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I hope you're giving the church the proper highlighting and weathering treatment...

1:1 scale painting is easier. Nice I get the basecoat applied then I just take my kids up there (tonight's adventure club night), and there will be new footprints all over he walls . I've been doing all the "cut in" work, tomorrow I need to use the 12' ladder to get the upper ceiling parts painted, after hat it's just rolling he big areas.

After all that you still want to paint models rather you than me I hate decorating but at that scale

As for the Mortis can't wait to see it in my hands, and when I get my wave three I will post pics

 Theophony wrote:
Yonan has pics of all he spuds in his gallery where I linked the above photo from. You can see the scythe and the hand as well as the laser cannon. I didn't order any wave three stuff, but the black widows, heavies and hanomags are something I want .

Yeah, the alternate weapons and the Mags are something I want as well! female troopers would make for an interesting 144th!

@LDD, yep, still want to paint wardollies . Totally different than walls, this is a release, the work at church is a love offering.
@shaso, the female troopers will be excellent, and may become an imperial guard army for me.

Well not much to do tonight,back from prayer meeting and kids adventure club, thought I'd putsomebasecoatson some parts to the scythes.

We'll see how far I get tonight.

Edit: few hours later...

Painted, highlighted and accented 30 helmets. Worked on their eye lenses, completed, best job I've done on those in my opinion. Base layers on my baseball player figure, he's been staring and yelling at me for some attention. More work on missile launcher trooper with bionic legs. Need a color choice for the column he's leaning against.


Thinking of making him my bad ass instead of the banner bearer, not because of looks, but this story hit me while looking at him: He's old, the bionics need to be tuned and he's leaning against the post for extra support. He knows he doesn't have what it takes anymore to be a front line fighter, but with the chapter so depleted he has no choice but carry on. Maybe, just maybe he can keep in the fight long enough for some of these scouts to become full fledged marines and their gene seed strengthen and bring out another generation of Scythes of the Emperor. There's not enough dreadnought suits for the battle brothers who should be interred, and even if there were more his list of honors isn't long enough to grant him that priveledge. Oh how he secretly wishes he could have died on Sotha with his brothers, but to surrender the fight now would only bring shame to the chapter, so he plods on. One more missile for the Emperor, one more enemy slain, one more chance to bring back the Scythes.

The Emperor protects.

The 144th Iron Hearts will be co-ed don't you know??

LOL never thought I would hear the phrase "plod on" and "Space Marine" in the same sentence

But can you change entries ermmmmm don't think thats allowed

Did you not get the special female trooper in the DreamForge first wave I did it rocks

@shaso, do they have wet t shirt parties and beach sorties?
@LDD, yes, I got my 5 Ana's, and worked a deal for four more. Think I still have 7 unbuilt.

I shouldn't have stayed up late last night, but I fell off the wagon a couple weeks back. Yes I'm drinking caffein again , but only a little every few days. But it had me wired so I did the painting, guess it's not all bad.

Today more 1:1 church painting. Then all three of my kids earned a free dinner at Incredible pizza, no I don't get a commission from them, just happens that two different groups got free dinners from them. Today I just have to pay for my meal $8.00 and their video games $9.00 and they get 3 hours of free fun, a $17.00 meal out at a buffet where I feel safe to let the kids go wild.... Okay.

Sounds like a fair trade Theo. I am so confused I look away from this thread for a day, and boom so much activity takes place. Really like the backstory of that marine, and how you can paint that many helmets is beyond me.

@Theo, being the Kruegerians are a population primarily German based, they have Keggers and Beerfests

Where's that picture of Zed saying were not hosting an intergalactic kegger

That story just came as I typed it out. I could b a heck of a lot better. Didn't even mention he's out o missiles too.

Not much of a update, family night out at the arcade. Only had a little time to dig brought boxes and finish up some small stuff.

More painting tomorrow.

 Theophony wrote:

More painting tomorrow.

You have changed... for the better.

Man when I finally get all my IG caught up, (Yeah right!), the pics of the Parade of Strength will look like a flood!

Theo, you being a family man have to do that tight rope thing of Hobby-Family, too much either way and the other suffers

@comrade, I hope so, because I need to get better.
@shaso, still waiting on that parade of strength, you've talked about it before, and that new shelf you have could hold a lot of the strength.


Main reason I'm painting..... painting is less expensive than building, and I have plenty to paint.

It's also therapeutic in some aspects.

