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Looking good there buddy, always kudos to yellow painters

Excellent work on those sternguard... er.... destroyers there Gir!

Cheers guys Yellow isn't the easiest of colours to paint, I don't think my Mantis Warriors will have any more in tranquillity pattern camo.

For those that are interested I've just written up my batrep for a Man O War game which you can find here.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/592206.page#7161746

Lots of little ships

Little ships look good - assassin looks good - destroyers look good - umm....did I miss anything?

Tranquility pattern turned out well, you know you'll want some more later

 monkeytroll wrote:
Little ships look good - assassin looks good - destroyers look good - umm....did I miss anything?

Tranquility pattern turned out well, you know you'll want some more later

I think you got everything MT

I'm not sure after painting those destroyers that I'll ever want to do yellow marines again full stop, they took sooooo long, I do think they look good though

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I've another batrep for you from last week, just a quick Warmachine one again which you can find below.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/597003.page#6869106

Not much else to report, there are a bunch of Cryx Bane Thralls sat on my painting table ready for the weekend though.

Back again this week. I've signed up for a local tournament and will be taking the Wolves yet again so expect some more woofers next month and something big

I cant start on the Wolves until I get paid so not sure what you're going to get for the rest of the month. The WM (why does WM now mean Whalemusic and not Warmachine to me now ) Bane Thralls on my painting desk at the moment aren't progressing very well other things keep getting in the way.

Like this young lady who was going to be the leader of my Eldar Guardians but got kit bashed into a Culexus Assassin for the up coming tournament.



Not the best but she fits the role quite well.

It's a better life for her now.....

 monkeytroll wrote:
It's a better life for her now.....

yeah she can sneak about all she likes now without those other pesky Eldar asking her questions.

Been sneaking over here before, but never got around to commenting.

Maybe because couldn't find much to add: assassins looks great, (little) ships are nice, and the yellow on the Mantis Warriors is great.

 GiraffeX wrote:
why does WM now mean Whalemusic and not Warmachine to me now

Because that's the best kind of WM.

The assassin is a large improvement on GW model.

That's a really nice kitbash. I did one myself, I agree that you end up with a much better end product than the goofy gw one.

Littletower wrote:Been sneaking over here before, but never got around to commenting.

Maybe because couldn't find much to add: assassins looks great, (little) ships are nice, and the yellow on the Mantis Warriors is great.

Cheers Littletower thanks for joining in on my blog

whalemusic360 wrote:

 GiraffeX wrote:
why does WM now mean Whalemusic and not Warmachine to me now

Because that's the best kind of WM.

The assassin is a large improvement on GW model.

inmygravenimage wrote:That's a really nice kitbash. I did one myself, I agree that you end up with a much better end product than the goofy gw one.

Thanks guys glad you like her, I wasn't sure at first. Before she was undercoated she looked a bit of a mess there's so many different parts from various kits, but she pulled through

Nice little assassin there...trust in your building skills, you know the paint will hide the mish-mash of parts

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Great to see some Man O War, love the assassin, as you say he just became very cool in the game! The MW look great to, hey who is to say that your close combat weapon isn't a pistol, I just guess you couldn't fire one of them in the shooting phase to be fair.

Top secret project time for my tournament in November.

Yesterday I received this little bag in the post from Forge World



Without any messing around it was unbagged and primed in the same day.

And now its looking like this, the golds not finished as my liquid gold is no longer liquid gold its more gunk gold as for some reason all the alcohol has dried up . So I had to order some more which will hopefully arrive in time for next weekend.

Oh and I need to order something for the shoulder pads to go on, hmm I wonder what that will be. Although sadly you will have to wait till the end of the month for that bad boy.



Knight on!!!

Very interested to see how this kit goes on the knight, being my house of choice.

I'm hoping it fits well as most of the parts will be painted before it arrives.

Nice work. They are looking nice.
Liking the shading on the horses' head.

Those came out really well.. looking to see them on the model.

So am I Solar

Here's a few more bits I finished over the weekend

Nice and blurry





I also painted my mini for the 3rd Annual Nerdcademy award painting comp
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/615288.page

Here's my entry unpainted, the idea of the contest is to paint a model Sin City style so black -> white with as many shades of grey as you can fit in between, now that I think of that does suit Nerdy oh and a spot colour as well.

Lelith Hesperax



Finished pics will follow on hmm maybe Thursday when I get some time to pull all the images into a nice montage.

