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Gitsplitta wrote:Far better than I've been doing lately.. Keep at it!

ZergSmasher wrote:I'll second that; slow progress is more than I've been doing lately. Which is bad because I'm already WAY behind for the year.

Thanks guys.

This week is a no progress week, as I’m away from the workbench. Before I left I finished the basecoats on the marines and the silver drybrush. Next up is washes. And the guns at some point. Little bugs got their red, so need the black wash and details. When I get back home (assuming I survive the 12+ hour drive) hopefully I can get them finished in short order. But there is not going to be a lot of month left to work with. I really want to get all 5 marines done, but we will see.

Great progress however, I have fits of frenzied painting and then burn out, I am always impressed by your consistency. Very Ultramarine, I approve (apart from all the filthy Xenos).

Did you decide the BGVs don't deserve white helmets as they are the dirty new boys? They are (technically) part of the 1st Company but I'm a big fan of Head Cannon as you know.

I look forward to seeing the new MkVI dudes, they are the models I wanted 10 years ago when building my Battle Co. That ship has sailed however and I'm a bit over painting Tacks after so many squads.

 RandyMcStab wrote:
Great progress however, I have fits of frenzied painting and then burn out, I am always impressed by your consistency. Very Ultramarine, I approve (apart from all the filthy Xenos).

Did you decide the BGVs don't deserve white helmets as they are the dirty new boys? They are (technically) part of the 1st Company but I'm a big fan of Head Cannon as you know.

I look forward to seeing the new MkVI dudes, they are the models I wanted 10 years ago when building my Battle Co. That ship has sailed however and I'm a bit over painting Tacks after so many squads.

White helmets? Sure, for apothecaries or the guys in arctic cammo. And the odd one-off, like the bike captain. But vets?

Not here. Next you’ll be suggesting wild things like red helmets for sergeants. Crazy talk. No mention of such ideas in the RT guide on how to paint space marines. You will find no deviant practices here, by the Emperor. I’m barely accepting of shoulder trim. I do gold helmets for some guys. 30k terminators, honor guard. But for the most part I don’t do helmets as status notation. The BGV do get the white shoulder trim of the 1st, but at the same level as the old vets.

I’m not looking forward to painting a ton more bolter boys for 30k. Going to experiment with the new contrasts, see if it’s close enough color match. But also, most of the new beakies are not going to be legion tactical squads, but more of the specialist roles. Still, going to be a lot of them.

The shoulder trims were in the 2nd Ed Codex with the white helmets so they were introduced at the same time. The white helms were actually around in 1.5 and I think were 'eavy metal experimenting. I think they are one of my favourite Ultramarine things so they've made it into my Insignum Astartes. I hadn't twigged your other vets didn't have them.

Have you played 30k (new version) yet? Seems interesting. 7th cleaned up could make a decent rule set and I like the Bolt Action style reactions in principle. I imagine 10th Ed will be rocking them.

Somewhere it does talk about reversing color scheme for vets. Might be a footnote somewhere in the old stuff, don’t recall and am away from my shelf. I never actually has the 2nd ed Ultramarine book, just angels of death. Back in those times my nascent marine force was BAs. And their helmet color scheme is crap. (Sorry to all the blue helmeted heavy support vampires out there). By the time I had embraced The Codex as the one true way, many precedents had been set in my army. No alt-helmets, no shoulder trim, army badges on the wrong shoulder.

I’ve not had a chance to play the new 30k. Part of it is me wanting to get a decent force up and running with era appropriate gear. Also waiting for battescribe to get the data files sorted out. And the final part would be finding a place to play and an opponent. My FLGS is a GW shop these days, and they don’t have a whole lot of space. I’d have to reconnect with the other stores in the area, find out when they are doing stuff, and try to get something going. Which sounds a lot like peopleing. Not a fan.

I do like what I’ve seen in the rules. The reactions seem like a more sensible stratagem system. And it reads like a cleaner 7th, which is a good thing.

