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Talk about best laid plans and all... I should do so much for school, but instead of doing papers I bake cookies or clean the house, or paint my tank
I totally feel your paint here

The chainsword arm reminds me of a big open mining tool...I always wonder how this was supposed to work as a weapon...wouldn't the enemy's vessels get propelled backwards???

Magnetic rivets vik they pull the opposing vessel onto the blade more than the force pushes them off.

Rushing over to the vik land page to look for paint, you better not be teasing

I'm teasing for now...but will deliver today

I am truly sorry for not visiting before Theo. Nice work going on and the best your wonderful mind has to offer. Sorry I am late.

Oh and surely that marine needs a counterbalance for that arm. (I would be checking him for Chaotic mutation myself!!)

just for your information theo and the rest of the world... I updated my blog...but it got autoadded...

that's what happens when your a tease

*Big grin*

Painted up the nova cannon during movie time.

Also found the answer to the age old question of how storm talons take off when their VTOL systems breakdown.

They get a gentle toss from a leviathan. I'm thinking of using this set up as the base for the storm talon at the flgs,

So long as the storm talon doesn't behave like most paper aeroplanes and nose dive into the ground a couple of feet away.

 Dr H wrote:
So long as the storm talon doesn't behave like most paper aeroplanes and nose dive into the ground a couple of feet away.

But would be a fluffy way of playing it in a game

Good thing I don't have a pilot in the storm talon then .

Worked on the ripper before everyone woke up.

Still need some touch ups, kids got up and said they are hungry so I'm making my banana pancakes. There's a problem with the dreamforge weapon arms, they were supposed to come with left and right shoulder armor, but only came with one , so right now I'm not building the armor on, hopefully they will ship those out to the is investors, but not sure yet.

Also storm raven

I am just in awe of all of your collection. Its like oh hey here is this painted yellow, and this thing, oh and this stormraven :O

have you refelcted why your sleeping habbits are how they are?... it really puzzles me...


and those big hazard stripes on the blade look DA BOMB

I'm just a light sleeper, and need to better watch what and when I eat, both of which I'm not very good at . I've been sleeping really well the last couple days, almost 9hours last night. My kids though sleep 10-11 hours on a good night, wore them out last night so they got 11 which gets me quiet painting time as my wife slept in longer as well.

The hazard stripes were really simple with the blade being so large (that's what she said). I was able o use my angle guide from the chop it iii and run it along the bottom of the blade, and measure the gaps between with a ruler. Then I used a fin point marker to create the dividing lines. Those stripes are 3/4" wide just for size reference.

Just finished carving pumpkins for Halloween with he kiddos. Our church is having a bonfire tonight, roasting marshmallows for s'mores, and chilli dogs for dinner. Services ill be warm in the morning even though temperatures have been low this last week. It feels like winter I right now.

strangley we had around the last week around 20° celsius...thats 68° F for you... in mid octobre... not something you see here every year...but weird...as it gets rather dark around five o clock already...
but now it is starting to get really autum like too...with a hint of winter too...

ok... can´t ven remember the time when i had nine hours of sleep...^^...and my kids... well we don´t have any sleeping problems with them... the get to be rather easily...most of their friends really are quite bothersome in that department instead...but they usually wake up on a free day around seven... and me and my wife later......in fact i often am the one that gets up the latest...^^

i was about to get us a pumpkin for all hallows eve too...but as we went shopping by bicycle i didn´t had enough strage room for that too... so bound to happeb this week...tomorrow we need to bake cookies and cake for each kids school/kindergarden party at halloween...we will make nice pumkinlooking cookies for oskar and a cake with moon and vampire yellybabies for felix... i will make pics if they look good enough^^

with the hazard stripes... i think you need to weather these......and even tho or rather because...they look perfect these need to get weathered with lots of scratches^^

Nine hours of sleep usually means I'm getting over being sick.

I don't like doing weathering, well just haven't tried it yet, but not going to happen on the leviathan . See my tech priests know ho to slop paint, and the servitors know how to wash vehicles. We don't slack off of the cleaning, it is a special rite that must be maintained for everything to work right.

