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Boy, next time you win a prize in one of my contests... I'm going to send you a whole squad!

What ? MOAR Mantis Warriors ? With RT-era parts ??

Gits, what have you done !!?!?

(Nice start, btw Gir )

Gitsplitta wrote:Boy, next time you win a prize in one of my contests... I'm going to send you a whole squad!

They are quite fun to paint if you have a good yellow

Yggdrasil wrote:What ? MOAR Mantis Warriors ? With RT-era parts ??

Gits, what have you done !!?!?

(Nice start, btw Gir )

I won this guys in Git's paint a MW comp, he misses his squad though so needs to fly back to the US to be reunited.

I have done some more work on him today, I progressed with more layers of VA Flat Yellow and he's looking pretty cool now on the yellow side, I've also done his tranquility pattern, looks like he been attached by a spider Pics will follow in the next few days, I expect he will be finished by then as I have this week off work.

Onto my Warmachine models that I painted up they have been accepted into the Wamp comp so I can now post the pictures here as well. Acting as a hard core paint pimp these guys will be going up on ebay this weekend

I actually think I'm progressing with my painting by not having to paint to a deadline for tournaments and the fact that I can paint whatever I fancy now makes a big difference. The only thing that I'm not sure about is painting 40k stuff as its my favourite for models but that hardest to sell. Armies dont budge for ages due to the large costs involved same with vehicles, would people buy individual squads do you think?

Anyway pictures.................

Kommander Sorscha



Khador Juggernaught Warjack



Warjack pic is zoomable for a change....

on a roll at the moment

Beautiful reds!

Nice work. Nice weathering/chipping.

would people buy individual squads do you think?

I have had success with selling painted squads (a DA tactical and a DA terminator squad) on ebay for OK money.
The individual models are harder to shift (like a librarian or company master, both from Dark Vengeance in my case), so you may sell off most the army and then be left with odd models... You may get lucky though...

Gitsplitta wrote:Beautiful reds!

Cheers Git's seems to be my colour at the moment apart from yellow that is

Dr H wrote:Nice work. Nice weathering/chipping.

would people buy individual squads do you think?

I have had success with selling painted squads (a DA tactical and a DA terminator squad) on ebay for OK money.
The individual models are harder to shift (like a librarian or company master, both from Dark Vengeance in my case), so you may sell off most the army and then be left with odd models... You may get lucky though...

Thanks Dr H, my problem is the other way round single models go quite quick and squads take a bit longer and armies,,,,well I havent managed to sell one of those yet

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Rightio its update time

Finished off the next in line on the Warmachine paint line, one squad to go and that's me out of Warmachine models.

Sooo lets meet Mr Destroyer, the pic in the gallery is much better for some reason.



Moving on to the model you're all actually here to see the MW Tranquillity vet, Git's will be basing him to match in with his new friends when he arrives.



I hope I've passed my painting yellow test

I also received my new painting book, Kevin Dallimore's Painting & Modelling Guide Master Class. I'll let you know what's its like I've only looked at the pictures so far. On first glance I'm not that impressed to be honest especially for how expensive it was, but we shall see. There's a few others I've seen as well that look interesting.

Oh yeah, I remember it now

Great job anyway on the yellow !! Definitely "PASSED" !

Excellent work on that Vet Gir. Yellow is just wonderful! That's one of my all time favorite kit-bashes and you did it justice!

Thanks both glad your liking it

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Now its new camera time I've been trying to get some good photos with it but bare in mind this is all under normal or lamp light, haven't seen any real daylight today!

So all looking ok apart from I have an issue with reds for some reason they kind of come out orange as per the last picture which is a Khador Man O War I'm currently working on, he's the same colour red as the warjacks. Any ideas as its really bugging me.

Cheers









Issue with Reds



Same pic with old camera

All looking goog Gir!

Thanks Git's

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Not much to update you with from the past weekend instead of painting I decided to play with myself, the results can be found here for the brave http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/571906.page

So its a new year so I think it would be a good idea for some goals and the like so here we go.

Things that one must accomplish this year.

Make/buy more scenery for batreps.
Build (and paint) my Eldar army up to 900 points minimum
Finally start my Exorcists
Finish painting my khador Man O War unit.
Paint my Dwarf Man O War fleet when it arrives

Things that I would like to do but may not accomplish

Finish my World Eaters army to 1750 points
Finish my Death Guard army to 1750 points
Collect the other half of my Skaven fleet where possible and paint
Become a better painter
Collect and paint a Cygnar starter force and learn the rules

That should do for now, I've got loads more that I want to do but these are the most important.

Checked the auto-batrep, and... Good luck on your endeavours

 Yggdrasil wrote:
Checked the auto-batrep, and... Good luck on your endeavours

Cheers Yggs I'll update it with the next turn hopefully tomorrow night, it was going to be tonight but my computer had a melt down so had to sort that out.

