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Had a good day off and got some work done, greens are on ready for some clean up and a final glaze before I move on to oils and weathering. The black parts need a lot of work still as I'm trying out a new method for black that I read a tutorial about.

My motivation has gone missing, has anyone seen it?

Got all of my order cleaned, assembled and filled but was too late to get it primed. Have a mountain of Earth Alliance ships to do but just cannot be bothered. So much to do, so little time, such a huge quantity of cannot be fethed.

Put all bar 2 or 3 away. Keep the left overs on your desk and do them. Once they're done go get another two. Small steps.


I've added a rhino and a predator to my queue. Stripped and ready for reassembly.

Yeah, I ran out of steam this week too. I've got a long weekend though with not.too much else to do so looking forward to.nuking the camo on a few more tanks!

I was out of town so I didn't get much done this week. But I finished magnetizing a Knight Warden. Have to do the rest of the weapons eventually but I need more magnets.

Got just a little bit more done. I give you...Imperial Knight Vs Glottkin!

Thanks for all the congratulations, much appreciated him and mum are both doing really well

I'm not painting my scions whilst getting so little sleep, so I've started building the primaris marines from dark imperium. I had an easy build set and a couple of single sprues, so converted an additional helblaster squad, with heavy bolters in lieu of plasma guns. I'll add a picture of them later. Will be doing them as Howling Griffons.

finished washing every thing, only bone and some more red needs to be used...

NOTE: 5 Troops were not painted by me ( the ones with bone colour painted and a couple of others ).


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And i have to fix some of the eyes... was really tricky, the eyes were literally the hardest thing to paint.


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and i have highlighted every tank.


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One tank i have to reduce the amount of "wear", i kinda went a bit overboard lol


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Oh and yes i have finished basing all the tanks with addon black, i think some areas are missed but i can get them later.


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lol and another thing, i have not based the troops.. im kinda thinking of just leaving how they are.


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My first ever painting of models... Yes i will mention it for the hundredth time

And some before photos...

5/10 Grots done.

Got put off track with a few days of baby prep but still making progress!

@JamesY we can compare lack of hobby progress over the next few months

Nice work Stormatious, certainly smashed through that and made a nice job of it. Just got to get the troops to fill all those Rhinos now...

Rob those look fantastic! Love those Grots, so much character and really nice execution, those checks especially are awesome.

Good work everyone.

@Ingear. How's the motivation going?

@Rob. Grots are looking good. I like the yellow.

@Storm. Good work mate. You've burned your way through those rhino nice and quick.

@James. More howling griffons are never a bad thing!

@Skaylark. Good knight. I'm still kicking ideas around in my head with what I want to do with mine.


No progress from me last few days. Works been slamming my arse. Also may not have helped my cause none, because I broke down and bought BoP and Ravenwing command squad. Hmmmmmmm.....

So I finished the lone wolf/wolf guard I had started and the Njal cause that model just looks so nice. I really need a better camera for taking pictures. My phone kicks up the contrast like you would not believe.

Through some unexpected family.time I've not had as muchlainting time.as I thought this weekend. Added to that is the diy I needed to.do.wrecking my.arm.muscles so detail paintng is.out at the moment.

However, no need for a steady hand when Necromunda scenery needs dirtied up!










So I'm calling this one done now. Suitably grubby and licheny as well as dusty and manky

Started the base colors of my friend's Knight. He wants it to match his Ultramarines so... I guess I need some Omega symbol decals in xxxxlarge

Had almost a week and a half of constant rain...so I've broken one of my own rules and assembled more than one unit. Normally I open a box, assemble and paint the unit before moving on. I've been impatient with the rain (and I should have some new base colour cans showing up soon).

I have thus constructed.

1x Rhino-Russ chassis
3x Rapier platforms
6x Rapier gunners
1x Sorcerer on a bike
1x Typhon Heavy Siege tank kitbash.

All being from the same army I'm hoping when my spray shows up and I get a good day i'll be able to make a ton of headway at once, and crush them in a week or less of painting.

Yeah weather has been unhelpful here too.

