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Nice haul! Have fun working through all that!

Love me some laser vindicators

What's in the cardboard envelope? Knight castigator transfers?

Paradigm wrote:Nice haul! Have fun working through all that!

I am excited! But I think I can get out 10 regular dudes in 3 or so days so I can do the main troops in a week or so, then a week for the knight, 3 or so days for all of the vehicles each, jet bikes 3 days so I can feasibly do it all in a month if I work fast and hard

angelofvengeance wrote:Love me some laser vindicators

What's in the cardboard envelope? Knight castigator transfers?

One of my favorite units! And just a transfer sheet for the blackshields, I am planning on using the futuristic military transfer sheet for the knight

Lookin' good! I myself am planning on picking up some FW models for Christmas. Any of those in there for the DD december painting contest?

 JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:
Lookin' good! I myself am planning on picking up some FW models for Christmas. Any of those in there for the DD december painting contest?

I am thinking the knight because I will be doing a lot of new techniques for them

That is a very nice gift to yourself! Cannot wait to see you tackle the Knight and laser Vindicators, such awesome miniatures.

Did the order score you a free shipping voucher for January as well?


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That is a very nice gift to yourself! Cannot wait to see you tackle the Knight and laser Vindicators, such awesome miniatures.

Did the order score you a free shipping voucher for January as well?

Now that's an impressive haul. Looking forward to seeing you tackle it all.

EDC

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:That is a very nice gift to yourself! Cannot wait to see you tackle the Knight and laser Vindicators, such awesome miniatures.

Did the order score you a free shipping voucher for January as well?


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That is a very nice gift to yourself! Cannot wait to see you tackle the Knight and laser Vindicators, such awesome miniatures.

Did the order score you a free shipping voucher for January as well?

I am super hyped for my knight as it will give me a chance to use my new sotar 2020 and yeah I did get my voucher

evildrcheese wrote:Now that's an impressive haul. Looking forward to seeing you tackle it all.

EDC

Thanks EDC! Thursday and Friday will be epic resin washing days

Yeah, it would seem a bodycheck would be more powerful than the chainsword

I have to admit I laughed when I read "early Christmas present". Great excuse in my eyes! Gonna have to get that resin cleaned though - always the worst part about FW stuff IMO.

Resin cleaning? Well dang, i've asked for FW stuff this year and am not familiar with this. What exactly does this entail?

WarbossDakka wrote:Yeah, it would seem a bodycheck would be more powerful than the chainsword

I have to admit I laughed when I read "early Christmas present". Great excuse in my eyes! Gonna have to get that resin cleaned though - always the worst part about FW stuff IMO.

Yeah it literally is the worst

JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:Resin cleaning? Well dang, i've asked for FW stuff this year and am not familiar with this. What exactly does this entail?

You have to wash the resin from FW to get the release agent off otherwise the primer wont hold and the paint will chip off. As for how you get a bin and fill it with warm water and degreasing soap, let it sit for 15 20 minutes and stir it occasionally. Then you wash the resin with a toothbrush and let it dry, if there are still those shiney spots after the first wash give it a second wash

I see, thanks for that! Looks like I have a good bit of work ahead of me come christmas...

 JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:
I see, thanks for that! Looks like I have a good bit of work ahead of me come christmas...

Yeah it is a pain, but the price we pay to the resin gods

 Ustrello wrote:

WarbossDakka wrote:Yeah, it would seem a bodycheck would be more powerful than the chainsword

I have to admit I laughed when I read "early Christmas present". Great excuse in my eyes! Gonna have to get that resin cleaned though - always the worst part about FW stuff IMO.

Yeah it literally is the worst

JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:Resin cleaning? Well dang, i've asked for FW stuff this year and am not familiar with this. What exactly does this entail?

You have to wash the resin from FW to get the release agent off otherwise the primer wont hold and the paint will chip off. As for how you get a bin and fill it with warm water and degreasing soap, let it sit for 15 20 minutes and stir it occasionally. Then you wash the resin with a toothbrush and let it dry, if there are still those shiney spots after the first wash give it a second wash

An for the love of God make sure not to do it in the sink, use a bin like he said. There are so many horror stories of people cleaning it in the sink only to miss a small part when they are done and it gets washed down the drain . Never happened to me, but I learned through others misfortunes.

 Theophony wrote:

 Ustrello wrote:

WarbossDakka wrote:Yeah, it would seem a bodycheck would be more powerful than the chainsword

I have to admit I laughed when I read "early Christmas present". Great excuse in my eyes! Gonna have to get that resin cleaned though - always the worst part about FW stuff IMO.

Yeah it literally is the worst

JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:Resin cleaning? Well dang, i've asked for FW stuff this year and am not familiar with this. What exactly does this entail?

