214th Commanders and BT reenforcements

Not much has been done since the last post, but it is the end of the month, I am trying to post for often (and actually get work done).  I have done some work on the noncoms and commanders of the 214th Corsairs.  List will have (for now) 4 Sergeants and 2 Company Commanders.  My favorite is the sarge with the cast, those things hurt, would make a great CCW!

And with my tax return, I purchased the final parts of my 2500 point Black Templar list.  4 razorbacks.  I also ordered a bunch of magnets from amazingmagnets.  I also finally got the kits I ordered from The Manufactorum this summer.  Simon there has a great idea that helps the modeler, and I hope he gets things figured out.  I would order from him again if he does get things squared away.  So here is some pictures of what I am working on.  I hope to get the predators, razorbacks, and LRC done and primed for paint by the end of April.

I got a little booboo while I was cutting the pins off the main weapons.  Nothing a little superglue can't fix.  Now if only my girlfriend would stop yelling at me for not using a bandaid.

214th Corsairs Test Scheme

It is that great time of year.  Spring break!  Since I have nothing better to do but work, I have had plenty of time to work on Warhammer minis.  I managed to finished up 4 Cadian models, except for some weathering and maybe some washes.  Although never happy with what I do, I am happy with how they came out, saying I have only been painting for a year (on and off).  By far the hardest part was painting the eyes.  They are a lot smaller than I thought.  I painted the face, then the white, then a thin black line, which took about 10 tries total on the 3 guys (one model was already done months ago).  Then I went back and touched up the helmets and face as best I could.  Basing was done with Army Painter Brown Battleground.

The Catachan model on the right was just a test to see how the orange looked when airbrushed.  I will probably just stick to painting it on with a brush, since I only have like 10 guys left to paint anyways.

Speaking of airbrushing, I finally pulled it out and tried it.  John (Flekkzo) stopped by tonight and helped me figure the art out.  After about 30 minutes of running around with my head cut off like a chicken, we got started painting.  He talking me through thinning the paints and getting a technique down.  I must say, having a HUGE compressor with clean, dry air is nice.  Also, GW paints SUCK to spray.  I couldn't get a consistent spray at all.  The tip kept clogging up.  Naturally I started painting the biggest tank I had too!  (Which happens to be the only one the army currently has)  Starting with the underside (to get some more practice where no one will see), and working my way around, I got most of it painted.  Still needs one more coat before I can move on to painting other colors.  Time to show off!

Overdue update!

Man has it been a LONG time since I did an update.  School really likes to take up all my time (and working 3 jobs).  Luckily I have had some free time, so I decided to do some painting.  I have been getting 1-2 models worked on a night.  My goal is to get all the orange done on all the models before breaking it down to squads to get finish things.  I need one more command box and I can finish 2 squads!  (plus add tons more to bitz boxes)

The color scheme is really simple.  All the cloth is Macharius Solar Orange.  Armor is Iyanden Darksun, and the weapons and few things are Calthan Brown.  Metal parts are black with some silver drybrushed over, bleached bone for skills, some gold on wings, and the eyes are painted (first time doing it).  Skin is being painted with P3 paints, which I like WAY more than GW paints.

Also started working with a wet palette that I bought at Dick Blicks for liek 5 bucks (love discounts).  Only used orange so far but I like it.  On to some bad quality pics!  The ones with valkyries belong to Flekkzo.  If you haven't yet, check out his blog!  www.flekkzo.blogspot.com

And just a pic of the pretty valkyrie!

Valkyrie number 2 is almost done getting painted I am told.  The pic above is not the finished product, as a few things changed, but close enough to get the idea.

And finally, some new pretty things that are getting added to the IG list.  One for the Corsairs, and one for the Catachan army I have (which has no name)

Hopefully in 2 weeks I will be posting about how great they look in paint!
Back to painting.

Bringing in the New Year.

Goodbye 2011!

It is finally the end of the year, and what an exciting year it has been.  Instead of looking back, I have decided to look forward and set a list of 10 goals I want to do for the coming year.  Here you have it.

1) Paint 2500 points of Black Templar before playing them (lower points allowed, just must be painted)
2) Paint 2500 points of IG Cadians before play (as above)
3) Paint my Tomb Kings and expand army a bit
4) Paint Bretonnians or sell
5) Assemble, paint, and play Dreadfleet
6) Paint small Cygnar force and play more often
7) Repaint Catachan models
8) Paint my super heavies and expand with more (yay Apoc!)
9) Create some terrain pieces for the store
10) Improve on my painting techniques, including airbrushing.

And as goal number 11, just so I can say it, update the blog more often!  I started the blog to stay motivated, not to slack behind.  Luckily I have made some progress.  The Corsairs (the IG Cadians stated above) have a 2500 point list that I like.  My goal on this personally (besides above) is to not have a single piece of metal in the bunch.  That is the easy part.  I also have decided that my stormtroopers will all be resin, and I am thinking of getting a few FW pieces like rear doors on all the Chimeras.

Also, besides for my new baneblade (ohhh ahhh) and some heavy weapon teams, everything is primed for 40k!  Talk about a huge step forward.  Time to get back to the modeling.   Hopefully I can have some pictures up later.

I let myself down.

So I had a goal, to get a bunch of stuff done by September and make another post, and I failed.

Instead I moved back on to campus in a nice small dorm room and have been dealing with classes instead.  Chemistry really gets in the way of painting time, and working 2 jobs with 18 credits is not the easiest thing to do.

