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Hey all, just thought I'd drop by and let you know about my army in a weekend I'm attempting. I've got 2,000 points of Chaos marines to build and paint, and my roommate is doing 1500 points of orks.



My army, the evil Chaos Marines!

We're going to be updating every few hours so if you want to keep tabs on my progress head on over to http://www.40kbasement.com I'll try to post some pics here as well, but time will be limited with all of the modeling and such.



Hyde's army, the xenos scum orks!

I really just got tired of everyone at my game club not painting their armies, so I figured if I showed them that you can do an army in a weekend then they really couldn't ever give me an excuse again. So wish me luck and stop by to say hello!

Woah that's certainly a ton of models to get painted. I'm interested to see if you guys can get it done. Good luck!

That is a very nice manta in the background there

This should be very interesting. I can't wait to see how it turns out.

I wish you luck! I almost managed 1500pts of Dark Angels in a single weekend, but that was a Doublewing army with only 25 models or so...

Ok, so the first update of the weekend! I have finished all of the bases sans static grass, and I have plowed through the terminators, chaos lord, possessed and raptors. Only 30 marines, 3 rhinos, landraider and defiler to go!



Here is what happened to the bases, can you see how the glue bubbled up? Normally I wouldn't be a fan, but for the chaos army I kinda like it. It's almost as if the ground is mutating beneath them as they walk!



My chaos lord minus his shoulder pads and cape. I liked that mandible head so much I decided the lord needed it, and it fit perfectly!



Here are the bases glued and ready for paint...



... which they got slathered in, completely brown. Between the paint seal and the epoxy glue, that sand is going nowhere. ;D



Here they are finished with a drybrush of vomit brown. This took me a whole 10 minutes to drybush the entier armies bases, such a time saver compared to doing each model individually. If you are thinking of doing an army, this is the way to go!

@ Andrewdrexler - Thanks, that is the manta my buddy made for our display base at adepticon this year.

Thanks to everyone else who is wishing me luck, I'm gonna need it!

Watching with interest. Keep going!

Same here. 2k points is a mighty brave thing to try in a few days. Im curious if they will be painted decently or just super quick lol. Good luck to both of you

Good luck with that.

Good luck MD, i'll be following it! Are you going to be coming back to the Hobbyland at Sawmill anytime soon? And yes I probably need to do this too once I get my bone white spray paint XD.

Wow! Go for it I can't wait to see the finished product... it will be very inspiring to see you finish an army so quickly!

Should be fun. Definitely keeping an eye on this one.

18 marines to go before the vehicles, I think I can get them all assembled tonight.



The possessed, minus backpacks, which will be sprayed later.



The raptors, minus their wings.



The terminators, ready to be primed.



Chaos Icon Bearers, minus backpacks and shoulder pads. (They are being sprayed black seperately.)



The Chaos Champions, all with power fists.



Chaos Marines with a flamer. Notice that his flamer is also his arm, from the possessed sprue! 88|



And a picture of me in frenzied assembly mode! Take a good look now, I'm sure I'll be much more haggard by the end of the weekend!

Ive done 1500pts of eldar in 2 days, but they were already assembled O.o

I dont envy your freind doing 1500 pts of orks- thats alot of boys!

Are you guys painting them to bare min table top level or well? Because if you can pull off painting that many points in one weekend and do a good job of it..you should consider doing it for a living..

yeah i have the some curiosity of SignsPoint2Fail... mind posting pics when a few are painted... figured you would anyways but since he brought up the same thought

Good luck with that.

By the looks of it you have a solid assembly line set up, and you should actually be able to pull this off with time for one bathroom break .

I did 2000 points of IG in a week on a dare. Out of the box to fully painted. Must mention that it was during my vacation though. Good luck.

Infantry are finished, onto the vehicles. Blarg.



To answer the questions about the painting, I am going to make them look as nice as possible. I'm planning on drybushing most of it, with green as the main color of the armor. The armor trim will be gold, with regular layering for the flesh. Washes will be applied, time permitting.

I'll go back and do eyes and junk if I have the time, which I think I can pull off as long as I get all the basecoats done tomorrow.

Ah, sounds good considering the one weekend thing... Dont get me (us hopefully) when we was curious ... doing all the building and painting in one weekend is a HUGE undertaking... Cant wait to see em mate!

lol should do a time lapse pic series, take one pic like every 5 or 10 minutes.

Watching the cans of Rockstar/Monster pile up in the background in time lapse might be as amusing as watching the army form up

Got the defiler done, rhinos and land raider are next. Sigh.



Here he is getting ready to burninate some fools, bwah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah!!!

Watching the cans of Rockstar/Monster pile up in the background in time lapse might be as amusing as watching the army form up

Actually I'm imbibing Diet Coke and Diet Dr Pepper, I'll have to count how many cans I go through, i'm not quite sure at this moment. Will update in next post!

I know this is completely off topic but i love your hair

Well, if nothign else your motivation has inspired me to keep cleaning so I can get my studio area set up

Ok, still no sleep, but only three rhinos to go, hooray for me!



This is the land raider, sans spikes. They are going to be painted seperately on the sprue.



This is ademonically possessed land raider, so the tentacle might help convey that idea. This was actually by accident, as I forgot to glue in the little sensor array. So I guess in this case being stupid due to lack of sleep actually worked in my favor! )

Ok, got to finish the rhinos then the painting begins!

I know this is completely off topic but i love your hair

Thank you much, haven't cut it in a year! (And my hair is always on topic, lol! )

Well, if nothign else your motivation has inspired me to keep cleaning so I can get my studio area set up

Awesome, glad I am motivating someone besides my sorry butt. BTW, I've killed 14 cans of soda so far. I don't know if that is a lot, but i think it is the only thing keeping me going now. That and excedrin.

Make sure you have ventilation with all that gluing happening.

Very nice thus far,keep going my friend.Show those guys at your gaming club what you can do in a weekend.Boy do I hate primer and unpainted armies.
Keep up the good work.I have seen an army in an afternoon on the GW site,but that was LOTR stuff(well atleast they say it was done in a afternoon).

OT,I also like the hair man.

This is a pretty ambitious project, I'm watching it with interest. It also sounds like your paint scheme is the same or similar to that of my chaos marines; green with gold trim.

Very Nice I have about maybe 1000pts of EC sat on my shelf at home but due to working loads I never am motivated to paint them.....and dont even get me started on my Orks

Dude assembled is not done... i don't mean to be that guy but..come on show us what you got