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Much better.

There's me looking really close at the picture trying to see this orange spot and wondering if Snrub is seeing things and then I see that you've updated the picture...

Looks good.
What I find with painting to sell, is that so long as you enjoy the process it makes it worthwhile, even if the person who buys it is getting a good deal.

Well then, I'm in good shape. Have really enjoyed working on the modern land raider and rhino. Has let me play with a color I don't usually get to work with and mess with the new models, which are great!

I've got a single marine to paint up and then I need to find the missing part to BLACKHAND's custom built dreadknight. Once that's done, I'm just waiting for the power weapons to come back from Cutthroatcure (thanks again mate).

Nice to be closing in on the end of this project! Before attacking the last item, I'm tidying up the infantry. Mainly making the green on the purity seals pop a bit and touching up the areas where the sword arms came off the marines and pulled off some of the paint. Also needed to paint one last guy. Now that the infantry's all sorted, it's on to the dreadknight!


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Got my question answered... thanks wm!

Awesome Land Raider Gits'

Thank you monkeyh, I'm very pleased with the way it turned out.

Thats a Land Raider I know and love .. good job in the end

Very nice. Very nice indeed. And you've rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrealy got me thinking about Red...

Nice Land Raider Gits!

That Raider is glorious - beautifully deep red

Love the LR, really... Too bad you didn't paint the small runes, as was suggested...

Still great though, of course

Thank you one and all! And no... no runes. Sorry Yggs.

Gits I dont know why youre down about the Land Raider. You did an excellent job. Huge difference between 1st post and this post! Don't knock yourself short here. You said it yourself, youre painting it to a certain standard then selling it. It might night have all the bells and whistles you normally put on but it looks superb brother.

It was my thinking that any model created after the fall of the Berlin Wall burned your hands like garlic to a vampire.

What color did you highlight your red with? I find red one of the most stubborn colors to highlight, because you can't just add white and call it a day.

@Master Azalle: Why thank you good sir! I have come a long way. Brings to mind the story of putting an infinite number of chimps in front of an infinite number of typewriters and eventually they'd write the complete works of William Shakespeare... (or was it Wilma Shakespeare? I can never remember...)

@moonpie: Yeah, me too. I must be losing my ju-ju.

The edge highlighting is the P3 color "Khador Red". (really more of an orange) The broad highlighting on the body of the tank is just GW red over GW Mech**e Red (sorry, the name is painted over) foundation paint.

Mechrite Red. Allegedly the "replacement" color is something like Mephiston Red, but it really isnt. It turns out way lighter. From my experience, the "new" foundations are nothing like the old ones, sadly :/
Just an fyi if ya didnt already know.


LR and the rest of the Exorcists/Red Knights look ace. Definitely looking forward to the Dreadknight and the completed power weapons!

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(or was it Wilma Shakespeare? I can never remember...)

That depends on which universe you are in.

I've used various shades of pink or orange to highlight red, usually by mixing white or yellow into the base red.

If I were to do this for myself... I'd make a whiter mix and so rather irregular highlights here and there, focusing on the corners. I haven't always done it that way but I have played around with it and it gives a nice effect. Also, I've been playing around with a white second edge highlight of metallics (bolt-gun metal), that works nicely too.

I found the missing shoulder!! Work on the Dreadknight can commence!

In doing so, I had to completely empty one of the shelf sets in the man-cave. While we were doing so Thing 1 and I took his Doom Eagle army and decided to lay it all out for a photo op. Over 4000 points, nearly all playable in a single double-FOC list!



You can see the paint levels are all over the board... but most of it at least has SOME paint on it & a lot of it is completely painted. I haven't seen him this excited about 40k in a long while! Now you guys know where all MY original Mk-1 vehicles went to!

Very neat! Great photo. I hope it motivates Thing 1 to paint some more.

Not a bad looking force there Gits. From the look of it most of those models are older then i am.

Can definitely see some of your influence in his force, Gits.

So many old school models! Even a Mk1 Land Raider!
Lucky kid

Well, the idea (when we started) was to get him an army without spending a ton of cash. So we looked through all of my old stuff & took it from there. Solar_Lion & others donated some models too. Of course back then I didn't think I'd be re-vamping my marine army so I didn't think I'd need the old vehicles. Silly me.

This is the perfect opportunity for an "accident" to occur involving a certain silver and red space marine army.

A particular tank (or 4) may go inexplicably missing and wind up re-purposed as a Blood Raven Mantis Warrior chapter vehicle a few weeks later. Could claim you brought them at an op-shop or somesuch.

I'm quessing the " pre" crusade MW are close to being complete and don't need (if any) " OOP" models.

We have another 410 pages of Post crusade MW to look forward too!

One can dream....



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Enjoy!

And MTV actually played music videos.. really they did! Not making this stuff up!

I remember watching Prince's Purple Rain Video on MTV... and correctly concluding that the guy is odd.

For that point, I also remember watching Milli Vanilli's "Blame it on the Rain"...


I seem to have a thing for songs with rain in it.

Woo happy halloween.

Marines re purpose machines and tanks all the time. More often when they seem to fall into a vat of perfect Mantis Colors

•chuckle• Good one mate!