I've come back to make a brief intro post.
Here's everything I did in 2017, enjoy:

Currently I'm not doing much, just buying stuff up to add to my pre-existing mountain of grey. Hopefully I'll get it all done in a flurry of work over the summer.

Original first post
So, first time doing a blog, so bear with me.s
I have decided that this is the best medium to present my hobbying activities and thoughts.

So here it is, the first post, a WIP bunker for my trench guard, who will get a showing when I finish squad one, two guardsmen to go. The highlights for the wings were done with reikland steel then a very thin highlight with leadbelcher to take some of the glare away.
Enjoy, and comment whatever you want.
I'd recommend clicking on each photo for a bigger version (still good quality photo) so you can see the detail.
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That looks awesome! How will you make the walls?

Thanks!
TBH, I'm not entirely sure, but right now I think I'm going to paint the outside as covered in mud, then the inside floorboards dirty metal, the inner walls that black/bronze colour, and have some mud spilled inside, maybe some more footprints and a few blood splatters.

I'm guessing that's Rhinox Hide on the dirt?

No, just the texture paint Stirland mud, it's amazing. It has granuels in it to add roughness and give it a sense of it being solid, rather tha the colour on something.

Yeah, I love that paint.

That's a nice looking bunker Really captures the grim darkness of the universe those poor IG have to fight for

Thanks! So, I've done the painting of the main bunker, but I want to add some stuff. Does it look good and should I stick it in place?
So, in no particular order, here are some pics of the finished bunker and the (currently) blue-tacked on extra stuff. The 4 edits were picture trouble.

The added stuff looks good, I'm not sure about the placement of the gun though, wouldn't it make more sense if the gun pointed forward instead of to the side?
Where'd you get those sandbags by the way? They look pretty sweet

Yeah, I guess it would, but then it fills up the centre chink. The sandbags I bought are from a japanese company I think, I found them in hobby craft, I don't know if you have it in Germany. However, I'm sure you can order them offline somewhere. They also do a whole range of similar stuff, from tank traps to oil drums and jerry cans

Ah yes, good old Tamiya models, haven't seen those in a while
Also, isn't the central chink meant for a gun emplacement to be put there?


(And allow me to find it extremely hilarious that you mixed up the German and Belgian flags )

Ah, Belgium, Germany, New Zeeland same thing. Oh boy, those Tamiya models take you back...

I feel terrible now. Please forgive me. Back to hobby, the chink is for a gun, but I'm fairly sure it's meant for a heavy weapons team. Anyway, almost there with the first squad to occupy my defence lines. Also some other stuff I did with Tamiya. Tomorrow I'll probably fix up my Lehman russ eradicator.

Now I couldn't blame a tactical genius like Creed for mixing up similar-looking flags

Creed: Ah, the Cadian 250th! We're gonna need you fine gentlemen to beat back these devious renegades!

Trooper: Uh, Sir, we're the Cadian 342nd.

Creed: Wait, what? But you have the same icon and everything! How am I going to tell you all apart?

Trooper: Our badge has a blue and black stripe on it, the 250th has a black and blue one.

Creed:.....

Jokes aside, I guess it depends whether you're going to put a heavy weapons team where the chink is or not

Maybe it would look better like this, and it won't get in the way of anything?

That seems like a better solution The heavy weapons squads are looking good too

Thanks!

That looks sweeeeeeeeet.

Thanks. The next box on my to do list is revamp my eradicator, and I have started by highlighting all or the turret and right side, adding detail where needed aswell, and I've done my first proper freehand. However, I still need to do the left, the main chassis and dirty up the tracks. Enjoy. (Click on the images for better quality and the edits are for this message and getting the pictures to work)

Boy, I am liking that colour scheme.

Thanks, originally it was going to be a lot shinier with silver comprising as the main part, but I decided I liked the dirtier look edged with silver.

Done the main body, still have the left, and also, I decided to do this.

Nice work, guess the crew doesn't like zombies

Not after having to choose between killing zombie hordes or hell turkeys became the norm when playing against CSM in my local area.

A model I made for the hunt, requirements are that you start off as a human, Ork or eldar with a pistol and knife, then as you kill bigger and more deadly monsters, you can buy gear in a points system specially designed for the hunt! So I decided to mix camo, Bane, a robot arm, a drum magazine pistol and a bayonet. Here is the result.

The Hunt? Please do explain.

Just a thing the guy who runs my local GW set up, where everyone brings in a single ork, eldar or human equipped with a close combat weapon and a pistol. Then you all run around the board killing dinosaurs and other beasts, and you get awarded points for killing stuff, which you can upgrade your character with for future hunts. So I chose a strange looking gun with a blade attached that could be anything so I wouldn't have to keep adding things every time I buy a new weapon. The robot arm and bane faceplate were just for coolness.

Monster Hunter meets WH40k? Sounds fun

The first hunt went well, I managed to inflict exactly 0 wounds on any other hunter or the dionosaurs. And i had a sniper rifle, which at the time was the best gun on the table.

Anyway, the guy wants us to have stuff actually represented on our models, so i built this as a sniper rifle so i can keep on using this model rather than one of my actual guard snipers.

Nothing attached...

Thanks, it's done now, with a decent picture quality.

The sniper rifle looks pretty good, are you gonna mount a scope on it?

I thought about it, but I can find a suitabke peice, and I'm not sure wether I can green stuff one on.

Use a cotton swab!

Well, I decided not to risk green stuff and to just chop a scope off an old Lego rifle.

A new member has joined my armoured family. Plasma blasts here I come.

Awesomw! Is that the one who can have Multi Melta sponsons?

Nice, bring in the heavy fire support gents

Yes, it is the one with multimeltas.
Also, I made a board for a game I invented an hour ago, I'll paint it up over the weekend probably.

Simple game
Everyone choose a piece.
Agree teams, two teams of two
Roll for who goes first.
The team going first places their pieces on their table edge, then the team going second places their paces
Movement of two squares a turn. If you can't place your peice on the square, it is impassable.
Shoot after movement, to shoot roll a dice, 5 or 6 is a hit, each player dies when they are hit three times
Range of up to two squares in straight lines vertically and horizontally, so no diagonal shots.
Once all members of a team have moved and shot if they want, their turn ends, and it is the other team's turn.
Repeat until one team is eliminated.

Production has started, and I found a better scale scope

Well I've taken a break from Dakka and 40k, but I thoght I'd show this slight alteration.

DRIVE ME CLOSER SO I CAN HIT THEM WITH MY SWORD!!

Nice Hope to see that tank in action sometime soon

You jsut ahd to do that, didn't you? Please do that with every thank, you can have an armada of swords!

Well, the next guy may not have a sword, I think I'm 'gonna model a gaunt climbing up the side and him trying to kill it with a lazgun.
In terms of the painting, I've decided work will start either tomorrow or Monday, and I have also decided to buy another three tanks, to have an armada of swords, and also I want a larger guard army than Tau.


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Never mind all that tank stuff, I just saw the new Imperial Knight. TIME TO GET ME A SUPER -HEAVY!!!!

Painting has been slow, but careful.

