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Hey guys. I totally failed during the ETL this summer. Truth be told, I almost parted ways with my marines, but in the end I decided to keep most of them. Instead I am clearing out the painted Crimson Fists and going to go back with doing Imperial fists. I will say, I regret selling off the small batch of Imperial fists I painted back at the start of 8th edition. Painting yellow was tedious, however, since I just got an Airbrush, I am looking at speeding the process up some considerably. I was debating on doing my own chapter, but the yellow armor kept screaming at me, and after weeks of coming up with a color scheme and finally coming up with a test model, going back to yellow and the ease of the air brush to speed up the painstaking color will make this a bit easier. So far I have not committed to the Dorn painting event. I will, but it wont be much. Right now I have to get some stuff for masking and the correct colors for my airbrush to get this army started. I also have to finish a small pumpkin art project as well as finish painting up what i need to finish for my 2k AOS blades of khorne army to take it to a tournament at the end of October (mostly two blood thirsters, and finishing off 10 warriors, 5 wrath mongers and a hero on foot that are mostly started). After that I will get a tiny bit of relief to paint some fists till sisters gets released and they start to become my big focus. At this point my goals are to simply get the army painted. So i am going to be looking at using the air brush to get the core yellow done with most of the highlights, then maybe take a brush to add a small edge highlight, then I am going to add some weathering through washes and sponge chipping effects. My details will be limited to characters mostly, but I will have to add in all the black and do some highlight to these areas, leather straps, parchments and purity seals, and special helmet colors and chest eagles. I decided to invest in some custom decals so i wont have to hand paint all the details that i will be adding to make them feel a little more unique, like chapter badges and squad markings. I will have to add numbers but that is minor compared to painting all the symbols. I will spend a little more time on characters as I will probably add a little heraldy to the LT's, captains, chaplains and librarians. The goal really is to get the army well, painted. After this i am not getting rid or chaning out the marines again. I have spent to much time doing that in the past and its time to crack down and stick to an army. This time, official colors with personalization. On top of that they will look good with my house hawkshroad knights that I need to finish painting so i can get them assembled, and will compliment the Order of the Blood rose sisters i am going to be collecting. I will probably get some pics added this weekend after I get some base coats assembled to the models. So far, what i have assembled for the army is 6 agressors, 3 inceptors, captain, a LT, a chaplain, apothecary, phobos librarian, 3 exterminators, 2 redemptors, a repulsor, a repulsor exterminator, and an invictus tactical warsuit. I have to finish getting the inceptor squad and surpressors attached to their base so i can get them ready. After that I need to finish going back and fixing up a unit of hellblasters, 2 units of intercessors, and a primaris librarian as well. I may add more depending on releases, as i do plan to pick up at least two impulsors when they are released for transport options if not more, and i thought about adding a flyer or two. I will also need to reinvest in a new ancient, and a new second LT model at some point to round out my army more and maybe some more intercessors/hellblasters/inceptors(with plasma) as well. For now I got enough to get started. I am looking forward to the project, as I really do like the way the Imperial fists look on the table. I think that is why i wasn't enjoying painting my crimson fists, because although they are a great chapter, I just felt the army was to dark for my personal taste and was having a hard time staying interested in painting them. I still have a converted primaris Kantor and I am debating on keeping him or painting and selling him. Guess i will have to wait for the book. I could always just change his storm bolter so something else and use him as a captain with power fist. he definitely looks much cooler than the official model.