youwashock wrote:Good job! The lightning on the halberd is a very cool detail.

Cheers youwashock, it is pretty decent and something I’ll try again

endtransmission wrote:The freehand and gold both look great to me! Having been attempting freehand this week as well, I can totally sympathise with the challenge

Thanks, it’s pretty nerve wracking worrying about having to redo bits

Slinky wrote:Awesome, well done!
Love the completed Possessed too, horrible in a good way

Thanks, those possessed were a good little project too

Olthannon wrote:Wow that's bloody marvellous! Really nice work on that mini. Love the halberd blade, that's a awesome idea for a power weapon.

Thanks Olthannon, though the lightning idea was borrowed from the GW box art

youwashock wrote:Conceptually, I think you are good. The upper body is looking right, but I think you are correct in revisiting the legs. A different pair might sell it a little more.

Yeah I’ll see how it looks with different legs and post back. Cheers

Olthannon wrote:Definitely a cool pose, I'd maybe tilt the bolter and arm further down so it looks more at rest/ clearly not in use. Love the concept, some dynamism in otherwise static heavy looking minis should look great.

Thanks, I’ve tried for dynamism with most of my Terminators as the Space Marine Heroes ones were the seed for my first company. I don’t think I’ve managed that level but this one might get close. I’ll see about lowering the Bolter arm, as I think the pose is a little off still.

Switching from building to painting I made some progress on the first terminator squad last night, though it was only slapping on metallics. All of the mechanical gubbins and most of the skulls got a Boltgun/Leadbelcher mix, then the trim got gold in the form of Retributor Armour.

Clearly I was very messy throwing these paints down so there will be plenty of tidying up to do with both black and purple. I’m thinking purple helmets ( ) with gold stripe like my Sternguard/Company Veterans had. It worked on them and similar with the crimson fist terminators I did ages ago

Thanks for looking

So, Purple Helmets it is! Finished tidying up the black armour (the new Vallejo Game Colour Black is really matte, and lovely smooth coverage) though I now have some silver and gold that needs work! then it was on with blocking in the purple bits: shoulder pads and helmets

I’ve also been faffing around with my printer as I’m only a couple of shoulder pads away from 5 squads of Terminators. Having updated the slicer and the drivers it seems to have fixed the shifting layer problem and I think I can print a decent pad now. I’ve also created an icon template to see if it can handle them. Test prints look decent, but need to get some paint on them for the real proof

Thanks for looking!

gobert,

Made a couple of exalts on the previous page.

Cheers,

CB

Oh, yeah, those guys look cool. That assault cannon model is so good.

Shlurple the purple! Looking excellent!

Your Panthernators are already looking excellent. Looking forward to seeing you crisp them up like roasties in the oven.

Captain Brown wrote:gobert,
Made a couple of exalts on the previous page.
Cheers,
CB

Thanks Cap, I’m pretty pleased blue the last few projects have turned out

youwashock wrote:Oh, yeah, those guys look cool. That assault cannon model is so good.

Yeah, the Space Marine Heroes minis are a step above i think and the assault cannon lad is probably my favourite of this batch too

Olthannon wrote:Shlurple the purple! Looking excellent!

cheers!

theCrowe wrote:Your Panthernators are already looking excellent. Looking forward to seeing you crisp them up like roasties in the oven.

Panthernators has a good ring to it. Sadly the oven was set a bit low thanks to getting this bad cold that’s doing the rounds to the roast plastic will take while

Saying that, I have made some solid progress on Terminators. The first squad got their gold neatened up after the purple was done. Then they got a wash of Nuln oil and I’ve got the Boltgun metal underway on the first couple of them.





I’ve also been plodding my way through fixing up the other Terminators I have… which is seemingly approaching a Demi 1st company! After the first squad I have a Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield squad made mostly of SMH guys



There’s also a Lightning Claw squad with a couple more SMH chaps



The last SMH guy is the Cyclone Missile Launcher in the second regular squad



I’ve also got a regular squad with an ex-Chaos Heavy Flamer (thanks Ragsta!) these guys all have chain fists, 2 of which were converted. The chap I was asking posing questions about is also here. I stuck with the running pose and made it more of a shoulder barge pose than originally planned. I think he looks cool.



I have another squads worth of regulars, but I’m short a few bits and pieces. So I ordered some Deathwing components from eBay that should be with me by now, but Royal Mail only deliver fortnightly of late for some reason (the new Warhammer Heroes was at the Bristol depot for 2 weeks and declared lost by RM before it randomly pitched up on a Sunday! ). I’m kinda regretting not ordering a Deathwing plasma cannon, but I might convert the Assaul Cannon for these guys in to one… I have about 6 regular ones left after all!



I also have another squad of Lightning Claw marines in bit and on sprue



So that’s 7 squads in total and I reckon I might be able to build an 8th with a few arms. Together with the Sternguard I did recently and the box of Vanguard marines that would be a full Demi 1st company… at this rate I might as well do a chapter right!?

The eagle eyed amongst you will have spotted the array of dreadnought weapons too. Well they’re for these 2:


The little guy only came with one foot, so I replaced it and the missing one with matching 3d printed versions. His missile launcher I think is from the Venerable kit, so might be a bit big for him. I reckon it’s close enough though.

Thanks for looking

That's a lot of heavy armor. I look forward to the day they all stand together for one of your excellent army shots. Really excited for the Dreadnoughts. Stompy robots rule.

The missile launcher looks fine, doesn't look too big.

Looking good, that's going to be impressive once they are all done!

What do you mean Gobert? There's atleast another 40 missing no?

Great job on them and the dreads.

youwashock wrote:That's a lot of heavy armor. I look forward to the day they all stand together for one of your excellent army shots. Really excited for the Dreadnoughts. Stompy robots rule.

It really is and it was quite a bit of accidental acquisitions the big horde of plastic I got had 4 squads worth of terminators and a totally unadvertised dreadnought!

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:The missile launcher looks fine, doesn't look too big.

Cheers Gwyn, I now realise that the pic I posted was from the front and its proportions are only off from the side . I’m happy enough as it looks cool either way!

Slinky wrote:Looking good, that's going to be impressive once they are all done!

Yeah, I’ll need a new display board too, good job the kids got rid of a book case recently!

Not Online!!! wrote:
What do you mean Gobert? There's atleast another 40 missing no?
Great job on them and the dreads.

Don’t tempt me! 🤣 *goes and checks eBay for old terminators*

Been plodding on with the Terminators, 2 of them have their metallics fully highlighted, and the others aren’t far behind.

I’ll start work on the purples including the purple highlights on the black next.

I then took a detour from Warhammer in preparation for Christmas. We were talking board games with the kids the other day and they hadn’t played Cluedo before (think I’ve only played it the once!) and Mrs Gobert said she loved it. Then when doing the supermarket shopping I spotted a version with miniatures, so they was a family present sorted, and a quick hobby project for me!



