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If you are following the Hi-Los of my AdMech minis order, you will remember that, anticipating a larger delay than the one already registered, I started a second Vow with a contingency plan. Until part of my order appeared. So I am a little bit in the middle of a No-Mans´ Land now: trying to speed up the painting process of what is currently WIP in order to be able, eventually, to enlist a third vow with this new material, freshly received... From my second Vow, the current status is as such, at 8th of Aept (I am a little bit anticipating on the Week 11 progress report...): - 10 Kit bashed Scions - as pure as their virgin white spray coat can testify - not started starting details - 3 Rhinos Chassis - main colours applied, shades dones, starting details all completed - 1 LR Executioneer - main colours applied, shades dones, starting details completed - Scrap piles from Bitz box - all completed* Total: 28oo38 pts. 7oo38 pts. In the mean time, I Primed the sprues of the Extermination Maniple and I am preparing the scenic bases for Kataphrons and Kastellans. I also gathered even more bitz to start a fifth Scrap Pile - Tires this time**. * Apologies to offended Fists´ and Sucessors´ Players: the Banner is not meant to offend anyone. Let´s rather consider that my SW will go and recover it before devolving it in a kind and fraternal demonstration of brotherhood. Sons of Dorn will supply the ale and beer in return (don´t forget finger food too). A fair deal, don´t you think? ** All of this when light is too low to pretend painting properly. So it is not really competing with the main project, But eventually with the fourth Season of Jack Ryan that I am still pending watching..

As a matter of fact, we are rather going to talk of resuming activity rather than progressing at anything. After a 2 weeks break, mainly because I was hoping receiving some purchases of mine (which by the way did not showed off yet...), it is time to activate a contingency plan. There are only 3 and a half weeks left and it would be too short (far too short) to pretend painting a whole AdMech extermination maniple... At least at my current rythm and considering my availability for hobby stuff in Sept. So, let´s activate the plan B. I will basically field as a second vow in the Imperium Strongold the kit bached Scions and the scrap terrain I published in my previous blog entry. And to boost point levels, I will repaint some old stuff. It will gives us: - 3 medium scrap piles at 2 pts each - sub total 6 pts - 1 small scrap pile at 1 pt - 1 unit of 10 Scions at 10 pts - 2 ooP razorbacks (on of these being a proxy) at 5 pts each - subtotal 10 pts - 1 ooP rhino at 5 pts - 1 Leman Russ Exterminator (the first kit) that I used in my SW army under 3rd Ed rules at 6 pts. So a total of 38 pts if I did not misevaluate the point costs. The old LR is a nice kit in fact; really better looking that the current one in my opinion. the turret and accessories gave it a je ne sais quoi that make him more appealing. This or it is nostalgia...

As a progress report for this week, I report my first vow in the Imperium Stronghold is now completed: 2 Rhinos, one with Spaced Armour 1 converted Razorback, using shield from ooP Sororitas Immolator 1 proxy Predator Baal That´s all for this week. As I am waiting for some AdMech miniatures, probably at beginning of next week, I will potentially field another vow in the Imperium Stronghold. While I am waiting I will see if I can scratch build some barricades or scrap piles from the numerous bitz I have here or there. A way to spend time and increase the point value of a future vow...

After completing my 3 vows in the Xenos´ Stronghold, it is time to focus on some more Imperium related stuff. As I still experience some delivery delays for the miniatures ordered to increase my Adeptus Mechanicus Force (my New Year/New Army Project), I went to see why I could recover from my crates of long forgotten minis... Let´s see what I found: - Lots of WFB minis - out of scope - Few Fantasy Ral Partha minis - out of scope too - 6 Spore mines - if only I had found them earlier they would have been enlisted in the Xenos Challenge... - Some old Rhino Chassis, some painted in the 90´s (beautiful splash painting in the style of my 6 y.o. daugther) and some still in their Mechanicum Grey Factory Livery (understand - raw grey plastic). - 4 of them will be perfect! One of these was built as a proxy Razorkback (Infernum Pattern) using Shield from a Battle Sister tank (same era). You can notice the metal Spaced Armour available at the time on the Rhino. Other bits from Battle Sisters tanks were used, to get these spare caterpillar sections on the Rhino of to swap Heavy Flamers from the Predator Ball. As I found the Assault gun barrels "goofies" y I also swapped them for Heavy Bolters. Some VDR rules latter, and, at the time I built it, I used to play it in my SW army as a "Black Bear" predator. Will still be a Baal Predator proxy nowadays. These 4 tanks will fit for vow Nº1 in the Imperium Stronghold, while waiting for my AdMechs that will eb shipped (I hope) when the FLGS will come back from its well deserved summer holiday break. More soon.