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Game on May have to wait a few months mind! Probbaly won't be starting mine till about March/April. First primarch model

 Januine wrote:
Game on May have to wait a few months mind! Probbaly won't be starting mine till about March/April. First primarch model

Same here actually, and I won't be able to prime it anyways til it gets warmer out here anyways so we may sync up on that

Sounds good. I've managed to get a wee workaround on the too cold to prime weather thing. Leave my rattlecan on the floor (all houses hav underfloor heating over here) for an hour or two, then spray out on the balcony and quickly bring the still wet figs back into my mancave painting room to dry. Results have actually been better than when I prime in normal weather - go figure. llol

Scyllax looking pretty brilliant as usual.

For years I have been rattle canning in me shed and bringing the still wet gear into the house to dry, always works out well. Now though I just do it in doors with the windows open for 5 minutes, back room where it don't matter and avoid nastier paints, GW and Army painter primers usually not too bad. But then I am nuts so probably best to ignore me.

lol! The wife would have my guts for garters if I 'canned inside the house. Our balcony is a interior balcony off the living room but still considered 'outside'. She still gives me the cat's eye when I go out mask, can and figs in hand!!!!!

Good God your work is amazing Januine. This stuff alone gets me wanting to get back into 40k, and you certainly do the Mechanicus models justice! I'm really hoping to see more of the Forgeworld models like the Scyllax. Pick up the Macroteck Magos so I can see his little servitor buddies nicely painted up.

Oh: as a side note, completely separate from *anything* to do with this thread, my brother is visiting South Korea right now for travel and possibly work. Any advice on things to see while he's there over the upcoming months?

Crikey - thx very much for the compliements there Accolade - very kind of you to say I do have some more of the FW stuff in the line to be painted in the next couple of months
Depends where about your brother is in Korea - if he's in Seoul - there's a few palaces and folk 'villages'et al he could see. Insadong is a nice area to go an check out for souvenirs. Korea's not the most touristy of places with lots of stuff to see unlike if youre traveling around europe. But there's still good stuff to check out. The national parks like Seorak San (where I used to live) and even Chiak San (where I now live) and many others are really beautiful adn worth a trip to for some hiking and traditional korean seafood pancakes washed down with some makkoli (fermented rice 'beer'- so much nicer than it sounds!) along the way!! Tell him to stay away from the soju though - cheap as hell but it's like drinking rubbing alcohol and delivers a viscous hangover. Stick to the makkoli!!!!

'Time for a bath fellas!!'

Hey hey, very exciting! What are you cleaning that resin with? Soap and water?

Also, thanks for the all the information on Seoul! That's where my brother is, so it should all be quite useful to him. This time-actually related to the topic- do you know of any hobby shops in the city that cater to 40k? I was told he's found a lot of gundam stores, but nothing in the wargaming vein of things.

The main foreigner drinking/shopping/eating area is Itaewon btw. Hongdae is better though.

Shops for 40K......there is one.....ONE!!!! In the whole country (that I know of!) Prices are pretty much the same as back home....maybe a buck or three higher but not insano expensive thankfully. The shop's name is 'Orktown'. They carry all the majot GW stuff and paints. Have free gaming tables and the staff speak decent english. Here's the Facebook page where you can also find directions to the shop - https://www.facebook.com/orctown/?fref=ts

oopps - yeah - cleaning the resin with dishsoap and warm water. I leave to soak in it for a few hours then toothbrush scrub then rinse and repeat once more

Bit of progress on the dio base for big M and his creepy buddies really wish pva would DRY FASTER!!!

PVA is accelerated by heat. Stick it under a radiator and it should dry nice and quickly.

Usually I just leave it on the floor (Korean underfloor heating - fabulous stuff) but our boiler has decieded to go on the fritz so now hot water or heating in the Jan household today....the very day the snows returned...oh jolly fething joy!!