Similar to the Bill & Ted minis I did a quick job. Grey prime then zenithal white focussing on the front a bit more. Then it was a variety of Speed and Contrast paints. All were done in a single day, which is a first for me, especially to get a box done within 2 days of purchase!


The minis are a bit of mix, some have great details and designs and others are a bit muted. Here’s individual mug shots
Miss Scarlet

I particularly love her hair, and the dress turned out pretty nicely too.
Colonel Mustard

He took the contrast paints really well and has loads of character. He’s probably my favourite sculpt of the bunch
Chef White

Her box art is cool, but the mini didn’t turn out that great. I was a bit sloppy on the buttons and I didn’t hit her with enough white zenithal (now isn’t that ironic?).
Mayor Green

He’s just a bit bland and has a wierd face. It might’ve been better had I remembered his goatee
Solicitor Peacock

Another full model, but I like the colour on her blouse. Quite a bit of the blue ran on to bits it wasn’t meant to be, which is a shame.
Professor Plum

Seems a bit cool for a professor, and the sculpt is a bit minimal, but the sculpted texture on his jumper rescues him a bit.

They were fun little diversion and hopefully they’ll be fun to play with on Christmas Day.

That’ll probably be my posts done before Christmas itself, so I hope you all have a great Christmas and Santa brings you some hobby goodies!

Thanks for looking!

Very nice. Colonel Mustard is living up to his name too.

Nicely done, gobert! Have fun solving the mystery!

Love the Cluedo minis Gobert and good luck with those Terminators.

All the best for Christmas mate!

Good job on the cluedo minis and happy festivities!

Nice themed project Gobert.

Happy Holidays.

Cheers,

CB

The Cluedo minis are looking great. Nice work there. It reminds me that I had intended to do this exact same thing this time last year, (though my set are different figures).

Looking at these makes me think I need to get on this. Nice one gobert.

Merry Christmas mate!

Painting up the Cluedo set was a great idea and they've all come out really nicely - wouldn't have guessed they'd been done as quickly as that.

I've got a lot to catch up on, but the latest BSF minis are fantastic - the green really pops on the possessed, and the cloth and halberd on the Watch master are really well done.

Your minis are looking amazing even in super close up shots - which you're also taking really well lol - the photography is great in here and the way you light/backdrop really sets the minis off. Love when there's an in-game looking shot after all the white backgrounds.

I'm sure I've commented on them before but the BSF tiles are super clean and evocative with the OSL - well done mate.

Thanks for sharing!

You've been accomplishing so much, I'm having trouble visualizing how big your forces for the Void Panthers are. How many models have you painted for your chapter at this point?

Tommygun1918 wrote:Very nice. Colonel Mustard is living up to his name too.

Cheers, he really does look like a nice dollop of mustard doesn’t he

youwashock wrote: Nicely done, gobert! Have fun solving the mystery!

Cheers, it’s gone down really well with the family, so a good choice it would seem.

Olthannon wrote:Love the Cluedo minis Gobert and good luck with those Terminators.
All the best for Christmas mate!

Thanks Olthannon, I think I’m gonna need luck with the mountain of Terminators

Not Online!!! wrote:Good job on the cluedo minis and happy festivities!

Thanks NotOnline!!!

Captain Brown wrote:Nice themed project Gobert.
Happy Holidays.
Cheers,
CB

Thanks Captain, ‘tis the season for murder most horrid I suppose!

theCrowe wrote:The Cluedo minis are looking great. Nice work there. It reminds me that I had intended to do this exact same thing this time last year, (though my set are different figures).

Looking at these makes me think I need to get on this. Nice one gobert.

Cheers, I’m not sure the painted figures added much to the family’s experience but I was pleased with myself . They’re quite a fun and fast project when done with contrast/speed paints

tzurk wrote:Merry Christmas mate!

Painting up the Cluedo set was a great idea and they've all come out really nicely - wouldn't have guessed they'd been done as quickly as that.

I've got a lot to catch up on, but the latest BSF minis are fantastic - the green really pops on the possessed, and the cloth and halberd on the Watch master are really well done.

Your minis are looking amazing even in super close up shots - which you're also taking really well lol - the photography is great in here and the way you light/backdrop really sets the minis off. Love when there's an in-game looking shot after all the white backgrounds.

I'm sure I've commented on them before but the BSF tiles are super clean and evocative with the OSL - well done mate.

Thanks for sharing!

Merry Christmas tzurk! Thanks for taking the time to go through the plog, it’s been a decent hobby year. You and a few others were the inspiration for the action shots, so it means a lot that you like the pics! I need to print off some more BSF stuff but as I’m unlikely to play maybe I’ll just save the stls, but they were fun so who knows!

Syro_ wrote:You've been accomplishing so much, I'm having trouble visualizing how big your forces for the Void Panthers are. How many models have you painted for your chapter at this point?

Thanks Syro, there are surprisingly few Void Panthers painted at the moment
25 Tactical Marines
10 Assault Marines with Jump Packs
3 Bikers (7 more in various stages of construction)
1 Land Speeder
5 Sternguard (DA Company) Veterans
1 Stormtalon Gunship
1 Chapter Master
1 Land Raider

But then I have the rest of a regular Company and a Demi 1st Company. Of which the WIP pile is;
5 Regular Terminators

On the primed pile I have:
5 Tactical Marines
1 Rhino
1 Command Squad
1 Captain in Power Armour
1 Captain in Terminator Armour
9 Devastator Marines
1 Librarian in Power Armour

In the built pile there are
9 Tactical Marines
5 Assault Marines with Jump Packs
1 Devastator Marine
10 Regular Terminators
5 Thunder Hammer & Storm Shield Assault Terminators
8 Lightning Claw Assault Terminators
1 Venerable Dreadnought
1 Regular Dreadnought
1 Razorback
1 Tech Marine
1 Stormraven Gunship
1 Stormhawk Interceptor

In the not started pile I have
21 Tactical Marines
5 Assault Marines with Jump Packs
10 Devastator Marines
4 Regular Terminators
7 Lightning Claw Assault Terminators

Phew! That turned in to a post of its own! But it was good to get it all written down. I don’t think I’ve forgotten anything. I’ll try to do a year summary when I get the chance. In the meantime here’s the instagram version

With how much progress I have seen, I admit that's less finished and painted Void Panthers than I expected, but still a good chunk of finished guys. And wow, that's a lot prepared and in progress. Looks like we'll all get to enjoy your progress on them for a long time.

 Syro_ wrote:
With how much progress I have seen, I admit that's less finished and painted Void Panthers than I expected, but still a good chunk of finished guys. And wow, that's a lot prepared and in progress. Looks like we'll all get to enjoy your progress on them for a long time.

