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 Solar_lion wrote:

The only thing I would suggest is gold ( or bronze ) rivit on the ones around his neck . Break up the gray a bit!

I liked your suggestions. What do you think Solar?


Here is my completed Adepticon 2013 force.


Check out my Adepticon 2013 gallery for more pictures of the force along with my teammates Executioners.

I'm interested to see how your list does, I want to run some deathwing next year I think.

Great .. call it. can't wait for the MOAB.

We should be complete. Tiger Claws, Executioners, Lamenters and the Mantis Warriors ready for AC2013

I'll work on getting some pic's for the book this weekend!

Nice work, Ice. That little bit makes a huge difference.

Oh and one more.. sorry dude.. the pommel on the dagger need to have a touch of that same gold! Just want our commander to be perfect as well as forboding!

simply well done ice, very nice.

Awesome Ice, bloody awesome!

Laileb on the front page of dakka. Nice!

Congrats Ice. You did a great job on him. Well deserved!

very well deserved indeed.

Thanks guys. It's always nice to see any of my pictures on the front page. It seems more often then not, my pictures from Adepticon show up, just not pictures of my own figures. I'm hoping to take another big group of photos and fill another Adepticon folder. I'll let you know once that's done.

As for my own P&M stuff, I've done very little. A little Tiger Claw touch up here and there. I did manage to bust out a kit that I've been holding on to for about a year now. Here is his WIP.

I have to say I am very impressed with the Stompa kit. Lots of great options and extra bits, very customizable as all ork vehicles should be. Now if you pay attention to the picture you'll notice that one arm is still missing. Last year for my birthday my buddies went in and got me a lifta droppa arm. I LOVE the lifta droppa. Ever since Space Marine came out with models for lifta droppa tanks I've loved them. So simple and SO orky! However, the forgeworld kit has to be the worst forgeworld kit I've ever owned. All of it was covered in excessive amounts of flashing and there were several pieces that were horribly miscast. Several of the pieces don't even fit together right and I'm not sure they can be pinned. I hate to say it but I'm super disappointed with the lifta droppa.

Adepticon is next weekend and I'm nearly ready. My army is completed but I still have some miscellaneous work to do. One of those projects was to write up some fluff. Here is the first story. Huron Story

At some point during the past week or so I also randomly starting drawing on my son. I am not much of an artist but check it out.


I still have one more story to complete before Adepticon. I'll post another link up for that once it has been edited.

Super job... on the baby I mean... the shirt I'm not so sure about.

FW CS is crazy good. If you call them (or maybe talk to them at AC?) they will replace anything you need. They just sent me some Bloodthirster bits after he found he cannot, in fact, fly.

 IceAngel wrote:
At some point during the past week or so I also randomly starting drawing on my son. I am not much of an artist but check it out.

Baby Ice thinking... Should I tell Dad that he missed a mold line or just put a SM in my mouth?

@Gitsplitta - It was my first attempt. I think the Ice Angel symbol I drew on his back turned out better. Either way, it was a lot of fun to make.

@whalemusic360 - That's good to know. I plan on opening up everything before I even leave Adepticon with my next order.

@Solar_lion - He'd actually prefer to grab a tank or marine in his death grip and then smash it against whatever is nearby. Typically that thing is me.



By the way, PRAISE HURON! He arrives Friday and is prepared to slay those lap dogs the Imperial bureaucrats sent to his sector of space. All Hail Huron!

Finally found some time to check out your blog fully instead of catching snippets here and there. I've really enjoyed everything you've produced! Funnily enough there are actually some similarities between your Ice Angels and my first army The Lost Souls, I'm looking forward to seeing if there are any more similarities in the fluff.

Speaking of fluff, can you send me the word document when you can so I can read it offline? I don't think I could manage reading your whole fiction blog on Dakka. I'll pm you my email address. Enjoy Adepticon!

Thanks Casey. I'll get you that file here soon enough.

