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No Tyranid updates, but I have added a few more pictures of 2.98 new members to "Da Freedum Fightas":

First up, "Woodland Ork" (And I apologize for the blurry pic, didn't even notice it until I got home and transferred it onto my hard drive )







Second, "Casual Friday Ork":







And the .98 is the very nearly finished (As in I need to paint one last thing and base him) "Chocolate Chip":






Probably going to stick to the three camo patterns shown, plus a KLMK style 2-tone camo. Give them a little rag-tag diversity. Sprinkle in the odd casually dressed Ork like the above shown in there.

Sorry about the silent treatment folks. Did some painting on the weekend of the 20th/21st but forgot to take pictures, and then was in Vancouver for the missus' cheer competition. Where I almost died of Norwalk virus. Seriously, you wouldn't think death by dehydration would be that bad - we've all been hungover or dehydrated to a degree before and yea it sucks, but it's not -awful-.

But it gets worse. So, so much worse. I wouldn't torture my worst enemy (if I had one) in that way. I should actually probably be absolutely elated to still be breathing right now, considering, but I'm still powering through the virus' last remaining efforts to make its eventual departure miserable for me.

Hoping I'll be feeling better and get a chance to do more work and post more pictures this weekend, just wanted to leave an update for anyone watching this and waiting for new images.

*Three-Dog voice* Newwwws time, chiiiiiiildren!

Rather small update, weekend was actually busier than I expected it to be, didn't end up with as much time to paint as I'd like, but das k. I did get a Big Shoota done, but I think my next update is going to be something Marine or Guard oriented. Namely because I have a few half painted marines sitting on the workbench that've been like that for 4 or 5 years or however long since I moved. So they need some love. But you're not here to read, you're here for pictures, no matter how limited the content! And you shall have them!

It's been a busy few weeks and I haven't had as much time to paint as I'd like, but I finished off a couple models in the span of the few short hours I had to paint last night.

First, I more or less finished that Chaos Rhino that's been sitting half-done for years (Also, can anyone think of a reason other than "GRIMDARK" as to why a pintle weapon would have a bayonet? I mean really...):






I say "more or less" because I may still add a few small freehand details here and there, and there are a couple spots I already notice I forgot or need to touch up, but it's done enough I feel okay putting it on the army shelves with the rest.

I also finished an assault marine that, up until now, had spent the last 4 years as a codex grey jump pack on a black primed marine. Nothing special, but I decided it's time to start picking through a few of my marines at the same time as we work through the Orks. And the Tau. And the Chaos. And the Nids. And the Dark Eldar. And you know? It's becoming apparent that I have a problem


Lastly, I've decided to hunker down and solidify some Chapter fluff. As such, I've decided that these guys are an Imperial Fists successor; If only so that I can include one of the most bad-ass units, even if he is horribly likely to die almost immediately...

The Emperor's Champion has made his way through my old Black Templars army, into some Simple Green, out to a coat of primer, and finally arrived at the first fresh coats of paint. He'll be painted as one of the 1st Company members (Which reminds me his shins and boots should be black, not grey ) since that's where the chapter's most honoured members end up. Seems fitting then, that he'd be inducted for all of his likely short, quarter/half-game lifespan:


Lots of work to do on him, not sure how much I'll focus on getting him done as I still have a lot of standard units to do, but he's on the bench and officially started, so that's something.

Got a few more additions! Would still like to have more opportunity to paint, but it is what it is for now!

First off, I scored big. FLGS had looted a Chaos starter box for bitz and didn't use the Hellbrute, so they tossed it on the shelf for $14.99 CAD. So yea, I got a brand new Dreadnazi for $20 after tax! Only just started painting him, but I have a feeling he's going to be really enjoyable. Been awhile since I've done any corrupted looking flesh tones.


On the Dark Eldar front, I believe I forgot pictures of this Fusion Gunner when I painted him. So here he is in all of his prancing space-elf glory:


And the gang so far:


I also spotted this swaggery looking bastard in my mixed rectangle of mixed primed/unprimed marines and was like "Ay bby. U wan sum paint?" Oh yea, look at him in all of his majesty! That looks really good, comin' outta the back of his neck there...


And last but not least, I had completely forgotten that I had received a whole bunch of the snap together Planetary Empires tiles for campaigns years ago, and dug them out. Primed some and added a few to the stack. Expanding into some desert tiles, and I think it'll be time for a solid campaign soon!

