Lounge Room Hobbies

04/07/2024

Progress on the fleshhound display board

12/06/2024

Gap filling some classic, and my favourite, Flesh hounds.

11/06/2024

Starting work on a display board for a future 750 point event. Gonna break out the dogs!

# puppy

03/02/2024

Working on some rats.

31/12/2023

Working on some cars for gaslands. I may now be obsessed with making tiny roll cages.

07/12/2023

The promised comparison shot. Archies definetly been eating his in the mortal realms.

01/12/2023

How about a sorta short story:

The glint of pulsing green crystal reflected of the muck grinding its way down the canal. The Lamplighters made a quick dash for the wonky bridge, Ribyn watching from his usual rooftop perch. The Cult of the Bloodied Moon made a similar rush forward, a quick pulse of sickly pink light sending a mutant into convulsing hallucinations as his gods tormented him with visions, left curled on the ground out of the scramble.

Both leaders hacking coughs dragged at their vigour, while Snuffer Brolg valiantly tried to hammer a lighting fast possessed into the ground, managing wound the slavering beat to no avail. He was knocked form the bridge into the muck unconscious, while a whimpering hulk bolted for the far corners of the flooded district.

Mutants and beastman swarmed over other bridges, barrelling into a swirling melee of clashed blades and flashing lamps. Ribyn unleashed a shot clear across the canal, this time ripping the throat from the cult leader. He had a moment to bask in the joy before the master lighter knocked headlong of the bridge as a beastman barrelled headfirst into him, following Snuffler Brolg into the muck of the canal.

A conga line of cultist and beastman rushed the narrow defile, arrows plinking uselessly of the edges of the walkway form Ribyn and is shortbow armed offsider. Stalt (no relation to Stilt) unleashed with his handgun, missing again but thankfully not having the weapon explode in his hands. Busily reloading he was rushed by four cultists and swiftly hacked to pieces.

Shortbow leapt over a balcony railing, preparing to hurl himself into the melee surrounding Stalt’s (no relation to Stilt) killers. His boots caught the ledge, and he tumbled headfirst down the stairs ankle wrench and unconscious.

28/11/2023

Archies coming along, and its a complete mess at the moment, but been screwing around with some base layers on my undead shark raft.

Call it Tuesday.

27/11/2023

Little sidetrack to build a model teen mitch desperately wanted. Classic archie! Plan on using him as a lord of khorne on juggernaught, or any other opportunities to sneak him in as other mounted hero's. Side by side to the new one coming soon.

26/11/2023

Ribyn is an archer, a scared archer, but a archer non the less. He's made a name for himself, pinning the leg of a chanting cultist preist to the mucky moordheim streets. For his brilliant marksmanship he was rewarded with an sturdier bow, strung with new 'cat' gut.

Since this miraculous shot has he managed to do anything in the campaign? No, but he has got this snazzy new paintjob.

The base of the model is one of four merrymen made by ,
an aussie manufacturer. The heads been swapped for a Mk II or Mk III space marine helmet that's had its top cut off and flipped over to get the weird heavy eye grill. The lanterns for my lamplighters guide are all mostly meltabombs with a little cleanup.

06/11/2023

Little bird break.

I've been working on a Mordheim warband for a little campaign running at the moment with some friends. I'm building out a lamplighters guide using the rules for marienburg warbands. The fighters are an eclectic mix of DnD figures, warhammer and other small batch figures with lots of conversions thrown in.

This one is a Rogue of some description I found rummaging in the racks of a local shop, with the grappling hook swapped for a lantern (made from a melta bomb).

I'm really enjoying the challenge of object source lighting which I'm aiming to do across every model. Little more painting work to go, but I love the mix of muted dirty clothing and super bright yellows.

05/11/2023

Still a boobie, but this beak makes me think kookaburra too

02/11/2023

Better look at my attempt to extend the tiny raptor beak into the classic boobie bill.

30/10/2023

This is definitly my favourite boobie. Trying to add on webbed feet to a set of splayed talons was a trial of patience. I started with just a ribbon of green stuff that I then spread to the right width by using the frame of the plastic talons.

Still sorta holding the puns in. Also not fully convinced the algorithm isn't holding posts back because I keep writing bo***es.

28/10/2023

Would you believe the Bo***es are finally ready for paint!

Must.... resist.... puns....

28/01/2023

Working on my bo***es. The birds that is.

Using aetherwings, these poor birdies have had a few parts hacked off as a starter. I'm trying to create a closer silhouette to a Brown Boobie, a tropical Seabird common on offshore islands. Helpfully I have a few photos from some work in the to use as references.

First off the little feather pinions on the leading edge of their wings had to go, and then so did their heads. The heads return on a pin to extend out the classic boobie long neck, and a piece of plasticard to provide a support for a beak upgrade.

After that the wings needed shaping. I took back the elbow joint to a much shallower curve lined up with the first flight feather, and then trimmed up the trailing edges to a sharper, more pointed wing shape most 'gliding' or 'speed' wing shapes have, rather than the 'soaring' Eagle shape the aether wings come with.

More to go, but what do you think? Pretty good look so far?

of sigmar miniatures bo***es

02/01/2023

Ready for undercoating. I'm so excited to be adding these into my khorne army.

I can't bring myself to change these too much, but a few skulls and a bazillion pins have gotten me this far. Plus a little greenstuff gap filling.

Lots of nostalgia tied to these. Not my first model, but somewhere in the first ten where these early 2000s bloodletters. I still have my original fleshhounds, but a less hobby enthused mitch tossed some very paint caked bloodletters away in a clean out without considering the ability to strip paint. Silly I know.

Ayge and experience means I'm far more willing to drill out their arms and pin them properly. I distinctly remember having arms drop off game after game. Always just as they deployed from deepstrike or were summoned.

30/12/2022

Might be changing some army plans. Missed these so much, still kicking myself for throwing away my original 6.

08/11/2022

Then hammerheads are finally getting some paint!

Complete models - 11
To go - 26

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12/10/2022

The road to Cancon , Can I get my idoneth converted and painted in time.

Current completion count:
Built 12/40
Painted 2/40

Follow to find out

07/10/2022

I ran Tassies first AoS GT over the weekend, The Hobart Hammer On Grand Tournament (HHOGT). Here's a healthy does of the fun and beautiful armies on display.

HHOGT will be returning next year, save the date for 21 & 22 October 2023 in Hobart.

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04/10/2022

Installed a little upgrade to the painting desk today. Clamp storage.

28/08/2022

. Conversions are abounding...

06/08/2022

Lochness monster spotted on tasmanian holiday.

12/07/2022