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Cool Len, thanks! That would be wonderful!

Bloomin heck! Been gone about a week and The Beast gains another 8 pages! Had a bit of catch up reading and I feel I can now voice my opinions.

I'll start with the Chapter Master...
-An excellent paint job and the definition around the lenses makes a difference to it's overall appearance. It's easily on par, if not better than, your other vets. I like all the little details and the back pack fits the model well (the icon thing is suitably 'Inquisitorial'). It was a nice surprise to come back to this blog and find Phil painted.

Length of the Beast...
I find it incredible how much this blog has flourished. I still remember following this blog back in June when it was still on 17 pages and I also remember my first post in it back on page 23. TBH, I like this blog the way it is but I wouldn't mind upgrading to Mantis Warriors 2.0...

And finally the Iron Clad...
-I like the idea of the dread being lost but it would also be cool to see it in refreshed, all be it damaged, colours. However, I do think some of the pistons and mechanical gubbins shouldnbe partly rusted.

And a little footnote...
OT from this blog but concerning trade. I have an unused, un-painted Trygon Prime (for thing 2) that I would be happy to add it to the package of bitz I've been meaning to send to you. I have no use for it (can't even remember when I got it) and it would be nice to see it go to a good home. PM me if thing 2 is interested in having one.

Your painted dread is nice apart from the las muzzles painted in red, they clash horribly with the light green. Loving the work on the forgeworld dread so far. Might see it painted in ohhh.. 20 pages? lol

@GS: PMd... and thanks. Appreciate the comments on Phil. I'm happy with him... he sure looks good mixed in with the rest of the sternguard that's for certain. Blog will stay as one. I think there's so much activity lately because I've been pushing so hard to get the army built and painted, but because I'm doing a bunch of new things there's a lot of opportunity for community involvement. Iron clad will also not be too worn... it'll be a little less lemon yellow than the rifleman as I started with a darker base coat... the slightly more somber tone suits it I think. Other than that and a *lot* of battle damage... it'll be in fighting trim.

@Perkustin: Yeah... in the old days that's how I'd differentiate las cannons from other types of guns for easy recognition. I will probably re-paint those tips at some point to bring them in line with the rest of the dread. Just lazy.


Today's offering (and I'm done painting for the day): Got the yellow done. I love my airbrush. The head is just resting in there at the moment for the photograph, but I will probably leave it white.

Looking good gits, That pose gives it so much life already I can't wait to see how much more the paint will add.

I love the steadily-getting-brown thing. It works really well.

Page 99? Gits, have a mod lock your thread until you finish the dread lol

I vote we all stop posting until the dread's finished.
commencing...NOW.

Well... it is technically "painted" now. *grin* Time to declare victory and go home... :-)

High five

Gits, since I don't want to paint up my SW's with crappy prime jobs etc, after I finish my Badab war thing, I'm going to paint up my Genestealers!
(My dad keeps asking me when I'm going to paint them. He wants to play in color too )

the dred looks so much better in yellow, i wasnt sure how it would look but seeing it just with that one basecoat really works wonders

Git, you have a good point. EVERYONE!!! (unfinished) painted dread!!!

[Edit] Nvm. Wasn't the first

that is a nice yellow, p3's Cygnus yellow?

That's awesome Git! The more you do the more excited I get about seeing it in person.

GAAAAAH GITS KNOCK IT OFF!
Your stuff is looking way too cool- I really gotta figure out my airbrush so I can get my stuff looking half as good as yours AT LEAST!

The airbrush really breathes life into the models. seems to make yellow an easier color to paint

As to the M-1 Rhinos, Ive got a M-1 that I'll prolly end up just cutting apart...

Might need a bit of TLC, but I know I have all the bits. ahhhh wait... scratch that. bolters on top seem to have disappeared.

I have:
=> the aforementioned Bolter-less rhino
=> the Lascannon sponsons for a Pred (one lascannon got broken in the middle, probably fixable)
=>the TL lascannons from the turret (looted the turret already for a Kustom SAG, sorry Gits)
=> the Whirlwind base thingy + gunner, it came to me sans-turret

The parts are stripped, just a little stubborn red paint stuck on the WW bits.
Rhino's painted red. Overall good condition apart from the missing bolters.

Im more than willin to part with it if youre needin more than lenny's crazy auction. (seriously! whered ya find that deal, Len!? )

Replying from Thing 1's jazz concert... That's a series of 4 different colors sprayed in sequence. Dark shade is Vallejo Air ochre. Base color is VA golden yellow. Two highlight colors, top layer is a very old GW color "Bad Moon yellow" , God help me when the last of that's gone as it forms the "pop" in my yellow.

Gitsplitta wrote:Replying from Thing 1's jazz concert... That's a series of 4 different colors sprayed in sequence. Dark shade is Vallejo Air ochre. Base color is VA golden yellow. Two highlight colors, top layer is a very old GW color "Bad Moon yellow" , God help me when the last of that's gone as it forms the "pop" in my yellow.

Iirc, Vallejo makes a color called Bald Moon Yellow (oho see what they did there?) thats an exact match to Bad moon.

Oh and a random question.... How are you priming in the Winter? I really gotta figure somethin out down here ><

Enjoy the concert!

Too hard to reply from phone... Will keep reading though and reply to all later tonight.

Cheers mates!

Ramos Asura wrote:Im more than willin to part with it if youre needin more than lenny's crazy auction. (seriously! whered ya find that deal, Len!? )

Haha its not that crazy, plus I'm watching that one with gits but also another one for 6 tanks Basilisk, 2 lemans and three MK-1 variants.

That's only 13 tanks no biggy

The battle damage looks great! I would add plenty of scorch marks around the damage then it will be perfect

99 pages! Wow!

[edit] too soon again

Auctions are not sure things, would rather pick up a few d vehicles from friends I trust than take a chance on something from a total stranger.

[edit] Third time fail! Not 100!

Lennysmash wrote:

Ramos Asura wrote:Im more than willin to part with it if youre needin more than lenny's crazy auction. (seriously! whered ya find that deal, Len!? )

Haha its not that crazy, plus I'm watching that one with gits but also another one for 6 tanks Basilisk, 2 lemans and three MK-1 variants.

That's only 13 tanks no biggy

Sheesh... If I could pick that up for a good price, id be set for lootin!!
Using ebay or some other site?

100?
If not, 13 tanks? Awesome.
If so, First!

Gonna need another 3 more posts thar, BBL.

Oh. I'm on my ipod, so It looks like the page is done to me

OK. finally at my computer so I can answer properly...

@Ramos: I'm very interested in what you have. Please PM me.

@Ramos again: Thank you!! That will save my butt. I have a large room that is "inside" the main part of our house... finished (painted drywall) but just a plywood floor, above the garage kind of on it's own. It has good ventilation in summer and a strong ceiling fan. So I can prime all year without bothering anyone.

Len and I are watching a couple of bulk auctions... one is decent, the other is lots of busted stuff... probably could scavenge through it for a half dozen decent things once all the parts were collected and assembled. There's enough in the first that we're both interested in to make it worth our while (and the stuff is in good shape)... none too sure about the second one.

@Commander Cain: I agree, scorch marks will be about the last thing that gets put in after the dread is painted and camouflaged.

@BBL: Stop posting just to push me over to 100 pages... that's cheating! (and not contributing to the blog in a meaningful way)

I'm sorry Gits. It was supposed to be 1 post. I just want to be the first post of page 100 (and I think I can't b/c of this post)