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More Troops! And, the last chimera... Just a reminder, after the game, this army will be going up on ebay! Once you see it in it's full glory, you'll see why!

Another day, another squad... A separate project, also due for the big game, has slowed me a bit. However, the train keeps rolling!

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The latest addition: one more squad of guardsmen! Also, the Doting Wives have finally come through with Red Platoon's standard! I'll be back tomorrow with another squad and a points total.
Also, because I am completely out of my gourd, I am spooling up another Blog for a project I have been working on concurrent to this one. Check out my 'Commission: WIP Thousand Sons Dio ' thread to see a much more detailed offering in the making!

This is a seriously ambitious project! Great standard so far, and some incredible pace too - will deffo be keeping an eye on this thread.

(I really like your little blurbs too!)

EDIT: Stupid word mix-ups. Shhh, it's been a long day.

Today, the final Line Squad from Red Platoon Marches in! Unfortunately, local provosts picked up a bunch of motor pool drivers for DWH (Driving while Heretical), so no further chimeras could be assigned in time for deployment. Lt. McMaul is none too pleased, but the Colonel simply told him to suck it up.
The points total is now...2135. Only 5600 points to go!

Nice to see some more mechanised guard.

Man, you have come a long way in a pretty short time. For such a massive undertaking your minis are looking great!

Keep up the great work

Mike

Looking great! You sure are churning out these models

I'm digging this any other plans??

Well, as far as plans are concerned... I have this IG Monster to churn out, play with, and sell. I am also working on my Thousand Sons Dio (see WIP blog). After this, aside from my normal commissions, I have a Tomb Kings army to do, and following that, A blood Angel's force, complete with stormravens! Also, I have a commission for an ork MegaNobs Army that will be painted to a Tournament Standard (Tier 2).
That's a quick summary of my next couple of months. Later today, I should have all the Heavy weapons teams for Red Platoon done and posted, and then on to Stormtroopers!

Damn boy! You are a machine!

Tiumphus wrote:Damn boy! You are a machine!

That's what she said.

Today's crop has arrived! A little chivvying from the Colonel has gotten the Department Munitorum to send the entire Heavy Weapons Contingent for Red Platoon. This completes the two line platoons for the company. Now, as a proud graduate of the Schola Progenium, Lord Commisar Cestus has ordered up some Big Toy Soldiers to play with! Though the Colonel doesn't really like the airs these glory boys put on, a concise conversation with the Lord Commisar's power fist showed him the light.
They are en route, and should start arriving in a couple of days!
Total Points count is now at: 2330.

The Schola Progenium has answered our intrepid Lord Commisar with the first squad of Storm Troopers! One more to go, and then....TANKS!!
The army total is now up to: 2320

Great. We demand more though.

Really great work and an incredible rate.

Pretty much the whole reason I subscribe to P+M threads is to see pictures of pretty armies and this is just that. Regularly.

Great work man.

Is this a progress blog or just and extended P+M showcase seeing as we are getting a massive update every day? I know that I could never paint up 10 stormtroopers in 1 day

Nice work as usual, I like the green power cables on the 'glory boys'.

Ah, I was waiting for someone to say something like that. Believe it or not, this is a progress blog. I haven't been putting in 'Before' pictures due to the sheer volume of stuff I will have posted by the time this thread is done, but, to silence the doubters, I will start doing that.
Also, I have 3 other commissions I am working on, right now. One is on my other blog, about the Thousand Sons diorama I am building. The others are pretty unremarkable, and won't really generate much interest, IMHO.
Part of the reason I am doing this is to advertise my painting biz, Cataclysm Studios, to prove that I actually CAN crank out models as fast as I claim to. It has always been one of my selling points, and I want to be able to point at this blog as proof.
But yes, I did actually paint these guys today.

You are going at quite a pace, do you you have a day job or do you just paint miniatures?
Great Blog!

Well in that case I salute you! I managed to paint 1 HW team and two troopers today so I am sure that, with plenty of determination I could achiever the same results.

Damn skippy. I barely painted a horse for a model today, and your doing this lot. Might have to get some marines and step my hobby up.

Thanks for the complements, everyone! These models are all my tabletop quality (Tier 1), which is basically a 3-stage wash and highlight. I might do a mini-WIP for the remaining squad tomorrow, with step-by-step descriptions of what I am doing. I have a couple of ways of cheating that might interest some of you.
The actual total time painting on these was 3 hrs, 2 min. (I keep close track of these things for my biz.)

Very nice work fast pace as well.

The last infantry have proudly marched onto the field! Lord Commissar Cestus looks on proudly as the remaining Storm Troopers snap to attention before the reviewing stand. He knows, that though their numbers are few, they are every bit as loyal as he is to the Emperor, and will keep this native rabble in check!
The Colonel, however, was not available for comment. Rather than stare at the smug face of Cestus, he is off, supervising the delivery of BIG GUNS, fresh from the manufactorum.
As a side note, you can find a mini-WIP of me painting these, here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/343246.page.

These guys look awesome, and the pace you're working at is incredible. I haven't been able to paint all of my guard in about a year and a half!

Looking forward to seeing the whole army. Keep up the good work, sir.

Loving the progress so far! Keep it up!

And, after much wheeling and dealing, Colonel Cannonade has delivered 3, count them, 3 Basilisks! Below are pics of what I started with, and what I ended up with.
Below those is the pre-picture of the next bit in this army...
As of now, the points total is: 3190

You've painted ALL this in about a month... I'm impressed, I hope to see some form of battle report when this army is unleashed!

This kind of progress makes me want to speed paint, dang it. Well done on your hard work, mate.