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Looks like I spotted the hachette clearance a little too late, but on the plus I saved myself a good bit of money on minis I’m unlikely to paint for ages! I’ll live vicariously through your posts instead

The Ratlings are really cool, on those bases they are very era correct too! Cool additions to keep you in the positive

Wow. The jetbike Wraithlord is awesome. Love the old IG minis. And the Deathwatch marine rocks.

gobert wrote:Looks like I spotted the hachette clearance a little too late, but on the plus I saved myself a good bit of money on minis I’m unlikely to paint for ages! I’ll live vicariously through your posts instead

The Ratlings are really cool, on those bases they are very era correct too! Cool additions to keep you in the positive

I probably should have saved some money too, but who doesn't need more marines...

youwashock wrote:Wow. The jetbike Wraithlord is awesome. Love the old IG minis. And the Deathwatch marine rocks.

I'm glad you like them. The wraithlord on jetbike is a bit intimidating to paint as it's going to be white, so I'm putting it off, but it'll get done when I get some white/grey primer.

I'm sneaking one more model in this month:

This guy had got lost in the bottom of my 40k bitz box a while ago, and was missed when I painted up the rest of the Cursed Company from the WFB Dogs of War range. I had a plastic skeleton fill in, but it just didn't look right, so now that I've found him he get's to join the rest.
And it's a good thing I did too, because I (foolishly) went on eBay and picked up the last warglaive I need to finish off the Chaos Knights combat patrol... so I'm still at +1 for the month

Having mentioned the Hachette impulse buy, this is the majority of the marine stuff:

Which, although mostly monopose, is a nice combat patrol.

I was thinking of painting them up as Iron hands, because it's quick and easy.
But I figure I should try and push myself painting wise to actually improve, rather than just get them painted. So the question is which chapter to go for. I've already ruled out: any I've already got (Dark Angels, Blood Angels, Deathwatch, Space Wolves, Ultramarines),White scars (not painting that much white), Salamanders (there's no flamers), Black templars (none of their kits involved)
That leaves the following out of the main chapters:

Iron Hands

Raven Guard

Imperial Fists

Iron Hands and Raven Guard are both mostly black, and as there is no sneaky marines in this lot out of the two I would do Iron Hands. So that leaves Imperial Fists, or do something else.
I'm torn between:

Iron Hands, for being quick and easy

Imperial Fists, for being an original legion I don't have

Howling Griffons, to really push me out of my comfort zone.

Or something someone suggests? If you've got any idea of a different chapter the combat patrol would suit, let me know.

26/32 Combat Patrols, and 200 models painted so far this year.

Nice dirty skelly! 200 is a great round number for 3 months… targeting 800 by the end of the year?!?

I like the sound of pushing yourself, though all 3 options that you’ve put forward sound great. I’m personally a fan of Crimson Fists over the Imperial variety. I’ve also see a few cool Sons of Medusa armies.

 gobert wrote:
Nice dirty skelly! 200 is a great round number for 3 months… targeting 800 by the end of the year?!?

I like the sound of pushing yourself, though all 3 options that you’ve put forward sound great. I’m personally a fan of Crimson Fists over the Imperial variety. I’ve also see a few cool Sons of Medusa armies.

I hadn't thought of doing Crimson Fists, but after seeing a lovely Tor Garadon in the crimson fist colour scheme I think if I do them I'm going to want them all in Gravis armour (Gravis Captain, heavy intercessors and 2 squads of Aggressors is a combat patrol, and so much dakka )

I've got two main targets for painting:
1) paint an average of a model a day each month (in order to try and keep myself working, and not just blast out 365 in the first half of the year and not paint the rest of the year),
2) paint more models than I buy (because I have a lot to paint, and I don't really need more).

So If I keep up the painting target then I'll be over 400, but I think 800 would be a bit far, but I can always dream...
Hang on, 800 in a year is 67 models a month, maybe that's more of a nightmare than a dream

My basing paint arrived, so got these guys done up, complete with base adapters:

They've got some "temporary" banners, as they aren't era appropriate, but they'll do until I get some proper ones and it didn't feel right to leave them without.

Also because apparently I can only paint the fun bits of my 2nd Ed. guard army, this guy got done too:

The OG "Primaris".

I did get some work done on the normal guys, but not enough to be photo worthy.

As it's a new month, I'm already at 11 models, which I think is quite good, might take the weekend off

26/32 Combat Patrols, and 211 models painted so far this year.

You’re an absolute daemon cranking these all out. I quite like the sculpted banners on the blood angels. It you want to do paper ones I might have a few banner poles around here somewhere.

 gobert wrote:
You’re an absolute daemon cranking these all out. I quite like the sculpted banners on the blood angels. It you want to do paper ones I might have a few banner poles around here somewhere.