B-e-a-uuuutiful!

Why thankyou.
In other news, the conversion, has begun.
Now I just need a model, and all will be complete.

An hour or two later.

That's beautiful! I like the solid black on that one!

Thanks, but the black is just a can of citadel primer.

Ah. Still looks cool!

Two things to note. One, I'm trying to learn some basic Sweedish (very slow going) two, the turret is almost done, I'm not sure whether to give the barrel an all over wash of agrax earth shade.

Well, I've decided to add the wash, and now the turret is painted and glued, so the updates from now on will be the chassis.

Naw, now I want to do IG and paint tanks! But wait... Renegade Guard! Muahahahaha!!
Looking good so far, is the whole tank going to be black?
And please do try to learn Swedish, it's hilarious to see englishmen try to pronounce our words. Watch some Anomaly on Youtube and you'll learn some things.

Remain loyal to the emperor, don't do renegades.

I'll finish the tank (probably done by tomorrow night) then it's time to start on this bad boy.

AWWW YEAH

One complete tank.

Beautiful! Or should I say...
WAAAAAAAAAAGH!!! - iful!

Why thankyou. Unfortunately, due to me not doing any homework for the past few weeks, I will now be unable to do much painting as I attempt to do it all before my teachers get too annoyed. I have btw sprayed the tank, so that might get finished on Sunday.

Well, I have started work on the main tank, and touched up on my Dwarven artillery. (There is another cannon waiting for a full repaint)

I have a lot in the works (including for my guard), but nothing really to show you except all my built guard, because why not?

Looks awesome! Are those Rough Riders? Can we get a closer look?

They are counts as, but yes, they are. I used some empire Knights with imperial heads, and gave one a melts and one a flamer. I probably should have repainted them, but as it stands they still have my 8 year old painting skill, which was terrible.

Getting on with the knight.

Finally got everything I need to build and paint the knight.

Niiiiiiice. Why the glue gun?

Well how else will I stick those tiles to the base?
Also, my practice of a few freehands may hint at the theme of my knight.

This one's goin' on a shoulder pad.

I likey! Now I feel like buying a knight, ugh...

Well, if you have a birthday coming up, I'm sure that you can also convince your parents that a box of plastic is worth £95.
Also, I have finished the base

Awesome! I NEED an Imperial Knight now...

WIP

I love you, man.

Im sure you do ;D. But yeah, thanks.

Well, I've been away for a long time, so have this as appeasement.
Faptau would beat Kharn in an arm wrestle.

Nice. Awesome. I like it.

Well, I've finished dry brushing the legs with an even coat of lead belcher, they should be finished soon, but what's more important is the subject of the next soulder guard.

Well, I had a horrible incident with my spray, and now the shoulder guard is all rough rather than smooth, but it's not too bad. In other news, I spemt £12 to buy the other 4 colours for this. The things I do for big models.

Who ever said magnetising was easy?

Oh, I forgot, you do Tau... Traitor? I mean, since I've started Space Wolves, can I call you a heretic?
They look really nice, though.

Why thank you. I've finished, but no pics for now, sorry.

Did I mention that the tank is basically now done? 2nd pic with the hand is for scale.

After a very long stint of doing bugger all, I decided to actually get some gak done before I go away. Paints used: Leadbelcher (paint and spray) Runefang Steel, Non-GW white acrylic spray, Agrax Earthshade and Thraka Green from the old paint range. Freehand done in pencil and felt-tip as usual. (Click on pics for higher quality)

Me: Wow, that carapace has a really large, clean, open space on it, perfect for a drawing.

Me an hour later: That carapace has a large space on it.

Nicely done! You're way better at freehand than me.

May I ask if you're dead?

Ever so slightly.

Yet another period of almost no activity has occurred. However, today was the local GW's birthday. As part of the celebrations there was a speed painting contest where everyone was given one brush (I ended up with an old standard) and one clip together marine pre-sprayed black. Exactly one hour later the models were handed in and judged. I came first out of the sixteen entries, much to my surprise. My prize, the old warhammer fantasy mini starter with five high elf sea guard, a brush and eight paints. For a competition I hadn't even planned on entering, I'd say a £22.50 box for free isn't too bad.

Heyy, nice! I wish my FLGS had those kinds off contests...

Thanks to the monthly painting competition hosted by Paradigm I am doing stuff again, yay!
(If you want to enter the competition, go here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/665629.page )

More gusrdsmen pics.

Nice. What did you use to convert them?

It's on the other thread.

It's alive!

Almost.

Us that a troll face I see on the shoulder? Lol.

EDC

Nice job, man! I wish I worked that quick.

EDC, yes it is, and Matthew, you work a lot faster than me.

ahahahahahhahaha no.

Well, in an uncharacteristic dash of hard work on my painting, I have managed to finish my knight before the week comes. Yay!

(Click on the pics/view image to see in high quality.)

Better pic. (Still need to click on the pic to not see it sideways.)

Oh look, new toys...

 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
Oh look, new toys...

CREEEEEEED!!!!! My Good Man!!!!! Glad to have you back!!!!

I see you're taking an interest in Maelstrom's Edge. That sounds cool.

How you been?

Look forward to seeing how you get on with MEdge

Brotherman! Nice! I uh... I have no idea how the MEdge kit looks. Feth!

Ooo shiny!

EDC

Well, Badrukk, it's been a while, but I'm still good. AoV, since it's my GCSE year, my parents have agreed to get the models pro painted while I do mountaibs if schoolwork, so I won't be painting up the models, but, I will be using the scenery kit inside the box, so you can check that out.

 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
Well, Badrukk, it's been a while, but I'm still good. AoV, since it's my GCSE year, my parents have agreed to get the models pro painted while I do mountaibs if schoolwork, so I won't be painting up the models, but, I will be using the scenery kit inside the box, so you can check that out.

Once again, glad you're back.

Looking forward to stuff from that kit!

I'm just a teensy bit *sarcasm* dissapointed with how this came out.

Safe to say the main force won't look like this guy, but the other shadow walker probably will for continuity.

I hope I did the colour scheme justice. Either way, I'm much happier about this than I am the shadow walker.

Nice going! Are you painting up both forces or just Karists?

Eventually I'll get round to both. I've taken a very long hiatus from anything wargaming, but I'm back and better than ever (maybe). I decided to restart with Solar Lord Macharius, because it doesn't get more Guard than him (also I wanted to get at least one limited rerun model). I've been having problems getting the superglue to bind his cloak to his back properly. I think I've fixed it for good now, but each time I have to reapply glue it gets harder to fix a break. I'm really worried about messing up the process of superglueing him to his base, so if you have any alternative ways, that'd be greatly appreciated. (The photos were taken with a phone, so they aren't the best.)

Welcome back Creed! I really wanted to order one of the Valhallans, but they were sold out :(

Thanks. They probably sell for way too much on ebay if you wanna do that.

So I impulse bought a start collecting box of space marines, I had a dreadnought lying around from a friend and I saw a cool marines army, so marines it was.

