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LOL... good one Dee.

ooook.. How about them Marines?

Thought about churning some on the AC list?

Notice the difference 15 years of painting experience will garner a person:




Solar: Here are the steps I have taken so far:

I like the guy in the second pic especially.

Sharp looking marine builds there...

Thanks. I was supposed to have pictures of the Eschers, but Ice is holding out on me.

I'm not sure how I am going to play the sgt.

There is a part of me that wants to try to bitz bash the scouts I need to build to have poofy sleeves like the old school scouts had. I definitely am going to have them armed with chain axes and pointy hats. Though those heads are made out of lead, which is no bueno.

And if anyone is looking to get generous and has a spare Storm Raven lying around....
heh.

BAM!


Look everyone a picture of Moonpies Eschers I found lying about. This is Headlights and Purple Lips!

Love the paint jobs

Nicely done Moon Pie! and yours aswell ice!

Sorry for any confusion but those escher hangers are not mine. Those are moonpies. I merely took the picture and uploaded it to dakka.

Thanks though.

Well then, Moonpie, even more win!

Love the heavy bolter pic.

Thanks for doing that, Ice.

Thanks for the compliments.

I am not totally sold on the purple lips. Originally they were pink, but that looked like a blackface minstrel show. Which is not good.

I have a couple others done and then I am taking a break for a bit on the Escher. Lately I have been justifying purchasing an X-Box 360.

I'd wait on the 360, they will be crazy cheap after the One comes out. Tons of trade ins to plunder.

No, I got the X-Box 360 maybe a little less than a year ago. I got it because X-Com came out and that is the main game I play. I'll be getting the expansion in November for sure. I am looking at the One because I am a huge fan of Assasin's Creed and I adored the naval stuff which the new one looks to have in spades.

Im playing batman archam city messed up so a restart is needed.

Ah, gotcha. If you get a One, and pick up Forza, Battlefield, Watchdogs, or Marvel Lego, lmk and we can play a few!

Yeah, no internet for me at home yet. I jump on Dakka at work when I need a minute to not be working.
Speaking of....

For those of you holding your breath for another post, I apologize for having killed you over a month ago.

What I am working on is as follows:

Built 25 new spearmen for my Empire army.

Pinned down a Reikland color scheme for one of my swordsman units based off of some Bretonnian men at arms I had laying around since the days I worked at GW and could at random say, "Hey, maybe I'll just pick up this battalion box. No biggie!" Those were the days...

I bought that space marine air force box. Need to cut out and clean the bits so Ice can build them. This means I technically have all the models necessary for my Adepticon army. w00t.

Hopefully painting that model will make me say, "Ok, let's do this camo thing one more time."

No pictures.

Maybe I'll finish the Emperor's Fools tactical squad I got 90% completed too... Ho hum.

For now I'll just have to content myself with QCing a certain movie that might be about dwarves and a dragon in a brand new Dolby Atmos theater. What an awful job, but someone has to do it.

Oooh... The DnD movie came back to theaters?






Always good to hear about progress! Maybe you can bribe Ice into taking some pictures, so we can see em, too.
Diorama sounds like its gonna be interesting.

In any case, enjoy your movie!

 Ramos Asura wrote:
Oooh... The DnD movie came back to theaters?






Always good to hear about progress! Maybe you can bribe Ice into taking some pictures, so we can see em, too.
Diorama sounds like its gonna be interesting.

In any case, enjoy your movie!

I shall hire people to find you and kill you slowly for reminding me of that...that...

Of course, this brand new top of the line sound system is having sync issues, so every other show about 20mins to 2 hours in goes all kung fu movie on us.

New technology is both cool and sucks.

I remember really being excited about the DnD movie. This is why we can't have nice things.

You're not allowed nice things for many reasons moonpie.

Hurry up and paint some stuff! I demand pictures and Executioners. I can't wait to see those heavy bolters in camo. Or do they get the yellow and pink treatment?

They'll be camo. Only have so many forgeworld heavy bolters laying around.

In an effort to complete my Adepticon army I have built and primed an Emperor's Fools Librarian and an as yet unnamed Chapter marine for a swap with Ice....

So, there.

If anyone has the 2004-2005 mini catalog from GW, you can see a pic of an Executioner painted in camo. I think mine is actually better than GW's.

Also, in order to finish my Adepticon army, I need someone to donate me a Warhammer Forge Basilisk and a Merwyrm. I don't make the rules, but contribute to the cause, I know you all have it in you.

I'll try to get some pics taken of something on Wednesday, because a blog without pics turns out to suck.

Why do you need two FW fantasy things for your marine army? Something smells funny, and it isn't just Ice.....

Um...reasons.

BEHOLD! LET AWE AND MAJESTY HEREWITH COMMENCE!







This is the captain I will be using in my Adepticon list. I decided to make him a footslogger, because I nixed the Vanguard squad in favor of another Tactical squad. This is, of course, for tactical reasons, not because I already have the squad built and painted. I also have those four heavy bolter buy above plus one on the road to painting. I have been trying to get through Vulkan Lives, so I have been doing a lot of painting instead. Nik Kyme is less balls than normal, but still patently balls.

The Emperor's Fools Librarian has a Grey Knights torso back. I have two more of those I am going to use for either Rune Priests or more Librarians. It turned out pretty rad. I want to be able to use those battlegroups of 6 Psykers in the next Apocalypse games. The blue just kept getting lighter as I went on. The horn sculpting on the skulls isn't quite as balls as I thought it would look. That was a pain...

Ok, so there! Pictures! Feast your eyes, you illiterate swine!

Like the fool a lot moonpie. Nice work on the highlighting and very clean paint job.

Hey, thanks, Git! Clean is not the word usually applied to my painting... I think the white primer actually helps. It is really messy until it isn't. The highlights require less coats too. Overall less paint for more coverage. Back in the day we used to just paint white paint on and the pictures of my old Cawdor gangers testify to the efficacy of that technique.

The highlight on the back of that right leg sucks, but I'm not 100% on how to fix it. I didn't think it would be too visible until Ice decided to take a pic at exactly that angle.

Your IG objective inspired me to paint the gold on the captain. I think I am going to go back and add it to all the marines I am bringing to Adepticon, so even if they aren't new models, they'll have new paint on them. The orange and flesh purity seals I think I am going to make universal too. They look better than my old "tiger stripe" ones.

Oh nice work. The 1st guy is pretty heretical looking for a loyalist. I like him though.

The libby is also really well done. Good pose and a good mix of bits.