Yeah I was surprised when I counted up recently to compare the quantity with all of the dreadnoughts painted by ListenToMeWarriors (@celestiallion on insta)… it was a close run thing but the Panther just about had more. I’m happy at the projects to come and complete. Probably back to regular marines next.

Before my first proper post of the year, here’s my 2023 in review (apologies that it’s a bit late but I enjoy doing them!)

January
I started the year finishing off the mega Necron project

February
Wrapped up the Necrons

Bonus pic because it looks cool!

Then I moved on to some Assault Marines with Jump packs

March
Saw slow progress on the assault squad thanks to a dodgy right arm (still not feeling great but manageable) and I managed to finish them before the month was up

April
Started with a building splurge

(Sorry if they’re too small to see)
After which I re painted a Tiranoc Chariot

Which also happened to be the final mini in my High Elf Army, so here’s a gratuitous Army pic

That inspired me to get my Void Panthers display board finished

And I even squeezed in some Necrons to finish (or so I thought) that army

May
Got off to a bang with painting the inside of a Void Panther Land Raider

Quickly followed by the outside

Keeping on the Panthers kick I kit bashed some Dark Angels Company Veterans to make some Sternguard Veterans

June
Saw me do some Khorne lads on a 3d printed movement tray

And I did some building of colonial marines and Xenomorphs from Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps


July
Finished off the Khorne lads

Then I got 5 marines done for a Void Panthers tactical squad done

And made a start on the Sternguard for the Panthers

August
Saw me splurgeon a massive pile of plastic to expand the Panthers from a Demi company to a full Company and it seems half of the first company

But I managed to finish the Sternguard

Finishing up the month with the Techmarine in a Stormtalon

September
Started with a bunch of Xenomorphs including the Queen

Then there was the Void Panthers Chapter Master and work starting on the outside of the Stormtalon

October
I finished off Chapter Master Inanis

Then the Stormtalon

Chaos crept in at the end of the month with a pair of Greater Possessed for Blackstone Fortress

November
I think the flouro paint on the Possessed Marines turned out ok

I also painted the Deathwatch Watchmaster from the Sons of Orar Chapter for Blackstone Fortress too

December
Was about Terminators mainly, but with trips and family visiting I didn’t manage to finish them

Partly because I speed painted the figures from Cluedo 2023


All in, a pretty good year I reckon. I’ll post later with the finished Terminators and my next projects too

Thanks for looking and supporting throughout 2023. Here’s to plenty more hobby in 2024!

Quite a year, thanks for the recap.

Nice recap, gobert. Bring on those Terminators and 2024.

Syro_ wrote:Quite a year, thanks for the recap.

Thanks, there were some fun projects

youwashock wrote:Nice recap, gobert. Bring on those Terminators and 2024.

Cheers, ask and ye shall receive

As trailed in my last post the Terminators are done! Though of course seeing the pics there are bits that I’ve missed (like the writing on their parchment). I have to admit that before the second edge highlighting went on the black I was questioning the scheme. Now they’re done though I’m glad I stuck it out… only another 30 to go!

Without further ado, here’s Terminator Squad Adrastus of the Void Panthers Chapter





As usual, here are the individual pics, starting with Brother-Sergeant Adrastus himself.


He’s a bit of a kitbash, with the base, body, legs and head of Brother Aramus from the Space Marine Heroes Series 2 collection with Brother Phaello’s right arm and a standard Terminator Sergeants power sword. His base had a few bits filled in to avoid it matching too much. I think he looks pretty good (especially in the last action shot below!)

Next is Brother Astelan


This guy is just a regular terminator although his stormbolter is from the Dark Angels firstborn upgrade sprue, with the dark angels bits removed

Here we have Brother Feurran


Feurran is the first of the true Space Marine Heroes, with no modification from the standard. He’s a pretty cool model with a nice pose astride a broken imperial eagle! What more could to ask for in a mini!?

This chap is Brother Phaello


Phaello is another Space Marine Hero, probably the most basic sculpt, but he has a cool base!

Finally here’s Brother Dyrael


Finishing up the squad with another Space Marine Hero sculpt without changes. His servo skull is pretty cool as is his scope on his gun.

And I can’t finish some panthers without action pics









I love that last one!

So that’s the first completed project of 2024. I’m already working on 2 and 3, pics to follow

Thanks for looking!

Those guys look rad! Excellent job, gobert! Not a bad way to kick off the year. Only bad thing is it makes me want to paint Marines, and they are pretty far back in the queue.

Woohoo! More Void Panthers! A great way to start the new year.

Great recap, gobert - thanks for sharing. Lovely to see them all again - that Necron army is absolutely gorgeous, and the High Elves on their display board are juuuuust right.

You're really nailing the scheme on the Void Panthers too, picking out different combos of the black/gold/purple and lovely tertiary colours like the different shades of green.

Those termis are beaut too. Love the face stripes and the basing in particular and agree that that last action shot is awesome - White Dwarf worthy!

30 more...???

Bring it on!

youwashock wrote:Those guys look rad! Excellent job, gobert! Not a bad way to kick off the year. Only bad thing is it makes me want to paint Marines, and they are pretty far back in the queue.

Thanks, Termiantors are almost always cool aren’t they?! Sorry (not sorry! ) for disrupting the paint queue system!

Syro_ wrote:Woohoo! More Void Panthers! A great way to start the new year.

Yeah! And loads more to come

tzurk wrote:Great recap, gobert - thanks for sharing. Lovely to see them all again - that Necron army is absolutely gorgeous, and the High Elves on their display board are juuuuust right.
You're really nailing the scheme on the Void Panthers too, picking out different combos of the black/gold/purple and lovely tertiary colours like the different shades of green.
Those termis are beaut too. Love the face stripes and the basing in particular and agree that that last action shot is awesome - White Dwarf worthy!
30 more...???
Bring it on!

Thanks mate, there were quite a few highlights what with having 2 Armies completed (gonna be a while until the next completion I think!). White Dwarf worthy has to be highest praise on this forum right!? And yeah 30 more, here’s some pics now I’ve built them all (they still need shoulder pad icons though)






That last squad has some interesting builds. The chap on the far left is slightly reposed by bending his legs and he’s stepping down off a square slotta base . That plasma cannon isn’t the Deathwing version (would’ve been sensible to have bought one when I got a load of Deathwing bits to finish the rest of the squad ). Instead his right arm was originally carrying an assault cannon and was too strongly bonded to his torso, so I cut it off and got to cutting up a Devastator Plasma Cannon. He was also reposed quite a bit to be stepping up on to a platform.
(Pre leg glue)



He’s pretty cool and makes me want to repose a few more regular marines

My 3d Printer has also been busy printing up a kill team board. It’s a paid set of files called Harbinger of Damnation with a bunch of modular walls, doors, pillars and floors. There was lots to print so I used pretty low quality settings as I’m hoping to hide much of the lines with a heavy rust and stippled paint work. Here’s the stages I’ve done so far

As you can see I had some failed prints as the filament ran out. Thankfully I managed to measure the pieces well enough to print extensions and most fit together really well. After this pic I primed everything with some body shop primer that has a fairly rough finish in the hope of hiding the layer lines a bit before covering it as best I could with Colour Forge’s Hyrax Brown. I then got some super cheap acrylic paint from mr bezos and stippled the brown liberally hoping to hide a few more layer lines


It looks quite yellow in that shot but drys quite flat brown. Next I stipled on some red

Which dried much more subtle than this pic looks. Next will be some orange before I do a metallic dry brush all over. Then it’ll be picking out panels with a smaller stippling brush and finishing up with picking out some of the details.