Thanks for the offer of some banners, but I'm pretty sure I bought a load previously (for exactly this situation), I just need to find where I've put them.

I'm beginning to think I might actually have a problem with the quantity of things I'm painting...

Oh well, this update is brought to you by the colour blue!

Over the weekend and this evening I batch painted some Imperial guard. So here's My Mordian Iron Guard to go with the ratlings, storm troopers and psyker:
Command Squad


Infantry Squad


Heavy Weapons Squad


I designed and printed some 60mm bases for the lascannons, as they didn't come with one, and I wanted to recess one of the crew in each one. I forgot to increase the size of the holes so the crew need a bit of pressure to get in, but it also means they don't fall out so I'm actually happy that it's a tight fit.

Between the Mordians and the others it comes to about 750 points in 2nd Ed, and 20 Power in modern parlance. I'm tempted to get a chimera to round it out into a 25 power combat patrol, as although it's been recut, it's pretty much the same as from back in the 90's. If I do the question is, do I do it black for the storm troops or blue for the infantry squad?

I also finished up a pair or dark reapers that arrived in the post to bring me up to a squad of 5 (as it's the new minimum ):


I think they blend in well enough considering I forgot what colours I used to paint them originally, the new ones are Kantor Blue, and nuln oil, just in case I ever need to paint any more

With the dark reapers and my existing 2nd ed eldar, I'm pretty sure I can field both a Craftworld combat patrol, and a Ynnari one. I'm just waiting on Asurmen to arrive before he becomes the Visarch to complete that one.

26/32 Combat Patrols, and 237 models painted so far this year.

I figured if I've got the Mordian's done then these guys should get some more paint:

I've managed to get them based tonight, and whilst I don't normally post too many WIP shots, I felt like doing it because these old metal models have so much character.
In a good way, unlike their replacements:

That guy at the front has seen some things...

Hopefully my paintjob will do the old sculpts justice, lets see if I can get these guys done by the end of the month (or week ).

You even have the Arnold Catachan Captain in there. Awesome. Lovely Dark Reapers, too.

Lol new catachans. look at the muscualarity!
nice work on the old ones

youwashock wrote:You even have the Arnold Catachan Captain in there. Awesome. Lovely Dark Reapers, too.

The captain is ana absolute classic sculpt, and thanks for the compliment on the reapers!

PaddyMick wrote:Lol new catachans. look at the muscualarity!
nice work on the old ones

Hopefully the rest of the paint job has kept up with the good start I had

I managed to get the rest of the paintjob done on the catachans, here's the command HQ:

Although now the image is blown up monitor size I realise I need to go back and redo the mouth on the flamer dude.

Infantry Squad:

You might have noticed the missile launcher changed, that's because I realised that I had one with the front part of the missile launcher sitting around, so switched him in.

But I felt the old one needed finishing off anyway, so he got done (along with his loader):


And because I obviously don't paint enough...

I got this guy done:


I went fairly standard on assembly, with a melta:


And then decided I didn't like the little stubby chain-cleaver that means he can't reach grots running around his ankles, so it got extended:

I know I'm not the first, but I think I pulled it off okay.

Which now means he get's to lead the two Claw moiraxes to form a Chaos Knights Combat Patrol:


Finally more progress on the combat patrols!

Now that I've got the 6 armigers all done, I need to go back and both look at the bases, but also do some markings and weathering/rust across them to tie them together more, and with my acheron.
I'm not sure if I try and freehand some house Herpetrax symbols, try and cobble together stuff from transfers I have and then paint over them, or suck it up and buy some chaos knights transfer sheets.

27/32 Combat Patrols, and 255 models painted so far this year.

Great stuff. The old Catachans are straight out of the 2nd Ed codex. I am also partial to that color scheme for the Knights.

Even more win than usual! Those Mordians and Catachans are fantastic minis and look proper good all painted up with their classic green bases! I like the loaders being able to slot in to the main base, cool idea

youwashock wrote:Great stuff. The old Catachans are straight out of the 2nd Ed codex. I am also partial to that color scheme for the Knights.

Glad you like them, and I chose the bone and green to match the death guard, it just seems a good colour combination.

gobert wrote:Even more win than usual! Those Mordians and Catachans are fantastic minis and look proper good all painted up with their classic green bases! I like the loaders being able to slot in to the main base, cool idea

They wouldn't look right without the bright green bases

Speaking of bright green bases, I've not got anything finished but made progress on these:



They're kind of resembling the Army of the Dead from LOTR at the moment, but I'm going to go with the green/white camo from the codex.
I had undercoated them black I figured I would get the green sorted, and then block out the white bits with a grey and highlight them, rather than try and get the whole model looking white and then adding the green.

