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Great work on the knight, love the subtle weathering and his faceplate!

New Knight is sweeeeet. Lots of great detail and wear n' tear.

Damn page turnover...cheers gents.

I painted my other Wardog to bring my Chaos Knights up to 1250 odd points. If you look close enoughyou will find the odd errant cat hair from my white boy Snowball...aren't we lucky? This is the stock armiger kit with a few parts from the Chaos vehicles accessory sprue:













And here he is with his brother I painted last year:



And here is the "army" thus far:





Up next for me is a terminator assault squad made up with minis from Space Marine heroes 2, here they are prior to their aggrax and medium wash:







Thanks for looking, bed and then work calls!

Whoa, another one? Nice! Knight force is really impressive. Terminator squad in the mix, too. No rest for the awesome.

Always love coming into this thread, great work on the second Armiger and nice start on the terminators, they have some nice poses.

Your production rate at quality never ceases to amaze me! New war of looks great. I like how you’ve paired them up by the colours on their shoulder pads, neat! Those Terminators look cool even if they’re still WIP (good to see your minis don’t magically get painted in one sitting all of the time!)

I’ve been lax again .

Banshee is great . The red head nod to the Irish fictional beauty.

The Celestial Lions are looking great as usual, even the silly stealth dreadnought concept is really well executed.

All the lovely chaos knights . Spreading only like Herpadrax can . Making me want to branch off into 40k, but I’ll wait for the rules change to 9th if anything.

Keep up the fantastic work.

Cheers everyone, having an extremely minor part in feeding the Nation is biting into my hobby time so I am filing my "April in review" post a day early.

The weather today is extremely overcast and changeable so the photos are not the best, but progress has been made:

First up I finished my Terminator Assault Squad from the Space Marine heroes 2 range. These guys are cools sculpts, the 2 non Sgt Hammer guys are both the same miniature, just with the weapon and shield arms adjusted. Still I think these are a definite upgrade on my older range Terminator Assault Squad for my Lions:














I also did a couple of ASOIAF characters just for the fun of it, nothing too interesting here but I did Tyrion (in armour) and Walder Frey. These are pretty cool sculpts, I like how Walder is suitably old and decrepit slumped in his chair, the best bit being the depiction of The Twins (the fortified home of the seat of House Frey) on the back of his chair. I also used the natural texture of the base for an indoors concrete type look rather than my usual sand and gravel mix:











That leaves me at 25 miniatures painted for April, and bang on 100 done for the year thus far. I am very happy to have added an HQ, Troop, 2 Elite and a Heavy choice to my Lions this month. Here is the lot in glorious Blur-O-Vision:



Thanks for looking.

Tyrion! For some reason he makes me think of the small lawyer from Night Court going after Dan with the comically oversized gavel.

Solid looking squad of Terminators. Awesome addition to the army.

Great work.

The Nurgle knights are great and your Celestial lions has always been a treat.

Night Court reference

Great haul for the month, the heroes terminators look spectacular.

Congrats on reaching the triple digits!

Terminators look ace, really lovely sculpts and paintjob, I fear I need them too. Did you do blind buys or did you buy a display with the 9 boxes?

And a weird question, but could you measure how only the Katakros mini is from head to feet? Want to use it for my arena and need his dimensions to see, if he is the right size.

Awesome work with everything so far! Just spent the last while going through everything, and I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a good inspiration for me to get my own projects rolling again after 3+ years away from the hobby.

WOnderful work! Keep it up

Wow, 100 models already, well done. I'll be lucky to do that in a year. And it all looks great too, really like those terminators and knights

Cheers everyone, very nice of you to look in and comment.

YWS/Theo: I have no idea what this Night Court thing is, will take a google.

@Gobert: Thank you very much.

@Viterbii: I bought two cases, got enough to make a shooty and melee squad as well as the Captain and Ancient out of it and gave the rest away to a mate who paints and plays. Certainly not a cheap or sensible way to do it.

@Orkboy. Cheers, for many lads of my age in the UK we cannot see your location without saying it in Howard Finkel's voice and thinking about Bret Hart.

@Stevefamine: I intend to.

@Maharg: Any progress is good progress.

So onto a bit more progress. Here is more Celestial Lion action in the form of Brother Captain Donato from the Space Marine Heroes series 2 set. Armed with a combi melta and power fist I really like him, quite a different sculpt for a Terminator:







I also painted my second Free Folk Savage Giant for ASOIAF, I painted the other one about 10 months ago so it is good to get him done:





Here he is with his mate:



I also purchased Space Marine Adventures from GAME here in the UK, it is currently £20 online so not too bad. I think it is available at Barnes and Noble in the US as well, this gets me the 4 space marine heroes "missing" from the UK release. The only change here is the sgt who i already have, so gave him a head and both arm swap:







Finally is a bit of WIP on some Mortal Realms stuff, namely the Celestar not bolt thrower and the Dreadblade Harrows:







Thanks for looking.