Amongst all of that I’ve done some work on the Colonial Marines from Aliens: Another Glorious Day In The Corps (AGDITC). Basically I’ve tried to recreate the costumes used in the movies. They look quite different under normal lighting conditions than they do in the movie.

Compared to heroic scale they’re properly dainty, but still cool. Some of the details are hard to read, and the camo doesn’t make that any easier! They’re progressing pretty quick, mainly just the skin tones to go now

Thanks for looking

I made some more progress on the Colonial Marines tonight and some of the other characters got some love. Basically just blocked out their skin and other light coloured areas with bleached bone before adding contrast skin tones

Here’s a close to better see the camo


Thanks for looking

Neat camo on the marines!
Also looking forward to seeing how those Kill Team floor tiles come out

 Guardling wrote:
Neat camo on the marines!
Also looking forward to seeing how those Kill Team floor tiles come out

Thanks Guardling, the camo turned out better than I expected which is an unexpected surprise. I’ve managed to sneak in 30mins here and there and got the rusty under layers done on the Kill Team scenery. But now I have colour choices to make and figured dakka could help:

Here’s the bare wall;

I like how it looks but the silver dry brush makes the layer lines really prominent. I’m thinking the frames will stay this colour and bits of the pillars too along with any grills or vents etc

Next is light grey




Both are strong contenders for corridor walls and floors respectively
Pale Yellow

Is a bit too patchy I think and I don’t fancy 2 coats
Blue


Has good coverage and could be a contender
Pale green


I like the colour, but it could be a it much for corridors.

The guy that designed the stls has each compartment painted differently so that’s an option but I’m unlikely to set it up as lots of individual compartments. I think the greys could be good for floors and most walls, but beyond that I’m not sure. I have some habitation areas that will get sinks and showers, maybe they’d be good in light green? There’s a gun compartment that could be quite cool in red? Some escape hatch floor tiles in white and red? There’s almost too many choices! What say you dakkadakka?

Dark grey or blue look the best to me.

I like the grey's, but have you tried sponging silver? It could diminish the effect of making the layer lines stand out and look cool where the underpainting shows through. You could do a few passes, light and dark, really get some depth going. Also, the colonial Marines look rad.

I'd say the light grey has the best background feel
Although if it was me and I wanted a bright colour on one of those, I'd do a layer of grey to help with coverage and leave some exposed to give the appearance of the Primer being exposed by wear and tear...

Thanks all, grey seems the most popular, so that’s what I’ve gone with. I’ve done a bit on the floor tiles and decided to go with dark grey for trim and I’ll do light grey for panels. I might need to do a bit of highlighting now as it’s a bit flat. My other thought is to add lots of stains with some old paint water based wash. Probably a few random colour stains and of course some Blood For The Blood God here and there I like the silver idea so might do some scratches/scuffs and probably a few bits of primer showing through

Cheers all!

I get why everyone is saying the light grey but that pale green looks excellent. Great work on the Colonial Marines and floor tiles.

That floor/deck is going to look great gobert.

Cheers,

CB

Aye, this will look great!

Olthannon wrote:I get why everyone is saying the light grey but that pale green looks excellent. Great work on the Colonial Marines and floor tiles.

Cheers Olthannon, I’m thinking an Avocado bathroom suite would be a good theme for the ablutions unit on the ship

Captain Brown wrote:That floor/deck is going to look great gobert.
Cheers,
CB

Thanks Cap plenty more to do, but it’s good easy going painting so far. Perfect for midweek quick sessions

Not Online!!! wrote:Aye, this will look great!

Cheers, I hope so, I have a few other ideas too

No more progress on the Harbinger, but the Colonial Marines got hit with a few paint sticks. It’s been really fun doing their details tonight, searching the internet to check what colour things could be. Annoyingly I now realise that my main [url=https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/319/lot/88715]reference[\url]doesn’t match every one else’s camo pattern. Still I’m not about to redo it as I think they look pretty cool. The Biggest changes have been getting colour on straps and weapons, but the biggest difference was the athonian camoshade. Whilst it looks good and brought all of the shades together it was all of the extra details it revealed. Helped me spot quite a few areas for improvement! Here’s where they are now;





There’s a few details left to do, like a few patches, base rims and names (need to see if I can find a match for the pale blue on the ALIENS logo). I also did a good bit on the Ripleys, Newts, Bishops, Burke and Gorman. They have a little more to do, but will hopefully complete next session too. I kind of forgot about Power Loader Ripley, so she’ll have to be done when I do the power loader itself.

I’m away this week with work, so might start something else, probably block in some Void Panthers.

Thanks for looking

gobert,

Good work on those Marines.

Cheers,

CB

Great figures- incredibly recognizable from the movie!

The camouflage pattern you've done is terrific.

All the quotes playing in my head. They look super cool, gobert!

"Yeah, but it's a dry heat...."
Hudson

Lovely work as usual gobert. The grey looks good though I am partial to the green myself too! Now that you mention it though Nan had an avocado bathroom growing up and I always thought it was fancy

Love the way the marines are coming along. Athonian Camoshade is one of my favourite paints for a reason.

Won't be sad to see more Void Panthers on the horizon!

Thanks for sharing

Great looking Marines. That camo must have been a pain to do at scale?

 gobert wrote:

Olthannon wrote:I get why everyone is saying the light grey but that pale green looks excellent. Great work on the Colonial Marines and floor tiles.

Cheers Olthannon, I’m thinking an Avocado bathroom suite would be a good theme for the ablutions unit on the ship

Eee god that takes me back. You know there's something strangely 40k about a massive battleship flying through space having something as vile as an avocado bathroom

Fantastic stuff on the Marines. You are definitely out here building better worlds (in miniature)

Looks great Gobert!

Captain Brown wrote:gobert,
Good work on those Marines.
Cheers,
CB

Thank you Captain! They’ve been pretty enjoyable in the end !

Meer_Cat wrote:Great figures- incredibly recognizable from the movie!
The camouflage pattern you've done is terrific.

Yeah, they’re pretty cool, I think the Ripleys are the closest facially. As for the camo, I poured over the pics of Frosts uniform and bought a German camo set that had most of the colours, then stippled in what looked like the print order. It was good fun!

youwashock wrote:All the quotes playing in my head. They look super cool, gobert!

