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I think you should just use your zoom feature.

erm...*zoom*

but if I zoom in you guys will realize the painting is actually , and never come back It's like undoctored supermodel photos, you'd never want to see that model again, unless she was in the walking dead

On a totally different note the hospital called, orientation was cancelled because of construction this weekend, they tried to move me to another orientation on Monday (holiday here in the US), but I already tried to find a sitter as my kids are off school and my wife has a teacher work day. So the next available orientation is the following Monday and I will have to be late for that because it starts before my kids get on the bus for school and It's a hour drive in traffic from my house. Otherwise I won't start for another month This just keeps getting better and better.

More time to paint I guess

D'oh...sometimes life gives you lemons and lemonade is not an option...damn...

vik, I was thinking of that saying the other day and ordered if a lemon cannon was possible. You know like a potato gun, but bigger and made for lemons

Well more painting time means that another project came off the shelf for a dust off and started painting the base layers. Here it is with two yellow coats and the black basecoat.......

TEMPEST CHICKEN AWAY!!!

lemon cannon.... LOL... yesterday i saw a show...those guys that go treasure hunting in storages...and they found among other things a potato cannon

yeah! tempest chicken was long overdue! i am eager to see what you do to the cockpit tho...red as a basecoat to work it upwards to orange?...

Liking the placement of your yellows and blacks.

@vik, the cockpit will hopefully come out looking like the eye lenses on the marines, black to red.
@dr. H, thanks, I'm really worried that I get the color panels right, it was nagging me on the drop pod, and I started a different speeder, but didn't like its layout.

Well, back from errands, here's what got some paint flung at it.

What's left of the scythes airwing. Loads to do as I just threw the yellow first coat on most. Lots of repairs to do as well.

That's a lot of bumblebee yellow!
Do any of your local stores carry Secret Weapon washes?

Yeah, choosing where to change colour is a tricky business and often you just have to try it and see... then repaint the bits you don't like.

That's some tasty lemon chicken there! btw, did the kids like Zombie Attack?

@dave, nope, one carries secret weapon stuff, but no washes.
@dr. H, my guys should have a 2+armor because of all the coats of paint.
@graven, I haven't even had a chance to print the rules out yet

Waiting at the dr. Office with my daughter, the dr. Is running over an hour late and if you walk out they still bill you , it's only a monthly check in for her medicine too. Last time we waited an hour and forty minutes.

holy... you are indeed stockpiling for a true full chapter theo... such an airforce... seldom to be seen...!

I want to see a nice full army shot of your space marines Theo. Also what is going on with that space chicken.

The Bumblebees of death,,,err,, Scythes of the Emperor, are shaping up nicely!

@Vik, I said I was going o do a full chapter. Including all the rhinos and everything, Theres more speeders somewhere, I think still unassembled. and I canabalized two stormravens.
@Shaso, Thanks, hopefully their sting is more potent, or my enemies are allergic to bumble bees.
@Nafarious, The space chicken is the converted plane there made from parts of the stormraven, drop pods, sentinels and plasticard. It was meant for a servo skull army to be fielded as either a storm raven, storm talon, or land speeder. I have other pics of it in one of my galleries, I think under the necromunda one. The landing gear look like chicken legs, but they can pick up a dreadnought, so that's how I could use it as a storm raven.

got the base layer of black on the other speeders. will see about doing more painting tomorrow

You've made a serious investment/commitment to this chapter Theo!

Investment was made long ago. Commitment was renewed with the color scheme, it's the right amount of obnoxious yellow and basic black to keep me going, and it's oddball enough of a chapter where I'm not stuck with story written by mat ward.

Orientation has been rescheduled again to the original time and place . So I'm back to work tomorrow.

i will keep my fingers crossed for the time beeing then good luck mate! may the mobs be with you

So theo are you just a collector? Or do you actually head out to a FLGS when you get some free time and play.