Time running out, but back in action. Marines waiting on ink, bugs for the flesh wash. Odds of getting all 5 marine done was basically nil, so I just started more gaunts across the bench.

Also cleaned up a little bit more of a Mk. VI.

And my back is bugging me, so gotta work in short bursts.

WIP



Going to the wire on this one. No way the other 2 guys from the marine squad are getting done (they are still bare primer) These are gaunts 3 and 4, the first 2 are waiting to be based.

Still need to do all the touchups and highlighting, plus decals and bases. But all the washes are done (except on the rifle arms, need to catch up on those).

Getting there, but still a lot to do. Worst case I finish the squad leader and face him off against 4 gaunts.

Making good progress Nev. Keep at it.

Done with the blue edges. Need to trim the red, assemble, touch up and final steps.
And that includes the arms.
All gaunts ready to base. 4 total. Was hoping for more, but kinda forgot I’d be out for a week. Which I will be as well next month, but I’ve got lower goals.


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Next step is to rock and tuft. Almost there.

On deck:


Last 2 guys from the squad, more gaunts (these will be 5 and 6 of the 8 ready to go) and the primaris techmarine for “Helping Hand” next month.

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Rocks and tufts glued. Transfers on. Just flock and pics left.

And done.

Didn’t finish the whole squad, but as next month’s entry is just the tech, I should have time. Should still be on track to make my company goal for the year. We are still in Q3, so if I get them done that just leaves 5 (well 4 really) for the last quarter. And December’s open round is always a good spot to finish goals, although I have something special planned if I can’t work it into an earlier month, so would rather not just marine out the year.

I need to build more gaunts to keep the swarm moving. Right now the build queue has the beakies in it. Not a huge amount of motivation there, but they need to get done. Leaning hard into nids is my one hope of getting my paint more then I buy goal. But to do that, I need to have them in the pipeline.

It’s a little early to look at supplies for the winter, but I need to get stuff primed while I can. Not that I can’t do it in the garage now... No worries about having to buy more stuff to make it through the cold months, PoS is kinda crazy at this point.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend,

--Nev

Those marines are looking really good Nev, very vibrant!

Just as a proof of life, almost no progress this week. I cleaned and built another Mk. VI marine. That’s it. Work has been busy, and I’m trying to sort things out to head on vacation next week. Not a lot of time to paint. Also, moving to summer hours at work kinda killed the 30 min in the morning I used to hobby. not making up for it in the afternoon. Oh well.

Keep safe out there,
--Nev

Not a lot of progress, but back from vacation and alive.

Good to see you still fighting the fight, Nev.

Plugging away. Week’s almost over. I hope to get a lot done over the weekend, but also have a crap ton of stuff to do around the house/yardwork wise. Ugh.

Plugging away. The gaunts on off ready for baseing, next two on deck. Almost done with basecoats on the tech. I should have left his backpack off for painting. So many bad angles and stuff in the way.

Happy weekend all!

--Nev


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And a little something on my doorstep. Not that I need another Vindicare Assassin, but he could be fun.

And some good progress over the weekend. Still a lot to do.

He needs the blue ink at this point. Troopers are ready for the second blue paint cleanup pass, gaunts are waiting to be based. Plugging along.

I really like the work on the axe blade.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I really like the work on the axe blade.

Thanks. Right now it’s my basic gold scheme, with the wash more focused to the back of the blade. I plan on doing a bit of silver edges/highlights on it to sharpen it up a bit.

But I wanted to do something different them my normal green power weapon thing on it. Glad you like it.

All done but the flock. Rocks and tufts just glued, so need to wait for those to dry first. Hopefully I can finish them up and get the formal shots of the tech this afternoon.

Next month is looking like 'That's not a Gun... This is a gun’ is going to win. I have a lot of options for what I can do. Leaning towards the autarch with the reaper launcher. But I’ve also got a pair of DW with frag cannons, and a pair of scouts, one with a HB, the other with a rifle bigger than he is. Might try to do all 5 in the month, see who I feel like entering. Part of me is yelling to do the hellblasters that have been sitting around, but honestly not feeling them right now. The company project could use the heavy picks though.

