Well done, soon they will have to commission you to work directly for them.

lol.......thx Archer

Congrats! It's well deserved. Keep churning out the great work Jan, glad to see it being shared through WD

You should be proud

Few final touches, seal the powders and we'll call this bad boy done

Very nice Jan, she looks like a beast.

A fun one to paint for my first tank

Don't you know your first tank should be a rhino that you spread the paint on with a spatula so think it loses all detail and becomes an offering to Nurgle?

Not this beautiful creation? So utterly jealous. I am suffering serious hobby funk at the moment and your results are helping me much.

So what's next for me to be jealous at?

Lol. Cheers Archer. I'm sure I'll do a rhino some day! Right now am finishing up another two SH termies. They're just about done save all the jewels........blood Angels Urgghhhh - lords of the bling!

This is your first tank? Wow. Cheap and easy kit to tackle there Jan . It looks exceptional. So up next is some sort of FW Super Heavy then?

Mechanicum Explorator would be nice!!!!

So pleased to see you in WD mate! Well deserved. If you lived just a little closer to Nottingham I am sure they'd be trying to get you down to do a feature on the army!

Tank looks great too. Really good in fact. I love the subtle lightning that's dancing over the coils of the gun (which too, is scratch built IIRC from your WIP shots!).

Cheers Bottle. Was a nice wee surprise to get photos in the mags.Happy how the tank turned out. Think that design of tank suits the AdMech aesthetic pretty well....reminds me of the Onager Dunecrawler but the front gun was a little meh so I scratch built a lightning cannon.....much cooler!!! Basically just a cut down gel pen and some other bits!! Try and get some proper photos taken later this evening

 Januine wrote:
Few final touches, seal the powders and we'll call this bad boy done

THAT THING IS AWESOME!

Cheers. It's as heavy as it looks. Practically a solid block of resin.

Fantastic tank, just amazing, and way to go working in excersize whilst you game, lifting that about! Brilliant job sir.

cheers cam. defintely going to do a few more tanks in the futures. Like the look of the new Mechanicum ones. Have something a bit bigger in mind before than mind


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Finally got some proper photos taken. Camera has been acting the arse all morning but we got there. The Skit boys have got themselves a new ride!!! Lightning Cannon and a twin-linked cognis las-cannon for a little punch. Here's waaaaayyy too many photos

'Course as the dracosan is incredibly old and second hand for the Rangers (at least) it's gonna need a enginseer to keep it going. Enter Adept Jajjung-Na. I actually really like this sculpt. I know a lot of folk moaned that he's a bit static and just ambles forward scowling but I think he fits the bill nicely!!!

The tank is beautiful.

Grats Archer

Jeeeeze, the blogs really are on summer vacation if a model as exquisitely painted as that gets a solitary reply. The rust is stellar on it, such good, natural looking painting and the additions such as the Skitarii gunner serve to set it off further.

The Engineseer is a cracking sculpt, cannot wait to see what you do with it Jan.

Gee you make me think I should have said more.

Ha, certainly not Archer. I was more talking about the volume of replies rather than the content of any individual replies. Speaking of which I shall now have a gander at your blogs Sir.

Thx very much T. Really am happy how the dracosan came out. Think she fits perfectly in with the rest of the ranger squad which was what i was really hoping for. I know it's really supposed to be a 30k solar auxillIa vehicle but I think it fits fine with the 40k skitarii. Like the forgeworld unearthed it from some long forgotten battle site and brought it back to life and service

Loving that Dracosan . Great stuff as usual Januine! Kinda takes a dump on the Rhino, doesn't it? Lol.

Excellent stuff mate! I love the Dark and gritty looking mechanicum!

I really like him. IMO AdMech should be a bit static, especially in their body.

I count about 178 different kinds of awesome on that Dracosan, simply stunning stuff (and I'm not normally one to appreciate tanks that much!).

 Januine wrote:
'Course as the dracosan is incredibly old and second hand for the Rangers (at least) it's gonna need a enginseer to keep it going. Enter Adept Jajjung-Na. I actually really like this sculpt. I know a lot of folk moaned that he's a bit static and just ambles forward scowling but I think he fits the bill nicely!!!

