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 Paradigm wrote:
Thanks guys!

@Jan: I think it is! In return:

I hereby pledge, Dakka's Assembled Hordes as my witnesses, to buy, build and paint 'Start Collecting: Skitarii'... just as soon as I have the X-men and Avengers painted up!

Seriously, though, it is definitely next on the list, I would have bought it next month but I've been waiting for the Marvel game for a loooong time.

Im all for the marvel game. Not sure which starter I will pick up first though.

Well done on the shattered legions, I know little of the fluff behind it, but I can get a lot of the story just by looking at your army. Now that's an achievement.

Have fun with the Marvel minis. I've got a lot of the Eaglemoss figurine collection (which got culled when baby 2 arrived and we had no space for the whole set) so it would feel weird painting up minis. Plus the wife would kill me. Wish they'd been out a while ago so I could have bought them instead.

The shattered legion is truly excellent. A really tragic story that your war weary models portray very well.

Paradigm! I love your shattered legion army! Fantastic work brother!

Ta chaps. Not been too well this last week, and rather busy the last couple of days, so apologies for the lack of updates! I do have a couple more Batman minis done and ready to be photographed, but I'll probably hang on with those as there's only one more to do in the crew, so I might as well show them all together.

Then it's on to Lorgar and the Geckos...

Sorry you're not feeling great, here's hoping it passes soon

agrax earthshade or nuln oil. they fix everything (feel better soon fella )

My cold has pretty much cleared up now, so I hope to get the Court of Owls and first Gecko done and Lorgar started this weekend. Got a fair bit of time free. Might also get the Legion on the tabletop tomorrow, hopefully New Paint Syndrome won't strike!

Will you be running them as generic legion?

At the moment, I'm using the Legion rules of whoever leads the force, same as I do when I combine 40k Chapters in one Detachment. Keeps things simple, and gives me a fair amount of freedom. There are Shattered Legions rules coming in the next book, so I'll see how those pan out.

Took the Legions for a spin on the tabletop last night, lost 4-3 to Necrons on T5. Had it gone to another turn, I probably could have pulled it back (I had a Terminator squad 1 turn from an objective and nothing was in a position to threaten them), but 'twas not to be. What probably cost me the game was throwing a 14-man Tactical Squad with Centurion and Apothecary into a 10-man Immortal squad, they ended up in combat for 3 turns due to some bad rolling on my part (It was so very embarrassing when they actually lost a round of combat to the Necrons... ) when they could have been capping an objective. Staying back and using Fury of the Legion for 60-odd Bolter shots would have been a better use of them... Still in the process of re-learning 40k having not played much in the last couple of years, though, so it's all valuable experience. I set up some good stuff early on, but was too hesitant to capitalise on it, so that's something I need to work on. Taking BMG and X-wing down next week, should be a nice change of pace.


On the painting front, back into it this weekend and I've made a start on Lorgar. Well, his base. Going for a marble effect, kind of making the method up as I go along but it's coming along quite nicely, I think.







More later in theory! In the mean time, any thoughts are of course welcome! Ta for looking!

Good that Uni, as well as educating you for a successful career (if that is what you want) is presenting lots of opportunity's for you to get your hobby on.

The base looks good so far, the finished article should be brilliant.

Exceedingly pretty!

That base looks awesome. I love doing bases first, means your mini is complete as soon as you put the last stroke of paint on it.

Thanks guys! He's done, after a day's solid work! Played around in a photo editor recommended by Januine to hopefully get some better pics, but my decent camera has broken so it's back to the old one... however, the silver lining of that is that next month I'll probably be buying a new camera, that actually works!



The camera has really not been kind to his cloak, and I shall endeavour to get some better pics before the month is over and once I've made any tweaks you guys suggest. Thanks for looking, any thoughts welcome!

Yes!!!! yes yes yes!!! He looks great (btw - what are you - a fethig machine?? All done in a day???!!!) the photos look great! closeups!!! nice one Para

Wow. So pretty - are you sure he's not the Purple Primarch?

Awesome, nice subtle glow added in on the photos

Ta chaps!

@Jan: Cheers for suggesting that photo editor, it makes things so much easier than the standard Windows Photos program I was using! The painting probably took around 6 hours start to finish, not as long as I've spent on some minis but longer than I spend on most! I think my record is 15, for Angron and his base/victims, but that wasn't done in one sitting like this guy!

Glad that photo editor worked for you. Play around there's loads of setting and fiddly bit beneath the surface

Very nice too. Did you adjust the photo to make it look like his mace is glowing, or is that some mad painting skill?

EDC

Nope, I must admit to cheating there, I've not figured out how to paint air yet!

Not bad for a days painting there Para, Nice looking red armour

Thanks!

Put together another collage with some different pics, think this one has come out slightly better, particularly the cape:

Any thoughts welcome, and if you've got a moment, I'd appreciate some gallery votes on this one, just to see where you all think I'm at!

EDIT: Pic was a bit bright, I've swapped it for a different one.

Nice work on Lorgar there. He looks every bit the orator.

 Paradigm wrote:
Nope, I must admit to cheating there, I've not figured out how to paint air yet!

It's easy, you just need an airbrush!

Voted in the gallery

@Az: Cheers!

@Nev: Ah, that's it! I'll have to look into that!

@TP: Thanks mate, the comments in here are always encouraging but sometimes I find the odd vote is a good way of telling where I am in relation to others and how I'm progressing.

Fully agree Para. Good to get that "level".

I have yet to get any models with 5 votes, so can't tell how I'm doing yet

That's not a plea for votes, I promise, it's just interesting how people like you and I have voted hundreds of times regardless of posts made, but some have posted thousands of times with no votes! As they say, you can lead a horse to water but can't make them drink

To be fair, one of my hobby resolutions for the year is to vote and comment more in the gallery, and not just on amazing front-page images. It's something I'd neglected to do before, but when I'm listening to a podcast or waiting for a wash to dry or whatever, I now just bring up the gallery and start with the 'view random image' button, do 10-20 votes every couple of days.