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Couldn't help but pimp-out my new arm (actually the shoulderpad on the elbow isn't on it, forgot to take that tryout off.. ignore it)
After photographing did some more work on it though but you all will have to wait!

No more wips!

Really!!

 Leopold Helveine wrote:
Couldn't help but pimp-out my new arm (actually the shoulderpad on the elbow isn't on it, forgot to take that tryout off.. ignore it)
After photographing did some more work on it though but you all will have to wait!

No more wips!

Really!!

Looking good!

Here are the last two Samurai Marines, assembled and ready for painting.

WIPs on the RTB1 sprues.

Beware the ides of March!

Halfway done, pace your progress appropriately.

Also toss out any ideas for April that are kicking around your head.

I've hardly started my Raven Guard, all I've done is got a (semi) solid basecoat of matte black down on a few models and some dark leather colours started...

Random ideas for April: "A Heroic Journey" and "It's party time!"

How about April Fools?

Meanwhile, my rtb1 sprues are just about done:


Now to frame them!

 Nevelon wrote:
Beware the ides of March!

Halfway done, pace your progress appropriately.

I got ten minutes of painting spread over the last week, and most of it wasn't even on the Marine. I think you'll have to write a sternly worded letter to real life on my behalf and tell it to stop bothering me. I can't work like this.

Bright side, I'm halfway there. Lots of details left to paint, but all the base colors and washes are on the model.

 Nevelon wrote:
Also toss out any ideas for April that are kicking around your head.

Cuddly and Fluffy. Because Easter bunnies and stuff.

Birds of a feather, flock together. Can cover all sorts of beasties, plus anything that's a coherent unit.

No, I'm not going to tell you what boxset I just bought...


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Or anything with a flocked base, if you're going old school.

Going to work on my entry this weekend, not sure If I will get both finished, I'm going to try and paint an imperial fist first and see how that goes, then If enough time is left I will paint up a chaos friend for him to have a cup of tea with.

A quick photo of them primed and ready to go

Been bedridden 2 days, feel a lot better now although the jaw still hurts too (after tooth extraction)
Have done a little bit of work on the Orkynought, basecoating the new orky tingz attached.

Will probably get to it again later today.
I'm sure half a month is enough.

 Leopold Helveine wrote:
Been bedridden 2 days, feel a lot better now although the jaw still hurts too (after tooth extraction)
Have done a little bit of work on the Orkynought, basecoating the new orky tingz attached.

Will probably get to it again later today.
I'm sure half a month is enough.

Hope things improve. Dental problems are a nasty business.

I've had this idea in my head for a couple of weeks: All out of bubblegum, for the minis who aren't jacks of all trades who can pitch in wherever they're needed, they're here to do one thing (and chew bubblegum, but see above). They'll lie prone with their sniper rifle for five weeks to get the one perfect shot, they'll keep shouting coordinates into their radio even while the enemy's charging into melee range, they've got a chainaxe and every single other thing on the battlefield is a skull to put it into - it could cover any kind of specialist (because I haven't actually got an ideal candidate unpainted myself, so I need the loophole), but what I'm thinking of are the ones with real unwavering (possibly insane) focus on that one task that, as long as they've got one unbroken bone and half a functioning organ in their body, they're gonna keep doing it.

The last two samurai marines are essentially finished:



Next, backpacks and basing.

 Daia T'Nara wrote:
I've had this idea in my head for a couple of weeks: All out of bubblegum, for the minis who aren't jacks of all trades who can pitch in wherever they're needed, they're here to do one thing (and chew bubblegum, but see above). They'll lie prone with their sniper rifle for five weeks to get the one perfect shot, they'll keep shouting coordinates into their radio even while the enemy's charging into melee range, they've got a chainaxe and every single other thing on the battlefield is a skull to put it into - it could cover any kind of specialist (because I haven't actually got an ideal candidate unpainted myself, so I need the loophole), but what I'm thinking of are the ones with real unwavering (possibly insane) focus on that one task that, as long as they've got one unbroken bone and half a functioning organ in their body, they're gonna keep doing it.