Did your dominus make it onto the GW flicker oage Jan?
Think I saw him up there today

Yeah - he sure did. Was well chuffed with that. He made the front page along with a solitaire I did and some of my Space Hulk genestealers

Do really love having the afternoons off these days; getting a ton of stuff done. Got all of the FW stuff I have soaked and scrubbed twice so they're ready whenever I get round to them. And the dio base is now all built, sealed and primed and ready for paint. Happy days

Scyllax look great. Looking forward to seeing how you get on with the big guy.

EDC

Been looking forward to seeing you build and paint the Thanatar, It's another one of my favorites.

I have heard that those two ammo feeds for the arm mounted weapon, can sometimes be a pain to fit, and might need heating and reshaping.
Hopefully you wont have that problem, but I thought I'd mention it .

Realy looking forward to the Thanatar myself - I'll probably plan and build him this month, paint probably wont happen till Feb or early march.
Expecting the ammo feeds to be a bit fiddly but after all this other AdMech stuff I've been doing......fiddley is becoming second nature!!!

Every time i take a look, another disturbingly gorgeous mini appears....

I'm loving the mechanicum bent your 'to do' list has developed!

Cheers SirD - really enjoying building up the forces of the Omnissiah so gonna run with it for a while

Dio is coming along. Happy with the wrecked prom pipes for it. Hopefully have it all done by the weekend.

very nice scenery indeed.

That is januinely the best techpriest I've ever seen. Heh.

Soju's fine if you mix it with beer, Jan! No hangovers, I promise!

I wish I had known about Orktown for the 5+ years I lived in Korea! Although saying that, it would have given my wife a heads up of what she was getting into to, haha.

Can't wait for the next big update man! I really like that almost pinkish rust you have on the pipe underside.

소맥 is the devil's work!! Need to head up to Orktown again soon. Ran out of Chaos Black spray halfway through priming a squad of kits ><
The Dio bases is pretty much done now. May had a few deep tones and grime to the nooks and crannies once I have all the figs in place. Final touches kinda stuff. The Scyllax themselves are not 99% done. Just need to check back over them for any last things and add a light filter to the armour plates on top. Really happy with them.
I dropped the bloody Arch Magos the other day.....That.Was.NOT.fun!!!!!! Thakfully I seem to have done a pretty solid build as there was only minor damage - his shoulder bolters snapped off as did one single chord claw.......got away pretty luckily there. Showed the bbuild was pretty solid though so all is good
The pipes are a lot of fun to do. I was going to tleave the under red colour higher up on the pipes but as it's been stripped off by the winds of 'The Blind' (see fluff for detail ) it didnt really make sense to do so. They need a few more scratches and that still but pretty much done now.
Should hopefuly get final stuff done today and the photos too as the wife is off to Seoul for the day.

So the dio base is done. Used a touch of the FW weathering powders just to add some shadows n depth etc in a few places. And then sealed it. With purity seal. ...... Bear in mind this is the first time I've used purity seal since it fether up my DV CSM chosen figs a few months back by frosting the crap out of them. I was a bit in the nervous side to say the least. Howeve... Seems to have worked out ok I threw out the previous can and this time use one of the new cans - the new designed ones that came out around the time of AoS. Left the can to warm for a few hours on the floor (Korean underfloor heating - it's bloody marvellous) and sprayed out on the balcony and immediately brought the base back into my studio to dry. Success!!!! Still rather hesitant to trust the stuff on any figs mind- lol

Looking good so far! Do you like purity seal, besides the one hiccup?

Also our tech priests should duke it out one for chaos and one for the sissy side

Hahaaaaa - tech priest? I'm bringing the Arch-Magos fella!!

Yeha - purity seal is fine (and the only thing I can get over here) and always gave me a nice finish before the CSM incident.

 Januine wrote:
Hahaaaaa - tech priest? I'm bringing the Arch-Magos fella!!

Yeha - purity seal is fine (and the only thing I can get over here) and always gave me a nice finish before the CSM incident.

Hey now, my dude is the magos of an entire hellforge, he will straight up eat your guy.