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banana cherry split icecream...yummy^^

and I think you recently upped your learning curve in painting quite some amount...

also... around the 23. 7. I will be starting in earnest with the olive boys...so....till then we collect out ideas....

curiously I never red that much dark horse comics... some star wars... and then nothing else I can remember anymore..

To make things easier, Here and scroll a bit to the chart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages

Without the Norman Invasion, English would sound and be a lot like Dutch (with quite a bit of Danish thrown in).

for us English educated germans dutch is not that hard to understand if the person in front of me speaks slow...

Sorry, I'll respond later to posts, must clock in at work now, but just needed to share.....



I hear the call of the salamander.....oddly it sounds like a cash register ding

someone else´s cash register for sure...

the horns on the chest are a bit out of place tho... for me...

I knew and understood all of graven's post bar one tiny bit....Speech Organo-physics What's that?

Nice paint work Theo.

I see what you mean about the flames now.

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
for us English educated germans dutch is not that hard to understand if the person in front of me speaks slow...

Uh-Oh. That reminds me of something said of English. "Everybody understands English, if you speak it slowly enough and loudly enough." Dutch have some odd (to my eyes) spellings, but once you get past that, you can easily detect the relationship to it and English. (Ik spreek goed Engels, Ja?) Our "I" used to be "Ic" (c as k).

I know it sounds almost degrading as if a whole language is just a mere dialect..but it wasn´t meant that way... I even had quite a bit of success understanding other Nordic languages like Swedish and Norwegian... to a very limited amount tho...

Well I'm one step closer. Comradepanda got the deamonettes last week and I got the funds available now. The hard part is do I start building my 30k salamanders list, the dread posted earlier is not on the site yet, or studio mcvey just released new strain models today, one already sold out .

Edit: did some painting this morning. Really liking this metal like formula. And if I continue with more layers I get black . Okay so in my lifetime I've been wanting to build every army for every game. But I think I keep falling back into realizing I'm not playing the games so I lose out on the desire to finish things . So that's why I have my army hopping dilemma. That's why when I tried the new paint skill to a marine I thought...."wow, I could do iron hands "......"or I could do iron warriors" or "ravenguard.....wait I've had no desire to do the dark chickens"

So do I just give up on building an army?
Or do I just build some kill teams?
Or just paint what I want at the time?


Well this is what caused the dilemma



His little chin beard was an accidental flick of the brush which I think I'll keep .
The armor plates on the beasts is about the color of what I'd do the iron warriors in. And I could use them as spawn, obliterators, or maulers.

oh and I got the metallic scheme by stealing from Damo . He mentioned how he did the black on his ferrus manus and I tried it out, I got the metallic look by accident and have run with it.

For now a short answer...kill. teams and inquisimunda...that could help you with getting a decent target to which you could aim your overflowing hobby mojo...

Will have to take a closer look at the pc to see the metal(currently via phone...)

Yeah, I'm with vik - kill teams and inquisimunda warbands are where it's at for scratching a whole shed load of P&M itches

Nice work on those guys. The dark metal look great. I picked up a couple of the more serpentine Strain recently as they have a look that fits with various bits of my slaaneshi forces, but seeing those makes me want more...I see lots of possibilities with those

Some of your best painting work yet on those armadillo types dere. I am afraid i have enabled you to do to much Theo.. we will see.

Great work on these models, They look brilliant.

Theo, I got the Gale force 9 gray stuff, you cut a piece from the black stuff, and the pale gray and mix when needed, I never figured "Liquid" green stuff would ever stay so in a GW paint pot, they are why I have gone to squeeze bottle paints.

@shaso, I have regular greenstuff too, just not very good at the whole putty thing. I should practice with it.
@cam, thanks, means lot to hear that
@comrade, I do blame you for being my current enabler, but these other guys keep egging me on also, there's enough blame to go around though.
@MT, I need to check out he rest of his line, honestly I thought it died after the set went but post kickstarter.
@Vik, the metals on the iron hand are actually just greys, but the black on him is the layered inks/washes.

Well I might just pitch most of my paints and paint with washes from now on , it seems to work really well with highly detailed models, and decent on GW models too .

My kids were off yesterday and the pool party was canceled due to sickness of the host, so one of their friends came over to play and sleep overnight. Girl sleepovers mean cranky kids and parents the next day because they don't sleep , I vote for a title change to "stay over and gab all night and make sure the father is pissy all day event" they woke us up at 5am on my one good night a week to get sleep because the wife is off on Fridays in the summer and I'm off Thursday nights. Well I quieted them down enough for the wife to sleep in, but I was up so started the next model.



He's a fun guy to paint, glad there's multiples of him in the box. If I build up my iron warriors then the strain can be the obliterators techno virus infecting ratings and use them as cultists. These bigger guys can be the heavy weapons in the group. And the other two guys I previously made can be the obliterators and maulers.

