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Its suppose to sit above the front door hatch but be alot better game terms higher.
I know from experiance.
peace

I agree, finish the Land Raider. We both know that focusing on one project at a time is difficult, but I think you'd benefit from completing the Land raider first.

I believe you'd want the turret to sit to the front of the Land raider, but don't glue it down, its easy enough to remove to swap out pieces and it sits tight in the hole anyway.

Keep up the great work Dude! Hopefully you've still got power and all that after these storms blow through. I picked up the Termie lot from a guy over at GW Tomball, 25 Termies + Logan Grimnar... I know I know.. I need to stop buying and finish building/painting.

Agree, finish the LR!

Great progress all round since my last visit. Your light box is ideal size imo but I think you will need more light.

I think you're a little crazy to have all those bikes! But once they're painted and on the battlefield they're going to look awesome! Not to mention intimidating!

Keep up the awesome updates!

@Emperors_Champion: Yeah I need to get more lights for it.

Since I couldn't prime until today, I went ahead and finish up the interior and the wings of the drop pod.

Then I am getting back to finishing up the turrets on the Land Raider.

I didn't want give the interior of the Drop Pod a lot of details since I want this to be on the table soon. I will go back and add those details in later.

Nice clean painting here. Everything blends together really well, can't wait to see more progress!

Liking the drop pod! kepp it up!

I am closer to finishing up this Drop Pod. The interior metal parts need a badab black wash. There is some metal pieces on the pillars that need to be painted metal. The symbols on each wing needs to be painted. Aside from that, it is almost table-top quality.

I need to ask for your opinion though. At first I wanted to paint those inner decorative lining of the pillar gold. So I based them with brown color (see second pix). The brown color looks ok but do you guys think a Gold lining would make the Drop Pod looks better? Or will that draw the attention away from it?

Depends. Are your marines rather ornate, or are they a no-nonsense dull colours sort of guys?

I want to say ornate.

A nice dark gold would look cool.

Thank you all for chiming in. I finished the gold trim on the Drop Pod.

Today I had a game with my Drop Pod (5 sternguards with combi-meltas), my Land Raider Redeember. I won by a good margin (mostly due to my opponent not realizing that shooting up my bikes will allow them to fall back without being assaulted.

Right now, I am painting up the two scout bikes of the three-bike squad. This squad was doing really well, stunning and destroying the autocannon turret of a Predator in turn 1.

I like the gold trim, i think it works well dude, it's a nice spot colour for it, and now you can add some small gold details on other things to tie them all together, all in all the whole force is looking great and I'm really liking your style! any chance of a shot of everything you've done so far?

Nerdfest09

@nerdfest09: Thanks. I do like the gold trim as well. I think I have some extra skull icons on the land raider that I can put it and make them gold to tie everything together. Great suggestions.

Re: group shot, I don't have that many things in Angel of Absolution color. Half of my army are in Ultramarine color :-(. But I will try to get one in the future.

Since my scout bikers were doing very well last game, I am working on the other two guys in the 3-man squad. Thre are quite a few details left but they are in tablet top condition.

I didn't get a chance to say this today, but your models look even better in person! I like the gold trim and I think it will accent your army very well.

I especially like the Scout biker who will be driving with no hands, lol.

NIce work brother.
Maybe some wash on the bike to dirty them up.
peace

Thanks guys. Yes I will dirty them up in the next stage.

I just got one Predator with lascannon sponson assembled. Probably will play with it for a while as I work on some more bikes.

I am gonna just leave these right here.

OK I love i but im going to be honest. It need some sort of damage or weathering will make this model more awsome.
peace

leohart wrote:I am gonna just leave these right here.

Haha... You do that.

Nice, clean painting there sir.. looks like your tanks just came fresh out of the factory.

I echo your comments gentlemen. I will slowly add more decorative murals and other free hands to reflect battles that I win in the future. It's easier to add free hand before weathering than after.

Eventually once I have all these with lots of free hand, I will add the weathering.

The tank truly reflects my noobiness in 40k. I just got into this 4 months ago :-). So it's ok that they are "direct from the dealership".

leohart wrote:I echo your comments gentlemen. I will slowly add more decorative murals and other free hands to reflect battles that I win in the future. It's easier to add free hand before weathering than after.

Eventually once I have all these with lots of free hand, I will add the weathering.

The tank truly reflects my noobiness in 40k. I just got into this 4 months ago :-). So it's ok that they are "direct from the dealership".

Yeah, I know how you feel. When you feel up to it, I would look into MIG's Industrial city dirt weathering powder. It's a one and done kind of thing, sprinkle some on and bam! you have a fully weathered tank!

I like it!

I like the scout bikers leohart! I'm suprised that the last one won't fall off!The LR is nice too!

Thanks Hazzer. You are making great progresses your side as well. Yeah, auto-guidance auto-balancing sub-system FTW.

These scouts bikes have been doing quite well. They get creamed in combat but the second they take 1 casualty in the shooting phase, they instantly fall back and it is all good .

But hey they get to plant mines so they will deffently go out with a boom! (Quite litterley atleast I am not cleaning it up)!

I sneaked in another complete Drop Pod. When I primed it with Colour Primer, I paused for a second so some of the details are gone :-(. Anyway, with it out of the way, I am now onto the next thing: Land Speeder Storm and some Sternguards.

Now that I think about it, how did I complete the second Drop Pod so fast?

Last night I finished the assembly of the Land Speeder Storm, just need to assemble the crews now. I am having a hard time finding a heavy flamer bit to put on a land speeder storm (without spending $5-$10).

Below I include a shot of the bottom layer of my BF Shield bag with a custom cut 4" foam to hold a LR and 2 DP.

Have some of you (alright alright, maybe none of you) wonder how I am able to crank these out so fast? Especially when layering up the bleach bone color takes a couple of passes? Well, the trick is to have a psychic power called quick silver ....

Ok fine, the real trick is to base with an Army Painter and then wash and then layer. But in between the wash and layers, you will have to wait for the wash to dry. You can do this the old fashion way, aka have a cup of coffee. Or you can do this the manly way: go to Walmart and get a cheapo (<$10) hair dryer. I was able to wash the Land Speeder wings, layer them up with a couple of coats, coat the other parts of the Land Speeder and paint small patches black all in about 15 minutes. Having a hair dryer on low mode will dry washes and paints in ~5-10 seconds, allowing for continuous painting. Thanks to Les at awesomepaintjob for this tip. I found it in one of his videos years ago and I now finally follow it. Definitely a time saver.

Looking good dude! she'll be sweet when all done!

Nice stuff man! Keep it up!

I got a game in today against Ork. I decided to stop at turn 5 since it was a friendly game. It was a fun list so I can field my favorite models. I ended up losing due to objective.

Here is a group shot of what I fielded. My current list is very anti-MEQ-oriented.