I know, it’s a properly quotable movie, and I love that they named the game and expansions using them too!

Meer_Cat wrote:"Yeah, but it's a dry heat...."
Hudson

I’m fond of “What The Hell Are We Supposed To Use, Man? Harsh Language?” Frost.

tzurk wrote:Lovely work as usual gobert. The grey looks good though I am partial to the green myself too! Now that you mention it though Nan had an avocado bathroom growing up and I always thought it was fancy
Love the way the marines are coming along. Athonian Camoshade is one of my favourite paints for a reason.
Won't be sad to see more Void Panthers on the horizon!
Thanks for sharing

Cheers, you’ll be pleased to hear that the bathrooms will all be fancy avocado! . Athonian Camoshade might be my new favourite wash

Tommygun1918 wrote:Great looking Marines. That camo must have been a pain to do at scale?

I was worried, but It was actually quite fun and straightforward, just picked the order of laying colours and the rough patterns and went to town stippling

Olthannon wrote:

 gobert wrote:

Olthannon wrote:I get why everyone is saying the light grey but that pale green looks excellent. Great work on the Colonial Marines and floor tiles.

Cheers Olthannon, I’m thinking an Avocado bathroom suite would be a good theme for the ablutions unit on the ship

Eee god that takes me back. You know there's something strangely 40k about a massive battleship flying through space having something as vile as an avocado bathroom
Fantastic stuff on the Marines. You are definitely out here building better worlds (in miniature)

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only Avocado Bathroom suites . I also got a few Waylan-Yutani crates to paint up too

Not Online!!! wrote:Looks great Gobert!

Thanks Not Online!

As predicted I got the Marines and the other humanoids finished last night. The bases were the main thing left to do, getting a black rim followed by a Hoeth Blue drybrush and a white over brush before being finished with a bit of a tidy up of the black. Other notable additions was a wash of white-screaming skull mix for Broken Bishop (that’s his name in the game ) and here they are;


Here’s the non-Marines

And the Marines


All in a fun project. So much so I’ve also started building the latest expansion and the token set plus the 3d printer is part way through an stl for the Bugstomper APC. Sadly the printer has broken, so I’m hoping a replacement stepper motor I bought fits and works so I can finish it (including some LEDs and magnets to lift the roof and interior bits).

I also did some more work on the Harbinger stuff, just a quick pic

Thanks for looking

Outstanding! Nw all we need is a deck of cards!

That was a great recap! Lot's of good stuff in -23.

Terminators are definitely looking the part!
You seem to have your work cut out for you with the rest of them.

The walls look amazingly done.

Game over, man!

Looking great!! Generating the need in me to rewatch the movies!

Guardling wrote:Outstanding! Nw all we need is a deck of cards!

Cheers, but it’s asses and elbows to paint up the Harbinger of Damnation stuff now.

Ezki wrote:That was a great recap! Lot's of good stuff in -23.
Terminators are definitely looking the part!
You seem to have your work cut out for you with the rest of them.

Thanks Ezki, there were some fun projects last year for sure and Terminators are still the coolest minis in 40k imho!

Not Online!!! wrote:The walls look amazingly done.

Cheers, you’ll like the chaosy ones even more then!

Meer_Cat wrote:Game over, man!

Maybe we could build a fire, sing a couple of songs, huh? Why don’t we try that?

muette wrote:Looking great!! Generating the need in me to rewatch the movies!

Do it! I’ve watched it a couple of times whilst painting them! It’s still a stone cold classic!

A bit later than planned as I’ve been applying for a new job. I was chuffed to get through the first sift, but didn’t get invited to interview. There should be another one coming up in about a year that I should be a better fit for, but we’ll see. I’ve done a bit more on the Harbinger, but first, here’s some pics of the Bishop minis




I love how they also give you a post alien attack Bishop, and even more that they called him Broken Bishop!




I’m quite pleased how the robo-guts turned out, a decent replica of the sickly fluid of the movie.

Pics of the Harbinger terrain inbound later in the week with any luck

Thanks for looking

Ouch...that is going to hurt.

Cheers,

CB

Captain Brown wrote:Ouch...that is going to hurt.
Cheers,
CB

Nah, he’s a robot, he’ll walk it off!

I did a few bits on the Harbinger of Damnation terrain. Having blocked out the colours on everything

And added a few nasty stains to the bathroom tiles. I got a bit of sponge and mixed up some reddish brown and went to town

Next will be to paint some details like signs and skulls. Then I’ll add a few more stains and maybe some rusty streaks. I’ll then finish up with a bit of dry brushes OSL I bought some flouro paint recently so I might try my hand with those

Thanks for looking

To think they used to say milk does a body good...

He'll be fine. At least until the next movie.

Terrain is looking quite good. Can't wait to see your models running around on it.

Sorry your printer is down. Just in the last couple days got mine to print semi-reliably again. Twitchy things.

Lovely work on all the Aliens minis! The camo works beautifully and that goopy Bishop is awesome!

youwashock wrote:To think they used to say milk does a body good...
He'll be fine. At least until the next movie.
Terrain is looking quite good. Can't wait to see your models running around on it.
Sorry your printer is down. Just in the last couple days got mine to print semi-reliably again. Twitchy things.

Yeah, the start of Alien 3 was a bit of a kick in the guts for the survivors! I’m liking how the terrain looks as a whole, individually it’s all a bit shonky, but it’s cool together I think

mcmattila wrote:Lovely work on all the Aliens minis! The camo works beautifully and that goopy Bishop is awesome!

Thanks mcmatilla, the camo was great fun and dead easy too!

Here’s a few more Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps pics. First up is everybody’s favourite corporate sleaze ball; Burke




I think he’s the real bad guy in the movie,

Next up it’s Apone, from whom the game gets its name as he declares it’s Another Glorious day in the Corps!





All right sweethearts, that’s enough pics for today. In the background I’m plodding on with the Harbinger stuff, should get it done enough by the weekend

Thanks for looking

Yeah buddy. The patterns of the flannel shirt and camo look brilliant, and I'll echo the praise for milky Bilbo Baggins.

have you gotten around to playing the boardgame yet? If so what are your thoughts? The internet makes it sound like a fun co-op but maybe a little blurry on some rule interactions

Amazing work! Looking forward to the chaotic walls.

tzurk wrote:Yeah buddy. The patterns of the flannel shirt and camo look brilliant, and I'll echo the praise for milky Bilbo Baggins.

have you gotten around to playing the boardgame yet? If so what are your thoughts? The internet makes it sound like a fun co-op but maybe a little blurry on some rule interactions

Thanks tzurk, though I think Bilbo was Ash in Alien we actually played this weekend. We started a bit late so it wasnt as enjoyable as it could be. First impression is that it was a bit complicated with all of the cards and not knowing what everyone does. We’ll probably play through the campaign but as individual missions rather than losing resources as you should do. I think we need more than one person who knows the rules too.