Then I took a look through the internet to find a chapter that looked cool/had interesting fluff. So the Raptors are 2nd founding (Raven Guard successors) who have olive drab armour and use stealth, hit and run tactics and try to complete objectives at minimal cost, as opposed to running at the enemy in bright coloured armour while yelling about how glorious the Emps is. Forge world produce some rhino doors for the chapter, which I will probably never buy because if you use them for one rhino, you have to use them fro all rhinos. Forge world also gave the chapter master some cool rules and their chapter tactics are the same as the Raven Guard, pules if any unit stays still during the movement phase all bolters, boolt pistols and combi-bolters become heavy 1 rending.

Tbh, I've quite enjoyed the switch from Guard and Tau, and I don't think I'll add to them for a long time. Not only do I like painting the models, I feel like I have more direction with the SM. I can create a company (over time of course) and I know that that entails, 6 tactical squads, 2 devastators, 2 assault, etc, etc, whereas I never knew what I was doing next with the Tau and Guard.

I finished the tactical squad, 4th squad 4th company, and that dreadnought I got from a friend (it's the one from black reach). I can't work out how to take images uploaded to the gallery and embed them in my post, probably because the tutorial is almost a decade old, so I'll do the usual attach all images at the end to maintain some quality. If you want, there are decent quality (all taken on an iPad, so...) versions in my gallery.
([img] url ['/img] for the gallery uploads just looks awful)

All the raptor chapter symbols were done by hand, leading to them all looking slightly different. The dreadnought was sprayed black before it got sprayed caliban green and then basecoated again with castellan green, in addition to space wolf bitz that had been glued on being removed, so the model has lost some here and there.

They look really good! How did you get the dark green? Could look great on some camo cloaks...

Very nice start!

The green came from castellan green over a spray of Caliban green, with agrax earthade used to shade it all. Thanks.

There's a new addition to the family, and is that a primed and basecoated space marine captain I see?

Hmm, I've never had red bull while painting... does that help for shaking? Or does it make it worse?

Really nice colour scheme!

Excellent work! I really love the freehand chapter symbols, especially the outlined one on the dread. BTW if you want to add the gallery upload images in your post it's actually not that bad. If you look at your image in the gallery, there should be a "Share this Image" box in the lower right-hand part of the screen. There will be a massive amount of text in the one labeled "Forums" which you can copy and paste right into your forum post. Hope that helps.

I'd had a four pack of red bull over the evening, it doesn't help steady your hands, but it does keep you awake to finish what you're doing. I tried that, or at least I think I did for the images, I'll try again next time I upload. Thanks for all C&C.
There should be some assault marines joining the ranks soon, but the return of school means all painting will slow down. I'm also thinking of getting the Kill Team box set, because you save £15 on a tac marine squad and one of the new fire warrior squads (new to me), and you get the kill team rules.
Seems like a good buy to me, I might even get two when I assemble the funds.
Edit: Just checked the money I got from relatives over Christmas, I am £5 off getting 2 kill team boxes. Might even make some money back off selling one £30 FW squad for £20 on ebay.

First off, thanks brushcommando, I've got the images working from the gallery. The assault marines are progressing, albeit slowly. I've magnetised the jump and power packs, thanks to my recent purchase of the drill GW sell (I've also drilled gun barrels on all the previous marines and dreads).
Not only has the drill allowed me to magnetise, I can also add pins to models to help hold them together. A few years ago, I won a prize draw for some angry marines and got a forge world chaplain. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSx1HB8KBGw )
However, on its trip across the seas the model broke at the point where the base connects to the foot and in the middle of the crozarius. At the time I didn't really care because I didn't have any desire to play SM and I had no way of fixing him (super glue just wasn't working on its own).
Now though, I've been able to use pins, a tiny bit of green stuff and superglue to rectify the breaks. I also stuck his slotted 22mm base for a normal 32mm SM base, then added green stuff and a bunch of texture paint to make it look like he's on a mound.
The model and base still need a bit of work, but that will come in the future.

Lol. Awesome. I love angry marines.

Thanks. I haven't finished any of the models I'm working on, but I finished the chaplain's base and I did a bit of work on the assault marines. I'm also debating if I should go back and redo all nurgling green highlights, excluding pauldrons, with death world forest. I don't think I wil, because I'm lazy, and I'll probably do all future dreads with nurgling green to tie in, but it's looking like death world forest from here on out.










The camera doesn't capture the light as well as human eyes, but not by much, I really don't have a lot of light to work with. Mostly my own fault.










I tried to follow Warhammer TV's tutorial for adding soot to exhausts. I like the result, but it wasn't what I'd intended.

I noticed the pic heavy posts were getting long, so I've tried my hand at using powerpoint and screencapture to mash them together.

I tried to salvage a rhino a friend gave me. The model couldn't be saved, too much damage done, glue scarring, missing track pieces, etc, but I tried painting it anyway as a test for future vehicles. I think I'm gonna stick to a solid green in future.

As for the assault marine I finished so I'd know what my colour scheme was for the others, I tried highlighting with death world forest. I'm not sure I like how he turned out, but that might be because my hands were shaking the whole time, which made him a bitch to paint, and I kept nudging the transfers by accident, which combined made the activity I do to relax far and away the most stressful thing that has happened in the last few days.

I'll stick with the highlights, but I'm having conflicting thoughts about it when compared to my less technique-strong (patented term rights go to Creed) but cleaner tactical marines. I've included a comparison.
Maybe it's because I typed raptors into gallery search and found lots of people who've done this chapter before me and did a far better job than I've been doing so far, which such wonders as: clean highlights, really good weathering effects, osl, blending, proper basing, shading that isn't just 'apply agrax earthshade' (would be my patent if it wasn't already in the public domain), cracks in power armour, and a whole host of other techniques I will never add to my repertoire.
But hey, at least I can achieve a standard that is acceptable on the table top.

Camouflage Rhino for the win! I had a rogue trader original rhino box that had a bunch of different camo schemes laid out on it. Reminds me of that. Side note: fluffwise do you know if the raptors were part of the badab war?

Apparently four companies, headed by the chapter master (who has rules but no model), were present and acted as mobile reserves for two years before they lost so many marines that they had to pull out from the badab war.

Cool, thanks for the info. I just asked because camo space marines immediately bring badab to mind, probably because of Gitsplitta and his Mantis Warriors. It would be interesting to see some camo patterns on the actual marines if you're ever feeling adventurous.

Well if you go to page three of this very plog you'll see I have 'experience' (one marine done in a one hour speed paint) in that very field. I'm definitely going to for the scouts, and I'll think about adding it to the odd tactical marine for variation.

So I've taken another group shot of everything either finished or almost finished, I feel like I should. I also experimented with a white background and lighting. My pictures still suck, possibly more so.



Also I've finished the marines of the 7th squad, minus 4 jump-packs and 5 power-packs. They'll be done soon enough and joined, hopefully, by their 5 brothers to complete the squad. I tried to highlight the diamonds of the sergeant's power axe handle with evil sun's scarlet over the base of mephiston red, then washed it with, of course, agrax earthsade. I think it went well enough.

