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Finished a little 6" fence section. That's it, but hey it's something.

Used an airbrush for the first time today. Gonna take some getting used to I think. Also wanna plan what I am going to do with it before the next time I get it out as the set up, cleaning and takedown of it is a lot of hassle so it wil have to be something I have an idea of what I want to achieve with before I use it rather than just breaking it out and winging it.

Finished off Luke and Leia for Imperial Assault. Not particularly well but they'll do. Getting very bored of scraping mould lines off plastic minis now.

Played the final 3 games of DWOK's campaign. I was marines and I got my head handed to me in all 3 of the last missions. Still had lots of fun and the game's got a lot of replayability since you can choose different marine combos for each mission and after you've mastered one force you can swap sides.

I'm finishing my XV-8. Mix of old and new suits...



Talking about the new XV-8 suits... They are so awesome! Posable, with new 'flavor' and shoulder pads...

I'll probably get some more!

So, this is how Iron Man looks right now:



I'd say I followed everyone's advice, but that'd be kinda a lie...

I did the thing, drybrushed silver, watered down the paint, did 3 or 4 layers of the watered down paint.

Then, um, drat.

I wandered off for half an hour and came back, still was unsure and decided, "I'll just try one last layer." Naturally, the water in the palette had been evaporating for half an hour by that point, so the paint had become a lot stronger than it was originally. Still, it doesn't look too bad.

Heck, I'm half tempted to leave him as he is and say, "oh, it's the Silver Centurion armour."

Overall though, I'm going to be using that method if I ever need to do a similar model again, I'm really pleased with the concept, so thanks everyone!

Looking good, even if you have lost some of the effect with that last coat, he still has a nice metallic look. For what it's worth, the same method with a brown wash gives a nice gold.

I'm getting some base colors down on my Dark Angels Interrogator-chaplain. I'm also putting some paint on a Tau Piranha.

Finished up the four assassins (except for basing) from Execution Force. I'm going to use my BaC Wordbearers to save me from painting 3 Chaos Marines and the Sorcerer dude. If my Overkill GSCs had pistol guys on 25mm bases, I wouldn't be painting my chaos cultists at all

Ordered a unit of Storm Lances for my Cygnar

Making makeshift unit bases out of cardboard and sprues.

Strippin primer with isoproponal.

and i have a cut on my hand

and i have no gloves....

rip :/

Worked on the Baneblade some more. Man I've been saying that a lot... Slow painter and no time, but its getting there.

I finally started painting something for the first time in 1.5 years. I chose to finish my Grey Knights army (something I haven't touched since the ORIGINAL Daemon hunters codex came out 14 years ago).

The thing is, I refer to my Grey Knights as "Ghetto Knights". With the exception of 4 power armor guys with psycannons and a Dreadknight, all of them are made from bits scavenged from the local game store's bits box. The basic grey knights trooper is a mix of Dark Angel, Vanilla Marine, some Grey knights heads, and various bits. My Landraider is a heavily converted WWI Mark V tank.

All in all I think I've spent less than $250 on a 2500 point army.

A WYSIWYG anal retentive friend once pointed out that my "daemon hammers" are actually just thunder hammers, and thus not totally legal.

Bought a box of 5 Soulhunters from our local store. Almost 60€. Dont ask if WMH is cheaper than 40k.

Trying to find a decent paint scheme for my BAC box set. Gonna try to make a homebrew chapter with a super Roman theme. (No, not like old timey Smurfs)

 Chef_of_Cadia wrote:
Trying to find a decent paint scheme for my BAC box set. Gonna try to make a homebrew chapter with a super Roman theme. (No, not like old timey Smurfs)

Painting smurfs is something i gave up. Too less of a challenge and hardly rewarding.

My XV8 suits are done (few days now, just haven't had chance to post pics)

That's a spiffy and menacing Tau scheme

I've only got three suits, the new ones from the Start Collecting! set, and I've still got half of the weapons to magnetize let alone paint. Kudos for getting so many knocked out!

Can't wait to have mine finished, need some photographic payoff for all of my hard work making 4 points of articulation (mostly balljoints to boot!) and 4 hard points.

Today maybe I'll paint some mummies or skelemen.

Washing some FW resin, praying not to get any sweaty resin and calculating mold slips. From the looks of the baggie, the model must've sitting in storage for years :|

Got round to painting the first AT-ST. I really did buy too much of this stuff.

Excellent I like the basing. It's gonna be hard for me to get my AT ST onto a clear acrylic of the appropriate shape. Luke and Leia look good too!

 GrimDork wrote:
Excellent I like the basing. It's gonna be hard for me to get my AT ST onto a clear acrylic of the appropriate shape. Luke and Leia look good too!

I think Litko make an acrylic base exactly that size and shape. I don't envy you trying to shave that much plastic off the feet though. I'd probably resort to sandpaper for most of it.

My basing technique is tragically low-rent. PVA glue, beach sand and then brown ink when the glue has dried. Job done

Still looks miraculously better than taking no effort (unless its no effort on a clear acrylic, and then I strongly approve) and leaving them plain.

They probably do make one that size nowadays but every order from them is $7 which makes even cute little orders kinda gross so I usually bulk buy where possible. He's OK stock for now, its not as if I'm getting to play.

I got my Operation Icestorm in the mail today. Its been a pleasure working with metal again. Everything I've worked on for probably the last 2 years has been either plastic or resin.

The figures are beautiful.

I'm converting some Ashen Circle marines out of Chas Raptors.

Section 6 in the first post of:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/664958.page

There's been a little more work done on artillery since then, but that's for another update.

Mummy Kings skeletons and a few mummies. Trying to finish them paintwise. Weather has fouled up a bit so maybe no sealing today .

I built my X-Men starter set today and sculpted some hair onto cyclopse. Then I set up my paintbrushing stuff so it would be ready when I get home from work tomorrow

Considered starting to prep some models to be painted (as well as for a review) - ended up watching painting videos on YouTube, playing Hearthstone and then doing an unboxing post for my blog regarding my rewards from the Infamy Miniatures One Shot kickstarter...

While I've been meaning to write that post for over a month now, it hasn't been the most productive day.