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Quick post!

Completely forgot that my Albion army is in fact supposed to be a Chaos/Firmir led army and not a Empire type army!

So I have been looking at the Dark Emissary Models...Again they are expensive!

Dang!

Anywho! I've been painting majorly. 1 IG squad done, 12 count as conscripts and a tank or two.

I've changed the scheme of the sigmarites to yellow...it looks better. Coincidently they look like Flame falcons..complete with flames and a sort of falling flame with twin tales as their sigil! So I am going to do a few smurfs and a flame falcons/sigmarite army...which will allow me to use my old stuff and also my LOTD!



Don't have a camera at the mo as my gf has taken it away with her but pics early next week and a mega update!



What colour shall i paint my Terminators for my sigmarite army? Bone white, yellow or black?

Suggestions welcome...as I'd like to start them to night!

im loving the originality of this wip.i can't wait to see some painted up.

I always liked bone coloured terminators myself

second bone color...DA for the win^^

Just to play devils advocate.. I will say Black ! but with a bone trim , look forward to seeing your mega update!

Shingouki - Thanks and welcome to my very disjointed geekout. Btw...what is your signout video?

Vic and Weet! I went for Bone.

Neil...sorry I read theirs first! But, I might try a black trim!

Hopefully pics up soon! Started painting yet more models last night...(painting my termies did not go well but will stick at it!)

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Currently painting : 15 conscripts, 1 IG Squad, 5 termies, IG Captain, IG Officer, 2 tanks, 1 LR, 1 SM Captain, 1 Cadian, 4 Arbites.


I am really pleased with the schemes going on at the mo. But, it is all sort of blocking in so far and not much detailing. The Termies are the weakest link...the bone looks very faint...so going to look up a DW tutorial...

M

Where do you find the time?..... I 'm lucky to paint a model or two a night on a good day!

Well that's why there are a lot of started and not many completed. I still have a half completed regiment of Halflings on my desk...

But I don't watch tv so that kinda helps I guess.

manoknok wrote:Well that's why there are a lot of started and not many completed. I still have a half completed regiment of Halflings on my desk...

But I don't watch tv so that kinda helps I guess.

Hey dude,
I've been looking at what you've been up to, got a similar thing going on in my IG army although I tend to use perry twins and WW2/vietnam special weapons from http://www.theassaultgroup.com/ because they're closer to the right scale - the flamers and GL's convert beautifully onto the napoleonic guys - and I've found the victrix paint guide really handy for getting through the painting faster and better than I thought I would: http://www.victrixlimited.com/painting_guide_beginners.php - I've got no idea if any of that would help you, but it sure as dang has helped me.

Regards,

cap'n R.

I have had no painting time in the last 4 days, I have been pinning Retribution of Scyrah for a friend and as soon as that is done Im back doing some Cold Ones.

he must have stolen weeties magic paintbrush , now he can paint a platoon a night

Wow.

It has been a long time since I updated this blog (and its ancestors) with a painted model. You'll be pleased to know I have finished most of the heavy duty work on my new flat (getting strange looks from people - white guy doing manual labour in the Philippines is literally unheard of!) and will be moving in next week when I am back from site. This means I will a. have space to work in and b. get back full swing to my modeling and painting...I will also have better and natural light...and air! Can't tell you how much I am looking forward to moving. Yes I can. I am really looking forward to moving.

So here, for your entertainment: some models, and my current favorite prog rock song. I guess I really should put a space opera up to fit with the 40kness...in which case I need Yes or Vangelis.

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Coverted drummer is my fav. Your coversions are characterful and fun(the axe made me lol). Hope the refurbished flat is good and all that. I really want some of those gorkamorka humans - gona go trawl the net now

man i feel lighthearted when i see your backlog and your manic and not really to be seen try to not buy any more minis... i had thought i had gone mental and to totally live over my income... since that is numerical zero...this isn´t quite complicated^^ but you sir...have lots of mins...and i think if i ask you if you brought enough for all then the answer is pretty straight forward^^

the poses, the choice of bits...cool...and this is only saying the half of it...
the execution is sick^^ in a very twisted sense of a good way^^...

this is probably the best ratio for a conversion of lasgun and boltaction gun...very convincing pose and very good positioning...

cool stuff and i look forward to your tanks and dreads you showed...

vik

i like seeing the blood bowl guys , and the smurf marine is so ancient. nice cloak stand though.

