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leopard wrote:
Started building an painting models from Warlord's Test of Honour Samurai game.



Only the black armour, red cloth and skin tones done so far on one of the small starter factions.

Samurai models are a pig to build, light infantry are better, both have the typical Warlord problem, paired arms and legs with nothing on the frames to show you which goes with which...

Nice work. I just finished assembling my samurai. Fiddly little sods, every one of them. I am fully expecting something to snap off first time I use them. I was particularly unimpressed at the neck hole in the torsos to locate the head peg and then realising that only one of the supplied heads actually has a neck peg so the rest have to be glued to the rim of a hole instead of a decent contact patch. Wargames Factory's sprue designers really didn't concentrate on what they were doing.

Glad to hear the ashigaru are a bit easier to build.

I'm doing all of mine in monochrome so the whole game looks more like a Kurosawa film. And because I am a very lazy painter.

Monochrome sounds like it could work very well actually, not good enough at working the shades out for that but would love to see them.

Finished group shot (well lacks static grass but otherwise done)



Agree the sprue designers were asleep on the job in some areas, for the love of gork, please when putting paired arms/legs etc on frames mark them so you know what goes with what...

Waiting on more 25mm steel bases before I can do any more of them.

Was trying out new skintones, since Lady Shiva is on the list to paint.



I'm pretty sure my terrible painting and lack of understanding of well, any aesthetics has resulted in me insulting a good 20% of the worlds population.

Though I'm not entirely sure what 20%...

And also my attempts at highlighting have ended up looking like bikini lines.

This painting thing is hard.

Getting sad that i cant glaze infinity models to save my life

i think im just going to go back to airbrushing.

Painted two more Sisters of Battle...these with Melta Guns. Next up will be the two Sister Superiors.

Cheers,

CB

Planning out an Ork army, seeing the cost, and debating going with CSM instead

Trying to finish off some Dark Angels tanks to clear my desk for when the Custodes arrive.

When the rain stops, basecoating my second Panther and 251.

Working on getting my 400 points of Eldar ready for an event Friday. I have 9 helmets and installing magnets on 4 jetbikes left to get to table top standard. I'm leaving everything without clear coats as on the bikes I need to apply black striping, and on the dire avengers and warp spiders I need to apply highlights.

 Desubot wrote:
Getting sad that i cant glaze infinity models to save my life

i think im just going to go back to airbrushing.

3 hours of work. i think the white came out ok.

I'm trying to finish up a bunch of Dark Angels models that have been sitting partially painted for about a year. Once I finish those I can move on to more exciting things.

Finished the two Sister Superiors. So three more infantry models left and three tanks and one flyer.

Cheers,

CB

Bit more on my samurai, blue ones this time (lovely Prussian Blue, highlighted Magic Blue), then assembling, priming and making a start on a Mk III Armour Techmarine for a Thousand Sons force that currently consists of one part painted Techmarine wondering where the other 999 went

Assembling three old Mark I Rhino chassis that I stripped and pulled apart. Brings back memories of the original 3 Rhino plastic kit that GW released. Also remembered to have elastic bands on hand for assembly of these things...which are soon to become Immolators.

Cheers,

CB

Painting Ahriman!!

Captain Brown wrote:
Assembling three old Mark I Rhino chassis that I stripped and pulled apart. Brings back memories of the original 3 Rhino plastic kit that GW released. Also remembered to have elastic bands on hand for assembly of these things...which are soon to become Immolators.

Cheers,

CB

Have one in bits on the windowsill, plus a Mk1 Predator which sadly needs the turret sawing off as its about the only glued joint on it thats firm... (flipping typical really) old eBay finds that need a bit of TLC, and oh yes they bring back memories, pity the Mk1 land raiders go for so much these days.

Playing a league game of 40K this afternoon. Working on assembling some Deathwing Knights in the meantime.

Got my Warhawks parts, dry fitting a model.

Edit: Results here

The two buttpacks are acting as battery charges for the eventual hotshot lasguns.

Getting the first layers on my challenge entry a cluster of spore mines (living artillery) adding some washes on 5Ultramarines and a Bike+Biker,Finishing off some bits guns radios pouchs.

Bought and assembled an Ogre for BB. It's clamp pack but nevertheless a nice model.

Gearing up for Armageddon dropping on us at the end of this week.

I dug out a pile of half-painted Orks of various sorts, including good representations of their special operatives along with an Ogryn with maul and shield to act as Imperial Guard special operative. Let's see how many I can do of these.

leopard wrote:

Captain Brown wrote:
Assembling three old Mark I Rhino chassis that I stripped and pulled apart. Brings back memories of the original 3 Rhino plastic kit that GW released. Also remembered to have elastic bands on hand for assembly of these things...which are soon to become Immolators.

Cheers,

CB

Have one in bits on the windowsill, plus a Mk1 Predator which sadly needs the turret sawing off as its about the only glued joint on it thats firm... (flipping typical really) old eBay finds that need a bit of TLC, and oh yes they bring back memories, pity the Mk1 land raiders go for so much these days.

To true leopard. Getting the Sisters of Battle parts to fit on the chassis is proving to require an awful lot of sanding and now building replacement parts for those I do not have...like the front door with tracks.

Still working on them, but two mostly look like Immolators now.

Cheers,

CB

Having more fun debating between CSM and Orks. Or maybe the new Dwarven sky pirates that are on the way

Building vanguard hunters this week.
Primed the Lord Aquilor and the raptor guys and gryph-hounds, too.

Finished my second chaos rhino, slightly less bling on this one to make painting easier so went from the base gold applied last night through the two highlight golds and clear red today after about an hour masking, few details and done - and looks a lot nicer than the clear red applied by brush one that took a week to get four coats on the thing.

Have to get hold of a 30k one and have a go with the silver base and full on thousand sons colours.

Finished the day assembling and basing the masked men box for Test of Honour which I hope to prime tomorrow, think the yellow/brown/red/white colours Warlord use are ok but likely to swap the yellow for green (better to lurk in the shadows with)

Test of Honour event on the 15th so wondering about letting them have a run at that

complete airbrushing on 12 guardians and 5 wraithblades. Still waiting on stencils from Anarchy models to finish some wraith lords.

OK, have three old slightly converted Mark I Immolators built to the primed stage. Next comes the primer and the paint.

Cheers,

CB

I spent MONAY!

And bought enough pieces to assemble a retro 2nd ed Death Guard army.

I have finished the process of moving!

Now to open boxes and see just how much broke.

That's going to be my hobby stuff for now: fixing things.

Assembling Custodes.