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Just did a bit more work on my 3rd Dire Avengers squad applied the gold on most of the models and the Skarsnik Green as well as applied highlights on most and a mid tone and shading. Feel like I've begun on the end road of the squad.

Primed about 1/2 my undead AoS halflings before running out of spray. :(
So then I worked on finishing that 2nd unit of AoS Marauder cav - and barely got the last two done as I ran out of glue....
*&%^!

So tomorrow it's off to the hobby shop.

Have done quite a bit more work on my 3rd Dire Avengers squad but I'm starting to run out steam a bit. But I'll soon have enough done for my Kill Team(s) I've decided to make all my DA squads be from different shrines with each Exarch wielding different weapons. Could've made four different Exarchs with a different load out in the same colours now I think about it. Would've been much easier but I think this has been a pretty good learning experience. And I'm slowly building up to an Eldar 40k army anyway.

Working on the cloth parts of a bunch of space marines this afternoon.

Assembled the Colonial Marines/Ripley/Newt from Aliens. 16 Xenomorphs to go.

On a related note, what Citadel paints would anyone recommend for 80s-ish US woodland camo? The Colonial Marines uniform is made using an unused woodland pattern from that era. I’ve found some guides for Vallejo paints but I’m having trouble finding the particular colours without paying a lot of shipping.

Did some work on the three Shining Spears, but switched to painting an old Necromunda Outlanders Beastmaster and three Milliasaurs.

Cheers,

CB

Built 1/2 a box of AoS Chaos Marauder foot troops.
Base coated some more Necrons (new units that've gained a rank in our Crusade - my models have to earn their paint. ).
Did some repair work on 6 Necrons.

"Finished" half of my 3rd Dire Avenger squad, still have to paint the Exarch's Dire Sword, thinking of painting it with a red field like a Sith or something. I'm doing the Witch Blades of my army purple as one of the themes I'm carrying on through the units are purple deets such as spirit stones, eye lenses etc. I'm going to do power weapons such as on my 1st Exarch's power glaive and my flying autarch's power sword in the traditional blue.

Also high lighted my 1st DA squad's black Dire Shuriken catapults with Eshin Grey, got a bit carried away with it here and there, but that isn't hard to fix and they look much better now.

Painting ghouls. 50 of them plus 3 characters. 43 more to go after these are done...Also made list of AOS painted/unpainted models. End result 820 models of which 435 painted, 385 unpainted. After the 96 FEC models I have on table now are done biggest pile is on stormcasts...137 models there...

More painting of space marines!


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And just to update:

Assembling +20 AoS Chaos Marauders.

Finished 52 flesh eater court models. Next 43 more ghouls...

Also spent time chasing down paint supplies. FLGS is running REALLY thin on paint section and what's worse GW flat out can't send sprays to EU thanks to brexit until it redoes labels. Wraithbone(which I use as primer for lumineth) I ran out, grey seer as well. Grey seer I haven't found on ANY finnish web store. Wraithbone I was able to find ONE store.

Grey seer I use for sisters of battle and gloomspite as it's my base prime to go when I go for white so I'm in bit of quandrum. Guess random primer and brush paint the bottled version? Whenever THAT comes to Finland...that too is out.

tneva82 wrote:
Finished 52 flesh eater court models. Next 43 more ghouls...

Are they little green ghouls, creek. By chance? (Sorry if you don't understand the reference, but I just couldn't resist)

Tyranid Horde, that marine looks really great.

Uhh, did a bit today, was applying Nuln oil to the golden bits on my 3rd Dire Avenger squad and managed to drop one of their yet to be glued on arms and as I went to look for it I tried to push the top of the bottle closed and pushed it over so half of it spilt onto my newspaper. Good job Ben! Good job. I'm sure this has happened to everyone before. Finally managed to get the courage to shade my Autarch's white bits and...not too happy with it, in all honesty, should be easy enough to fix, though.

No idea of reference

Green, orange and white ghouls. I use 3 colours to make the huge swarm bit more varying in look. 170 ghouls all looking same colour would be boring IMO.

Finally got the motivation to start on my Helbrute for the Dakka Painting Challenge. Highlighting the armour before moving on to basecoat other areas. Managed about twenty minutes.

