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Yesterday: I decided to switch it up and put some basecoat on my brand new death cult assassins (using plastic witch elves as counts as).

Tonight - probably back to basecoating tau. Thank god i don't play foot guard, i'd probably shoot myself.

No pics of the enforcers are the moment, I may try and get some over the weekend.

If a description helps at all, I've used a pale grey for the armour plates, a dark grey for the under-armour, and squad markings in yellow/orange. Then everything gets a very heavy black wash, and then another layer of black wash applied directly to seams, before another highlight on the grey. Takes around 30-40 minutes per model, one at a time. I could probably do a squad in 2 hours if I batch-painted, but for a fairly small army, I'd rather take it slow.

On a slightly off-topic note, I've never actually seen Aliens. Maybe I should just hand in my nerd-card now and go and watch it...

I quite like the first couple. The third one was less a favorite and I think I'd rather watch Jason X then ressurection . Actually no I'd rather stare at the wall.. no Jason X lol.

Scheme sounds like one I may try. I definitely want them to look like not-goodguys. Something to do with many washes, I have all 12 ghost tints and I'm not afraid to use them!


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Maybe black and dark orange... won't match my corp marines but may look awesome

To be honest, I think the less the Enforcers match any Corp they're fighting alongside the better. The marines are owned by individual corps, the Enforcers are under direct control of the Council of Seven, I think, so are an entirely separate entity. It would add to the idea that, in the end, they are there either to keep an eye on the corp or because whatever they're up against is really dangerous. They're certainly not out to protect their fellow man.

There was a great fluff piece posted on the Mantic Blog today, featuring a guy running from the plague. He thinks he's been saved by the Enforcer, who then tells him to keep running as he's drawing out the mutants. So yeah, they are certainly not Good Guys.

Washes work awesomely well on the Enforcers thanks to the really crisp panel lines. Just block out the colours and then wash a couple of times and they'll look great. They practically shade themselves.

I've got another 3 done in the last hour, beginning to really get the hang of the paint scheme. I've now found the camera, so pics should be up tomorrow or Sunday, time permitting.

I just repainted my Daemon Price. I got sick of the super easy purple/golden/black paint job I did back when I started, and went for something more interesting instead.

I also based my traitor guardsmen finally. They've been standing on their empty bases far too long. I still need to add some "fauna" of some kind, but I'm yet to decide how that's going to look.

I might actually upload some pictures of my entire army into the gallery soon. The legion of slaanesh has grown quite large over the years.

 Paradigm wrote:
To be honest, I think the less the Enforcers match any Corp they're fighting alongside the better. The marines are owned by individual corps, the Enforcers are under direct control of the Council of Seven, I think, so are an entirely separate entity. It would add to the idea that, in the end, they are there either to keep an eye on the corp or because whatever they're up against is really dangerous. They're certainly not out to protect their fellow man.

There was a great fluff piece posted on the Mantic Blog today, featuring a guy running from the plague. He thinks he's been saved by the Enforcer, who then tells him to keep running as he's drawing out the mutants. So yeah, they are certainly not Good Guys.

Washes work awesomely well on the Enforcers thanks to the really crisp panel lines. Just block out the colours and then wash a couple of times and they'll look great. They practically shade themselves.

I've got another 3 done in the last hour, beginning to really get the hang of the paint scheme. I've now found the camera, so pics should be up tomorrow or Sunday, time permitting.

Paradigm, when you do get that chance to take pictures, please feel free to post them in the Warpath/Deadzone thread I started in the Mantic subforum down the page. Helps give guys ideas for painting their stuff, and my Iron Man enforcers are feeling lonely over there.

Last evening: Got the three-color shadow/highlight base coat done on 10 28mm Tommies for Bolt Action.

Tonight, God willing: Working on barrels and crates as terrain for 28mm skirmish (Cutlass! and Muskets & Tomahawks).

Over the weekend, God willing: finishing detail work on 30 28mm Heer infantrymen for Bolt Action. They need their boots, helmets, gas mask containers, and packs done before the Army Painter Strong Tone sludge goes on.

