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Good to see the ogre got his foot back and trees with their base are off to a good start.

By strange coincidence, it has been exactly a year since I posted anything. I'm posting a lot on Instagram, but had a hankering to return to old haunts and post some pics. If my Lamenters belong aywhere, they belong here...

I split my Lamenters into old and new era models and played a game of second edition against my friend Bobbie's beautiful 2nd ed Novamarines. She lives up in Lincoln, so we rarely play. The battle photos are from all the way back at Bring Out Yer Lead!




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Lovely stuff and great to see you (and progress pics). What's your insta so I can follow?

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Lovely stuff and great to see you (and progress pics). What's your insta so I can follow?

@fifty_painting


I am currently posting Horus Heresy stuff there, but with a stroooong Oldhammer vibe.

Oh Lamenters! I'll have to point Solar_lion in your direction.

Nice one, following

Amazing nostalgia trip, and thanks for sharing your freehand tips!

Good to see you back fifty, and the Lamenters are looking great! Still amazed at the precision of the freehand chapter badges, I’d probably struggle getting the initial dots in the right spot

The 2nd Ed battle pics look awesome, doubly so with the OG cardboard ruins. Both armies look really cool, though is that a rogue Mantis Warrior Apothecary I spy?

 gobert wrote:
Good to see you back fifty, and the Lamenters are looking great! Still amazed at the precision of the freehand chapter badges, I’d probably struggle getting the initial dots in the right spot

The 2nd Ed battle pics look awesome, doubly so with the OG cardboard ruins. Both armies look really cool, though is that a rogue Mantis Warrior Apothecary I spy?

Well spotted! He snuck in to bring me up to the full 1500pts.

Welcome back Fifty

Lamenters? A bold choice mate - you've done a great job and they look freaking awesome - but I cannot imagine painting a whole army of yellow and then topping it off with a complex chequered pattern!
edit: I did belatedly recall that youve painted lamenters since you started the blog... um... its always been a bold choice I guess? sigh

Now you seem to be back i have a quick cheeky question: Did you ever finish this enormous non-standard standard?



This image stuck in the back of my mind for some reason and I used it (really loosely) as inspiration for a banner (far far smaller) I made myself. Im just curious and havent seen it on your blog or instagram

Cheers!
KT

It has been a while Fifty.

Cheers,

CB

 darkkt wrote:
Welcome back Fifty

Lamenters? A bold choice mate - you've done a great job and they look freaking awesome - but I cannot imagine painting a whole army of yellow and then topping it off with a complex chequered pattern!
edit: I did belatedly recall that youve painted lamenters since you started the blog... um... its always been a bold choice I guess? sigh

Now you seem to be back i have a quick cheeky question: Did you ever finish this enormous non-standard standard?



This image stuck in the back of my mind for some reason and I used it (really loosely) as inspiration for a banner (far far smaller) I made myself. Im just curious and havent seen it on your blog or instagram

Cheers!
KT

I've done more, but it is not finished yet. We are doing the sequel campaign this year so I will have to finish it.

I've done more, but it is not finished yet. We are doing the sequel campaign this year so I will have to finish it.

I look forward to seeing it

I do all of my posting on Instagram these days, but I am back to painting Lamenters, and it just feels like they belong here.

I have a Kill Team I'll try to find time to post too, but now I am working on a Space Marine Combat Patrol. I am doing it for ArbitorIan's Tale of Four Gamers and one of my goals is to use up old models. It is for Badab and on top of that I want to use up old Firstborn, so my squad of five Infernus marines is actually old flamer marines, all from old new edition boxes! The Terminators are the same ones from here that I never finished years ago!

I think basic flamers look a bit crap, so I drilled them out with a fat drill bit, drilled out a bit of plastic rod with a teeny tiny drill bit, then glued the small bit into the large hole. Looks a lot better, I think.

The terminators are being painted with some recently acquired and restored Sunburst Yellow, the lack of which was why they remained unfinished for a long time. The flamer marines are done with Bad Moon Yellow Contrast Paint over a drybrushed base layer.

Looks nifty, Fifty! What's your insta handle?

Cheers.

Insta is Fifty_painting

Good to see you back on dakka fifty! I’ve gotten behind watching the tale of four gamers vids, will have to catch up. Loving the yellow on the Space Hulk Terminators! Still can’t get over the dedication it takes to paint all of those chequers

Good to see you keeping up with the forums. I've come off all socials. Forums for life, baby.