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**Obispal**

I have been slacking a bit but hope to get back to things this week. I am waiting on magnets for my knights so they are on hold. My goals this week are to finish assembling and get colours on my AT warlord, finish up my vanguard veterans and assemble the e Jetbikes I got this week. I need to stop getting new models while I still have so much to work through

**ingtaer**

Obispal wrote:
I need to stop getting new models while I still have so much to work through

The dream of nearly every hobbyist, I swear most of us could give magpies a serious competition. Oooh look, new shiny!

So got my Hyach based and done (in spoilers below as I dont think they really need to be posted for a thousandth time...)

Spoiler:

Next weeks goal is to get 2 Whitestar gunships painted and then either finish assembling my starfury swarm or get three Hyperion cruisers done. if time permits I will also try and get a Narn fast attack cruiser done. Just need to wok out which parts of it need to be painted in dazzle and which don't.

Edit; cause closing brackets and spelling are hard.

**Captain_Magpie**

Heard my name...

ingtaer wrote:

The dream of nearly every hobbyist, I swear most of us could give magpies a serious competition. Oooh look, new shiny!

Ok I'm in!

Working on a request. Its a Heavily armoured Rhino chassis. Been working on it for about a week now. Slow going but I am in no rush.

Spoiler:

**Flinty**

That is Definately shiny!

I love the pike nosed stuff you've done. Thanks for sharing!

**ShadowCaptainMathius**

Here’s an update. Got the weapons in finally really just waiting on my plastic rod to redo pistons for the legs and banners. Also got the shoulders converted and nurgled up.

**Flinty**

Ah-ha. I've now gots me a Hidden and I can get back to not playing WoT endlessly!

So here is the final draft of the plasma generator heating system element thingy. The coloured tube isn't glued in yet because I'll do that after painting the bits, hence it's a bit wonky.

And here it is with one that had rather too many friendly fire incidents

And then the busted one with some busted support pillars now that I've decided on the final details.

Pretty quick, colourful and finally a use for the awesomely (and awkwardly) shaped caps that come with the Matey bubble bath that my kids seem to drink given how fast we go through it.

**LazzurusMan**

Loving the work on that knight! Makes me wish I could use greenstuff with any kinda accuracy.

Couple of wip shots showing my shoddy desert camo on the battlewagon. Its fine, theyre orks, its supposed to be bad. Ive also decided to name my battlewagon the "sweat bokz". I just need to decide in a colour and where to write it.

**Flinty**

The camo looks good to me. Hit it all.with a nice wash and it'll look spanky as all get out.

On the glowy thing front, something of a setback. Turns out that even plastic primer doesn't stick that well to the bottle material :(

I put a bit of.masking tape on there to do hazard stripes around.the base and it pretty much wrecked it. I've just used tape to pull all of the hazard striping away and re primed around the bottom.

For the undamaged one I've wrapped masking tape around the base first to give a better key for the paint. It'll make it.much more textured, but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing here. I can easily paint up.the tape creases as damage or something growing on the surface of the concrete.

**LazzurusMan**

Ouch. May be an odd suggestion, but maybe rough the surface a little with an emory board or sandpaper, then prime? The paint should adhere better.

So far Ive got the kannon and gretching big shoota turrets painted. I really wish I didnt want to weather my battlewagon like this, but itll be worth it in the end!

**Flinty**

The surface is actually textured so I thought th paint would key ok but it appears not.

It seems to stick ok as long as it doesn't get too knocked about too much. It should be enough.

**Hanskrampf**

I think you should always put down a thin layer of varnish before using masking tape.

**Flinty**

Good idea. I'll try that next time. I'm not sure it would have helped that much as it's not a problem of the integrity of the primer, it's just that the bond between primer an the substrate is non existent in places.

**Obispal**

Before I mask anything I try to varnish the part and detack the tape a little bit on my pants to lower the risk of the tape pulling up paint.

Progress for me tonight, jetbike main body is together, next step is gap filling and magnets for the weapons and then on to the riders.

**Flinty**

Oooh...jetbikes, awesome.

