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Glad you got the Skitarii bits I sent you Para, I know you will put them to good use. Nice job on the Crimson fists thus far, I think the Imp Fists do not stand out that much because of the muted scheme.

The Skitarii and Crimson Fists look great together! Nice work.

EDC

Ta chaps.

Productive day today, finished up the first half of my entry into the Mantis Maker comp, an aged Vanguard Veteran of that Chapter who's had quite enough of kids these days by the look of things...


He'll be facing off against a Scout from one of the Loyalist Badab Chapters, not sure which yet though... At the moment it's between the Star Phantoms, Exorcists and Fire Hawks.

Got another mini done, but the pics didn't come out too well and I noticed a couple of flaws, so he'll get cleaned up and reshot either tonight or tomorrow. In the mean time, cheers for looking, any thoughts welcome!

Nice. Gritty as usual

Cheers mate!

Could it be a legion of the damned come to seek his revenge? Since the fire hawks are LotD

Yeah, sure... *I* could whip that out in an afternoon... no problem!

Para is one of those annoying guys like Nerdfest that can put out high quality models in silly amounts of time. We're we all so cursed.

I thought Vanguard Veterans always had jump packs? Either way the mini looks awesome!

Vanguard Vet vs a Scout, a bit of a one sided match up, eh?!

The Mantis Warrior looks great.

EDC

Thanks chaps!

@EDC: One-sided, maybe, but the theme for Gits' comp is about age and treachery triumphing over youth and exuberance. So the cocky young scout will be charging in, straight into a trap the Mantis has prepared/

@Ustrello: Sticking to the Badab War period, so it's probably going to be an Exorcist now I've thought about it, the red should balance out the green and brown nicely.

@ZS: I think you can take them on foot these days. If not, you definitely could at one point, and as you'll see when I get to the Scout, these models aren't exactly game legal anyway... that said, I do now have 2 Mantis Warriors painted, I might see about building a couple more to add a 5-man squad to my army...

Looks awesome, Para!

An exorcist would work and you could use left over word bearers transfers (the script) from BaC for him since the exorcists has script all over their armor

The exorcist would be good. And now I'm having ideas...

And as they say in cricket, that brings up his century. Yep, passed the 100-mini milestone by finishing up these chaps:


Not my fanciest work, but they're coherent and to a standard I'd be happy to put down on the tabletop. To celebrate passing the landmark and having finished up the squad, I took a bash at turning my 25th Anniversary Marine into a counts-as Kantor:

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Pretty pleased with him, the face especially though the pics aren't overly kind to it. I did have him on a 40mm base but he just didn't fill it, I do think the 25 is too small but as I didn't have any 32s to hand that's what he's got.

Also painted up this guy for Thraxas's Hawk Lords army in exhange for the Skitarii bits, a nice change actually to do something a little less beat up and weathered. The Librarian from DV will also be coming in a day or two.


That's all for now. The plan is to finish up the Ranger squad tonight or tomorrow, then take a break from this rank and file stuff to work on a few fancier minis... I need to finish up my X-men, put together my Dunecrawler, do the Hawk Lords Librarian and I've got a couple more Batman minis coming tomorrow as well... lots to be getting on with.

Thanks for looking, any thoughts welcome!

Very nice work. The Hawk Lord is a great change of pace. Love the purple!

Excellent work Para, I will be delighted to add him to the army. Cannot wait to see the Libby too.

The Crimson Fists look great, the Kantor is especially good. And congrats on the 100 up.

I think the Cantor counts-as really sells the Crimson Firsts look. The tac squad alone looks a bit ambiguous as to what army they are in, which is fine as they are tac marines.

Thanks guys.

Yeah, the Tac squad do all have freehand icons on them but dark red on dark blue isn't really that noticable! Still, I think once they are deployed alongside Kantor and the guy with the CF banner and my Honour Guard squad (all of which have boarding shields as counts-as Artificer Armour so a nice canvas for some big CF symbols) it they should look the part.

Ooooooh I very much like the Hawk Lord chap. Splendid colour choices, he looks most fierce !

Thanks mate!

Just adding the Hawk Lords Librarian since I got him finished up as well:


All in all, a very productive day! Any comments on that chap are of course welcome!

Nice job on the librarian. I'm still trying to finish that model up from the DV.....get there evventually!! Too many other things distracting me lol

Man I can't take a break for a day or two and you knock out a dozen awesome marines. Love the color on the hawk lords, now you just need some thunder Hawks for them .

Really interesting to read your views on technique. The models look great and it's hard to argue with that!

Wow, 100 minis for the year already AND you're in college? Dang, share some of that talent around instead of hogging it for yourself (I'm at like 13 minis for the year)! Seriously, those Crimson Fists look great, and the DV minis that you did as Hawk Lords are pretty good as well. I have those figures painted myself (of course mine are painted as actual Dark Angels); they were two of the first 40k minis I ever did. Anyways, congrats on 100 minis, and keep up the great work!

Just a quickie today, I finished up my X-men with Rogue and Colossus (though I'll be adding the superb Gambit model as soon as he's available).




Sadly, I left the others at home, so no group shot for the time being, but they are at least all done now, just in time for my newest Knight stuff... but you'll have to wait to tomorrow to see those...

That's probably it for today, ta for looking, any thoughts welcome!

I like those Hawk Lords

Rogue need breast reduction surgery...

(great paint jobs though!)

You are a paintasaurus. Freakin awesome.

Cheers guys!