Army shot looks good. I don't know if I've said it before, but I really like the venerable dreadnought. As for the white background, I do think it looks better than before, but the first shot with the whole army works a lot better than the individual squad shots. Did you change something in your technique between the two?

You're a really fast (and good!) painter compared to me. Looking great!

Nice little force you have growing here.

brushcommando wrote:Army shot looks good. I don't know if I've said it before, but I really like the venerable dreadnought. As for the white background, I do think it looks better than before, but the first shot with the whole army works a lot better than the individual squad shots. Did you change something in your technique between the two?

Thanks regards the dread, and I moved my one lamp further away and used my phone to take the pictures with the phone torch to see if that worked better.

Matthew wrote:You're a really fast (and good!) painter compared to me. Looking great!

Nevelon wrote:Nice little force you have growing here.

The trick is to neglect what you should be doing instead of painting.

Don't worry, There is something of worth in this post. I kitbashed a Lias Issodon model from some space wolf and assault marine parts. I plan to have a diorama where he's been under some camo blanket as some chaos marines patrol the area. Then once they pass him he rises up and point blank blows their brains out from behind. This has happened mainly because I don't want to paint jump packs but I do want to do hobby.



And using some raptors to roughly sketch out the positioning:

That diorama reminds me of a "because I'm Batman!" moment.

Never let it be said that I was keen on finishing projects before starting new ones. To be fair, I have done about half the painting required on the four remaining jump packs. I'll try and finish them before the weekend, when I'll buy the crap ton of paints I need for some pre-heresy Thousand Sons goodness.

Nice! Pre heresy Thousand sons look really boss. I'm excited to start my own once I clear the next couple projects from my slate.

I don't know if you can see it, but the red isn't really flat, even though it's two thin coats. Either Duncan Rhodes lied to me to make me buy mephiston red spray, or I'm doing something wrong.

Getting paint to go on smooth is really tricky sometimes. One thing I've found that helps some times is thinning it with a little bit of glaze medium as opposed to water. But honestly, they don't look bad at all. I'm sure it will start to look more in line with what you're wanting as you add the other colors to the mix.

I shaded their armour.



I hate this Sargent, I hate this witchblade and I hate his goddamned crest, and painting them was the most stressful thing I've done this week, and at the end of it I don't even get the satisfaction of a job well done, because it looks like crap.

Sorry mate. Nothing worse than putting a lot of time into a miniature and not being happy with the result...

kSons ftw! Don't worry about that sword, i spent 2+ hours painting my Termie sergeant's sword, forgot to thin the last shade and turned the whole thing green. To be fair it doesn't look bad, just not what I was going for.

brushcommando wrote:Sorry mate. Nothing worse than putting a lot of time into a miniature and not being happy with the result...

EmberlordofFire8 wrote:kSons ftw! Don't worry about that sword, i spent 2+ hours painting my Termie sergeant's sword, forgot to thin the last shade and turned the whole thing green. To be fair it doesn't look bad, just not what I was going for.

Thanks, I've gotten over it and lowered my standards in accordance with my actual skill. I painted the evil sun scarlet highlight for one marine today, which took me 1/2 an hour.




I'm not sure why I'm putting this on my painting blog of all places, but hey, where better to vent than somewhere I basically run?
Any way, yesterday I came out to my parents (I'm bisexual). I wasn't expecting them to take it well, and they didn't, they seem extremely upset. However, to their credit they've not been dicks about it, and maybe in a few years they'll be ok with it.
As I said, not sure why I'm putting this here, just something I feel like doing.

Hopefully because DakkaDakka is a non-judgemental place, and because you feel you'll get reassurance that it'll work out okay in the end.

It will, by the way. Just like you say.

Like fifty said, you'll find no judgement here. Hopefully things will be less stressful for you soon. Also, I know he's not your favorite, but I actually really like that sergeant and am excited to see what he looks like finished.

That one actually came out ok. Are you doing GW Mephistos red/evilsons scarlet/fire dragon bright scheme?

The Thousand Sons are looking good, the depth is coming through in the red armour and I quite like effect you've done on the sword.

Keep it up.

EDC

Thanks lads, but I'm afraid my soul has already died over the last few days, you're too late.

In the meantime though, I finished the evil suns and wild rider red highlights and I finished the cloak on my terminator captain (which was a lot easier to do than I'd imagined). As usual, the lighting has made taking decent photos near impossible, but I tried my best.

That cloak is awesome. Will he be TSons, or something else?

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:
That cloak is awesome. Will he be TSons, or something else?

Raptors SMs. I feel like I've neglected them a little.

Wow. That cloak is really impressive.

Thanks. I really enjoyed painting it and decided to share the love.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/717754.page#9197405

I'm also doing the gold on the thousand sons, so I might post again in a few hours.

I've done the gold and eyes. I do quite like painting from 1am to 4am. I don't know why, but if I can power through the two hours of lying in bed beforehand I always feel really in the mood during the early morning.

Some great looking Thousand Sons

Thanks.
I'm not sure how wide a readership this painting blog has, but for those of you who see this, I want it known that I think Warhammer TV and Duncan Rhodes are the best part of the hobby.

Mostly because of videos like this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kKF6GUyI8VA
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MhgS_5r7drI
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3v1epu4d7cs

Looking good! Those Tsons are shaping up nicely. And I agree about the duncan videos. Some of the first real improvement I'd made in years came after watching his stuff.

They look great! I really like the brighter red.

I haven't painted anything, but the raptors fought their first and very noble fight. Expect a battle report soon.

Nice. Looking forward to it.

Nice work on the TSons.

That termie cloak for The Raptors captain looks awesome.

EDC

So as far as painting goes, the Raptors got a few compliments on Saturday. The store manager said I'd really improved since he first met me 4 years ago. Sadly though, not every model I fielded was painted, the lias issodon model and the bikers were gloriously grey.

I don't remember everything, and my picture taking was quite spotty, but hopefully I can form a coherent narrative.

So mission 1, three separate two board battlefields, each representing a path in the webway. You could jump between the battlefields using portals at each end.
On each battlefield 750 points faced off, imperial vs harlequins/craftworld eldar and a member of the imperial and elder triumvirate for each team on each board (the triumvirates didn't count towards points). On the left board, was one leviathan dread (so 315 points vs 750) and crawl vs an assortment of clowns, their skimmers and the visarch. On the middle board, Skitarri and Celestine vs essentially the same thing (Ynnead was in reserves). On the right board, raptors and greyfax (by far the worst of the six characters) vs harlequin jetbikes, a wraithlord, some clowns in a clown skimmer, a shadowseer, and Yvrain.

On the left and right battlefields, the Imperials were going first, the elder went first in the middle. there were two imperial players (me and one other) and one elder player. It got confusing pretty quick, but we managed to finish the game. Each triumvirate member was worth 2 or 3 victory points, and each battlefield was worth 3 vps at the end.

This will mostly focus on the raptors board.
Now I didn't take photos for the first turn, but basically the bikes and assault squad with chaplain surged forwards and got wiped out in assault (The chaplain lived to hold up a skyweaver unit in the left building for thee turns and even killed one.)

Complete with growing dead pile.