You have to wash the resin from FW to get the release agent off otherwise the primer wont hold and the paint will chip off. As for how you get a bin and fill it with warm water and degreasing soap, let it sit for 15 20 minutes and stir it occasionally. Then you wash the resin with a toothbrush and let it dry, if there are still those shiney spots after the first wash give it a second wash

An for the love of God make sure not to do it in the sink, use a bin like he said. There are so many horror stories of people cleaning it in the sink only to miss a small part when they are done and it gets washed down the drain . Never happened to me, but I learned through others misfortunes.

Yeah thankfully my sink has a drain cover on it for catching vegetable peels and what not so it has saved me once or twice.

Well it is my first day back from winter break (so far out of 6 classes 4 As and one B (the B being my biggest worry class)) and I have managed to wash all of the resin I have gotten from forgeworld (minus one laser vindicator that I had forgotten but will get to tomorrow). I hopefully will keep up this pace and have everything assembled by the end of the weekend so I can start to prime and paint on monday. Also my sotar 2020 came in and I am hyped as hell to use it

Totally epic resin washing. Just don't mix bits from different kits and get confused :/

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
Totally epic resin washing. Just don't mix bits from different kits and get confused :/

EDC

Oh yeah each one is separated out on a different paper towel (s) and I will put them in gallon plastic bags to await building

So hopefully this won't automatically append, but today I got my venerator, rhino, 3 out riders, laser vindicator and imperial knight all built. All that is left is three more out riders and one more laser vindicator.





I'm sub assembling the knight so the armor plates will be staying off for the time being

Sweet monkey-jeebus! On a roll here aren't we, Ustrello? I've still got to finish building my laser vindi and my outriders. Love the big venerator tank.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Sweet monkey-jeebus! On a roll here aren't we, Ustrello? I've still got to finish building my laser vindi and my outriders. Love the big venerator tank.

I am making up for 3 months of lost hobby time . The venerator is a sweet looking tank but it was a pain to put together I gotta gap fill it a bit later today

My my my! Plenty of work here for the next couple week/months, eh ustrello?

 JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:
My my my! Plenty of work here for the next couple week/months, eh ustrello?

Yeah you could say that , I want to get the bulk of the army done before the month is over so I can possibly finish it up over spring break.

Well today was a slow day, I got the last three outriders completed and gave the sgt a power fist because why not , I also made the knight base a bit more urban rubbley buy adding a dead marine and some sprue bits to represent steel girders. Up next I gotta build the last ten marauders, laser vindicator and the landspeeder. But I am waiting on a volkite culvern bit to build the landspeeder

Sweeeeeeeeeeeet resin loveliness !!!!! Great haul. Esp like the look of that ven. Can see me getting one to add to my admech forge. The forge of the lost. The outrider bikes really do knock the reg gw bikes out of the game. Gorgeous stuff Ustrello

You are smashing it with these builds Us, I love the Outriders but when combined with those tanks and the Knight it is hard to pick a favorite.

 Januine wrote:
Sweeeeeeeeeeeet resin loveliness !!!!! Great haul. Esp like the look of that ven. Can see me getting one to add to my admech forge. The forge of the lost. The outrider bikes really do knock the reg gw bikes out of the game. Gorgeous stuff Ustrello

The Outriders kit is actually based on the Scout bike chassis which I think is generally better overall. There's much more ground clearance on them compared to the PA bikers.

Januine wrote:Sweeeeeeeeeeeet resin loveliness !!!!! Great haul. Esp like the look of that ven. Can see me getting one to add to my admech forge. The forge of the lost. The outrider bikes really do knock the reg gw bikes out of the game. Gorgeous stuff Ustrello

The venerator was a sick kit, but like the fire raptor/storm eagle had some fitting issues. As for the bikes they are sweet that is for sure, I can't wait to use them

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:You are smashing it with these builds Us, I love the Outriders but when combined with those tanks and the Knight it is hard to pick a favorite.

Personally I pick the knight, mainly because they are so cool and can have so much personality.

angelofvengeance wrote:

 Januine wrote:
Sweeeeeeeeeeeet resin loveliness !!!!! Great haul. Esp like the look of that ven. Can see me getting one to add to my admech forge. The forge of the lost. The outrider bikes really do knock the reg gw bikes out of the game. Gorgeous stuff Ustrello

The Outriders kit is actually based on the Scout bike chassis which I think is generally better overall. There's much more ground clearance on them compared to the PA bikers.

You are correct! The scout bikes do have a lot more clearance, and because of the resin bits it covers the terrible mould lines and not quite fitting parts that are so prevalent in the bike kits

Well a bit more work done, I built up the landspeeder with havoc launchers and volkite culvern (still waiting on that bit). I also made sure to make the pilot and gunner more heresy like and gave them mk 3 helmets torsos and shoulder pads. Also my ashen claws vehicle markers came in so I started putting them down on vehicles including not show the knight carapace.

Nice, those icons definitely add a lot of character. How much more to build now?

 Paradigm wrote:
Nice, those icons definitely add a lot of character. How much more to build now?

10 more marauders and one more laser vindicator and I am finally done