Well holy crap.

Between working as an office manager at one company and often going straight from there to my financial business, I wasn't sure if I'd ever get a chance to paint things this summer. But the Emperor has smiled upon me, and graced me with a Saturday afternoon with nothing to do, and so I hopped (Don't lie you lazy feth. You drove) over to buddy's place and got right into it.

I finished that Chaos dreadnought but damn! That thing took -time-! Still, I'm happy with how it came out:








Most of the time I had to sink into him was just getting the flesh tones right. I think that's like 4 or 5 different colours to get the right sort of bruised, pallid look I wanted. But it worked. Not as well as it did on the Daemon Prince mind you, but I don't think I'll quite achieve it as perfectly as I did on him.

I also decided to dive into getting the Noise Marines (that I've had for like 8 years unpainted...) done. Naturally, this meant painting the sergeant first. Massive, distracting old pewter mold line that I didn't see running down his face until it was too late aside, I think he'll fit in just fine:







I also thought I'd get a shot of all of the CSM tactical marines together, since I don't think I've taken pictures of them since the last few additions:




And last but not least, I've actually had this picture for a month or two and just never put it up. But I did finish the Emperor's Champion that I had posted as a WIP back a ways:





Cheers folks!

That is a very cool dread, nice to see him finished. I am also especially fond of the skin on the noise marine's shoulder.

 KernelTerror wrote:
That is a very cool dread, nice to see him finished. I am also especially fond of the skin on the noise marine's shoulder.

Thanks! Looking through your gallery at some of the stuff you've painted, that's high praise indeed! He was fun to paint but I'm glad he's done. There was a -lot- of layering involved to get the right colours and the right amount of the army's signature "grime" look. There were a lot of "Feths" uttered while painting him...

The noise marine sergeant was actually surprisingly simple for what I had assumed was going to be a very complex model. Then again maybe that was just by comparison to the Hellbrute

It sounds like I'll have more time to paint through August and September so that'll be good, I was jonesing pretty hard to get back into it.

I'm back! No, I haven't been on a hiatus. I've actually just been stupid busy. Between serving as a managing partner in a financial centre downtown, working as an office manager in a warehouse, prepping for a Spartan Race that the missus made me run because I think she enjoys watching me suffer, and house hunting I've had to pick up a paint brush in bits here and there, whenever I can.

But- (And it's a big butt, because everyone loves big butts) I've been making it count. I've finished a Noise Marine, a standard Spikey Marine, I finalized the colour pallet for the dozen or so random Tau sitting in a box, and I built a little objective marker (And no I don't know why my camera was being so finicky with the lighting it usually loves:













Buddy and I also picked up like 2 or 3 sheets of 2.5" thick pink insulation board on his contractor discount and went about building a massive series of trenches, artillery pits, depots, etc...

...As well as a giant volcano base for Warboss Fidel Blastro and his Freedum Fightas. Of course, being the dolt I am I completely forgot to get any pictures of what we've carved out so far (None of it is painted or detailed or even remotely close to done yet) but rest assured I will include photographs the next time I'm there.

Once the missus and I get possession on the 15th of October and we get settled in, I'm hoping to get another paint station set up so that I can update this regularly like I used to. I'm also eyeing the crap out of selling off my guard infantry and restarting with a whole bunch of Anvil Industries' customizable squads. We'll see!

Cheers!

Noiiiiiiiiiiiiiice, Metallifan.

Kan! Y U No send me links to your 40K YMDC arguments? I miss reading those...

 metallifan wrote:
Kan! Y U No send me links to your 40K YMDC arguments? I miss reading those...

You've made an error...I don't really do YMDC.

You've had a few, and they made me chuckle. But yea I guess it was more rumour mill and GD. Some of your smackdowns were worthy of a solid guffaw, Eh?

Nice looking slaneshiis Metallifan, and congrats on finding a place to settle in, real life changer.

 KernelTerror wrote:
Nice looking slaneshiis Metallifan, and congrats on finding a place to settle in, real life changer.

Thanks Kernel, your cultists look like they're coming along great! It definitely is a game-changer, and we're pretty excited! It'll be nice to not have to keep packing up and moving every few years. Not to mention it's literally cheaper in this city to own a house and pay your mortgage and bills every month than rent a place of the same size with utilities covered. Kind of back-asswards, but I'm glad to be out of that world!

