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Finished my Primaris Apothecary.

I never posted anything because I felt like the stuff was never finished. It actually still isn't quite done, but just going to weather a little more and add some barricades for better LOS block. Close enough to at least show some pictures.

This kitbashed Librarian is going to serve as the Warlord for my White Scars crusade force. For a time.

finally painted a second Bike Squad to go with my attack quad from earlier. 4 more bikers to go, still—plus 3 Primaris ones inbound to me.

Fixed some fencelines for an old farmer years ago. He was tight on cash so we worked for a half-side of beef. Split the side with my co-worker, farmer butchered it up for us. Best paid job I've ever done. Totally worth it.

I picked up a sous vide and have been working on taking my steak game up a notch 😉

Alright, time to pick up the brush again. I had to take a break to deal with house improvements following my surgery recovery. Improvements are still happening; however, I am able to dedicate a few hours throughout the weeknights to some painting. I will be updating the list, in the first post, to reflect points updates for 9th edition. Time to get hobbying again!

Just let me be able to use the thundefire cannon, who's been collecting dust for the past 3 years, in my blood angels army. I refuse to add heretic chapters to my loyal vampires!!! ...space wolves are the only acceptable allies...

The trick with buying any unit from Forge World is to look for the “upgrade kit” option, then buy whatever the base plastic Citadel Miniatures kit happens to be from your FLGS. You can save a bunch of money on shipping and usually they stay in stock longer. In other news, I’ve finished my work on Ajax, although his base still needs a second coat and some finishing touches:

Been working on this chonker all week. I made a ton of mistakes, but for the first time I didn't use excess paint. I'll take the wins where I can get them. I jury rigged bolters into an ETB Redemptor Dreadnought kit. EDIT: I should have set a sheet of paper behind it, doh.

Gaslands Powerbikes

I think they fixed it! A friendly unit that contains 1 or more Vehicle or Monster models with a Wounds characteristic of 10 or more A friendly non-Character unit that contains 1 or more Vehicle or Monster models A friendly non-Character unit that contains 3 or more models

I don’t do whisky/bourbon (at least not since that one time), but love watching other people have smoked drinks, I don’t even really enjoyed smoke flavor but it’s so dang entertaining! So far in my Sous Vide adventures I have made a few cuts of beef and some chicken breast. I prefer the sous vide for tougher cuts, London broil in particular works very nicely with sous vide treatment. Chicken breast sous vide then grilled was amazing!

Alton Brown (peace be upon him) has several episodes of Good Eats devoted to steak. I’m a very technical sort of nerd, so I always found Alton Brown’s combination of telling you how to do something along with explaining why you do that thing has been the best way for me to go from cooking newb to cooking well.

For those interested in oven finishing steaks, check out this thread and, in particular, the 4th post (boar_d_laze). I learned more about cooking steaks *correctly* from this one post than from 20 years of practice prior to reading it. https://cheftalk.com/threads/finishing-a-steak-in-oven.41684/

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I'm so very very tempted to be making my way to the club to play but, man, I'm being cautious with the current... health issues going around. It's hard. Especially living with people who are more at risk as well as having a fairly high risk occupation, I don't feel right taking the risk spreading things or contracting something.

Seller: brki_5369 Lots of Ork Rogue Trader and 90s stuff and a few odds and ends on eBay. We will be doing more later, this is just a trial run to get the selling kinks out. Thanks for looking. Brehk

If you have space for it, a big dedicated chest freezer is your best bet. Then you can go to a good butcher and just buy a whole sheep, whole goat, whole pig, or half a cow. You’ll have to pay a lot in one lump sum, but it usually works out to be half (or less) the dollars per pound you’d be paying for individual packages at the supermarket.

SATURDAY 8/22/20 10AM - 5PM Summertime is convention season for us and we miss seeing our customers, so a yard sale is in order! Our whole inventory will be available to shop in person, cash/cc/paypal accepted on site. Orders placed online will be available for pickup, and we’re open for walk in appraisals! SAFETY GUIDELINES!!!! – Masks are required for ALL visitors over the age of 5. Masks will be available. – Please sanitize hands upon entry – We will be limiting capacity to 10 visitors at a time, a sign will be posted when we are full. If full please wait in your vehicle or check back in a couple minutes. – Please do not remove items from their bags, we are more than happy to answer any questions or ensure the items are cleaned after handling if required. We appreciate everyone’s cooperation with these guidelines to help keep our home safe. https://www.facebook.com/events/629872090974959/ MINDTAKER.ORG

Working on the Battle Sanctum. Painted more infantry too, but they look like my other infantry (hooray for consistency?).

Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,My grubby halo, a vapor trail in the empty air;Across the clouds I see my shadow fly,Out of the corner of my watering eye;A dream unthreatened by the morning light,Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night. –Pink Floyd, Learning to Fly

Ironclad!

Oooh! I have a crazy idea! In order to give Intercessor Squads more flexibility during a game, maybe they could have a few guys in each squad carry some sort of harder hitting weapon or some sort of specialized weapon? It’d probably be unfair to let too many of them have it. Maybe, I dunno, one in five? The idea isn’t to make them a dedicated anti-tank squad or a dedicated anti-heavy infantry squad, right, we just want to give them a bit more well-rounded tool box than just everyone having a bolt rifle. This would make the Squad more Tactical. Nah. This idea is too silly. It would never work.

Quick dry fit after drying. Liked: The pattern. Cut the colors down to 3, liked the way they blended and flow from mixed to solid in an almost organic manner. Disliked: Color choice, was shooting for obnoxious, landed on pastel Easter candy. Broke it back down, primed all white and resprayed in bubblegum pink, safety orange and neon sky blue. Will update with an assembled version of the new colors after dry and rebuilt. Easter candy version...

Finally got another unit of Intercessors finished, these guys with Auto bolt rifles. Hat tip to @Ish for the idea of using the KT board as a photo set.

Can confirm; Sisters are definitely not cheap. Especially when you pay retail+ for Battle Sisters because GW is out of them...

Construction is complete and I’m about 1/3 of the way through the initial base coat colors. Probably not going to be the best looking vehicle I’ve ever painted (the printed model’s quality is kinda meh to begin with), but for something that will basically only ever serve as a lump of terrain? I don’t feel the need to exhaust my best efforts on it. But I want to knock out some “quick wins” before I get stuck in on my next batch of Adeptus Custodes. Edit to Add: Lost power during the dozer blade print and I’m wondering if I should just leave it off... Gonna call it “done” for now.

I have found that a base coat of an olive drab green followed by some drybrushing and edge highlighting with Citadel Layer Gauss Blaster Green, followed by a heavy wash of Citadel Shade Biel Tan Green makes an amazing jade. Which it seems like the end result you’re going for with your Necrons, so I thought I’d share.

My New Necron madness colors...going to work on the green but the rest seems ok. Im sure Ill get better as I get em done 🙂

Attack Quad!

I like to do quick little crafty projects in between the bigger jobs. Retouching the paint on the Land Raider was easy, but the assembly and painting the Achillus was a lot of work... Fun work, but I still needed a “quick win” to reset myself. I decided to do a quick bit of arts and crafts and protect my new BattleFoam case from the machinations of Chaos that claimed my last one by backing up my basement drain...

Played my first game of 9th vs @Inquisitor66. It was a good game. I got really lucky early on and then my orks do what they always do once the hill of units is crested... they avalanche into a win. My warboss did get squished against a Venerable Dreadnought though which was funny. Overall, Secondary selection is important. If you ever tried ITC it is very similar to that but cranked up multiple notches. Since you dont need a kill every turn missions can be pushed towards getting things done instead of wiping your opponent off the board. Transports are annoyingly good. Tough units that can capture objectives are vital. So terminators and the like are going to be see more often. As an Ork player I may try out some Meganobs but they are expensive. Played an Incursion level game and WOW! the board fey so small. a 44x30 board is insanely small and it made the game feel dynamic. Overall it was a great game and I am curious as to how a Space Marine shooting army would deal with my orks, or better yet how I would deal with that.

a command squad of snipers with voxcaster

Yeah. I just hate it when people voluntarily agree to exchange their wealth for the goods or services voluntarily being offered by others. 🙄

With the restrictions on restaurants and bars I've had to do more cooking at home. When the weather gets warm I tend to avoid using the stove. So, bbq season. I've been practicing with both the grill and the smoker. In particular salsa. I just polished off the serrano pineapple. Not its time for bird chiles and mango. Anyone else taking advantage of quarantine to try new recipes?

