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One week away from winter break... eyeing a squad of Celestians as an immersion project and hoping to get this blog back on the rails.

If it catches your eye, make it happen. Anything to spark drive and motivation

You can never go wrong with a squad of sisters, so listen to the good word of Nike and "just do it"

Well, I got the Celestians built and based, but I didn't get far into paint before getting distracted. I'm pretty happy with the way the helmets are going. The robes are a little bit of a pain, but two of the models popped apart at the waist and have been much easier to paint... I'll probably do it again where I can. Trying to finish this squad before the Retributers I just ordered arrive!

Waist not want not.

--B

They look perfectly suited for painting as sub-assemblies, so a happy hobby accident!

Thanks for sharing

Good luck MacPhail.

The post always seems faster when you have set yourself a painting deadline.

Cheers,

CB

Celestians are coming along nice, hope you get them done before the Retributors!

Long overdue update, mostly a place to park my to-do list...

The Celestians are very close, but not quite done. I got them mostly painted, then assembled and based, just in time for a game last weekend. Now they need the finishing details: heat-stressed melta barrels, lens flares, purity seals, and a few highlights.

I bought a bunch of pre-wired LEDS for various projects, including a flickering blue one to simulate an arc-welder in a workshop and a bunch of flickering amber ones to build torches with (either for objective markers or Raise the Banners tokens).

I've got a cool idea for a wall-mounted diorama for the LoER Terrain Contest... a squad of Battle Sisters traversing a ledge on a sheer cliff.

I grabbed a mountain of XPS foam from a construction site and bought a new hotwire foam cutter to play with.

I bought my first squads of Retributers and Repentia to build and paint.

I have lots of Sisters left from the Army Box and a Celestians/Dominions box I bought... probably going to convert some extra Superiors and Simulacra from them if I can.

I just bought a second squad of Bullgryns and a second Chimera to accompany the first 3 Bullgryns (done), the first Chimera (half done), and the five Ork Nobz / Orgyns mashups I started a few pages back.

I need to plan and order some Battlefoam and start storing and carrying this army like a grownup... what am I, twelve years old? (Although I did buy some of the models when I WAS twelve, with a sweat sock full of loose change at Ralph's Comic Corner.)

These are the projects rattling around in my brain... more as I remember them!