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All looking great bud. Master chief is awesome. Great job on him.

On spray. Try Halfords own but again watch out for filler. Mind you it's nearly as expensive as GW. But it is good.

Thanks for the kind comments guys, really appreciate them.

@cam I'm going to have a look around Cardiff on my lunch break tomorrow see what I can find, ideally I don't want to be spending more than a fiver on the spray so I can keep costs down, but if all else fails I'll go to halfords

Looking good.

Thanks Josh

The mesh arrived and was added this morning, just used hot glue.

Ruler and mini to show size


and a close up


just need to buy that spraypaint and i can prime then dry brush the sets.

thanks for looking

The Fences are Finished


Pics







In the end i just picked up some army painter spray paint as i got impatient and it was only 76p more expensive than the halfords spray.

Once sprayed they were all dry brushed

Keeping one set the other is already on the Ebay

Well they look fantastic hope they sell well.Great job. Just have to keep an eye out on the sprays bud, will come along. The great thing about your fencing is it looks in relatively good nick, for a change, so many of us instantly weather and rust everything up, your looks great with out the nonsense.

Ta Cam, there is some rust on there (was too tempting to go heavy on the weathering) but i wanted to be able to use them for infinity too so 40k/inquisimunda level weathering would be a bit jaring.

Amazing shtuff Subbed.

Thanks for the kind words sneshy

Nice looking fences!

Thanks Cleatus

So this is the 70th mini I've finished painting this year so far, (did only 50 last year)

Deadzone Reb Strider

my rebs are all done as a rag tag group of misfits (think firefly and star wars rebels)









and finally a close up of the can of coke on his base


Really happy with how he has turned out, its just as i wanted him.

Hund the Rebel Bounty Hunter

Another Reinforcement for the Rebs, with the “so good he's got to be nerfed soon” Hund the Rebel bounty hunter.





pretty happy with how the head scarf and elbow pad star came out

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Scouts

Went back and added some highlights, and lenses on the sniper scopes to some scouts I've finished previously.




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Colony87 Royal Advisor

Managed to get the first of my wave 2 colony87 guys painted today too.
based the paint job off of Jaffar in Aladdin



Been a successful couple of days hobby wise, the battle fleet gothic game has now ruined me for hobby time tho :(

Cracking stuff, that Strider I somehow missed is so bloody cool! That bounty hunter is neat too, is he a KS only mini?

Cheers para

he's a normal release mini, (or should be) pretty decent for a mantic metal.

I really like the Royal Advisor. The simple colors really pop.

Ta Josh.

Disney do have some colour choices/palettes that are well worth stealing .

That is some bunch of excellent work, interesting models too. Faces are really looking good.

Thanks Cam

I've updated the OP and changed my hobby budget

Ive also started a “showcase” thread for my fluff and finished minis here

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/698675.page#8820810
Hobby Budget
Hobby budget of max £100 per month but ideally less than £50, As an incentive to spend as little as possible I'm going to put anything under £50 I spend into a piggy bank and save up for a Warhound Titan. (Wanted one for ages)

I'm also going to try and fund a bit of my hobby through EBay and here (selling terrain if people will buy it and things I'm not going to use), if eBay income makes up any of the £50 target spend I'll count it as half towards the budget total. (Another incentive to selling stuff) e.g. if i spend 50 but all came from money i made from selling stuff on eBay i’ll only count as £25 towards the £50 target.


July Overview



July's hobby spend was £58.70 ( 41.70 from eBay and paid for by stuff id sold)

Here's the haul, not included is my Kickstarter purchase of £17 to Antenocities workshop for some decals.



The Guardians of the Galaxy Milano will get a repaint in the original colours but hopefully a better paint job.
In the baggy are some anvil industry dogs.

£12.15 towards that Titan (this might take a while.....). ended up being £15 In the Titan bank as I couldn't be bothered with sorting the change.

Finished paint jobs in July

Here they are


Now up to 73 minis painted in the year, 21 more than in the total of 2015. And 21 away from hitting the total for 2014 and 15 combined.

Painting Project updates

AVP painting progress



Hoping to get the predators done this month, trying to work out in my head how to do the mottled skin on them without ruining their fishnets.



Warhammer 40k painting progress



The Eldar must be finished this month! I just get bored of painting blue quickly, I'm thinking of doing each of them as a separate "character" and hoping that will keep me better on track.



Deadzone painting progress



Think I'm going to redo the forge fathers, their too similar to my Dreamforge Eisenkern at the moment.
Not Progressed past undercoating on the veer-myn or other enforcers yet.



Infinity painting progress



Don't know why these guys intimidate me so much. I'm going to get the Father knight and the other 2 Morat vanguard done this month.



Return to Colony 87 painting progress



2 down 4 to go, they are honestly a joy to paint. I'm hoping to have the set finished by the end of the month.

Random Painting in progress

the rest that don't fit in another Catagory


Thanks for looking
Please drop a comment if you like what you see or have any feedback, I really appreciate it and it helps keep be motivated.

Thats a lot of stuff bud, great work on it too. Going to check out your Showcase, keep meaning to do one myself.

Ta Cam, probably too much but at least I won't be bored (unless I'm painting blue)

Thought I'd posted this guy earlier

Colony87 Xeno botanist




Love this guy, he'll make a great NPC for inquisitor Sedate to rescue

Mars Attacks
Started back on the Mars attacks minis again (Need to do a count of how many i have left to finish)





I chose this guy so i could have a bit more practice on large areas of skin, I'm pretty happy with the end result.



Colony 87 Scientist
Mini 75 for the year, another Colony 87 mini
This one is a scientist type.




Pretty happy with how the face came out.



Thanks for looking

That Mars Attacks! guy looks great, as does the scientist. His facial expression is delightfully clinical and bored.

They look fantastic, nice work on the faces. Really like these guys, nice to see something different.

Hmm... Scouts with hoods. Why didn't I think of that? Would fit perfectly with my Dark Angels.

Also, loving that Strider. Kind of like if the Punisher had a mech suit

Thanks guys

Loving the Colony 87 guys! Gotta get started on mine.

Cheers Kid

Father Knight Painted

Going against what i had planned, i finished my Icestorm Father knight.





Really enjoyed painting him actually and has inspired me for finish off my other ice storm PanO and redo my fusiliers (still happy with how my Orc turned out)

Decided to go with a classic knight look for him rather than the blue panO armour ill carry that on with my other military orders.

He was really difficult to get a decent pic of tho and even these don't show the silver highlights as well they are in real life.

Wow. You've been busy. The Colony 87 stuff is looking really good. I'd glanced at it when the KS was running, but at the time, it just wasn't doing much for me. Seeing your painted examples makes me wish I hadn't skipped it. Speaking of wishing I hadn't skipped things, your Hund looks really damn good. Now I'm wishing I'd bought him.

Thanks Barzam

Started working on the Deathwatch overkill minis

One problem tho


I'm OCD and need him to be taller so he matched my other tru" scale

So Started work on "tru" scaling him


Very WIP at the moment 1.5-2mm to be added to the torso and some green stuff to go.

The plan is to true scale all the Marines, some I'm going to have to substitute parts in but I should be able to get them all done eventually.

So this week I've been trying to finish my ice storm PanO force and they will all be finished this weekend.

did some more work on my “True Scale” Cassius


torso spacers added


and started to greenstuff him back up, lots of green stuffing left to do, i find it easier to do green stuffing in small batches.

Put together some dogs from anvil industry




These are amazing, I'm really hoping Joel makes some cyber hounds & dog handlers for his regiments range.


And finally I finished this terrain piece





A couple more pics and some fluff in my showcase thread.