For.me.ive managed to bring back my plasma core thingies back to where they were before the masking debacle, and finished off my mobile.lighting rig. A bit of hard edging, shading on the black and some muddy dusting up around the wheels.andnlower surfaces

Hmm... I'll.need better pictures than those though. Sorry For their general crapness, but hopefully they get the idea across...

**ingtaer**

Looking funky mate, got any pics of how your plasmas ended up?

Could do with some advice, been working on these little buggers for a while and every time I come back to them my opinion changes.

The lighting has made them a lot more yellow than they are (and thus making the yellow bits stand out more) but what do you think? More purple squiggling? Less? more shading? strip the little buggers and start again?

**ShadowCaptainMathius**

Here’s an update on what the base looks like after painting and weathering.

**JamesY**

@ ingtaer might be worth cropping the picture a bit so that the ships are easier to see. Nice models though.

@ SCM that base is looking great! The floor panelling especially.

Hellblasters finished;

Interceptors next

**Elbows**

Someone shout at me. My longish hobby project Typhon is sitting on my desk, and I finally have 95% of the parts to assemble it and get to the painting stage, but I'm stalling because I hate resin and cutting/cleaning the tracks (after market) is putting me off.

I was so anxious to get this thing built and painted, but now the spectre of resin tracks is beating me into submission.

**JamesY**

Come on Elbows, get that beast built up! It's a joy to paint once you are done.

What parts are you missing?

**Elbows**

The sponsons I ordered are missing a few pieces they're supposed to come with - so they're en route now. They're a separate piece so nothing is stopping me from sitting down and grinding out a bunch of annoying track pieces...ugh.....(whines)

EDIT: This is a self-made conversion using a Land Raider donor body and a bunch of 3rd party bits. I couldn't even conceive of trying to work with resin on that scale (me hates it).

**ShadowCaptainMathius**

Here’s a WIP update.

**ingtaer**

Elbows wrote:
Someone shout at me. My longish hobby project Typhon is sitting on my desk, and I finally have 95% of the parts to assemble it and get to the painting stage, but I'm stalling because I hate resin and cutting/cleaning the tracks (after market) is putting me off.

I was so anxious to get this thing built and painted, but now the spectre of resin tracks is beating me into submission.

Right then, Mr Elbows Sir. YOU WILL SIT DOWN AND CLEAN THE RESIN FOR YOUR NEW SHINY TANK. NOW. I DONT CARE IF ITS 0200, YOUR TANK MUST BE CLEANED.

Better?

Just take your time with it mate, do say 10 min or 2-3 inches at once, take a coffee break, go for a walk etc. Do a little more, slow and steady wins the race... Just think of how excellent it will look when its done.

Edit; got so carried away shouting at Elbows forgot the rest of the post;
@SCM That is looking more and more badass everytime you post, loving it.

@JAmesY, also very good stuff! Yeah I should have got some better pics, tried to;

**Elbows**

So, I clipped/cleaned my Typhon tracks...might actually assemble some of it tonight. In the time they were soaking in soapy water I did assemble three sheets of the Killzone terrain box I got earlier today. Always need more barrels, boxes, and containers. A lot of good scatter terrain stuck in that little box.

**Flinty**

@Ingtaer - I think those white stars look great in the new pics. I'd call them done

@Elbows - grease yourself up and get to it!

@Shadow - yikes. Sure looks gribbley... Nice work

**Captain_Magpie**

And done here

**Elbows**

I'm about to prime...my Typhon (excluding sponsons...dammit)

**Flinty**

@captain magpie - Those things make me want to cry manly tears... they are gorgeous down to the flame torch cut along the front of the like nose armour plate.

**Captain_Magpie**

@Flinty - Cheers mate! Much appreciated. I like the little details. Makes a build fun for me

**ShadowCaptainMathius**

@magpie. Digging your conversion man.

@elbows. Let’s see it man

**Elbows**

Tut tut! It's in the actual painting phase now, which means it won't be shown till completed...and since magnets are being mailed my way, it'll be a week at least....sadly!

EDIT: I actually snapped these pics to send to a buddy, which I forgot about...so this is the Typhon (missing the front plate)

Kit bashed from a plastic Land Raider, some 3D printed parts, and some resin extras.