Got a tactical squad who need to be primed but it's too damp to even attempt to spray them.


On the plus side I got a spare half hour and assembled my tanks.
So now these need a basecoat of paint too.

SkylarkR6 wrote:
Started the base colors of my friend's Knight. He wants it to match his Ultramarines so... I guess I need some Omega symbol decals in xxxxlarge

Cool man, makes me want to do a gold trim black legion knight to match my army..


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 ingtaer wrote:
Nice work Stormatious, certainly smashed through that and made a nice job of it. Just got to get the troops to fill all those Rhinos now...

Rob those look fantastic! Love those Grots, so much character and really nice execution, those checks especially are awesome.

Thanks mate appreciate it.


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 Snrub wrote:
Good work everyone.

@Ingear. How's the motivation going?

@Rob. Grots are looking good. I like the yellow.

@Storm. Good work mate. You've burned your way through those rhino nice and quick.

@James. More howling griffons are never a bad thing!

@Skaylark. Good knight. I'm still kicking ideas around in my head with what I want to do with mine.


No progress from me last few days. Works been slamming my arse. Also may not have helped my cause none, because I broke down and bought BoP and Ravenwing command squad. Hmmmmmmm.....

Thank you

Nice work everybody.

For me most of last week was work with overtime, no play. People around me can get so demanding even at home so very little progress was made apart from a few base colours. So one must hang head in shame.

 Snrub wrote:
Good work everyone.

@Ingear. How's the motivation going?

@Rob. Grots are looking good. I like the yellow.

@Storm. Good work mate. You've burned your way through those rhino nice and quick.

@James. More howling griffons are never a bad thing!

@Skaylark. Good knight. I'm still kicking ideas around in my head with what I want to do with mine.


No progress from me last few days. Works been slamming my arse. Also may not have helped my cause none, because I broke down and bought BoP and Ravenwing command squad. Hmmmmmmm.....

Once I get another batch of magnets in I need to get started on my own Knight as well(my buddy and I split a renegades box). I am planning on buying a second renegades box and a couple Helverin boxes and having an IK army.

I'm starting fluffy so my current plan is to replace the small shield next to the head with a Venerable Dreadnaught Storm Shield, order Comradequiche's iron wolf head and feet from shapeways, and attach the claw tips from the Vendread claws to the thunderstrike gauntlet. I'm going Gallant because it seems to fit an ally of my space puppies.

What is better then hitting an enemy with a chainsword? Hitting them with a 20 foot long chainsword!

So I got more terrain done. Painted and sealed. I won’t bore with pictures as half of it I have already posted. Next on my list is 2 basilisks 2 wyverns and 1 leman Russ/tank commander. Along with building the terrain for kill team.

@waarghrob, sounds like a plan, hopefully yours is getting some sleep at times when you can pick up a brush Those gretchin are beautiful, btw.

@Snrub completely agree, here is the test model;



Still needs decals, but you get the idea.

Progress update, all primaris built, including easy to build dreadnought.

Wow JamesY that looks spiffy, totally not what I was expecting when you said Howling Griffons really like the more muted palate you have used, one small niggle though is you need to purge that mould line on his fingers, purge it in fire...


@Snrub; My motivation got me as far as the pub where I was fully motivated to test the awe inspiring array of malted beverages produced by the local brewery. Have managed to get a few hours work done but the current ships are so very tiny that its taking me longer than the massive ones do! Second part of my supply drop should happen today or tomorrow and its pretty hefty.

So goal of the week is finish 6x Bluestar proxies and 4x Whitestar fighters and then clean, assemble and fill the next load of models. Will update with picks.

Edit; Supply drop has occured.

From left to right; Narn Bin'Tak dreadnought, Narn G'Quan Heavy cruiser, 2x Drazi Warbird cruisers.
2nd Line Narn Ka'Toc destroyer, 2x Drazi Sunhawk battlecruisers.
3rd line EA Omega destroyer, 6x Starfury, 4x Thunderbolt, 4x Narn Frazi, 4x Narn Gorith fighters.
Its going to be a long week! and Is till have a battle report to write up...