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...And done


With the halftime report:


So low volume, as 2 of the entries were single models, and the one month we had the cap lifted I only did 6. Kinda funny that despite doing 2/3rds of the entries at or above the 5 model cap I still feel this is a low year so far. Especially ironic as looking at prior years, this is the most minis I’ve painted in the first half of a comp. So when I say “Low Volume” I’m really lying. But it feels like I should be doing more.

Pretty shallow from a diversity POV. Marines and ‘Nids. Granted, 2 of the marines are characters. All basic blue though, not even arctic/woodlands phobos/scouts.

Next month should help with that. But unless I build and prime some undead by October, the Halloween special is going to be more terrors from beyond the stars, not the veil of death.

Still, I’m looking forward to painting some special nids, and Oct might be a great time for it.

When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
When the hurly-burly’s done, When the battle’s lost and won.
That will be ere the set of sun.
Where the place?
Upon the heath.
There to meet with Macragge.

Congratulations, another nicely painted figure completed Nevelon.

Cheers,

CB

So moved some guys to the bench for the month. Big guns for the month. Going to use the opportunity to paint some non UM/Nid stuff. Also on deck are the last 2 scouts once I get those 2 intercessors off the handles.

Not sure if I want to vary the Eldar’s scheme. Red helmet, black armor is what the basic guys get, but he’s the one in charge. Also need to decide on a cape color. I could do the cape red and the helmet white. Need to mull it over a bit. Thoughts?


Mold lines and clean up. Fun fun fun. The old RTB01 guys are hard on the hands, lot of scraping to get them back into something resembling ship shape. I need to get these off the bench and something I’m a little more enthusiastic about working on. Just slogging here.

Hope everyone has a great weekend. Long one if you are lucky.

Might work, I'd lean towards a yellow-white or ivory in that case--maybe your banshees recipe?

Vejut wrote:
Might work, I'd lean towards a yellow-white or ivory in that case--maybe your banshees recipe?

Looking at the options:

His sash/tabard is probably going to be red. Brighter then the normal helmet red.

Armor is black.

Now he’s got options for the back banner and spider backpack. The banner pole/backpack would probably be black, with a red flag. The spider generators on the unit are black, but could be inverted to red.

I have done at least one medium leather coat, and some pale beige leather work on other units (rangers)

One problem with the banshee recipe is that it’s basically the same as my flesh recipe. Got to be careful we don’t get mixed up with those other elves when deciding on capes.

If I go with a pure white helm, and a beige/off white cape, that should contrast with the black and reds that otherwise make up the army.
--Going there, the next question is do I paint the spider pack black to match the squad? If I do, there will be very little of the craftworld red I use.

If I go with a red helm and beige (or even pure white) cloak, I could go either way with the web pack. This would be basically the same as my guardian scheme, just with more bling. No worries about him fitting in.

If I go with a white helm and a craftworld red cape, that gives me the army colors, lets him stand out a bit

Red helm/red cape is a little mono-chromatic, but an option. He’ll still have gold bling and fancy toys to spice thing up.

Put the black down on him and the DQ this morning, cleaned some mold lines. No decisions yet, but progress.

Techmarine turned out pretty solid. Interesting choice to go with blue armor instead of the traditional Mars red that most Techmarines have (with the shoulder pads being in the appropriate colors for their chapter), but it works. Looking forward to what you do with the Autarch. Personally I might lean towards an ivory color for the helmet, but keep the armor red like the rest of your Saim-Hann guys. Not sure what you'd do with the cloak in that case, though. Maybe black? Not sure whether that would look good or not.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Techmarine turned out pretty solid. Interesting choice to go with blue armor instead of the traditional Mars red that most Techmarines have (with the shoulder pads being in the appropriate colors for their chapter), but it works. Looking forward to what you do with the Autarch. Personally I might lean towards an ivory color for the helmet, but keep the armor red like the rest of your Saim-Hann guys. Not sure what you'd do with the cloak in that case, though. Maybe black? Not sure whether that would look good or not.

