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BLACKHAND wrote:

inmygravenimage wrote:
..... I'm genuinely considering painting up my standard marines all as Weeping Angels rather than mentors. ......

NOOOOOOO! Think of all the custom bits you've made!

And of course, that you've made

BLACKHAND wrote:
Seriously though, I can understand the urge to lighten your hobby load in the face of child induced time-strain!

Well that's it. No-one tells you 1+1>2. Curse you maths! Solve your own damn problems!

I guess my question is what is more important?

Having awesomely painted models?

or

Painted models because you don't like a sea of grey?

That implies I am an awesome painter, for which I thankyou, though that is a lie I suspect also it would be yet another time consuming distraction. Cos my gks aren't that, honest.

Just caught back up on your blog , some lovely work and very nice painting going here mate ,sorry not to see more mentor legion guys , but the new stuff is very nice too , especially like your nurgle food images made me lol the weeping angels look very nice and i have always like the idea of miniatures as Elgin like marble statues tbh , The mini dioramas you have on the bases are very nice too, all in all great stuff all round , sorry to have missed so much .

@neil - no need to apologise! Glad you like what you've seen.

So decision made, in part thanks to #2 clImbing my workstation and trashing stuff: Mentors to stay as Mentors. I need to give em a bit of love: so much work went into their inception, not just by me but by others also, they deserve to no longer remain a sea of primer. So, this evening first wash went down on a scout w hb, 3 scout bikers, the techmarine dread, termie specials, a couple of assault marines, 4 vanguard, and some other termies too. There will be more. Oh my yes.

@later,
Graven

Oh my, you are making speedy progress. I'm feeling an urge for a burst of sudden painting coming on soon myself.

Especially since I got ALL the Extinction Angels out and put them on shelves (and for my shame discovered 5 MORE Chaos Terminators on sprue o.o).

I reckon once the money (finally) gets put on the Credit Card I may have a proper binge of painting. And maybe a FW treat. Maybe some Berserkers to start my 8th Company.

@dss: there's always something else on a sprue, or on a box, that distracts, isn't there?

Objective achieved, anyway: remaining primed mentors all washed - that's a squad each of tac, scout and assault. Not too bad. Tomorrow I may swing by gw or flgs for more grey primer, though cold weather means spraying may be off for a while. Want at least remaining TAGK primed and ready (they need a quick once over).

Progress feels awesome and am more generally feeling sanity return. That or it's the tasty paint talking.

Feeling chipper, all in all
- graven

Nice that you're making progress graven... a little smugness at a job accomplished isn't a bad thing.

I'm allowed to be smug remaining termies and assaults done, black primer retouched on gks, and first grey layer on bastion

Now I promise there will be pics tomorrow, but bear with me. All termies given next layer of white, green added to 2. I really think this will work wife's off to see breaking dawn tomorrow night *sigh* so if kids settle, I'm aiming to paint some more, though the plan is to attend to gms stuff.

See, it's really nice to be doing a splash o paint, but I need to make sure I stay both on task and interested. I mustn't get bored with mentors which, when block painting is the risk. I actually want to start of the gks with corpses but feel I should at least get the gms projects done!

On another tack, a mighty trade from catharsix means a unit of blood letters for my pagk to maul AND... A defiler! So after much consideration, as the title suggests, I'm going to orkify it. Yes, empire would be cool, but the idea of CowBoyz an Enjins is just too good to miss. I had this crazy, crazy idea that I'd use only gw parts, but Black Hat do 28mm cowboy hats and Kromlech do both Orks bodies in greatcoats (works for me as dusters) and confederate ork heads too. It's, like, a sign.

This inevitably leads to more of graven's shameless scrounging (wow, blog tagline is a dead giveaway this week) - just really for anything you lot think would be useful to this bizarre idea. Naturally, I shall as always reciprocate as best I am able.

Later,
graven


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I told you there'd be pics today... and you didn't believe me
The Shelf of Shame!



