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Of the 14 models I have completed undercoated and based all, completed 4 and have paint on 3. I still have 3 and a half weeks so fingers crossed

Still plenty of time =)
You can do it !

That's already impressive! You'll manage it nae bother!

Well, after a couple mess up, I'm done with my Makaul.
Not sure the other Tohaa models will have the same colors but it should be close enough now that I know which colors to use =P

There he is =)




Next thing to do : Paint Django and King Kazak, 2 of my Veteran Kazaks. Being MVPs of my last 3 games, they deserve a bump in the painting queue =)

So, is it more motivating to paint haphazardly, in your opinion, or go on a faction binge?

Sorry about the delay folks! I ran out of data just before I got round to the update but my reset was today so I was only out by a day.

Another nice job VS! Your a powerhouse of production! I got my remotes assembled as intended but my CA has gone a little tacky so I might have to redo them. :faceplam: That'll teach me to clean the glue tube before I put the cap on!

MR, I'm not sure I'm understanding buddy... Oh! I think I get you now! That's a really good question and the answer may be different person to person. I guess that getting a few from the same group done will motivate you to finish the rest but swapping up the paint scheme is more refreshing. Maybe meeting half way is best? Swapping between two forces and after each miniature. I'd be interested to know what works well for others.

I'll put in an update now, not sure what I'm going to pledge yet though...
! I'll finish converting my Szally who I decided needed a new face and ankles. The operation had so far been messy and my tacky CA isn't helping.

I haven't been able to slap any paint on figs but I happy that I know have all my Wu Ming together so I can at least play them. I've also got all my Monks together. I'm also working on two remotes, Lu Duan and Rui Shi, I also got together my Spec Op. I was thinking of converting him somehow but I actually like the knife and gun pose. I think soon I'll clean up and start painting again. My kids want to paint their figs too so It needs to be done anyway.

Nice one CDK, you've been busy! I hope we see some paint before long, what are the weans going to be painting?

My daughter has a Riot Grrl and a Spekter to paint. My son, I'll have to find something for him. I have a bunch of very old minis that can be used. He can be picky though. He only wants to paint boys. It's about time I strip the ones they have already painted so they can paint them again.

Nice one, is that the female Spektr and the original Riot Grrl per chance? 'Cause they're both on my workbench too. The Riot Grrl is a nice drybrushing candidate but the Spektr is a particularly difficult model to paint in my opinion. I'm a little worried about putting down any more paint to be honest but I'm going to have to make a push to get Blue's trade ready.

Ive got 5 Highlander to base, Bruant to paint, and then 14 models to varnish. getting close now

Almost there, Nerm!

Well none of us got to paint because of hockey play-offs. GO Blackhawks!

I'm going to try and take pics of my daughters figures at some point. She's doing pretty good for a 9yo I think.

That'd be good mate. I think Gits and Graven both post work from their kids, it's nice to see the hobby being passed down to a new generation.

My Szally is coming along now, I got some new glue because I don't think that stuff was going to set. I'm really glad I decided to lengthen the lower leg, imo it balances the miniature better and gives it a nice imposing height. I'm working on my Lizard too which has now taken a leap forward thanks to you CDK.

Slight change to my list, need to pain Uxia and Bruant now

Nice job !
Which mini are you using for Bruant ?

Exciting, I hope we are going to get loads of pics!

Update:
I just gave the OP a large overhaul! Apart from general rewriting there are a couple of changes that may interest you all.
- Sunday Resets are a thing of the past! From now on you choose any date you want.
- Pledge Statistics has been replaced by a straight up count of how many times you have completed a pledge.

Any other changes you'd like to see folks?

First pledge for June: fully and completely finish painting my Military orders force and start a Dakka P&M blog (once there's something to put in it). So that's two knights, 5 sergeants, a doc and a thread by the end of June.

So, vision returning to normal - scarring on cornea has healed (it's a pretty resilient piece of work).

Got distracted by my club's annual 40k tourney (I was running it) so got no more work done for another two weeks.

WIP for the QK.

Kaplan Tech Services merc, Nomad Mobile Brigada (modified head - because I didn't like the original fish head), some Haqqi - 2 hafza and a Djanbazan and some alguaciles (old ones).