Bonfire at church was fun, but it was so cold that whatever side wasn't facing the fire was frozen, and whatever was got really hot. I took pictures o the glowing fire for future reference I love people's lava bases, but they never seem right to me.

Hazard Stripes, check
Space Potato Air Planes/Space Ships, Check.

Panda gives seal of approval.

Weathering is quite easy, pm if you want to talk about it.

ah the half baked half frozen human concept... I am quite firm in that department. .... lost almost my eyebrows to a bonfire some years ago... and during military I almost ruined my boots due to too close exposure to fire...the soles literally came of due to the heat

@comrade, thanks, but right now no weathering it's more of a choice than not knowing.
@vik, no eyebrows? Are you becoming observer vik? and we had so many separate conversations about melted shoes last night as well.

I wanted to talk about about ancient tortures last night with people talking about how hot the fire was, but didn't think it appropriate. The only distraction was the World Series game was going on at the same time and as our team was playing, everyone was checking the score on their smartphones. It's big deal around these parts of cardinal nation.

I was lucky my eyebrows only got oghtly scorched...my mother in law is of the kind of people that rather burns stuff aka junk instead of paying for the fee garbage takeaway costs...ever seen yellow green smoke???...some peeps behave like pigs...but I was helping her so I'm guilty by association....guess I was under the influence of the new son image, where you act extra co-operative...

And what did you want to talk about yesterday? Your iPad is giving extra weirdness again

Vik being he good son in law .

Fixed the iPad goof, to early when I posted, or too late, I forget. I read about the way people were tortured with their feet put close to a roaring fire. The fat in their body would bubble and melt and their feet would slowly be burned off. Only the bones would last, but the people would live, and sometimes the tortures would hand them their leg bones which had fallen off. The greatful survivors would even thank their torturers for their legs back . Makes modern waterboarding seem civilized.

Where we used to live allowed burning of trash part of the year, but not all the time. One of my coworkers was burning his garbage when he saw the neighbors had tossed junk onto his pile. Unfortunately they had thrown a half full bottle of some combustible fluid on there. It exploded and caused some heat burns across his face. He's fine, but needed to put ointments on his face for a few weeks and go painkillers, it wasn't a pretty sight .

Forgot to show my gang, trying to get the brother in law to play necromunda. I'll play them as van Saar, limiting myself to the weapons on sprue.


Leader, auto pistol, grenade launcher, frag grenades
4 gangers, auto guns
3juves, auto pistols
Heavy, auto pistol, missile launcher, frag missiles.

Similar to my plan for a squad of seasoned action troops.

Speak for yourself! I used to be able to make a paper airplane that could fly all the way to the front of the long study hall in school!

We had some great paper airplane contests in high school, one side of the gym to the other wasn't out of place. The best part was crumpling the losers planes, except when I was the loser

So every time?

I won my share

Speaking of wins, just got he job offer , will discuss it with the wife tonight, but looks like I'm back to work in two or three weeks. Lots of background checks, and paperwork for a glorified janitor, but as I'll be unsupervised around lots of medicines I'm sure they must do their due diligence.

And you will be making money! Congrats though, hope everything goes well. And hopefully those past crimes of yours in heresy don't come up

Hey well done and congrats theo! and you've still got a couple of weeks grace to chill and paint lucky you :-) then back into the mighty work force like a bearded Toxic Avenger!

@nafarious, well the pay is better than the unemployment checks, but I break even when I figure gas and lunch every shift. Though in the long run unemployment was running out in a few weeks anyways. Plus I'll have insurance again.
@damo, couple weeks , but I am totally drained on ideas, even assembling the dreamforge stuff for counts as van Saar hasn't stirred me into production.

Tried to get some hobby mojo going late last night, but just not happening . Cleared my hobby desk, got stuff out o do terrain, put it right back. Got new colors of paint out, put them back. Watching final season of fringe, want to turn it off, but so close to the end.

Good news, congratulations on being cured of unemployment.

You can't force ideas, you have to let them come naturally.