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Ooh, those cybernetics heads look lovely. Could throw a couple of those into a Skitarii force or Guard force as Engineseers or Techpriests.

Okay, last day of work behind me, purchases made, starting tomorrow, I'm back in the hobby once more!

Aha, reinforcements arrived.

This is a side project as I take a break from 30k, to do some Kill Team stuff for 40k.

It's also going to be an exercise in trying to get better at painting, with some help from Duncan's excellent tutorial videos.

 BrookM wrote:
This is a side project as I take a break from 30k, to do some Kill Team stuff for 40k.

It's also going to be an exercise in trying to get better at painting, with some help from Duncan's excellent tutorial videos.

Ah, Understood, so enjoy!

All I get is a big grey NO circle... :(

Bah, that's probably the anti-GW brigade upset with me buying GW stuff instead of other items again.

Second attempt:



So, plenty of stuff to do!

Only downside is that I need new superglue now for the ghouls, the old stuff has turned yellow and quite.. solid somehow, despite not being all that old to begin with. So in the meantime I'll assemble what I can until I can get the superglue and the upgrade kit for the Taurox.

Sentinels! I do love me a good Sentinel. I have nine. I keep thinking about how I need more. Maybe a full Sentinel Scout Battalion. But that would just be madness, right?

In the meantime I will sate my lust for Sentinels by watching you make yours!

First day of my vacation and things are good. I may or may not marry the Leadbelcher primer I got this Saturday, it's good. It is perfection. Now I almost no longer have any reason at all to keep in touch with Army Painter and their rather disappointing quality products, aside from their excellent Leather Brown, though knowing my luck, they'll be bound to change that one sooner or later, so it no longer matches older works.

While waiting for an opportunity to buy new superglue I've decided to get started on the buildings in the meantime, with the statues being a fun exercise in whether or not I can master Nihilakh oxide. The Basilica will be for a Kill Team mission (High Ground, which requires a tall building) and the Sanctum is one of two small buildings that I built from the sprues supplies with Imperial Knight Renegade.


A pair of spare Kingdom Death models, useless otherwise, but in this case excellent statues dedicated to false gods or saints of aeons past.


Still need to pick out some of the details on this one, but not everything! I may just bling up the arches around the doors and leave it at that, both for my own sanity and well, it's a ruin.


Still need to do the doors and the decorative arches at the very least, but as with the Basilica, minimal work will be done on these.

Also, shot on a potato all of the sudden.. heads are in place and aside from some wheels, everything is assembled and ready for priming:



When I'm done with the buildings and statues I'll get cracking on the Scions, something I have been looking forward to for quite some time now! But I'd rather finish up the buildings first before painting up the ghouls, want to take a stab at this whole discipline thing.

Also on the workbench but not shown.. six quonset huts, various parts belonging to three Imperial Knights (finally primed at the very least now!) and thirty Veletarii of various origin, which have now also been primed in glorious Leadbelcher.

Discipline! Pah! That's what Commissars are for. Which wheel mod are you using? The Victoria Miniatures one? It's an excellent little aftermarket kit that. I have it on all my Tauroxes.

I've got one of her upgrade kits, after the long wait I'm sadly a bit disappointed by it myself, it's not as sturdy or as robust as I would've liked it to be. I've decided to go with an upgrade kit (which for some reason does not include hubcaps!) from Zinge Industries:


A nice package that has everything! Well.. except for the hubcaps of the wheels..


Armoured plates for the view ports, an armoured plate for the front, an upgrade for the main gun and..


Nice, chunky tires!


Plus a pair of sturdy suspensions that are cast in one piece, so sturdier!

I'm hoping for it to pop up before the end of the week, so I can wrap up the construction of the Taurox and get it primed alongside the two Armoured Sentinels.

In other news, day two of my vacation has been semi-productive, as I also needed to replace the front wheel of my bicycle, which had a nice shard of glass in there.

But at least I did manage to get the two smaller buildings done, more or less. I still need to clean up the Basilica and pick out some of the details around the doors, then wash all of that.



