....Is the new black!

So.....starting the Iron Hands infantry now at work and I find that I am resistant to painting them black. Why?

Cos it's well boring!

I'm more inclined to use a metallic finish to make them a bit more 'Iron-ey'. With this in mind I have decided to use a black base coat with a strong drybrushing of a dark metallic colour. I plumped for Gunmetal Blue and have finished this stage for the first thirty marines.

After this I am intending to paint the guns and bionics in a lighter gunmetal colour and then use a black wash to dull down the figure. After that I'll pick out any flesh and other details prior to varnishing. Should be a fairly straight forward job getting these done.

TTFN.

Getting back in the groove!!

With the arrival of Life long Burden Joyous bundle #2 I've obviously not had the time to commit to the hobby.

Massive shame because I've got some neato stuff to do!

Anyhoo. Time to get back in to the saddle and force some progress. I thought I'd start with something fun to re-invigorate myself. Hence the Knight Titan. Lovely kit to put together and given the size and detail I would say it is worth the money.

A quick spray black undercoat in the carpark at work and onto my desk for painting and the usual odd looks from my colleagues. Working in a relaxed environment does have its advantages!! Lunchtime painting is really therapeutic.

He'll take me a while chipping away doing 40 minutes a day but it is progress! I'm intending him to be attached to my Iron Hands to bolster them up to 1500-2000pts quickly but I'm sure he be seconded out to the Howling Griffons from time to time.

Under my desk are the first thirty Iron Hands and I'm hoping that my paint scheme will be simple and effective as I don't want to take ages on them but I want to do more than just spray them black. I might start them soon as well and alternate between the two projects depending on my mood.

TTFN!

More mechanicum

So a bit of painting done this weekend. 3 x thallax, Mage domus and an old mechanicum figure from 1992.  Pictured in front of the limited edition box set 😄😄😄

Test figure for DG and my first mechanicum

So, a lucky chaos space marine went retro as my test figure for the basic DG scheme.  What is missing from this is some streaking and more wear and tear on the armour, but that can be added to the proper figures.

Then with a spare hour I decided to paint a castellax, easy paint job.  Once I get weathering the vehicles there wil be dust on the legs of this, but no need yet.

HH Death Guard stick-a-thon complete

Here you go, my mostly complete HH Death Guard and mechanicum force.

Left to do, but are not here from Forgeworld are 5 more Grave wardens, some Myrmidon destructors, Typhon and 5 plasma gunners.

The list in the pic is

30 marines
5 heavy sp las cannons
5 destroyer marines
5 flames
2 Apothocaries
Champion and master of signals
10 Deathshroud terminators
5 grave wardens
5 terminators
Grav rapier gun
Contemptor with auto cannon and power fist
3 rhinos
THIS IS A SPARTAN....
Sicarius battle tank
Legion Medusa
6 thallax
Rad archMage
Castellax
8 servitors
1992 mechanicum Mage

As a comparison, here are the three terminator types I have

The Path to Heresy

Well the GoGs have tipped over the edge into insanity once more.

Yup. We let our heads get turned by 30K. War during the Horus Heresy Era.

What's not to like? It is all the fluff we fell in love with all those years back with White Dwarf (when it was good) articles dripping in short stories with marines fighting marines, brother warring against brother with titans stomping Land Raiders in the back ground.

Fantastic!

However.......the HH stuff ain't exactly cheap so I've decided to be as frugal as possible as I construct my Iron Hands. With this in mind I have been on recce sniffing out possible cheaper alternatives. Part of me wanted to go for the older 30K feel so plastic current marines are out but I came across Anvil Industries website and their Medieval range of figures struck me as being perfect.

Hats off to Anvil. Good product, good price and excellent service! I was missing something from the order when it arrived and I sent an email that afternoon and by morning they had responded and by lunchtime I had the missing pieces. Excellent service!

So I have started putting these little fellas together with the first five being an autocannon squad using heavy weapons from PDC Gamings 2013 KS campaign. I also got one or their gun carriages which I have the distinct impression might well turn into a rapier quad lascannon. The next tranche of Anvil stuff is going together now to form a twenty strong infantry squad. The last five I suspect will become another support squad with grav guns or volkite calivers.

I have twenty five Scibor armoured bodies as well which will become Gorgon terminators and a massive breacher squad. With the inclusion of my original beakies repainted I should have plenty of troops to be going on with. I still need to do some homemade iconography but I can slap those on afterwards. For now I just need to scratch the builders itch by getting these guys put together.

Vehicles wise, I already have two old rhinos and an old whirlwind/predator chassis ready to tweak and paint so it comes down to what big tankies do I want to build for myself and how do I go about that? We shall see!

TTFN

Next Batch of DG

So my work today continues.

Can I just say that liquid green stuff makes sticking together resin a lot easier than ever before. But I have found sticking bodies down a lot easier for those fiddle arms bit.  So here is a commander, 5 grave warden bodies, 2x apothecaries and the guy who calls down the bombardments!!!