One of the reasons that I've not made as much progress as I probably could have, is because Asurmen arrived, and I've been busy turning him into the Visarch:



I've removed the two shuriken catapults he had, added a shield and back vane, and he's getting a red paintjob to a) match the Visarch, and b) make him different to Asurmen's actual paint scheme.

I've still got some painting to do, and need to find him a base, but hopefully he is suitably Visarch like.

Visurmen is looking great. Wonderful red.

Great green on the Valhallans, very classic, can’t wait to see the camo pattern. Cool mods on the visarch too

youwashock wrote:Visurmen is looking great. Wonderful red.

After painting all the Blood Angels I would hope I can paint a good red

gobert wrote:Great green on the Valhallans, very classic, can’t wait to see the camo pattern. Cool mods on the visarch too

As you asked so nicely I got a trial of the camo pattern done:

Needs a bit of tidying up, but otherwise looks okay.

I finished up Visarch/Asurmen:

However I don't have any more of the 40mm Necromunda bases to make him match the rest of my current Eldar.
This leaves me in the position where I could:
a) buy some more necromunda bases (1 more base),
b) rebase all of my retro Eldar onto green bases (51 of them)...
I know which is less work, but I'm trying to work out which would look better.

Just a little update as I got sidetracked, but in a positive way...

I managed to find the banner poles that I had lost, so 3rd squad got paper banners:


And as I had a third banner pole, I've transferred a Librarian from my Dark Angels to my Blood Angels, with a quick repaint:


Back in 2nd Ed. to run a dreadnought you had to have a Techmarine, so I've now got this guy to accompany the dread:


I decided to go with a darker red (Khorne and Wazdakka) to differentiate him from the rest of the Blood Angels as I wanted him to stand out as a techmarine, rather than just another Blood Angel.

Between the Blood Angels, Grey Knights and Assassin, I've got just over 3500 points in 2nd Ed, or just over 2000 in 9th, which kind of shows how the game has grown.

I need to get back to painting the Valhallans...

27/32 Combat Patrols, and 257 models painted so far this year.

I don’t envy you painting the white bits on the camo! That looks like it’ll take a few coats.

Love the dark colour on the techmarine and the banners are what it’s all about.

 gobert wrote:
I don’t envy you painting the white bits on the camo! That looks like it’ll take a few coats.

Love the dark colour on the techmarine and the banners are what it’s all about.

Hopefully a coat of grey and two coats of white will work, I might be able to hide some messy bits of it under a wash
I'm really glad I swapped out the plastic banners for the paper ones, I've got another (hopefully more impressive) one in the works too.

I've been a bit quiet over Easter because I've been busy with family, and also I decided that I would try the Visarch on a green base, rather than a necromunda one and see how it looked. Having looked into his background, turns out he was a Dire Avenger Exarch before he wandered off to the Drukhari/Ynnari, so the Asurmen model (which is actually labelled as Exarch on his tag) works nicely, and I'll be running him as an Exarch in 2nd ed:


Once I got that done I decided that looks much better than the necromunda base would.
So I've just had to rebase my Eldar army

So here's a load of photos of the units after rebasing (in no particular order):

Striking Scorpions


Dire Avengers


Dark Reapers


Fire Dragons


Guardian Defenders


Weapon Platforms


Storm guardians with Power Swords


Storm Guardians with Chainswords


Farseer and Warlocks


War Walker


Wraithlord


Which means that both my Aeldari and Ynnari combat patrols are now done, (and didn't really fit in my lightbox):
Ynnari combat patrol:


Aeldari Combat Patrol:


Which puts me up to 28/32 combat patrols. Got Tau, Farsight Enclaves, Harlequins and Corsairs/Haemonculus coven left on my plan.

Although if Squats are coming soon I may have to work out where I could fit them in...

28/32 Combat Patrols, and 258 models painted so far this year.

A daunting task accepted and completed in a single post. Nicely done. Much love for old Eldar.

The old skool bases really help with the retro feel, they’re perfect!

youwashock wrote:A daunting task accepted and completed in a single post. Nicely done. Much love for old Eldar.

It was actually quite quick to do the bases, as I textured them and painted them as a big batch, and didn't need to be too careful as I didn't have the models on them, just took a while pinning them all to the bases

gobert wrote:The old skool bases really help with the retro feel, they’re perfect!

I do like the old school bases, so much I did some more:

Apothecary:


Another Chaplain:

I didn't have his banner pole so I made one...

Company Standard (the bigger banner I was working on):


I also got three bases of scarabs painted, but they look the same as my last ones, so I've not photographed them yet...

28/32 Combat Patrols, and 264 models painted so far this year.

Oh yes! Some very tasty banners! The Blood Angels must be quite a force now, and I think that gives them all of the HQ choices?

 gobert wrote:
Oh yes! Some very tasty banners! The Blood Angels must be quite a force now, and I think that gives them all of the HQ choices?