But not all hope is lost.  I have looked through my things, figuring out what to paint.  I also have picked up Dreadfleet, adding it to a long back log of things to assemble and paint.  Forge World is peaking my interest again, and I want to get another group buy together, but money is tight as I am now going to Germany next summer for a couple weeks for school, and that is going to cost me 4 grand.

Which reminds me, I added up my plastic addiction to see what it would all cost to buy new right now, excluding my catachans as I don't remember how much I have.... The total was over 2.5 grand.  Sitting in boxes, next to a minifridge, collecting dust.

God Bless this hobby.

Call to Arms

Well time for the monthly update.  Seems so far to be the norm.  But really, I needed to make another post to get me back into the swing of things.  A call to arms if you will.  After making this post, I am sending an email out to From the Warp and join the blog roll.  Hopefully this will add in that extra level of motivation.  Plus, more exposure will bring comments and criticism, which will only make things better.

As I have said previously, I bought 3 Valkyrie kits this summer.  I finally got all 3 assembled, getting better each time, and learning some new techniques to help not only save time, but give a neater and better fitting model in the end.  Rubber bands are AMAZING.  Well all three are together (mostly) and handed over to John (Flekkzo) for painting.  If you haven't seen his blog, you should.  His Imperial Fist army is inspiring.  For the most bang for my buck, I am magnetizing the weapon choices.  This means Forge World for Vendetta kits.  After figuring out it would cost me 75 dollars just for 3 kits, I decided to get bits.  So I have twin linked land raider sponsons coming, need one more set to finish off the 3, that I will be using for the wings.  The side of the cockpit will be getting twin linked lascannons from dreadnaught arms, if I can find them cheap enough.  For the command vehicle, I want to use the one from the venerable dreadnaught (it is more flashy).

2 things:  Buying the bits from ebay or battlewagon, for 10 dollars more, I could have had the FW kits.  Oh well!

The other thing is that it inspired me to work more on my kits I have now to finish things up!  So I started working on the land raider and predator some more.  The land raider parts got primed and I was going to paint the interior.  The black got a dry brush of grey.  I decided that was "good enough" for now.  I plan on painting the 2 door inside pieces with some extra details just because they are still out.  However, since the engine is the heart and soul (and perhaps spirit) of the machine, I decided it was only proper to paint that piece.  I only painted the pipes themselves, mixes of silver, gold, and tin, but it really pops when looking in the front doors.

The predator got most of its "outside" bits done.  I am still debating how far I want to go with magnetizing it, and if I should give it the options of being a razorback or rhino.  I certainly have enough rhino doors (using the BT upgrades on my actual razorbacks).  The vindicator has been done for awhile now (let someone borrow it for an apoc game, only reason why it even has primer).  All that it needs are the dozer blade and some extra bits if I feel up to it.  Here is a nice glamor shot with a land speeder.

Speaking of land speeders, I actually got one done!  That was on a weekend stint of modelling a couple weeks ago.  Built it all in one night!  One more two buy and 2 to assemble.  You may notice it is missing some crew though!  I am gonna paint those separate and glue them in later.  They use the speeder back, with BT Front and heads and shoulder pads.  All Exposed tank crew will follow that.  BT pieces wherever they fit.

As for infantry, because of the amazing details of the BT chest pieces and weapons, I decided to paint the arms off and assemble later (seems to be a pattern).  But all 20 tac marines are ready for primer!  4 guys (1 per squad) have a bolt pistol and sword combo, but they will be played as bolters.  They are the sarges of the squad, even though I know BT do not have them.  Oh well.  I also have my terminators fnished!  Squads of 5.  One assault with 2 LC and 3 TH/SS.  I will probably be buying another box so I can find full squads of either (or 2 of 5, or bigger than 5).  Other squads are of 5, one with two typhoons and one with two assault cannons.  They have BT shoulder pads on the one side.

 Finally I decided to pull these out, as the 214th Corsairs are a guard army after all!  Below are 6 of their heavy weapons teams (I like being able to switch weapons) with 6 of their Catachan friends.  Also 40 guys from the battleforces and 10 quick fit guys.  The battleforce guys will be my new guard army to match the vendettas, while the quick fits will be filler, and probably conscripts/platoons once I expand (like planned)

Also, this whole month I have focused more on my Tomb Kings, but that's not interesting in a 40k blog, so maybe I will make another one for them.  Currently playing at around 550 points of models.  Lots of archers in the army.  In 2 weeks I start moving back into school.  By that day, 2nd of September, I want to have all my current purchases assembled.  This may include what I decide to purchase by then (within a reasonable limit).  I also have some fun toys coming from Forge World.  But here is your call to arms.  Keep me going.  Encourage me to step up my game, to pick up the brush, and lay down some paint.  See you in September (and maybe even before!).

More Beginnings

So, for awhile I have debated getting in Fantasy.  I thought about High Elves, but I heard someone else was playing them, so decided against it (turns out no one I know is).  I thought about Dwarves but never got into it.  After seeing an awesome P+M Blog on DakkaDakka, I decided on Tomb Kings.  And thus the months of looking but never jumping happened.

Then, last weekend, I decided to jump in and by the Tomb Kings Battalion.  And I added it to the stacks of 40k boxes of things I need to put together.  Vindicator to finish, land raider to assemble, predator to... do something with.  3 valks to assemble.  2 Cadian battleforces to finish up.  And now, 2 land speeders thrown on top.

Starting this weekend, I will begin actually playing Fantasy.  League is set up in the store, and I am the first one to battle.  Hopefully Dave will be nice with his Brettonians.

Time to going back to cutting, sanding, and gluing.  Oh, and I am all out of glue.  Why even bother some days.