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aye - think you're right. I'm gonna leave it be for the now......

Just about there Couple of final wip shots before I base and dio it. Photos are a bit pish, but you get the idea. Really chuffed with how they came out. Colour scheme worked nicely- wasn't a wee bit unsure at times. Anyways - proper photos to come when the base is complete

Looking awesome

Cheers TP. Photos are a bit naff but snapped them quickly on the way out to work. Played around with glazes a bit for this fig and worked out well. Few wee teeny things still to correct and fiddle with like the blood coming off the back of the glaive and such. Once the dio is completed, should look pretty good....just need to find a screaming space wolf fig running away for that

Brilliant stuff, the blood on the harlequins blade looks great. Can't wait to see it all finished!

Cheers! Hummed and hawed about whether or not to bloody glaive. 6am this morning decided I would. My dog's toothbrush is once again a few bristles shorter than it was lol

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Cheers! Hummed and hawed about whether or not to bloody glaive. 6am this morning decided I would. My dog's toothbrush is once again a few bristles shorter than it was lol

I think you made the right choice, I love the blood effects, I use it on mine when I can.

Looking great!

Finally got to work on the base. Tiles......stupid idea.....complete pain in the arse to do lol

It may have been a pain in the arse, but it looks like a lovely pain. Like sitting on a rose.

Hahahaha - Thx. Been racking my brain of how/what to do for this base. Finally came up with something. Begining to shape up. Should (hopefully look pretty idy when all painted and the figs in place

Looks really great Jan

cheers TP. Just waiting for the PVA seal to dry now. While waiting, went out the local art shop to pick up ONE thing.....came home with a new glass LCD desk stand thingy and a bag of other crap..... ><

My wife's got my credit card coz I did that a bit too much. Well, we joke that she should have it. Ok. In reality it was mentioned, it was vetoed and I am under strict orders not to shop online anymore. Ahem.


[off-screen] "Ooooooooh! FW Tau Battlesuits ........."

Hahahahaa - I promised not to buy any more figs 'till after the wedding next month......been looking at some of the forge world 'bots.....no, NO NO.....bad monkey, BAD!!!!!

And primed. Pretty happy with how it/they are looking

Beautifully painted Eldar. I'll be watching this blog with interest

Cheers lots still to come

Jan - I'm intrigued. Tell me the background why your solitaire is such bad news?

Your diorama is looking sweet by the way. Need to find myself somewhere to buy plasticard from that's either not bought in truckloads-full or horrendously expensive for a piece the size of A4. And that said how did you get the paved stuff?

Which paving? On the dio above or the stuff I used for the Deathwing dio?
I'm gonna write out a wee fluff piece for the Solitaire at some point soon - let you know

The stuff on the duo above. There are no wargaming shops other than GW that I know of near me and don't get time to go to town very often, so have looked on-line for plasticard and give up after getting hugely confused.

ah ok. There's only one shop over here that in the whole country that stocks GW stuff at all. But all the stuff I use for basing/dios I buy at a local stationary/arts'n'crafts shop. The dio above is 2mm plasticard on the bottom, then 2 mm foamboard (that has the circles cut out of it), the stairs are made from cut pieces of the same foamboard. The tiles are made from 1mm card. I should really have used 1mm plasticard but didnt have any so I used card. Wouldnt again. All that is glued together/in place with a hot glue gun. The stones and sand come from a local river and put on in the usual PVA way. When all that's dry - it's sealed with 2 coats of PVA/water mix otherwise the spray primer will melt the foam and paint will seep into the card and make it swell and warp. That's basically it. After that prime, base and paint as normal I buy plasticard in A4 size from about 80p a sheet. Art/arts n crafts shops should have all this stuff pretty cheap.

The base looks good, I understand the frustrations with card, if you use cereal boxes they have a glossy side. Put the glossy side face up and the unprotected side face down into the pva, that way the gloss protects it when you base coat it.

Aye. I shouldve just got off my arse and down to the A&C shop and picked up some plasticard (which I then did later o.O ) The card's turned out fine. It was just some bought card I had lying around. The edges did swell a bit with the PVA seal but then sorted themselves out as they dried. Have the basecoats down now and it begining to look well tidy. Shouldbe a belter when finished

Well - that's the painting part done. Now just to put the whole thing together. Actually kinda excited - been working on this for .....hmmm......time!!

Time you put into is paying off though. Looks great! Rock with the rune is a nice touch

Who's going into the little slot?

Cheers ckig. Yeah...well happy how it came out. Dio took...I'd guess about 5-6 hours in total to make....but that's a bit of a rough guess. The little slot.....well, let's have a look see


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And.......we're all done....ish!! All finished and assembled and done Really REALLY happy with the final result The fleeing Chaos Cultist is just a proxy for now until I can get my hands on a screaming space wolf marine running away which is what I'd planned for in the begining. I was gonna buy all the requisite parts from a Bitz site but that ends up kinda ripoffy to do. ANYWAYS......... here's the shots.

'Run Mon'keigh........RUN!!!'





Took about a month all told for the whole thing.
Hope ya like 'em as I loved painting 'em

Brilliant execution there. As always superb quality and composition.

Jaw, meet the floor, floor, meet jaw!

As with the Solitaire, the base/door just takes the whole thing up to a whole new level!