Terrain is everything - Red Planet BASE! 🔴 Board extension - TO DONE!

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer on some extra flat pieces of terrain board that we can use to extend, or replace sections of my Red Planet BASE! 🔴 Realm of Battle Board. Essentially, what happened was I turned up to Otty's shed and he handed me these three 1'x2' sections and told me to paint them red! Totally ambushed, but what could I do? He had used some textured wallpaper to give a relief, but I had to add some sand in places to cover up the seams.

Then I got totally fixated on finishing! It wasn't a huge task, so despite being an unexpected new project I [thought I] knew what I was doing. First up, the prime. Rather than go with a spray primer I still had a tin of Red Oxide  paint on primer I'd used on the edges of my RoBB. 

Slopped it on, maybe we can still see those joins but the subsequent highlights might disguise them.

OK, so I thought I knew how to do this - subsequent highlighted Vermillion blobs to create a mottled random pattern. But I think I did the blobs smaller than I did on my RoBB. Or at least it looks that way now I refer back to the finished showcase pics. I hadn't put a wash on top of the primer, which was not as matt as I expected it to be. I hoped the matt varnish would flatten it all out.

But I thought there was far too much contrast between the blobs, so did a light overspray with my Red Oxide Car Primer to give the flattening a head start.

Then I flicked on some bonewhite paint to get my wraithbone chips

It worked really well all things considered.

From this angle it's not too bad

But compared to the RoBB you can see I was much more subtle in how I created the highlighted areas. It'll be fine with terrain on I hope but yeah, not a match I'm happy with, but I'll survive

And here we go after the varnish.

Well it's definitely matt, which has helped to remove the shine from the paint on primer at least.

It hasn't quite smoothed out the contrast that I'd hoped but it'll do.

We'll just have to wait and see when it actually gets used.

So I get a Great Big Chrome 'BIG BUILD' BASE Stamp of Approval.

As well as the Great Big Chrome Stamp of Approval according to my spreadsheet I've judged the three pieces together as 20 points, plus a 5 point terrain bonus. Therefore, this brings me up to 245 points for the season so far.

 

What's on my palette?

Bless me #Warhammer Community for I have sinned, it's unbelievably been 8 months since my last confession! But I've know what was on my palette and I had a 'Where's my head @?' that covered some of what I needed to do but focussed on how I was going to get motivated to do it.

Interestingly, I 've done all but three of the things from my last confession in August 2025:

• Adeptus Titanicus terrain - this is a second lot of AT terrain 
• Cerastus Knight Acheron
• Cerastus Knight Castigator

I thought the Cerastus Knights would be after the Warlords, but I took on other projects in the mean time. Not forgetting Christmas brought with it plenty of additional, off-list, projects. The AT Terrain is still ongoing, there are just a few pieces that need building or amending to be ruins and then I can start the painting process. Although that would be quite a sense of achievement I'm beginning to feel the Knights have been overlooked for too long.

However, I'm currently working on my 3D printed Tyranid Capillary Towers. These are the priority and when they are complete the Knights can take centre stage. I'm hoping the annoying modelling aspects that still need doing - making the hatches hinged so they open to see the pilot, will have been completed by then.

But there are a couple of other projects on the go too. I have yet more MESBG terrain to paint. This time some official ruins of middle-earth. They're built and primed already, but we know how enjoyable the Osgiliath terrain was...

Additionally I have two other Adeptus Titanicus secret squirrel 🐿️ projects I'm working on. One of which I think I can manage concurrently with the Cerastus Knights and the other may end up being my #DreadTober pledge, or perhaps part of it at least...

Then I probably should look at my TO DO LIST as I only appear to have tackled four and a bit of them. I really should make some effort to get stuff built and ready to be painted. With priming weather back on the menu having plenty of stuff ready for the winter should be a priority after I've got these knights done.

Star Wars Legion Geonosians - White background pics ⚪

Afternoon and usually I am not that fussed regarding the white background showcase pics. But the finished Star Wars Legion Geonosians look almost as good on plain background.

As discussed these snuck in, queue jumping some other projects.

And as such I should have a little bit of indignation but how can I be grumpy with these critters.

Especially when they're so bright and shiny. 

The only problem I have now is after such a turnaround of projects recently I'm back in a fallow period.

Other projects are progressing, but they're slower with longer period inbetween results worth sharing.

I've got a few things to share but I'll have to fit the blogging in around it.

Maybe it's time for a 'What's on my palette?' update?

I've also had another couple of weeks where I couldn't attend Otty's shed.

Aside from that meaning no Battle Records to share I'm not getting to see my gaming buddies.

Liam was poorly but is out of hospital so I can't wait until I get to see them all again.

Maybe next week... 🤞

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this showcase.

Star Wars Legion Geonosians - TO DONE! 🔴

Afternoon and OH BOY am I happy with the finished Star Wars Legion Geonosians. The colours are insane and utterly scratch that high-contrast super saturated warm look I love so much. However, their completion was not without drama. 

They were finished in all but varnishing and sat on a small tray in my photo-booth. The hobby shed is a bit untidy at the moment and after a power cut my wi-fi plug no longer worked. While trying to fix it the photo-booth tipped up spilling the tray with 4 or 5 models breaking apart in some way, from just a 2 foot drop.

So instead of fixing the wi-fi and getting them varnished I had to give up and spend an hour or so gluing them back together. The having glued and pinned one of the champions I turned in my chair, my jumper sleeve snagged it off the table where it fell, snapping a wing and the leg I'd just fixed!

So more repairs, a bigger pin and so much super glue it looks like it's wearing 80's aerobic leggings. It was traumatic at the time and although I was super proud to take them to the shed I couldn't help undermine my satisfaction with this last minute trauma.

However, weeks later I'd practically forgotten all that and although dredging it back up has forced me to relive it again somewhat I think, with time, all that will remain are these glorious pics and the insanely bright minis.

The lime green for the weapons was obvious and just aligns perfectly with the pink, purple and cyan.

The second from left is the Champion that broke its leg/shin. You should be able to make out just how weirdly chunky it is from the layers of superglue piecing it back together.

Not sure how convincing his wounded eye is but it'll suffice. Although most of the metals are 'rusted' I thought it's be fun to do the spear blades gold. Not sure the reasoning but I like it.

They are all great together.

I must admit I have NEVER got my Red Planet BASE! 🔴 so vibrant.

It could be the absence of the bonewhite chips, the use of purple wash for some of the shading and the smoother basing material.

Using texture paste meant the highlights were smoother which I think gives a better finish.

I'm not sure if it's something I will adopt across my 40k armies.

But it's definitely something I will keep in my back pocket if I want to be a bit more vibrant.

So, there we go and no doubt Liam will want to print more for me to paint but we'll need to see how they play in game first.

And with a few more weeks of Adeptus Titanicus ahead of us, as well as some other things that will get in the way who knows when these will see action...

A Great Big Chrome Stamp of Approval according to my spreadsheet this is worth 14 points. Therefore, this brings me up to 220 points for the season so far.