This is the Legend of Norman Paperman

Tales from the island we will tell

Chasing illusions can get quite confusing

As heaven can turn into hell

Five bucks (one heart reaction) to the frater in the crowd who knows the reference. But esoteric musical references from my childhood aside, I am delighted to have a project on my desk that I can share with the community here at B&C! My motivations for this project are simple, a new friend has invited me to play my first 40k game and I need a force that's ready for the tabletop. As I write this, I have ~800 points of Thousand Sons complete; time to push for that first 1000 (and beyond). I got into this hobby just over a year ago, but as a painter first and foremost I have painted models from three different 40k armies and 4 AoS. It took a long while to settle on a 40k army that's a "main" but the dusty boys are too much fun to paint. They're also a massive pain in the **** to get the trim right, but I guess that's the masochism and perfectionism combining into art.

Our adventure will begin with twenty Tzaangors from my recently purchased TS Combat Patrol, freshly assembled and ready to prime as I write this. In addition to having two squads of Battle Chickens ready to lose horribly to my buddy, I am excited to use this project as an extended exercise with my new airbrush. Purchased right after Christmas, I'm absolutely smitten with the painting power of this thing, and I want to get a lot of paint on a lot of figs. In particular, I want to work on developing a "tabletop ready" style for battle line units that's far quicker than my high-effort brush projects. The 10-squad of Rubrics that I painted up last summer took me 40 hours of brush work, my pre-ignition goal for these 20 Tzaangors is to come in under 20 hours and to look "pretty good" when they're getting blasted. Airbrush, drybrush, some contrast paint, and then using the brush on some high value details to make them look good without getting bogged down in shading armour panels. 

Enough of my braying, here are some pictures!

In general, I use spray can primers, but it's -20C outside this morning. O Canada!