Ice Angel's List of Things to do

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**Gitsplitta**

Beautiful work Ice.

**Solar_lion**

Very Nice.. and good picture as well!

**Yellowbeard**

Nice.

What's he doing with his left hand...?

Love the dagger. I need to do a few figures with CCWs.

**hemmis92**

Great models, nice to see some marines that really stand out!
Some of the poses are just epic, consider the grenade-lobbing dude (that's what his doing, right?) copied

Looking forward to more!

**IceAngel**

You can't see it from that angle but there is a grenade on his chest he is grabbing. You can only see the top of it if you look straight down at the model.

I'll try to take a shot of it with the next update.

Thanks everybody.

**Stormsung**

Consider your thread subscribed Ice.

I love your powersword effects.

**Knightley**

Loving the armour and style your painting Ice

**cormadepanda**

i love them traffic cone marines! well done.

**IceAngel**

@Stormsung - thank you sir. I don't have to many more power weapons to do.

@Knightley - Thanks Knightley. I hope my lack of squiggles doesn't deter you from checking my thread.

@cormadepanda - HA! They are almost the same color aren't they? That's funny.

**Knightley**

That would never dissuade me, this is one of my favorite subscribed threads, that and your fantastic (if not updated more regularly than I would like) story thread

**IceAngel**

My progress so far today has included some finishing touches on the left guy and lots of work on the right guy. Here is another angle on the second guy.

And because I know Solar will ask, yes I worked on Huron. PRAISE HURON!

**Solar_lion**

Praise the Emperor! Praise Huron.

I like the black gauntlets. Nice way to break up all the brightness. Now put some stripes on him by Huron!

**Gitsplitta**

Tre chique!

**Paint_To_Redemption**

Had a look through this thread and man, you've got some impressive work. I really like the ice bases on the first couple of pages. Keep it up!

**IceAngel**

Thanks guys. Welcome to my thread Paint_To_Redemption!

At the end of the day I managed to get a little more done with my claws.

The two on the right are completed, unless you guys see something I missed. The guy on the left received another level of orange and his first wash. I also managed to give some missile launcher marines their simple green bath. I'm hoping to have them cleaned up and primed tomorrow. I should be able to complete that last tactical marine tomorrow. I think it will be time for some squad pictures once that's done.

Praise Huron!

I almost forgot, Huron received some more paint today as well. For those of you who haven't really looked at the forgeworld model, its a great sculpt. The only down side is that there is so much crap on him I'm not sure there will be room for any stripes. Time to get creative!

**Gitsplitta**

That's a common problem with GW models... too much extraneous crap on the model. Nearly all their character models suffer from it.

**IceAngel**

While taking some pics of my completed tactical units I decided to grab a couple pictures of some of my previous Tiger Claw guys. Prepare for a photo dump!

First off, the marines I have completed for this years Adepticon.

Quick side note, the simple green bath is underway. They are now in part two, then they'll be primed!

The remaining pictures of just other Tiger Claws I've done. I hope you don't mind some extra pics!

Here is everybody all together. The only thing not in the pictures are my razorback, rhino, and land raider, mainly because I don't like they way they turned out. That's something else to work on.

I apologize about the lighting but I think you guys get the idea. What do you think?

**Gitsplitta**

Your infantry looks fantastic Ice. Really makes me want to work on my terminators!

**Solar_lion**

Absolutly Awesome.

Praise the Emperor, and his faithful true servant Huron!

**Ramos Asura**

Wicked army Ice. Gonna look great in battle!

**cormadepanda**

Damn son, those marines make traffic cones look crappy. The paint is excellent. Many props with all the free hand work.

**Knightley**

Aaawwww yeah, they are looking pretty slick!

**IceAngel**

Thanks guys! I really appreciate it. I didn't manage to get any painting done this evening but I did work on my missile guys. I'm not sure what exactly happened but of the two marines one of them the paint came off easily, like it should. The other, however, did not. All of the colors came off except the black under coat. I thought that was a bit weird. I've never simple greened a model, brushed them, and still had the majority of the paint on them. I'm not sure if the undercoat was a different paint or a bad batch or what. Tomorrow I'll be taking a second look at them to see how I should move forward.

The model that everything came off of will get a nice new black priming, the other I'm still unsure. Has any one had this happen before?

**Goliath**

I find it amusing that the medic is the one that's been injured

Also, I find it unfair that you can get such a solid coverage with that orange, I'm assuming it's just loads of thin layers?

**Ramos Asura**

in most cases black primer tends to stain the model, making it look like its not coming off,. Its either that, or he was primed with a crazy durable primer that for some reason the green wont touch. Not much withstands SimpleGreen baths...

So Id say, try it. Its probably just stained and you should be good. Just be sure everything you give a bath to gets a good rinse!

**Gitsplitta**

One of the two land speeders I'm painting was originally primed with black and that did not come off either.

**Solar_lion**

Sometime models that have commercial spray paint used on them have a chemical bond with the plastic.. This is almost impossible to remove without sanding and scraping. Not worth the effort IMO.

Praise the Emperor and his favorite Huron!

**cormadepanda**

ice it should reprime just fine, i have had several models with black primer be immune to simple green, la awesome, break fluid baths..

**IceAngel**

Good news, the models did reprime just fine. As I was thinking back, there was a time a few years ago I purchased some paints for various different vendors to try out. I want to say that I purchased, a small container of reaper black paint? I didn't like the way it applied but I tried it multiple times on different models with different techniques, and something tells me that one of the missile launchers was just one of those test subjects. Either way, its covered now. Now all I need is some time to get moving on them.

**Solar_lion**

Whats left to do then?