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ItsPug you genius! I'm going to get some dettol on the go tomorrow. Hopefully it can help heal my friends melted dreadnought too!!

Just to let you see, I've just done some buying....here is GW's stock photo of my newest arrival, can't wait to get it in the post! I hope I'm not waiting too long!!

Hey nice to see your stuff up and about again! love the ideas and how it's coming along so far! i guess you've seen all the new pre-heresy forgeworld armour to be released? it's so awesome!

Chris

have you tryed www.waylandgames.com

Fairy Power Spray works excellently on metals and plastics, strips acrylics and enamels no problem. Spray on, leave for 10-20 mins then scrub with a toothbrush - preferably an old one
Nice work so far by the way.

I liked the freehand on the first page...it was good

Thanks for dettol tip! I have tried two different types of paint stipper! One a thick gel which melted mr dread and the second normal paint stripper which as no effect at all!!! So i shall try some dettol!

you need to aggatate it

+1 for dettol, but it does take a lot of scrubbing to get through GW paints.

I prefer my dettol in the bath.

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves...




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This is the beginning of my 'project redemption'. I bought a huge chunk of my Raven Guard army off a guy on e-bay, and this dread was in it. This was the only model that wasn't painted in Raven Guard colours, and was definately the worst model for paintjob, so I'm interested to see how the paintstripping goes, and hope to make something worthwhile out of this model! Unfortunately the arms are very solidly glued into place and the seller didn't have the spare weapons either, so I'm stuck with a TL Lascannon Missile Launcher dread, but things could be worse!

In other news, I just realised that the ETC has been and gone. The standings are very impressive http://www.rankingshq.com/etc/article.aspx?ArticleTypeId=2&ArticleId=180 nice to see a top class competition, hope all who were involved enjoyed it!!

Great stuff steve!!! Hope to see some update this week either in person or on here! Have to show you my tacticals!!!

Is that a metal one or a plastic one?

Hello, here's a quick 24 hour update....

After a day cycle in the chryo-pool brother Adrionus began to feel itchy. Thankfully Tech Marine Brother OldTootchBrushuslotus came to his aid to attempt to scrub the battle debris and old paint off his aging hull. Unfortunately 24 hours was just not enough. After adding more serum to the chryo-pool Tech Marine Brother OldTootchBrushuslotus left the dreadnought to float until tomorrow, when hopefully finally the dire paint would be removed!

Yes, I left my plastic Dreadnought (that one was for you Miss Dee) floating overnight, and it did nothing. Although some colour began to come off on the brush it wasn't as much as I'd hoped for. And seeing as there was no visible damage to the plastic model I've added more disinfectant and left it for another overnight. Perhaps the stuff I'm using is just cheap and inneffective, or maybe I gave up on the old toothbrush too soon, but I'll give it a good shot tomorrow and let you know how I get on!

If that doesn't work use simple green, it will strip it in a day.

Failing that, use acetone free (v. important it has no acetone otherwise your dread will melt ) nail varnish remover, soak it for about 5 minutes then scrub, works pretty well! Don't leave it for too long though as the plastic can sometimes lose a bit of sharpness of detail.

Speaking of a Raven Guard Fandex, I am currently in the process of writing one. I have completed a small list of special characters, including Shrike and the new Forgeworld guy. I've taken all characters from existing fluff, except for two; the "death-captain" (the guy in charge of the mutated side of the Raven Guard, a result of Corax' attempt to speed up maturation of the Marines post-geneseed implantation) the mounted "Riding-Captain", as well as two characters I built upon from extremely vague fluff: the 1st Company commander "The Hawk" had been referred to as "as ferocious and devious as a hawk in flight" somewhere, i think in the mag; also the Chapter Master. Since nothing is known about him except that he is probably nearly as old as the chapter (providing a visualization of a mostly-mechanical man), I decided to call him "The Raven" as yet another allusion to E.A.P. (see sergeant Alenpoe, and of course "Quoth the Primarch, 'Nevermore...'") Any rule/wargear suggestions for him would be welcome.

Here's a small taste of my special character ideas; its my favorite of all of them so far!

note: In case posting statlines are against the rules, please take notice that these are mine own creation.

Aajz Solari - CAPTAIN OF THE RAVEN GUARD 2nd COMPANY

Why not add silenced storm bolter and have BS 4?

Hello folks, thanks for your kind comments;

- Ghost in the Darkness - as stated earlier, I live in the UK (see the flag?) and so I can't buy simple green over here, but I'm strongly considering ordering some online and paying for the shipping of it over here!!

- Vitruvian XVII - Thanks for that tip, that might be my next attempt, but I'm not too hot on the idea of it damaging the plastic!!

- bladebaka - Thanks for your input too. I'm not sure I need to write a new codex for the Raven Guard though! The current one does fine. The Forgeworld guy's name is Shadow Captain Korvydae, he's pretty lethal looking. I had thought that the Raven Guard mutations were all killed. Also, the 1st Company already has a named captain - Captain Ravenclaw. His personal heraldry can be found on page 25 of the Space Marine Codex, its a bit thin on the ground but its there! But I like your ideas for "The Hawk", sounds great for a game against your friends.