Hey guys. Started work on another 5 cadian type guards. I have so many models wip that I am expecting the universe to complete some for me just by the laws of chance.

Weet - Thanks. I really hope to be in soon...I have relies arriving in 2 weeks, and I am away for a week in between then. Thanks for the comments on the models! I appreciate that! I use that 'and my axe' slogan a lot...when people get it its funny when they don't...erm...i have to explain. When I get around to it the drummer will have a dirty yellow coat...

Vic! - My that is a big picture!Funny you should say that about my back log and minis...I unpacked all my stuff on Friday night from the boxes I sent over. I'll post some pics of all the stuff I have. In the boxes - which I had not properly looked at when I got them (I didn't want to go all gollum infront of my cousin) - that I got for the lp player were about 20 tau, 16 kroot, a hammerhead, 30 khorne berzerkers, 2 rhinos, 6 bikes (appalingly painted even by my standard 10yrs ago!), a pretty large warhammer orc force, and a largish 40k orc force. about 50% plastic 50% metal. Oh. And a large amount of Bretonnia stuff...I am wondering if it came with a wfb boxset a while ago and someone just bought a few additional models. I need to strip a lot of plastic models of bad paint jobs...they were a few odds and sods...some white plastics 80s skaven and dark elves...some skinks...my dragon, and half a cave troll (i'll covert to something).

On top of that I have models from 2 boxes of heroquest and bloodbowl. I have the models I bought at Christmas...a box of artillery and 30 celts. Thats what came in the box...then here already I had a lot...

So...I am done with buying warhammer at least till I have painted all but one mini so...till 2014. I've told my mum and gf I don't want anymore (expect arcoflagelants for my bday!). I've a self imposed ban, and a really tight budget (its down to about 14 pounds after buying 5 paints the other day).

Playing WFRP tomorrow. Annoyingly despite all my models I have no mutants and no beastmen without guns (my beastmen where art my beastmen!)...


Sorry! Bit of long reply!

Neil: I am looking for the chair! And thanks...it felt good to finally get some paint on one of the players!



My painting goal for the next 13 days is to finish:

Human Blood Bowl Team
Ten Cadians
2 More Arbites
8 Tallarn (finishing the squad)
All my ninjas (they are pretty easy...they are mainly black!)

Sadly 5 of those days will be spent on site, and a lot of time at work, but on the other hand my gf is out of town for 10 days.

As Garth says to Wayne: Paint on!

Ps. Weet...I have dip for shading!!

two things...first i like to comment on your sig...while we all think(cant think soeone wourl say otherwise...) the big lebowski is as cool as it gets, i really hate your sig...from a explorer freeze point of view...i dont get it why everytime someone uses this kind of sig here my pc tries to freeze, well allmost...

no to second:
lol very nice tidalwave of minis...a three years plan for painting minis...its like one of these hard time questions in an aplications interview...where do you see yourself in, the let us say: three years? well, blimey, good sir, i am probably painting my toysoldiers i bought three years ago and before that even...

lol^^
with the amount of fantasy , blood bowl and 40k stuffyour much more going ballistic in painting^^ to be honest i feel rather envious... if a project , a mini is giving you burnout you can just set the table to a whole new setting and start afresh...cool...

by the way i just relinked your pic and always when doing so it comes up that big... don´t know why...

funny how we all seem to be way more productive when our better halves or the kids aren´t around us... depressing also..kind of...
the best painting frenzy i had when my then former girlfriend broke up with me... frustration helped a lot to focus on painting...(was a student back then)

well you set your pace with your list...looking forward to see some productive results then^^

cheers, vik...

if i was offending by anything...i am truly sorry...was only joking^^

vik, again

My favorite is the Napeolonic with the Grenade launcher, what a brilliant conversion. I also like seeing your treasure trove of goodies, you've certainly been collecting for a while.

