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This is the start of my own warhammer 40k and war gaming experience, and I'd like to share that with you.
Any hints, tips and advice, critiques are encouraged.
First pictures of current minis and workspace to follow shortly.
Courage and Honour brothers.

Here are the first forces;
They're all bought from ebay premade and base coated.
I used them to get a feel for brushes, how paint works when thinned and general getting to grips with putting paint on.
Once I get a definitive style down for shading/ hi lighting and such, I'll strip the tac marines and re do them.

Any tips on taking photos? lighting etc.

Thanks guys.

I hadonly popped into GW for a few paints and a brush....honest....

I would use some washes on your minis. other then that, good job looking good.

Haha. You're like me. Go in for one thing come out with 4.

Yeah, I've just bought some from GW that should help me with my up coming dark vengeance paint session haha (goddammit!)

Thanks for the feed back mate, appreciate it a lot.

So, I've got nearly all the mini's off sprue, cleaned up and ready for priming, just scouting for some decent stuff (thinking plasikote from my local hardware shop).

Planning to convert the bikes and tac marines into regular ultras.

Termies and characters still on sprue. Think i'll save them for when I have more skill with a brush.

Thanks for looking.

PS. is this the right place for this on the forum? Should it be in a blog or article or something?

T.

All minis done, just waiting for primer and liquid green stuff and i'll get cracking with painting these bad boys.

Marines are going to be Ultramarines, with the exception of Company master, who I I really dislike so I may not bother with him at all.

Chaos is chaos, no two ways about it. still thinking of a colour palate for them.

Got a bunch of bits coming from ebay soon so I may be kitbashing some peeps together to bulk out my HQ choices, we'll see. I have this though of using the ravenwing bike wing bits as some form of storm shield if I can work them out.

Revell products???!?!? HERESY!!!

On a serious note, nice work, looking forward to more.

Haha revell all the way dude, at least for the periphery stuff, glue and tools etc.

Thanks man, looking forward to painting them up

THE BITS ARE HERE! TIME TO KITBASH!! haha

Also, finally got hold of some primer, so i'll be testing it out tomorrow, hopefully get painting in earnest on sunday/Monday. In the process of stripping all my pre painted marines so I can do a mammoth session.

fun fun fun


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Also, found a local stockist of P3, which exites me, as they are cheaper and bigger then GW (the only other mini store I can find within easy reach) so I'll be investing in some of those in time. Thoughts on P3 in general?