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Hi Folks, Long time no news, real life matters keeping me busy. And Winter's coming led to my hobby space being explused from the glass house. I am therefore back in the main room that I have to share with the living room TV in the background, dinner's table, which is also homework's table some times,... I therefore organized, or rather improvized, a hobby tray. Thank you shoe boxes: This has some impact on my productivity, mainly because light is poor and days are shorts. I still have somewhere some lamps I could set with extar cables, but for that I should cover my head with Indy's hat and dive into archeology in the crates left unopened since the moving 6 months ago. The Jokaero Challenge is progressing slowly. But it is progressing still My Rokit ejected squat with bigger choppa is probably going to be completed within a few days. Time is to move on toward all gold and brass ornements. And this is when getting enough light to pretend seeing what you paint may be relevent. Sicarians have been painted by parts. They are now ready to go to the final glueing. I have hesitated a long time between Ruststlakers and Infiltrators, but Infiltrators looked like they fit better with my play style. I however rarely see them doing anything punchy in games as my 5 cyborgs' strong units is generally crippled before reachng contact. So I have decided myself for reinforcing the latter up to 10 members with these new lads. Future will tell if it was a wise move or not. I have anyway seen the latest 30k Pilgrim Skitarii revealed this WE, and I wonder if these might be kit bashed in order to get a proxy ruststalker using all thes transonic blades and chord claws that I have left from the sprues. Wait and see the molded sprues... And may be these Skitarii will not be the only release? See you when Nov.' pledge will be completed

Hi Folks, As a Feb 2025 entry for 12 MoH, I did a speed painting of some Kastelan robots. "Speed" as I got them ready is something like 4 days or so. Truth is that these lads combine several key advantages or features to reach such a productivity: Big models are always faster to paint My scheme is simple and almost 3 colours only I have already painted something like 3 to 4k pts of AdMechs, so I am trained... The main risk was to introduce some hues in the paint scheme for models that are meant to reinforce an existing unit. I needed to reopen some cardboxes already closed for shipping. Fortunately enough I encountered another Kastelan in the first box I opened. Somehow putting labels and stickers with content indication helped... These reinforcements were the occasion to try to pose one of the Robot. I confess it was rather an accident. But I managed recovering my mistake by setting a pose that looks like a mimick of the datasmith attitude. As if he were a puppet master; which he is in fact. OK, I admit this is an excuse. But it ended up being rather OK. And here are the 2 blokkes and their datasmith. It makes me the happy owner of 6 robots, shared into 2 units. A familly portrait of these leads to a unit of Kastelans with fists and flamers used (theoritecally) as hard hiters and 2 Castellans used as proxy full shooty weapons Kastellans for a gunline. I am building my army only on the basis of the rule of Kool - a.k.a what I like the most. I doubt that, rulewise, twin-linked fists are that useful, but I like how these look. Any tricks you may want to share about their best use perhaps? I doubt I will increase the number of models for robots, even if I do not close the door in a definitive manner. But expanding the mob is at the moment clearly not part of my plans. See you later, after moving probably. Unless I share in a close future any free of charge digressions or opinions. But do not expect any model or painting stuff before March and the launch of "Knifes in the Shadows" challenge. I plan a Void Dancers war-band btw. See ya.