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Keep at it gobert.

Cheers,

CB

Yorkright wrote: Love all your conversions. Going to go great with the rest of the Panthers.

Cheers Yorkright, it’s been fun cobbling them together. I’m keen to get on with the painting, but kiddo finding more to do!

Viterbi wrote:Always good to keep a cool head! And seeing the last shot reminds me, that I also have flamer and HB guy lying around somewhere and may move them to the priming queue.

Yeah, get em painted! I’m looking forward to my first MkIV marine!

Tyranid Horde wrote:Not the best of season finales for Formula 1 eh? At least it was nice to see a different winner for a change.

Really enjoying the kitbashes you've done with the Space Marine Heroes, they're great sculpts and if you've got the duplicates, you may as well make them even better!

Yep, it was pretty dull, certainly Max’s least entertaining victory to date

I did briefly toy with selling the duplicates, but then I remembered ListenToMeWarriors’ kitbashes so had to give it a try.

Not Online!!! wrote:Coming along nicely, the riders do put me in a bit of a nostalgic mood.

Thanks, they brought me back too, and it’s great to have them done after all these years!

 Captain Brown wrote:
Keep at it gobert.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks CB, I’ll get there in the end!

As alluded to above I realised I had more bashing to do on these guys. I need to check I’ve included suitable grenades and pouches yet, but it remembered to sort out their chapter and squad markings. I even made some more purity seals with my left over resin. Still a fair bit of casting to go! I might try to make a few more moulds to speed up the process. I’ve also cast a few bits for embellishing their bases and the display board when I get around to it.

Thanks for looking

Nice kitbashes, every model really feels unique and full of character. It's also great that you were able to match the Space Marine Heroes to bits all the way back from second edition!

Looking good, and the guy holding the head in the previous posts seems to have worked out nicely, well done!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Nice kitbashes, every model really feels unique and full of character. It's also great that you were able to match the Space Marine Heroes to bits all the way back from second edition!

Thanks Don, it’s only been out of necessity as the 2nd Ed arms are very lacking in detail compared to the new kit, hopefully they’ll be hard to spot under some paint!

CommissarKhaine wrote:Looking good, and the guy holding the head in the previous posts seems to have worked out nicely, well done!

Thank, he’s surprised me, and is now the first all marked up marine. I just need to reattach the head and do some gore.

I did a bit more casting tonight getting the next 2 Panther icons done and another Tac marking, along with more bits for bases and the display board.

Seeing as I couldn’t do any more with the Marines I got to work on the Scarabs. In fact I finished them in one sitting! A first for me to finish a unit in a day, I’m taking it as a win even if they’re the smallest and simplest unit I can think of! Nothing special on them, basically just following the Necron Warrior scheme from before

Thanks for looking

Yep, those are great. Really love the colour scheme on these guys, sells the otherworldly cosmic horror aspect of the Necrons really well. I think they have just the right amount of glow and I might be biased on this one but I love the snow bases. Thematically matches the army - cold and calculating - and just works really well with the palette. Lovely work mate!

Marines are looking in good shape too - excited to see them get some paint.

The new Panthers squad is looking great, some nice kitbashing there. Good to see the necrons progressing too, simple scheme producing effective results

"Scarabs are my most basic and simple" unit- and then you paint them with OSL? You 're even madder than I am

Nice looking crons.
The eery looks stands necrons well.

tzurk wrote:Yep, those are great. Really love the colour scheme on these guys, sells the otherworldly cosmic horror aspect of the Necrons really well. I think they have just the right amount of glow and I might be biased on this one but I love the snow bases. Thematically matches the army - cold and calculating - and just works really well with the palette. Lovely work mate!

Marines are looking in good shape too - excited to see them get some paint.

Cheers tzurk, I’m loving how easy these are to knock out, especially for how good they look! Yep, thanks for the base recipe, it matches them nicely, hopefully it will for the Marines when I get to them, probably some point in 2025!

Maharg wrote:The new Panthers squad is looking great, some nice kitbashing there. Good to see the necrons progressing too, simple scheme producing effective results

Thanks Maharg, I’m looking forward to getting some paint on these Panthers, they’re a stark change of pace compared to the Necrons though! John Prins really is the master of quick recipes!

CommissarKhaine wrote:"Scarabs are my most basic and simple" unit- and then you paint them with OSL? You 're even madder than I am

Ha! Yeah, when you put it like that it seems like more effort than it actually is. The eye was a ring of sybarite green followed by a dot of gauss blaster. The orb was similar, except the gauss blaster was watered down to be a wash, once dry it got Abaddon Black and Aardcoat. Probably took 30mins inc drying (I wasn’t that patient between colours!

