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Those all look very neat! Well, except the IW Pred, that looks dirty

And final (for now!) set of Infantry all painted.

As with last time, just waiting for the bases to dry, then I can whip round and finish off proper.

Group shot of that set.

A gaggle of classic plastic ork Stormboys ready for action:

remember with some fondness my 1st edition armies, the Orks were never the largest but were always a blast to use

Lovely work guys!

I love those old Stormtroopers and that's a great job on them. From memory, although they weren't very strong or tough they had a good movement rate and I believe could act independently (which was useful for Orks and objective grabbing). Are you doing a collection of Orks then Albertorius or is that just a one-off?

Tonight, I blitz out 12, count ‘em, 12 Contemptors.

Expecting it to take maybe an hour, perhaps two depending on drying times.

Which leaves me four squadrons of teeny tiny tanks for the rest of the week.

Pull that off? And that’s 1,500 points.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Tonight, I blitz out 12, count ‘em, 12 Contemptors.

Expecting it to take maybe an hour, perhaps two depending on drying times.

Which leaves me four squadrons of teeny tiny tanks for the rest of the week.

Pull that off? And that’s 1,500 points.

nice with the contemptors, faced someone with 12 last night, he was only running eight to have six laser cannon ones

they died, and fast, but they were pretty much at the top of the list for "they die now"

amazing just how quickly you can churn this stuff out and have it look good really

Key for me is grey base, dry brush silver, Speed/Contrast.

Instant highlights and shading. Ideal for Epic.

have found contrast is perfect for the infantry, though my marines don't use it the SA have and its excellent, also really good on the highly detailed SA tanks. I've got an alternative baneblade is more "meah" on as there are flat panels and some fighters where it looked rubbish

but for the actual small stuff is amazing and the silver drybrush works wonderfully

 Pacific wrote:
Lovely work guys!

I love those old Stormtroopers and that's a great job on them. From memory, although they weren't very strong or tough they had a good movement rate and I believe could act independently (which was useful for Orks and objective grabbing). Are you doing a collection of Orks then Albertorius or is that just a one-off?

In Epic 40k they're orks with Assault (+1 Assault value but FP range is reduced to 15cm) and Jump Packs (extra movement, can jump over terrain), which makes them pretty fearsome at assaults for the points, but they are limited to a single choice (1-4 bases) per regular ork warband (except for Blood Axes).

I'm basically finishing painting the plastic stuff I have, most of the other infantry is already painted, save for one bse of boyz, a couple of warbosses and a bunch of gretchins but I have a number of printed units I need to finish too.

Cheeky lunchtime session.

Gonna do more Red on these. Like the ends of the Lascannon. Maybe. I’ll see how I feel.

Really love what DoubleBaseFanatic did with my 40mm round bases!

STL's here: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/40mm-round-bases-for-6mm-8mm-miniatures-tech-shanty-texture

nice looking, but used for what?

Objectives I guess?

leopard wrote:
nice looking, but used for what?

Objectives I think.

objectives are 32mm based though?

I mean they look really good and could be used nicely as simple scatter terrain, I'm thinking of buying some of the ones like the container fast food place etc to include on other terrain items myself

Great looking objectives!

I don't care about their size, I take modelled objective markers of any size over unpainted tokens any day. Both players measure to/from the edge anyway, its the same for both players so who cares if they are 25, 32 or 40mm.

 westiebestie wrote:
I've worked on 3

Iron Warriors Deimos Predator

Thanks for the kind words about my Pred.

To go with it I just finished my first IW Infantry base. I am doing the opposite of speed painting for this new army, as I already have my IH to play with I am in no rush. Wanted to see if I could challenge myself to some plasma glow in 8mm. After some experiments this is what I came up with.

And I settled on a bases with an abandoned settlement overblown by martian dust for basing. To tie in with the Martian dust/rust weathering on my vehicles and offer a warm complementary colour.



Iron Within, Plasma Without brothers!

Same, cool modelled objectives over cardboard chits any day.

Nice plasma boys, westiebestie. You might want to try a smidge of white ink in the middle for a couple of them, if you want to have some variation in the glow.

That looks excellent - what colours did you use for the plasma Westie? Really nice colour contrast with the metal.

Agreed on the objective tokens, they look amazing!
Apparently they are available from this shop if you want printed versions:
https://www.megasonicpunch.com/scifi

Those are some fantastic IWs, kudos!

Welcome to the fold

The pitter patter of teeny tiny BIG STOMPY DEFF!

Rolling them out nicely fast there, MDG! Nice

Thank you

I think I want to revisit the Contemptors. Only briefly, but I think their left knee pad could do with being made grey. It matches the spot colours I’ve used elsewhere in the force, and breaks up the monotony of the predominantly black scheme in a way I don’t think picking out further metallics would.v

And onto my Leetle Tanks.

Have done a quick black on one of them, and these are going to take me not time at all. Will consider spot colour placement once I’ve got the gunmetal details painted back in.

Turrets are sitting on wee pillars of Blu-Tak for easier handling.

I have these guys waiting to be painted:



So I did a test:

veeeeerrrryyyy nice

Yay! Orkses! Orkses am the best!

Due to experiments relating to a potential YouTube channel, very little achieved yesterday. But progress was still made. Basically sprayed the topside of four Kratos.

Today though I blitz my Predators and Sicarans on a “I’ve stuck to the streak but I’m not where I wanted to be” catch up session. So it’s Supernatural on the box, and out with the paints. Will be relining my wet palette though, as this is gonna take a lot of black and I don’t want it drying out.




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Also, when I get this all done by 6pm tomorrow and I’ve no more left to paint (other than the Warhounds, which honestly I think I’m gonna sell on)? If it’s Epic Releases next week I’m totally gonna claim it was my project completion which brought that about. And there’s no way you can disprove such a claim, therefore yes?

Who wants a group shot?

Yeah you do!

always needed a group shot is

some green shortarse once said something similar, a bloke in thre pub told me that

two starter sets?