- Miss Dee - Good to see your input too!! Everyone needs a Ballistic Skill!

As for updates, I've very sorry to say that my dettol experiment did not work. I left the dread in a dettol bath for 2 days, and even after a good scrub with a toothbrush under a running tap the most paint that came off was a faint smude on my hand! The dread is still well and truly painted, and it smells a little bit funny now too!
So I don't know if I'm going to get some other product to try to clean him off, or just try to paint over him. I've left him on the window sill to dry, there's no point in stressing about him.

But I did get some reinforcements....

s.j.mccartney wrote:Hello folks, thanks for your kind comments;

- Ghost in the Darkness - as stated earlier, I live in the UK (see the flag?) and so I can't buy simple green over here, but I'm strongly considering ordering some online and paying for the shipping of it over here!!

- Vitruvian XVII - Thanks for that tip, that might be my next attempt, but I'm not too hot on the idea of it damaging the plastic!!

- bladebaka - Thanks for your input too. I'm not sure I need to write a new codex for the Raven Guard though! The current one does fine. The Forgeworld guy's name is Shadow Captain Korvydae, he's pretty lethal looking. I had thought that the Raven Guard mutations were all killed. Also, the 1st Company already has a named captain - Captain Ravenclaw. His personal heraldry can be found on page 25 of the Space Marine Codex, its a bit thin on the ground but its there! But I like your ideas for "The Hawk", sounds great for a game against your friends.

- Miss Dee - Good to see your input too!! Everyone needs a Ballistic Skill!

As for updates, I've very sorry to say that my dettol experiment did not work. I left the dread in a dettol bath for 2 days, and even after a good scrub with a toothbrush under a running tap the most paint that came off was a faint smude on my hand! The dread is still well and truly painted, and it smells a little bit funny now too!
So I don't know if I'm going to get some other product to try to clean him off, or just try to paint over him. I've left him on the window sill to dry, there's no point in stressing about him.

But I did get some reinforcements....

here is a link for you. http://www.simplegreen.co.uk/

Yooooo!!

Thank you Miss Dee. I just spent the last 10 minutes on google looking for someone selling it in the uk, and the closest I could find was qvcuk.com who sell a set of it for £20!!!

Here's my progress so far, I have to admit, this Land Speeder Storm is one of the sweetest kits I've worked on for some time. There are a lot of really nice details so I'm going to paint it in parts before I glue it all together. The photo below really doesn't show much apart from how handy elastic bands are to get a snug fit, but its got cool shotguns and bolt pistols stowed away.
I'm a bit nervous that GW will drop it from their Space Marine codex in 6th edition, they tend to do that for models that are cool, but hopefully they wont. And it fits in so well with the Raven Guard fluff. Scouts being dropped behind enemy lines on covert-ops. Plus my favourite bit is that you get a driver and 5 free scouts! I just hope I can make them pose-able on bases!!

Amazing, I'm doing Raven Guard as well, and I had no clue there was a transfer sheet, thank you for the info!

Hi revackey - its available from Forge World only, but £8 for 100 transfers of all types isn't a bad price to pay! You could always go halfs with another Raven Guard player, I don't think I'll need 100 transfers all to myself!

In other (and slightly more random and less Raven Guard) news I found this picture, its pretty cool.

I'm in America, I'm still going to get it, if you don't mind me asking, are you fielding your army? Or just painting it?

Also, thats a more or less interesting idea...lol

its looking very good btw the best thing to remove paint is fairy liquid

s.j.mccartney wrote:

In other (and slightly more random and less Raven Guard) news I found this picture, its pretty cool.

WOw. Thai people are pretty much endlessly inventive.

I've been busy 'constructing' as I call it, its not model making, its constructing a vehicle!!

Here's a quick update of my Land Speeder Storm. The main body of the speeder is just about done now, I'm going to spray it and paint it before sticking the final bits on. Its a great kit, I've really enjoyed making it. All praise to elastic bands and clothes pegs too, couldn't have done it without them!

The rear section isn't glued to the main body of the speeder yet, I'm going to need to reach the details with my paintbrush before I glue it together. So the benches and the 'roll cage' aren't glued on yet.

you washed the kit when you got it out of the box?

its looking good.

I have interwebs again!! Landspeeder is looking well buddy!!! Jump Packs and Meltaguns arrived in the post today so going to do a bit of modelling work tonight/tomorrow before work

Important Put the pilots legs on the seat first i do hope you have done that.

Hello Miss Dee and NiallKissick FTW.

I didn't wash the kit. Do you mean with soapy water to clean the release agent? I didn't do that. I'm a bit lazy...

I also didn't glue the pilots legs in. I did glue him together and spray him, but hopefully he can still squeeze into place. If not I'll just prize his arm off and get him into place that way.

Photos shall be forthcoming tomorrow, plus revealing my latest project...