Did you guys hint I was talking church painting? We pretty well finished that up yesterday. Onto he models.
First up Rocket Man!

And his bum....just think of who sings the song


Then old dog


What's next in the lineup? I'm from Saint Louis, how could I not make a baseball joke with my fantasy baseball player. He plays for the scythes of the Empire , no relation.

Tidy paint-job. Looking good.
Also good to see you have drilled the rear of the missile launcher, seen that missed so many times.

Did you reposition the leg to get him kneeling on the rocket pod?

Thanks Dr. H, the leg set for him and the heavy bolter come from the land speeder storm kit. I'm thinking of getting a few more of those kits because they are so worthwhile in game now from what I hear, and you get so many extra parts in the kit.

Cool looking 'Rocket Man' but not as cool as this

Glad to see you are painting more Theo

Slept in this morning some, only a little time to paint. Not finished yet, but he's one of the marines to survive Sotha, and had been inducted into the tech marine training program. He is using a scavenged conversion Beamer guess I could call it a graviton gun also.

Shoulders are just base coated.

Return of Graviton guns this edition, last it was conversion beam, like a nostalgia for RT days GW has gone into.

I like the more flavors of weapons.

I like the idea of that honorable tech marine. Keep painting Theo.

On a side not do any of you know where I can get a town gate looking terrain piece? I am working on a display board and need to find one.

Here are a few gates that might be worked in. or are you looking for sci-fi gates?
http://www.grandmanner.co.uk/shop.php?p=search_results&search_terms=28mm%20scale%20gate&page=2

@shaso, I loved all the hoaky weapons from RT days, we need the web gun back
@comrade, 31 favors, and they all taste like chicken. I guess GW isn't trying to streamline anymore.
@nafarious, have you checked out the GW gardens of morr set?http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440008a&prodId=prod1290008a depends on what sort of style your looking for I guess.

Great time at the comedian last night. If you think Christian and comedian don't go together, just remember who invented both of them .
Things you don't say o your wife.


Inappropriate wedding songs


101 Christian cuss words


Tim is a native of Saint Louis, so was really in tune with local stuff.

He had a fellow comedian do a break or him, this guys good too, a little long, but did this same skit without telepromter or script.



Wife still getting ready for church. Here's what I got done this morning.

Not sure about glowy color, it might change, and I haven't done OSL, so deal with it.

And the next recruits...my counts as shrike for my old chapter, he might just become a chaplain with jump pack. Yes those are iron halo knuckle dusters they count as lightning claws .

Also apothecary initiate (to be named later), who has just graduated scout training and passed his mtac. He still hasn't fully developed yet, which is why h has scout arms and no narthecum.

Those are a bit too gothic, it is for warmachine so I am looking for something like castle walls, almost dwarven looking.

@Theo; Oh the webber! they tied to bring that back as a Nid elite gun in 3rd/4th ed, they dropped it. :( Maybe they will bring it back as it was not that hard to work the rules, and the new de-emphasis on tourney play for narrative and casual play is a nice change.

@Nafarious; Well, the good bunch were not so much gothic as old British countryside, just look for dwarven gates in 28mm scale, somebody has to be making the things.

@shasolenzabi that is what I thought as well but I have found very few. It seems now that I need it the most my memory of all model making sites are gone. I even went to my FLGS #2 today and they have replaced all their terrain selection with 40k merch.

Back from church, feel like painting a bit, might start the apothecary, but the wife may have other plans . If I get to him tonight or tomorrow I just have one question. How should I do his paint scheme?

1. Standard scythes scheme, but with white backpack and shoulders.
2. Standard yellow torso and pack with white limbs and helm (basically replace the black with white).
3. Completely standard paint scheme but with white helmet and pack.

Or your suggestions

Really nice content, Theophony

 Nafarious wrote:
@shasolenzabi that is what I thought as well but I have found very few. It seems now that I need it the most my memory of all model making sites are gone. I even went to my FLGS #2 today and they have replaced all their terrain selection with 40k merch.

I looked, all I got was a page of images that you can hunt in
https://www.google.com/search?q=28mm+fantasy+dwarven+terrain&client=firefox-a&hs=zWL&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Uo1JUr68Bob89gTytYCoBg&ved=0CEsQsAQ&biw=1582&bih=737&dpr=1#q=28mm_fantasy_dwarven_terrain&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&tbm=isch&imgdii=_

Theo, white in Scythes????