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Dakka is therapy. Totally with you there. Look forward to seeing you working on this lot. But in the meantime take care.

2016 has been a pretty crappy year to be honest, but at least it hasn't got you down too much. I will patiently wait for your return, as long as you need it to take

So I got a nice surprise, I got out of work on time and It free'd up a couple of hrs ( after I voted of course )
I started on the Atropos Knight. Managed to get the body built and undercoated. I'll have to finish the base first as the position of the legs won't allow it to stand on it's own.
For the base I've got a rhino side that I'll have the Knight stepping on or over. I'll paint it in the Night Lords colors since I don't see many armies with these colors. As for the armor Plates I'm going to do them in orange with an edge and rivets in a purple wash.
The metal frame I going to use Jaquine's metal technique in some capacity. I have magnitized the arms though it really doesn't have any different weapon options. I guess I can switch them for looks.

Didn't take any pictures yet. but if you need to see a great painted Atropos, swing over to Nerdfest's blog and see the one he did for Ritides.

I hope not to be called in to work on our American Thanksiving, so other than preparing food I plan to get a good day of painting between Turkey basting.

Lastly I decided I couldn't wait for after the year and I need to get more stuff to fill out the HH armies (these have to be painted prior to Adepticon so best not to wait too long) .. I ordered two Spartan Land Raiders, 2 HH Proteus land Raiders, 2 Anvillius Drop pods and 3 more Jetbikes.
This I call the WM Strategy.. If you can't paint then buy.

Ah, but you CAN paint...

Good thing, that'd cost a mint to have someone else do it.

So not jealous. Nope. Not at all.

Here is where I've managed to take it in the little time I have.
I used Jaquine's metal technique to some extent and it went faster than I thought.


More to do on the orange plates. The Carapace, shoulders and body plates I'll airbrush. The head is complete except for the Lenses.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Good thing, that'd cost a mint to have someone else do it.

Like a Warlord Titan cost?

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Ah, but you CAN paint...

Can and have time... different problem. I'm sneaking in early morning quick sessions to get this far. Not as enjoyable as sitting down and painting for a good couple of hours.

THat orange is beautifully bright! Love it so far!
Metals look really sharp as well...

 Ramos Asura wrote:
THat orange is beautifully bright! Love it so far!
Metals look really sharp as well...

Thanks brother
This will be the IK for my eventual Ryza Mechanicus army ...eventually.
The orange will tone down a bit once the sealer is on. I'll be using the metallic blue ( i used for the siege dread weapons ) for the weapons, so It should have a nice Chicago Bears feel to it ( unintentionally of course )

Very nice colour palette. Ryza was always my favourite from the Skitarii. Jan is a whizz at painting, I pick up a load of tips from them all the time!

Looks very promising SL. I'm certain you're going to knock this one out of the park!

Man, IKs appear to be real fun to paint! Ryza's bright orange color scheme drew me in as well, keep it up compadre!

Close to finishing Atropos. I really like how this came out Though the pics are looking more yellow. I assure you it's brght orange.I'll run them thru Photoshop later and repost. Wasn't sure apout doing Orange. Comments welcome.





Here is some pics of projects I never took pictures of... Craters with Lamenters Debris.


Lamenters Landspeeders

Interceptor

WIP Lamenter Dread Drop pod in Primer Colors

Starting Reaver Build...Titan Weapons built and Basecoated

Absolutely love that knight SL... wow!

That Knight is fantastic! So is the flyer. The placement of the checkers is very striking. Well done!

That Knight is EPIC!

That Knight is fantastic!

Thanks for all the support with my moms passing. It's been helpful getting me through all the ups and downs.

Thanks all for the kind responces about the Knight. Too bad the pic color is a bit off. It looks better in orange.

I'm expecting my SM Terrain from 'Death Ray Designs' This week. So I'll have to add those to my list of things to do.

I'll try to finish the Dread DP. then I'll start building on mass all the inf. for two 30k armies. I will try to do all the builds first and then mass primer, mass base... ect.

On Other note.. At Adepticon the "Wardens of the Maelstrom" will be in mass ( missing only 2 folks ), so we are going to do a MoaB battle. This year it will be a Imperial Knight fight. Each Warden will field a knight, divide into to teams and battle it out. I am thinking about doing some terrain for it, something on the theme of the old 'Titanicus' buildings. We'll see. If your attending Adepticon Late Sat night ( Registration starts next week), Come out and meet and great ( Git will be available for autographs). Rules to follow. Will be binging additional IK for those who don't have one yet.

Ok lots to do. Wardens get your armies ready ( Ramos!! )

I will also be bringing extra knights for anyone who wants to jump in.

mm mm good! All this progress maketh a man happy! Those LS are lovely and a eagerly look forward to the pictures of the knight.

Lovely work on the knight...

Gosh, you've been busy! Love the flying taxis, especially the orange one, funnily enough.

Super cool work, love the knight. Those craters are awesome, well done.

Knight is looking fantastico!

Looking forward to seeing ALL the land raiders that you've got waiting in the wings.

EDC

Just a shout-out to the Wardens and anyone else who might want to hang out with us at Adepticon.

There's a "team" event that is supposed to focus on the hobby aspect of the game on Friday I think. There are no details but only the team captain has to pay for the event. I'm planning on bringing my Halloween army for the event & Thing 1 and I will be playing. Anyone else who wants to join us is welcome (apparently there's no limit to the number of team members). We may just all be playing the one army... in which case, the more the merrier!

I'll have an extra knight as well.

I'll go look ... what is the event name.

Got my 'Death Ray Designs' Terrain yesterday. Looking forward to building these pieces. Adding these makes a pretty and impressive SM Game board.

Anyone have a good connection to a good World Eaters list?

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Just a shout-out to the Wardens and anyone else who might want to hang out with us at Adepticon.

There's a "team" event that is supposed to focus on the hobby aspect of the game on Friday I think. There are no details but only the team captain has to pay for the event. I'm planning on bringing my Halloween army for the event & Thing 1 and I will be playing. Anyone else who wants to join us is welcome (apparently there's no limit to the number of team members). We may just all be playing the one army... in which case, the more the merrier!

I'll have an extra knight as well.

Team event you say....hmmm....Gits will be in it you say....hmmmm....Solar is looking at it he says....hmmmm.....

Yeah, problem is I have no idea what the event really is. The way it's written it may just be multiple people playing a single army... can't be sure. I'll sign up for it and we'll see.

Wish Adepticon would get their act together...

 wyomingfox wrote:

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Just a shout-out to the Wardens and anyone else who might want to hang out with us at Adepticon.

There's a "team" event that is supposed to focus on the hobby aspect of the game on Friday I think. There are no details but only the team captain has to pay for the event. I'm planning on bringing my Halloween army for the event & Thing 1 and I will be playing. Anyone else who wants to join us is welcome (apparently there's no limit to the number of team members). We may just all be playing the one army... in which case, the more the merrier!

I'll have an extra knight as well.

Team event you say....hmmm....Gits will be in it you say....hmmmm....Solar is looking at it he says....hmmmm.....

Yoda, is that you?

Knight looks good.

Like the craters.

The rest is nice too.