Not Online!!! wrote:Amazing work! Looking forward to the chaotic walls.

Thanks Not Online! The walls are coming along, pics below

Continuing the Aliens showcase here’s Ripley




Definitely one of the coolest minis in the set, as you’d expect for the main hero

Next is Newt






A cool pose for another great character

Finishing todays showcase is both Ripley & Newt in one mini




And that’s the full set of iconic poses from the movie. I might do the Marines in a single post later in the week, though I’m not feeling the motivation to post them right now.

I’ve not been idle on the painting front, but doing such a big terrain project is slow going. The Harbinger is getting there, with all screens now painted and most details underway. Last night I spent the evening painting lights using Artis Opus’ OSL method. Not sure I nailed it, as it went quite chalky when I added the white. Using water on the dry brush is a great tool and saves clogging the brush with dried paint though. The flour I used was more like a glaze so didn’t take well to dry brush, so I ended up using it as a glaze on the bits that had gone chalky. Here’s a few examples from some still WIP pieces


Wierdly that shutter goes nowhere as the other side is a blank wall! I think my biggest mistake with the OSL was not going far enough away from the source with the early colours. That was semi intentional to avoid “light” hitting pillars and floors. It definitely looks better in photos than real life, but overall not a bad experiment.

I only have a few details and a couple of other colours of OSL to do. Thankfully they’re only on a couple of pieces each so it shouldn’t take as long

Thanks for looking

Fab! Burke in particular is a v good paintjob

Yeah, Sir Ian Holm played Ash in Alien. Altogether a less likeable little fellow. You are really nailing the look on these. Excellent job translating the costumes down to miniature form.

Slinky wrote:Fab! Burke in particular is a v good paintjob

Cheers Slinky, glad you liked him

youwashock wrote:Yeah, Sir Ian Holm played Ash in Alien. Altogether a less likeable little fellow. You are really nailing the look on these. Excellent job translating the costumes down to miniature form.

Yeah, very much more the bad guy where Bishop is was pretty decent overall.

So last night I finished up the Harbinger of Damnation 3d printed terrain from Watcorp Designs, and tonight I had my very first ever game of Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team. I played with one of my work mates who revealed himself as a mini painter at our Christmas do (the other one had to get home to oversee building works). It was both of our first games and we had to look up most things we were doing, but it was good fun and I don’t think we went massively off-piste. Saying that there were definitely a few bits we got wrong, either getting rules not quite right or forgetting to do some things. The most obvious being forgetting the scout sniper had a bolt pistol after finding out his sniper rifle counted as heavy. That left him to face down my Sergeant with a Plasma Pistol and the Plasma Gunner

We took a few pics but I should’ve done one after each turning point and at the start, but to give a flavour here’s one part way through the second or third turning point.

My tactic was to go for each objective with 2 Marines: Double Plasma down the middle, Regular and array Grenade Marine to the bottom left and Auspex/Heavy Bolter to the top right. Here’s the Sergeant bursting through the door to take out the Missile Launcher Scout;

And the Grenade team taking up position in the bottom middle room


The Sergeant took full advantage of over watch to hurt the scouts in the central room

Clearing that room made a massive difference and the sergeant went on a rampage and got the scouts heading for the bottom left objective! Auspex Marine didn’t want to be outdone so he picked a fist fight with 3 scouts on the top right objective

The scout he’d punched fell back and he didn’t last very long when the Heavy Bolter Scout opened fire at close range

By the end of turn 3 the Sergeant and Frag Grenade Marine had ganged up on the last scout heading for the bottom left

We didn’t finish turning point 4 as the result was beyond question but we did resolve the Hewvy Bolter Fight in the top right room:

I won the initiative and fired at the HB Scout. Thinking about it, I probably shouldn’t have been allowed to target the HB Scout, but it was kinda funny. My dice rolls deserted me and the scout survived the took out the Heavy Bolter Marine

A heroic last stand to end the engagement seemed fitting for a Space Marine Heroes mini! Even if he was from Space Marine Adventure in the UK.

Fun was had and we agreed that beers should be included next time! It was also cool having a fully painted game board, and it got a few cool pics out of it as well. What was clear is that I needed a few more pillars and door sets to be able to complete the boards. We probably could’ve been more efficient with the wall placement, but a few more would make life easier. We might try playing on the Starter Set terrain next time and adding Tactical and Strategic ploys. I’m tempted to try another Kill Team too as I seem to have a few I could field from the Compendium, plus a few others if I paint up a couple more minis (looks at primed Poxwalkers)

Thanks for looking

Amazing work done on the chaos walls and the terrain for the table looks amazing!

Fantastic shots, gobert! The terrain looks really good with minis scurrying over it.

I like the classic red bolters on your Scouts. I have been trying to decide if I want to do that on the scouts I have coming.

Great updates Gobert! The terrain looks great, looks like you had a fun game.

Not Online!!! wrote:Amazing work done on the chaos walls and the terrain for the table looks amazing!

Thanks, the chaos stuff is definitely the coolest in the set

youwashock wrote:Fantastic shots, gobert! The terrain looks really good with minis scurrying over it.

Cheers, the action shots really do improve the look I think!

Tommygun1918 wrote:I like the classic red bolters on your Scouts. I have been trying to decide if I want to do that on the scouts I have coming.

Cheers, but those are painted by my mate @coleface40k over on insta

Olthannon wrote:Great updates Gobert! The terrain looks great, looks like you had a fun game.

Yeah, it was good fun, just need to find somewhere in Bristol to play and have a couple of beers!

My mate also printed out a few resin icons for my horde of Terminators and I spent a bit of time applying them over the weekend

I had to file them a little to get the icon square to the shoulder pad, but it was MILES quicker than cutting out card or casting them with GS.

I also got the paint sticks out and since I’ve recently being doing batch painting I fancied something individual. Looking in my primed box I found the Librarian for my Void Panthers. He’s originally the Blood Raven Librarian from Kill Team Cassius but with most of his iconography removed (his shin still has a blood drop as I liked the wings and couldn’t figure out what else to do as It was too big for a skull and eagle heads would be too tricky to get right.). I went with classic blue armour and yellow tabard as I wanted a bit of variety and like that the characters have different coloured armour

I’ll paint the metallics next before tidying up the armour. I might go quite faded yellow on the tabard to see how that looks. I’m also thinking his helmet less head might get a bit of corruption in it’s complexion. Mrs gobert is away with work this week so hopefully I’ll get some good progress then.

Thanks for looking

Well, I got a good bit of guilt free hobby done tonight and finished off Librarian Natorian. I decided to go volumatric-ish with his armour and I’m pretty pleased how it turned out. His skin got a light purple wash for a bit of corruption with the main colour being dwarf flesh, then subsequent layers getting some white. I included Green Flouro in his plasma, sword and eyes. The pale yellow tabard was pretty fun too, nice and easy with just gradually adding more and more white.