Suddenly, due to elder deathmagicbullshit (stormsurge I think it's called),Ynnead turned up once the bikes died.


I decided to pretend Ynnead actually wasn't there, and used the dreads and tactical marines to shoot a clown unit to death, and knocked Yvrain down to one wound, so she ran and hid behind a building. Then it was elder turn two on the raptors board (the mechanicum were busy being murked) and Ynnedad decided to appear on the middle board to murk the mechanicum some more, rather than face the dreads.



Somewhere in all this the venerable dread killed the shadowseer with a shot from the plasma cannon. There was a growing elder dead pile too, thanks to the raptors and leviathan.


An overview shot of all three tables.


On the left board, I took over the leviathan for a bit and charged a skimmer on turn two, killing it. He then turned around on turn three and shot the Visarch with his storm cannon. All the named characterness in the universe couldn't save him from six strength 7 ap 3 shots.



Turn three, the wraithlord (who'd been duelling with the venerable dread for a while at range) decided enough was enough and charged, taking a hull point off brother Augustus, as I'm naming the venerable dread. I imagine what happened next was Augustus just reached out and grabbed the wraithlord's chest, then squeezed until it was dead. Anyway, dice were rolled and the wraithlord kicked the bucket.


Sadly the skyweavers finished off the chaplain. I like to think he was telling them to feth off with his last, angry breath. You may notice a sneaky thousand son standing in as a raptor marine sergeant. Are we sure he isn't alpharius?


The death of the wraithlord meant Ynnead got to turn up again as the skyweavers consolidated into a position where they could say hello to greyfax. Celestine abandoned the middle board (now basically empty of imperial forces) and come to the last important board (the board with the leviathan was fast running out of elder).

Sadly, through a combination of shooting, eldar magiks and assault, the board was very quickly rid of raptors and greyfax, and only the captain was left.






But not all hope was lost. The last Harlequin skimmer on the left board was trying to play ring around the roses (bastion) with the leviathan, who wasn't interested in playing.

HERE'S JOHNNY


And so the left board was made Imperial, the middle board was elder, both triumvirates were a member down, and it was too late for any models not already near a portal to start moving to the right battlefield last fight that would decide the game. Celestine with bodyguards, a dunecrawler who'd ran from the middle board and a captain vs Yvrain on one hp, Ynnead and some skyweavers.


The captain died.

Jain Zar and some banshees turn up.


Throughout the game empiric storm cards had been in effect. Effectively two per turn, and guess which card turns up for this final and most epic of fights.


The Geminae Superia mysteriously disappear, some say due to being shot with no invulnerable saves.


The dunecrawler gets wrecked.


In the end, Celestine gets ganked and dies in assault, deciding the game 2-1 in board control to the elder and 2-1 in triumvirate kills.


The raptors actually performed quite well, but the dreadnoughts did all the heavy lifting. The tac marines and greyfax did nothing, and the assault marines got out initiatived. The loss of the bikes was my fault, I should have held them back for later rather than charging into shuriken cannon fire.

We dispersed for lunch then came back for game two, which I'll upload later.

Nice batrep. I think the moment I liked most was the dread killing the wraithlord. Nice duel moment.

Nice rep. I certainly do think you deserve praise! You've come quite a way from where you started the blog!

Thanks.

But the real travesty here is that I only get a 9mm.
http://www.waltherarms.com/handguns/creed/

That's gotta be enough to destroy a wraithknight?

This just makes me more excited for my FLGS's gathering storm "finale", where everyone with Eldar and Imperium (on one side) and Chaos on the other is invited to bring a 1000p list and we'll play an apocalypse battle with everyone's army combined. I'm wondering if I should take my RG (HH actually, but the minis will work as 40k) or my space marine/inquisition army (with Tau allies, don't ask) who are MUCH weaker (lots of stern Guard and vanguard cause I like the minis). Technically I could also bring my Eldar, but then I wouldn't be able to get a good list (I only have a bout 1000p painted).

Love the batrep, can't wait to see more!

Ember

 Matthew wrote:
That's gotta be enough to destroy a wraithknight?

Well I suppose you could shoot the plastic model but if a real wraithknight attacked I'd want something a bit larger.
Thanks Ember.

I finally finished the MKIII marines. I'm happy with how they turned out (even the crest, and I've come to terms with the sword), which is good, because I've probably spend upwards of eight hours on them.
It was hard to get a good photo of them, so like most photos I used Dakka's autofilter. If you go to the image in the gallery and zoom in it's good resolution.







I'll do the second batrep tomorrow, and the captain in terminator armour will be next to grace the desk. (I might finish up the jumppacks first.)

Those finished Tsons look great. Nice and clean paintjob. Looking forward to the second batrep.

So after lunch, we regrouped, added models until we had 13,000 points, and went at it again.
We played a mission in a city (The terrain definitely favoured the assault heavy army of our opponents over our own shooty armies.) Where the imperium got 18" deployment and went second, the chaos side got 12" deployment and went first. Now the attack was supposed to be led by abaddon. But the chaos guy bailed, and a guy who was just there managed to conjure 1,000 points or so of deathwatch to stand in for the chaos side, with a watchmaster as abaddon. And the eldar were there with 1,600 points. As allies to corrupted deathwatch, fighting space marines, guardmen and skitarii on one of the most terrain heavy 40k boards I've ever seen. While both triumvurates appeared for free.
It was a lot of fun.

Each player got a warmaster (normal 1VP), and each side got an overall warmaster, ynnead and Celestine (3VPs).
Each triumvirate member was worth an extra VP. I think it was kill points, I'm not sure.
So here's the Imperial deployment.


Celestine and the bodyguards had to turn up turn three as deepstrike without scattering. We attached the angry chaplain and the assault marines to make a mini death star of turn three doom. You'll see how well that goes later.


Here's the enemy deployment, a lot of deathwatch and a corvus blackstar started in reserve with Ynnead.


So I put Greyfax in a squad of veterans. Then during turn one the elder player asked if she was in the quad. Evil me said no, thinking "ha, now she can use the guardmen as meatshileds' which was tactiucally a poor decision, because he then said, "ok, I'll just shoot her."
Luckily, a guy (More on him at the end) who was there to watch and because for certain people the GW shop is effectively a community centre, leaped to my rescue, "No, say she's in the unit!" And the edar player contested it briefly, before the bystander pointed out she was within an inch of the unit, and as an independent character she had to be in the unit. So the elder player slaughtered most of the vets, but she lived to see another turn.


Super sneaky skyweavers then blew up a basilisk. To save saying "The basilisks did nothing" each turn, they were worthless, they couldn't hit half the board due to terrain denying LoS (which they need within 36") and missing whenever they could shoot. So not a terrible loss.


A bit more shooting left Greyfax a bit on her own, and killed a biker. Something put a hull point on the venerable dread.


Cue Greyfax running behind a building and the venerable dread and bikers covering her retreat and putting wounds on the skyweavers.


The tank commander in his eradicator did nothing, but his accompanying executioner singlehandedly killed 5 deathwatch termies and 4 or 5 deathwatch marines, leaving only three left.


