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Is it threadcromancy if I post to one of my own threads??

In any case, just thought I'd post. Been playing a lot of nasty Nid lists in the run up to Adepticon, so I took a long look at what figures Thing 2 had available and we've managed to come up with a decently competitive list for him at 1750. We do have some proxys but most are close (i.e. regular stealers for yarmgrls, a zoey for the Doom, etc.). We do have the figures to make the yarmgrls (however you spell that) and I've got a figure that I want to use as the Doom. So, there should be a bit of nid painting action in the forseeable future... and maybe some lop-sided battle reports to go with it.

'Till then!

Got Thing 2's birthday present done. Some quick-and-dirty nids. Proud of Thing 1 who did most of the work on the gargoyles himself.

Gargoyles - Thing 1
Hive Guard - friend who does some commission painting
Tyrant Guard - re-paint by yours truly



That should keep him out of trouble for a while. Going to continue to farm out most of his remaining nids... I'd like to put this army to bed, at least for the most part.

Looks good. You should wrangle up an army shot soon, it's been so long I kinda forget what he has these days.

I think I'll wait a few weeks for the army shot as he'll have another couple of major pieces by then. I've decided it's time to be "done" with the Nids and Necrons... so I'll be focusing on getting those built and painted. That'll free up some much needed mental space so I can turn my attention to other matters.

Not that there won't ever be any more nids or crons... but basically the kids' armies will be set. Everything beyond that will be gravy.

Happy B-day Thing 2!

Looking great, and happy B-day, Thing 2... and soon young men's thoughts turn to items that have wheels...
And so, what is the pinewood derby plans?

Ask me in January...

He had a good day. 40k, Magic & Pokemon presents as well as legos & an very nice RC car.

I had a very good day because I successfully made jalepeno poppers on the grill for the first time... and they were spectacular.

I thought I'd post a pic of what Thing 2 got for Christmas 40k-wise, this is after all... supposed to be a chronicle of his 40k activities rather than just my painting his figures for him.

He's got a bee in his bonnet about painting up marines. I gave him an old, metal melta marine which he's been gleefully working on. I'll be honest... I can't say much about his color choices, but he likes them and as long as he's having a good time... I'll keep my hands out of it.

He wanted a devastator squad. I looked in every FLGS in the area and couldn't find one, so decided to dig through my bits and see if I couldn't put one together. After much digging, I found a good chunk of an AoBR marine squad, bits of 4 heavy weapons and something I could convert into a sergeant... oh, and an AoBR captain... which is still a great little model if not "optimized". I took out my magic kit-bashing tools and managed to cobble together the 4 heavies and the sergeant... and here's what I came up with.



You'll note that he's primed them yellow. This is an interesting choice as yellow is nowhere in his color scheme. But... when asked, "I like a challenge!" he replies. So be it.


As he works on these figures, I'll post his progress. Will be nice to have some of HIS work on this blog for a change.

Gits

 Gitsplitta wrote:
You'll note that he's primed them yellow. This is an interesting choice as yellow is nowhere in his color scheme. But... when asked, "I like a challenge!" he replies. So be it.

Atta boy! Best of luck to him, and may he keep that attitude as he grows.

very cool gits maybe hes making an homage to you by making some vets of mantis warriors...

Thanks guys. I passed on your comments & it made him smile!

Which chapter are these for, the DE?

alabamaheretic wrote:very cool gits maybe hes making an homage to you by making some vets of mantis warriors...

Funny you should mention that 'bama. He started his first marine in an attempt to enter my Mantis Maker competition... but then went in such a wildly different direction with it that it became it's own thing.

whalemusic360 wrote:Which chapter are these for, the DE?

He hasn't picked a codex yet. He's calling them "Sea Ravens".

So, here's where he was when he finished painting the melta gunner. See all the yellow primer coming through? Most, and I mean most of that is completely invisible if you're holding the figure in your hand, so I see how it could easily be missed.



I went over it and touched it up. Didn't change his scheme at all... just cleaned up his lines, tried to re-touch the areas where the primer was showing through and re-did his wash. Here's how it turned out.



I'm not a fan of the color scheme... only because the blue he's chosen is nearly invisible against the black when it's on the tabletop. But he loves it, so who am I to judge?


I will be trying to encourage him to improve his painting skills as he goes... but very gently. As long as he enjoys the painting... I'm going to take a back seat to pushing him to perfection.

thats a really well done model! looks very good im kinda partial to the blue and black i suck at making stripes so your touch ups and his thought process made it even better.

thats really cool he tried to enter your comp.

tell him he is doing really well from me. i do enjoy seeing the boys updates...

Reminds me a bit of Moonpies dudes. Pretty decent color scheme.

I like it a lot. How you were able to hit all that yellow so well is very impressive.

I quite like the colour scheme. It gives a sort of dark blue at a distance but the closer you look the more detail appears. Kind of like and optical illusion.
to Thing 2.

and I like his attitude to a challenge.

At least he's trying new things!.. Very old school GW Scheme.

Yeah thats quite cool, great camo for covert night time raids...I mean missions (the taint of chaos is forever present )

You wont see these bad boys coming out of the surf in their Storm Ravens

Edit: Their yellow undercoat must make them an Imperial Fist successor chapter, see it all makes sense now

*grin* Well played Gir.

Is it threadcromancy if it's your own thread??

Don't know if anyone is reading this anymore but I actually have an update. As of late, both my boys (including Thing 2 who's blog this is) and I have been playing a lot of 40k. The games have been fun and while I've been taking pictures, I never seem to get to the battle report before I've forgotten how the battle went. I do have a couple of fun shots to share though.

Raveners attack a grot armored column of kans.


Losses are heavy on both sides, but the Raveners eventually win out.



Also Thing 2 and I are in a bit of a weight loss competition. If he loses more than I do, I have to paint a single large figure or group of smaller ones for him. He won our first week, so he had me do this dakka flyrant I picked up off the net a few years back. Keep in mind I only have a week to do this start to finish (aside from doing my own projects), so the paint jobs are pretty basic.


I'm sure there will be more updates soon. Thanks for reading!

Nice bug!

I'm still reading, nice to see some bug action shots.

Still reading as well. The Bug looks good, and weightloss is a great motivator!

Very nice and will be a good competitive add to his army.

Yeah, it's something he needed. I've been trying to convince him to turn his other tyrant into a dakka flyrant but he's fixated on The Swarm Lord so no luck so far. He out-lost me again this week so you'll be seeing something new again in the next 7 days.

If you out-lose him, does he have to paint something for you?

Nope, he has to paint his own stuff that week.

I did try something new on this tyrant. For the first time I tried the classic tyranid triangular patterning/highlighting on the back edges of the big plates. I only did one color as opposed to the normal 2 or 3, but it wasn't as difficult as I thought so I may go back in and add at least one more color for some variation.

Good job on the 'Nid.

Yeah, those little stripes are a good way to add some texture and interest to the carapace. They're one of these things that you can put as much effort in as you want and still get a good result.

This is a cool blog, youngsters getting into this hobby are always good. Nice work on this nid army, and love those action shots against the Orks