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I love that a 3d printed predator, painted, is your idea of a quick project

The Predator looks great. That Reaver head has printed very well. Going to be an awesome project.

Are Reavers models still being made?

Nice one Slinky! The Blood Angels pred looks spot on, the edge highlighting is very nice. Looks like a proper classic mini.

The reaver looks like it's going to be fantastic.

inmygravenimage wrote:I love that a 3d printed predator, painted, is your idea of a quick project

I got really into it, was painting it at lunchtimes and everything, that's a rare occurrence these days... It was well received by his fellow club members, so that's good.

youwashock wrote:The Predator looks great. That Reaver head has printed very well. Going to be an awesome project.

Yep, awesome but intimidating

Tommygun1918 wrote:Are Reavers models still being made?

Yeah, Forge World still sell them, but they are rather spendy to say the least!

Olthannon wrote:Nice one Slinky! The Blood Angels pred looks spot on, the edge highlighting is very nice. Looks like a proper classic mini.

The reaver looks like it's going to be fantastic.

Thanks, Olthannon!

So, as the Reaver seemed to get people excited, I have gone for a bit of "give the people what they want", and here's a finished leg:



Will get some transfers added at the end, I suspect...

Rad. Figure you will do a Warlord after?

 youwashock wrote:
Rad. Figure you will do a Warlord after?

Gah! Tempt me not, demon!

Ooof! How’d you know we like a bit of leg?! looking great so far. The Predator is awesome, you’ve got the printer pretty well dialled in it seems

 gobert wrote:
Ooof! How’d you know we like a bit of leg?! looking great so far. The Predator is awesome, you’ve got the printer pretty well dialled in it seems

Just wait, next up will be a Reaver Bottom!

Played my first couple of games of 10th edition 40k recently, still a bit on the fence, but in the process I found these unpainted bits hiding in my terrain boxes, so slapped some paint on:

Both the leg and crane are very saucy indeed. The tractor unit is very cool.

Such a tease!
Cool crane set too

Review of the year 2023

The previous years totals were:
2015: 81
2016: 102
2017: 152
2018: 77
2019: 155
2020: 109
2021: 304
2022: 83

This year, based again on my semi-random scoring system, I ended up with a score of 130. Pretty good, not great

Here's the breakdown:

Terrain
21 x Alien Plants
2 x Mantic buildings
3 x Crane/Space tractor

Horus Heresy
Alpha Legion Rhino
5 x AL Siege Tyrant terminators
5 x AL flamer support squad
AL Sicaran Omega tank
AL Praetor in terminator armour
3 x AL Scimitar jetbikes

LOTR
5 invisible ringbearers
Éomer foot and mounted
2x defenders of Helm's Deep
Amon Hen fallen statue head
24 x Mordor orcs
2 x Mordor orc captain
2 x Mordor orc banner
Snaga and Grishnákh
Treebeard
3 x Theoden
6 x Warg riders

Imperial Guard
7 x DKOK style Ogryns

Fire Wasps
WARHOUND BLIMMING TITAN!!!!

Random
Blood Angels predator tank

That’s quite a list Slinky! Surely the warhound Titan should count about 130 points on its own?

 gobert wrote:
That’s quite a list Slinky! Surely the warhound Titan should count about 130 points on its own?

Can't remember how many points I awarded myself, but it was a few, yes

As promised, here's a Reaver bottom! There will be some pipes between the leg and pelvis, but I will add those once I glue the pelvis to the legs which I won't do until I have the torso ready and I can be sure the angle is correct...

Big booty titans, we like big booty titans WOOOOOO

 tzurk wrote:
Big booty titans, we like big booty titans WOOOOOO

3000000 lbs! (the greatest song in the world btw Tzurk)

That's a lovely looking pelvis Slinky!

Reaver legs are looking great

Nice pins! Just found a Lucius Pattern Warhound in my printer files stash, and this isn’t helping with the temptation!

 gobert wrote:
Nice pins! Just found a Lucius Pattern Warhound in my printer files stash, and this isn’t helping with the temptation!

The Lucius flat panels might work now my printer has an ironing ability

Very cool. I can't wait to see that beast done.

gobert wrote: The Lucius flat panels might work now my printer has an ironing ability

I should check if there's updated firmawre for my Ender 3 probably, or at least look into later versions of the slicer, but I am worried about messing with it

youwashock wrote:Very cool. I can't wait to see that beast done.

Thanks! Hopefully a bit more progress soon...

I have been short on painting mojo again so far this year, but I have managed to finish off this squad of Alpha Legion Headhunters that were sitting there half done taunting me...



Not sure about all the gold on a supposedly sneaky unit, but I had originally painted all those bits a scaly green, and it just merged into the base blue too much...

They look brilliant. Love the contrast of the blue armour and red dirt and I think the gold is a good fit - palette wise if not sneaky sneak wise. But really, how sneaky can a 12 ft tall walking tank ever actually be....?

 tzurk wrote:
They look brilliant. Love the contrast of the blue armour and red dirt and I think the gold is a good fit - palette wise if not sneaky sneak wise. But really, how sneaky can a 12 ft tall walking tank ever actually be....?

Thanks - And good point

Here are some finished Warg riders. Pretty rough, but good enough...

Not been doing much painting for a bit.

However, got the Kill Team starter as a way to play 40k with my boys without having to spend 3-4 hours over it...

Painted up the Ork terrain:



Bringing the year to date score to 23

Those Alpha legionaries are super cool. Love the Ork terrain too

 gobert wrote:
Those Alpha legionaries are super cool. Love the Ork terrain too

V kind, thanks!

Finished off the rest of the Kill Team terrain, just some small barricade things:


Also printed and painted these cargo containers for my son's Warhammer club at school. as they wanted something big enough to block LOS:

So, painting mojo dropped off a cliff again...

I did paint this guy in May but didn't post him at the time:


However I have just finally got around to starting to play Imperial Assault with my boys, and that's prompted me to get the paints out.

So expect to see some Star Wars dudes soon...

That is one grimy plague lord!

welcome back slinky, and with such a dirty looking Plague Marine!