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Oh yea. Likely cutting the hand off entirely and using the one on the Chainglaive itself... though you are right, that may take some elbow finagling. I will have to get my hands on the model to see if it will work at all!

Good luck

What are thoughts on the face/head? I was debating on slicing back the hood and sculpting it down and using one of the specialty helmets I got (see prior posts). Probably one without wings. Or maybe just a helm under the existing hood.

I'm a fan of a more downplayed style myself. May I suggest the chaos warrior skull helmet inside the hood?

I was actually thinking of the far right one from this set:

Would work nicely as well

 CommissarKhaine wrote:
Would work nicely as well

If it fits! And of course, I got to buy Cypher first!

Good news! I got my decals for my Night Lords, Lucius Warhound, and my Blood Bowl team the "Death Dealers" (hourglasses in the Night Lords sheet!).

Also, working on the Kill Team and display board for it. It is a passion project, so I am taking my time.

Working on the Orc half of the BB starter while I await my Ogre, Zug and Griff to arrive.

Almost managed to finish them this weekend. Almost!

All that is left now is weathering, a few edge highlights and mounting to the bases.

Very nice and great color choices!

 Solar_lion wrote:
Very nice and great color choices!

Thanks! Wish I could take credit, but it is by-the-book for that team. I figure I will keep them long enough to learn and then sell them off, so I went with a pretty standard scheme.

More progress. I will do a nice set of pics when I get them to 100%.

I will be starting on THE DEATH DEALERS shortly. Yea allcaps. Fight me.

Just got Zug, Griff, and an Ogre in the mail and will be getting them going this weekend along with re-doing the base colors of my team. I lost some of my transitions with my white because I overdid it a bit.

The Gouged Eye are done (for now). I have the other tokens to do, but the dudes themselves are complete. Quite fun to paint! I may pick up more players for this team over time, but as it stands neither the FW model or the Troll really look good to me.

I got distracted with a sizeable purchase from Ikea, which also resulted in me re-arranging my studio. That means less updates here for about a week or two. Next update, hopefully, will be my referees!

Gouged Eye players look great! Nice to see more BB stuff on here. Tokens look good too. I can't find the motivation to bother painting mine :(

 Moltar wrote:
Gouged Eye players look great! Nice to see more BB stuff on here. Tokens look good too. I can't find the motivation to bother painting mine :(

Thanks!

Honestly, I had my airbrush going and I figured why not? Tokens matching the team look sharp. Going to do the other two in black w/ checkers, so I have some variety. Just got to get my studio back up to speed. I had to shift my house around to accommodate new furniture and now my studio area is a wreck!

I have my Human BB team to do next, but I am taking a bit of a break from painting so I can get my new furniture painted (yea, I do my own furniture finishing!).

It has finally started. With 8th Edition being almost fully leaked (sans Codices, obviously), I have embarked on my army. Finally!

After over a year (or more... way more) of collecting Skitarii and AdMech, my Metalica army is a GO!

I have started with my Kastelen Robots and a Datasmith. I will be building the Forge World Archmagos on Abeyant as my count-as Cawl (though in cases when I need both a Dominus and Cawl, I will have a Cawl model too). The Archmagos will be able to be dismounted.

Part of the reason for this whole Archmagos/Cawl thing is because Cawl will be a Mars-only model, so I wanted an alternative that allows me to run him without it being him. Also, I am going to pick up a Macrotek, Thralls and Scyllax and some stuff to convert into a Dominus, servitors and maybe Fulgurites.

Anyhow, robots!

Dunecrawler is in sub-assemblies for painting and my Sicarian Infiltrators are built, with the Princeps in two parts so I can more easily airbrush the red underside of his white robe.

I am using the Archmagos FW model for my count-as Cawl, even though I own the Cawl model! In lists where I run a TPD, I will use the removable Archmagos and pop Cawl into the list properly. Though another reason I have a Cawl alternate is the whole "I am doing Metalica" thing and might need to opt for a different future character or some crap. No idea what the Codex will give AdMech.

Next build on my desk now is some Skitarii Vanguard. Two 5-man Squads with Arc Rifles.

That should give me generally enough for the start of the FLGS 8th League I will be participating in at the end of the month, so I am going to get to priming/painting shortly. I usually like to do armies in one big go, but I can't really do that and not miss out on the league, so I am going to crunch through this stuff and then build/paint in waves.

After the Vanguard, I am going to get started on the House Raven Knight Crusader for my 2000pt list.

Nice starting point for your Ad Mech. It'll be cool to see another non Mars army. My LGS has two other Ad Mech players, one did Mars colors and the other did Metallica. I almost did Metallica myself, and would have 25 years ago, lol.

Did you magnetize the crab?

bortass wrote:
Nice starting point for your Ad Mech. It'll be cool to see another non Mars army. My LGS has two other Ad Mech players, one did Mars colors and the other did Metallica. I almost did Metallica myself, and would have 25 years ago, lol.

Did you magnetize the crab?

Naw, I didn't magnetize it. I own two so I am just going to build the Neutron and Icarus. Those are the two major variants that will see play, so I should be set. Getting a third soon that will likely be a Neutronager as well.