Adept Jajjung-Na? Haha - you should give all your unit Korean names. Maybe the tank could be "no-jam" as I am sure your students love saying to you when you threaten to take away their smartphones if they don't stop playing Pokemon Go. :-p

Anyway, love this model and almost bought a Leman Russ just for it! (Thank god they now sell it seperately). And I have sung the tank's praises enough but I expect to see it gracing the pages of an upcoming White Dwarf now I have a subscription starting. Looks utterly fantastic mate.

Tanks very much all (worst joke ever >< I'm going to get one or two of the FW Mechanicum tanks aat some point like the explorator but some of the FW SA tanks really fit in nicely with the aesthetic (and fluff) of how I've been doing my own homebrew forgeworld. So one or two more reclaied SA tanks in the future being added is not unlikely Warhound Titan will be getting done first. Still trying to come up with a Legio name/livery and a name for the Titan too. I have time yet as won't be getting it in hand till December

Cheers Bottle - knew you'd get that joke ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ My girls know better than to bring their phones to class. Most of the homeroom teachers collect the phones in at the start of each day anyways. Mercifully there is no Pokemon Go here in Wonju. The only place in Korea you can play it is over by Sokcho on the east coast where I used to live. Rest of Korea is Pokemon No! Folk here are facestuck to their phones enough as it is.
Hummed and hawed about getting a subscription to the new WD (still thinking kinda) but its acc the website its 100GBP (about W150,000) for the rest of theworld which would make it more expensive than just picking up a monthly copy in Seoul. Shame really as I was going to go for it if I could order at the british price and make the savings. Ah well
Once this tech priest is finished think I'm going to do a full pic of my AdMech Taghmata as it's' actuallly quite a size now. Takes up two shelves in the cabinet at a squeeze! Still a lot os stuff I want to add to it yet though. Must get the start collecting box so I have a dunecrawler (which I think will go really well alongside the Dracosan) as a command vehicle and a squad of vanguard too.

Cannot wait to see a pic of the whole force together, it should look very impressive. I would also love to see your take on the Dunecrawler. If you got the Get Started have you thought what you'd do with the second Dominus? I really like some of the Inquisimunda conversions the Ironsleet guys do by flipping the body around so that it becomes a tall figure with a flowing trail.

And it sounds bliss having a homeroom teacher to take the phones off them. I remember back when I was a hagwon teacher and the joys of getting students to stop playing minecraft at the start of lesson haha.

lol. Girls High School Bottle - Big classes but they are trained! Discipline is never an issue with my lot. The worst thing I have to deal with it is the odd student sleeping in the back of the class.
2nd Dominus will definitely be getting converted.......not sure to what or how yet.......but yeah - loving some of those Inquisimunda convs. If you havent checked out IronSleet yet.......do so. Think you'll realy like.

https://ironsleet.com/

I've been seeing your stuff from afar but never time to comment! As has been stated - far too few comments for such a great bit of hobbying going on here. The tank looks great, you did a superb job on it. The enginseer will fit in really well with the aesthetic of the force. Out of interest, have you any idea how you would incorporate those in to a playable force? Ie do you need to use them as "counts as" or because of the ally matrix will they just fit in that way? Just interested.

Fit in as in for a rules allowed playable force? Not really thought of it that way. I think more from a story and fluff view. With the Dracosan - it's a could they field such a vehicle fluffwise - the forgeworld are reclaimers - they travel about looking for lost tech that was damaged/destryed in some conflict which they then reclaim, repair, rearm and then reuse. A 40k forge digging up old tanks, automata and such to bolster their forge's taghmata - makes sense to me and fits the (well, at least my idea of) whole AdMech faction. Rule of cool and all that. Whatever they reclaim though I could see them upgrading a bit. Dracosan usually has a twinlinked lascannon as its main gun......I could see the cogbiys looking at that and thinking.....yeah ......we can do a little better than that.....have a lightning cannon instead

Love your stuff can't wait to see more admechs > I love those models and you make them look awesome!

