The Crusade begins! FOR THE EMPEROR! FOR CORAX! (page 8)

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**Matthew**

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

**EmberlordofFire8**

I agree with this guy ^^^

Great job!

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

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

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I think 40K is ruining my financial sense.

(also Lias Issodon kitbash incoming)

**Matthew**

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

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

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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.

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

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Finally basecoated the armour of the 5th company command.

**EmberlordofFire8**

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

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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.

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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.

**Camkierhi**

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.

**EmberlordofFire8**

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

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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.

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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.

**EmberlordofFire8**

I live Tartarus termites. Great job.

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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.

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

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

**EmberlordofFire8**

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

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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).

**EmberlordofFire8**

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!

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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.

**Nevelon**

That looks pretty cool.

**EmberlordofFire8**

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

**Captain Brown**

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

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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.

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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.

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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)