Turn two and the elder trickery gets ridiculous. The bikes run away and the venerable gets compromised.




The venerable dread looses another hull point to the clown skimmer, and clowns and banshees swarm greyfax, 5 tacticals and the captain, who challenges the troupe master.


It doesn't go too well for the imperials, and the enemy get 4VPs.


Brother Augustus is not pleased and using his plasma cannon and heavy flamer kills all the clowns except the troupe master. Who he then charges and kicks so hard in the balls the troupe master dies. (He killed him with a hammer of wrath hit)


Crawl gets charged, and using some special thingy, gets 2d6 hits at initiative step 10. He gets 12 hits.


Of which four wound. Also in this image you can see the ruststalkers who avenge the basilisk and kill the skyweavers. (After my mechanicum ally said repeadedly "There's nothing to protect your basilisks" We had to point out to him that most of his army could very easily help, rather than run to my side of the board.


And only two go through. (DW, he wins later)


Along the way, the three deathwatch marines kill another 5 man tac squad, the watch master and a bunch of deathwatch turn up, and the banshees are joined by the triumvirate and jainzar.


The deathwatch blow up the tank commander. Here he can be seen getting revenge with his 6" blast radius. (It killed a guy with a frag cannon.)


Brother Augustus is killed by a clown skimmer from behind. No honour with these types. Brother Tiberius(the normal dread) was charged earlier by the wraithlord. They both attacked at initiative step , and killed each other. How poetic. (No picture, sorry.)


The elder assault deathstar bullshitimus maximus kills the executioner.


For this whole period, the skitarii have been dying in droves. But don't worry, Imperial turn three is here, and so's Celestine!


She uses her one time orbital strike and kills most of the deathwatch and the watchmaster, yay!


And gets charged next turn by the remains of the deathwatch, the banshees, jainzar, a shadowseer, and the whole elder triumvirate.


The assault marines die before doing anything, as does the chaplain, who gets one hit in. Over the course of a few turns Celestine and her bodyguards get slapped around until they die (Jainzar kept stealing her weapon) and the game ends in a near tabling (We called it once Celestine diesd because it was just the basilisk, Crawl and maybe the ruststalkers left).

Here's one last picture of the corvus hovering over the last mechanicum unit to die.


All in all, a good game with some great moments. The IG performed terribly, partly because there was no synergy between the IG units themselves or with the Raptors who they were allied with. Five man tac squads are worthless. I think I probably split up my power too much. But we weren't there to WAAC, we were there for fun and winning if possible. It'sgood we called it when we did because, to everyone's amazement, there was only ten minutes left until the store's closing time, and as nice as the store manager is, he wanted to go home.

Regarding the bystander mentioned earlier, he spent most of the second half of the game saying "there's no such thing as fairies" and trying to convince the elder player that his units weren't there.
It also turns out that he recently bought 36 vindicators off the webstore, to run in squad of three as three formations of 12. Once we discussed it, we realised how terribly broken it was. And he owns an airbrush, so painting them won't take him too long either. I don't think he intends them to see the light of day except for serious tourneys.

I know I've been silent for a while, but I'm back. Real life has slowed painting/building down considerably, but I finished building the MKIII marines, and since I don't know the rules regarding special/heavy weapons in 30K, I magnetised two of them.

Veteran squads can take 1 per every 5 marines, and tactical quads cant take any. Unless you take Pride of the Legion (one of the Rites of War) you need tactical marines as you troops. So no heavy weapons.

 EmberlordofFire8 wrote:
Veteran squads can take 1 per every 5 marines, and tactical quads cant take any. Unless you take Pride of the Legion (one of the Rites of War) you need tactical marines as you troops. So no heavy weapons.

Good thing they can hold bolters. Then if I ever want something deadlier they can magically become vets.

I tried my first ever osl with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Im42vmG6zs&list=PLiJtsRTurhod4_XvfuoKEIvvRaYrqdHnn&index=17

I quite like how it turned out.

That's pretty sweet looking! Nice job!

I know I've gone quiet, but I'll be able to paint again soon. In the meantime, I've organised one of my dad's three 6mm WWII forces, a Wehrmacht panzer regiment. Hopefully over the summer I can get all three forces and the scenery painted, he already has an appropriately scaled set of 1x1' boards so I don't have to worry about that.

I did my first ever chop up conversion with green stuff. I'm very proud of my gak. Also got an old metal deamon hunter with no feet from a friend. I made feet that are different sizes. Because, y'know. This stuff's difficult.

Good luck on your GS. I've found that coconut oil makes great lubricant for sculpting, and an old brush (a small one) with the bristles missing makes a great sculpting tool.

Here's a shot of all TSons so far (I've decided in future to stick to the flat red rather than the shiny stuff) and the WIPs for the raptor hunting pack. I might even finish the assault marines' jump packs.

Looking good! I love the red and gold next to each other. <3

Thanks Hanabi, but I'm afraid the TSons are gonna get shelved for a while because I've been accumulating more 40k marines to add to the 4th, as well as this predator. But before I do that I may well paint some MEdge for an aesthetical break, and I found the rest of the trench guard squad, which I thought I'd lost a year or two ago, so they may well be getting some paint.

Ooh, I like that tank! Especially the kill counters, are they for vehicles or xeno scum?

So the way I envision it is that this is the 4th in maybe 920.M41, shortly after the raptors were pulled out of the Badab war due to heavy casualties. The predator 'Numina's will' has a small skull for every Badab army vehicle it killed and one large skull to represent killing a renegade astartes predator. That's also why it's in urban camo whereas the rest have switched back to the standard olive drab, it's not been repainted yet. What questions that raises when they fight say, guilliman or Magnus, who only came back to the materium in 999.M41, are best left unasked.

Cool. I'd love to do a urban fighting SM chapter now...

Honestly I really like it when people add things like sandbags, reactive armour or kill markings to vehicles. Makes it look more realistic

I'm gonna be getting dark imperium and adding the primaries marines to the 4th to flesh out the numbers, so as for the fluff, let's say it's taken them a very long time to properly regain their numbers.
As for painting, I'm joining the 'OMG 8th is coming' painting push buy antigreying some assault marines and scouts. The base green is done and the base fabrics. I even got some camo done.

Painting is coming along, but more importantly, I made a video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tO57Hf--70&feature=youtu.be

Done all the camo, the black tenth company marking for the right pauldron, plus the black on 2.5 boots.

The scouts are nearing completion, but work today on all things green was stopped by the arrival of Dark Imperium. I'm going for the look favoured by all Hollywood posters, contrasting blue and orange on the nurgle forces, both to give myself a break from green things and because arrayed on the table top green vs slightly different green doesn't look good. I'm using the Lord of Contagion and the Primaris Ancient as test models for the forces, and I practiced on a poxwalker to see if I could maybe get them done and in such a way they tie into the blue. I mostly followed Duncan's battle ready tutorial, with a little more done on the horns and weapon, plus adding some nurgle's rot to the blood for the blood god.

That colour scheme is awesome. I love the whole thing, but the worn out metal fly just looks so cool. I definitely need to buy that box.

