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So this P&M blog was actually one of the main reasons I finally signed up here on Dakka... I want to use this blog to help motivate me to paint/repaint/touchup my whole Sisters collection. I do not have an established army list so will need to paint everything. This amounts to:

About 160 girls of varying weapon configurations / degrees of doneness.
8 tanks: 2 immolators, 3 exorcists, 3 rhinos

My problem is that I have been acquiring these figs over the last 7 years and my painting skills have improved immensely. So I have some crappy first offs that I will strip and repaint. Even worse, I have changed my mind many times as to what colors I want for the army. At last count, I have 7 total different color schemes, which can be broken down into two groups based on armor color. When I play, it looks like two armies mixed together. I really need them to look like one army.

So with that being the statement of the challenge, here is the end target:

- Do a few more conversions
- Matching armor on all girls: aged bone look
- Varying dress colors to indicate rank / status
- Fully painted tanks, to include freehand on bare surfaces. Colors will tie in with army colors.

I have established test models for each of the different levels of girls. The categories are:

- Foot Canoness & Celestians (will be a modified canoness scheme): reddish-purple dress
- Jump Canoness & Seraphim: ultramarines blue dress
- All other girls: black dress with white trim, red guns

All general C&C are very welcome!

Edit: critical typo on number of models...

Nice paint job and scheme, i cannot wait to see the rest of them.

Love the scar on the first one

I have some updates! I’m not making as much progress as I want because I’ve been traveling the last 3 weeks…

But here is what I've been working on since last post:

1. Seraphim squad 1- Were already painted in this scheme but I did touchups


2. Seraphim squad 2- same deal


3. Jump Cannoness- fixed her eyeliner, did general touch ups


4. Repentia mistress- I love this model. I repainted her armor.




5. Exorcist 1- changed accent color on tank, changed armor color on driver.







Looks like I need to fix her eyeliner.

6. Sisters squad- Still in process but pretty close to done. Repainted the armor.




7. Saint Celestine- didn’t change anything. She was the major reason I picked this armor color because it looks so cool on her.








So there is the latest! Hopefully I'll be able to make more frequent updates after this week.

Pretty nice! Hate the models but your paintjob really makes them come alive.

The level of detail in your painting is incredible, you must have a steady hand. Loving the colour schemes aswell..

cool sisters
definitely like the detail work on celest...

oh, and where do you find that model with the inferno pistol and sword...
ive been looking around the website and kind find it on there, but it seems every sisters player has one...

Well I'm back from vacation and ready to get back into it. We just had 9 days in Ireland. Drank lots of whiskey, stayed in a castle, flew two different hawks, drank lots of cider, walked a lot, saw standing stones, drank lots of Guinness. Visited 2 Games Workshop stores plus an independent store in Dublin area, and also found a sweet independent store in Cork. That is where I got my Blood Angels codex. I find it funny, but the cost was 25Euro, so it was about $33 USD. But I got it in IRELAND so it is better! I also got that new Beastman Shaman guy to paint up as a souvenir. He will, of course, be done with green as major color.

As for this thread: Thanks everyone for the compliments... It is very encouraging, and I really do need it!

@krusty: The girl with Inferno pistol and sword is the current canoness. That mini actually has great hand options. Scroll, book, sword, inferno pistol and bolt pistol (I might have missed one). All mine end up used on various models, and I end up wanting more of the scrolls and books.

So now a text only update. I'm entering a local painting contest. The contest is 1000 points, with structured points awarded in painting, basing, and converting. Time frame is 8 weeks from yesterday (Sunday April 11). So I'm going to try to do enough to score well in all categories.

My list:

Canoness, jump pack, Cloak, mantle, inferno pistol, blessed weapon: 145pts

Battle sisters squad, 10 total, including veteran with bolter and book, flamer, meltagun, imagifer, rhino with smoke: 218pts

Battle sisters squad, 10 total, including veteran with bolter and book, flamer, meltagun, imagifer, rhino with smoke: 218pts

Seraphim, 5 total, 2 flamers, veteran

Celestian squad, 5 total, flamer, meltagun, imagifer, veteran with combiflamer, meltabombs and praesidium, add priest with auspex, carapace, meltabombs, boltpistol and eviscerator. Mount in Immolator with smoke launchers: 285 pts

I may have missed grenades here and there, but that at least covers the models to be used. This list was chosen to allow me to use the models I have, and also maximize visual impact. Thus the imagifers... the banners will offer great options for freehanding. I also have some intentions to try freehand on the tanks. Plus, only 32 infantry and 3 tanks. A manageable number.

Painting I'm pretty confident with. I'll stick with my current paint schemes so everyone matches, but try to paint to a better quality level. Add the freehanding and I should get full points here.

Now, admittedly I'm not really big on converting. This is probably due to me mucking up even simple weapon swaps on sisters. But I've acquired some cool mechanical wings to add to the jump canoness. I intend to green stuff it up a little, too. We will see what else I can do! The tanks either have FW doors/front or else other parts swap type conversions. The Immolator is an oldschool immolator turret to be magnetized on the FW immolator conversion kit.

Basing will involve... something. At the very least, I'll add slate chips, sand, static grass, and some cogs/gears. I've considered purchasing some cast bases, but haven't found anything that is both super-duper-ultra-awesome but still cheap. If anyone has suggestions for bases, please help! I'd prefer something that has either an urban rubble or else temple like. Cheap would be approx $1 USD / base, +/-.

Yesterday I stripped any models that had anything partially done or were double primed. Still waiting for the conversion bits to make final decisions, and need to fix a gap in my Immolator. Pictures will arrive when there is something more to show!