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Wow, real nice

Today, I do work on epic scale Predators, which will leave me with no LI left to paint.

After that? I face a stark choice.

1. Build and arm my remaining 20 MkVI Marines. A unit I keep forgetting is there, awaiting my ministrations.

2. The Grand Embasening. Putting the gloop on 160-180 bases. Not a fun job, but one that’s already well overdue.

No need to bloat the basing of your minis yet futher, and you'll be happy to get back to these forgotten minis when fed up at some point.

I'd say, crack on the bases.

I suppose I could alternate, or indeed do both.

The basing requires some care not to splodge it up the model, but still doesn’t take a lot of time to apply. It does however take Bloody Ages to dry.

With limited workspace on my painting table, I can probably comfortably do 20-30 a day. More if I put some cling film atop The Magic Box O’Stuff, and place based models on that to get them out the way.

And it’s still going to be a repetitive job. So I reckon if I mix in building 5 Marines a day, I’ll get suitable variety in my hobby to keep spirits up.

Think I’ll do a squad of Plasma Guns and a squad of Plasma Cannons. We are the first Legion, therefore All Your Plasma Am Belong To Us.

Day 232

THE EMBASENING. It has begun. Assault Squad and Terminators have their goop. Once dried just need to rim in with Mechanicus Standard Grey.

Also working on the Predators.

Oooh those bots are looking rather nice! I will have to give that recipe a try for the metals

for basing I tend to temporarily stuck figures onto old bases for painting, and then batch paint a whole bunch of bases separately without the worry of splodging goop all over the figures.

Thanks dude

Given I never really painted before this year, kinda mind blowing to hear I may have inspired others.

Also, another 20 in the Mucky Muck.

Day 233

And another 20 glopped.

Have also convinced myself to revisit and detail the command elements a wee bit. Nothing extreme, just picking out some noddlies.

And 30 more.

Stop, the Doc, can’t stop the Doc.

Guess what?

That’s all my infantry squads based.

Just 10 Dreads (2 Levis, 2 Doritos, 8 Contemptors) and 2 characters to go.

Which will mean I’m nearly free to get going on those remaining unbuilt 20 MkVI Marines.




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It’s done. All basing done.

All that’s left for my Dark Angels is to build, arm and paint a couple of support squads of some kind.

Wait, you sonic or what? Now that's progress

Not Sonic, just oddly self motivating!

Gonna dig out the unbuilt Astartes tonight I think. And their bases. And the heat based Heavy Weapons.

Don't know if you're doc, but you sure mad.

Again, very nice progress and thrilled to follow that along

It’s genuinely done wonders for my mental health. Probably because it’s brought some kind of structure to my evenings. But also, getting that further value from all the many, many things I’ve bought over the past couple of years.

Not gonna present it as a miracle mental health panacea of course. But, if you’re already in the hobby and have paints? Had to be worth a go, surely?

There definitely a great help, such activities. While faith what truly got me up whenever life derailed younger, these activities like wargaming and painting were undoubtedly a necessary tool to find something comfortable in daily life. I'm really happy that it helped, and probably still helps you sort that out!

It’s something which, in hindsight, I’ve probably lived with for around 33 years or so. But I only got diagnosed in much more recent years.

Mental health being mental health. It’s something you have to manage rather than hope to cure. And my hobby and hobbies are part of that. They can be a constructive way to jump the tracks of your train of thought.

As folk will know from this thread and other posts on Dakka, I suddenly and unexpectedly lost my Dad in early July, which causes a necessary hiatus on my hobby silliness.

But once I started to get a lid, handle and a fancy napkin on the grief, the hobby helped me. It gave me something else to focus my mind on, even if it’s just a few minutes here, hour there, half a day there. And so I got a break from myself in a healthy way.


And with this particular project and this very blog? I was able to measure my post-grief progress. In earlier months I was making stupidly rapid progress, like getting the Speed Paint on a couple of squads of Marines of an evening. And I know I felt great for doing it. This past weekend? I took a shiny new kits from Boxed to Based in a single day. And without pushing myself.

This is why I encourage every hooman bean to indulge in a hobby, and ideally a creative one. Because it’s nice to be able to do something for yourself. And for me? To have something to show for having done that.

Day 234

Early start, with bit more Grim Black on the Predators. Done during a team meeting when my input wasn’t required.

No reason I can’t get these finished by end of the day.

Just the read to go now.

And done.

Now planning ahead, as it’s high time I got my Eldar done.

Going Atlansar, and I think I want to use Gal Vorbak Red as my base colour, Nuln oil/black wash as a recess shade, then Screamer Pink for highlights?

LES ELDARS, OSENT ATTAQUER MA BAAAASE? JE BRISERAI LEURS FRELES OS EN DEUX! ET JE ME LAVERAI LES MAINS, DANS LEUR SAAAANG!.

sorry for that french version of Crull from Dawn if War winter assault landing hard on this thread. But reading eldar always brings back that memory.

Mon dieu!

Right, early but not currently photo worth start to Day 235

Been to the Room O’Stuff, and located the Marines and Heavy Weapons still on sprue. And their bases.

Definitely doing a squad of 10 Plasma Cannons, because nothing says “gerrof moi laaaaand” quite like lobbing tiny suns around.

The other 10? Plasma Guns, I think.

Excellent work on getting all the basing done, they look impressive all lined up like that! Looking forward to seeing it all ranked up with the dreads. I sort of wish 40k Marines were being handled in the same way as 30k ones... the core armour types as a box each, and then upgrade sprues of equipment would be great!

I can fully understand how the hobby helps get through things. We lost Mum about the same time, and doing bits of painting has helped distract me as well. Not to the same level of productivity as you though!

Makes me wonder how actual plasma cutters work though.

Is the room o stuff cleaner already with all these tiny men soldiers painted and ranked nice and close in the shelves?

Oh the Room O’Stuff is never clean as such. Many hobby projects. Many boxes. Got my three printers, my PC, my other craft gubbins and so on.

But here’s the first five Plasma Cannons assembled. Four parts each, with the targetter/scope being a wee bit fiddly. Now on to the others.

Which are now done. From here, assemble 10 bods, grouping them in construction order to be matched up with the right arms.

10 bods built, but lunch break over so back to the grindstone. Also gives these a solid chance to dry, before I go mucking about mounting the arms.

First one done. Now the first five.

Fun, fun fun, in the sun, sun sun. Squad assembled.

Now to decide what the last 10 are to be armed with.

those are coming along quickly! Very chonky plasma cannons...

*I do not want to do 30k as well. I do not want to do 30k as well...*

Yeah you do.

I'd forgotten the 30k Plasma Cannon had gone back to being shoulder-mounted. Hopefully that wouldn't make them too awkward to get into a case.

Depends on the case, I guess?

Pyramidal foam teeth? No problem.

Wee boxes for each model? May not be high enough.


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And now I’m stuck.

Got the next five bodies built, and the regular infantry arms cleaned up for them.

But I dunno what I want to arm them with.

Gonna wander off and have dinner, maybe sleep on it.

Went with PLLLLAAAAAAAASSSSSSSMAAAAAAAAAAA

And a momentous occasion.

The two following pics stand testament to the fact I now have zero unassembled and entirely unpainted Heresy models. And there’s a good chance that by the end of the weekend? It’ll all be fully painted.

Nice position to be in, Doc - any plans to add the Lion, or DA-specific units?