Tau, Tau, and more Tau!

Yes, after I found all the pieces of a partially assembled Hammerhead, a box full of 11 or so unpainted Fire Warriors and a full box of Kroot still on the sprue tucked away in a corner of the workstation, I decided it was only fitting that we expand it into a playable force. Plus, I had bought a Battlesuit Commander that I really wanted to paint up and surround with an admirable army. A huge shout-out goes to Dakka user gameandwatch for supplying me with a supply of second hand minis that would've cost around $400 CAD new for around $180 CAD. If you ever see his sale threads up, I recommend checking them out!




For the Kroot, we decided to go with a something of a traditional brown-ish coloured desert bird look. Typically, males in many bird species tend to have bright colours on their heads to attract females, while the females are often much more unassuming so as to aid in camouflage. With that in mind, we did "Male" and "Female" mockups. I'm not sold on the pink warpaint that buddy did on the male - looks too much like Kroot in drag but I do like the black and red beak. The blades on their weapons we wanted to look like they were fashioned from some kind of deep-blue obsidian-like material:








I also managed to get most of the way through one of the 3 Hammerheads. I decided that, to tie in with the pseudo-Soviet/modern look of the Fire Warriors, I'd go with a camo inspired by the same. I settled on a cold-war era paintjob that I saw on a number of pictures of old Soviet T-72s and Syrian T-55s/T-62s. As an added bonus, the paint scheme was, by default, almost a perfect match to the infantry. The only difference being that the vehicles have black splinters, while the infantry have brown splinters. As you'll see, I still have to finish the engines and do some touch-ups and weathering/shading on the railgun, but otherwise she's basically finished:








And again, the infantry palette for cross-reference. Note the SVD/AK-influenced Pulse Rifle:




Next few weeks are going to be a blur of home renos, moving, and weekends out of town. Not sure where I'll find time in there to paint, but rest assured that you'll get updates if I can! And it'll be nice to get a proper paint station set up in my home again!

I. Hate. Moving. And I hate moving during Christmas. Can't a man get time to paint?

Oh well, I've got my painting station set up and have been chipping away at a hilarious new idea thanks to a Spikey Bitz swag shipment I received that consisted of a Kromlech sample and a Burning of Prospero tactical squad. I've decided I'm going to turn 9 of those Mk III marines and 9 of the Betrayal at Calth Mk IV marines into original legion Christmas ornaments for 2017! Step one is getting them all good and painted up, and so far I've got 3 of them done!

I REEEEEEALLY wanted to try my hand at the high-gloss "Candy Apple Red" style of Thousand Sons I've seen around the internet (Plus I had a pre-heresy looking 1K Sons head from the Kromlech sample and just -had- to use it) and so that was my first one, and so far the one that I'm happiest with:










The second one was an Iron Warrior, since I figured that the only armour that really suited the Iron Warriors was... Well, Mk III "Iron". Plus his painting process basically consisted of "DRYBRUSH -ALL- THE THINGS" at its core. And because I really wanted to try freehanding some caution stripes (Don't worry though, I won't be quitting my day job to freehand legion insignias apparently )









And lastly, I finished an Iron Hand. Because again, "Iron in the name" -> Iron Armour. And Drybrushing. And didn't turn heretic so the Inquisition won't need to be worried about me having a blasphemous bias...

Lighting isn't as good on this one as I snapped his pictures at night and had to use the desk lamp but, I mean, they're gunmetal and black. It's pretty easy to imagine how that looks.










And of course, a little teaser of who's next!

Cool marines, and congrats on the moving house business. The thousand son head works well with the old school scheme, saying something along "corruption in process".

Looking good! Like the iron warrior and looking forward to the deathguard guy.

Ask and ye shall receive!

Over the weekend, I managed to finish up the Death Guard and World Eater, as well as start a bunch of terrain!

Up first, the World Eater. I think the combination of Red Ink and my own mixture of Red Gore turned out well as far as making him look like he just went to town on a collection of enemy faces:










And of course, the Death Guard. This guy was actually super frustrating. Either the paint refused to stick to the model, or it stuck too well and I had to paint him with straight water to try and thin the already thinned paint down more. I did get him done, but I didn't enjoy it and I'm not happy with the outcome really. Huge shame, since he was one of the ones I was looking forward to painting the most. Oh well, he's done and done to Christmas Ornament standards










And I also spent a day at a friend's, building some serious terrain because, hey, never enough:













There's also a giant landing pad/artillery pit/command post with removable roofing on the perimeter bunkers, but I never snapped a shot of it Next time! The trenches will all be velcro'ed/magnetized together so they can be switched and swapped at leisure.

