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Little update;
I placed an order last week with Rocket Hobbies. Must say I have to reccomend them, pricing is great like Darksphere's were, took 6 days from order to delivery, and I had a lovely email conversation with the help desk- they gave me info they were not required to regarding their operation, finecast return rates and other bits and bobs, so great customer service. I'm quite pleased with them. (btw they say they only see 4% of finecast returned and that its improving over time atleast!)



Here's my new additions, A shiny new drop pod (I never built one of these before) which I'm keen to do something freehand with my airbrush on the doors.

Some Devastators, weapons to be magnetised for the whole force. The scouts with snipers to give me a slight break from pure power armour.
And the paints The plan of action is purple power armour, Yellow pad trim and weapon casings, bone white cloth and sheer black bikes / landspeeders with purple pilots/riders. It's a lot like the Hawk Lords I guess.

Workwise on my older figures, I have mounted magnets to all the gunner arms and the heavy bolter/multi melta pieces to go with them. But am yet to stick the arms to a torso hehe. Have been taking my time with some greenstuff filling some slight gaps on the landspeeders, particularly the older style one where the top and sides are all one piece, I find these much harder to build all flush and nice than the newer kit with seperate sides. I still don't know if I will paint in single figures or units at a time. I really want to put everything I have into them and make a great looking army. The time it takes me shouldn't matter much as I dont really play the game ever (once in a blue moon)... its more about having something cool on my shelf and the hobby time being enjoyable.


One slight issue I have just seen is; My pot of light blue paint says 'Emperors Children' on it!! Its supposed to say Lothern Blue, especially as emperors children is a pink paint, and this is clearly blue!
An obvious mislable... but which actual blue do I now have? is it Lothern afterall? or just a close shade? I kind of need to know so I replace it with the right one down the line.

Good luck with the drop pod, those things are a bear. You might want to consider putting magnets on the doors to help keep them closed. One of the guys at my FLGS did it, helps keep the thing together. I magnetized the gun options on one of mine, not sure if I'll bother with the other.

I don't get people magnetizing devastators. There are so many parts that would need to be fiddled with. Seems it would just be easier to buy an extra box of tac marines and glue them all.

I love painting my scouts. The green camo is such a breath of fresh air after the monotonous ultramarine blue of the rest of my army. Every SM player should do up a squad halfway into building their army just to refresh their love of painting and break up the grind. The sniper box is also a good place to drop a pair of magnets. There are enough bits to make an extra upper torso for a ML or a sniper, but not enough legs to go around.

There is enough variation in the paint range these days I might actually return it. Is it a layer or base/foundation paint (or whatever they are calling them these days) Even if you could hold it up to another pot, could you tell the difference? There are a lot of different blues out there.

Oohh I didnt realise I had magnetising options in the scouts!
Good shout!

The Devastators being done didnt seem like it will be too tricky... I also have a command squad box in pieces and am going to magnetise those for being on/off bikes (not sure what I'm doing about the white power armour apothecary yet), I'm not made of money and GW is expensive, frankly its a wonder I can afford anything atall, so I really liked the idea of having several configurations on the same figures.

The pot of paint that is in question is a Layer paint, intended to be the highlight for some Caledor Sky blue base. Only in the marines eyes and on purity seals etc so its not the end of the world, just a little kick in the behind for my potential coherency.

Heres a piccy of the offender up close. Flash was on... the actualy tone you see may be distorted by it.

Hey, just a heads up, I tried the dettol, works a treat, if a little smelly.
Left for 24 hours then just a light scrub with tooth brush and hey presto, a new model (almost). with no loss of detail at all. I did leave the plastic slighty darker grey in places but its no bother. All painted up now a no real smell of dettol.

Thanks for the great tip. Now just got to decide on the white colour scheme. Good luck with the drop pod.

leroy233 wrote:Hey, just a heads up, I tried the dettol, works a treat, if a little smelly.

True dat!

Good to hear your paint stripping was a success.
I have managed to remove the smell from my pieces prior to painting.

Because I airbrush and paint cars etc I already had some anti static panel wipe / degreaser kicking about. So I poured a little of that into a pot, and piece by piece dropped them in for 30seconds or so and gave them a little scrub with an old all but dead paint brush before fishing them out with tweezers and wiping the bulk off with a rag. The degreaser is designed to evaporate extremely quickly anyway and takes all traces of wax and grease off like a charm (Its kind of what it is for!). This left my bits with zero smell from the dettol, and removed any loose scraps of paint that got stuck back on.

Its not a very strong solvent and hasn't damaged any details on my figures. But I wouldn't go leaving them sat in it for too long becasue it probably will eventually - literally a quick rinse off and immediatly dried off. It did remove sticky bits of glue that wouldnt come off in the dettol too (or atleast made them not sticky anymore)

I've been away for a week and not got a great deal done, or been onto dakka to see what everyone else is upto.
But I have painted my test figure for the purple scheme.









Struggling a little with camera focus, so appologies for any blur in the pictures.

What do you think? tips/ suggestions/ critiscisms area ll welcome.

I'm thinking about snowy/icy bases so that the bluey whites will compliment the dark purples. But I have never done an icy base before, how would you set about doing them?