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Good luck painting after a stag due mate. It's really fun.

Yeah. Just gonna write the whole weekend off. I'm expecting to be aching also on Sunday from paint balling. Apparently I'm a one man team.


Just waiting on the pics loading up as I write


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As promised, some better pics! (Apart from the grav devs, whose pics where so poor I just deleted them)

Assault squad


Head shot Hernandez



Tactical squad two.


The tactical squads, having recently been promoted to 1st company, have yet to repaint their right gauntlets. This is due their shame around the circumstances of their elevation, and, until they believe that they have earned the right to re-paint, will maintain the blue.


Terminator assault suad





Devs w hvy bolters




Pedro Kantor's command squad



Warders/honour Guard/ Command Squad



"The Fallen of Rynn"


Pedro Kantor's personal banner, bearing every single name of each the 700 Crimson Fists who died in the invasion of Rynn. Half of the space is taken by those who died. The other half left blank for those yet to join them.


Just for anyone who hasn't read previous posts, these have been finished to table top for an upcoming game, they will be properly finished after. More to come over the next nine days.

Quick update, I couldn't get any pictures taken of the squads I have competed since the last one. My missus has been very patient and understanding of my spending so much time in the spare room these last six weeks, but she drew the line at me spending the late hours last night photographing and uploading. That does mean though more pics at once, hopefully tonight. Since the last update, I have done two sort of sternguard units (I'll explain the sort of with the images), an assault squad, a plasma devastator squad, and the imperial space marine. I'm half way through the lascannon devs as well, thanks to not being able to drop off last night. I've got an early finish and a few hours to myself tonight, so hopefully might be able to get another squad done as well. The transfers are slowing me down (gloss, decal prep, setting, two coats of micro sol, and then two coats of matt, then a tidy up) but it is worth it as it really does make them look finished from a distance.

More to come later tonight (hopefully!)

Right then, a few more pictures!

Assault Squad 2



Plasma Devastators



Lascannon Devastators



Beaky Sternguard. These veterans refused the ornamentation of their replacement armour after the destruction of Rynn, too ashamed of their failure. Only their pauldrons and wargear set them apart from their tactical brothers.





Grav Sternguard. This unit was on secondment to the deathwatch during the attack. Kantor forbade them from abandoning their armour as their veteran brother's did. Brother Mexicansoundingname shattered his honourary pauldron to atone for not being present to defend his home (aka only had four dw pads).





and a couple of stragglers...



19 marines left to do! Another 10 man cheeky sternguard unit (i.e. sterngaurd bolters and fancy pauldrons on tactical marines), a melta sternguard unit (proper) and a multimelta devastator squad. Hopefully I'll get that done Monday.

Very cool. Love the bleeding head dude.

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
Very cool. Love the bleeding head dude.

EDC

Cheers mate . Normally I am very anti bare head on marines, but that one was just too good not to use. Shame you can't see the bullet hole in his helmet, can't get a decent angle with the camera.

not gonna lie, i'm very impressed your sticking to your deadlines, the quality is really good too!

Nice stuff mate. For the banner bearer, please tell me that writing on the right side of it is a transfer.

I really like the colour of the plasma, it's one of my favourite ways to paint it as well.

Very impressed! Look forward to seeing them if all goes well.
Is that the anniversary marine I see? I'm pretty awful with telling them apart, apologies if it's not.


Btw I thoroughly recommend the "LE Dimmable LED Desk Lamp" you can get on uk Amazon. You can pose it almost infinitely and it's helped my photos (and last minute painting) thirty fold because you can light under the models. I keep it in my gaming bag.

STG wrote:not gonna lie, i'm very impressed your sticking to your deadlines, the quality is really good too!

Cheers bud! Not been easy, but having others doing similar for the same game has helped keep the motivation going. I just wish I had an extra week to do the eye lenses, that would have just finished them off a treat. Still pleased though.

WarbossDakka wrote:Nice stuff mate. For the banner bearer, please tell me that writing on the right side of it is a transfer.

I really like the colour of the plasma, it's one of my favourite ways to paint it as well.

Thanks again for the regular encouragement, it's made taking the time to keep up the blog worth it. It's the colchisian scripts from the BaC set, 3.5 of them.

I don't understand glowing cooling pipes, it's just asking to roll 1's...

Buttery Commissar wrote:Very impressed! Look forward to seeing them if all goes well.
Is that the anniversary marine I see? I'm pretty awful with telling them apart, apologies if it's not.


Btw I thoroughly recommend the "LE Dimmable LED Desk Lamp" you can get on uk Amazon. You can pose it almost infinitely and it's helped my photos (and last minute painting) thirty fold because you can light under the models. I keep it in my gaming bag.

