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…
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.
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.
I spent some of today building my TT combat MDF stuff. I will discuss this in another post tomorrow.
So I got the lifter finished this evening…
When I say finished, I think I may need a bit more rust on the side panels… I evidently forgot! As with the combined harvester, this has a skeletal pilot.
I also got some more done on my scouts…
I will hopefully carry on with the scouts and MDF terrain tomorrow.
So this evening I decided to crack on with the walker and got on quite a long way…
Still the metalwork to do followed by the muck and rust.
No while painting these I came across a rather ‘orrible realisation.
Well if you remember ages and ages ago when I first got into Speedpaints there was a problem with reactivation. So when I got Speedpaints 2.0 I gave one of my school leavers my 1.0 with the caveat that they would reactivate. Fast forward ten months and I am painting my miniatures…. remember this painted dude in the foreground?
Well that yellow paldron kept reactivating whenever I put white over it as I decided to go with yellow. I did think it was a bit odd… This evening I may have worked out why!
Note the bottle on the left has that 2.0 visible and the one on the right doesn’t… the blue arrived last week. The red was my upgrade in the past. I am now confused… did I give my upgrades to my leaver or is the 2.0 a new thing on the bottles. I really cannot workbout how i managed it if i did…If anyone knows about the 2.0 please let me know. Since typing this, I did a bit of checking around and it would seem the first run of 2.0 were using original labels, so I did seem to have given away the 1.0. Which then begs the question…why the reactivation?
So this evening I got my son’s scouts finished and undercoated
I also had a little time to try out a colour combination on my scout …
I think it will work… well it had better as I have gone for yellow paldrons on all of them
I will hopefully carry on tomorrow evening.
Well after yesterday’s dithering I thought sod it, life’s too short to procrastinate so I went with the original red idea for the armour…
It’s not looking the same here as on the miniature in real life but it gives a general idea on the colours.
I also built another soon to be abandoned vehicle (or walker in this case).
I have installed a skeletal driver since this photo was taken.
This evening I did some more slicing and started printing the remaining marines to make a squad of ten.
I also got the scouts underpainted…
Hopefully I will get them painted tomorrow. The little dudes in the foreground are for a big Tyranid base.
Well it was moral support day for my daughter. She revised and I painted. I managed to get this terrain piece finished.
I decided to go a bit mental with the rust. Well it has been sitting in the field a good while.
If truth be told I am a bit Happy with this.
I got a parcel today, six new Speedpaints and a carry case to put them in… I also decided to shove the spare bottles that i had lying around in it too. Somehow I found a lot.
I kind of thought it would have my Contrast paints in there as well as my Speedpaint metallics… so much for that plan. To be fair some of these need to be put back into the shed as I haven’t used them un months… probably years since I used the washes.
I also got some terrain bits too…
Yeah I know I could probably find the files to print something similar or indeed actually craft it myself, but this seemed cheap so I went for it instead.
This post comes with a sing along 🙂
Technically the above is a weaponised vehicle with saw blades on the front. I left them as is I have no idea what future crops will be grown. It is meant to have flamers on three hard points… I just left them off as this is intended for a terrain/cover piece
I also put together a pile of Printed Battle Brothers. Eight Scouts on the left and six marines on the other. Oh and the little Erroish Dude at the back gives an idea of the size of the vehicle.
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