6MMRPC Wrap Up

Figured I would do a short write up of what I managed to finish during this challenge.

Let's start with a review of what I wanted to finish.
1. Tau, a bunch of firewarriors/pathfinders, some kroot and about 9 suits are left at this point
2. BFG Tau, should have the first 3 finished by end of month.
3. The 2 other earth shakers
4.The 2 Mercs starter sets, something like 14 models
5.The Aqua ships I have running around, I think 10 or so models
6. The dystopian war ships I found the other day, frigates for both fleets maybe 5 or 6 each.


I also wanted to do some terrain and such. So here is what I did finish.
1. I finished everything for the Tau.
2. Bfg tau and Bfg Dark Eldar were completed.
3. They were built but never painted since my overall gaming focus has changed.
4. I completed both of the Mercs starter sets.
5. I completed all the aqua and dindrenzi ships.
6. I completed all the Dystopian war ships.
7. I completed 5 of the 7 Nomad models from the infinity starter.
8. I completed a bunch of buildings and other terrain.
9. Completed both DZC starter sets

I think this is about everything. I may have missed some stuff here or there. I however completed all of the projects I set out to do. Along with a bunch of other stuff. I am happy with my overall work during this project.

I have joined up with GMG painting support group for next year.

Make sure you check out what everyone else has done on their blogs because there has been a ton of work done.

Aruki

6MMRPC/ Painting Table #38 2015

The quick update for the week. I finished off the last two broadsides which completes the tau for now. Mainly I say for now because who knows what madness the new codex will bring and there is still a conversion I want to do at some point for fun.

 I also primed all the DE BFG and assembled and primed 30 some odd guys for my warzone stuff.

Finally me and my oldest had are first game of the slim down rules of FSA. I barely beat him, he has the devils luck when it comes to rolling 6s in every game.

This was played on one of my new mats from a kickstarter I backed that showed up last week. Anyway two more models and 8 more points.
More as I get it done.
Aruki

6MMRPC/ Painting Table #37 2015

A lot of progress this week. I managed to finish 7 of the 9 suits for the tau that were left. So that is a whopping 28points  and seven more models done. I completed all the xv9's. The commander one, 3 fusion cascades and 3 photton gun ones. Below is a mess of pics.

So there are only two more broadsides to finish off and the tau will be done. Which will be my focus this coming up week.

More as I get it done.

Aruki

6MMRPC/ Painting Table #36 2015

Short and sweet this week. I finished off the two towers. Going to take 3 points each. I also ended up doing the base coats on all the suits by brush since the weather is wacky and I want this project done.

More as I get it done.
Aruki

The current state of projects and goals.

At the moment I have two sets of goals. The ones for the year and the ones for the 6MMRPC. At the moment I have almost completed/meet both sets.

For the year I just need to finish tau and hopefully sell some stuff off to get back under budget.

For 6MMRPC I only need to finish 9 tau suits and the Aquan ships I have then I would have completed everything I wanted. I have also gained 5 jokers so far plus my initial 3. I have only spent 1 to grab the last major piece for my dindrenzi which will also give me another joker.

The goals for the last part of the year are rather easy to state but time consuming.

1.finish off the tau

2. paint the dindrenzi dread group

3. Paint the Aquan stuff

4. Paint the 2 Dropzone commander forces.

5. Paint the converted DE BFG fleet

That is about it for now just to give a bit more direction with my work.

I do have a few more projects I can work on.

1. more terrain ( a planet and buildings, bridges etc)

2. 2nd or 3rd edition Warzone forces (20+models)

3. Space marines(75 or so models)

4. Sisters of Sigmar Conversions

More as I get it done.

Aruki

6MMRPC/ Painting Table #32 2015

A good week so far. Though tomorrow will probably be a dead day hobby wise. I finished off the 1 last drone, the 6 KOB frigates and the 6 Prussian frigates. Finally, an added bonus, I did the dog and the marshal from my texico starter set.

The dog was actually the hardest part of everything. He took about two hours with inking washing and dry brushing. The marshal and the rest went fast.

So that is 15 models, and a total of a massive 30 points. On top of that it is two more jokers for me bringing me to 6. For finishing off the two Dystopian Wars forces. They now have no remaining models. The tau are 9 models away from completion and the texico starter has 4 models left.

More as I get it done.

Aruki

6MMRPC/ Painting Table #31 2015

This week was not to productive from a picture stand point. I got my Exploding kittens kickstarter and my mantis creations carrying cases as well. On top of that their was a lot of furniture being moved around this week and such. So what did I get done. 