I don't normally do mid week updates but with my new camera I can take pics when stuff happens instead of having to wait for the weekend to put the batteries on charge, modern technology is so nice

So here's a pic of what I got in the post today, yep an entire Dwarf Man O War fleet. Looking forward to painting these up should be fun.



Oh and Git's Mr MW should be well on his way by now, I packed him with lots of insulation to keep him warm when he gets to your end

He'll appreciate that. It's still below zero here (though it's supposed to be in the 30's by Friday).

I missed a load Everything looks great Gir! Looking forward to seeing the fleet painted

Cheers Nash should be fun painting little boats for a change.

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Not much to report back on today. I've made the second half of my Mantis Warrior squad and finished off my batrep which is linked somewhere above



I've also finished the first Khador Man O War although his pigments are still drying so you wont see him till next weekend.

Sorry progress is slow at the moment with work eating up all my free time

Here's the promised pic of the finished Man O War unit that I finished last weekend.



Still having a few issues with taking pics of red minis but I'm getting there.

I also took a shot of the completed Khador force. I expect there will be other additions later on though.



I have started painting the other half of the MW squad, nothing to show yet and I'm working tomorrow so maybe next weekend if your lucky.

I don't really have much else to report back on this weekend, I do seem to have a Man O War ship fetish at the moment though They will appear in the blog soon enough

Great looking army Gir! Quite lovely.

Looking good.

Have you tried using a different colour background for your photos to see if that helps with the "red" issue.
They look fine there, but only you know if it matches RL.

Gitsplitta wrote:Great looking army Gir! Quite lovely.

Cheers Git's, I originally bought them to sell but I like them so much I'm going to keep them now

Dr H wrote:Looking good.

Have you tried using a different colour background for your photos to see if that helps with the "red" issue.
They look fine there, but only you know if it matches RL.

That's a good idea Dr H I hadn't thought of trying a different colour back drop. The photos make the red look soft and a bit pinker than they really are.

Get the epic jugger and bohemouth and dont forget winterguard

I'm back this week with a few Mantis Warriors, three more to go and I'll have a full squad

Nothing else interesting happing on the hobby front at my end at the moment I'm afraid, I have a few ideas though.





I've gone for a more angled MW logo on these two it makes painting it so much more easier.

Looking fine Gir. You're doing the modern MW scheme proud.

Beautifully run down. Can you put up some more zoomable pics of those khador you're working on?

Lookin fine there sweety xx

Gitsplitta wrote:Looking fine Gir. You're doing the modern MW scheme proud.

Cheers Git's

inmygravenimage wrote:Beautifully run down. Can you put up some more zoomable pics of those khador you're working on?

Yeah I'll try Graven the last few were zoomable is it the Warjacks you want close ups of?

Miss Dee wrote:Lookin fine there sweety xx

Thanks Miss Dee, I hope you like the minis as well!

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Soooo another weekend is upon us and I just had enough time to finish the rest of the Mantis Warrior combat squad. I'm really really happy with how the Grav Gun dudes head came out I'm really starting to get the hang of painting heads, going to move on to arms next or even bodies, I prefer those but I'm all out of female ones for now....

Pic bomb my new camera takes better photos which means I have to paint better























The squad is 200 points spot on which makes them perfect for a Kill Team.

I've got two things next on the painting table which I'll be working on at the same time, the first is to paint another Kill Team for my Dark Wolves to oppose the MW's in a bat rep and the second is my Dwarf Man O War fleet.

I'm thinking of doing the Dwarf Fleet in a dark blue colour, maybe with a bit of damage on the prow's from all the raminig.

Good job. Nice looking squad.

Love that Gir, do you mind if I cross-post that squad shot on my MW blog? (or you can do it... either way) Want to give some love to Mantis Warriors whenever they appear.

Dr H wrote:Good job. Nice looking squad.

Cheers Dr H

Gitsplitta wrote:Love that Gir, do you mind if I cross-post that squad shot on my MW blog? (or you can do it... either way) Want to give some love to Mantis Warriors whenever they appear.

Thanks Git's there will be more but later in the year. Please go ahead and cross post that would be really cool

I started painting my Man-O-War Dwarf fleet this weekend not used to looking at things that small.... but they are great little models.

This is my test model a Nautilus, the picture isn't the best but you kind of get the idea. I'm going to gloss the port holes when the whole fleet is painted and I did paint every rivet but they don't all show in the photo.



While doing that I've also built the first two marines of a new Kill Team for my Skyrar's Dark Wolves



I magnetised the normal guys back pack just in case when the new codex comes out having a squad of jump packing Wolf Guard wont cost 5 million points