I played one game of third edition, then our group all came down with serious cases of life. I actually haven't mini gamed in years, and it's been about 4 years since I role played. I'd love to get back into it. But even playing bloodbowl with the brother in law has been hard to do over the last few months because of different things going on. There's enough gaming stores around me that I could get back into it easy enough, but when I go up and the gaming is happening there's always one load mouth that's cussing up a storm. That's one thing I really don't stand for. When I managed a comic shop and a hobby town USA, cussing was the first way to get you thrown out. I had to throw out one of my groomsmen and ban him and another guy from the store because they got into an arguement over fantasy in front of a mother and her son who were just starting to look into the game. The mom left with a huge purchase not bought on the counter, never saw them again.

for you haveing priciples!!!...(tho i admit i cuss from time to time too...it is a pretty uneducated thing to do... but sometimes i am a grunt...)

Yea I curse a lot and when I am at the FLGS I have to watch it, because I will get called out on it and if I do it again after that I will be asked to leave :/ it is something I ended up letting myself do too much and now I need to chill out with cursing.

What part of the us do you live in Theo?

@vik, I slip to, but really am a lot better than when I was in my twenties, plus now with kids around I really police myself.
@nafarious, that's the thing though, the closest flgs which has gaming every night and plenty of tables doesn't censor the players, or even ask them to lower it down a few notches. I've even seen/heard the employees cussing in front of customers I'm in St. Louis, Missouri nafarious. It's a great place to live, we were living just outside of saint Louis for 8 years, but moved back into town just over a year ago, and its been great. I don't have to drive an hour to a flgs, and Walmart isn't h only game n town besides the bars .

So I got the yellows on except on the bumpers, I'm thinking of changing those out to black, or maybe even red. I had it all leadbelcher, but that looked stupid. Will work on the lack areas next.


And now to kill off he followers of this thread.....per request......a close up . Guess I'll be back to scratch building after all the boos, hisses, and laughter fade



On an n related note I just realized starting season 5 of breaking bad that my last two favorite series the main character was named Walter , who have atypical sons, and the world is trying to get them. Last night I watched the season four finale where Gus gets blown up . When he walked out of the room I was like WTF, then I threw up a little in my mouth when they showed his face, straightened his tie, an fell down. When I first saw him It took me a second to realize he's the guy on he show rEvelution. I'm waiting o watch season 2 of that next. Hopefully he doesn't get typecast as the evil S.O.B. in everything he does. But he does it so well.

Very nice Theo, but yea that does suck that they have no filter. Breaking bad is fantastic as well You have quite the force. I have decided Blood angels aren't for me though. I just bought a drop pod and tac squad for 50$ on ebay, and now I am looking at starting up on my Star Phantoms again. Now that FW has given them a special captain and their own tactics, it doesn't sound like a half bad idea, seeing as how i can use that drop pod and assault marines and devastator squads

the only crime i see comitted on that last pic... and believe me i zoomed in like a good puppy...is the murder of a mold line on that safty railing

the highlights are very good looking... the eagle needs a wash... and the frnot antenna (?) is still unpainted (read wrong painted?)...

and cussing in front of customers...? i think sometimes the wrong peeps are employed and the wrong kind of peeps are sitting their behinds soft at home...... really... that is rule nr1 in business... never yell never cuss at/infront of hands willing to give you money...

i only ever watched one (partly) episode of breaking bad... not my kind of show... really... i still have a hard time with the amount of unfair violence and loss in walking dead... but there the suspense is really keeping me looking... too many nice characters have already biting the dust...+§%&§

@vik, i just watched carol go her own way on walking dead. I think we'll see her again, probably with the "governor". Breaking bad took me a few episodes, just too many people were saying how good it was, so I stuck with it. In season two/three things really start getting good with Gus, Saul, and Mike I just love seeing the ineptitude happening

@nafarious, I know he star phantoms changed their iconography in the forge world books, but if you want the shoulder pads from the old ravenwing sprue that has the winged skull, just let me know. I've got enough to hook you up to give the army that much more style.
just p&m me your address.

Theo that would be a godsend.

carol goes awol?... which season do you are in atm? i am right after the episode nebraska and the shooting at the saloon...after all these Z´s taking lifes...and shane...(damn...that fella so needs a vent in his skull...)...the fight and the talk before to those murderes was the most thrilling piece of action in the whole show...and that is telling you something...

@vik, I think it aired just a few days ago, I found the new season online so now I'm trying to keep up so when I'm working I can hang out at the water cooler and talk zombies in a hospital.
@nafarious, no problem, I think I have over 100 of them , yes I am insane wish I could type in crayon