Ok side note. Just got semi distracted with more terrain.

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Wow JamesY that looks spiffy, totally not what I was expecting when you said Howling Griffons really like the more muted palate you have used, one small niggle though is you need to purge that mould line on his fingers, purge it in fire...


@Snrub; My motivation got me as far as the pub where I was fully motivated to test the awe inspiring array of malted beverages produced by the local brewery. Have managed to get a few hours work done but the current ships are so very tiny that its taking me longer than the massive ones do! Second part of my supply drop should happen today or tomorrow and its pretty hefty.

So goal of the week is finish 6x Bluestar proxies and 4x Whitestar fighters and then clean, assemble and fill the next load of models. Will update with picks.

Edit; Supply drop has occured.

From left to right; Narn Bin'Tak dreadnought, Narn G'Quan Heavy cruiser, 2x Drazi Warbird cruisers.
2nd Line Narn Ka'Toc destroyer, 2x Drazi Sunhawk battlecruisers.
3rd line EA Omega destroyer, 6x Starfury, 4x Thunderbolt, 4x Narn Frazi, 4x Narn Gorith fighters.
Its going to be a long week! and Is till have a battle report to write up...

Awsome mate, good luck thats alot of painting to do. Are those metal models?


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 JamesY wrote:
@waarghrob, sounds like a plan, hopefully yours is getting some sleep at times when you can pick up a brush Those gretchin are beautiful, btw.

@Snrub completely agree, here is the test model;



Still needs decals, but you get the idea.

Progress update, all primaris built, including easy to build dreadnought.

Very nice mate.

SkylarkR6 wrote:What is better then hitting an enemy with a chainsword? Hitting them with a 20 foot long chainsword!

A sentiment I can fully get behind.
I'm thinking thermal cannon and chainsword off one of mine and probably battle cannon and gatling cannon on the other. I don't know whether either are good loadouts for a game, but they're cool looking, and that's what counts.
Also been on the lookout for a forgebane as I wouldn't mind adding some armigers. They're just so cute.

ShadowCaptainMathius wrote:Next on my list is 2 basilisks 2 wyverns and 1 leman Russ/tank commander. Along with building the terrain for kill team.

I read this entirely wrong and for a few seconds thought that you could run multiple tanks in a kill team. Oooh boy.

JamesY wrote:@Snrub completely agree, here is the test model

I was expecting it to be brighter like you see with most HG armies. The more muted palette (yellow especially) is an interesting take on the scheme. It will be interesting to see if it pays off for a full army!

ingtaer wrote:@Snrub; My motivation got me as far as the pub where I was fully motivated to test the awe inspiring array of malted beverages produced by the local brewery.

Have managed to get a few hours work done but the current ships are so very tiny that its taking me longer than the massive ones do! Second part of my supply drop should happen today or tomorrow and its pretty hefty.

Big supply drop. Hopefully it wont be overwhelming.



No painting done on my part, but I did tape up my tanks for spraying. Although the weather still isn't playing ball so haven't been able to get out and spray them. Been damp as gak all week and then it fething rained today.
Was also hoping to get my command squad and BoP today, but no joy.

The drawback to working on an Imperial Knight is that I cannot feasibly bring it to work to paint on lunch. Rather then go without, I decided to start a mini side project. My friend gave me a Geigor that I'm doing my amateurish best to turn into a Lukas. I do not have many bits to work with since I just started in April but I carved out his knife hand, swapped some shoulder pads, and used a piece of wolf pelt to cover where the sheath went. Wish I had a Dreadnaught wolf pelt to drape on a backpack though

That's a cunning plan mate.

Finally managed to get my little ships finished it proved amazing hard to get photos of the Whitestar fighters, tried every setting on my camera and it just refused to focus on them. Here are the best I got;
Bluestar proxies (actually FA scale Minbari cruisers).

Whitestar fighters;

Single Whitestar fighter;


Now got to get a battle report done and back to hacking pewter apart to excavate a model.

Side note 2. Almost done with new terrain then back to the Astra Militarum tanks

Pics?