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Intrigued by your priming choice! Can't wait to see how it affects the paint on top of it. Ha, I thought you might say something like that about the metals. Cannot wait to see your take on the sculpt.

hehe - may take a while yet. lot of stuff in line before it

So, a rather awesome parcel from a certain awesomer commissar arrived the other day. Once I got through the Fort Knox worthy packing inside these little gems were awaiting. I now need to totally rearrange my painting schedule!!! The Tanith lasman and the female commissar I'll paint for them and included for my own joy are some of the most amazing and important figs GW have done - the first five of the Gaunt's Ghosts figs. We got Gaunt himself, one of the nicest commissar figs GW have done imho, M.O. Dorden - the details and the character put into this sculpt is so beautiful, Colm Corbec - the legend, the Tanith master sniper 'mad' Larks aka Hlaine Larkin - the favourite character of many - they've really captured his character beautifully and finally Brin Milo and his Tanith pipes. So excited about these figs and thanks soooooooo much.
My primary paint board is totally gonna have to be rearranged now. Need to get on and get the Chimera finished - have got as far as priming and basing her skin. Then it's onto the female commissar, which we've decided will be more of a navy look with a dark dusty naval blue rather than the usual black of the commisariat and the Tanith lasman, which I'm gonna turn into a sniper with a minor conversion to give him a long las with some camo wrapping and a wee dio to tie him to the farmhouse siege from 'straight silver'. Once those are done and mailed back - it'll be the time of the Tanith. Cannot wait. These are defintiely all gonna be glaze jobs as the details are so fine and beautifully sculpted. Anyone know who was responsible for sculpting the Tanith figs? And what other characters were released?

Excited to see what you're doing this year!

Gonna be a hell of a lot going on this year. Soooooo much to do. Loving it

Your description of the chimera does not match my own experience with CB stuff. Usually the flash and moldlines are minimal to the point of nearly being able to ignore them. They are all metal so they'll never be as easy to assemble as plastic, and given the aesthetic a lot of them do have some pretty fiddly parts.

Interesting, I do plan to get her eventually.

She's a lovely sculpt - really nice pose and details barr the hands. The was a lot of trimming and smoothing to be done though. Seemed pretty amateurish in the casting. Once all cleaned up and assembled though she is a gorgeous figure

Ah the Gaunt's Ghosts models. I keep meaning to get hold of those for my self. The books are pretty much wholly responsible for getting me back into the hobby.

EDC

There were six in the set originally (don't worry, I didn't pay retail for these, they were all spares from lots and sales when I was bulking out my regiment).
The sixth is an un-named plasma gunner. I have a spare now that I'll stick in an envelope for completion's sake, next time I remember.

There were also four unnamed troopers. They came in packs of three at random.
Running mouthy trooper, aiming trooper (the one you have there), girl trooper, and fiddling with belt trooper.
Running mouthy trooper is an ugly bastard, and girl trooper has a bad case of coconut head.

lol - nice one BC. Been looking about on ebay and the unnamed ghost are pretty rare. Interesting choice arming the 6th of the boxed set with a ....plasma gun......do not once remember any of the Ghosts using one in the books......not a treadfether would have been a good choice. Sad they never made a fig of TryAgain Bragg though :(

You can convert "Ox" very well. He's cheap on eBay usually. Big bare armed guardsman with a torn off heavy bolter, broad face and little complexity on the figure. Clip his cap, fit a cloak, and he's as near as you're going to get.

And yeah, there was a lot of 70-100 of them for close to a grand last year. They're not easy to come by, especially the women. The other downside is no sergeant figure. I've been trying to work out what to do to mark one out in the squads.

Dave Taylor did a massive Tanith commision some years back where he converted figs for all the characters in the books to put together a full fighting IG force - http://davetaylorminiatures.blogspot.kr/search/label/Tanith?updated-max=2014-10-21T06:42:00-07:00&max-results=20&start=3&by-date=false

Think he used victoria miniatures stuff for as the basis for a lot of them.

I'm not planning on ever going that far but definitely gonna collect the offical figs that Mark Bedford (?) sculpted and may 'make' a few of the other characters like Bragg and Rawne at ......some point along the way

That's a cracking blog! And yeah, his Bragg is Ox, like mine was (started over, rushed it too much the first time). Very cool indeed.