Thanks ember.
I've done the rusted metal parts, look it up on Warhammer TV if you want to know how it's done. I think I probably should have waited until I'd done the metal to put the nuln oil over the armour, because now I have to maccragge blue the spots of ryza rust all over the armour and re-nuln oil it before starting the highlight of calgar blue.

And all done. I'll do the ancient next to test the primaris scheme.

Quick update, I've just seen the Reivers, looks like once I'm done with dark imperium and the other ten or so models that need paint, my wallet is going to take another bashing because oh man do they fit with the Raptor way of war. And I was just planning ahead to some tau or Guard.

Tenth company support has finally arrived. (Edit: I don't know why the pictures are so blurry, I might try reupload them.)

Can we just take a moment to thank Duncan Rhodes for existing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qGCG8XAlNI

So I touched up the tank crew and glued the driver in, gave proper highlights as Duncan prescribed, and drilled the barrel of the pistol, as well as drilling the scouts' weapons and giving them some face paint, because why wear camo when your pale raven guard skin is on show? The images still seem kinda blurry but if viewed in gallery once zoomed in they seem ok. Also some tau on the way, trying out a new colour scheme mostly based on this guide: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/729225.page#9480672

Nice work on the camouflage, it's just bright enough to be noticeable but still looks really nice and gritty. Although you might want another recess shade of dark wash on the gunner's red shoulder pad.

I finished the stealth suits in the new colour scheme, did the final, absolute touches to the crew, no more touch up of the predator, and got the skin of ten more poxwalkers done.
As usual the pics are kinda blurry, you might want to view them in gallery and zoom in.
(I did properly black rim the bases after taking these photos.)

I painted these two nights before I went away, and even thought I got back 5 days ago I've only just taken pictures of them. I present the (painted) entirety of my new Tau force.
































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I don't know what it is I just can't seem to get the photos right. Should I be using an image hoster outside dakkadakka?

Photos are fine dude, i've never had issues with the Dakka photo gallery.

Minis are looking great too, really like tge poses on tge suits and the orange lenses look great.

EDC

Those sure are some odd blue camouflage Space Marines.

Well they aren't blue, but raptors do come with camo. All I have for now is a repaint of my venerable dread's plasma cannon.

Wow, great OSL. is it dry brushed, or did you use and airbrush?

Dry brushed, I don't own an airbrush.

Hi, my name is Scout Sergeant Feth you I Have a Thunder Hammer. I was playing a game and we noticed that scout sergeants can take items from the sergeant item list, which is free upgrades when paying power levels. Which means scout sergeants can, if you want, take thunder hammers. For free. And since I had one lying around, why not?

Haha, I hadn't noticed that either. I don't run scouts normally, unless I decide to take a 5-man unit and stick them in a land speeder, but i might have to give one a thunder hammer. Or a power fist...

Well that scout Seargent is living his dream of smash facing.

The whole free gear with PL thing is making me very conflicted. I’m normally very stingy with upgrades, being a firm believer in "boys before toys”. I’d rather have more boots on the ground then a few tricked out ones. And my collection reflects that. (with a few exceptions like my plasma pistol/powerfist assault sarge) But now the temptation to gear everyone up to the gills, just for PL games is quite strong.

Because as you say, why not thunder hammers?

Nice work on the OSL. Might be a little bright, but that’s what overcharging will get you. Very impressive to get that done with a fuzzy stick. Most OSL is airbrushed. Or done by people who have sold their souls to fell powers for painting talent.

Trust me, Scouts with close combat weapons are awesome. Especially with Plasma weapons, Wolf Scouts can take 4 of them in a six man squad

I played a game today with my scouts.
Sargent Thunder Hammer killed three custodian guard in combat and was given a field promotion to captain of the tenth company.

I've completed my greatest masterpiece to date, 'We Keep Moving', depicting the march of veteran sergeant Marcus and three soldiers of the Helicon Guard to the battle of Schwartzhelm.

Excuse my french, but... Creed, that's f*cking dank. Seriously, that's an amazing dio.

I agree with this guy ^^^

Great job!

Cheekily forgetting to upload anything. Have a wip of some primaris marines and my recent non-gee dubs purchase.

I've finished the paintwork, just the raptor decals I ordered left to add and the bases.

I think 40K is ruining my financial sense.

(also Lias Issodon kitbash incoming)

Go 6mm. I just bought 200 romans for 10 euros. Problem is I can't proxy them...

A tau suit? I'm looking forward to this

Sadly the tau stuff is just to magnetise and add to my existing weapons pool.

The decals arrived so the first primaris are finished, unfortunately though there are only ten of the appropriately sized raptor heads for the pauldrons, but about 40 of these slightly smaller ones, so I've had to use them. Also the pictures are pretty bad, so I'm going to have to practice a bit with my old camera to get it right.









Edit: also I got an unconditional offer to the University of Nottingham to study Philosophy, so I'm pretty happy right now.

My bitz arrived, so i now have a purpose built Lias Issodon.

Finally basecoated the armour of the 5th company command.

The mk III helms fit really well with the mk X bodies. Well done!

I'll do an end of year review in an hour or so, but I finished the Primaris Captain with Power Fist.













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These are all the models I've painted this year, not counting the diorama. 2017 has been a good hobby year.

Almost a whole two months later and all I've done is get a few more stages done on the hellblasters. What can ya do, A-level year and all that.
Although whilst I'm not hobbying or even wasting time playing vidya games I'm still managing to do barely any work and I worry myself. But not enough to do proper work.

Anyway, I was round at a friend's today and for £40 he gave me everything he had, Black Reach, Dark Vengeance, a box of tacticals (unopened), 15 or so paints and five sniper scouts.

Let's just break that down price-wise
The actually usable stuff
2x tacticals £50
1x scout snipers £15
1x Dreadnought £28
1x captain £18
1x terminators £28
1x Librarian £18
A total of £157 RRP for £40, a pretty nice saving of £117.

However, to quote the eternal Billy Mays, "But wait, there's more!"

There's another three forces to be sold off.
20 ork boyz, 5 nobz and a warboss. £20 on ebay.
20 cultists, 5 chosen and a chaos lord. £20 on ebay.
15 DA tacticals, a DA captain, 3 ravenwing and 5 deathwing terminators. £25 on ebay.

So in reality I got all that space marine goodness for a net £15 gain, probably eaten up by postage, balancing it out to a free £157 RRP.
Not too shabby.
Plus I have another friend nearby willing to sell a bunch of stuff, including but not limited to a stormraven and the 2nd edition starter set, although I don't know how much of that is intact.
So whilst I might not be painting much, the 4th are growing.

Edit: most are still grey but some of the models are painted and need stripping, I'd appreciate advice on how to properly go about that.

Quickest way to strip is Isopropanol Alcohol/ rubbing alcohol, get it from the chemists. Old tooth brush and scrub them. Wear gloves.
Alternative is old fashioned brown Dettol, soak your models overnight in a plastic tub of Dettol and then brush to old paint off. Make sure you get all the paint off before you wash them under the tap.

The Iso method is best, it is quick and relatively painless, the Dettol works but I find a pain in the butt.

