The Final Push - Lawnor approaches 100% painted

Diablo 3 totally owned me this week.  I’ve done little else.  I’m most of the way to completing the season and I hope to have my focus shift afterwards.  I also got a meatspace game in this week for the first time in 18 months.  My friends and I have been talking about learning 40k and running a Crusade fo funsies for about a year now.  With lockdowns easing we arranged for 6 of us to get together two days ago and learn the rules with a few 25pl games.  Three people actually turned up in the end and we got in two games that should have taken 45 minutes a piece but took 2-3 hours each as we didn’t know what we were doing and kept looking up rules clarifications.

Im a Warmachine player and 40k takes the abstraction far further and oversimplifies a lot, such as “19 guys hiding behind a building, but the 20th is partially visible so I can shoot and kill them all”.  Things like this feels wrong to me so its gonna take a little getting used to.  Once I’ve adjusted, I can see me having some fun with it but caring/thinking less than with Warmachine or other games.

We played with mostly just the Core Rules PDF rules only so far.  No strategems, but we did allow the reroll stratagem and looked at the terrain rules.  We wanted to keep things simple.  Next time we play we will add stratagems in and try and build up the layers.

The Daemons below are mine.

I also got a little building done.  I assembled 44 of the remaining 47 models.  The last ones are fancy bust-type models that I may want to work with in subassemblies so I’ll build them when I’m ready to paint them.  Next time I sit down for a couple of hours (Today?  Tomorrow?) I’ll get out my airbush and prime the lot.

One of my prints had a problem.  The elf bust has lots of spots over her.  I think whats happened is that I didn’t change my curing water often enough and particulate sin the water settled and cured on her.  I’ve taken some sandpaper to her but theres places that I can’t get to.  I’m hoping that once she’s primed she looks better.  I’m prepared to go back and do more cleanup on them all once the primer is dry.  Something about the resin does funny things to the light making it really had to see what you’re looking at.  Primer fixes that so I imagine I’ll find I missed some stuff during cleanup.