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Alright on a related thread challenging players to paint all they have I decided to accept the challenge, after way too long of playing the game I had yet to paint more than a single model (I painted up a sergeant for a Deathwatch campaign)
Now many of you may be wondering how in the heck I managed to get this far painting only one model, well the answer is I bought most on Swap Shop (guy had about 5 different paint schemes) and lazyness has dictated my actions ever since, so NO MORE! I shall have all of these painted before I buy more models. I have roughly 200 models to paint, so without further ado the list.
Cypher
Azrael
Belial
Sammael
Ezekiel
Terminator Chaplain
Jumppack Chaplain
Force Axe Terminator Librarian
Force Sword Terminator Librarian
PA Apothecary
PA Banner carrier
3 Vets
70 Tactical Troopers (counting special weapons teams in this)
15 Heavy Weapons troopers
15 Scouts
30-40 Deathwing Terminators
Dreadnought
4 Rhinos
3 Land Raiders
7 Bikers
10 Assault Troopers
2 Vindicators

1 Lord Commissar
30 Guardsmen
2 Leman Russes
1 Basilisk
1 Chimera
1 Crashed Valkyrie (aka half of the sprue got nuked so now I have a big unpainted terrain piece) (Didnt get pictures of most of these due to them being packed currently)






Also I would like to apologise for the shoddy cam quality, cheap cell phone camera + low light=crap photos (I will update with better pictures next weekend due to having a good camera around the house)

Good luck!!! Remember, one model a day gets you very, very far in not very long! Just keep at it.

Hope you have an airbrush and a lot of wash, you'll need it! Are you going to strip any or all of them to get a fresh start?

Some have been stripped, most were just base coated, so for now Ill see how they look after painting, if they suck into the vat!
And hopefully on the standard bolter joes I can pop 3 a day, maybe more on weekends

Sounds good, basecoated is fine if it's not too thick. Are they going to need a wash to clear off any dust-grease-cheetos congealed goo from the previous owner? Some of the 2nd hand stuff I've gotten... *weeps for humanity*

 Yonan wrote:
Sounds good, basecoated is fine if it's not too thick. Are they going to need a wash to clear off any dust-grease-cheetos congealed goo from the previous owner? Some of the 2nd hand stuff I've gotten... *weeps for humanity*

Thankfully no, in one of the pictures you can see the red blood angels command squad and its not goobered up at all, I forgot he did have 1 model fully painted, It was a bike sergeant in white scars colors.
EDIT: and damn was he a bloody good painter imho


Also on another point how do you remove shoulderpads, some I derped on and put the chapter specific pads in the wrong spot (right shoulder instead of left) and some have IF pads, and a few UM pads

Depends on the glue. if its plastic glue, you are kind of out of luck. Superglue can be cracked off, or dissolved. Last resort? cut off the arm above the elbow and glue it on the other side with pinning and greenstuff.
Good luck with the angels. I've been working on mine for ages and they never seem to get done.

I've had to remove the plastic-glued shoudlerpads for some models that were glued on the wrong way around. Thankfully the shoulders often don't contact the arm too much so a lot could just be snapped off with no visible damage. Others took a bit of levering but the damage was minimal, easy enough to GS and/or make look like battle damage.

I have faith in you!

Good luck sir (I too have been in on some of the "list of shame" threads...).

For the most part I have been quite successful in getting stuff done...

carry on and good luck!!!!

Thanks for the support everybody, now to get the crapload of paitn required for so many damn angels

platiglue weakens In warm soapy water overnite, unless its this stuff
http://www.tandkhobby.com/product-p/00002.htm?gclid=CN_Rm5DfqboCFc41QgodGEMAnA

in which case, get some pliers!


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Also, are you spraying indoors???????

 Largeblastmarker wrote:



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Also, are you spraying indoors???????

ANARCHY, and why yes I am, however windows were all open and considering its too freaking cold and windy outside to spray not much alternative :/

EDIT, I'll try the pliers

If you paint them, who will guard those D&D books from heretics? My old Blood Angels stood guard over mine for some time- I boxed them, and now I worry they will be stolen by the forces of Chaos.

Just be wary, and good luck with the painting. It takes a while to get even the slightest hang of it (unless you have trained in art or are a natural).

If I may offer a humble piece of advice: the models in WD and on some of these pages should fall into the "aspirational" column and not be the standard you immediately set yourself.

And turn your models over when you paint them! Look at them from all angles.

 3orangewhips wrote:
If you paint them, who will guard those D&D books from heretics? My old Blood Angels stood guard over mine for some time- I boxed them, and now I worry they will be stolen by the forces of Chaos.

I have part of the terrible Dachshund horde to protect the books

Just be wary, and good luck with the painting. It takes a while to get even the slightest hang of it (unless you have trained in art or are a natural).
If I may offer a humble piece of advice: the models in WD and on some of these pages should fall into the "aspirational" column and not be the standard you immediately set yourself.

Yup haha, biggest thing I am going to try and nail is mainly proper coloring without too much overrun into other areas (getting tassles white without getting the white on the armor etc.) Granted after everything is said and done hopefully I will be so disgusted with my previous work that i end up stripping the first 25% I painted

And turn your models over when you paint them! Look at them from all angles.

All I could think of thats witty is GREY BUTT, GREY BUTT!!!

EDIT: Damn coding

Edit 2: I forgot a word

TBH, I would really look for some brush on primer. spraying indoors is about the most dangerous think you could do in this hobby, other than hobbyknifing tooo close to your eye or huffing paint thinner. Most cans can (no pun intended) cause brain damage with even minor exposure, and your lungs will fare no better. headaches in the front of your head (or anywhere really), and any sharp pains in the chest area means stop spraying for at least a week.

anyway, not to sound like your mother or anything, good luck with the project.

 Largeblastmarker wrote:
TBH, I would really look for some brush on primer. spraying indoors is about the most dangerous think you could do in this hobby, other than hobbyknifing tooo close to your eye or huffing paint thinner. Most cans can (no pun intended) cause brain damage with even minor exposure, and your lungs will fare no better. headaches in the front of your head (or anywhere really), and any sharp pains in the chest area means stop spraying for at least a week.

anyway, not to sound like your mother or anything, good luck with the project.

I could add during most of my painting sessions I have a cigarrette hanging out of my lips, but ya, theres a reason I ventilate like a fiend, that room I was priming in had 3 windows open plus a fan, so possibly more air movement than outside in most places. And at this point everything is primered for now, hopefully when I next paint itll be decent out (one of my lawn chairs has some black paint on it, if anyone asks it was an evil paint fairy that did it ).

Thanks for caring though


HOLY EDITS: Sleep deprivation makes typing hard.

 Wardragoon wrote:

 Largeblastmarker wrote:
Blah blah blah blah........

I could add during most of my painting sessions I have a cigarrette hanging out of my lips

still, a month of cigarettes isn't as bad for you as a minute with those various chemicals.