Allies of Inconvenience- Episode 26: Thoughts to 9th Edition 40k and Indomitus

We are back after a canceled Adepticon and months of Quarantine and we have the excitement of 9th Edition to talk about! We kick off the episode with an extensive Hobby Progress and we have had quite a lot of down time to work on hobby. After that we launch into discussion about the 9th edition previews we have seen so far, from the new suggested "minimum" for table size to the exciting new terrain rules and everything in between! We close out with discussion about "what's in the box" for the upcoming Indomitus release and those amazing Necrons and less than amazing Space Marine Marneus Kart.

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00:00 Intro
04:25 Hobby Progress
23:26 9th Edition Previews Discussion
1:00:04 Indomitus "What's in the Box"

Songs and Soundclips
Blue Mark- Atlan Urtag
Kaap mere- Bugotak
All Clips: Auralnauts Copper Wear Mask

The Post of Quarantine- 70 days of Isolation, 30 to go

Well this year has not gone according to plan. I am sure most of you would agree. It most certain has not for me. Shortly after Adepticon became Adeptican't, I had to go to a 103 day training course and have been stuck in a hotel room every day since then. I did bring a ton of Hobby stuff with me, but in general motivation has been low and the environment not entirely conducive to hobbying and in particular, painting and blogging. A Hampton in hotel room was not designed to be a "hobby haven" for sure, but I've tried to make the most of it.

At this point I am down to my last month, and will try and get some more content up here, but I haven't had much to talk about without releases from GW and every event cancelled. And the lack of access to my camera gear means hobby posting is limited too. However I do have some psychic awakening books on the way to me here, so I should be talking about that soon.

In the meantime, you can see my hobby progress best on my Instagram @SepulchreofHeroes and if you haven't yet, follow us on Facebook for the best hobby related memes.

Anyway, before I left I did some preparation for my exile
-Organized, Primed, and Basecoated for contrasts all of my ASoIF models (over 220 models)
-Primed and prepped all my Aeronautica Imperialis
-Assembled, Primed and basecoated a Pallas Grav Tank
-Basecoated 6 Plague Ogors

I also packed up all my Titanicus with the hope of getting a game in in the local area, but COVID restrictions have entirely prevented that and I don't hold much hope of being able to play one in my last month.

With that done I packed up my Jeep and headed out.

What I have completed since being here
-2 Black Library Audio Books
-1 Horus Heresy Novel
-Painted 25 ASoIF models (The Mountain, Tyrion, A Captain, 11 Halberdiers, 11 Mountain's Men. Of note, I did them with Contrasts and they turned out great IMO as you will see below)
-Painted 7 Sanguinary Guard
-Assembled and Primed 50 Mk3 Marines for Horus Heresy
-Assembled an AT Warbringer Nemesis Titan
-Painted an AT Warhound Titan
-Cleaned and Assembled Constantine Valdor
-Assembled a Custodes Achillus Dreadnought
-Assembled an OOP FW Siege Dreadnought
-Assembled a Storm Raven Gunship
-Assembled a GW Human Blood Bowl Team
-Assembled a GW Orc Blood Bowl Team
-Assembled a GW Ogre Blood Bowl Team
-Assembled a GW Dwarf Blood Bowl Team
-Assembled a GW Elf Blood Bowl Team
-Assembled 2 FW Blood Bowl Minotaurs
-Assembled 3 FW Blood Bowl Star Players
-Assembled and Primed Samurai to Include

• 5 Wargames Factory Samurai
• 15 Wargames Factory Teppo Ashigaru
• 10 Wargames Factory Spear Ashigaru
• 6 Steel Fist Banner Bearers
• 4 Steel Fist Samurai Archers
• 4 Steel Fist Teppo Ashigaru
• 10 Steel Fist Foot Samurai
• 12 Steel Fist Mounted Samurai

-Primed over 25 Liazardmen Characters/Monsters
-Cleaned and Assembled all my Lost Kingdom Miniatures Models to include

• 13 Temple Guard
• 13 Saurus Warriors 
• 6 Chameleon Skink
• 4 Skink Heroes
• 10 Skinks w/ Spears
• 10 Skink Archers
• 3 Kroxigor
• 3 Ripperdactyls
• 3 Terradons
• 8 Saurus Cold One Cavalry
• 2 baby Salamanders
• Jungle Swarm/Baby razordons

Assembled all my GW Lizardmen to include

• Bastilidon w/ Solar Engine
• Kroq Gar and Grimlok
• Troglodon
• 12 Saurus
• 5 Skinks
• Saurus Oldblood
• 5 Saurus Cold One Cavalry
• 4 Scar Vets on Cold Ones

A quick gallery of what I have completed so far.

