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[Noserenda]

Ooh that looks good, back of a bolter, bottom of a flamer + needle pistol?

[Mandragola]

4 hours ago, Noserenda said:

Ooh that looks good, back of a bolter, bottom of a flamer + needle pistol?

It’s basically just a flamer and needle pistol. There’s no bolter. I replaced the fuel tank with a little vial from the Escher kit. I had cut off the foregrip and ended up sticking it back on, so I’ll see if I can avoid that in future. 

[bushman101]

Another 3 Dawnbreakers to add to my unit

[No Foes Remain]

Working through my pile of shame, one Deimos Pattern Whirlwind.

 

 

 

Just... the majority of the AoD box, 1 sicaran, 2 Proteus Land Raiders, 2 Deimos Predators (one of each type), 1 SoH contemptor, 1 extra contemptor, 1 Leviathan and rest of my 2 Calth and 2 Prospero Boxes.... Slowly getting there

Edited November 19, 2022 by No Foes Remain
Fixing image?

[LameBeard]

@Mandragola looking good - nice to have needlers as a Rogue Trader call back.

 

@No Foes Remain love the mash-up of heresy and 40k kits.

 

meanwhile my own progress is glacial at best. Posting one model finished (except not yet matted down the shoulder pads - matt varnish has congealed at the bottom of the pot). 

Edited November 19, 2022 by LameBeard
Can see the photo now

[Loquille]

A Predator joins the 8th, and in tradition of freshly painted, it and squadron mate exchanged fire with an autocannon squadron and promptly died in the multiplayer game today :) 

[SlickSamos]

Predator Annihilator? More like annihilated, am I right

 

I'll see myself out...

[Pacific81]

The death curse of the newly painted miniature! It is definitely a thing

[Pacific81]

A milestone today as I've finally got my stuff assembled together (they had trouble standing still!) for an army shot of my Great Crusade-era World Eaters. This is more or less complete (as much as these things ever can be), perhaps another Titan or two, some Knights, some more artillery etc. but more or less there. 

 

Its just about 500 marines (inc. marine, auxiliary troops), 34 Rhinos overall so perhaps about a demi-chapter. 

 

This is one half of the forces I need to complete (the others being Orks) by March 2023 for a big participation/exhibition game I'm hoping to run at Firestorm Games in Cardiff (UK). 

 

[Noserenda]

Lovely work, getting real old white dwarf battle report vibes from the shot :) 

I do eventually plan to recreate my Alphas in epic form to hit the battalion aim i was going for, which is roughly this lot but mostly armour :D 

[Pacific81]

Thanks mate! Yes that was definitely what I was going for.

Yes do it with the Epic, do it! Do iiiittt!

I would love to do a Great Crusade event one day and would be cool to get the old gang back together!

[de Selby]

Painted a Dread and a Spartan this week!

[No Foes Remain]

That is a beautiful blue you have there, Selby, how did you manage it?

[Gorgoff]

I love this blue as well.

[de Selby]

Thanks folks, the prussian blue has been a bit of a pain but I am pretty much getting the effect i want. I was aiming for a kind of lacquered steel look which requires some care.

Undercoat for vehicles is army painter gun metal, undercoat for infantry is Corax white, then a layer of slightly thinned Vallejo Model dark prussian blue 70.899, then an overbrush of Vallejo game silver 72.052, then cover with GW drakenhof nightshade, then a glaze over the raised areas with thinner blue, so the metallic and shade layers are both still showing through.

I've found it tricky to get this consistent and it's sometimes a little streaky looking but it's a nice finish when it works. Sometimes if it's too dull I do another super fine silver drybrush and super thin blue glaze to bring it back up.

 

 

 

Edited November 21, 2022 by de Selby

[arnesh88]

Just finished this portion of my casual army. Always wanted to go more vehicle heavy :)

[Mandragola]

More kitbashing. This time I took an old incomplete rhino from storage and added a bunch of spare land raiders bits and plasticard. This will be my Mor Deythan’s rhino. It’s supposed to be modified for long range scouting work. I’ll look for stowage and stuff to add to it and maybe some extra fuel or something. 

[sarabando]

Working on something a little different a throwback to a different age. An age of 4th edition and 40k in 40 minuets  and my first dabblings in the 31st millennium.

[Cadmus Tyro]

Finally finished my HSS: 

 

 

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Hope you like em!

 

Cadmus 

[Doctor Perils]

Last night I worked on converting a dragons breath combi-flamer

 

I'm thinking of using it as a master for a mold

[Loquille]

No painting, but I’ve been sorting out a few Sisters of Silence, with the first five of an Oblivion Cadre, with another axe and five spears to go.
 

 

Followed by the first of the Sanctioners with Nemesis Bolters 

I found the Deleque long rifles went on little extra work. 
 

[Mandragola]

Nice work on those oblivion knights and Sanctioners. I’ve just built my first five Prosecutors with assault needlers. 

[Corswain]

It's great to see so many Sisters of Silence projects going on. It's actually giving me some motivation to finish the half painted ones in my cabinet. 

[de Selby]

Here's hoping the SoS get more kits.

 

I painted a praetor and another ten marines, so assumIng I run them as two squads my Ultras are game-legal.

[tinpact]

Haven't gotten a whole lot done lately, but I'm happy to spend a bit longer on individual models. A recon sergeant (not sure about the head just yet), a seeker, and a couple breachers.

 

A couple termies, and a Terran Firewing centurion.