Not Online!!! wrote:Nice looking crons.
The eery looks stands necrons well.

Thanks Not Online, the ghostliness is what pulled me in to the scheme and I knew I had to copy it!

I planned to do some painting this evening but instead got to work on the Void Panther-isation of my Kitbashes SMA & SMH/Tac Marines. I decided that the casts of the pad I made and the one that theCrowe kindly made for me were too big, so I recast them with much less Oyumaru. Whilst I was at it I made a matching number of Tactical Squad Arrows. It turned out that was enough to finish the squad, except the MkVI chap needed a chapter icon for his right shoulder pad. So I inverted my original image and remade the original cast. I’m hoping they will work for the Terminators I have as well.

I then cracked on with cleaning up the icons that I cast earlier in the week. Some were easier than others, but all got there in the end

I think they look pretty cool with both styles of icon.

Once I’d done with them I gathered all the bits I’d cast for the display board

I’m liking how the SMH bases came out, they’ll make for interesting bits on the floors of the buildings.

I fancy taking a stab at 150 for the year, so I’ll need to get my paint on over the holiday period.

Thanks for looking

Scarabs fit right in. Love all the scatter. Good luck on hitting 150!

Candy marines! . Scatter is looking good, and those guys 'll look great painted up!

I am confused? Is this the "Hänsel und Gretel" chapter?

Shall i now provide an evil witch chapter?



jokes aside, what's the total plan for them, they intrigue me?

Go go Gobert I believe in you to get to 150 for the year! Everytime I see those marines with the casting on them I am thinking GW should come out with a line of Marine Candies. Blood Orange flavored Blood Angels, Mint flavored Salamanders, Blue Berry flavored Ultramarines.

youwashock wrote:Scarabs fit right in. Love all the scatter. Good luck on hitting 150!

Thanks youwashock, I’ve got a plan for 150, a few semi cheat quick wins but they’ll count in my book!

CommissarKhaine wrote:Candy marines! . Scatter is looking good, and those guys 'll look great painted up!

I know! I need to remind my kids not to eat them!

Not Online!!! wrote:I am confused? Is this the "Hänsel und Gretel" chapter?

Shall i now provide an evil witch chapter?



jokes aside, what's the total plan for them, they intrigue me?

Ha! That sounds like a plan for post pile of shame adventures! The terrain could be real ginger bread houses, that take “damage” through the game! In reality though, they are the casts for my Void Panther chapter icons and squad markings as these boys will be joining the Gold & Purple gang.

Yorkright wrote: Go go Gobert I believe in you to get to 150 for the first year! Everytime I see those marines with the casting on them I am thinking GW should come out with a line of Marine Candies. Blood Orange flavored Blood Angels, Mint flavored Salamanders, Blue Berry flavored Ultramarines.

Yeah, the Oyumaru looks pretty tasty, I’m sure GW will make sweets at some point, they’re already branching out to toys.

So the Panthers aren’t going to see paint this year as I’ll never get them and 10 other things done within December. As a result I’m changing pace and working on 2nd Edition Ghaz and the Boyz I rebased earlier in the year. Joining them are some 2nd Edition Stormboyz, if you’ve not seen them before, be warned, they have a proper SS vibe about them.

About half of the box set Ladz are already 90% done but may get a few colour tweaks to remove the twins. The other half need painting fully. With Orks I recall starting with the skin, so that’s what I did. Warboss Green in place of goblin green, but then back to the classics, work Flesh Wash then dry brushes of Warboss, Sunburst Yellow and finally Bad Moon Yellow. I think in the past I did them quite heavily in yellow, but the new boys are a bit darker.

Whilst waiting for the wash though I slapped on some Administratum Grey on the Stormboyz uniforms and a liberal all over of Aqrax. They’re certainly looking closer to the SS now, than the sky blue uniforms young go dry had given them! I should probably rebase them too.

To finish up, I slapped on some brown, red and pale Grey to the new boyz. I’ll carry that on and expand some of the colours to the old ladz at the next sitting.

Oh and this afternoon I managed to tidy up the casts on the Panthers

Thanks for looking

Ah, the good old days when minis could be politically incorrect . Loving the old orks, they have a definite oldhammer vibe to them!

 CommissarKhaine wrote:
Ah, the good old days when minis could be politically incorrect . Loving the old orks, they have a definite oldhammer vibe to them!

God, i forgot the old Storm Boyz...

I miss khorne boyz though.

Great work gobert. Dedicated to detail as ever. Looking forward to seeing the green wave advance in time for the new year. Maybe screaming waaaagh! as you paint will speed you over the finish line. Or maybe painting red helps it go faster?