Well I finished painting  these 13 drones. I also found one more drone while cleaning and organizing after moving all the furniture.  

This week I also did a matt coat on all of my FSA and BFG ships that have been painted. I also cleaned up primed and based all my DW ships.So 9 more suits and 1 drone are all that are left of my tau. This week I hope to finish off the ships and the last drone. After that I will probably move onto either more assembly or more hand priming since the weather is still crazy. As soon as the humidity and heat even out I should have a bunch of stuff ready to get done.

Anyway that is 13 more models done and 26 points.

More as I get it done.
Aruki

6MMRPC/ Painting Table #30 2015

So a bit of progress since I returned from vacation. Below you will find. The last 2 phased ion suits built. 4 more 1x1 deadzone structures. Two more broadsides, 1 missile, 1 railgun and 2 drones. 5 bridges I made with Deadzone stuff. Finally, I finished painting that 1 scatter wall, 1 defensive wall, and the 2 doors for the buildings. The doors I am not counting as models since they go to the 2x1 buildings, so 2 more models and 4 more points.

I am going to be taking a break from painting terrain for now. I am going to paint up the 13 drones since I can do them all by hand. After that I think I will move on to the Dystopian Wars ships. The 9 suits will be on hold until the airbrush is back up and running in September. If I manage to finish this current painting before the airbrush is back up, then I think I will move on to painting either the texico stuff or maybe some other models I have running around.

aruki

6MMRPC/ Painting Table #29 2015

You may have noticed a lack of posts this week. There are 2 reasons for that, mainly the humidity at the moment which has killed a lot of my hobby time, the other part is I will be on vacation by the time you read this. So I wanted to maximize  my available hobby time with my prep work. Since at this point my airbrush is almost useless do to the temp/humidity.

So here is what I did. One big wall of pictures ahead. In short I got both towers assembled and one primed and the yellow done. I assembled one of the XV9 suits with phased ion guns. Primed some ruins, walls and such to paint up. Cleaned up the 12 remaining Dystopian wars frigates for my two factions. Assembled and cleaned up my Texico faction box for Mercs. Assembled some stripped Gun drones. Finaly I started painting some wall sections and doors for the 2x1 buildings already finished.

Not pictured but also done was the clean up of a bunch more deadzone stuff. Getting ready to assemble some bridges and maybe a few more smaller buildings. So you can look forward to more assembly pictures and maybe even painting next week. I am hopping to get more done soon since on the table now along with whats assembled is another 3 jokers.

aruki

6MMRPC/ Painting Table #28 2015

Been another good week. I managed to finish off the 2x2 building.
I am going with 8 points since most of one side is open and of course one more model completed.

Then I also assembled a bunch more scatter terrain. To be honest though. I have no idea how I should paint my different rubble piles. I also assembled the last xv9 with fusion cascades and did more prep work on the three other xv9s.

The next week or so I plan on mainly doing assembley tasks. A bunch of drones, 5 more suits and whatever else I get my hands on. By the way what do you guys think of the posts with smaller pictures?

Aruki

6MMRPC/ Painting Table #27 2015

Progress is good and I have made a decent amount of progress for this mid week update. First off, I finished off the other 2x1 deadzone building. I really like the rust effect wash I used on part of the roof. I look forward to using it more in the future though cleaning the brush after is more of a pain.

I also have prepped a wall scatter piece and the 2 doors so they can be painted up.

Finaly, I started building the remaining tau suits and drones.

I have one more fusion cascade ready to assemble and then 3 phased ion I need to straighten then assemble. After that there are two broadsides and then all my leftover drones and then I am done. I am doing a lot of prep work now because my airbrush doesn't work well for about the next month and change do to weather here. Once the weather gets back to normal I will prime and base all of these guys and then paint them up. The drones you will probably see sooner since they are all nice and small. They are also a pain to airbrush so I will just do everything by hand.

So that is one more model finished and 6 more points. On a side note people need to relax the misplaced racism and insults towards my painting are unwarranted for anyone to receive. You have also been reported for it, you know who you are. We are all just trying to improve ourselves and share our hobby with others who enjoy it. So relax and don't look at my blog if you don't like it.

Aruki

BFG Tau fleet pics

Figured I would post some pics of the current fleet that is finished. At least until I find some extra cash to splash out for the few ships that I want to get to boost the fleet to around 1500-2000 points.

I am also considering going back and darkening the bigger ships so they look closer to the little ones. The only other thing I need to sort out is more proper bases for the larger ships, along with the larger ships I am going to make for my Dark Eldar and my sons Tyranids at some point.

Anyway hope you enjoyed the look.

Aruki