Good morning the web!

Vik: You shall notice it is gone. I didn't really like it. It was more of a experiment, I hadn't ever used one before and always wondered how it was done.
And yes that is true. So many different types is actually speeding up my painting. I was 50% done with a Cadian squad last night when I knocked one over, then knocked some paint over. Doh! I will post some pics of all the stuff soon....,today or tomorrow. I am feeling a bit under the weather. Possibly because of allergens, possibly because I ate way too much TVP yesterday.

Perkustin! Hey thanks very much! I guess it helps that the those models are sculpted by the Perrys so they are a little bit more convertible than the Victrix.


Think I have finally worked out my colour scheme for the Cadians; granite boots, battlegrey trousers, yellow jacket, khemri brown armour. Just need to work out the guns.


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So winding down my day at work....looking at what I have to field Bretonnia wise.

According to my pretty clear memory of Friday night's unpacking; I have;

Field Trebuchet,
A group Men At Arms,
Peasant Bowmen,
Damsel,
Fay Enchantress,
Standard,
Lord with Great Weapon,
a knight of the realm (foot),
and some knights errant.


I have loads of horses to knights ratio so might have more lurking! That is all I can see that I recognise. A lot of work to strip them of poor paint jobs...and of course adds to my mountain of painting. But I have a very very simple colour scheme, and a tad of fluff; they come from a place called Leshire, whose main crop is apples and cider. A very simple heraldic device of blue back ground yellow triangles up for the serfs, and apples and complicated (bulls) for the knights.


Going to see if halflings can fight with Bretons.






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Anyone have any idea if that would comprise a fieldable force, and if so what pts?

thank you very much for removing... so much better now reading and answering your thread now!
about the yello jackets... well sound different... i am not that sure but this could be easily fixed by a pic^^

cheers, vik

p.s. ouch... knocking pots over is something really nasty...hope it didn´t cuase to much cleaning up work... happend to me once and ...bugger...

Bretonians sound like lots of fun. please paint the damsel first
and i too am glad the sig is gone , very cool and high res but pretty laggy. besides the dude needs no introduction

Have my own bretonians that one day will get a repaint. Even if i dont particularly want to play fantasy 8th edition. Why did they mess with 6th edition?! The best wargame ever... Good luck with 'em.

Hey guys...

Just some pics on the Cadians that are 40% done. Hope to finish wednesday as between wed and sun I have no spare time :-(

Not entirely sure my effect lighting has worked.

Also, a WIP tank in the background...been in that state for ooooo 7 months?

Paint scheme looks good - they sorta make me think of the rebel alliance uniforms, but not quite - can wait to see em fnished, you gona dip em?

the yellow looks very interesting, and the carpace i realy like...tho i have to poit out some horrible abominations on the models... there seems to be a long cancer like structure from fingers to shoulder and from to to hip of the kneeling sarge...
by the way...the wound looks really stunning

is that a scratchbuilt tank in WIP?

I love your scratchbuilt tank! hearkens back to the good old days, where GW admitted STC tanks were just bulldozers with guns...

Vik you are right...I might be able to salvage that...

Captain Roderick! Hello! I also have another scratchbuilt tank..and 3 scratchbuilt Imperial Lightenings. I just need to sit down and finish them...which is pretty much what I have to do for everything!

Anyway..next update Saturday! Loads a pics I promise!

*rubs hands*

Hey Guys,

Very quick update...I am way behind on well....everything...moving, work, modelling...

Anyway...

This is everything I have I'll repost pics of the complete SM and IG I have from the old blog too...

Let the painting begin!!

First up for Vic! World War Sprue! Here we have 36th Foot Artillery, 30 Celts, A SOB Immoliator, a Leman Russ. I also have 5 Kislev Horse Archers, 5 LOTD!

Secondly for Weety! Notice; paints! and dip!

There are more 40k orcs in a box, but the ones from the 2nd ed.

Last two pics, Tau and Choas, show the poor paint jobs (of swaped and my only early models) and bad modelling (that Tau has so many grenade packs on him it is ridiculous!)