And a couple of termies with a test of the green scheme on them:


Adios!


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Gms guys done pics to follow

Ok!
DW Weeping Angel:



And chapter master:



I may not be quick but I get there!

Graven

I hope these are for the GMS and yor going to stick to the Mentors? For the Orks take a look at Ramshackle Games they've got a great orky defiler and also a crde traction engine which might fit the theme.

DW Weeping Angel - is that a mould line I see on the front shin ? And possibly the rear of the leg too... Otherwise looking good.

^ Aaaaaargh!

Yes. Yes it is a mould line.

*sigh*

@llamahead - yep, they're gms figs, mentors are go still.


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Fixed. No pix though.

Really nice work mate! They look just right.

Look better now!


Glad you like though, mate, means a lot to me.

He'll be a fantastic fit for the unit. Thanks man. I don't know how you get that "crusty" look but it's just about perfect!

Much better!

Looking good man! I really should get into this whole GMS thing eh?

Couldnt hurt. much.

I think you should do it Knightly... it's a heck of a lot of fun.

I encourage the Knightley with the power of Gits' hypno eyes.

Graven - those are rather nice. I did something silly last night. I started up on my GMS marines for you and Njal again!

@ gits: thanks matey. Crusty I like that. I'm kind of embracing a painting style that works for me, just now at least. Also, I just have to have weathered soldiers. It's the rules
@ arakasi: good-o
@ knightley: do it! Do it now!
@ dss

Didn't get much done last night; had to build a Lego Bank and stage a robbery. In retrospect, a skylight in a gold vault is not a good idea. Still, Motf dread, half a scout squad, Chapter Master and 2 Teleport Homers, all whited. Nothing tonight, Rpg-ing for a change, Banks's Culture off Mongoose Traveller. Should be fun.

Later,
graven

Well,
Mongoose Traveller Culture mash-up was great fun, other half of that to play in January - nice to be rpging, nice not to be running a game for a change. Still, back to Trek in Feb.

Couple of bits done in the last few days, but Thanksgiving yesterday means nowt done (apart from taking pictures of a Justin Beiber cake done for a 7 year old... yeesh). Still, proof of where I'm up to:


And a slightly more detailed view:

Nice view of counts as Lugft and count as Nova Marine termie bloke there. What makes me happy is more than half the shelf on top of the writing desk is now at stage 3 (prime>wash>white) which is major progress. I'll try to sneak a few more in after work...

Speaking of which - to the schoolhouse!

Later,
graven

That's impressive graven... well done! Hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving. Ours was great.

Yeah, much turkey n pie! Mmm, pie...

Rest of shelf above is now done! So, all primed me tots are at stage 3. Now, back to the gks and corpses! Aim is for all bgm to be done this weekend on paladins, dreads etc. Maybe even SR ...

I have not seen a Mentor player since my first time in GW. Really great job on these.

^ Thanks bud. Yeah, they don't seem to get much love; they really take me back to when I first started the hobby (WD with adverts for other companies! Shock horror!)

So, today, I seek the collective wisdom of dakka. As you may have gathered if you've been paying attention (I hope so, there's going to be a quiz at the end) I plan on turning this
http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1252589_99120102013_defilermain_873x627.jpg
Into this
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vkAWCPcTkcQ/R08I8JEn1FI/AAAAAAAAAiA/GbiyVy1E_tQ/s320/www02.jpg

Now some helpful person put up this image on t'internet:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mistersable/433646019/

My question is: what should it count as?
Trukk, Battlewagon, or Mega-Dread?
You who know orkiness better than I, help me!

Great minds think a like

I just started making a list of possible Ork stuff to loot for my Death Skulls and I pondered on a defiler as well, I was thinking on using the base and legs and putting a battlewagon front with an opened up back with the possessing daemon in a cage. So you kind of get the impression a weird boy has excommunicated it from the defiler.

I say go for it it looks cool, no idea where its from though.

mega dread... definitely