Loving the blue contrast, looks great Theo. I didn't know you could paint, when did this happen? Great idea for the usage later on, seriously would like these guys for the same kinda reasoning.

oh.... that one looks to me like something out of a resident evil game/movie...*shudders* ...somehow I never even toyed with a chaos army...(well thousand sons and iron warriors don´t count as they still basically look like loyal SM...)

if you have kids as guests... how much authority are you inflicting on your guests (crappy way off trying to get my meaning translated here...) ? sounds interesting ...from a professional point of view for me and also as a fellow dad point of view...when we have kids guests the kids get treated like my kids too... so they see my usual grumpy side as well...and I think they all liked it here still and come back from time to time...tho I have to say we have not so often guests... (not that I want them too often here mind you )
kids today often are not used to consequences...which is really surprising to me...?!?...in my theory parents are often nowadays afraid that there kids might stop loving their parents...which is bloody stupid as a kid, regardless of how it is treated has only one option and that is to love their parents ...(for good and for bad...) (sorry for the slight rant...)

^ I Am with you all the way on this. We're very lucky that in our group of kids/parents that everyone is ok with telling off any kid that's misbehaving. Equally, all the kids really like all the parents (which means everyone gets a break now and again!)
Great colours on the minis theo, reminds me of what Minus does. Looks cracking,

@cam, it's the models, after 300 marines you just stop caring(most people it's 10 and done)
@vik, graven, the girl is a daughter of one of the elders at our church (not eldar ). So she is pretty well behaved like our kids. She gets to see all the ugly side of me, but most often when I need to correct someone I correct my kids and the other kid sees it and realizes what's happening is not acceptable in our house. They are good enough friends that they see our kids get in trouble and then they stop what they are doing and play nice (most of the time they apologize too).

Really rough night at work, just getting done with dinner. Almost 30 discharges so far(double usual night) and I have the known "b" crew. Oh I'm in charge again tonight, and the people I can usually ask for help are on vacation.

Plus side is, I'm off this weekend with no plans except some yard work.

Ahh yes, tomorrow morning is my designated yard work shift as well.

So, look0..
ling at the Strain minis, they seem to alter flesh and technology into some freakish cyber-monster soldiers.

Nice work Theo. Good paint job.
and (mostly) improved photography too.

@dsteingass, he lives , unless the weed walker got him today . Hope everyone is on the mend.
@shaso, I haven't even read through the book as I am just a figure junkie, but I think the virus does indeed infect people and convert them.
@dr. H, I'm not here to learn photography, but I guess eventually I will learn it. And thanks on the paintjob

Nothing to show today. I got to sleep in, last night was wicked. Just got off the phone with one of the bosses a few minutes ago. They were fine with the job done, they knew last night was ugly, but there was some other things that occurred that I wasn't part of but notified them about. Basically another employee has a beef with them and went to HR. he filed a grievance and filled out paperwork, which he left on the desk in the office. Of at least someone left a copy of it on the desk in the office where everyone lose saw it . I found it when collecting the paperwork for the end of the shift and locked it up with the rest. Just not a good thing to be laying around for public reading.

Lots of yard work done today. Missed out on an eBay buy that would cement my next project, but I'll keep an eye out for more. Tonight is family movie night so probably very little to see tonight either. Hopefully Monday I can get back into things as tomorrow is looking full as well.

Barely...I'm going to be so sore tomorrow (I already am). I trimmed and boxed all the 7' tall bushes around the property, cleaned up and mowed. Took all day.

Pretty sure the look of the minis says a LOT

@shaso, too true
@dave, 1:1 conversions suck don't they

Well got about an hour to paint, might steal some time later to do more. But here's four strains, same model


The darker one has had a second wash, and you've seen the guy in back previously, just there for size.

So, were those exposed workers? or convicts?

@shaso,I think they're supposed to be exposed workers as the game the strain generate infection points and your humans can become infected. At least from the little I've read.

Okay so I need some advice again. I'm really leaning on building a Horus Hersey army. I do g have the rule book as it's crazy expensive to get from forgeworld, and I'll probably never play. What I'm leaning towards is my iron warriors getting some love. But as they don't have models specifically for them I'm thinking of using the iron hands figures and removing just the hand emblem. Do you guys think the iron warriors could still use the crenelated edge banding that's still on the iron hands. I mean they were also close to the mechanicus, and tons of bionics everywhere as perturbo would send his men into the meat grinder and just not care about the outcome.

Edit: one should never go through their bits box when they are "almost" ready to choose an army. Found this nurgle sorcerer who looks true scaled next to the strain models. And I have my mordheim town cryer model in my "most precious" box. I love the blight drones look and the Hersey era deathguard scheme....


Well I could still use the larger strain beasts as.....beasts of nurgle, just nurgle getting more bionic in the 32k, or 40k universe. Plus I can still alter my creaturecaster pledge and get the plague angel, and maggot demons. I'll look into it today .

Death guard are pretty sweet mang not a bad choice.