Ooh. That deathguard guy did turn out nice. Also, very nice trenchline. Looks like it will be awesome all painted up.

The presence of Death Guard pleases me.

Thanks Brush, you and I both are looking forward to it! I hope to have at least a couple segments of it done before my Anvil Industries Trenchers show up to replace my current Guard!

Shadow! You'll be glad to know then that pictures of one of the Vlka Fenryka are due next since I finished him last night! How ya been, still trying to keep warm up in PG?

-Rocks back and forth-

I actually bought Prospero -just- to throw in some old fashioned Space Wolves. I've still those gakky looking Grey Space Wolves. But I feel my brush game is much better then when I was a teenager.


Yeah, I don't -have- to go outside often to do everything that needs doing, so i've kept mostly warm. I've heard it's not nessisarily been sunny down there either.

Little Simple Green will ungakk those in a jiffy and let you put that honed brushmanship to work!

And no, it has been ridiculous and cold and stupid and snowy and WHY IS THIS HAPPENING I LIVE IN THE CANADIAN DESERT (WELL IT'S ACTUALLY MORE OF AN ARID GRASSLAND STEPPE, BUT STILL)

Oh well, at least cold, snowy, icy crap weather is just the right kind to be painting a Space Wolf! Here he is, in all of his "WolfWolfWolfWolfWolfWolfWolfWolfWolfWolf" glory:









I really enjoyed painting this one. The primer behaved well, the paints went on smooth, and I got to use another Kromlech bit, which is always fun!

But what's a Space Wolf without sworn rivals? To quote If The Emperor Had A Text-To-Speech Device: "Lion for life, dog-f***er"









That puts the count up to 7! Only three more to go before I switch over to finishing the remaining eight legions in Mk IV! All that's left is Imperial Fists, White Scars, and Luna Wolves - I'm opting for the LW over the SoH, as they didn't adopt the Sons mantra until Horus had been corrupted but had not yet openly turned.

Nice. I really like the space wolf. Which other three legions are getting the MKIII?

White Scar (Their mini is done, I just haven't posted it. Mostly because I hate painting in white, it always comes out looking awful lol. I'll get to it at some point though ), Imperial Fist (Almost done, just touch-ups and shading mostly), and a Luna Wolf (As I said before, I didn't want to do SoH since Horus had already secretly turned when he made that change)

The remaining 8 legions will be getting MkIV, though I'll use a beaky head for the Raven Guard and an Aquila chest piece for the Emperor's Children ornament. The Ultramarine ornament will also be a throwback to the old pewter "Punching the air" Powerfist sergeants of yore .

The last 3 Mk III marines are done!
Now it'll be on to the remaining 8 rocking Mk IV once this damn slushy Canadian winter is over. I knew Primer didn't work in the cold well, and yet I did it anyway for those 10 because I have the patience of a 5 year old when it comes to priming things.

Luckily I have 8 Assault Marines and 5 Tau to tide me over for now, with more back at the Hobby Cave at my friend's place that need work (Chaos, anyone?)

Without further adieu, the White Scars (You were a pain in the arse m8. Good thing Jaghatai Khan likes going fast), Luna Wolves (F***ING HORUS), and Imperial Fists (A revelation led me to it)

White Scar









Luna Wolf









Imperial Fist









Also! I was not aware that I had not uploaded -any- of the recent images of the Tau I had painted! The Hammerhead isn't much different from the WIP shots considering the engines were just off of it in the WIP, but here you go:

Good stuff. Was the ork top-knot a trophy for the white scar or did he get it from "lockz for love?" Also the crest works well on the IF sgt. Can't wait to see the rest!

ps. grudging admiration for the paintjob on your ugly xenos pets...

Hahaha the top knot was indeed literally from the Ork Sprue. Didn't feel like Forge-Worlding some top-knot Mk III heads for one guy We'll just say that, lorewise, he pulled it off a Nob, beat it to death with its own topknot, and then used said topknot for himself to compliment the "ravishing mustache" he has under that helmet.

And thank you, I was going for their "Line Command" emblem. I think for trying to do it quickly it turned out alright!