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Elves are coming along great, love all the freehand runes. And can relate to not remembering what they mean, I painted some on Kharadron ships, but am only partly sure, what they were called
Really interested in seeing the display board come together.

Wow, a lot of great updates since I was last here. I kept expecting the end of the thread so I could leave a comment, and then you'd drop another bombshell of an update.

The horses look awesome. The white is very clean and shiny, but the runes and trim lines really add an element of depth that is exceptional.
That unicorn is fire.

The display terrain seems like it will be a neat project. I'm envisioning the Void Panthers strutting about it in their golden finery. It looks great in my head.

Solid work. Keep at it!

CommissarKhaine wrote:Now there's some nostalgia... Loving it!

Thanks CommissarKhaine, they really are a blast from the past aren’t they.

amazingturtles wrote:They're looking better and better each time!

I hope so!

youwashock wrote:Getting there, gobert. Looking good!

Slowly, slowly, catchy monkey is pretty much my motto on here

Captain Brown wrote:Classic High Elf cavalry there gobert.

Cheers,

CB

They truly are classics

Yorkright wrote: Excellent work on the elven horseman. I kind of want to see them amidst the 40K ruins when they are both finished in a glamour shot...

We might be waiting a while before they’re trotting through the 40k ruins, but I’ll try to remember to make it happen

youwashock wrote:If you haven't looked at the front page today, gobert, you should check it out. One of your boys is there in his purple and gold splendor.

Ha, yeah I spotted him on there looking all bling! No extra votes that I saw though

Viterbi wrote:Elves are coming along great, love all the freehand runes. And can relate to not remembering what they mean, I painted some on Kharadron ships, but am only partly sure, what they were called
Really interested in seeing the display board come together.

They meant something at the time, it kinda adds to the fantasy mystique though I guess? The board will take a while, but eventually I hope to have it done!

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Wow, a lot of great updates since I was last here. I kept expecting the end of the thread so I could leave a comment, and then you'd drop another bombshell of an update.

The horses look awesome. The white is very clean and shiny, but the runes and trim lines really add an element of depth that is exceptional.
That unicorn is fire.

The display terrain seems like it will be a neat project. I'm envisioning the Void Panthers strutting about it in their golden finery. It looks great in my head.

Solid work. Keep at it!

Hey DJJazzyJeff, thanks for the very kind words. This month marks 2 years back in the hobby and I’m glad I got back in to it (see the first post for the context of the bad pun!). I’ve had a few projects that drained the motivation, but it’s been the interaction on here, particularly through 2020 that has helped me stick with it. So thanks guys, it’s a great community here in the Dakka P&M section, I’m pleased to be a small part of!

No progress updates today but whilst Mrs Gobert and littlest Gobert were out today, biggest mini Gobert and I got out Space Marine Adventures and played levels 1 & 2. We both had a great time winning both rounds but only just escaping in time on the second. She wanted to use the painted minis rather than the ones from the box, so plasma dude stood in as flamed dude and Missile launcher dude pretended to have a Heavy Bolter. I also got my painted Necrons out to join the fun, but had to use tokens for the Immortals and Amy he Guard. She enjoyed it so much she asked to play again, I guess I’ll have to paint up Grimm, Infernus and some more Necrons soon!

Magic. That's the way to do it daddy gobert. Great seeing the VPs on the gaming table too.

 theCrowe wrote:
Magic. That's the way to do it daddy gobert. Great seeing the VPs on the gaming table too.

Yeah, it was super cute, she really got in to it. We’d tried Blackstone Fortress during lockdown 1, but i was learning the rules so it took too long. This one was just right for a 7 year old.

Tonight I got the silver helms done, and I must say, a wave of nostalgic pride came over me as I lined them up all finished. Though it now occurs to me that I forgot the hair on one or two of them! Tonight’s work was mainly neatening up 20year old paint and getting the Standard Bearer and Mage up to scratch. I know it’s bad form not to make gems on High Elves shiny, It’s what I’ve done on most of my others. These guys got better treatment though, but not on their shields as I like to think they’re just metal anyway. It was too late at night to set up my camera, so here’s a couple of phone shots. Better ones soon I promise





So minor tweaks notwithstanding, that’s these guys done. Not sure what I’ll do next, probably a BSF Escalation character to cleanse the palette.

Thanks for looking!

That's awesome. Charge of the 90's!

Yeah! That picture is getting me right in the feels. They look great together, so happy to see the Marauder Unicorn mage pop up in a blog and you have done him and the Silver Helms justice.

It'll be all White on the Knight.

looking great! Good luck on, getting the young'un into the hobby, been doing the same

Hey mate,
Elves look brilliant - lovely crisp work on the whites, looking forward to more angles!

Really warmed my heart to read about you playing with your daughter. That's pure goodness and a double win that you get to bring your army dudes out - the Necrons look like suitably sinister adversaries to the Void Panthers.

Great work as always

 gobert wrote:

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Wow, a lot of great updates since I was last here. I kept expecting the end of the thread so I could leave a comment, and then you'd drop another bombshell of an update.