And have the following WIPs going on
-6 Muukali Riders
-6 Plague Ogors
-12 ASoIF Lannister Swordsmen
-BA Sanguinary Ancient
-The Sanguinor

Goals for the last month
-Paint some of my Aeronautica Imperialis
-Finish the Sanguinary Ancient
-Finish the Sanguinor
-Paint another AT titan
-Paint Constantin Valdor
-Finish one more unit of ASoIF
-Post a new podcast episode
-Post about War of the Spider

Aeronautica Imperialis Gaming Mat, complete with terrain!

Discordian here! So like a lot of people right now I've found I had a lot of time on my hands, and I finally finished a weird side project I've been working on.

Aeronautica Imperialis Gaming Mat, complete with terrain!

Shown with Bio-Titan to scale

I ordered the gaming mat from Deepcut Stuidos (not a sponsored ad, I just really like them and I also got to say Giant Lithuanian Mouse-pad to my wife when she asked what I bought). They will make you pretty much anything you want, you can even upload your own images. I purposely made the hexs very light because I wasn't sure if I'd only use this for new Aeronautica.

The islands and the clouds was me trying to add 3D elements that didn't actually mess with game play. I ordered some pre-cut hexs off of Amazon (if you do this be careful how they're measured, took me awhile to find the right size).

For the Islands, at first I had just glued the hexs to themselves. Then I dropped one and it exploded. After that I cut out a plasticard outline for each and attached them to that.

For the clouds I thought about getting some plastic rods, but shelter-in-place for my area has been in effect for awhile. So I made do with what I had and used flight stands, that I drilled out and stacked to each other, and with the bases attached to the underside of the clouds.

There are two things left I want to do....

1. I want to make better bottom supports for the clouds, they were standing without anything but were definitely not stable enough to put a plane on top. So I took some plasticard and etched a narrow hex pattern to connect the stands at the bottom.

I'm fairly sure I want to go back and make a better versions that go under the mat and incorporates magnets.

2. I'm going to need more hexs......

Allies of Inconvenience- Episode 25: AdeptiCan't and "Fabulous Bill"

Well, we should have had an Adepticon Preshow in March then a Roadshow Special and Adepticon Recap in April... but as you all likely know that couldn't happen due to COVID-19 and the cancellation of the event. However, we still have content to bring you as you sit in self-quarantine in this Frankenstined episode of several recording sessions from both before the event was cancelled and afterwards. We go over hobby progress, the Games Workshop online previews and finish up with a segment discussing one of the most infamous OG CSM, Fabius Bile... or Fabulous Bill as he sometimes is referred to.

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00:00 Intro
03:37 Hobby Progress and Games Played
22:18 AdeptiCan't
33:20 Games Workshop Preview Discussion
1:28:01 Fabius Bile Discussion

Songs and Soundclips
Blue Mark- Atlan Urtag
Kaap mere- Bugotak
All Clips: Surf Ninjas

Showcase: Adeptus Titanicus Warlord Sinister Psi-Titan

Finished up my Psi-titan the other night and wanted to share it with you all. I still have some alternate weapons to paint for it, but I need Forgewolrd to open back up to get a few more, so in the mean time, since I have no immediate need of the model or specific load outs for games, I decided to call this one done.

I give you my Warlord Sinister Psi-Titan Occedentalis-Khronos.

This really is a great kit. The basic warlord is awesome and the forgeworld upgrades for this really have a lot of character and are nice and crisp in their cast quality.

Before anyone asks, the hazy black was just done by blending black and eshin grey.

Below is a collage of all the different runes/hexagrammatic wards I painted on, free hand. Mixed in Eldar and Necron to go with the lord of the Emperor. He made the Ordo Sinister titans, so I figuered he'd infuse their tech and witchery seeing as he has used/relied on it for numerous projects in the past (Imperial Webway, Void Dragon, Primarchs, etc.).

Oh yes... and Sieg Zeon!

And finally a close up of the Ordo Sinister logo I free handed, the banner I made, and the wrecked Legio Magna Warhound I put on the base. I'd been attracted to Magna as a possible traitor opposite of my Legio Pelagos loyalists, so I figured this was a good place to test. If I did them, I'd need to do something other than Mars basing, because they'd blend in too much (good from a real world perspective. Bad for making tabletop models pop). HOWEVER, using it as basing the close color is nice because it doesn't steal from the main attraction, the Warlord.

If you aren't playing Titanicus you should be. It is an amazing game, and they are amazing models. I hope you liked this one!