Hopefully they will be on your side! Not sure they'd last long against the reaver ha ha! Yeah it's the 30th anniversary model, the 25th is the last to be done, but probably won't be there for the game as I want to take my time on him.

I'll look into the lamp, cheers First payday after the wedding is all going on hobby stuff. Might take the plunge into titan territory myself

Stag do starts in 15 mins, so that's me done for the weekend!

With a full day to spare, the 1st company (or at least my vision of it) of the Crimson Fists are ready for Wednesday's game;



I haven't taken individual shots of the units I have completed since the last update as frankly I need to lie down, but I plan on getting some on the table on Weds that will do them more justice. Suffice to say I'm done with blue for a while, I'll come back to them in winter and complete the finishing touches, and add some vehicles.

I'm pleased with the results I managed to achieve in seven weeks, especially when balanced against my work, planning a wedding, running three times a week to look good for the wedding snaps, and general living. Thanks to those who have been following.

Coming next, finishing off a sneaky 1k army I've quietly been working on, then an Iron Warriors 30k army that I might try and do in a week.

Thanks for looking, I'll be sure to post some pics of the game on Thursday.

An impressive feat! how many models total is that?

Cheers . Should be 128 marines, the exact number of the cf 1st company (or within one or two, I've added and taken away since starting). The chaplain seems to have run away, I'm probably going to replace him with a 40k one anyway.

Got this fella table ready today as well to join the party. He's been sat on my painting table for nearly a year just begging for more than a silver base coat;



Or



As I've magnetized him for all options. He needs properly finishing, but with my paladin he'll add some much needed vehicular support.

I don't understand how this is possible, but I've witnessed it with my own eyes. Well done for finishing the army, it's been great to follow.

I also laughed at "an Iron Warriors army in a week". I can barely do a unit in that time

If you don't mind saying, how much time do you dedicate to painting? I might not be doing as much as I should.

Ha ha, cheers Warboss. Normally I try to do half an hour every evening. Over the last few weeks that has been pushed up to probably an hour, and more at the weekend. Not sleeping well has helped get more done. I've got all the tools I need to get on with things efficiently, and I try to work efficiently (must be my childhood in Germany kicking in), so I don't waste much time. That and I have been lucky enough to work with a few professional painters in the past and so picked up a few tips on how to cut corners without too much compromise. I get most of my hobby satisfaction from completing a project, so that helps motivate me.

If you ever plan a trip to Whw let me know, we'll have a Crimson Fist civil war

Thanks for the comments as well

As I said previously, I've been working on a sneaky little army that is completely different to all my others; a highly mobile craftworld/corsair Eldar army.



The prince/farseer wip



They were painted very quickly, a unit from start to finish in one sitting. They were only intended to be a decent tabletop standard, and to practice airbrushing a bit more. I used de scourge heads on the guardians, and sister of slaughter heads on the seers. I'll get some better pics taken after the wedding, and might see about putting some transfers on to break up the pink.

I love the design of the hornets. I don't know what it is about them but they're some of my favourite Eldar models.

Also, the Spear on that Farseer is really well done

Cheers warboss. The hornets are some of my favourite models,and they were a breeze to paint. I was quite pleased with spear, although they think that the picture looks a little better than the reality, a few cock ups not revealed.

So, now that I'm a married man, it's time to start a new army, and what better symbolism of wedded bliss is there than the implacable will of the iron warriors? She didn't buy that either, but nay mind...

So over the last few weeks I've quietly bought the beginnings of a 30k army, and updated my red books;



I had planned on trying to do this in a week, which would have been achievable, but I've decided that I am going to take my time and have a nicely painted table top army instead. I'm going to start by head swapping the praetor, and building the termis as siege tyrants, I picked up some cyclone missile launchers on eBay. I'll get some wip shots up over the next few days, I've got roughly a million thank you letters to write to roughly one million amazing people who made our wedding day an amazing experience

Congratulations! Sounds like you had a great time. However, I bet that the haul there was hard to hide from the lucky one

Good luck writing the thank you letters!

Cheers mate, it was an amazing day! Luckily I don't have to hide anything, she's exactly the same with her clothes.

Done about half of the letters, other half still to go...

 JamesY wrote:
Cheers mate, it was an amazing day! Luckily I don't have to hide anything, she's exactly the same with her clothes.

Sounds about right

First siege tyrant finished. Hopefully the rest will be done tomorrow as I only have the shoulder pads to finish.

Love it, that guy looks great.

Cheers

Damn you're prolific. Eldar look cool.

Nice work on the test Iron Warrior, very swanky.

EDC

Ha ha, thanks edc. I have been doing the Eldar since Easter, just a box at a time whilst working on other things. The IW will keep me busy for the next few weeks

Siege tyrant looks great!

Thanks mate, I'm pretty pleased with it.