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Bonjour fellow Sons of Mankind. What are you currently working on?

Me? Well, since you asked. Just got these in the post day before yesterday. I'm still recovering from Grandfather's blessings, but once I feel up to it I'll start assembly. I was lucky enough to find ten MK3 bodies for my Gray Slayers thankfully, but those kits are about as rare as hens teeth! Hope Russ isn't too much a pain to put together, he looks like a lot of parts...

In process Salamanders

I've got a HH event next weekend so I finished off a unit of Tacticals and a Volkite Heavy Support squad as well.
With my army done I've also taken on my friends unpainted units so I'll be doing some Thousand Sons tanks and infantry for them as well.

Working up the energy to tackle this pile of jetbikes. Guess my Legion.

Funnily enough I'm working on Jetbikes too. Though mine are 3rd legion. I'd love to say how they feel in game but first time I ran them they fled off the board first turn.

Just finished these..


now working on a pile of Mk1 Whirlwinds

If only 12Y/O me could see all these..

Blackfang, any chance you could spoiler those images please? They're playing merry-hob with my screen resizing.

Nice to see what people are working on.
I am putting the finishing touches on some cataphractii. A squad of combi-melta/plasma with power/chain fists. A squad of volkite/power axes and a squad of twin claws for maximum rip and tear.
Also have 2 contemptors and a spartan on the back burner.

Just finished a couple of Malcadors for my Tzica Spireguard...

malcadors are always nice.
Me i am working on my list, and later on my predator.

I think i require atleast another proteus, rhino and either a sicarian or another predator.

4 Spartans. For my 40k Chaos army :p

 Insectum7 wrote:
4 Spartans. For my 40k Chaos army :p

what for do you require 4 spartan transports?

MongooseMatt wrote:
Just finished a couple of Malcadors for my Tzica Spireguard...

Spoiler:

Oh yes, i really dig those!

My most recent escapades have been magnetizing all the special and heavy weapons for two support squads



I also really hate the glorified segway look of the Legionary rapier so I used the Solar Auxilia one as a base for something more like a fully remote controlled unit.

I'm finishing up 10 lascannons. Next up, is 2 rhinos, 3 contemptor, and a Leviathan for my Dark Angels.

Welp, i just ordered 2 Proteusi, another predator, a rhino and a squad of Tartaros Terminators.

I took that whole scales of the hydra too serious me thinks ...

Ya the solar aux quad looks better for sure.

So good looking I got two more

Now I just need to order another set of spiky pauldrons from pop goes the monkey and my field artillery needs are sated until the Whirlwind comes out.

Did they come with bases?

No, I just had these ones spare and put the Rapiers on them.

Still waiting on the Assault kits, UM MKVI heads and the Whirlwind Scorpius.. and for rumours of possible Land Speeder Proteus kit remake. Got a 30th Anniversary FW resin Speeder mostly built, but if a resculpt is happening in the next year or two, it's getting scrapped, as it will look out of scale with the old MKVI leg proportions. Also thinking about how to best magnetize my Indomitus terminator left shoulderpads, so as to be able to switch between a 40K look (Crux Terminatus ON) & a 30K look (Crux Terminatus OFF).

Ah, almost forgot, also waiting for news on the Plastic Mechanicum Automata rumours! Really craving for a decent maniple to support my beakies with, and I reckon if they ever get released in plastic, they'll end up hella cheaper than the resin ones.

I'm a painfully slow army builder.. I'm still in the phase where I'm gathering kits, bits, blu tacing infantry trying out bits/poses, partial assemblies of vehicles etc, researching on colourschemes and weathering techniques.. will take me years to finish my IXth.. but I have the rest of my life to finish them so no stress (yet) hehehe!

I dont mind playing with unpainted, blutaced minis so it doesn't matter anyway.. These kits cost too damn much for me to do a lazy job with them, I'd rather play with sticks and stones than ruin my pieces. Everyone I play with is cool with playing against WIP stuff

Just a few tanks

Bobug wrote:


Just a few tanks

What legion?

also whilest not as impressive, i decided to finish my AL army by this slew of purchases, just before the other pricehike and for themathic reasons.



Which puts me at close to a mechanised company. (32 normal marines, 20 Special weapon marines, 10 Cataphractii of which one is a consul, 10 tartarosi, 1 praetor 3 more consuls, 10 scouts and 5 headhunters, 3 rhinos, Spartan, 2 proteusi and 2 predators.)

Also technically i would've been prepared since 2 months now for my Milita army but GW seems to not want to upload the miltia PDF...

Nice! Just a bit of advice on those predators, they're an awesome kit and also pretty friendly for magnetising so defo mag all those guns! However when you're building the chassis, trim and sand down the tabs on the base plate slightly. And cut down the peg on the back doors by like 1mm either side. Both are slightly too long/too large to fit where they need to be.

Other than that's it's a lovely kit to build!

Also mine are all white scars. Should be done tonight so might post a pic

Brings me to about 10000 points of painted white scars I think 😬

Bobug wrote:
Nice! Just a bit of advice on those predators, they're an awesome kit and also pretty friendly for magnetising so defo mag all those guns! However when you're building the chassis, trim and sand down the tabs on the base plate slightly. And cut down the peg on the back doors by like 1mm either side. Both are slightly too long/too large to fit where they need to be.

Other than that's it's a lovely kit to build!

Also mine are all white scars. Should be done tonight so might post a pic

Brings me to about 10000 points of painted white scars I think 😬

have you also magnetised the sponson guns?
If so how?

Personally i only really need to magnetise the grav, predator and volkite turret weapons, since i absolutely love volkite weapons and have more than enough lascannon carrying transports personally, but if you can tell me an easy way to do the sponsons then i will do them.

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Insectum7 wrote:
4 Spartans. For my 40k Chaos army :p

what for do you require 4 spartan transports?

4-5K worth of painted Chaos/Black Legion Infantry, of course!

I have lots of Chaos dudes but not a lot of armor. When the Spartans hit a mere $60 US on the second hand market I picked up four to remedy the lack of tanks. And one can never have too many Lascannons anyways.

Not Online!!! wrote:

Bobug wrote:
Nice! Just a bit of advice on those predators, they're an awesome kit and also pretty friendly for magnetising so defo mag all those guns! However when you're building the chassis, trim and sand down the tabs on the base plate slightly. And cut down the peg on the back doors by like 1mm either side. Both are slightly too long/too large to fit where they need to be.

Other than that's it's a lovely kit to build!

Also mine are all white scars. Should be done tonight so might post a pic

Brings me to about 10000 points of painted white scars I think 😬

have you also magnetised the sponson guns?
If so how?

Personally i only really need to magnetise the grav, predator and volkite turret weapons, since i absolutely love volkite weapons and have more than enough lascannon carrying transports personally, but if you can tell me an easy way to do the sponsons then i will do them.

So personally for the sponsons I have cheated a little bit because I have a 3d printer. However. Best way to go would be to cut off the little pegs on the targeter and the round baseplate/wire thing that goes under the gun, then slot a magnet in the hole on each side and a magnet in the top and bottom of the weapon.

easiest and laziest way (which I did in with my resin predators and kratos before I got the printer) is to not glued the weapons and just dry fit the pegs on the targeting and wire bit. They're snug enough that they fit without glue and then you can pull them out to change. Weapons.

Now though I'm just cheating and have printed extra sponsons incase I. Need them

I've been working on my Sons of Horus.

Looking good! 😍

My Word Bearers project is on hold until the MkVI accessories come out, where I'll then decide which armor mark I want to take.

Painting a squad of Tyrant Siege terminators:



I did paint one to test the look, and I'm now painting the rest.