The horses look awesome. The white is very clean and shiny, but the runes and trim lines really add an element of depth that is exceptional.
That unicorn is fire.

The display terrain seems like it will be a neat project. I'm envisioning the Void Panthers strutting about it in their golden finery. It looks great in my head.

Solid work. Keep at it!

Hey DJJazzyJeff, thanks for the very kind words. This month marks 2 years back in the hobby and I’m glad I got back in to it (see the first post for the context of the bad pun!). I’ve had a few projects that drained the motivation, but it’s been the interaction on here, particularly through 2020 that has helped me stick with it. So thanks guys, it’s a great community here in the Dakka P&M section, I’m pleased to be a small part of!

No progress updates today but whilst Mrs Gobert and littlest Gobert were out today, biggest mini Gobert and I got out Space Marine Adventures and played levels 1 & 2. We both had a great time winning both rounds but only just escaping in time on the second. She wanted to use the painted minis rather than the ones from the box, so plasma dude stood in as flamed dude and Missile launcher dude pretended to have a Heavy Bolter. I also got my painted Necrons out to join the fun, but had to use tokens for the Immortals and Amy he Guard. She enjoyed it so much she asked to play again, I guess I’ll have to paint up Grimm, Infernus and some more Necrons soon!

I get it now. Back into it.
Treasure those moments, with the minis. They grow way too fast.
Love it.

Great to see that Blackstone group all together. Really impactful as a group.

I would so love to play Space Marine Adventures with a full set of painted minis, Space Marines and Necrons both. Too bad the games not available where I live..

Congrats on finishing the Silver Helms, very neat!

Nicely done! They look great. And the games looks like it was tons of fun. Makes me miss being able to play more games with my nephews a bit, but the time will come.

youwashock wrote:That's awesome. Charge of the 90's!

Yeah, they’re like a little time warp!

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:Yeah! That picture is getting me right in the feels. They look great together, so happy to see the Marauder Unicorn mage pop up in a blog and you have done him and the Silver Helms justice.

It'll be all White on the Knight.

Thanks man, whilst I love the unicorn, I think the Mage doesn’t quite match the high elf aesthetic to me. Who cares though when your unicorn is that cool!

CommissarKhaine wrote:looking great! Good luck on, getting the young'un into the hobby, been doing the same

Cheers, she’s been asking to play again, so I’ll roll with it this weekend and get the mini guys in to the labyrinth again.

tzurk wrote:Hey mate,
Elves look brilliant - lovely crisp work on the whites, looking forward to more angles!

Really warmed my heart to read about you playing with your daughter. That's pure goodness and a double win that you get to bring your army dudes out - the Necrons look like suitably sinister adversaries to the Void Panthers.

Great work as always

No new pics just yet, I’m kinda not looking forward to the camera photos as it’ll show up all of the blotchy-ness of the whites! . It was fun to play with her, certainly pitched at being accessible to a younger audience than Blackstone Fortress.

DJJazzyJeff wrote:
I get it now. Back into it.
Treasure those moments, with the minis. They grow way too fast.
Love it.

They really do grow up fast, I swear they were babies a few weeks back!

Fifty wrote:Great to see that Blackstone group all together. Really impactful as a group.

Cheers, I was surprised how well the big group pics came out in the end.

mcmattila wrote:I would so love to play Space Marine Adventures with a full set of painted minis, Space Marines and Necrons both. Too bad the games not available where I live..

Congrats on finishing the Silver Helms, very neat!

That sucks, they seem to have taken it oop with the rise of the Orks game starting. I think that one had a wider distribution iirc. I expect the mechanics are similar

amazingturtles wrote:Nicely done! They look great. And the games looks like it was tons of fun. Makes me miss being able to play more games with my nephews a bit, but the time will come.

Thanks turtles, games with the kids are great fun, especially when it captures their imaginations. Fingers crossed this vaccine brings back some semblance of normality at some point.

So, I got out the Salamander and Imperial Fist from Space Marine Adventures the other day. During a meeting today I was preparing them for priming and got to thinking that I should convert/kit bash my other Space Marine Heroes duplicates. I’m at a bit of a loss for the guys who have their shoulder pads connected to their torsos.

I started with the Sergeant who has his left pad attached to the torso. The simplest conversion would be to switch his weapons and keep his pose. I had toyed with him having the at of the guy with the scoped bolt pistol, but I think it would be a struggle and his torso is at a funny angle. I reckon my best bet is a power fist and a raised plasma pistol changing him to look left instead of right

First iteration


His power fist is out of position as I haven’t done any cutting yet. I’m not convinced by this one but he has a bit of a 2nd Ediiton Sgt feel to him I think.
Double gun wielder appears to be in MkVI armour so he got a chest plate, helmet and shoulder pad to match. I’ll be swapping his bolt pistol to a Bolter in due course

I have limited unarmed left hand options so he gets a second edition vintage arm and knife, probably pointing it down.

Running dude seemed to fit a pointy arm, but I’m not convinced about his right arm pose. It feels rather odd when you adopt it yourself, but in the pics he looks ok.


He swapped base, so I’ll need to cast the other bit of his foot at some point. I did this for a few of them. Hopefully I can get it right!

