The Oppo: Bonehead's Lost, Damned and in all likelihood Disappointed

[Dr_Ruminahui]

LOL - your reaction kind of made me think of that internet meme - tell me you don't paint space marines without saying you don't paint space marines (as marines use their shoulder pads for unit designation).  Anyway, glad both my suggestion and my quick sketch helped.

 

As for the khorne unit symbol, I think I would avoid making it also a rank symbol and keep those seperate.  Rather, I would put a stripe(s) or dot(s) or such on one forearm or the front of the helmet instead - and wouldn't bother for anyone below squad leader.

 

As for what you suggest for the khornate symbol, what you describe involves far more detail than I can get with a brush, so good luck with that!  As for daft systems, not sure how much I can help there either, but if you end up needing some help undafting, I'm willing to lend a hand.  

 

As for lenses, don't put me down for a n option yet - I want to see what they look with their symbols before casting my ballot, as it were.

[Bonehead]

Twelfth page already. Well, I have been spamming the log recently. Blame dry January, I've been bored out of my mind.

Anyway, as you correctly deduced, I've not painted a space marine in decades. Not to say I wouldn't, mind, but I just don't find them very interesting any more. I suppose the power fantasy of being unusually large and strong doesn't have much to offer when you're six foot four and go to the gym a lot- or maybe the humanity of guardsmen is more compelling? I dunno so much about that, on reflection, because I've been collecting 1st & 2nd edition eldar and original genestealer cult models for the last year or so, in a relatively small way. Don't expect a log on either of those for a while yet.

I'm afraid the good doctor will have to wait for some images of the Kur guards with unit and rank markings, because I'm fresh out of heads and legs for them, so there'll be no more painted until those arrive.

That does mean that it's time to un-neglect the maligned Mari Landsknechts, so I have done just that. Found a few hours spare this evening, so I cobbled together the two loaders I needed to make up my two full squads for platoon two. I also managed to adress another of the doctor's observations: for a guitar tech I sure don't use a lot of old guitar strings on my models. Well, now I do, because I gave the five extant Mari stormtroopers power cables and backpacks for their hotshot lasguns.

And here are all seven models:

Matey boy on the end there has noticeably massive hands; not a weird oversight but a fun little mutation. It took some doing, I can tell you, but he's got the hands off of a kroot. freakishly large, with two thumbs and two fingers. I love this kind of subtle little thing that only the truly nerdy and meticulous are going to pick up on. It makes for a little in-club of the polar opposite of whatever a stylish cool clique is.

The other loader's just a standard guy with an ammo box on his base. You don't have to reinvent the wheel every time, I reckon.

I think the cables really add something to the stormtroopers, but I still need the shoulder pads. It's going to be a while til those get here, I imagine. VM orders tend to move slowly.

Closer up, I'm reasonably pleased with how the cables hang; and damn if I'm going to move them now. Getting them in place was a total slog. They kept pinging off onto the carpet.

Meanwhile, I also received a package I'd been waiting a little while for from Checkpoint Miniatures, a small company here in the uk I'd never heard of before someone mentioned them on FB. Some useful conversion parts for the cultists were within:

Lots of tentacles and other nasty little appendages. Perfect for silly gullible cultists who've been messing in things better left alone.

Also some bigger ugly things that just seemed worth a punt:

Vaguely Tzeentchian terror-bird monster nope-asaurs: sure, why not. They'll take some care in assembly but they're characterful and fun to have for the final stages of the Augustine Crusade when Xiah Hesh really gets desperate. And also because, really what's the point of a chaos cult army if you don't get some daemons at some point? And all I have is a couple of blue horrors that came free with somthing or other. I'll absolutely need a few more fun things eventually: definitely at least one og Lord of Change, because they're cool as hell. And we'll see about what else; but that's all for later on down the line.

I also got some menacing wraith things, because, well, look at them. They look evil as living s***. Are they daemons? Are they just men in robes with silly hats? Do they look exactly, I mean, EXACTLY the thing you least want to see coming over a foggy marsh towards you at dusk? Yes. So I bought them, as any right-thinking person would:

These are going to make for some absolutely great photos, I'll say that.

In other news, yes that's right we're doing two 'other newses' today, I spent my christmas bonus on shelves for my workshop. This meant that finally I was able to take the mounded up piles of tools, projects and parts off of my desks and free them up so I actually have room to do things. Result.

A side benefit is that I now have, by no actual intent, a room with spare floor space and a pair of two foot by three foot tables, raising the entirely unexpected spectre of actually getting a game in some time this millenium. Didn't see that one coming, I won't lie.

Pretty confident I haven't doxxed myself with this one. Anyone who can identify my house among the millions of indistinguishable uk hovels with a view of a dreary fence out the window probably deserves at least some of my stuff, honestly.