Beeping And Booping

Not much actual painting done today but because the Necrons paint quite quickly, I've actually got to a point where I think a few more details and a bit of gloss varnish will have these finished soon:

My Tesseract Glow technical had completely separated but the judicious application of a long matchstick as a stirrer got it to a usable point again. 

In other hobby nonsense today I found an interesting website that allows you to create your own Battlemechs and generates Alpha Strike Data Cards too, although it is missing a few bits - I can't seem to add AWS, ECM, or similar stuff to 'mechs for some reason. Anyway it is still handy, and I used it to generate an Alpha Strike card for my preferred homebrew Firestarter version, the FS9-HM (M here standing for MacLeod's Light Horse, my mercenary company):

This version takes the standard FS9-H and removes all the weapons, replacing them with six Small Lasers and as much armour as will fit on the chassis. The end result is a machine that sacrifices its Medium range damage output of 1 for a doubled Short range output of 4, has one more armour point, and costs 1 more point to buy. I've got some 3d print files that I've asked my friend R (who is looking after my 3d printer for me) to print when she can. So that'll probably be a 2025 project.

And that was my day in silly toy soldiers!

Finishing Touches

Today a set of transfers arrived in the post that enabled me to finish the last bit on the Raptors army - adding the transfers to the Outriders, ATV crew, and the Infiltrator (or Incursor, I can't remember what the unit's actual type is) Sergeant and Squad Leader:

I actually had to do an overpaint in black on the Outrider Sergeant's chapter badge, but you can't tell

And then I did some more on the various Necrons I'm working on - namely painting things that are going to be glowing green white, and some wires black, that sort of thing. Not quite there yet but probably about a third of the way through:

I do like the look of the blue and silver, although I'm not entirely sold on the golden half-faceplate of the Heavy Destroyer. I'll see how it looks in the end though. 

Tomorrow's tasks include putting the Raptors up for sale, and trying to get the Heavy Destroyer and Wraiths done as it shouldn't really take much longer from this point.

Whims Of The Will

I have an awful lot of stuff in the pile of opportunity and while I was rummaging last night I came across some of my Necrons - specifically a Heavy Destroyer and three Wraiths. "Aha!" I thought, "they look easy enough to do!" and so I have started in on some Necron things for my 4th Edition army:

Wraiths

Heavy Destroyer

Pretty poor quality pictures, but ah well. I've got most of the colours blocked out now (ha!) but the next step is to paint everything that needs to be glowy green either white or black, depending on the effect I want to get. I'll probably have to go and have a look at the other stuff I've got done for my Necrons already, because I - oops - haven't written down how to paint them. Derp.