Once the Basilica is done, on to the Scions. Well, one first, I need to see if I can master the new paint scheme I want to use for the squads.

Some progress has been made on the test model, which is at this stage about 80% done I'd say. I still need to do a final highlight on the fatigues, bedroll and book, then paint up the screens on her arms and do the sword all good and proper. Oh, must also not forget to touch up her hair while I'm at it.



But at this stage, I am quite pleased with what I've got so far.

Note to self, track down Armageddon Dust next time I'm in Utrecht, it would be a shame to field these unbased.

Very nice

The Tempestus are looking really cool, the turquoise is really nice.

EDC

Cheers lads, another one is done, specialist Natalya, who has Preferred Enemy (Everything!) and to stand out from the others, is the only one aiming and toting an eyepatch.



Next up, either the plasma gun, the hotshot volleygun or the scrub! Not too sure just yet which catches my fancy, as I batch prep the girls until I get to the detail work, that's when I go 1:1.

I will revisit this model later down the line and add something, either a water bottle or a book to her left side, it's looking awfully empty right now and for some reason it is bothering me quite a bit!

IT HAS ARRIVED.

Ah that Zinge Industries kit is gorgeous. I love the add-on bits for the viewing blocks.

Your Stormtroopers look really good too! I especially like the way the heads look - what size are they? Pulp or Heroic?

The heads are heroic scale, using a selection from both the regular beret set and the veteran set.

I've also gotten around to priming both the Taurox and the two Sentinels, so with that out of the way there's nothing but painting to do now!

I've batched up the last three of the first squad as best I can, while waiting for the washes to dry. I'm hoping to at the very least get one more done today, seeing as tomorrow I'll be at the GW Open Day.

Heroic scale. Excellent. I'll remember that. Looking forwards to seeing the vehicles all done up nicely!

Cool! glad to see the Zinge fix for the Taurox got there.

Nice. It looks like you have plenty to keep you busy for a while.

Time for another crummy WIP shot then:



Taurox Prime, sans bull-bar and turret for the time being, those still need to be painted. Wheels and kitbash are from Zinge Industries in case it was missed the first time around.

Still got a load to do on it, including all the metals, the stowage and the vision blocks for starters, which are Stormhost Silver for now, but will later this week be experimented on with Waystone Green, from GW's gemstone range, seeing as I can't paint shiny glass worth a damn!

Also almost done with the first squad of Scions, just need to do their berets, faces and some final highlighting / cleaning up of the gloves and boots.

Oooh pretty! And typically 40K in that camouflage is for sissies who like hiding.

Camo is for cowardly runts who have no faith in their armour and the will of the Emperor.

As Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium, says, "The Emperor protects those who protect themselves!"

*dons camouflage flak-weave armour-suit and carapace plating*

*wraps self in cameleoline cloak*

*hides in least militarily important location on most peaceful planet in the Imperium*

The Emperor Protects!

Most peaceful = easiest target on the list, just ask Cain.

Update time!



Aside from some minor details and their bases (which I plan on doing with a technical paint, maybe Agrellan Earth), Kill Team Rayet is done!


Weapons specialist Katya, the only member of the squad to not wear a beret, but instead toting some glare goggles. She's also posed to be in a running position, to represent her being Relentless.


Weapons specialist Anna, who has a slick pair of mirror shades to keep her from going blind when firing her weapon. I will revisit these at a later date when I feel confident enough to do so.


To represent that Anna has the Ignore Cover special rule I decided to give her a vox caster array, to represent some sort of off-site aid or sophisticated wallhack she can use in fights.


Scion Narkiss, nothing special about her, she's just there to round out the squad.

With the ghouls done (for now) I think it's time to get the Taurox done. Or at the very least, I'm hoping to get the main vehicle done today now, with the turret tomorrow at the latest. Still need to do the metals and the vision blocks.

They are wonderfully badass. A round of applause, my good man!

Very nicely done!

Looking good!

Really like that turox.