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Fantastic!

Got a present today, Late valentine gift!:



Very happy with that.

I went on a hunt through all the models I had obtained and never stuck together and stuck em together this morning. There's about 50 minis yet to paint. I will show pics once they are primed. Here's the first lot, a couple of bikes (I-core?) and some really old khorne fiends:

LOL weety!! Well played!

More random goo. Void viridian lizard rider, RT khorne marines and a beastman

Those Bikes!

Where?Who?What?!

Those are amazing minis! And I've never seen them before, what on earth are they?

VOID 1.1 minis, from the now defunct I-Kore company. They made an amazing plastic box set, but it fizzled for some reason.

She complains that she has nothing to paint, then pulls out half a hundred unpainted minis.


Then agin, in weety's world that'll only keep her going for a couple of days

Nie marines by the way

I counted them today - I have 203 painted minis and probably 120 unpainted. I think I musta spent a surprising amount of squids over the last two years... I've slowed down on the buying now though - I've only bought 1 in the last two months, I'm afraid it will have to stay at that level until the greater depression is over

See, nothing to paint.....except these 120 guys over here


That's a bit like me saying I have no models to build

Although you have a far better ration of done:undone. What other wonders do you have waiting for you to sprinkle your magic colouring dust on them?

Well mostly a great big pile of space marines and chaos marines. Theres one or two more chaos squats whch I'm quite looking forward too, and a chaplain on a bike somewhere. Marines always take me longer to paint - I think the large flat areas daunt me

Bah, those flat areas are just places to practice your blending

And you've been holding out on us..you've got unpainted chaos squats??

i actually really like the void stuff... i own a couple marines of that range and planned to include them as stomrtroopers for a one day catachan army project...tho they are less detailed than GW the smoother look of them somehow appeals...

I agree - its a trade off- less detail but more style. More futuristic and less gothic. Hard to say which I like more.

Repainted the blue trooper - he was a pain to paint, so very small and detailed but also covered in tiny flaws. I think I made it look better though:

Before



after

Well I'm of to do that most rare of British activities; paid employment. But before toddling off to feed the machine and pound my treadmill here is something I dug out for amusement. I'm thinking of givning the armless one a mass of tentacles instead of an am to give him a more obvious mutation.
Don't take this to mean I'm actually going to paint them, just that I haven't forgotten them.

Remaining chaos squats:

monkeytroll wrote:See, nothing to paint.....except these 120 guys over here


That's a bit like me saying I have no models to build

Although you have a far better ration of done:undone. What other wonders do you have waiting for you to sprinkle your magic colouring dust on them?

sounds like the stereotypical comment of a woman with nothing to wear except all that stuff in her bulging wardrobe...

I've never found it an issue when a woman has nothing to wear - suits me just fine

Love the idea of a bunch of tentacles for arms, always a classic mutation, and we need to see more of your conversions on here.


And don't think of it as a treadmill - think of it as an opportunity to scavenge cheap modelling materials That is, unless it's your turn to run on the treadmill to power the tills today.

Nakedness is a good default state. Saves on wear and tear, clothes last longer when you are naked. Its no good outdoors though...

Actually work was quiet as a grave today. You can be sure there's a recession on when even the budget discount store is empty.

So do you like my blue trooper? Not sure where to start with the bikes - I need to watch Akira again

Yeah, granted, nudity, outdoors and British weather don't really go together well.

And bugger, forgot about the blue trooper - talk of nakedness does that I find

I liked the old version, but the new job is cleaner, and the changes to the lour pattern work well, make him look more like a private security guard type - sort of a corporate feel to the uniform, if that makes any sense.

Akira always good for cyber-bike reference

Yes - that's his look - Future fuzz. Space security.

aye... for those bikes akira is probably the best you could get for as an inspiration...

and i too forgott to mention the blue trooper...he is looking fine...but i can´t help to say...i wonder if you had not added the blue...cause i liked that monochrome look of him quite strongly...reminded me of star wars a bit...

and yeppers...britsih weather...you could loose serious bitz to the cold if hopping around in the nudes^^

I'm going to go against the consensus and say that I prefer the Blue scheme. It's a nicer contrast and makes the green visor positively glow.

Now back to lurking.

blue

BLING!!??!! MY EYES!!!

That's me at page 60! So much great stuff!

I'm getting quite psyched for painting my Necromunda squad, i just need to get them greened first!


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And i'm up to date! Got even more inspiration for my gang along the way. Keep up the great work!

He did look a bit starwars when he was white didn't he. But blue is good. He is Buxton the Blue Trooper.

My pet project for today is an all rogue trader scout squad. I just need one more to make the five... Getting started on a paint scheme and replacing a missing head. They should look the bomb.

Scout squad sounds super! Is the guy with the eye-patch a scout? Looks a bit adventurous to me, but still cool.

Weety has the same problems as me, no models to paint, well, besides the bucket of them hiding in the closet!

I thought that scout with the bionic eye had some sort of odd growth until I realized it was just the paint!

The repainted trooper looks great, he has a very corporate look about him.

The one that looks that looks like an adventurer is a scout - I looked him up and he is like the first ever prototype scout. I have two of them and I've already painted one up to be a random adventurer type.

Bloody buckets of space marines. I suffered for a while from having more money than sense, now I have more space marines than sense and precious little money...

money isn´t precious... the things we do with it are precious... even sometimes verging to the capricious...

I like the color scheme of the Blue Trooper better now, but I don't know if it's the light or what, but the visor looked better to me before.

You know you're a badass when you can dual-wield bolters...