Painting techmarines red is one of those new-fangled painting conventions introduced somewhere along the line. Probably 2nd edition. Right up there with novel concepts like shoulder trim and red helmets on the sergeants. I get a free pass on blue librarians, but never went down that path with the techs. Some of mine are blue ink over metallics, rather than my normal blue, but I just did this guy straight. If I want my army to look like someone threw up a bag of skittles, I’d paint more Eldar.

Speaking of which, Progress:


So the armor is black, like the troops he leads. While I call them Saim-Hann, and think of them as such, I don’t follow the stock paint scheme. Which is a good thing, as their sub-faction rules generally suck since they started digging down to that level or fragmentation of codexes.

Black armor, red helms. With a thick black ink wash on the older stuff.


Things that are generally fixed across the army.
Armor is black, with grey edges/highlights.
Helmets are red (Khorne red)
Ribbons, tabards, and robes are generally the same red as the helms. This lets me tie the aspects who might not share the same armor/helm colors to the army. On seers who have primarily red robes, I do some of these in either blood red, or the new contrast.
Soulstones are green. Other gems can be anything else.
Guns are leadbelcher, Nuln Oiled, and edged with a brighter silver.
Eyes and lenses are green metalic with the green gloss soulstone paint.
Golds are shining gold with guiliman flesh
Thicker ribbed cables are deadly nightshade
Leather is a dark brown.
(Those last 4 are the same as all my other armies)
Power weapons tend to either be just silver, or blue. At least one green. I’m kinda all over the place.
Hafted staves/weapons and some fabric (mostly on the rangers) is a Zenrathi Dust, or whatever the beige is called these days. I also use it for parchment/scrolls.

Now ya’ll are telling me to go with an ivory helm, but I’m not sure how I feel about that. Not that I’d go with the pure white of the DA’s I’ve done, but the apothecary white contrast, edged back up with a pure white like I used on the SoB. And will be the scheme the shining spears and the other 5 DA in the pile will get. I’ll touch up the old guys at the same time; I’ve learned new white skills since I did them. I think the warm ivory of the banshees works for them, but the autarch strikes me more as a “cool” model. I do have the option to do a little something extra with the flange on the back of the helm.

Anyway, I’ll mull it over while I put layers down on other places. And finish those marines.

Some building:


So I finished the first 5 Mk VI guys. And might just pitch their bolters and put some volkite on them to make a specialist squad. While I keep thinking I want to do a classic ML/F squad, what would it do but collect dust? Might just do the whole lot of them with extra wacky guns. I’ve got more bolter boys then sense. Especially as I bring more RTB01s back into the fold. I need to keep cleaning them up, and remember to scrub some of the accessories next batch. Everyone should have a little something.

Little irritated that all the guns have both hands molded on. Going to make the sarge hard to do if I want to give him a toy. I’ll work something out.

Started cleaning up some more gaunts. I should really do some of the other bugs, as I have plenty of little gribbles for the small point games I’ve been playing. But there are just so many of them, gotta chip away at the pile. Maybe once I do these 4 (or 8) I’ll do the swarmlord or some warriors.

Anyway, enough rambling. TGIF, enjoy the weekend all.

Looking good, lots of work ahead. Love the beakies

So nothing hobby related got done over the weekend. Did some yardwork that was rough on my hands, did not feel like doing any precision work after that. I did ink the 2 marines last night though, so some progress is happening. Plus thumbing though the HH rules for build ideas. Trying to wrap my brain around the Ultra’s army bonus and how to leverage that. Mechanized shooting lists seem like a decent plan. But who knows. It’s probably just going to warm the shelf. I need to get out to the other FLGS in the area and check the larger scene.

I’m supposed to be blogging here, so an update.
Slow progress this week. Marines still need to be edged, basecoats going down on stuff, month is half over. Plugging along.

One more gaunt left to build of the 4 I clipped. Weather should be nice this weekend, might be time for the rattlecan.

TGIF, hang in there guys.