While I'm waiting to order my Knight I decided to crack on with some Cryx Bane Thralls, nothing to show yet but I'll hopefully have progress to show on the weekend.

My current dilemma is whether to partake in the latest Dark Lands kickstarter the minis are amazing, its just a case of paying upfront for something your not going to get to next summer.

Sadly no progress on anything this weekend.

Late on Friday afternoon I was told I had to work Saturday night what made it worse was I had to get driven to another office to do it so I got picked up at 11pm Saturday night and didn't get home till 06:30 Sunday morning and managed 3 1/2 hours sleep. As I'm writing this my bodily functions are slowly fading into nothing

So Saturday I just chilled out and today I was a zombie, going to be interesting at work tomorrow I think I might just curl up and sleep in the corner.

But I do have some pics for you I have my finished Lelith Hesperax for NF09's painting comp, I'm really happy how she turned out and am wondering what a full Dark Eldar would look like painted this way..



And also something the postman delivered on Friday last week, I haven't had time to even look at it yet but I'm quite excited.

A lot of delayed orders were posted on Saturday so more box's will be turning up this week, its quite cool I have including the below about 3 months of hobby stuff on its way.



I'm off for some so will catch you all when I'm back to normal.

I have that as well

Lelith !

Hope you catched up with your sleep by now!

Miss Dee wrote:I have that as well

Look forward to seeing what you do with them Miss Dee

Littletower wrote:Lelith !

Hope you catched up with your sleep by now!

Cheers Littletower I'm fully recharged now and ready for some good old painting time.

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Supply drops have been good this week, I got the below on Friday and not pictured my Knight on Saturday.



So we have lots of things for new projects in this bundle.

The Malifaux rules and The Latigo Posse looks like a fun game.

The Shattered Sword starter set for Relic Knights.

Some Skeletons for Kings of War, I have plans of getting into Fantasy, I already have the rules and they are really nice and easy to learn.

Lastly two box of Thunder Wolves to go along with my Knight for the tournament next month. I need to finish painting all these by the first weekend of next month which is a huge task at the rate I've been (not) painting over the last few months. I did a grand total off two miniatures last month

So the Knight is first on the list for painting, I assembled him over Saturday/Sunday, there's a lot more to the kit than I first thought took a fare few hours.

This is him assembled without FW extras



Then a shot after he was primed for WhaleMusic to show how nicely the pads fit on, these were just pushed into place, all the parts are a perfect fit.



Today I hit him with my paintbrush, yeah hand painting this bad boy is something else!!!

So this is how far I got today, just finished applying the gold base, reds are done blues are nearly done just need to put some ink in the recesses on top. I don't think he's coming along too badly.



My only concern is I'm taking him as part of my Dark Wolves army for the tournament but he's actually for my Sisters of Battle army so I need to base him one way but be able to quickly add some weathering powders to turn him back after.

Looks pretty spiffy. Glad everything fits together so well.

Interested to see the relic Knights, I've got them as well and haven't seen many folks work on them.

Good Progress. Take some Battle shots so we can see him in action!

whalemusic360 wrote:Looks pretty spiffy. Glad everything fits together so well.

Interested to see the relic Knights, I've got them as well and haven't seen many folks work on them.

No I've not seen many painted either, kids these days play with unpainted models which is the problem

Solar_lion wrote:Good Progress. Take some Battle shots so we can see him in action!

Will do Solar, his first battle will be at the tournament next month unless I can get a practice game in first but that requires that I have everything painted. I also need to read the rules for all the stuff in the army, I'm sure 19 models isn't many for 1750 points.....

I forgot to mention yesterday that I'm off this week so painting is full steam ahead at the moment.

Here's update two on the Knight its not a great pic but you get the idea, lots of cool bits you cant see as well



More tomorrow....

The knight looks nice.
Beautiful color scheme and great weathering.
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Still don't like the model and its concept/influence on the game. ^^

 pfibp wrote:
The knight looks nice.
Beautiful color scheme and great weathering.
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Still don't like the model and its concept/influence on the game. ^^

Cheers pfibp the blue hasn't come out very well in this pic, it looks much better in person.

Hopefully tomorrow there will be better pictures, should be finished as well if all goes to plan.

I'm not sure what its full capabilities are in game yet as I've not seen one used, will probably die in horrible ways knowing my luck

That's a beautiful blue paint scheme on your titan, sir.