Boiling Oil

The planned Tengu Decension warband works pretty well, it will need some more practice but all the moving parts are there.  Now it's the waiting game for the April releases.  So far the warband is functional and can do a lot of cool tricky things, just not as tricky as my Ito Clan type of warband.  It plays a lot like a Temple of Ro-Kan warband, only with more movement related craziness and lessbuffing.  I arrived home to find Qimmiq had arrived, even more 'huzzah!'

Preparation for my Jung Pirates have begun in earnest!  Bases have been built, plastic miniatures have been dunked in boiling water, my desk has been covered in lots of tiny red plastic debris.  I'm going to keep the miniatures separated from the bases for now and attach them once both are finished.  Now to begin painting.  Yuji is up first, as what is a captain without a first mate?  Also he's pretty much the linchpin figure of the faction with his unique effects and Inspiration.  I've just come up with a cool way to distinguish between profiles A and B for the pirates too: one figure will be on the wooden docks bases, the other will be on stonework from the town part of the board.

I've hit a little bit of a brick wall with the docks board, as I now have to level out a good 60% of the board so that the stonework can be cut out and glued on properly.  I was thinking of just investing in a lot of lightweight polyfiller and then using a grouting float to smooth it flat; or maybe using a spirit level as that would be wider than the board...  Or just have an area in the middle lower than the rest.  I'll try some experiments with having to do the least work, and if it doesn't work out, the small-scale plastering will commence.

I was really sure I posted this yesterday, but apparently not, oh well.