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So I did it, I finally finished painting the army to a nice tabletop standard. There are several things I plan on going back and doing now, but at least for now I can celebrate.

Also took some shots of the entire army together. Looks impressive if I don't say so myself.

So I got an early xmas present from TheKellector this year and thought I would share my work on this with ya'll. Need to get some paint so I haven't bothered to prime it. Hopefully Monday I will start to have some work done on it. Anyone have any advice on this before I start painting it? Going to have dead ultra marines with a dead dark angel rhino. After Xmas I am going to be sharing my fun with a realm of battle board.

Some rad looking lychguards you got there. I don't wanna get into cc with those for sure.

Oh damn thats a lot of pretty minis! Great work man!

Thanks guys! I really appreciate the support I have been dragging but getting to the store for some paint but at the least I should be able to prime and put some base colors on the terrain tommorow.


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leohart wrote:Some rad looking lychguards you got there. I don't wanna get into cc with those for sure.

They are as good of a tarpit as th/ss termies. Not the most powerfull CC unit no, but they will keep you tied up in melee forever if not outright kill you.

Alright I got off my arse tonight and started base coating this piece of terrian. I need to go to the store to get a few more colors. I am thinking I will drybrush some dhenub stone onto the stone areas, and some really light grey on the tree's. The dark angel rhino will get a drybrush of boltgun metal. I will paint the treads a boltgun metal. Then I will need to find a rust color to drybrush over the metal. The space marine bits are going to be in ultramarine blue as no self respecting dark angel fails an armor save in terrain

Is it me or those don't look like Ultramarine blue

They are the ground color at the moment as I have not had time (or the color) to get to those details yet. *edit* Sarcasm catching failed... Lol

Well this was a lot of fun to paint I really enjoyed doing it and working on my drybrushing. I also liked working on my weather effects. It was just a blast to paint in general. I used about 13 paint colors so I can't say that it was a tiny amount of project but it only took about 5 hours to paint all this.


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Just noticed boltgun with grypsephoria looks gold with my camera but it looks rust color in person. Uploaded another picture.


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And I managed to take some action shots

Nice man! Might I reccommend hitting the dirt with Devlan Mud to spread the depth all over the piece? Apart from that it's great!

Yea went to the store to pickup develan mud, grabbed it from the right spot and eneded up home with leviathan purple.... O well I'll take another attempt to grab some.

Looking awesome there. Now I wonder, do you have your own table? Is that why you have these awesome terrain pieces?

That would be knowing what is coming sunday morning under the tree lol but yes my mother in law got me a realm of battle board for xmas. Most of the terrain I want is fantasy because I don't want demolished buildings but some demolished vehicles in the mud works for me

Terrain looks really nice. Just wondering, why not ice world terrain to match the Necrons?

40kFSU wrote:Terrain looks really nice. Just wondering, why not ice world terrain to match the Necrons?

Ahh because I have multipe armies and I wanted to keep it generic as I am basing necrons Ice to give the bases more pop.

I may even put this up as a forest for Fantasy (Which all my armies are grass based). While I like Ice based most of my armies don't use ice.

Well I have some time till I get something else to paint so thought I would dabble around with my night goblins. It looks like they will take about 20 min or more a piece at first at least to get painted up. Not too bad but will take a while to get all 100 or so that I have and want to paint up to get painted up.

lipsdapips wrote:Nice man! Might I reccommend hitting the dirt with Devlan Mud to spread the depth all over the piece? Apart from that it's great!

O I did put some develan mud on there and I attatched a picture.

Had a chance to get some more night goblins done today. I forget how many more colors are needed in a fantasy model compared to a 40k model. Most of the detail work had to be done with a fine detail brush as well because everything is soo small. Develan mud to the rescue at the end to dirty stuff up and cover up very minor blemishes. I also am getting 2 large pieces of terrain painted for me by someone local. I might like to paint them but they are so large I really want them to look nice. So I attatched a picture for scale because when I say they are huge I mean it.

That's better ;P Great job

Thanks mate,

Well update on my necrons. Got the last of my bases in this evening and hurridly finished basing my army to truly finish it before xmas! So without furthur ado.

Next up, a realm of battle board than a ctan. I had a bit of damage from shipping but nothing that can't be gotten around, o well.

I need to finish up mine i just keep losing motivation. but i like the way you have done your models

Thanks! I think this battle board will be a bit time consuming but if I work hard I should be able to finish most of the painting/first layer of flocking tommorow. Flocking will take forever while waiting for glue and stuff to dry.

Man, you got all these painted terrains. Why do you host your 40k games?

It's easier to host at my house when a friend comes in from out of town. My dad is moving near me and I'm gonna try to get him interestead. A lot easier when we just do it at my house. Trying to get my wife interestead in fantasy because she likes the wood elves.

Stupid me, I meant: Where do you host your 40k games?

I was expecting you to run a small store or something. I am in North East Houston and finding local games have been ... tough. :(

Lol Na I host at my house. My local store in clear lake has some nice 40k terrain. Gerard's gaming, but they are down in clear lake so is a bit of distance from you. This time of year can be tough to find games though since people are busy with holiday stuff. Haven't gotten a game in, in more than a month because I haven't been available during stretches of normal gaming times.

Haha wow you have heaps of stuff o.O

I do have quit a bit of stuff but that's because I am not paying for any other hobbies at the moment.

So I got about half of it ready for flocking at this point. Skulls are not going to be painted until I finish flocking. It takes a lot of wash and adeptes battle grey to get these stones. The heavy drybrush white doesn't take as much. I really like how my stone is turning out and when I get done flocking it I think this table will look really nice. I plan on doing some finishing touches after it's flocked but I am trying to finish it before a friend gets here for a game. I may add another layer of wash before priming of develan mud but I am undecided.

Well I got cracking hard today on that battleboard some more and finally flocked it!!! Well Now I need to let the glue dry, spary more glue on it and flock a bit of green grass. Let that dry. Then seal it with a coat or two of sealer but for the most part it is done I started to run out of flock about halfway through so I mixed in some woodland scenic flock and that is why 3 of the boards are a bit lighter. After I add the green grass on top, no one should be able to tell the difference.