Not looking good for completing by the end of the month. Still, at least I'm consistent.

tneva82 wrote:
No idea of reference

Green, orange and white ghouls. I use 3 colours to make the huge swarm bit more varying in look. 170 ghouls all looking same colour would be boring IMO.

Ah-ha! So there are little green ghouls, I knew it lol! I know I'm breaking the cardinal rule of 'do not explain the joke,' but I must spread the greatness of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia!




Back OT I fixed my autarch a bit and he's much better now. Also had a go with that basing paint stuff on the base of one of my Guardians and it looked surprisingly good. Thinking of painting it in the colour of ruined Wraithbone as my Eldar faction Craftworld Dalorsia were ousted from their Craftworld centuries before the "current" timeline of my Secret War fanfic continuity (I should update Secret War: Upon Blood Sands soon) by a huge force of Slaaneshi cultists led by the Emperor's Children, so yeah. Thinking of separating my Dire Avengers squads into six six-man squads instead of four ten-man squads as I might not have enough for the four ten-man ones and it'd be pretty cool having two six squads riding around in my new Wave Serpent in battles.

I have been painting a small fox.

Painting some terrain I want out of my pile before I work and even bigger terrain pieces I have lying around.

tneva82 wrote:
GW flat out can't send sprays to EU thanks to brexit until it redoes labels.

Are you sure? My FLGS got new GW sprays in just over a week ago, I got some new Chaos Black that had been out of stock for a while. I know I’m in Ireland but if it’s an EU labelling thing we should be under the same rules as you?

I put a together these creepy crawlies:

I have been sawing the arms off of Heroquest Orcs to stick onto Rogue Trader era Stormboyz when I should have been working on a squad of Ogryns.

 Horla wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
GW flat out can't send sprays to EU thanks to brexit until it redoes labels.

Are you sure? My FLGS got new GW sprays in just over a week ago, I got some new Chaos Black that had been out of stock for a while. I know I’m in Ireland but if it’s an EU labelling thing we should be under the same rules as you?

Several stores have now said same to me.

Could be ireland being the reason. Either them applying bit looseness to restrictions(funny that eu countries do have own control) or special uk-ireland deal that predates eu? Ireland passport is now rather valuable as well for example as irish people have more freedom to move and work among eu and uk than just eu/uk people? Maybe same applies to some goods?

Or stores here misunderstood and there's another reason why they aren't allowed to order more. Either way we(the customers) were told it might take up to 2 months before situation clears.

tneva82 wrote:
Either way we(the customers) were told it might take up to 2 months before situation clears.

Well whatever the reason that is pretty frustrating. I hope they find a case full of sprays in a Finnish warehouse and you get a neat surprise!

I'm a bit in a creative slump now. I assembled and mounted on new 32mm bases some old, all-metal Thousand Sons, painted an old school fantasy unit (some ghosts, so very fast to do) and now I'm struggling to get anything else going.

I took out some Tyranids monsters as they might be next. Took out my Harpy and an old Armorcast monster for now that I need to mount on a base. They might be the next target.

Finishing up the assembly of another 20 AoS Chaos Marauders.

20 bloodreavers and 10 bloodletters to kitbashed , modified and combined to become my Daemoncults aberrants / Abominants

More work on the five remaining models of my 3rd Dire Avengers squad painting up their Shuriken Catapaults and arms holding them and finished shading the blue on the armour on their bodies. Also pinned my Guardian emplacement, too!

Haven't got too far off now. Might begin assembling my new Farseer and Autarch on jetbike soon.

Finished the armour highlights on the Helbrute and started base coating the metals.

The last of my Xenomorphs for Aliens. Man they’re spindly!

Built the shield arms/shields for 3 units of AoS Marauders.
It'll be easier to paint the figures & their shields separately, then attach them all, than attach now & try and paint underneath/behind/around.

Been mostly doing prep for my Rogue Trader session I'm running this Saturday, the PCs are about to take part in a large Void battle that involves seven NPC ships (two who are allies of the PCs) And many are going to shoot torpedoes and I'm trying to set it up that my brain won't leak out of my ears during the session from all the crap I have to keep up with and a very likely chance they'll be boarded by boarding torpedoes and drop-ships. But I just did some more work on the unfinished half of my 3rd squad of Dire Avengers, fixed up the shuriken catapults and high-lighted them as well as the guns of my 2nd squad. Felt I was ready to glue up the five but found I'd run out of plastic glue.