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Today is a good day, it's my first finished models from 2018, some Alpha legionnaires.

First up is the first half of my seekers squad, built with the Alpha Legion Headhunters kit.







They are far from perfect, but they are good enough for me, and certainly good enough for me to put them on the table for a game, and that's where I'm going with this army: play with it!

Their ride is also coming along nicely, although there is still a lot of work to be done on those rhinos...



I'm also done with Orthrus, my contemptor...





So, for this year I'm now at six painted models for four models bought... off to a good hobby start...

I needed some word bearer painted up to play Betrayal at Calth, so i painted up some of my CSM...

And my second contemptor too... I still needs some work, quite a bit, but I'm at least happy with the general concept...





I'm going to paint up a few Emperor's Children too, using the CSM squad that my daughter painted purple... this way I can play a 30k hunting party with the three legions...

Wow thats a lot of progress already this year! I think the word bearers dread looks damn cool man, is that one of the daemon prince heads?

It was in a box of bits I got when I bought my basic chaos army from a friend, so I'm not entirely sure, but I think it's from the Defiler...

And yes, it is a lot of progress, I'm on a roll of motivation and time to execute, so I dive... I'll have to do a group shot of all I have painted so far this year soon, as soon as I'm done with my two rhinos and my drop pod...

Basically I decided that I'd go play at my local GW from time to time this year instead of other forms of procrastination, and since I've also decided to not play unpainted minis, I'm painting the basics so I can play...

My 1500 pts of painted Alpha Legion, ready for a game against a 40k Astra Militarum list...



Happy to report that I won the first game with them... My contemptor managed to take out a Leman Russ Demolisher before he was himself brought down in the crossfire between a Punisher and an Eradicator... Against a tank army I need more meltas and las cannons, but luckily I have a squad of lascannons on my painting desk...



The terminators were footslogging along, and so had to endure a lot of incoming fire before managing to achieve something... They managed to hold on to an objective until turn 6, but unfortunately there was a turn 7, and a bunch of tanks shooting on them... The drop-podded dreadnought is certainly a very good distraction element...

Big update, since it's been very long... it's also been a very quiet few months, hobby-wise...

I've gotten back to my Deathwatch, after a few months on concentrating on my 30k armies...

So hammer dudes...



(I know, these weapons are overcosted and not very effective, but I just get a chuckle at the thought of dropping a full squad of hammer-wielding vets from a Corvus and wrecking something big with it....)

My jump pack captain...



I've even decided to be modern about it and built a bunch of Primarii...



My Alpha Legion was not left behind, I've added Armillys Dynat to the lineup:



And there is a full tactical squad in my painting queue, waiting for decals and basing, as well as a Primus medicae of my own devising...

There is also this monster:



Which will get the full hairspray weathering treatment, which I have to test first on something less critical like a milk bottle or one of my son's battlewagons...

I've also decided to finally start building the Raging heroes sisters of battle that I've had for at least a year. They are going to be quite a challenge to paint, and I'll need to get a steadier hand that I have now to get them done...











I still have loads of things to build, but with those two squads I at least have something to but in the two immolators that I have (I also have a squad of GW Repentia that will be part of this army that have a spot in one of the tanks...) so all I need now is to get painting...

So far so good, this year... I've built more than I have bought, I have painted more than I have bought, but I have build more than I have painted, do the number of little grey people hanging out in my cabinets have been increasing... I have a lot of half-finished things that are going to get finished in the coming weeks, so I should be getting the ratio back to a more reasonable level soon...

And so the painting result for this month, not much, but I'm very happy to have done it since it's a full tactical squad of Alpha Legionnaires, plus a few extras...





Between the Deathwatch and the Alpha Legion I'm getting a bit bored with Power Armour, I guess I'm going to paint something else for the next wave... I have a "antique" Goblin Blood Bowl team that needs some love, that sounds like fun...

I like the hybrid plastic and old school metal terminator.

Thanks! I quite like them too!... I have five more to build, and then I have to get around to paint them... but they are far down the list of things to paint, however...

Today is Blood Bowl day, here...

I built by Dwarf team, and with the extra pieces I updated good old Barik Farblast with a beard more in line with the new dwarves...



And with the extra pieces I might have had some interesting ideas...

Here is Skjegg Longbeard, a Space Wolf veteran who is part of the latest killteam to reinforce my Deathwatch army...

I have been carrying these guys in the same little blue plastic box for at least 25 years. Now it is time that they get the coat of paint that they deserve. I still have to find the best basing for the team, but now at least the basic painting is done...

And the knight fever has struck!

I'm now the owner of a Paladin who will get painted in house Malinax Livery...

I got out my current full armies for some army pictures, and I'm very happy with the result...

Meaning that I'm very happy with the fact that my Alpha Legion force is getting painted and is in the process of getting slowly completed...

So here is the fully painted part:



and a closeup of the HQ:
( Primus Medicae, Chaplain, Praetor, Alpharius, Armillus Dynat, Centurion). I have entirely too many HQ for 30k, but this way I can switch around if need be...



And the whole army as it stands now, with everything that still needs to be painted, including my new knight:



As long as I had the table set up for army photos, I decided to get the Inquisiton boys out too.

Here is my Grey Knights / Deathwatch army as it stands now. As you see, still a lot of things to be painted, but there is some progress... I still have the bits needed to assemble an extra Deathwatch kill team, and then there are the battle sisters to add to the whole inquisition theme...



And yes, for those of you with a keen eye, there is in the middle of that a full kill team kitted out with heavy thunder hammers... And yes, I know it's a silly idea...

The gun of the Paladin was magnetized so it can be an Errant too, and some paint has been put to plastic... It even aquired its first Malinax decal...



This is such a fun model to paint, I find...

Ah, slowly getting there... the legs assembly is nearly complete, the armor plates have been glued on and some transfers applied...



There is still a lot of work to be done, the two weapon arms are not even at basecoat level yet...

Legs need some weathering, base needs to be done, body needs to be detailed, carapace needs details and decals...

I am still thouroughly enjoying this little project...

Getting along nicely... The carapace decals have been added...



today I'm doing the base and get started on weathering the feet and legs...

Great shot of the alpha legion altogether. I remember seeing your alpharius ages ago, great conversion. Will you be picking up the forge world alpharius at some point?

 boundless08 wrote:
Great shot of the alpha legion altogether. I remember seeing your alpharius ages ago, great conversion. Will you be picking up the forge world alpharius at some point?

I'm not planning to for now, in fact I'm not really planning on getting anything new for my Alpha Legion Force until i've finished painting it and have played with it a few games... (well, apart from another knight or armigers to complete my allied detatchment...). I'm currently in a 'building and painting" phase, and I'm trying to limit further aquisitions that would add to the big pile of unpainted miniatures...

For now I'm happy to say that I'm done with my knight and that I'm quite satisfied with the result... It is being dropped off today for a painting competition at my local GW shop...

My knight didn't win the painting competition, but I'm still very proud of it...

I've decided to move on to another 'big' project (I have a few other in reserve after that, not the least of which is my son's Stompa...
But for now It's my Avatar of Shaah, the big miniature from Raging Heroes, that is on my painting desk...





I'm trying my hand at wet blending for this one, it will take quite a bit more time than what I usually do, but I'm quite looking forward to the final result!

Nice job on the knight. Also looking forward to seeing how you get on with the Avatar, should be a good one for blending practice.

Knight looks good. Your work is very prolific, varied and nostalgic - eager to see what comes next.