Finished a couple more lengths of rickety fence for Ronin & Chain of Command games. These are laser-cut ply pieces from Fenris Games, glued to large hobby lolly sticks. The basing uses various Gale Force Nine flocks & Gamers Grass tufts. Pictured with a pair of my Japanese peasants for scale. I have plenty of these rural fences now. Time to work on my more substantial Japanese walls & Sarissa Precision buildings next.
I recently dusted-off an old Fire Warrior that had been languishing with the rest of my half-finished T'au collection in the attic, & painted it. Right from the start of collecting T'au back in the early 2000s, I was certain that I wanted a turquoise-armoured force (I loved the turquoise skies from the box art of the desert-coloured T'au), but with my more limited painting skills back then, my models always ended up looking toy-like instead of grimdark.
Granted, T'au are one of the slightly less grimdark factions in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, but I want mine looking gritty. I think I've finally achieved it, by keeping a limited palette based around GW Hawk Turquoise, mixed to varying degrees with black & grey.
I really like the muted tones that have resulted, which I think strikes a balance between 'popping' visually on the tabletop, but also being plausible as an urban scheme (I have previously attempted various urban camo & even Berlin Brigade-style block-camo on T'au, but couldn't make it work).
I think I'd go so far as to say this may be the best Warhammer 40,000 figure painting I've ever done - it's certainly not up there with the incredible work seen on many other blogs & in White Dwarf, but I'm really happy with it - I even tried zenithal highlighting for the first time.
I'm planning to try out the Black Ops rules with a few T'au & Imperial Guard miniatures at some point.
Pictured here is my finished High Priestess, along with the Serpent Priestess (590 gold) that I painted a few months ago. I decided to add green warpaint to them in the end, to complete the tribal look. In the lore, Amaxon motivation can appear fickle to outsiders, so in Warhammer Quest games, I'm thinking of having it random whether encountered Amaxons attack or aid t he players' adventuring Warriors; & they may help slay evil foes first, before then attacking the Warriors.
Things have been very busy for me this summer, but I have managed to complete a few small miniatures pieces, including this Terradon for my long-running Lustrian Warhammer Quest collection. The model is an old Jurassic Park juvenile pteranodon toy (I think it came with the Dr. Alan Grant figure), which was block-coloured in grey & blue, & emblazoned with the JP logo, but which I have repainted with a more interesting scheme - natural jungle camouflage from above, & sky-blue from below, with an orange crest for display (which also mimics my red-crested Lizardmen to a certain degree). I drilled a hole in its rib cage for the flying stem.
The base was my usual jungle recipe, with snippets of plastic aquarium plants. I used a spare Battlefleet Gothic transparent flight stem for the illusion of flight. I drilled a hole in its rib cage for the flying stem. I left the Terradon unglued from the stem, for safer storage/transport, & also so that the flying base could be used for other aerial creatures if necessary.
Frances & I made a couple more bases of jungle scenery for the Lustria collection. Hers is on the left, mine is on the right. We have plenty of these CD-sized jungle bases now, so it's time to work on some pieces of ruined Lizardman temple/statuary, some spawning pools, & maybe some large rainforest tree trunks...
I completed another piece of scenery for my Lustria collection recently. It's another piece of large scatter terrain, based on an old CD - the same recipe as these previous ones. 
I used some of the techniques for smaller plants that I picked up from Frances's jungle base - they really help layer & enhance the scenery! 
This weekend I finished painting this scratch-built Daemon that I put together a while ago. It's a Daemon of Chaos Undivided - unaligned to any specific Chaos god, or perhaps aligned to a more minor deity. The 'internal fire' colour scheme is nicked from a great set of Daemons that I stumbled upon online, where the painter had been collecting the official Games Workshop figures for the four Chaos powers, but painting them all with ash-black flesh & lava or fire from within their mouths & eyes etc. Unfortunately I've been unable to find the post again, so can't credit or link to my inspiration.
I constructed this miniature from various spare bits, including an old metal Tyranid hormagaunt scythe-arm, Beastman horns, a Lizardman leg, a Warhammer zombie scythe & torso, Kroot legs, a Ork head, & plenty of Green Stuff putty.
It's very tall compared to Human-sized figures (pin-mounted on a Ø32mm base), & I think it's suitably creepy-looking. I'll be using it in my long-planned adventure-skirmish Inquisition games (set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, either using the original expanded Necromunda rules, or a different set of rules, possibly a modification of Osprey Wargames Black Ops).
Black Cat Bases have some wonderfully esoteric (& affordable!) miniatures, especially in their 'Cthulu' ranges. I had in mind all four Chaos gods when painting this spawn - as if the unfortunate Human who is being reformed by a Daemonic entity is ever-shifting, caught between the different aspects of Chaos. I finished the miniature with a coat of gloss varnish, to emphasize it's gory, disgusting nature.
Frances & I recently tried the tweaked rules that I'd been working on for 15mm zombie apocalypse skirmishes. These are essentially Osprey Wargames Black Ops by Guy Bowers, but with a few changes to suit the setting of a modern-day UK caught-up in a terrifying zombie pandemic. This initial trial scenario was of my own devising, & as it was for testing the basics like card activation & turn structure, it didn't make use of the main feature of Black Ops that attracted me - that of the stealth rules. I call my tweaked zombie survival version of these rules 28 Dice Later...
For this scenario, set during the initial hours of the apocalypse, I played the Infected, & Frances played the Uninfected. In this setting, freshly-infected victims are known as 'Ragers' (28 Days Later-style zombies), while injured or decaying victims are known as 'Shamblers' & 'Crawlers' depending on their state (classic Romero-style zombies).
The story was that a speeding 4x4 had crashed into a tree in a narrow country lane. Farmer Giles Scrumpy & his sheepdog Patch had got out of their tractor to help, & he had called an ambulance, as well his wife Rosie back at the farm to tell her about the collision. The driver was badly injured, with a suspicious neck wound, while a passenger who had not been wearing a seat belt appeared to have been thrown through the windscreen & bisected (gruesomely, only their legs remained inside the 4x4).