If you’re just joining me on the road and are interested in the journey up until now, please click the following for parts one, two, or three. A couple of friends have also published on their own journeys – please see the excellent test game between One Wing and Corrode and the LVO preparations by our newest contributor, Shane Watts!

Today I’ll focus on the hobby aspect of my progress and close with the first run of the new, revised LVO list. I’ve also decided that one of my list options which dropped the Vibro Cannons for a second Shining Spears squad is simply not viable due to modelling/painting time constraints and have therefore removed it from the consideration set.

Previously on Boon’s Road to LVO:

Hobby Progress

As it turns out, when you have no work for the better part of two weeks and the only responsibilities are to get up, make coffee, and then eventually hang out with family and friends, you can get a lot of painting done. Underpinning all of this is my girlfriend’s amazing tolerance for my stupid hobby and the time I’ve spent on it (thanks babe!). As I’d like to focus this installment on the hobby aspect of this road, I’ve included a bit of a breakdown below on how I step through my process with these models and how I measure my paint progress with a completely made up percentage time estimate:

Percentage Complete Step Description 1% Black Primer 2% Black Base (Abaddon Black) 5% Dark Green Layering (Caliban Green) 10% Medium/Light Green Layering (Warpstone Glow -> Moot Green) 15% Grey Layering (Administratum Grey) 20% White Layering (White Scar) 35% Green Blending 50% White/Grey Blending 60% Black Lining/Gem Base (Abaddon Black) & Gold Detailing (Gehenna Gold -> Auric Armour Gold -> Runefang Steel) 70% Gem/Canopy Layering (Mephiston Red -> Wild Rider Red -> Trollslayer Orange -> Firedragon Bright) 80% Gem/Canopy Blending 85% Green Cleanup 90% White/Grey Cleanup 91% Gem Dotting 96% Black Cleanup and Touch-ups 97% Satin Varnish (Table Ready) 98% Freehanding Roses (Mix of previous reds and greens) 99% Flat Varnish Gem Glossing 'Ard Coat

In total I’ll use 14 different GW paint pots on these, which is a little bit under the average for my models. Some examples of the various stages are shown below – they’re not pretty:

So over the last three weeks I’ve made the following progress – I’ve stopped at freehanding things as I’ll save that for the end and just do it all at once. The 97%’ers are otherwise “table ready” and the satin varnish will protect their paint jobs at the event if I’m unable to finish.

December 15th – 21st:

2x Fire Prism Turrets – 97%

1x Falcon Turret – 97%

1x Falcon Chassis – 97%

December 22nd – 28th:

2x Falcon Chassis – 97%

2x Falcon Turret – 97%

December 29th – January 4th:

1x Fire Prism Chassis – 91%

1x Fire Prism Chassis – 70%

3x Vibro Cannons – 97%

January 5th – 11th: Current Week

1x Nightspinner Turret – 70%

2x Vibro Cannons – 30%

1x Vibro Cannon – 2%

January 12th – 18th:

1x Nightspinner Chassis – 10%

January 12th – 18th:

Base magnetizing and painting/flocking – 50%

Case Updates (new foam inserts) – 0%

I’m slightly behind on a couple of items, but I’ve also gotten ahead on some of the future items so I think I’m right on schedule and I’m feeling confident. But enough talk – let’s see some pics!

League Night

As I theorized in my last installment, I ran out the new and improved Original List Version 2.0 for my next league match against fellow Aeldari player Aaron Scherer and his Aeldari Flyers and Warlock Conclave list. The first time I ran into Aeldari flyers was against Aaron and he stomped me so hard my ancestors felt it. I’ll be curious to see how it plays in a post-CA/PA world. The lists we used are below: