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I'd guess the speeder bases are just their old ones? They're in the earlier WIPs too.

Everything is looking awesome!

Those are some neat looking termies. Do I see FW cataphractii termies in there too?

Oh hey, looking good!

Thanks everyone!

The speeder bases are in fact old. They're stripped and repainted Salamander's speeders, and that's how I did bases back then. Once I finish the main speeder, I'll do the pilots. Then I'll clear off the base and do it in the current scheme.

Warkitten, that is a FW Cataphractii terminator. Honestly, I'm not sure where I acquired him from, but he made my terminator's numbers up to 10 and an equal mix of assault and tactical. I got another 5 to do and then I can make 2 squads of 5 for each assault and tactical terminators.

Nothing to report today. Been busy busy busy...
This weekend is lining up to be a good one. I'm considering playing some games on Friday evening. Also, a friend has all day sunday free (with family out of town) and he's hosting a board games day. I'm looking forward to it. We'll be doing Star Wars: Imperial Assault and taking a look through Decent (another campaign board game). Plus a bunch of other stuff... The only downside will be I cant paint on Sunday :(

Thanks for checking in,
Z

The whole army is looking great! Your weathering looks really good. How are the metal chips down?

Hey everyone!

 Bottle wrote:
The whole army is looking great! Your weathering looks really good. How are the metal chips down?

It's dark brown paint sponged onto the yellow areas. Literally that simple. And grey sponged onto black areas, which needs a little more control because the black areas are really small (shoulder rims, for example).

Apologies for going MIA for the past 8 days

Not too much to report, I'll let the pictures to the talking:






Everything but the base.

I also made a start on the LotD. Didn't bother with a picture, because one has a layer of black down (obscuring the details) and the others are primed grey which looks no different to the pictures of them before priming because finecast looks a lot like grey primer!

As we head into the weekend, I plan on getting some more done. It's going to be really quiet around the house over the weekend so I think that'll boost productivity
more over the weekend,
Z

Coming along nicely!

Did you get a chance to play Batman in the end?

Looking good so far. Drill those barrels!

Speeders are looking good

Those speeders have turned out a right treat, nice work on the salvage!

Paradigm wrote:Coming along nicely!

Did you get a chance to play Batman in the end?

Thanks Para. No... Still not had a chance to play Batman yet :( The initial 'ooo, shiney' has worn off. But there is still a desire to paint a hand ful of their minis (especially after seeing the clown prince of crime being painted for this month's painting comp).

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Looking good so far. Drill those barrels!

Yes, Sir!

Adamski Alders wrote:Speeders are looking good

Thanks a lot!

OneManNoodles wrote:Those speeders have turned out a right treat, nice work on the salvage!

Yeah, thanks! I definately cut a few corners knowing that there were salvaged and were never going to be perfect. But they definately get the job done!

Ok, so after doing nothing for the best part of a week I decided to crank out the first LotD last night. I went to sleep more or less straight after I finished, so tired eyes might have missed something.
Take a look:





I dont think the highlights have come out too well in the pictures. Mostly my own fault for not setting up my picture booth and taking them properly, I'll do that when I have more than 1 mini's picture to take.

Thanks for checking in, I'm putting down the base coats for the next LotD right now, so expect more soon.
Z

I think the modern(ish) parlance is "smashed it". The LOTD Marine looks excellent to me, does not seem like you have missed anything.

Yep! Nice smooth blacks, flames the 'right way round', great use of spot colour with the grenade and eyes, what's not to like!

I really like those LotD, the blueish black armour looks great.

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awesome paint job on the LotD!

Thanks everyone for the comments on the LotD.

I'm still plugging away at them. Second one is almost done. Was going to work on him today, but my painting time consisted of me basing everything.
It's supprising just how long 31 bases take...






Questionable pictures... but you'll get better ones when there are marines striding to battle across them.
With less than a week until the end of the month, I'm pleased to have finally caught up on so much basing!
Just have the LotD left to do, now. And then I can take end of month army pictures, with so many complete units!

On a hobby related note, I have good news and bad.
The good news is that I have decided to take up Dark Elves.
Which means that my hobby time is split between the Fists and Dark Elves.

I've had warriors of chaos for about a year now. And I was loving playing End Times games - even though I was losing like 30% of my games I was away when Age of Sigmar was released, but nothing is compelling me to play that. I might humor myself and play a test game or two in the future, but for now, it's just very unappealing. Back when I got my WoC last year, there were only a few of us. Now, we have a solid group of 5/6 regular Fantasy players, and a handful of irregulars. They were continuing to play 8th edition (because of a tournament that happened last weekend), and they are engaged in a Campaign using 8th ed rules. Between the group we've agreed to wind down the campaign (over the next month), and switch to The Ninth Age. For those that dont know, The Ninth Age is a ruleset for Fantasy, based on 8th edition. All the rules are free to download and are what 9th ed Fantasy should have been.
Anyway, I'm building myself a Dark Elves army to play The Ninth Age. I'm super excited, because of all the super cool Dark Elves models that are made by non-GW companies.
So yeah, that's what I'm excited for.

Z

Looks great! Maybe a bit off topic, but any tips on painting yellow? I've goot good colours, but anything else?

Lookin good. Yellow is a pain to paint as well. Will be watching this with interest.

Bases look great, your end of month pictures will look grand.

Have you any particular Non-Gw companies that you will be looking to for your Dark Elves? And will you be tackling purple?

Those bases are gorgeous Zambro. I'm jealous.

Considering that the GW DE range is full of some pretty nice stuff, I’m a bit curious what’s drawing you away from it. Besides the prices, of course...

Hey guys,

@Matthew: Regarding painting yellow, I airbrush my yellow, and paint ontop of it. Cheating, I know, but it's effective. Just a few things I've learnt: Dont ever put washes onto your yellows if you want them to be bright. A black was on yellow will dull it right down and make it grimey, same with brown. I dont brush paint yellow, so I cant comment on how to brush paint it.
@Vim: Thanks dude! Welcome to the blog!
@Thraxas+Nev: Thanks mate! Just got to get the end of the month pictures done properly. I'm hoping for a nice bright, sunny day for the best pictures I will be tackling Purple with the Elves. Purple is one of my favourite colours, and I've never really had a chance to paint it on a large scale before. I'm excited to do it some justice. The GameZone Dark Elf minis are great, and will form my core Spearmen and with a hand swap swordsmen, too. A few other character models from other companies, too. The majority of the GW line is great, like Nev said.
@War Kitten: Thanks dude!

Here is the second LotD:





Terrible pictures, unfortunately. But it's late and hopefully tomorrow I can finish off the 2 Plasma LotD. Getting pushed for time as the end of the month is pretty close...
2 plassma LotD tomorrow, and hopefully the leader on Friday for a Saturday photo shoot and final picture entry.

More tomorrow,
Z

Bases look great. Did you use a basing kit or just spares from your bitz box.

The bone on the LoTD is really amazing. Especially the one on the winged shoulder pad. I don't know why, but that picture. Just wow.

Absolutely love the pose on that mini, so full of purpose! Nice paintwork!

I was going to suggest Gamezone for the DE troops and cavalry, and Avatars of War for characters.

I love the second LoTD guy, I always loved the sculpt, you did them justice.

lovely work there fella. really liking those lotd figs and your speeders are cracking!

Holy crap those Lotd look exceptional, very nicely done on those.

Good looking legion of the darned

Hey guys,

Pushing ahead with the LotD. Almost there. Unless something drastic and unexpected happens, I should make the deadline
Really appreciate your words of encouragement, guys. It's helping a lot!






These guys definately feel rushed.
They'll all get the going over again, for a final clean up before the final pictures. But I'm not sure if a quick touch up will 'fix' them. I'm happy with how the other two look, but these less so.

Awell, onto the leader tomorrow!
Oh, and my Dark Elves are starting to arrive... Been looking over the sprues and I'm excited to get to work on them.
Z

I’ll agree that the first two do look better. But it’s not the plasma guys looking bad it’s the other guys looking so damned good

Just keep up the momentum and get that last guy done. Almost there!