Terminator Captain is stellar. Unusually dynamic pose and the expected sweet paintjob make for an awesome mini. New giant is also looking quite a bit more animated than his friend. Is that a face in the haft of his club? Lots more progress all around. Can't wait to see the Heroes put on the blue n' gold.

Those giants are great. They were the reason I considered getting into ASOIAF.

The ballista looks like it would fit in with your Lions as a thunder fire cannon.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:


@Viterbii: I bought two cases, got enough to make a shooty and melee squad as well as the Captain and Ancient out of it and gave the rest away to a mate who paints and plays. Certainly not a cheap or sensible way to do it.

Thanks for the reply! Had a quick look around and it would be 75€ for one case. You're right, it's not the most sensible way to spend money, but I have the feeling our whole hobby isn't (at least to outsiders ). But they are really lovely sculpts and after seeing your brother-captain I may go for a display box, one is in there right? Can't find the info on that. (Edit: Had a better look at the display box and the infos how often in 10/20 or 30 the minis come; so can't be sure to get the captain).

And great work on those giants, the older one looks so calm, something not ususally seen in giants. They are mostly on the angry side.

Yeah, the Hart family in general is pretty well known here. Bret still makes reasonably regular appearances on the morning radio show I listen to while heading in to work.

Great work, especially with the giant. Loving how the finished product turned out.

Might be kind of a dumb question, but how are you getting the cloaks to turn out that smooth? I've had nothing but issues dealing with red since I started painting, and even after coming back into the hobby in the last month or so, nothing has changed in that regard. Any tips or tricks would be appreciated!

Apologies for the recent quietness but work has been busy. Luckily I have not let it eat too much into my hobby time so there has been some progress.

First up is the finished Celestar Ballista with crew, a fun little build and paint and pretty solid for an ETB kit. I really need to get more Stormcast done, I just do not find them too inspiring:







I also got my Nighthaunt Dreadblade Harrows painted up, a fun little exercise with these as i tried adding some Hexwraith flame to the steeds for a bit more visual interest:







I also made a little foray into ASOIAF by finishing my Targaryen Unsullied Swordsmen, the unit consists of 12 infantry and also their leader attachment. The 13 minis really help towards increasing my monthly totals. These gents have also inspired me to paint more of my Targaryen's. I only have 12 cavalry minis to complete my faction so aim to get them done soon:









So that takes me up to 20 miniatures painted for the month so far, have no real idea what the rest of the month holds but part of it may be this little lad:





Thanks for looking.

Oh, my. Ghaz is in the house. Looking forward to seeing you tackle that BEAST. Targaryens look great, very Conan-y. The variation does make a big difference in the Harrows.

Ghaz isn’t in the house, he ate the house.

The unsullied look great, it will be a beautiful force once all is said and done.

Nice work on the ballista crew and thunderfire cannon(AOS style)

A great bunch of minis ListenToMeWarriors. The unsullied are really well done and whilst it’s a minor thing, I particularly love how you keep the arrows and sight lines free of basing materials. It’s a small thing, but it really makes them look great gaming pieces. The Ballista and grey stormcast look great too.

Ghaz really is HUGE! Did you get the Prophecy of the wolf box or just Boss Thrakka? I’m hoping the Wolves will get the Lion treatment...

Still love your Stormcasts, sorry to hear the aren't that motivating to paint. Because that color scheme is ace and always good to see more of them.
I always marvel at your bases for ASOIAF, it just looks so great to have the whole unit looking like they are walking the same ground.
Excited to see you tackle Ghaz, size comparison is nice.

@YouWasShock: I was shocked at how big he is, he will really be a focus on the tabletop.

@Theo: It really does work as a potential Thunderfire, especially for my Lions.

@Gobert: The bases are really fun to work on for ASOIAF, but primarily they are game aids so I thought I would leave their main use.

I did get the Prophecy box, Ragnar and half the troops went to a Wolf playing friend, I kept the other 5 troops for myself. Not sure what I will do with the other Orks.

@Viterbii: Maybe I protest too much? They are not that bad to paint.

Gaz wise I am building up to him by painting Makari first. I am also close to getting a unit of Dothraki veterans finished as well.

Thanks for looking.

Some beautiful work there ListenToMeWarriors.

Cheers,

CB

Cheers CB, so a little more progress over the past week

First up I completed a unit of ASOIAF Dothraki Veterans, just 8 more cavalry models to go and the Targaryen starter set is complete. Nowt too special for these, just some added warpaint as they are veterans:










I really like the movement and fluidity of these sculpts, great stuff.

I also got the main boss of any Ork army done, yes Makari!



I also got his weakling hanger on Ghazghull done as well:











The checks are far from perfect, but I think they are ramshackle and suitably Orky:







So all in all a fun week, who knows what the next 7 days will bring?

Ghazkul looks all the beast that he is supposed to look, I just wish GW would get off the bigger is better kick, but I’m pretty well out of their systems as it is now.

The riders are looking good. Nice colors for the mounts.

I marvel at the speed with which you knocked that guy out. Totally awesome and Goff as can be.