I think this next pic is his best angle as I like how the highlights on his legs turned out



I’ve gotta admit, he was fun to throw together and I love how quickly painting a single miniature can go. The painting with blues was really nice as they seem to have awesome coverage! Maybe I need to paint some more blue stuff?

Not sure what’s next. I have made a start on the second half of a 3rd Tactical squad for the Void Panthers but I quite fancy using Death Guard next time I play Kill Team. For that I need at least 2 more Poxwalkers and I have 10 primed and ready to go. I’ll see what takes my fancy on Thursday when I have a day off which will likely involve at least some hobby… I’m hoping it’s mostly hobby!

Thanks for looking!

That librarian is great, very intense colors and good highlights. The Ripley is spot on too, great work!

Nicely done! Quick turnaround, too. Very colorful without being gaudy. The purple pops so well, and that green is money. Plus, I appreciate a model that looks good from the back.

Very fancy! Sword, tabard and plas pistol are looking great. Well done Gobert!

Great updates gobert, the librarian is looking amazing!

That killteam stuff looks neat! Hope you are enjoying KT21, I like it a lot except for the most recent season, which I have no interest in as it seems super bland somehow.

ph34r wrote:That librarian is great, very intense colors and good highlights. The Ripley is spot on too, great work!

Thanks ph34r, I wanted to push the light values quite a bit and I’m liking how they turned out. Thanks for the reminder on Ripley, I have another one to show off when I take the pics.

youwashock wrote:Nicely done! Quick turnaround, too. Very colorful without being gaudy. The purple pops so well, and that green is money. Plus, I appreciate a model that looks good from the back.

Indeed you do like a model that looks good from behind ! Cheers, I kinda got in the zone with him and went with it, but didn’t want to add too much to the Panthers palette

Not Online!!! wrote:Very fancy! Sword, tabard and plas pistol are looking great. Well done Gobert!

Cheers, that tabard has grown on me, it looks better in the proper pics I think

muette wrote:Great updates gobert, the librarian is looking amazing!

Thanks muette, I’m please how he’s turned out

tauist wrote:That killteam stuff looks neat! Hope you are enjoying KT21, I like it a lot except for the most recent season, which I have no interest in as it seems super bland somehow.

Thanks the Kill Team stuff was fun and looked good on the day. KT21 was fun and hopefully I can get another game in soon too

No updates, but here’s the fancy pics of Natorian







All in all, I’m pleased how he’s turned out. And it would be a finished Void Panther without some pics from the display board. Here’s a couple of Librarian Natorian alongside Chapter Master Inanis


And here he is being backed up by the Stormtalon

I’ve actually got today off, which I’ve decided is a hobby day. Here’s where I got to at lunch time

I’ll take a pic when I finish too

Thanks for looking

Great pics of the librarian; you've done a great job on him.

 JamesY wrote:
Great pics of the librarian; you've done a great job on him.

Thanks JamesY, glad you liked him.

Well my day off got plenty of hobby time to progress the poxwalkers and last night I managed to finish them off. Here’s the family pics;





And here they are with their cousins from the Blackstone Fortress

As the previous bunch they were pretty fun. I mostly used washes and speedpaints apart from the orange. I ended up going normal paints on that as the speed paint didn’t look too good. I then had some fun with yellow spots, Blood for the Blood God and I even popped to a Warhammer and picked up some Nurgle’s Rot to drip from burst boils. Lovely!

I’ll probably do another few Void Panthers to finish my third Tactical Squad next.

Thanks for looking

I love em. Absolutely perfect bunch of zombies! Front left is especially outstanding imo!

Makes me wish for a modular kit of them though

Those poxwalkers look great! They look so happy with their sickness.

Really nice work again Gobert! I think my favourite thing is the orange boiler suits. It could just be a normal hazzy suit or it could some weird skin! Who knows with Nurgle? All very gross and horrid.

Nice work!

Not Online!!! wrote:I love em. Absolutely perfect bunch of zombies! Front left is especially outstanding imo!

Makes me wish for a modular kit of them though

Thanks Not Online, a modular kit would be superb, I’m certainly tempted to get some more. I’m also eyeing up some Gellerpox infected too, but might settle for some cheapo Poxwalkers

muette wrote:Those poxwalkers look great! They look so happy with their sickness.

Thanks muette, they certainly are pleased with papas taint

Olthannon wrote:Really nice work again Gobert! I think my favourite thing is the orange boiler suits. It could just be a normal hazzy suit or it could some weird skin! Who knows with Nurgle? All very gross and horrid.

Thanks Olthannon, in my head cannon they’re definitely boiler suits that were wholly unsuited to the environment the poor souls were sent to. the boiler suits were quite nice to do, even though I had hoped to Speed Paint them and call them done.

Slinky wrote:Nice work!

Cheers slinky

I seem to be on a hobby roll at the minute and made some good progress on the second half of the 3rd Void Panthers tactical squad. I got the metallics done and have tidied up the purples and blacks ready for highlighting next time.


I also finally took some pics of the latest Aliens AGDITC mini, probably the coolest which is Ripley in the Power Loader







That’s the last one for now, though I have a few more xenomorphs, a couple more marines and a few hazards and assets. Most aren’t primed so I guess there’ll be a break for a while.

Thanks for looking

I made a bit more progress on the tactical marines, getting the blacks and purples highlighted ready for greens and other details… not that you can see the progress in the pics. As you can see I’ve been getting the next lot of Panthers ready for painting:

I had tried some Colour Forge Gauntlet Gold rattle cans but I don’t know whether I did something wrong or the paint just is a bit on the dull side. It’s certainly nowhere near Retributor armour as claimed. So I decided to have a bit of a clear out and got the airbrush out for a bit of priming. The Tactical and assault marines top right are still a little dull, I think the ratio of paint to thinner must’ve been off for them, but the Devastators on the left and Command Squad shined up well and are ready for painting. The Devs will see me finish the Demi Company, so they will be the next Panthers, then I’ll paint the Command Squad and a bunch of characters to celebrate.

Whilst I had the airbrush out I put some silvers on the Guardian Drones and some old Necron Warriors I won on eBay ages ago and swapped in some modern gun barrels

The airbrush was struggling with the Mithril Silver, and I found a hard bit of paint when I cleaned the brush. It was probably time to put a pin in it for the day. I might put another coat on the dull tacticals and assault marines before I pack up the airbrush tomorrow.

Thanks for looking

Gobert; your stuff is great as usual.
I think I have the same Ripley in Power armor that always gets bumped down in the que.

 AustonT wrote:
Gobert; your stuff is great as usual.
I think I have the same Ripley in Power armor that always gets bumped down in the que.

Thanks Auston, Ripley is one badass, but yeah, the Aliens AGDIGC minis took a while to make it to the head of the queue.

