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Great to see more stuff from you! Hopefully here soon I will finally get some stuff completed and be able to share. As always looking forward to seeing more!

It doesn't have 3 heavy flamers, man * kicks a can * I had plans for them muhahahahahaha

Loving the new pictures!

This blog is a constant source of motivation and inspiration. Keep it up!

Well folks... my updates may be somewhat sporadic for a bit... real life is kicking in my door! My wife's contractions are starting to get really close together, about every 10 minutes or so, so she's probably going to pop here in the next day or so. Thanks for following along thus far! Hopefully I'll find time to paint up some more stuff in the recent future. We'll see....

Well Congrats!!! I hope the delivery is smooth.

Get the sleep you can while you can and give Mrs. FoxPhoenix135 our best

hey congrats mans , I have 3 boys sounds tough but you can find some painting time if you try , I do . A swing is your best friend , I spent many the hour painting with my little one falling a sleep in the swing .

Thanks for all the replies guys... but I'm a little ashamed to say that it was a false alarm . Apparently her contractions are having no effect, so the doc sent us back home.... but I suppose Mrs. Foxphoenix could still pop at any moment.

My son and my dog went to stay with grandma for the day though... so its nice to sit in a quiet apartment for a change. Maybe I can find some time to do a little hobby work while the missus sleeps.

This is all I have gotten done so far... making things ready for babies and trying to actually PLAY 40k has cut into my painting time lately...

Here's Guardsman Marbo, base tricked out with the resin pieces from the basing kit I won as well as some of the crushed slate from the same kit. If any of you remember my BA successor chapter, you will notice that the paint scheme of the helmet matches the said chapter . I figured Marbo would benefit from a kill trophy.

Simple kitbashing, simple paintjob, simple Marbo.

FP135

Also for the record, Marbo totally kicks A$$ in games... Last game he took on a whole space marine tactical squad and killed them single-handedly. He caught them in a sweeping advance, and in the following 2 turns he went on to kill a chaplain in terminator armor. He died in combat with the chaplain, but thanks to the chaplain already being wounded from previous shooting and Marbo getting the charge (Fleet FTW), he took the HQ out with him. 65 points well-spent, killing 335 points (2 KP) in 4 turns.

looks good I like the way he turned out , yeah he is pretty good he usually dies after he throws his demo charge but sometimes he can linger and be a pain .

A good way to piss your opponent off: go to ground in some cover, that is by an objective that he wants to capture, close enough for contesting... USR stealth + going to ground = frustration for enemy squad shooting at Sylvester Stallo.... I mean marbo.

I've been putting together an inquisitor out of bits to give my IG army some psyker protection. I've got the inquisitor, a familiar, and a priest/hierophant/mystic model as well. I figure if I am not using the stormtroopers, they can be used as warriors for a retinue. After having played against Eldrad recently, I realized that psykers suck to play against with guard. With the rumors flying about the Space Puppies having a super psychic power of some sort, and the prevalence of Lash lists, the LD 10 psychic hood is looking better all the time. Here's the built and primed models, to be painted up shortly.

Looking good , the new uber power from the space wolves don't affect guard that much , but its still good to have the hood .

Doesn't affect mechanized guard maybe, but for any foot platoons unfortunate enough to be in that path it sounds bad... but mainly it was that blasted Eldrad dude who made up my mind.

Still he will kill 4 point guys Wow , and that means him getting in 24 inches of your gun line . I usually B line rough riders at his unit , but I do have a hood in my list as well I just love inquisitors .

I like this tank, despite its cost. It costs an arm and a leg, but if you add Pask it can kill even AV14 through sheer number of glancing hits:

It's been about a month since I posted anything new in this blog... I'll be sure to post some pictures of my current IG projects in a few minutes. These guys have got the "secondary" modelling status since I picked up Tyranids, but I am starting to come back around for them.

In the chute: Heavy Weapon Teams, CREEEED!!!, Bravo Company (Catachans, 50 or so infantry!), Suicide teams (special weapon teams with 1 demo charge). Stay tuned!

As promised, here are some WIP photos of some current Guard projects: a Priest and a Heavy Weapon team.

Can't see a thing of that priest....

PAINT FASTER!

DC

I whanted buuuuuugs ..

This went from 'Nids to SM ? Must have taken a tactical ge.. CREEEEEED!!

I'm working on it!!! Jeez cut a guy some slack?

Anyway, got the heavy weapon bases finished up ,and got a primer coat on a whole slew of infantry to man them.

I'll try to get a better pic of the priest now that he's been basecoated. Just gimme a few mins.

Ok gots me some lame-o pics of the priest- I didn't feel like busting out the lightbox for a WIP model so this is the best I can do. You can see the converted eviscerator made from 2 chainswords, and the pole is from the command sprue minus the flag. I dunno where I got the head, it somehow ended up in my bitz box after I traded a guy a mess of bits for some unused minis I had. I got a rosarius bit from a black templar bits, and the legs and torso are catachan.

Ok enough of the description, on to the imperial priest!

Again, lame pictures but that is all I can do ATM. I'll showcase him properly when he is finished.

kinda cool!

DC

Can we get a snap of the front of the Griffon?

Sorry, it'll have to wait until after the move! We closed on our first house today, and we have to move out there by friday. I've been spending the last day and a half packing stuff up! I also lengthened the barrel of my stock Leman Russ, so now I can double it as a Vanquisher if need be. That will have to wait for pictures too, until after the move! On the plus side, I should be getting the loft for my hobby space, so I'll be able to have my own space away from kids! Yay!

Ok, you got it out of me. I dug out the IG to make a quick barrel-extension onto my LRBT to make it able to double as a vanquisher. So while I was at it I snapped a better shot of the Griffon in its current state (in need of another wash, that is). Here is the pair of them for your viewing pleasure:

The mortar on the griffon looks pretty good, however the hull HB looks a bit dodgy somehow. I would recommend trying to build up some kind of frame around the sides

That's probably because its stuck on with poster tack! I wanted to make the conversion not permanent, so I used sticky-tack to adhere the top hatches, mortar, and hull HB to the chassis. It looks lame, I know, but I want to keep that vehicle available if I absolutely have to have another rhino in my SM army

I do plan on buying a couple more chimera hulls and making some real conversions in the future, but for now this has to do.