I love painting white armies, so I had to go Metalica. Plus, they have awesome fluff. Can't wait to start getting some paint on these things!

I don't know their fluff. I know I skimmed it in the 7th edition coffees but that would be the limit of my knowledge. I went with Lucius, partly fluff and partly the colors.

I'm looking forward to seeing your army build and paint.

bortass wrote:
I don't know their fluff. I know I skimmed it in the 7th edition coffees but that would be the limit of my knowledge. I went with Lucius, partly fluff and partly the colors.

I'm looking forward to seeing your army build and paint.

Thanks. Yea.... me too. And the time crunch for the league and the currently unknown starting points has me sweating! I am building my Vanguard this week and I think that should get me to where I can start priming and painting. But its going to be a hell of a weekend on the 25th/25th, because I think that is my main crunch time to get my starter stuff painted.

On an aside, I am going to grab a box and some PVC pipe to get started on the inevitable display board. Ordering some scenery too. Crates, haulers, and the Shadow Wars stuff.

The biggest assembly pain with Skitarii is the arms, they were a PITA, but maybe I'm getting to shaky in my old age, lol.

For the cloaks, I would hold them up to a light to make sure I couldn't see light through the two seams. I always needed to do a second pass of glue and holding each side to minimize the seam. I use the thin Tamiya cement, green label, and the stuff works great for this.

I'm curious to hear/see what you do about those seams. I did liquid green stuff on the outside and it made it better but not perfect. The inner side of the seams I left alone since they don't need to be perfect for what I'm doing.

bortass wrote:
The biggest assembly pain with Skitarii is the arms, they were a PITA, but maybe I'm getting to shaky in my old age, lol.

For the cloaks, I would hold them up to a light to make sure I couldn't see light through the two seams. I always needed to do a second pass of glue and holding each side to minimize the seam. I use the thin Tamiya cement, green label, and the stuff works great for this.

I'm curious to hear/see what you do about those seams. I did liquid green stuff on the outside and it made it better but not perfect. The inner side of the seams I left alone since they don't need to be perfect for what I'm doing.

I always go in with a few coats of Liquid Greenstuff on top of a thin line of glue (after it dries). I gob the LGS on and run my finger across to remove excess and file it when I am done. I do this at least two times (sometimes three or four). I always wind up with smooth, seamless joins.

I will post pics of pre- and post-priming.

Ok, I think I just rushed things by doing one coat of GS put on thicker and then filed it. I never though to pretend the GS was caulk and use a similar smoothing technique.

bortass wrote:
Ok, I think I just rushed things by doing one coat of GS put on thicker and then filed it. I never though to pretend the GS was caulk and use a similar smoothing technique.

Yea man, that is the perfect analogy!

I use an old brush with water to feather and smooth as well. After the second coat is filed, I usually use a watered-down coat to make sure I don't have any roughness. I am sure primer will take care of that, but I am not one to muck about when it comes to these expensive toys!

So while I am not actively seeking commissions, I still take them case-by-case and I have wanted to do Team Yankee stuff for a while now and here we go! West Germans! They will be done in 3-Color NATO camo and shouldn't interrupt my Metalica project.

Speaking of Metalica, I got my last four heads in from GrimSkull. Once I get the bodies, I will have six Dakkastelans to run. Just go to... you know... buy the models.

I do lament my awful lighting. It washes out my transitions until I take final shots and even then, not ideal. I may well get a damn proper lightbox before I take final shots of this army.

Anyhow, gripe out of the way - here is my 500/800pt Patrol Detachment for a league starting Wednesday 6/28. I am up against it! Trying to be fast without compromising quality.

Kastelan hands are magnetized on the two I am doing, with future ones probably just Phosphor (won't likely need many with fists, so I have one that can go that way).

And my bases are WiP. Going for a world ruined in the wake of the Fall of Cadia and subsequent spread of Chaos. Metalica and House Raven march to reconquer worlds during the Indomitus Crusade. This world (unnammed currently) is a rusting wasteland of ruined manufactorums and dockyards. Weeds, bleached skulls, and all that. Hopefully, my display board will be able to convey this along with a nice placard detailing that.

Currently working on a TPD converted from the Archmagos from FW. Also, one large batch of bases done. Should get me through to week 2 or week 3 for the League I am in before I have to start doing more. Hopefully, I will have my basing kits and more scenery on order to add more variation to the army.

Love the start to that arch magos! Has an old school 40k look to it

 San76 wrote:
Love the start to that arch magos! Has an old school 40k look to it

Thanks!

That was why I went with that guy over the standard 40k TPD, honestly. Plus, I magnetized his ....leg area? So I can take him off that base and plop him onto the Abeyant, which is on a medium oval, to count-as Cawl (in theory, though the weapons don't match so I might need to go back and magnetize the Volkite and Macrostubber... which would be a royal pain in the ass).

Great looking bases, and dig the start on the magos

- Salvage

500pt Metalica army! Got in my first game of 40k since 5th! Such a blast!

Close-ups to follow. Just need to do some touchups first.

I caved and got these pretty awful-looking models. I am chalking that awfulness up to a paintjob I find unappealing. I am going to try to make these look better.... somehow.