Haven't got much painting in since I finished the Scyllax - just be prepping and assembling all the FW stuff I got over Christmas so reckoned I should get a move on . Made a decent start on the figs I'm painting for others. Got some of the base tones down on the CB chimera fig. Delicate wee fig to paint. Trying out a new shading way on her trousers and sleeves. Got the bases down and started on the flesh for Buttery's female commisar and the Tanith Ghost which I turned into a sniper with a wee simple conversion. Doubt I'll have them finished before I head back to Ireland next week but we'll see

Blimey, I hadn't realised just how miniscule that Chimera was until seeing her next to 2 'standard' 28mm minis.

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Blimey, I hadn't realised just how miniscule that Chimera was until seeing her next to 2 'standard' 28mm minis.

Wow, yeah she seems tiny next to the others.

EDC

She is pretty tiny. Highly detailed. Had to to put a dark wash over the primer to start with just to get an idea of all the detail before i strted planning a scheme out. The box photos and art are next to useless for that. Shés coming along though. Had a bit of fun trying out some wet-on-wet blending with layer adn wash on her leggings though


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Just a little something that folk may find useful. I'm sure it's been mentioned elsewhere on Dak but I'm gonna bring it up again!! TP recently brought this cracking wee app to my attention so I bought it as it's pretty cheap and damn handy for eejits like me who either forget to write paint recipes and schemes down or do on the back of scraps of paper that then dissappear. It's the paintmymini app from CMON and after using it for just a day - I can say it's a right wee gem. Anyways - go look for yourselves. Well rec/mnd it

https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/paintmyminis/id766502419?mt=8

Very lazy day due to an errant hangover but......Bit done on the Chim and the ghost. Time to start on the vignette base for our man of Tanith.

Bit of progress. Worked on the Ghost's skin and pretty happy with that. Human skin is one of the things I want and need to work on this year. Photo has gammied it up a bit. The rest of him still has highlights to go and I need to add a few more glazes to the famous Tanith camo cloak which has very much been a try out different things to try and get what's in my head onto fig. As BC (whom this is for) very generously gave me some of the other ghosts, I wanted to make a wee vignette for this ghost. It's a wink to one of my favourite episodes which a group of the ghosts are beseiged in an old farmhouse in Aexe Cardinal. So got the initial design done last week and initial build done this weekend. The GS you can see is actually a wooden floor

Cracking stuff on both. And I'm grateful, that's above and beyond.

Just a little something that folk may find useful. I'm sure it's been mentioned elsewhere on Dak but I'm gonna bring it up again!! TP recently brought this cracking wee app to my attention so I bought it as it's pretty cheap and damn handy for eejits like me who either forget to write paint recipes and schemes down or do on the back of scraps of paper that then dissappear. It's the paintmymini app from CMON and after using it for just a day - I can say it's a right wee gem. Anyways - go look for yourselves. Well rec/mnd it

https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/paintmyminis/id766502419?mt=8

Massive fan of the app. Helping loads already. Takes a while to log the scheme elements initially which is a bit of a pain. However if you are doing a large force, or you are consistent with painting stuff like metals etc on all models you can add logged elements to any scheme by tapping a button. You then have a plan and shopping list for future projects with little effort. Worth a look. Ooh, and if you know someone who has it (*cough* Jan *cough*) they can send you their scheme for you to import for your own minis.

DISCLAIMER - I do not own shares in this company, I just think it's awesome

That's the wee vignette base all built now. Rather happy with it just need to seal and prime it in the morning and it'll be already for paint when I get back

That is rather impressive, good stuff!

Cracking vignette that. Love the ivy. Is the green on it all green stuff?

Yup. The stuff on the walls though is liquid GS. Handy for giving a bit of texture

Ah, fair enough. I'd have probably used plaster. But I'm a bit Blue Peter. Which explains why your minis look so much better

Well, headed up to Dublin today for a touch of shopping and to pick up some GS as my shop in Korea is totally out and feth only knows when they'll get more in......and today served to prove that I utterly SUCK at New Year's Resolutions!!!! Resolution #1 was that I wasn't going to buy anymore figs (barring the ruststalkers and 'The Nurse' ) until I'd painted up all my present backlog.......let's have a look at how that charming piece of idiocy worked out shall we.............

I know how you feel, I said I wouldn't start a new army until I finished my Raven Guard and now I am starting a 30k RG army .

Good lord is that gs from gw? You're mad!

Really looking forward to seeing the assassins though

at least I got the GS!! That Assassinorum game is a seriously good deal though. 100euro the lot. The 4 assassin figs are 96euro alone if you buy them seperately. (more self-justifcation )