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Halloo!!!

Time for our monthly schemes... er, plans.

Tell us your modeling ambitions for April!

-Put together 2000 pts of Orks
-Put together 50 pts of Cygnar
-Put together 50 pts of Trollbloods
-Put together The Collete Box set
-Put together a Forsaken warband
-Put together a Combined Sectorial Army box

ahahahhahhah you so funny....

- Magnetize, assemble and paint (to tabletop standard) Tau Riptide (by 4/9) (Painted to a tabletop standard and used in a game)
- Magnetize, assemble and paint (to tabletop standard) Tau Sun Shark/Razorshark (by 4/9) (Painted to a tabletop standard and used in a game)
- Complete work on 3 crisis suits, 1 Hammerhead, 1 Devilfish, and uncompleted models above.
- Commander Longstrike (Painted to a tabletop standard and used in a game)
- Swarmlord and 10 Gargoyles washed and used in a game

paint 2, 6 squad platoons of infantry, stormtrooper squad, and a command squad for my ig.

Last month my goal was to paint 1 model...

1) Finish painting 3 models.
2) Get my hasslefree models pinned/magnetized so I can have tons of options! (modern troopers)

Hopefully I can get this month's stuff done and a bunch more! But only time will tell.

modest goals this month:

1. assemble & paint up a lascannon dev squad for my salamanders
2. assemble, magnetize (special weapons) & paint up the other 7 models for my first 10-man CSM squad for my night lords

stretch goals:

1. convert, magnetize & paint termie librarian for my salamanders (ugh, finecast)
2. assemble, magnetize & paint a drop pod for my salamanders

Build and prime remaining necrons for customer, pack and ship
Assemble remaining leviathan and prime it
Begin painting leviathan 1

Happy April everybody! Thanks for putting this up, as I am finally ready to get going again after our move. It looks like everything made it through storage etc, AOK.

I also got a killer new magnifying lamp with LED lights, looking forward to using that!

April Goals:

Finish Wood Elf Ally contingent: (all Autumn theme)

Glade Riders - Riders
Glade Riders - Steeds
Treekin - bases

Finish detail work on the Steam Tank

Draw up plans for Luminark of Hysh

Work on Fluff for Empire Army background

April goals:
Starting posting in P&M instead of just lurking!
Add more big Tyranid beasties

Assemble and paint:
Land Raider Redeemer
Stormraven #2
Drop pod x2
Assault squad #2
Assault terminator squad #2

 Poehammer wrote:
April goals:
Starting posting in P&M instead of just lurking!
Add more big Tyranid beasties

Assemble and paint:
Land Raider Redeemer
Stormraven #2
Drop pod x2
Assault squad #2
Assault terminator squad #2

wow... I wish I could be that productive in a month :p

Finish Thunderhawk Terrain.
Finish Hill Terrain.
Add to the Fortress Monastary.
Paint two combat squads in Verdant Star colors.
Practice with Greenstuff.
Order parts from Anvil Industry.
Use parts from Anvil Industry.
Order parts for Chapter Master.
Kitbash Chapter Master.

Finish painting 5 Tallarn troopers.
Finish painting 5 shoota boyz.
Paint promethium refinery terrain.
Finish painting oil drums and objective markers.
Buy a camera and learn how to take good pics of minis.
Prep, green-stuff repair and undercoat ork barricades.

....Sadly that's a pretty optimistic amount. I'll be impressed if I get both the orks and Tallarns done....

Same with my post. I wish you luck!

My hope for this month is to finish assembling and painting 3 knights and 27 warriors of chaos.

I'm in the process of moving though, so we'll see how that goes.

 varl wrote:

 Poehammer wrote:
April goals:

wow... I wish I could be that productive in a month :p

Well, the painting itself doesn't take very long. I can finish that land raider in two nights. Finding the motivation is what hangs me up usually! Especially when I don't *need* the model for an upcoming game or anything. Maybe I should hide my Nintendo 3DS until I finish something...

-Learn how to magnetize
-Learn how to use an airbursh (well)
-Apply said skills to 3 Riptides and 3 Tau Sun/Razor Sharks that I preordered.

This looks like it's going to be an exciting month!

Stormsung, do you have a Plog for this:

Add to the Fortress Monastary.

And Arclaw, how about you?

Paint promethium refinery terrain.

I'd love to see these things in progress!

I've got a few

-Assemble 600 pts of Eldar
-Paint DA and Wave Serpent
-Paint 1 Squad IG

Stretch Goal: Paint another unit of DA

I've finally managed to wrap up the last of my in-progress Orks and Dwarves, so I'm on to the Skeleton/Revenant contingent of my DKH: Dead Rising set. Test models are progressing nicely and I think I've locked down a relatively simple method, so I'm hoping to crank out the rest of them (just shy of 20, once again in pieces, plus a few markers and skeleton dogs) within the month, in two or three large (for me) batches.

