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365 Days of Hobby.....hopefully


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January 12th, 2016

Today in the Hobby I magnetized the arms for both BaC Contemptors. I decided to magnetize below the shoulders, in the same location as my FW Contemptors. After hacking the power-fist arm, I was dismayed to find a hole much too large for my magnets,

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...however upon cutting the Melta and Kheres arms, I found that they have a perfect ledge for the 2mm x 1mm magnets I use,

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Cheers,

Jono

January 13th, 2016

Today in the Hobby, I attached the shoulders to the two BaC Contemptors and magnetized some FW weapons to go withe the plastic ones,

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.... I also finished reading I Am Slaughter,

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I really enjoyed the first installment of The Beast Arises. We're introduced to a Galaxy at (retaliative) peace. The Heresy is history, the Scouring completed. The Imperial Fists, considered by some, an unnecessary luxury. The book covers what starts out a political deployment of the Fists, and snowballs into the entire Chapter deploying, the first time since it's Founding. There's decent amount of bolter-porn, as well as enough meat to set up the rest of the series. I'll definitely be picking up Predator, Prey on saturday.

Cheers,

Jono

January 14th, 2016

Today, I had a really productive day in the Hobby.....and got on such a roll that I completely neglected to take any pictures until I was done.....

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I prepared myself for this build by watching Duncan's vid on the FW Visual Feed channel on Youtube. I'll say straight up, that I've never been one for bothering to gap-fill, and my build will certainly show it. I did, at least, spend quite a bit of time with the kettle straightening out quite a few warped pieces. Unfortunately, even with test fitting, the Assault Ramp is still a little wonky,and threw off the rest of the chassis. In order to get the Spartan to sit level, I had to hack at some of the internal locating lugs.

Now onto the horror that is my Spartan....

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...part of getting the Spartan to sit level involved the removal of some details...

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....and of course I had the "there's one track link too many" issue, which I totally forgot was a thing, and glued the tracks on from the bottom, leaving my nasty patch-work to happen on the top track links,

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Cheers,

Jono

January 15th, 2016

Today I finally started unpacking my books after moving in October, and putting my shelves back to good use,

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...and with the return of Loyalty and Treachery, I jumped onboard with the Spartan, and even put some primer on it,

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my to-do for tomorrow is to assemble and primer the sponsons for the Spartan.

Cheers,

Jono

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