I managed to sneak a bit of painting in today. I had hoped to give the airbrush another go, but gave up trying to get over the splatter. I ended up buying a new brush in the hope it fixes things. I went for a proper one from harder and steenback so fingers crossed!

Instead I did some more on the tactical marines. I got on with their green lenses, cables and seals, getting them pretty much done (just white dots on the lenses to go). I also put some bases layers and a wash on their parchments

Thanks for looking

Wow, What a nice squad of golden boys there.

Theres just a charm to the firstborn that the Primaris lack imo and you made these here really pop.

Tactical marines are looking good. What chapter are they?

I believe they are the Void Panthers.

 ShadowsAndDust wrote:
I believe they are the Void Panthers.

OK, thank you.

Not Online!!! wrote:Wow, What a nice squad of golden boys there.
Theres just a charm to the firstborn that the Primaris lack imo and you made these here really pop.

Thanks, I think you’re right about their charm, but some of the latest Primaris stuff is cool too.

Tommygun1918 wrote:Tactical marines are looking good. What chapter are they?

Thanks Tommy

ShadowsAndDust wrote:I believe they are the Void Panthers.

Thanks ShadowsAndDust, you’re correct, they are Void Panthers, my own custom chapter

I’m happy to report that the 3rd squad of Tactical Marines for my Void Panthers is complete




The rest of the squad also came out to play


So that sees me 1 Devastator squad away from a full Demi-Company so they’ll be my next Panthers project I think. With that I placed the Tactical Marines on the display board



I quite like the top down shots so took a few more
tac Squad 2

Fast Attack support

Air Support

Assault Marines

tac squad 1 and Leadership

Plus a few low down shots


I now realise that I forgot the sergeants black stripe on his helmet

And an oldie from tac squad 2 as I love this guys positioning

I have also started another project, some test schemes for a future Orcs & Goblins scheme, but no pics just yet

Thanks for looking

What amazing group shots, thank you for posting so many! The work is excellent, the board a great display piece and the photography top notch.

(Tongue firmly in cheek) I must admit though, the unit blazons make me hear "Thunder, THUNDER! Thun'nercats- HO!!!!"

Really good work and very enjoyable to scroll through and see.

Looking very sexy as usual gobert!

 muette wrote:
Looking very sexy as usual gobert!

And your models look good too.

It's great seeing more Void Panthers, Gobert

Meer_Cat wrote:What amazing group shots, thank you for posting so many! The work is excellent, the board a great display piece and the photography top notch.
(Tongue firmly in cheek) I must admit though, the unit blazons make me hear "Thunder, THUNDER! Thun'nercats- HO!!!!"
Really good work and very enjoyable to scroll through and see.

Thanks! I get a bit carried away with all of the pics, hopefully it didn’t rinse through anyone’s mobile data!
I might also think similarly every so often with the thundercats! Speaking of thundercats, did anyone see the reboot? It was really good!

muette wrote:Looking very sexy as usual gobert!

thanks!

ShadowsAndDust wrote:

 muette wrote:
Looking very sexy as usual gobert!

And your models look good too.

Syro_ wrote:It's great seeing more Void Panthers, Gobert

Cheers, Plenty more where they came from!

Indeed, here’s the next batch now that I’ve stupidly decided to paint the whole Devastator squad in one go! Doing so has highlighted a few that are missing things like purity seals, so I need to fix that.

Seeing some paint on it, the converted multimelta looks pretty good imho. The back pack is a bit weedy, but I can live with it. Some of the Bolter marines are a bit caked up with paint but I’ll crack on anyway and hopefully they won’t look too nasty once completed.

Separately I’ve put together a scout squad. I wasn’t planning on adding them to my army, but I bid 99p on 3 bodies and won. Together with the random bits I’ve collected over the past couple of years I managed to put together a squad of 5. No idea whether their load out is legal or not so if anyone knows please comment



I think they’re from a bunch of kits, but the sergeant is the most interesting one. I think his legs and torso are from the Land Speeder Storm. His pose was kind of similar to someone running, so I cut his legs off at the groin so I could rotate his but and get his torso more upright. I used a good bit of sprue goo to hide the cuts and it worked pretty nicely. The tabard helped too! . His head is actually from one of the Space Marine Heroes series 2 Terminators, I think it works quite well even if it is slightly bigger than the normal scout head! The back of his head had its leg hole filled and reshaped with more sprue goo as well. The others were just using whatever bits seemed to work. I have 4 more torsos so I might pick up a few bits to build another squad if the right deal comes around.

Thanks for looking

The Void Panthers continue to be an exercise in visual excellence. Bring on those big guns!

Very great work gobert!

gobert,

Display boards are always very nice to see. Figures in actions.

Cheers,

CB

youwashock wrote:The Void Panthers continue to be an exercise in visual excellence. Bring on those big guns!

Thanks, I think I’m getting them to the stage where I can rattle them out pretty quickly (for me) now as well as looking better than the originals.

Not Online!!! wrote:Very great work gobert!

Thanks NotOnline!!!

I did a little side quest the other week and put a test scheme together for some Orcs & Goblins based loosely on goobertowns night goblin scheme. The yellow was airbrushed and turned out quite nice, then most of the rest was speed paints and metallics.

I think for the gobbos I want some greater contrast on the yellow and have it cover proportionally more areas. The purple contrast is also way too dark (and the dark pic makes it even harder to see. The eM4 minis are pretty simple but they took the scheme well as a proof of concept.

Elsewhere the Devastators are making steady progress, having had their colours blocked back in after washes and the weapons even had their first highlight.

There’s also been a change of plan in the lay out of the Company. The Bolter guys will only be temporary Devastators. I seem to have lost one of the missile launcher backpacks while priming so went on eBay and ended up buying a bunch of Devastators for a really good price, almost enough to make a complete squad for each weapon load out. Frustratingly 1 of the Missile Launcher backpacks was missing. So I’m now on the hunt for another squad with a Missile Launcher, Lascannon and a couple of Grav Cannons to complete the set. For now the Bolter dudes will fill out the Dev squad before switching to be Tacticals in the future.

I also looked at how many points of Panthers I have and it seems I have 6500 points worth, though it seems those are 9th Ed points as I have switched my BattleScribe roster.

Thanks for looking


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 Captain Brown wrote:
gobert,
Display boards are always very nice to see. Figures in actions.
Cheers,
CB

Didn’t see you sneak a post in there Cap! Thanks, I do like an action shot it’s true. At some point I’m going to need to expand my boards to accommodate all of these Panthers too. Best crank up that 3d printer!

Gotta love that oldschool look on the boys!

Good looking classic orcs. I wish I had saved my Old Hammer stuff.

 gobert wrote:

Didn’t see you sneak a post in there Cap! Thanks,

This is why whenever I do get pulled into a D&D game, I am always the thief.

Cheers,

CB