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Hi Folks, It has been time since I resumed painting of my Epic era Space Marines. Let's say that I am resuming my resumé. This time I set the gear shift up and when beyond just colour testing. I have gone for 2 Companies, one Battle and one Veteran, plus a supporting inquisitor and some DEvastators plus Speeders. This is a good first bunch for 2026 12 MoH. The battle company has been set with the red paultrons. I have tried to stick to the Adeptus Astartes codex marking. The Assault marine received black legs, as a reminder of the colour scheme that can be found in HH books for IF. But it is a mild success. What's fun with this scale is that UM 40k decals fits the hatch of the rhinos almost perfectly. So the units type marking can be reused. It gives some caché, isn't it? The veteran company goes full Power armour. Temrinators were painted in 2024... Same as for all the bases, you see the coloured paultron and maybe the red helmet for sergeants. Being a big fat boss in the alimentary chain of the Chapter, first Captain received a personnalized livery on its tiny Rhino. Then the supporting cards come with 2 Devastator detachments requisitionned from the blue company, plus Speeders from the Orange company. They are accompanied by an Inquisitor. Next step is to keep on with the rest of the small plastic lads: I have Motos, more Speeders and enough slottas for a Tactical reserve company, some Characters and maybe a Scout company. And a (dwarfed) Warlord Titan direct from the 90's! See you later with more small stuff.

Hi Folks, As some may have read in my previous entries (in this Blog or another) I've moved from my previous location to a new one a couple of months ago. It has been a big opportunity to sort out all bitz, spare parts, unassemnblied, unpainted and unboxed stuff I had in my numerous closets and crates. As my journey to clean my Pile of Shame started during Lock down, I sincerly though I had done most of the job already. Most maybe not in reality but a serious part surely. Here is what's left: Lots of tiny Marines and Squats from ooP Epic - I made a aborded attempt at painting some and I should resume it. It is a big part of the job. I may eventually use this as a test terrain for my kid as she looks like interrested into spending time splashing paint on stuff. With a IF coulour scheme selected and the power of Contrast paint, she might do the tiny soldier in series may be? Not GSC. I made a mistake - I ordered twice some GSC kits I palnned to use as a base for kitbashing my own AM Regiment. I've already done some but I still have 30 boyz to do. And as I DO NOT play GSC, what am I going to do with the Magus, the Hybrids and these 10 Metal Spore Mines I recovered from... I do not know where. AdMech - I still have 3 Serberys, 5 Pteraxii and 5 Sicarians waiting for love. But I need to repack paints first. SOme remains of my last Patrol box plus a reinforcment unit. Yet I feel like I might buy more stuff. I am no cured yet. These Skatros and Axiarch models are damned tempting. And I would not spit on a couple of Sydonian Ballistarii or another Dunerider neither. Kill Team - NL CSM. Enough said. This team from the Nightmare set is still on sprue. I bought Dark blue paint but I am not convinced by the colour. So any argument worths for not starting them. I guess these are a very good candidate to be swapped with another hobbyist. I'll have to work on building a local network in my new place. Aeldarii - This is probably the oldest Non-WFB models I have in my pile of shame. Many ooP guardians plus some more recent Scouts, Shroud runners and KT Corsairs. I planned a lagalization of my Saim-Hann army a while ago and these were there in order to expand my gaming capacities with more units, in order to reach a satisfying base for unit selection and a little bit of variety. Yet these are into the Pile for more than 2 years now. I have the plan in mind for a while now. If I made my maths properly, with the spares from the Scouts and deathshrouds + the Voidscarred sniper, I can kit bash a second squad of 5 scouts. Then, the bitz from the special characters included into the Corsair kit might allow a Spirit seer proxy, a Warlock and probably a Skyleaper Autarch. And the rest for Corsair units, which might lead to 3 units, One 10 men strong with carabines and wraithcannon and 2 small of 5 that will go HtH with shredders. Kit bash tanks: a LR and a Carnaudon - Lots of plasticard job to be done on these that are done since first Lockdown. No progress since. Anyway, I do not even remind in which box I set these two... So as you see, there is a lot of work to be done and enough to fill a full hobby year or more. Probably more as I started working on WFB too, resurecting some Dwarves and alterning between Universes. Any excuse to keep some 40k stuff available in fact. Who said procrastination? But, let's be frank, I will probably keep on working on pointy ears, now that I am into this dynamic for a good month... And these tests I did for Scourge wings cannot stay unfinished for too long, can they? See you.