Yep, I'll post them in there as well as starting my own thread in P&M as and when I get them done.

By the way, the IronForcers are Epic!

Assembling and painting my friends Canadian army for Rapid Fire. Although he can pick models up, he cannot hold a modeling knife or paintbrush in order to make and paint the models.

Today, I've done more work on my vintage night gobbos. Should get them finished up tomorrow. Just teeth and eyes to do, then dip. Tomorrow, I've also got an extensive repair job on the calamitous musician.

Got another 5 enforcers (yay, full squad now!) and repainted a Corporation/IG veteran squad. The mantic-ness goes on.

For me too! After finishing my first enforcer test scheme, not sure I love it. Gotta build another and try out something else.

So far today I have my arms done for special weapon guys in my crusader squads. The hands and weapons are magnetized so I can switch them out. Have to figure out how to do the melta gun, because there is no good way to get a drill in there to do it.

That leaves one terminator arm to glue on and finding my missing heavy weapons, and everything for my 1850 list is assembled! (2 years after I bought it)

OOoh sparky pre-grats. Gonna post up pics?

 necrovamp wrote:
Assembling and painting my friends Canadian army for Rapid Fire. Although he can pick models up, he cannot hold a modeling knife or paintbrush in order to make and paint the models.

And people say that chivalry is dead! I dare say thats very nice done of you. Your friend is lucky to have someone like you helping him out

Putting together the rest of my Warzone collection before deciding how I want to approach painting my Dark Legion.

Taking photos of my new tanks and soldiers:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/210/445060.page

Those all look pretty darn nice

 GrimDork wrote:
OOoh sparky pre-grats. Gonna post up pics?

Probably do a huge update on my plog here later tonight.

I shall make it a point to seek it out and gawk



I'm actually getting some work done on my Junk pile. Down to weathering/damage/whatever at this point mostly. Need to get it done before the 13th, and so I can start to work on enforcers again

Manchu wrote:
Tonight, God willing: Working on barrels and crates as terrain for 28mm skirmish (Cutlass! and Muskets & Tomahawks).

All fifteen pieces primed, based, blocked, drybrushed, and shaded! Just needs spraying with Dullcote.

These are the ones:

http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/ware-piles-boxed-set-p-799.html

Painting Grey Hunters, witch seems to be my never ending lot in life. And putting them on the new bases from Micro art studios, those resin bases are damned awesome I must say as a painter of medioce skills

Annnnnnd done:

Woohoo! Always nice to see stuff done Especially terrain, as that almost always leads to better games!

You could make a veritable dock maze out of those.

Yeah, I originally bought them for Cutlass! (still haven't played) but I suppose they would be useful for AWi-era games, Old West games, steampunk (easy to imagine some 'jacks next to those), etc., etc. I also recently got a the Rorke's Drift set from Warlord so this could be useful there, too. Pictured are three sets ... which might have been one too many, really.

Word to the wise, this set is advertised for 28mm but I think they look better with 32-54mm figs.

So the barrels and crates are too big then? Its hard to tell without a mini for scale. I think they'd be pretty sweet for any docks encounter for a D&D group using models too

There are three sizes of barrels represented in the set. But the crates are the bigger concern. A crate can only be so big and still be reasonably carried by a team of men. The larger crates in this set are significantly bigger than coffins would be for 28mm dudes. It's not a big deal really -- just seems like they are a tad too big for 28mm.

If you want to see them next to a fig, check out the MicroArt Studio link I posed above.

By the way, Black Scorpion's Cutlass! range is in 32mm so I'll have no trouble there.

The big barrels look like the kind you could fit a man inside if you wanted. Do you mind putting one next to some minis for scale?

 carlos13th wrote:
Do you mind putting one next to some minis for scale?

Sorry didn't have a Space Marine handy. On the extreme left is a 32mm pirate from Black Scorpion. Next up a 28mm Heer infantryman from Warlord followed by a 28mm Norman archer from Gripping Beast. Finally, a bonejack.

Thats a good combination, thank you.