In the mean time. Check out my teams Adepticon review thread. It'll take some time to upload everything but it will all end up over HERE

Despite my lack of posting as of late, I have been rather productive. The stompa is ready for priming. I have a battlewagon ready for priming. I also managed to put together about a dozen orks of various kinds. All of them are based and ready to be primed.

In the mean time, I have a question. I have had several different conversations about primer. I typically use the GW primer for my models but I've heard that it doesn't coat as well if you're priming FW resin models. I have only painted a handful of FW models and I honestly couldn't tell a difference. Have any of you noticed any difference?

Also, what other primers have you guys had success with?

GW, Army Painter and Vallejo (aribrushable) primers. Not had the best of luck with Tamaya or Floquil.

You should be cleaning the FW models quite a bit more than GW. A bucket of hot water with some dawn or similar. The reason GW primer sometimes has issue is its not a true primer, it's just black paint.

WalMart has a brand of really cheap gray primer: Color Place Gray Primer.



I'm not much of a fan of WalMart, but for $1 a can, I make an exception. It covers smmothly, and I've had no problems with it. I haven't seen any difference between plastic and resin, but as WM said, you have to clean the resin well.

I use Krylon's line of spray primers.

This has been said 18, times, so here's one more: Wash the models. You should be washing anything you get, because there's always mould release. Resin is typically the worst, but even plastic sprues have it.

Hello dakka. How are you today? May the fourth be with you!
After my last post about a stompa and priming, I found myself needing to go to the store but not ever remembering to buy primer once I was there. So instead of priming models so I could paint them, I ended up with more and more models that needed priming. Personally, I find it easier to squeeze in time to do a little cleaning on a model, or cutting putting one together. At least for these smaller models. Today is finally nice enough weather wise to prime and I find myself with several different kinds of primers to experiment with so I figured I'd share with you all what I have in store and whats in the pipe line.

Below this small bit of text there will be a handful of pictures in an order that I have already forgotten. There should be a small group of tactical ice angels, several storm boyz, several regular boyz, a grot musician, a bag of sanguinary guard bits that were just removed from the sprue, a box of resin models that need to be washed, and several nobz that were made from the fantasy black ork kit. I also need to clarify that most of those orks are not my doing. I have the board, so we always play games here, because of that my gaming group decided we should have a standing house army. SO we all contribute to the ork horde and occasionally some orks are dropped off at my house to be primed. Random people then paint them however they want. It makes for a truly bizarre horde of orks.

Looks like your summer is set!

@Solar - Yeah, the summer definitely has a lot in store for me.

Today the priming went well. Once they stop reeking of paint fumes I'll be bringing them in for some pictures. I'll have some nice comparative shots with the GW black spray paint and some cheap primer. One of the cheap primers I bought worked great and covered really well. It also turned out to be a nice charcoal color instead of straight black. That should give my Ice Angels a bit more depth, which is something they have lacked in the past. Black has always proven to be more difficult then you'd first think.

While they have been drying I've been cleaning and preparing my Sanguinary Guard bits. I am very excited about them. That is a fantastic kit. I made the tough decision to go with the banner too. It's a lot of points but I think worth it if you can coordinate your attacks.

OOO random ork horde. I droll for painted minis. Rules are for shmucks, rules of cool are what you want.

Are you back to IA now.. Tiger Claws on hold till next year?

cormadepanda - I agree completely!

Solar - Yes, the tiger claws are back on hold until they are called to duty once again. The Angels need some love too you know. I can't forget about my name sake. Which reminds me, I have a GMS to post a picture of. YOUR GMS! I need to fix his base to match my army then he'll be part of the club. It sounds like there will be a battle at the end of the month. Perhaps he'll make an appearance.

 IceAngel wrote:


I liked your suggestions. What do you think Solar?

That model looks seriously ace, Ice. I agree with the pommels getting a bit of gold, but aside from that its awesome. Making me want to do something with grey robes now

Let me tell you that in person that looked even better.. I'll miss seeing them for a while!