So barring any Power Level changes (and for all that is smiled upon by Gork Possibly Mork I hope some come around for this) Here is the Crusade force I will be running for Table Top Simulator (because I dont have the Transports...yet...Kitbashing!) ++ Reinforcements (Orks) [58 PL, -4CP, 1,200pts] ++ Clan Kultur: Deathskulls + HQ + Jawskar Klawcracka - Warboss [4 PL, -1CP, 90pts]: Attack Squig, Da Biggest Boss, Kombi-Rokkit, Power Klaw, Warlord Battle Honors: Resilient 1 kill 2 Crusade Points Darkgasha - Weirdboy [4 PL, -1CP, 75pts]: 4. Fists of Gork, Deathskulls: Maniacal Seizure, Warphead 1 XP (1 game) + Troops + Copta Boyz - Squad Gakgux - Boyz [4 PL, -2CP, 100pts]: 'Ard Boyz, Tankbusta Bombs Battle Honors: Battle Tested 7 XP, 2 Kills Gakgux - Boss Nob: Choppa, Power Klaw Ork Boy W/ 'Eavy Weapon: Rokkit Launcha 8x Ork Boy W/ Shoota: 8x Shoota, 8x Stikkbombs Copta Chopa Boyz - Squad Edacka - Boyz [4 PL, 100pts]: Tankbusta Bombs Edacka - Boss Nob: Choppa, Power Klaw Ork Boy W/ 'Eavy Weapon: Rokkit Launcha 8x Ork Boy W/ Slugga & Choppa: 8x Choppa, 8x Slugga, 8x Stikkbombs Copta Chopa Boyz - Crookfist - Boyz [4 PL, 100pts]: Tankbusta Bombs 5 XP Crookfist - Boss Nob: Choppa, Power Klaw Ork Boy W/ 'Eavy Weapon: Rokkit Launcha 8x Ork Boy W/ Slugga & Choppa: 8x Choppa, 8x Slugga, 8x Stikkbombs + Elites + Tankbreakah Squad - Tankbustas [4 PL, 85pts] Muzzlewakkah - Boss Nob: Rokkit Launcha 1 XP 2 Kills 4x Tankbusta: 4x Rokkit Launcha, 4x Stikkbombs, 4x Tankbusta Bombs + Flyer + Wazbom Blastajet [10 PL, 200pts]: 2x Wazbom Mega-Kannons, Kustom Force Field, Smasha Gun, 2x Supa Shoota + Dedicated Transport + Dakkakopa - 'Chinork' Warkopta [5 PL, 95pts]: 2x Rattler Kannon, Kustom Mega-blasta 1 XP 1 Kill Flyin Dakka - 'Chinork' Warkopta [5 PL, 95pts]: 2x Rattler Kannon, Kustom Mega-blasta Wardakka - 'Chinork' Warkopta [5 PL, 95pts]: 2x Deffguns, Kustom Mega-blasta Blue Streak - 'Chinork' Warkopta [5 PL, 95pts]: 2x Rattler Kannon, Kustom Mega-blasta Bouncin Dakka - Trukk [4 PL, 70pts]: Rokkit Launcha (Index) 1 XP Da Orks are flying in wild and free

A good quality cow will run roughly $1,500.00 for half a cow. I pick mine up next month. Cant wait!!!

*Moved over from 40k discussion thread* Got called out! Challenge accepted 😉 Found some inexpensive Not-Gundams from a line called 30 Minute Missions that seem to be a good base to build from. Built one to see how they go together and try out some paint schemes. These doods are cool! Right up there on fit and design with entry Gundams which is a high bar. Plan is to build them to the basic components (arms, legs, torso etc), throw all the pieces in a box, spray an obnoxious neon color, shake the box, spray a different neon, shake and repeat. Hoping it'll give a good psychedelic base to start from. Words, words, words...time for pics of tonight's progress! Built model Disassembled to smaller assemblies, lower arm, upper arm etc Put in some boxes, sprayed a fluro green from one direction, neon citrus from opposite direction. Shake the box, spray a pistachio green and stripe in a lavender

Goonhammer completely trashed the app.

Also bolters. Bolters everywhere. You know that Portlandia sketch "Put a bird on it"? It's like that, but with bolters. "Put a bolter on it!"