Pretty ambitious, by my markedly low standards, but I'm trying to boost productivity by aiming for tabletop standard more as a method/philosophy (heavy washes, drybrushing, simple edgelining - no/minimal blending, fine layering, or glazing) than a measure of the results.

Should I finish early (and hell freezing over hasn't impacted the climate significantly enough to cause a disruptive shift in weather patterns), I'll have to decide between moving forward with one of my smaller forces (i.e. an Infinity starter box), tackling one or a few of my one-off models, or starting in on the construction of one of my various fantasy armies still waiting on their sprues.

Hmm, I like this thread idea. I'll have to post pics of what I do to keep myself honest

Paint Abaddon and Huron
Assemble, magnetize, and paint 10 man CSM squad
Paint Havoc Squads

 Gyrtop wrote:
-Learn how to magnetize
-Learn how to use an airbursh (well)
-Apply said skills to 3 Riptides and 3 Tau Sun/Razor Sharks that I preordered.

Magnetizing is super easy; my advice is to go slowly and be patient. If you pay attention, you won't make any mistakes - but if you do (like getting the polarity backwards!) it can be difficult to fix.

Update:

Here is the musician

I need to finish painting the forge world stuff that I got for Christmas so I can justify buying some more when I get my bounty in may

I would like to finish my first painting commission of 40 Khorne Bloodletters....

If I have time I would also like to start painting my SW Longfangs squads.... At least the missle launcher LFs

Build, paint and base a Panzergenadier HQ box
Buy, build, paint and base MORE pazergrenadiers *depending on wallet*

All I want out of April is to get my three Vendettas finally finished.

I built the model in the foreground and purchased the other two from Lycaeus Wrex.



The steps to success:

1. Finish converting the lascannons: One of his models lacked three lascannons. My model's lascannons were converted differently than his so I felt obligated to make mine match. Lots of small magnets are required which are a pain in the ass. This step is almost complete. I just need to reattach one weapon mount to my Vendetta because I glued it on incorrectly the first time.

2. Repaint my model: It is painted differently and needs a repaint. This step also includes painting all of the added lascannons for all three models.

3. Paint details including squadron markings on all models.

4. Add decals, which also involves some gloss coating.

5. Weather all three models.

6. Decorate the bases for all three models in an urban rubble theme.

7. Dullcoat all three models (while remembering to protect the clear plastic canopies)

I still have a long way to go on them.

Keep plugging away everybody, we still have plenty of time to get things done!

Finish Repainting 40 Ork Shootas (almost done 5 more to go)
Paint and assemble 20 new Ork Shootas (Sprues Primed)
Paint and assemble 8 more Lootas (Sprues primed)

Convert 10 AOBR Warbosses to MegaNobz

Strip 90 2nd edition grots
Strip 150 Ork Sluggas (90 2nd edition and 60 AOBR)
Decide on new paint scheme for the Grotz

Decide on what Slugga Boyz are being converted to Kommandoes, Burna Boyz, StormBoyz, and /or Tank Busters to flesh out those units


Thats it for April ..


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Oh figure out just where to go with the TAU contigent I have

Arclaw wrote:Finish painting 5 Tallarn troopers.
Finish painting 5 shoota boyz.
Paint promethium refinery terrain.
Finish painting oil drums and objective markers.
Buy a camera and learn how to take good pics of minis.
Prep, green-stuff repair and undercoat ork barricades.

....Sadly that's a pretty optimistic amount. I'll be impressed if I get both the orks and Tallarns done....

I'm off to a flying start!

Finish painting 5 Tallarn troopers.
Finish painting 5 shoota boyz.
Paint promethium refinery terrain. -DONE
Finish painting oil drums and objective markers. -DONE
Buy a camera and learn how to take good pics of minis.
Prep, green-stuff repair and undercoat ork barricades. -DONE

Now I've got to slog through the infantry... Blending the white on headscarfs is a real pain...

hdbbstephen wrote:This looks like it's going to be an exciting month!

Stormsung, do you have a Plog for this:

Add to the Fortress Monastary.

And Arclaw, how about you?

Paint promethium refinery terrain.

I'd love to see these things in progress!

I'd love to post it, but that'll have to wait for the new camera!

A humble entry in contrast to others here.

1. Add battle damage and weathering to almost complete AOBR dread.
2. Paint Chapter Captain (converted Huron lught)
3. Paint SM Libby in term armour.
4. Paint 5 x Termies

Mays goal, strip and repaint my landraider. Build and paint land raider crusader.