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So these arrive today.

Aahhh plastic crack. That sweet sweet hit you get when you open the big kits and take a long hard whiff.
Mmmm good.

Um basicly im at the stage of perfecting every thing and fixing imperfections..

 ingtaer wrote:
That's a cunning plan mate.

Finally managed to get my little ships finished it proved amazing hard to get photos of the Whitestar fighters, tried every setting on my camera and it just refused to focus on them. Here are the best I got;

Now got to get a battle report done and back to hacking pewter apart to excavate a model.

Have you seen https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/03/06/the-model-photo-how-to-photograph-models-for-display/ ?

I bought a cheap light box off amazon (cost under £10) and used my phone to take pics based on that guide above.

All my Ork pics are using that. It makes a HUGE difference. The biggest thing was taking the photo further away and cropping it down.

Here is a quick update

Good-looking generators there Mathius.

So I'm falling behind the tanks, but I've at least made some progress on my Necromunda terrain








And even a new little bit of tankage made from the super cheap toy cars I got recently.

 Flinty wrote:
Good-looking generators there Mathius.

So I'm falling behind the tanks, but I've at least made some progress on my Necromunda terrain








And even a new little bit of tankage made from the super cheap toy cars I got recently.

That looks very cool, can i ask you did you build this from scratch or is this terrian you bought from some where?, if you build your self what materials do you use? thanks mate.

 Elbows wrote:
We're doing something similar on our local group.

My current backlog is:

Box of five Wraithguard.
8x Swooping Hawks
1x Baharroth
1x (just paint) Rhino Russ chassis.
1x Sorcerer (or Lord) on a Bike (DONE)
3x Rapiers w/ crewmen. (DONE)
1x Land Raider kit to turn into a Typhon.

Model count: 16

Not a tremendous lot, but it's all I've got to do, excluding a few metal Terminators I may or may not end up doing. They're not a goal at the moment.

Updates:

Thanks fornthe interest. I built it from scratch using foamed PVC, my newest favourite material. More info.here

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/745263.page


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Ooh. Nice work on the rapiers!

Thanks. Anxious to use them - will eventually grab the laser destroyer and plasma options (the turrets are not glued in).

I like this idea. I'm always hobbying and painting alone until I go and play a game with a friend or something. I need more motivation.

My goal this week is 3 deffkoptas...I need a break from painting boyz.

Then I need to do more boyz (70)... wow do these take up so much of my time.


+Today I'll try and get to prime them and hopefully start painting tonight.

WIP on my new tank feature. That's the base coats down. Now to sponge on a variety of other colours to make it look all.scratched and beat up.

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 Flinty wrote:
WIP on my new tank feature. That's the base coats down. Now to sponge on a variety of other colours to make it look all.scratched and beat up.

Looks really good bro.


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 Elbows wrote:

 Elbows wrote:
We're doing something similar on our local group.

My current backlog is:

Box of five Wraithguard.
8x Swooping Hawks
1x Baharroth
1x (just paint) Rhino Russ chassis.
1x Sorcerer (or Lord) on a Bike (DONE)
3x Rapiers w/ crewmen. (DONE)
1x Land Raider kit to turn into a Typhon.

Model count: 16

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Fellas this stuff is great.

@bows. The launchers are awesome. Are they 40k. Can’t find rules. Fill me in bro.

Update for my terrain

Here’s a look at a table that I am readying for the start of a narrative campaign for my buddy. It includes some of the terrain that I made. MOTIVATION!!

Shadow Captain:

The tracked vehicles are Hellforged Rapier Batteries, but from an alternate 3rd party resin manufacturer (Kromlech). They're from the Forgeworld Imperial Armour Index for Chaos. There are loyalist ones as well - though with fewer weapon options.

The proper Forgeworld version looks like this:



And it's eye-wateringly expensive (and mine weren't cheap either!). Great multi-use turrets, with some cool weapon options.

Busy weekend didn't leave much time for painting sadly but I finished my basic bash of Geigor into kinda-Lukas. And for no real reason made some quick space wolves objective markers.

Lookin good skylark.

Alright, so this week I want to FINALLY get the rest of the scenery done for Kill Team, and then assemble the Harlequin troupe box I had laying around into a killteam.

Next week we'll discuss painting said, 'things'

Nice progress people, seems like the time for making terrain? Might have to join in the fun after I get my current pile of ships assembled.
Speaking of, progress has slowed somewhat after my Dremel committed suicide when it encountered the excessive flash and miscasting on my Bin'Tak, so everything now is by hand. Think I might have to extend by another week.

@ Elbows; those Rapiers are really nice, good use of proxies and very nicely painted. Are those Skitarii heads on the crew?

@ Overread; Havent seen you post for a couple of weeks, hows things going?

Finished the three Deffkoptas. I really need to paint boyz but it's so boring >.<. I need motivation

@ ingtaer

Yep, I use Skitarri Vanguard (?) heads for my Renegade marines.

I just have to say, you all are doing absolutely gorgeous paintjobs and I truly hope I can get some of my guys to come out as good as I get more experienced. Also I kinda wish any of you were in my section of the Frozen North cause it seems there's no one to talk painting with while I figure things out heh. Pictures only seem to go so far

All,

It happened again. Started working on Astra Militarum again as planned.......then the bits I have been waiting for arrived and I’m back in conversion mode. Standby for a death guard aligned renegade knight.

A few more details done, a second coat on (most of) the gold, and it is starting to come together. The avenger Cannon and the Icarus are done in a different scheme because only one of each came I. The box and we plan on sharing

That Knight is looking great skylark, really like the faceplate.

I've been pretty slack this week, finished assembling the body on one Knight and got my veterans ready for oils, I've also done a little yellow practice on some rhino sides to try and I think I have a good idea of how to get the colour I want, just need to push the shadows more.

Nice progress shots going on...

Flinty, that scenery is looking fantastic.

Elbows, some great and very unique death guard additons.

SCM that compound looks awesome

Tkrettler91 superb koptas, really good job

Digital nice knight

Skylark nice objective markers, the numbering looks really good.

I've just been trying to get a first unit of intercessors done, grabbing an hour here and there between family visits and trips to see the midwife. Still a way to go, but so far;



Hopefully they'll be done by the weekend and i can move on to the heavy bolter boys

Mmmm...love quartered marines!

Yeah same, I wonder how many Howling Griffons armies exist, purely because of that amazing army by Fred Reed back in the day. Every one since then I'd wager.

Yeah, I'd assume they more or less all owe it to that article/white dwarf.

That is a really awesome looking squad. I have not seen any armies painted as like, but I have not played much so I suppose that is to be expected.

@tkrettler91 so your deffkoptas(sp) are making me drool. I would love to see what you do with one of those new buggies they posted about today