Bolter hugger and magazine changer got their arms swapped and different chest plates too


I think these two work quite well, but need their feet sorting out!

I’ll then use my start collecting box to build up three more for a compete squad, possibly using bits of SMH arms etc.

Thanks for looking

MkVI for the win! (Says the RG guy)

Nice work on the marines, and keep up the good work spreading the hobby!

theCrowe wrote:MkVI for the win! (Says the RG guy)

Indeed, it’s probably my favourite mark of armour. I should probably get back to my RTB01 haul at some point!

CommissarKhaine wrote:Nice work on the marines, and keep up the good work spreading the hobby!

I’ll try, may get a game in on Sunday.

A bit more kit bashing went on tonight, taking them from blue tac to mostly glued (apart from helmets and backpacks. I think most of the poses are different enough. I’ll have to do a side by side with the originals to compare. I also made moulds of the missing bits of foot so I could trim them off the bases. I also added some texture to the bases to give a little variation. Not sure how they’ll look once primed but we’ll see.

Nice kitbashes for more variety, excited to see them primed and with their brethren. Hope you'll be able to get that game in!

Nice kitbashing. Anything to make marines a bit more individual looking!

Viterbi wrote:Nice kitbashes for more variety, excited to see them primed and with their brethren. Hope you'll be able to get that game in!

Cheers Viterbi, each marine in the squad will have a bit of Space Marine Hero in him. No chance for the game today, maybe tomorrow.

CommissarKhaine wrote:Nice kitbashing. Anything to make marines a bit more individual looking!

Thanks CommissarKhaine, they’ve been slow but fun so far. I’m not overly looking forward to the vanilla marines as they really are all the same, I hadn’t realised how spoiled I was with the SMH kits!

I spent a bit of time this evening sorting out 3 vanilla marines to join the squad. I found as many SMH bits as I had remaining to get them tweaked away from standard. Frustratingly there was no right hands to take a Auspex or even empty hands, so I had to sub in another 2nd Ed hand. This one will be bare so might be more noticeable. I did find an auspex in a bits collection I bought but it was metal and had lots of bits all over it, so I’m not sure how to use it. These 3 are much more bland than the SMH guys I think, but I guess it was only to be expected

Anyways, thanks for looking

Well, they're marines, they all look the same to me . If you have spare heads, you could consider adding one of those? Pretty much all auspexes were carried left handed iirc.

 CommissarKhaine wrote:
Well, they're marines, they all look the same to me . If you have spare heads, you could consider adding one of those? Pretty much all auspexes were carried left handed iirc.

Ooh, I like the idea of a trophy, I’ll dig around in my bits box to see if I have anything suitable. I have a few necron faces that I may be able to do something with

Silver Helms turned out nice, can't wait to see the newest marines finished.

Great stuff as always!

It'll be fun to see these guys take on the VP purple and gold we've all come to admire so much. If I had any unusual SM bits in my box I'd post you some. Are you going for a standard tac squad? Back banner sergeant?

Cool looking group, gobert. I like the classic powerfist Sarge.

MegaDave wrote:Silver Helms turned out nice, can't wait to see the newest marines finished.

Great stuff as always!

Cheers MegaDave, it was great to get the Helms done and hopefully this second tac squad of Panthers follow them soon.

theCrowe wrote:It'll be fun to see these guys take on the VP purple and gold we've all come to admire so much. If I had any unusual SM bits in my box I'd post you some. Are you going for a standard tac squad? Back banner sergeant?

Thanks man, the squad will be standard tactically, but they’ll not be getting banners for the sergeants. I’ve got a few random bits but I need to strip most of them as the paint is pretty thick.

youwashock wrote:Cool looking group, gobert. I like the classic powerfist Sarge.

Thanks youwashock, raised power fist is pretty classic right?

Whilst watching the F1 tonight I finished up the kitbashes (though I ought to add som pouches to the vanilla boys. I swapped a couple of arms and heads, filed a few joints and drilled their barrels, but not much else changed. Though I decided to fill the empty hand with a trophy as I found what looks like a Dark Eldar head with a top knot that would double as a hand hold. It probably needs some gore adding to the neck so I’ll try the PVA and super glue trick that I’ve seen. Whilst I don’t have Blood For The Blood God, I have what appears to be Army Painter equivalent, so I’ll give that a go.

Sadly the building works are occupying my priming spot so it’ll probably be a couple of weeks before they can be primed. So In preparation for my next paint project I based the first 3 Necron Scarabs. They’ll hopefully be a quick project followed by some Blackstone Fortress: Escalation adventurers.

Thanks for looking

Love all your conversions. Going to go great with the rest of the Panthers.

Always good to keep a cool head! And seeing the last shot reminds me, that I also have flamer and HB guy lying around somewhere and may move them to the priming queue.

Not the best of season finales for Formula 1 eh? At least it was nice to see a different winner for a change.

Really enjoying the kitbashes you've done with the Space Marine Heroes, they're great sculpts and if you've got the duplicates, you may as well make them even better!

Coming along nicely, the riders do put me in a bit of a nostalgic mood.