So, “I’m here to [blank] and chew bubblegum, and I’m all outta bubblegum”?

 XvArcanevX wrote:

 Leopold Helveine wrote:
Been bedridden 2 days, feel a lot better now although the jaw still hurts too (after tooth extraction)
Have done a little bit of work on the Orkynought, basecoating the new orky tingz attached.

Will probably get to it again later today.
I'm sure half a month is enough.

Hope things improve. Dental problems are a nasty business.

Thanks, every bettership-wish does me good. Atleast the wound is starting to look better but it still hurts and makes it harder to fall asleep (and stay asleep)
Have been fasting during this too because I don't want to complicate things by getting food into the wound, been taking Q10 and royal jelly and making pumpkin soup with bone broth, will try to eat some mashed potatoes and carrots this evening. 4 days fasting is enough (did a 5 day waterfast before which was extremely boring but have been keeping myself busy binging the witcher series I still had on a usb and playing some fallout shelter).

As for the ontopic, been going at it with the Kantor blue and it looks awesome when painting it in such a way you leave enough rusty rustness around the edges and sometimes creeping in. Done one side on the upper body. When that's done will be adding some sponged metal scratches here and there and then probably some glued sand to add extra fallout-rust before I start with the detail.

am contemplating adding a nuke to the base because I have a dakka jet box I want to make into a wazbom which leaves such as spare parts.

p.s. @Daia: I'm for that idea, still have a Harlequin Solitaire to assemble and paint and it would be perfect for such a challenge.

 Jadenim wrote:


So, “I’m here to [blank] and chew bubblegum, and I’m all outta bubblegum”?

In the name of all that is sacred…. let this suggestion win out! Lol

I'm going to do a re-paint of this, the gashapon chibi of the anniversary miniature of the marine from the Rogue Trader cover.

“Let’s Finish This!” is still an option for April, right? I’ve got a couple of tanks that need paint to round out the squad.

Nothing is off the table at this point. I’ll figure out what the vote choices for April will be and put the poll up sometime midweek.

I like the concept of “all out of bubblegum” but worry that a lot of people won’t get the reference, and just be confused. We can defiantly work that into the long description, but would something like "dedicated specialist” or “focused” be better to get the spirit across?

I think “let’s finish this” is also a good call, as a lot of people have half finished projects that could use a nudge across the paintbench.

And anything not selected for this month just goes on the list for later.

I'm calling the Samurai Marines finished:







I have some more photos from different angles in my P&M blog, if anyone is interested.

Brilliant stuff my old fruit

Awesome work Josh, It might be interesting to paint up a fifth space marine samurai as the "Emperor's Shadow's" chapter.

Work and life has been really busy, but I have finally finished cleaning up the castings and have the whole group ready for priming.

Well, the month is half gone and I'm just now submitting a proof pic. This is going swimmingly, isn't it? Anyways, I'm entering some Infernus Marines:

Here's hoping these guys will be simple enough to actually finish in just two weeks. They should be, but I've been struggling with motivation lately (again, I know...). Here's hoping I can actually get them done.

Sorry ima need to hijack dis e're agin ladz..
couldn't help but make one final WIP picture just because I so love the way the Kantor looks on the rust, added more description to the wip pic;

Calling this done

And framed!

Added in a pouch and a head to the sprues to fill in the gaps. Pretty happy, all in all.

Hah hah. I was looking at the picture like, "I don't remember that gas mask head being on there before!" until I read your post.

Finished.

Illness has delayed my plans for this month so far, need to get back on it, i'm still not 100% but better but here at least is the final league table,

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/732117.page#9481149

enjoy and any issues let me know

There's no way in hell I can get anything completed in time this month :(

Mr.Nobody… Dante looks great. Nice work. What gold did you use?