up rusted side and a clean side. Weirdly, on the dirty side where I did the rust pigment I actually went a bit too heavy-handed with the matte varnish and it actually dried white in places (or maybe it reacted with the pigment or something? All I know is that I didn't have this same problem when doing my actual ITD terrain) but it's totally worked fine anyway and just added some extra wear!

I also made the ITD "barricades" look at least somewhat better with the application of some airbrushed silver, a dunk in The Army Painter's "Dark Tone", and some drybrushing.

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Posted on 3 March 2024, 19:17

A photo of two of the sections of the wall terrain from Into The Dark. It looks very steampunk with lots of pipes and skulls and both are painted the lower colour being a dark metallic blue and further up the wall it fades into a lighter copper colour. The section on the left looks almost unfinished compared to the one on the right, that looks a lot more "lived in".

Also after our last game of Kill Team, I decided I wanted to add a bit of extra pizzazz to my Into The Dark terrain because it looked a bit dull next to my friend's set that he put a fair bit more effort into.

One of the things he did that I particularly liked was adding hazard stripes to all the walls above where the doors are, because it's VERY easy to miss the fact that there's a door there and suddenly your opponent opens one right next to one of your operatives and you're like "...oh, shit." Very happy with my hand-painting efforts for the hazard stripes here, I also did some drybrushing with silver (I had done zero drybrushing at all until this point) and used the MIG brand rust pigment to add some extra grime and wear, and it looks mint. Left is before, right is after.

Now I just have approximately twelve million more pieces of this terrain to do. 😅

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Posted on 12 February 2024, 21:51

A photo of a Plague Marine from Warhammer 40,000. He's in huge khaki green standard-issue huge Space Marine armour with bronze-coloured edging in places, but because he's one of Nurgle's chosen he's all corrupted and mutated: there's a GIANT mouth with huge teeth right across the entirety of the chest and abdomen of his armour with a metal pipe coming from his shoulder and going into the side of the mouth, and the two very large knives (honestly, they're more like short swords) he's wielding have skin-coloured spines growing out of them in places.

A photo of three Plague Marines in a line. They're all in the same general khaki green armour, but the one on the left is fairly dull-looking without too much highlighting since it was my old regular-paints painting technique where the highlighting was done with drybrushing. The one in the middle has come out a brighter green because the underlying primed colour is brighter and also it's the newer "Militarum Green" Contrast paint so the primed colour has a lot more effect on the finished product. And finally we have the one in the previous photo with the two knives that has much more emphasised shadows and much punchier highlights thanks to the zenithal highlight and manual highlighting.

After our last game of Kill Team I figured I should probably paint up my Plague Marine who has the double plague knives because he's a beast in close combat and against Genestealers my ranged Marines weren't super-useful. I re-primed him using a zenithal highlight and got him fully painted this weekend, and am very happy with how he came out! There's zero drybrushing except on the sand on the base, it's entirely Contrast paints and manual highlighting.

I also realised that I've been painting Plague Marines long enough that I have essentially the three stages of evolution of my painting technique. On the left in the second photo is one of my first Plague Marines from nearly six years ago now, using regular paints which looks fine but takes so long. In the middle is my second batch from eighteen months ago where I was using Contrast paints to greatly speed things up, but still had a plain white undercoat and the highlighting was still done by way of drybrushing. And on the right is this latest guy, with the full zenithal undercoat and manual highlighting!

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Posted on 11 February 2024, 21:49

A photo of two fully-painted Space Marine miniatures with bare heads standing next to each other. The left is holding her boltgun in front of like she's standing on guard, and the base is a sort of desert rocky-looking texture/colour. The one on the right is a much deeper richer red, far closer to the colour of blood, and she has a pistol held in one hand and is in the middle of throwing a grenade with the other. Her base looks like really thick mud and it's splattered half-way up to the knees so it looks like she's been really tromping around a battlefield.

Earlier this week I painted one of my converted Space Marines as a test to make sure the colour scheme worked, and man am I glad I did only one as test because I hate it. 😫 Despite deciding to paint them in Blood Angels colours and using the Contrast paint called "Blood Angels Red", there's FAR too much orange in that colour, I don't like how the backpack came out with it being black, and I don't like the base either (I DID do an absolutely bang-up job her face though, particularly the eye).

I did a second one and finished it tonight (the one on the right) using my trusty old Flesh Tearers Red, painting the backpack the same colour, and using the muddy terrain texture, and it looks SO much better. Definitely going to use that for the rest of them.

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Posted on 10 February 2024, 21:51