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Hey there,

I'm lightbox and this is my blog to store various pictures, lore writings and other such things of my countless AoS projects that I do.

Hope you enjoy and thanks for stopping by ^_^

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Why 30 days of painting hasn't happened yet

So some people (the best kind of people, ones who look at this mess of a blog) will have seen my post about wanting to do an hour of painting each day in December. Something I totally intended to do.   Then I got ill. And I'm still ill. And it's pretty crappy. Hoping to be better soon but yeah I've been mostly out of action this entire week so alas no painting. Which is sucky So instead I'll show you guys some stuff from an hour I did late November as an attempt to start getting me re
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Which head for the akhelian queen?

So I've been toying with some heads for my akhelian queen conversion. But I'm not sure on which one! Any help? A fourth idea is a melusai helmet with the snakes cut off.
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What I learnt from trying and failing 31 days of hobby

Hi there!   Some of you may have noticed that I attempted a 31 days of hoby challenge in December. You'll also notice my blog has far from 31 entries. The objective of this challenge was to work on hobby for at least 1 hour a day, though as I knew I'd be at my girlfriends at least 1 weekend in December I added the rule of if I miss any days I make up for them with extra time on other days. Now I did not manage this challenge at all, but honestly? I've learnt one hell of a lot from tryi
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Warcry: Cypher Lords (wip)

These guys are certainly proving fun to paint! All contrast & metallics so far. Very happy with the purple going into pink on the hair and loincloths too.
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Vindenspite

Vindenspite: WiP Crimson Guard and the Frostqueen

So whilst for Vindenspite we have the wonderful crimson watch, the deadly gunslinging sisterhood of elite shooters their numbers just aren't enough to fill out the entire armed forces for Vindenspites attack and defence, and the Chosen and Silent Ones are far fewer in number still, as such the bulk of the Vindennian armies are filled by those of the Crimson Guard, all the brave, daring or downright crazy soldiers who train in different roles to create a well rounded force, though most of Vindens
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Vindenspite: WiP Adalia Neverfall & Big Jim

(So to clarify the title big Jim is what I lovingly named my incarnate champion in divinity original sin 2 with my friends. Which is also where Adalia comes from, this was very much my attempt to bring the pair into my AoS army as one of my common opponents is one friend I play DoS2 with)   Here is the finished models for my outcast Vindenspite character Adalia and her beast, once painted they will share the same base. I will also update the warscroll I had been working on for them to
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Vindenspite Lore: Adalia Neverfall, the burning Pariah (WIP)

Vindenspite is home to all manner of people, from righteous warriors to dubious scoundrels, from cocky duellists to cunning tacticians it truly is a city of different people all united by a desire to survive and flourish. Though even in such a melting pot of people there are still those who are looked upon with scorn, fear or pity. One such individual is the woman known as Adalia Neverfall, the woman who should be dead many times over, the woman who most believe is damned, the woman who's innerm
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Up through the clouds the ironclad soars!

And whilst my madness is still in full bloom the labour of love that gave it it's method is nearing completion. And it's really coming together!   My only issue is it's had to be more angled than I'd like to fit within the height bounds of the 'realmgate' but with the clouds it looks like it's rising up magnificently out of them! And I'm quite proud I'm pretty proud I've managed to achieve this just gotta trim the clouds for the base and then finally add on my energy arcs f
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Undead pirates! CoS wraithfleet conversions WIP

So playing vampire coast on Warhammer total war and seeing another gallery post using CoS to make them inspired me to do the same. I've always wanted to do a wraith fleet army and I really like zombies so this seems a perfect fit! The first of my works in progress is my boat based monstrosity, which will either end up as a steam tank or hurricanum. Struggling a bit finishing this one but it's coming along nicely enough. I also made a black coach ages ago when they were tiny, its m
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The knights of Blacklake begin to ride!

Today I finally began my project for my shyish themed bretonnians (who will be taking some mousillon inspiration) and began it in style with some grail knights! These are mostly the more modern plastic brets (will have fancy nice shield paintings) and a baron to lead the squad! (We'll ignore the fact there's no squad sgt rules ) whilst making him I accidentally broke his sword when getting it off the sprue! So decided ****** it he's getting a cool broken sword and I'll give it a story. He'
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The Ironclad Nears Completion!