Hope you find some time to enjoy some painting over Christmas whatever you get done anyway. Have a merry one.

Second edition orks were best orks. Swarms of those little guys with choppers give prime oldhammer feels.

Scarabs look great! The cold, silver light fits right in with the snow bases.

Orks are looking good! My uncle used to have a ton of those stormboys, I remember them hopping all over the table just to get shot to pieces!

Ugh, I’ve done it again, stayed up far too late painting and watching Netflix! Decent progress though. I’ll do a proper post tomorrow

I’m really enjoying the old school Orks, choppy boys and back banners was all the rage when I started playing 40k. Are you planning on doing MiniGhaz’s banners?

Those classic orcs look very cool, good to see them get a new lease on life.
Panthers are looking really cool with their padded out pads and nice work on the scarabs. They are nasty little bug(ger)s, as I have found out in my matches against my friend. They can tie stuff up quite nicely.

CommissarKhaine wrote:Ah, the good old days when minis could be politically incorrect . Loving the old orks, they have a definite oldhammer vibe to them!

Yeah, they’re not the most PC!

Not Online!!! wrote:

 CommissarKhaine wrote:
Ah, the good old days when minis could be politically incorrect . Loving the old orks, they have a definite oldhammer vibe to them!

God, i forgot the old Storm Boyz...

I miss khorne boyz though.

*googles Khorne Boyz* they look a right laugh!

theCrowe wrote:Great work gobert. Dedicated to detail as ever. Looking forward to seeing the green wave advance in time for the new year. Maybe screaming waaaagh! as you paint will speed you over the finish line. Or maybe painting red helps it go faster?

Hope you find some time to enjoy some painting over Christmas whatever you get done anyway. Have a merry one.

I’ll have to lay off the Waaghs as I tend to paint when the kids are in bed! they’ll definitely be getting a bit of red on ‘em. They’ve been fun so far and Ghaz is even quite enjoyable so far. Merry Christmas to you and yours too!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Second edition orks were best orks. Swarms of those little guys with choppers give prime oldhammer feels.

Scarabs look great! The cold, silver light fits right in with the snow bases.

They really are cool! Some of them have a few mods with newer chopper and slugga arms. The older ladz got a few SM bits too then with slightly different paint jobs there should be no 2 Boyz the same.

MegaDave wrote:Orks are looking good! My uncle used to have a ton of those stormboys, I remember them hopping all over the table just to get shot to pieces!

Hey Dave, I vaguely remember playing them in 2nd where they’d also zoom off in random directions iirc, it really added a bit of fun to the Orks!

Yorkright wrote: I’m really enjoying the old school Orks, choppy boys and back banners was all the rage when I started playing 40k. Are you planning on doing MiniGhaz’s banners?

Yeah, you’ve got to love some back banners! I think I made them from cocktail sticks too for added authenticity. I’m not sure on Ghaz getting a banner, it might cover some nice details on his back. We’ll see...

Viterbi wrote:Those classic orcs look very cool, good to see them get a new lease on life.
Panthers are looking really cool with their padded out pads and nice work on the scarabs. They are nasty little bug(ger)s, as I have found out in my matches against my friend. They can tie stuff up quite nicely.

Cheers Viterbi, the Panthers pads came out pretty well in the end. It’s certainly easier to do the clean up on unpainted minis! I haven’t played 40k since 2nd, but it’s good to know the scarabs work well if I do ever get to play

Stepping back to last nights painting, it was mainly getting the base coats down; Khorne Red, Regal Blue, Administratum Grey, Dawnstone, Zandri Dust, Leadbelcher and Ghaz got some bling in Retributor Gold. I then went to town with loads of Agrax Earthshade. Instead of going to bed at that point I did highlights/scratches with Leadbelcher. Here’s the pic again because we all like pictures!

Thanks for looking

Nice work with the oyamaru. I would never have thought to just leave it on the shoulder like that - I would have thought it would just have tumbled off. Did you stick it there, somehow, or does it stay by itself?

 Fifty wrote:
Nice work with the oyamaru. I would never have thought to just leave it on the shoulder like that - I would have thought it would just have tumbled off. Did you stick it there, somehow, or does it stay by itself?

It depends how wet I make the tool I use to press the milliput in to the mould. It’s pretty light stuff, so if I get it right it stays and sticks, otherwise it falls off as I trim the excess! Even if it falls off, the inside matches the shape of the pad so it super glued back on pretty nicely. It’s pretty cool stuff though

I could get used to not having to do stuff or go to work. I got a good hour of painting in and highlighted the reds and blues on the new Ladz and Ghaz. I also started on a few chequers.

Looking good, I love those old models, they had so much character

Aye, the green looks nice.

I hope you found this pic :