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[Spagunk]

3 hours ago, Rhavien said:

What's the problem with 3 piece heads? I don't get it? 

Completely unnecessary to make it 3 pieces. I do not specifically buy the thought that it adds "crisp details" since there are plenty if examples of other details doing just fine without being separate pieces. The more pieces you have to put something together, the more likely it is to mess up/lose a piece/accidentally get spoiled with accidental over gluing.

Edited April 25, 2023 by Spagunk

[Paladin777]

9 hours ago, happyslugger said:

I'm saving my Dante as a treat and won't open or build him until I've cleared this backlog. Going to sit down later, revise my pile of shame and then prioritize what I build and paint moving forwards.  Should have these infiltrators done by Monday. My son threw me some old skool terminators (hammers and shields) that he couldn't be bothered to save, so I'm trying to rescue those also lol. 

How old (as in metal or plastic?), and are you trying to repaint them?

[happyslugger]

3 hours ago, Paladin777 said:

How old (as in metal or plastic?), and are you trying to repaint them?

Plastic ones but generic terminators not BA ones.  Think he got them from eBay and just can't be bothered. So I'm trying to make them look okay for a while as I have no terminators in my BA (sold mine).  Once the new model / equivalent come out I won't use these lol 

[Paladin777]

Power purple does a pretty good job of stripping paint (depending on what kind of paint), but it also weakens glue bonds without pulling it completely off the model. 
 

I recently used it on some old metal warp spiders to pretty good effect.

[happyslugger]

I'm not worried about them too much.  I will just paint them up roughly as best I can and then just play with them until the new versions come out.

[happyslugger]

Saving slowly 

[Jolemai]

Good looking lightning 

[happyslugger]

Thanks, I'm actually very happy with how they are coming out. I may just base them on cork and keep them now lol. I know new ones will come out but these are looking good now and may just mean that any new size assault terminators go to the bottom of my must buy pile 

Edited April 26, 2023 by happyslugger

[Blindhamster]

Just built my Dante, my goodness its the most enjoyable model to put together I think I've made from GW in years.

[WrathOfTheLion]

I built mine last week and got a layer of Retributor armour done with the airbrush, he's a surprisingly easy build.

 

I left the backpack off, but it did surprise me that him on that rock is actually balanced. You can just set him down without gluing on the base and he doesn't topple over.

Edited April 27, 2023 by WrathOfTheLion

[happyslugger]

I've just put together the blade guard captain, lieutenant, 3 blade guard and 3 eradicators from the indomitus boxset (lol I'm a bit behind). Tomorrow I'll put together the three blade guard from the shield breaker boxset I got.  Gonna take a while to paint those blade guard me thinks. 

 

Looking forward to seeing all your Dante model :-)

Edited April 27, 2023 by happyslugger

[Spagunk]

Blood Angels Captain

[Jolemai]

Nice, need to add one of those to my backlog 

[BluejayJunior]

I started on my Cataphracti Terminators the other night. I haven't painted much the past year or so until recently and I was working on Sisters then. And have been working on Guard stuff recently. So it was nice to get back to painting red again. 

[Karhedron]

I have finished shading and highlighting Dante's armour. All the detail work still to go but I am pretty happy with the foundations. 

[Karhedron]

The details are coming along nicely. Not much more to add and then I can bring in the backpack and detail the base.

 

[Karhedron]

And here he is in all his finished glory!

 

This is one of the nicest models I have ever built and painted. Assembly was nice and easy with sockets on all the joints to ensure the parts lined up smoothly. He is covered in detail that is lovely to paint and the nice open pose makes getting at all of the detail a doddle. I can't wait to field him.

 

[WrathOfTheLion]

Fantastic model with an excellent paint job! Very nice, he looks great.

Edited May 4, 2023 by WrathOfTheLion

[happyslugger]

Very well done.

[happyslugger]

Finished this guy over the weekend. I repainted him as the first one was awful. 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 9, 2023 by happyslugger

[Rhavien]

1 hour ago, happyslugger said:

Finished this guy over the weekend. I repainted him as the first one was awful. 

 

 

 

 

Nice paintjob! I like it a lot. Also nice tanks in the background 

[happyslugger]

I went down the thousand sons route with the blues (but don't tell anyone).

 

Yes, it is tanks next.  I have my very first purchase from FW when I went to GW there the first time - the sicaran and my repulsor to touch up and try and bring too life.  I then have this impulsor to paint up and a gladiator tank.  Figured I would do them all at the same time so I can try and get the schemes to match up and magnetise what I can in one go.  Then I will do the tech marine.

[happyslugger]

I'm almost there on one of the tanks, decided to do this one as Death Company. I have another executioner that will be red. 

 

The edge highlighting is a nightmare 

[appiah4]

I have quite a few oldmarines in my army that still lack banners, so I spent the last few nights adding banners to them.. In the meantime I touched them up a bit here and there (some more than others) and took new photos.

 

 

 

[happyslugger]

Cool, I'm still working on my tanks....almost finished them all.

Edited May 29, 2023 by happyslugger