Cheers Guildenstern - really kind to say do have another tech priest enginseer (the new-ish one) coming up adn then next month - my admech forge shall be getting a few visitors - an Ordo Machinum Inquisitor plus retinue!!

Looking forward to seeing more! Keep it up!

Cheers jetjetex. More is defintely coming for the admech. Techpriest than an inquistional retinue from the Ordo Machinum! Stay tuned!

Of course it's a playable force. The models and paint job are too gorgeous to pass up the chance to see them on the tabletop. Wouldn't care if you made rules up. Just getting to play against them would be awesome.

Lol. Yeah - sure would love to get them fielded and fighting some day. Most of their rules are in the mechanicus red book fromFW - the thanatar for example. I do also eventually want a couple go big squads of tech thrall covenant. Great meat shields those boys!!

You need to get these guys playing a game. They are too beautiful to stay on a shelf

Cheers TP

Helllooooooo nurse!!!! (Anyone not get that animaniacs reference - shame, SHAME!!!) This arrived this morning!! Ordered on Tuesday, delivered Wednesday. Finally get to add a dunecrawler to my admech forces

What are we going to do today, Brain?

Oh yeah!! nice!! can't wait to see it =D

That, sir, is a beautiful Dracosan!

The weathering is perfect, love the use of a warm dust colour to counter the cold model tones. Top marks!

Cheers muchly Aryllon. Love the drac but I intentiin of starting a SA force. No worries - gave back to the cogboys who built it in the first place!!! Scratch building the lightning cannon from a pen was a bit of fun

What are we doing today Januine?
The same thing we do every day Knightley, Try to paint all our models!
Narf

Lol - sooooooooo exalted!

Ooo a new box of shinies. Any cunning conversions planned for these dudes?

EDC

For the extra dominos I now have... most definitely. Gotta finish the slaughteroriest conversionfirst

Oooo loving the dracosan. Really nice finish and can't wait to see the finished enginseer with it.

And there's this...... lol

I was actually just going to ask.

Warhound? Cant really make out the pieces but the top right looks warhound-y!

So it begins...

Can't wait to see you tackle a model of this size and complexity. I'm sure it'll be great!

Welcome Titan brother to a pain in the butt model!

The pistons..........oh god the pistons!!
I have evrything I need to get going except the large magnets for the waist and the weapons so I still have lots to be gettign on with in the interim. Started clipping and washing bits already. I'll start on the upper body. I still need to get an appropriate base plate and a SW dread before I can start on the pose etc . BIG project!

Cool stuff! Will you be getting this fellow too when he comes out? He's called Belisarius Cawl, and a venerable Arch-Magos of the Mechanicus (and also the size of a Carnifex, so he's modded himself HEAVILY)

Ohhh you know I will!!!!

Now THAT is a techpriest!!

Spent the afternoon laying 'Twilight's Bitter Ire' out and checking if all the bits were there. All present and correct. Really top cast. Practically no air bubbles and just one minor localised bit of mouldslip. Cracking. Such. A. Beast. Lol

The only thing I can't figure out is what these two bits are for?????

Hand held controller stick things?

EDC

Yep. That thar is a warhound.

Those are control sticks that go in the cockpit, I do believe.

Lovely. Cheers

I can double check tonight when I get home if you haven't found their spot yet.

Cheers Whale but figured it out. They're the control sticks for the moderati if you choose not to put in the princeps and moderati - you get an empty control throne and control sticks.
Still no magnets so am gonna start with the internal painting maybe next week

Forgot all about this fella so started painting him on stream this evening. Lovely fig

Lovely shades, highlights and wear on the robes, as well as the armour stains.

Cheers Az. Know he's not the most popular fig with some folk but I really like this sculpt. Mr. GrumpyCogs I calls him!!

Why is he unpopular? Looks like a great update of the old metal dude.

Heard folk whine about the pose. Personally I really dig him

Nah, looks like a badass striding across the battlefield. Should look good with the titan.

