Ha - the guy I wanted to show is in bits, and the only picture I have of him has him very tactically posed to hide the annoying gap.

I think these boys were the first thing I painted after getting back into modelling as an adult. I like your ones a lot more!

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I'd go with more sections with no grass. Not sure where I heard/read it, but I think having two distinct textures is a good idea for bases (so like, mud and rock, or rock and grass, or tile and grating - that kind of thing).

Yeah I think a bit of less is more might work note effectively. I have some small rocks so I could also use one or two of those on a base as well just to give some additional texture differences.

Will see how the next base turns out!

Also I love the 40k Emps Kids colour scheme, if I couldn't think of a scheme I wanted to use for mine, I would have gone with the default. As it is I came across an awesome deamon prince model in my search that has the lake armour with the gold trim and people accents and thought it looked super regal and definitely fitting for an emporer's children warband. When I started painting my actual marines I'd seen the Sons of the Phoenix scheme for the Imperial Fists "successor" chapter, and realised I almost had the same colours so why not just paint my troops up in the same pattern because they are in fact the actual sons of the phoenix.

Props on your prop.

Don't think there is a separate thread for playing ordinary board games so I'll post this here.

Played a game called Upwords with Wifey and the girls yesterday. This has been in the board game cupboard for years. It plays like Scrabble in how you place tiles to make words but there are quite a few differences.

Words are scored at 2pts per letter. A "Q" is actually a "Qu" tile. 
J, Qu, X and Z score 2pts.

No special scoring squares.

No plonking an S down to pluralise a word - unless the S is part of a new word built on your turn.

But - clue being in the name - you can stack vertically - you can plonk a tile on another to change a word. When you do this you score 1 pt per letter BUT - you also score 1pt for every tile that is covered up in the word. You can stack up to 5 tiles so in theory you can end up scoring 5pts per letter if a word is at its highest.

The seems to make the game 2 phase - after the initial Scrabble style play you run out of room and are forced to start building up - and then the scores per turn start to climb too. It's a fun variation.

You lose 5 pts per tile left on your rack at the end.

The version we have is quite fancy - it has an electronic scoreboard that is well thought out and non-fiddly. You can see all 4 scores at one time. You can also set up timers for either per turn or for a complete game. It even keeps top 4 scores as long the battery lasts. There's wheels on the base that makes for easy rotation and all the tiles, racks etc fit in a compartment for storage. Noice.

Daughter no.2 won but it was a close game. Will return to this 'un. She used the word "SPUNK" on one of her turns. We ended up all laughing after a pregnant pause. She claims she meant the old school American meaning. I let that go.

There's a challenge mode with extra coloured tiles for 1 v 1 or 2 v 2 - haven't tried that yet. I suspect the coloured tiles allow the stealing of words for scoring or something.

@equinox_code I painted up one of your Secret Santa minis! Super fun model to paint and completed pretty quickly (just over a week I think) by my own, slow standards. One absolute chad Master of Executions ready to hit the battlefied in search of the virgin loyalist astartes characters. 








P.s. fuck the camera on my phone, it's shit and I hate it and it's so bad I'm thinking about getting my old phone back out just to handle taking pictures. Hateful Samsung, you used to make good camera modules, now they suck, or at least, now they have a mind of their own and are configured for fucking about with the image even after you turn everything off. Like, why is the fucking depth of field so shallow!? Booooo I say. Boooooo.

I can't see those pictures Rouj - on either phone or pc (so I don't think it's me). 

Nice Keeper Tempy. It's a really fantastic model, full of expression. The first picture really brings out the character of the model. Love the eyes.

Love it - my favourite thing to see in miniatures is story, and that is absolutely full of it. The cloak is inspired, and I love his axe.

This might annoy you - I think you've painted his lower eyelid instead of his eye. GW have a habit of making their space marine eyes absolutely tiny, so it's understandable. I legit use a magnifying headset to paint them as I can't see them otherwise.

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I think you've painted his lower eyelid instead of his eye. GW have a habit of making their space marine eyes absolutely tiny, so it's understandable. I legit use a magnifying headset to paint them as I can't see them otherwise.

Don't worry I'm aware of this, I really struggled to get the eye picked out at all on this model, got the blob somewhere near the right location and just left it at fuck it that'll do. Doesn't really show up from arms length, but in the photos is quite noticable, aye (pun intended).

I just got the notification for my tag here. 3 days late sadly and the images won't load! thread really punishes my internet pipes

nice work! what size are they? They don't look big, but at the same time some of the details are quite small, so..

Guess things like this can't be done in a single sitting.

He is about 40mm from the bottom of his shoes to the top of the spikes on his backpack. 

As for timing depends on the painter and how they're painting. I worked on this guy in the evenings and couple of daytime sessions over the course of a week, which is pretty quick for me, but I'm quite slow. It's definitely possible to paint that model in a single sitting depending on how much detail and how much highlighting you do or don't want to do.

Lovely stuff as always everyone.

I always rush my paint jobs. Bad habit. I did the Keeper in about 3 days.

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I always rush my paint jobs. Bad habit. I did the Keeper in about 3 days.

It's an incredible result for such a speedy turnaround imo!

Big shout out to @franticpea who managed to help me source an upgrade kit for Ashes. 
He's good people.