Scouts Finished

This evening I got the scouts about as far as I can be bothered to get them.

They still need their insignia doing on the paldrons and their bases covered in sand.

I was considering free handing insignias and numbers but in reality waterside transfers will work well enough. Question is do I buy ready done ones or have a bash at doing my own on waterslide transfer paper.

I also got the last of the marines built this evening…

Who knows what type of squad they are meant to be… rule of cool wins here I believe 😁.

Six of them are already sprayed black. These will follow suit tomorrow.

I Went With Orange

So I decided I would go with orange for the weapon casings. It sort of fitted with the red and yellow on the miniatures already. The brown I used for the combat knife had a bit of an orange hue to it too.

Maybe I should have gone with a different colour, but orange meant I did them tonight instead of faffing about trying to choose the ‘right’ colour.

I did most of the metalwork on them too. There is now very little white to cover.

Really just the face bits on them and dome pipes and pump action grips etc. Should hopefully have them finished tomorrow.

In different news, I managed to blag some free fake grass samples. They are round about 10 inches square. There are three different lengths so I will have a think what to do with them.

A Productive Hour

This evening I slapped more paint on the scouts as well as built the ‘Chonker’ ready for undercoating tomorrow.

Still some work to do on the scouts, the problem I am having is the choice of weapon colour. Might go for an orange to complement the red/yellow combo I have going. An easy option would be black… I might fall back to it if needs be.

Hopefully I will be as semi productive tomorrow.

Something Achieved

Well this evening I was a busy boy! I redid the new vehicle and added my own supports and they seem to be working, the first build plate was a success. This included failure pieces from yesterday.

I also did some posters for the terrain, first off they were far too big, so I had to shrink them down by 50%.

My nail art jewels came today to become rivets on the MDF terrain.

I also did some painting and glueing too…

Not Much Achieved

Well, not sure why, but  I achieved very little this evening. Sliced a new vehicle to be abandoned as well as cleaned and cured a pile of things too.

Sadly the bloody print failed, it was too late to faff on with it so I will clean the tank tomorrow and add my own supports too as the miniature fell off the ones that came with the pre supports.

Hopefully I will get it sorted tomorrow.

Next…

Abandoned vehicle on its way…

So in the above photo you can see the sacks and liquid containers. I still have to sort out the tote bags which are a similar size to the above. As I said o. An earlier post; I am going to cover the front with a tarpaulin. This will hide the solid plastic windows. Yes I probably could paint them, but it would be a right faff so I will hide them.

Scouts Part II

Well it is probably ‘Scouts Pary IX, but never mind I managed to do a bit more on them.

So that is all the cloth done. My original idea was to do a green blanket, but as I had the black lotus handy I went with that. This is the colour I did the trousers in.

Still a long way to go, but getting there. 

I have got some ideas for the chapter name and had a mess around with a battle cry and motto in Latin.

Working on the Scouts

This evening I got all the pallets I had undercoated black ready to become some form of cover. I also found my next abandoned vehicle…

This will have a tarpaulin over the front to hide the windows which are solid. I can fit three pallets in the back. I have six sacks and six liquid chemical of them as well as five covered ones that need curing.

So onto the scouts – they all have their armour done. Next will be the cloth, backpack and pouches.

I am also in the middle of printing the last Marine as well as a captain and psyker for myself…I thought I had taken a photo, but evidently not.