Nice haul. Well done.

Use alcohol. It can take anywhere from 1 hour to 5 minutes.

Thanks for the advice.
Through the use of my bitz box and a few old marines I had lying around I've managed to turn those 20 tacticals into 30, I just need 8 more shoulder pads and a lot of 32mm bases.
Theat means the 4th has 5/6 of its line units, 4 tacticals and 1 intercessor. I think I might go for a 2nd intercessor squad to finish it off.

I've been working on the captain for the 4th, finally. I think it's going well, I've done the highlighting for the armour and the black of the gun and grenade harness, just the metal to highlight and all the tubing, then cleanup, washes, eyes and finally transfers. Maybe even a little blood for the blood god and typhus corrosion.

I live Tartarus termites. Great job.

And he's done, I ended up having to use uhu glue because there's no pva in the house.











Also, here's the two captains side by side, I preshaded all the crevices of this captain before going all over with agrax, the primaris just received agrax all over. Is there any noticeable difference?





And, for consistency's sake, I went back and put tufts if dead grass on a few guys from each unit.




That's the last painting I'm doing for a few months, unfortunately. I may be able to start building my new tau army. I've got the secret weapon bases, I've got the fire warriors, and soon I'll have the sashimonos.

I stayed up till 5:30 am, and these guys occupied two of those sleepless hours.

The tartarus terminator looks great! Can't wait to see the Tau painted.

So I've been doing some thinking about the bases. Somewhere on dakka there was a discussion about clear bases, and someone mentioned how they dislike resin bases because they can't stand up on anything that isn't flat. It'd be a great shame to tack another £10 onto every already expensive enough unit to only have them be useless on most boards.
I think I'm gonna have to snap the tau guys from the urban resin bases and put them on basic plastic bases, then go though the terrible hassle of making urban bases with sand and paints. I can still use the bases for kill teams or anything like that, so it's not money wasted. I dunno, I think I just got a bit over-hyped at the idea of having a very distinctive force with custom bases on top of the conversions.

In other news I've been snapping things up on ebay, including a few metal OOP things for the tau and I got a metal Master of recruitment, who might end up as my Lias Issodon until I get around to actually building one in plastic. I auction sniped the Games Day 1999 Anghkor Prok (that model is older than me), and got a £50 birthday present to myself, but I'll keep that a surprise. Definitely worth selling off all my old and terribly painted guard (although I kept the ones with sentimental value).

Great job on the bay finds. It's kinda weird when minis are older than you (almost my entire elf army is from the eighties, so nearly 20 years older than me...).
If you're worried about your resin bases, you can use a razor saw to remove the top of it and the glue it on to a GW plastic one, although that might actually be more difficult than making new ones... good luck!

A little something, or rather 20 little somethings, arrived in the post yesterday. Now are those the coolest fire warriors ever or are those the coolest fire warriors ever?













NGL the guy who made the primed ones is not half as scrupulous when it comes to removing mould lines, hence the grey lines on the models where I had to go back and remove the ridges.

That looks pretty cool.

I like them, but they'll be even cooler when they're painted.

Great theme for your Tau Firewarriors.

Have you thought about matching shoulder pads for the other shoulders. Really would capture that Ran theme. I may be able to help with more shoulder pads. If interested just fire me a PM.

Cheers,

CB

Captain Brown wrote:
Have you thought about matching shoulder pads for the other shoulders. Really would capture that Ran theme.

I think they'd end up looking too bulky if I wen there. Thanks for the offer.

So I'll be making my grand return to painting on the 19th. I've accumulated almost 200 minis in the year of absence/low level painting. I'm gonna bash all the raptors minis, around 150, out in just 8 weeks, and I'll even start a showcase thread for it. So there's that.

Also, prompted by the last chance to buy orgy going on at FW, I've now got a ton of upgrades, 2 dreads and a command set. When they arrived today I think I was the most excited I've been for a few months. This excitement was quickly dampened by the 20 minutes it took to wash and clean the autocannon arms and wash the MKIV ironclad. But it's all still very sexy, and I'm looking forward to the satisfaction of lining up almost an entire company of marines.







Also FW sent me a cool postcard, which I appreciated. Not that I can write in it, because there's a big forgeworld sticker stuck inside, but its the thought that counts.

I spent 8 hours today on all this. Assembling FW is a real pain, but he does look so cool. And I was missing an arm joint, which they were kind enough to offer a replacement for when I emailed with proof of purchase. Then putting on the base size converters took an hour because almost none of them fit properly so you have to use liquid greenstuff to fill the gaps. But it's all done. Played my first game in forever yesterday, 6 way with 30 playing each. That'll get you 10 vanguard vets, a terminator captain, a Lieutenant and 5 intercessors. Funnily enough, I didn't do much killing. Plus I'm very excited to paint this chaplain.



(there's still another 30 guys to strip and spray)

That is an awesome use of that jump pack! Can't wait to see it painted

Good luck with the project! I pay an eye to it.

Another brother is added to the fold, and what a sexy looking brother he is, in a murdery sort of way.
Also watching WILTY whilst building dreadnoughts does make the experience a lot more enjoyable, although having body shaking laughter while holding super glue or a hobby knife may not be the best thing to do.

That’s a mean looking dread there!

I spent about three hours just putting the Death World Forest layer on these 20 scouts, plus the black on 2 of them. One guy had a massive gap between his arm and torso, fixed it with green stuff so I had to put him on hold to get a quick spray tomorrow.
I looked at my current scouts and thought it was a little weird that they have camouflage clothing over their legs and arms, but their torsos are standard raptors OD Green, which sort of negates the effect. So I've done 10 of the 20 in death world forest all over the clothing and the armour, leaving the right shoulder for the 10th company black. So now I've justified the fluff as having those 10 fully equipped, and the ones in standard green carapace have taken damage to their original camouflaged carapace as the campaign has worn on, and have had to get a new set from the armoury without time to properly prepare the armour for the current war zone.
I'm gonna try and finish them by the end of Saturday for the dakka dakka unofficial painting challenge, but if I could finish them by Thursday afternoon for the local GW's gaming night that'd be even better.



Also did a little freehand sergeant marking.

So I built the dreadnought arms, and found one was missing the arm joint. The people at forge world were kind enough to send me a whole new one, which was pretty cool, plus the second casting had far less pronounced mould lines, so that was good. I tried him and the ironclad in a game recently alongside a Lias Issodon bomb. They all sucked, but they're units that really need some space to move and we were playing 8,000 points total between the 4 of us on a 4x4' table, so I'm not too disheartened.




Finished the first scout, pretty happy with him.

Those scouts look pretty cool, and now I'm sad I didn't manage to get my hands on a MKIV dread...

I tried my hand at the Warhammer TV power sword. Duncan makes it look so easy but after two scrapped attempts this is the best I could do. It's not absolute trash like the first two but I'm still gonna wince when I put it down on the table. I think I managed to get a better consistency for the glazing on this one but he makes the transition of colour look so easy to achieve when it really isn't. Also I need new brushes, every brush I have is either ruined or on its last legs. So yay for spending more money I guess.