So good news today. Even more work has been done on the ironclad! And once I get it finished and my special base done it will be ready to set sail at the head of my fleet! Look forward to seeing this beauty rising up through the clouds soon!
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The Drake Queen

The Drake Queen & the Terracotta Sentinels

Not many can claim an ancient bloodline said to be intertwined with that of dragons but the Drake Queen is one such being. Regardless of the truth to the mythos she claims as her heritage one thing has proven true, that she bears an affinity for both earth magic and for bonding with draconic beings. Her title is self given and as it stands there seem to be no links of her to any form of royalty nor does she have any lands beneath her rule, she lacks people who follow her and possesses no family
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TheAshenCity

The Ashen City (Slaves to darkness) [WIP]

The realm of Aqshy can be a desolate one, especially toward the dangerous outer edges. Deep in the north of the realm lies a vast ash desert within which a pocket of civilization exists. An assortment of settlements that lie in the shape of an 8 pointed star with a large and imposing city that stands at the centre of this empire. The Ashen City itself is built atop a long dormant underground volcanic network, dead for millennia and now turned into a large mining network to obtain the valuable or
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Slapping (paint on) the queen: Morathi WIP

Sooo spent practically my entire day today working on Morathi. Building her and then beginning to paint her! She's certainly shaping up nicely   looking forward to seeing her when she's done. I'm a bit unsure on the pink scales but well they'll do! Unless I can find a better colour to add my second drybrush coat with. Drybrushing them wasn't too bad and makes it a faster process!
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Shadow pirates test model: The admiral!

So decided to make a test model for my shadow pirate project I'm planning. Aka a mixed race pirate force counting as Kharadrons and being from the realm of shadow!   Anyway here's wonderwall... I mean the admiral.
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Serious showdown: Tzeentch versus Fire Aelves!

So today was an epic clash between my disciples of tzeentch and my friend Dan's vicious mixed elf army! His elves are all linked by a firey colour scheme and pheonixes hence the name fire elves.   My tzeentch are instead linked by the fact they all refuse to die. I may be bad at killing but at least I hold out well For our scenario we had to try and hold both objectives with no enemy models near them to win. It was a super fun and close game with lots hinging on lucky (and un
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RAAARR! Blood knights and horsey Cassia WiP

So we're back today with more dynamic death... Deatherizers (okay I'm bad at alliteration) because after painting dragon Cassia the only logical step is to paint her up some blood knight bodyguards right? (10 of these buggers to do...) And of course a neigh neigh horsey riding version of Cassia because I don't always want a dragon riding general... Especially not for our upcoming path to glory / firestorm campaign where the general must be the same in each game! (But I'm totally allowed to field
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Prepping for free cities 1: building shooty horsies

Boy I am excited about free cities getting a book, from the start of AoS I've loved the idea of humans, aelves and duardin all working under the same banner and even wanted to do a dragon age grey warden colour scheme for them too! (Plus griffons fit that). Having gained a newfound love for shooting as well as melee due to playing a lot of Kharadron recently I have decided to finally build up my dark riders and outriders, hopefully adding some mobile shooting should be fun and I'm excited to see
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Preparing for narrative: Battleplan WIP's

So soon I will be running a narrative path to glory campaign with 3 friends. Our general will be made using Anvil of Apotheosis and we will each get 4 starting picks/rolls from our tables. The armies so far are looking to be: -Soulblight (Myself) -Lumineth -Ogors -Undecided (Choosing between FeC, Slaanesh & Soulblight) I rolled for my starting choices so I end up with: -20 Zombies -5 Grave Guard -1 Corpse Cart (Yep, rolled corpse cart instead of vargheists or blood knig
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Painting madness! Getting freeguild ready for 03/05/2018

So I have a busy week ahead of me!   I've got a 3v3 game organised next week of order versus khorne. We will have myself and my freeguild along with Dan & his Pheonix Temple & Chris and his freeguild. It's going to be a tough game and we're likely going to have to try and win it through cunning, attrition and a boat load of shooting!   So what I have available so far, in various stages of painting: 10 gunners 10 guard w/ sword and shield 10 guard w/ mil
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My completed 1000 points of Kharadrons! (I actually painted something!)

Recently I took my Kharadrons to a doubles tournament in run by the @Hampshire Hammerers in Winchester with @Azamar and as such I had to get my 1000 points painted beforehand! It's my first force I've actually got painted and I'm really happy with it It's been super nice to play with fully painted models too!! We ended up coming third out of four teams which meant we lost out on the coveted engraved wooden spoons (Boo) but I managed to win favourite/best painted army! Which I'm quite pleased wi
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