I'm missing a Terminator Captain (as he's a separate choice from the normal Captain), but I don't think I'll bother picking one up. It is getting sizable now, but there's more on my desk awaiting paint

They got ambushed by some necrons though. My son and I have been collecting the Imperium magazine, although we're only up to issue 15 or so, with the rest in a box as we make our way slowly through them. He decided he wanted to collect and paint the Ultramarines, so I got the necrons:
Overlord and Royal Warden:

Some more detroyers:

And yet more warriors:


I did them to match up the rest of my existing army, although I spent a bit of time tidying up the Tesseract Glow paint using Phalanx yellow, so I'm much happier with the glows on these guys. I'm sure I'll find time to go back and fix my army too

28/32 Combat Patrols, and 283 models painted so far this year.

Last post I said I had some Blood Angels on my desk and the necrons pushed in front of them in the painting queue, so I thought I should get them done.

I managed to get a squad of Terminators (and 2 extras) finished:

There's both a Heavy Flamer and a Cyclone Missile Launcher painted up, but if I don't want to field a heavy weapon I've got enough storm bolter guys to make the squad up. If I can get a sergeant and 2 more bolter guys for a reasonable price I'll split them up into 2 squads, although I'm not sure how often I'll be looking to field 3 squads of terminators...

And here's a WIP of the last Blood Angel currently on my desk (and possibly that I own):


Another metal dreadnought to go with Tartarus. He's missing the smoke launchers, and I had to make the top of the banner pole, but he's coming along nicely.

I highly recommend applying transfers, sealing them and then painting over them to do army markings.

As ValhallanWinter suggested Tartarus and Gehenna as names for dreadnoughts (way back on page 6 ) it seems fitting that this one is going to be Gehenna, assuming I can write it neatly on the banner .

28/32 Combat Patrols, and 290 models painted so far this year.

So I got Gehenna's banner done (and the base):


I had to scale the banner up slightly due to the difference in size between the banner pole I made, and the original one, so it's a little bigger than Tartarus's, but I think they look good together, and it's not a noticable when they aren't side by side:


And then I thought I should post a group shot of them all together in the cabinet as I think that's me finished all of the Blood Angels I own :


28/32 Combat Patrols, and 291 models painted so far this year

Wow. I've been away from dakka for a while and missed a lot of cool stuff on this blog. It's awesome to see how the collection has grown, especially the Blood angels. I feel like that faction in particular wears the 2nd Ed. bling especially well.

This is awesome! I love nostalgia marines.

Also, your painting goals make me feel like a sloth.

brushcommando wrote:Wow. I've been away from dakka for a while and missed a lot of cool stuff on this blog. It's awesome to see how the collection has grown, especially the Blood angels. I feel like that faction in particular wears the 2nd Ed. bling especially well.

Welcome back! The Blood Angels were the poster boys of 2nd Ed. so if any faction deserved the old bling it was them.

smurfmaster wrote:This is awesome! I love nostalgia marines.

Also, your painting goals make me feel like a sloth.

I'm glad you like the marines, and don't worry about the speed I paint, I know it's not normal One day I'll slow down and focus on painting well, rather than quickly...

Today is not that day though....

I finished off the Ice warriors of Valhalla. (I promise the white doesn't look quite as rough in real life as the photos make it).

I've got a Command Squad, Lieutenant with hand flamer and chainsword, 2 guys with flamers and 2 guys with lasguns:


An Infantry Squad with flamer and mortar:


And a heavy weapons squad with 3 mortars (with 3d printed stands, as I somehow lost the metal ones many years ago...):


The Valhallans clock in at 323 points in 2nd Ed (without any veteran abilities), and a huge 175 points in 9th.

Combined with the Mordians, Catachans, Storm Troopers and Ratlings, I'm ~1200 points in total in second ed. (still a long way off the Blood angels), but they're ~700 points in 9th. It's kind of crazy how many bodies a guard army can get on the table now.

The Imperial guard army construction was a bit weird back in 2nd, you could have up to three infantry or heavy weapons squads per command squad/HQ, as long as they matched the regiment, and then for each of those squads you could include an additional unit, (like my storm troopers and ratlings). As I have 3 infantry squads and 2 heavy weapons squads (with matching command), I have space for 5 additional units, leaving me space for 3 more. I might have to treat myself to some tanks in future Especially as they've pretty much not changed, so I can grab the modern(ish) Leman Russ, Basilisk or Chimera.

I think that's the end of my 2nd Ed. models, at least until eBay and poor impulse control make an appearance again

Back onto the actual combat patrols next I think, but we'll see if I can stay on track.

28/32 Combat Patrols, and 319 models painted so far this year