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Today i have decided i will challange myself with creating a new army in 2 months for Armies on Parade 2017.

This will be really hard for my as i am an extremly slow painter. I usually paint one table top figure in 3-4 hours.

This wont be fast to finish an army in 2 months so i will learn how to become faster and try to maximize effort with simple color scheme etc.

Here is a test cultist i did:



Dont mind the gloss varnish lol, it was an accident.

After painting this one i decided to forget about gold and use only silver for all metals, and have them drybrushed instead. At least for the basic cultist.

My overall plan for my board is to have a chaos altar in the middle surrounded by cultists and some marines and apostle raising up a demon prince with alot of blood an sacrified cultist troops laying dead around etc.

This first month i have to try and finish all basic toops so i have next month free for the characters and board. Hopefully i can make it!

I feel your pain on this, I paint things very slowly too.

I'm in a similar position myself this year, despite promising myself last year that I wouldn't make this year a rush.

Best of luck with the project, take lots of pictures! I do love a good display board

Thanks man! One great motivator is that everyone get a silver badge this year just for finishing. Makes it abit easier to not be so self critical I really want that badge as a memorial


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Hard at work basecoating the some cultists

Batch panting really is a pain


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The new cultist look. Not sure i am feelin the drybrush
Damn, should have tested on just one figure first.



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Opinions to save siilver parts?

Nice job on the finished cultist.

Keep at it with the batch painting, the feeling of momentum does increase as you progress!

EDC

Thanks i will, need to sort out the color scheme abit

Better or worse with dirt?

Better.

Seconded on the dirt.

First batch of cultists ready! Feels abit lazy with painting the fabric just red and black but i see no other way i can finish this in time otherwise.

Next in line is either 2nd edition chaos terminators, 3rd edition raptors or demon prince i think. Or i might reward myself with buying an apostle

Well, i gotta say this quick paint drybrush job doesnt translate very well to pictures. Pains me alittle but it have to be if i will have any chance of finishing this in time.
Luckily i have 2 more squads of these in my collection so i dont feel tooo bad about not giving them my best.

Also have decided to just go mixed classic chaos army instead so i can use some of my other minis.

Looking good so far. Remember it's a tabletop competition, the drybrushing is looking good, and will look great when they are on the display board, don't fret about it.

Thanks for the reassurance, hopefully it will be an good looking force as a whole. The display board can really make a big difference too I didnt make any good looking bases or terrain so far so it will be a great challange. I am leaning towards using the arcane ruins terrain kit as a center piece. Altough that is probably not so unique.

The squad completed. Not sure what to do next. We will see.

Very nice, and very reminiscent of the black legion terminators in the 2nd ed codex.

Thanks again, i like those in the 2nd ed codex very much, some day i will make another try at these with my other squad and follow the picture closesly. But for now this will do!


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3rd Edition raptor WIP, going for thousands sons scheme, kinda wierd but i think it looks cool.

1 down 4 more to go.

Anotha fresh of the press