Excuse the quality of the pics. Phone camera - actual DSLR has flat batteries - they are recharging.
(Note: This is how my vision was about a week after getting treatment. )









Basing needs finishing and some touch up work done. Waiting for some Ghulams to come back into stock and also need to get some yellow paint for the druze.

 Von Skyfury wrote:
Nice job !
Which mini are you using for Bruant ?

I'm using the Intel Spec Ops with the knife arm (knife cut away) and the open hand holding the barrel of a Molotok (HMG) with the butt leaning on the ground, I used the gas mask head to represent the X-Visor. I will be posting pics up when its painted.

Ive got two weeks to paint and base two models and then varnish them all. My only worry is that the weather has been really bad here which may make it hard to use the spray varnish... fingers crossed

Updated the OP for you Dheneb! Good luck! I've just listed your miniatures as 7, I hope that's okay? I can change it if you'd like.

Chrome, I'm glad you're healing up well! The models are looking good! Thanks for keeping us informed, are you thinking of making a little pledge?

Sounds like a nice conversion Nerm. Hopefully the weather plays out for you.

Don't know what I could pledge.

Most of my stuff is already done - and except for the QK, which is waiting on stock - pretty much done. I've got Penny for Aleph to assemble and paint. Not to actually game with, though. She's just for the model. Hot biker chick.

I'd love to pledge to have the QK done by say End of June or something, but knowing my luck, they won't get to me until June 29

The Lizard being modified into the Iguana will take me a few weeks. Pieces have to be sculpted for it.

You'll see that I changed the OP to be more relaxed now so feel free to pledge anything. Even multiple pledges if you'd like. If you don't make the pledge on time then you don't get a +1 buy there is no negative record of it. It's just good motivation to have a target.

Do tell us more about the Iguana, I'm reworking the Lizard right now and also doing work on my Szally. I'd be interested to see what your ideas are and seeing your progress.

Of course, now you're all going to be very bust working on your Dakka Painting Challenge: Two Tickets to Paradiso entries!

OK, i'll pledge to paint something up for the painting challenge. I'd tell you what it is but its a secret!

Haha, I was wondering how long it would be before someone made that joke. +1 internets to you, sir!

My pledge: get the greenstuff and temporary painting base done on my Dragôes TAG.
Good lord that thing would probably have been a worse build than the remotes (legs just don't even come close to fitting the pre-cast blocks...) so I figured, hey, might as well repose it a bit. It's an awesome mini but it suffers from a moderately boring pose with a Doomsday OverkillCannon of Excessiveness +5 mounted on the shoulder in the weirdest possible way so I figured I'd do something about that - couldn't quite find any really similar conversions (as far as hands/weapon go) to see if it was viable before cutting the damn thing up so it was a bit scary, but I'm quite happy with this WiP: now just to GS a few bits 'n bobbins back on (both elbows need significant filling and detailing, need to resculpt the fingertips and thumb, and something has to fill up the void where the HMC used to fit on to his right shoulder...)

He doesn't show it in the crappy phonepics much yet but it really does look quite natural, so I want to make the whole thing "work" and really put a good bit of work into the GSing, which means that, due to a bunch of exams coming up soon, I'll be pledging to have this done by june the 14th at the latest, with an eye on perhaps getting it done next week already.

Very cool miniature, dude! I love to see Infinity conversions. I'll add you pledge to the OP now.

There seems to be a fair bit of TAG activity around recently which is nice!


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I've put you in as converting it by the 14th as I wasn't sure if you were planning to paint it by then too. I can alter it of you'd like.

Adding to my pledge : Doing my 1 or 2 mini(s) for the competition =)

 Casey's Law wrote:
Very cool miniature, dude! I love to see Infinity conversions. I'll add you pledge to the OP now.

There seems to be a fair bit of TAG activity around recently which is nice!


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I've put you in as converting it by the 14th as I wasn't sure if you were planning to paint it by then too. I can alter it of you'd like.

Ooh nonono that's quite right, converted by the 14th. not painted. definately not

Haha cool, I thought painted might be a bit too quick.

@Skyfury - How does that look?