Too many irons in the fire...

So... yeah, I might have a slight ADHD problem.

It has much to do with having way too many minis, really. So many fun stuff that I'd like to paint and use. It's not my fault :P.

For example, I've been fiddling about with some Chaos Space Marines:

...but that's kind of a side project, as I've finally actually started to play In Her Majesty's Name using 40k models. We tried the system out with the following "bands":

A small group of Vostroyan Firstborns that I painted years and years ago (using the regular british company rules, with the addition of a flamethrower guy because I had two painted), and...

...a Genestealer Cult revolutionary cell, as everyone and his uncle is doing this days :P.

The game went really well (MVP was certainly the flamer guy, which turned the tide almost by himself), and it turns out that the Firstborn are in dire need of repairs to the paintjob... and actually finishing them, if we're being honest about it.

OTOH, I did a test paintjob of a CSM Chosen with the paint scheme I want to use for the rest:

So... yeah, too many irons ^_^

Right on time.

Well, there is still 52 minutes of september left as I start writing this post. Right on time !
As the goal was to start something in september, it's certainly been reached, and I will shamelessly congratulate myself for it.
Yeah, that was merely undercoat and a quick splash of olive drab. So ? Bring it on, october !

Close-ups are ruthless.

Three shades of Olive Drab

There's an hint about the selected chapter somewhere on this picture

First test model

Well, last saturday I did a small test to see how difficult would be to paint the Deathwatch in a way similar to the official:

Then I fiddled a bit with him and did some weathering:

I'd still need to clean him up a bit and the like, but it's looking good enough I think.

Albertorius out.

A New Challenger

Hi everyone, my name is Alberto and I'm an old 40k deckhand from Spain :)

So, it seems I've been drafted into Dimitri's "Paint something already, you damn hack" painting blog/contest, and as the last I've assembled has been some Deathwatch Space Marines and they look very spiffy indeed (...and I might actually even use them for an In the Emperor's Name game, to boot), I've decided to go with them.

The new Deatwatch veterans sprue is chock full of interesting stuff to use. For example, these are some of the minis I've assembled with it:

Out of the five, only the middle one is actually a body from the DW veterans sprue, whereas the rest are made with weapons and bits from it, but with other SM bodies I had lying around.

The squad I'm going to start painting, though, is the one made with the actual DW bodies, armed with very regular bolter/power weapon combos. I've just primed them today and took a very, very rough pic:

Now, I need to actually, you know... paint the damn things ^_^.

Albertorius out.

SALAMANDER 30K arme lourde escouade tactique

Après le sergent, le porteur d'arme lourde :)

Armée SALAMANDER (choix des armes)

Bonjour à tous,

Pour commencer ce choix des armes je poste un sergent d'escouade tactique.
Bon il n'est pas encore fini, il manque les décalcos...

Sergent Salamanders

Random bits

So... It's been a bit, yeah.

I haven't been completely idle, and doing too many things at once, first of all, if you're looking for a good, useful undercoat spray, stay away from Vallejo sprays.

It's as rough as it looks...

That's two Shermans wasted.

On the bright side, I'm happy it's only two Shermans wasted, I have a few spare anyway, I would have been considerably more annoyed if it was my Abrams instead.

Oh yeah, feel the freedom

They'll get painted. Soon.™

Last, and definitely not best, just so I could say I did something 40K, I've finished a Carnifex I had lying on the desk for a while.
So, what happens when the hive mind messes up ? Well, you get a Fubarnifex.
It's likely the sprues didn't have time to cool properly since the shell and vents didn't fit at all, and the legs joints are warped, making for a very unbalanced, awkward pose. It looks the part from afar though, and should be the perfect expendable paint training piece.

Note how the hooves don't fit flat on the base. They're not even remotely parallel, either.

The vents are completely misaligned, and you can see how the back shell profile is different from the rest of the body