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Hey guys, not dead yet. Just been working 60-72hr weeks, and I just moved to a new house. I feel bad for lack of tangible results after two to three years (though breaking my hip and having surgery really, really sidelined me for a year and a half.)

A lot has happened to me personally with the service (I tried to get back in, been fighting to do it for nearly two years, long story,) but I am probably just going to end up just moving to Sweden this year/next.

I have had a lot of goodies (kickstarters and other things I've teased about for a bit, I REALLY want to tell you but I figure a picture of the boxes together will look better,) come in the mail, and after my workshop is set up I will take some nice teaser pictures. I'm currently discussing with other DCMs how to make this blog better and what to rename it, and I should have some Sons of Orar (at least a test figure completely done,) on Tuesday but, don't take my word for it as I work swing shift now.

Definitely will have some Star Hunters done in January, the missus wants me to quote "buy a kit and bring it so we can paint when you come to Stockholm."

In the meantime, I'm going to work on the OP a bit each day, revising it and cleaning up this blog.

Truthfully? I'm going to try to paint all my Sons of Orar in the old school 90s paint scheme, (goblin green bases, hazard stripes, fake colored Aquilas, white checkering, the old school highlights, etc,) so if you have any advice beforehand, please tell me!

Especially if you have advice on white checkering over red. Oh? Right now? I'm just working on the BaC Contemptor, I'll post a WIP soon as he is done work wise with greenstuff and cutting, though he will be painted later, once I get my teals and yellow weaponry down.

And speaking of painting later, I'm kinda tired of it. I have 9k views and not a single thing finished, so my goal is to get a fully painted tactical squad and HQ done before January 2016 ends.

Also, should I move overseas what should I do about my masses of hobby stuff? Freight it over with some of my furniture?

Well checkers i always go darker over light. So white then red.

Freight it with the furniture. When you box it up you will be suprised how small it gets. Plus its fun unpacking.

Bst of luck with IRL stuff.

Looking forward to what ever you work on.

Yep... same here.

Hey all, got a rhino almost painted up since we last spoke. Really pleased with it, just needs some touch up. As of today, I just made the president's list for my college and had a couple of unfortunate funerals back to back. That being said, I hope to sneak one or two fully painted pieces before my flight in seven days. Those being the MM contest and my rhino. Besides the real life bits, I had been putting off an update as I was trying to get some concept art made for my DIY chapter and the Sons of Orar. Sadly, that didn't play out.

In the meantime, after clocking about 85 hours I made a gunship and then rendered it. I'll be printing it tomorrow. It's 20 inches long, and the turbines are five inches across alone.

First the CAD screenshots of how it looks, I tried to combine everything I love from 30 different styles of planes, ships, and concepts.I also wanted it to be able to be used for my Karists and as a counts-as Stormbird. I'm so tired of seeing it at this point. It still lacks the detail of retail, not to rhyme or be punny.









Next on to some renders, in what I imagine would have been early crusade era guard colors. Sorry they aren't too good, I don't own the full version of Keyshot sadly.








Hope you liked it, I'll be printing some hull sections tomorrow. I hope it turns out good, I hope to manufacture several. Thanks for reading gents, I hope you are having a good summer and we so far.

Also, now that I am actually finishing models to some degree, I will probably make a new plog or clean this one up with a plasma obliterator. Not sure yet, as I said before.

OK that came out of the blue, it looks stunning bud.

Yeah... that's really impressive. Looking forward to the print.

It's been a while, sorry for going radio silent. I can't believe it's been nearly two years or more. Sorry for that, it won't happen again. I guess some updates are in order now that I'm unpacking my models.

I guess the last time I posted I had just done my house warming for my first house and then life caught up to me cause of the factory shifts. There was no time for the hobby back then, let alone anything more than eating and sleeping after work. About half a year after that, I got a job with the USPS and worked there for a year, saving up the money I needed to moved overseas to be with the missus in Sweden. I've just graduated from my college and I'm about to have my second degree as well. I've been in Stockholm for almost eight months now, I'm getting a job now that I've graduated and learning the new language. I may end up starting a side business too - so it's not that I forgot about Dakka, I just had to get my affairs in order. I'll be posting regularly again now. I am really enjoying the new models and third party companies, Primaris Marines look so tempting because of shiny model syndrome but, I have so much to work on already, I am trying to hold back. I've started the dreaded painting pile too, as many of you have your own I hope you can relate.

It seems GW has had a renaissance. I can't wait to catch up on everyone else's plogs.

I've been working on Marines for Gits and making terrain to display my three SM armies. I'm gonna try to finish up a lot of this unfinished pile/shelf as quick as I can.

In this order, I suppose:
1. Work on terrain to display models.
2. Work on Rhinos Gits sent and those Marines I owe him.
3. Work on Imperial Guard I was sent by Buttery, I think in the DCM christmas? It's been too long, I'll go back and find out.
4. Greenstuff the massive greenstuff backlog. It's crazy long, let's put it that way. Probably 20-25 miniatures.
5. Clean this mess of a Plog up.

So yeah, that's everything.

I can unveil this now though. I scrimped and saved and got this beauty done up for my Star Hunter DIY chapter.



This is one of those Star Hunter Marines I've mentioned previously, he's waiting on a pick up from a Stormraven before a major storm rolls in.

In addition, I did get some paint on a model - though it's not 40k related sadly. It's a Dart, from Battletech. I play Crucis March Militia. Or rather model it, I guess.








I'm really pleased with this one - I consider it fully finished, and I did a lot better on it than most of my miniatures. I've found out I can fix my shaky hands by bracing them on a table, my good friend taught me that. I feel it really helps with nailing the line on the model.

Wonderful to see you back in action Stormwall. Getting your life in order takes precedence over anything associated with gaming, no worries there. Sounds like things are going great for you, congratulations!

Love that painting... just love it.

Thanks, I will try to find the high resolution version. You can zoom into the eye lenses with that version, the artist did an amazing job. I got this commission to spruce up the plog plus it helps describe to people the shade of blue I want and the beautiful green Phutarf does. I got tired of describing the color pallete, lol.

Thank you by the way, that means a lot. I haven't popped into your threads yet, how are the Mantis Warriors coming along?

Actually I've been completely diverted by a micro-skirmish game out of the UK called Bushido. I'll get back to 40k stuff eventually but at the moment I'm being pretty well entertained by fantasy feudal Japanese stuff. Have a YouTube channel now though too.