Couldnt agree more Whale. Oohh - first load of resin is in the tub - Warhound be getting a bath!!!
Going LIVE in about 1 hour. Loadsa different stuff today there - Deathwatch, Orky fella and a little AdMech. Bit of base building too just for the hell of it
https://www.twitch.tv/januinevision

Littel freehand done. Love this guy!!

Looking awesome! Love the titan tech priest and hopefully have one of my own arriving in the next few days! Just hope I can do it even half as well as you've done yours

You're freehand is awesome. Any advice?

Cheers. Freehand advice ....... hmm ... very thin paint, Windsor & newton #1 brush, brace ur hands, take your time !!
Oh and draw ur design out on paper a few times first

The Engineseer/Tech-Priest is coming along great. It looks like you are upping your game with the highlights on the cloak. The light falls very naturally onto them. Looks great Jan!

Nice work on the priest. Excellent freehand on the cogging.

EDC

Brilliant free hand work as usual, really like the model, has purpose to the pose, your scheme as always looking stunning.

Yeah, he's a great model, and anyone who says otherwise is simply wrong. Your freehand has worked out nicely.

Your paint job on that guy is fantastic, Jan. Which tech priest model is that? A forge world one?

He's cool, I like the pose just fine.

Cheers muchly folks. He's all finished up now. Just need to get some proper snaps taken. @AoV - he's GW. the admech enginseer model they released a while back

Photo time! Despite feeling crook all day and having to cancel streaming, distracted myself with getting some paint down. The warhound cockpit and Princeps Baudolino are now finished. Just need to finish up the moderati and can fit them in properly. Level of detail is both a joy and a royal pain in the arse!!

no love for the Warhound crew eh?!

Belisarius Crawl just arrived yesterday so we'll be working on him as soon as I get back from Ireland. Stunning model. Big bugger too!!

Gorgeous detailing on the cockpit Jan. Love the flaking paint on the rear section.

It's funny how the colour you've chosen for his robes seems to make him look more "real". To clarify - a lot of our hobby is coloured for the sci-fi edge which is often a little garish. You've done a great job here if picking a tone that is very in keeping with the German officers of the Eastern front from the Second World War mixed with the armour of a decade earlier. Your colour choice is one of your greatest talents

Mnay thx TP - really glad you like him. Still need to finish up his moderati and then we can call the cockpit done

I thought I had commented. Cabin looks good. Bummer to hide the chipping behind the grid, but nothing to do about it.

Cheers Whale. The chipping was more a test run for the walls in the main compartments.

Nice work on the cockpit. It looks great.

EDC

Cheers EDC - took a while but well happy with the result

Flying to England today and then pilgrimage to Warhammer World with some other streamers from twitch tomoro. Exxxxxxcited!!!! (Well, my wallet isn't )

Awesome!

Makes me incredibly guilty though; you're making the pilgrimage from Korea and I live less than 100 miles from WHW and still haven't been!

Random question, but did your 54mm Eisenhorn get finished and photographed in the end? I don't recall seeing him, but I might have just missed it.

Hey there Para. WHW was awesome. Spent some money...... got stuff for myself and stuff to paint and giveaway on stream too. Eisenhorn isn't quite finished yet. Nearly. Was waiting on some resin bases from microarts. As soon as I get back to Korea he'll be getting based and finished. Then it's onto his nemesis and ally - the daemonhost Cherubael

Haha, I can vouch for the awesomeness of WHW!

Can't wait to see Eisenhorn!

Nice work on the Princeps, though I think he should probably get the painters in. It's looking a bit nasty in there!

Lol. Old and revered as she is, a slap of fresh paint might get the old girl's cables in a twist!!!!

Stellar work on the Tech Priest and Warhound interior/Princeps Jan. So much detail on that interior. I really like that shade of blue as well. Keep it up.

Thraxas.

Yeah WHW is a great day out. Did you do the exhibition hall or just go for gaming.

Also, you need to spill the beans on your purchases!

EDC

@Thraxas - cheers bud, lots more to come now that I'm back in Korea

@EDC - didnt make it to the exhibition - made it to the shopping and then some!!!! Lotta purchases. Gonna do a big WHW haul unboxig on stream tomoro. I'll pop a photo up of the loot at some point