Painting Contest: Squad Edition Update #4

Another day, another marine.  Since I took yesterday off, I really needed to get started again today with another marine.  I had to force myself a little to start back up, but once I did I was cruising along pretty well.  Looking at the pictures, I'll need to fix his chapter symbol to make it look like the rest of them.  It needs the down 'swoops' at the edges of the eye.  Down to just normal marines now, so no more surprises.

I'm really liking the Dragon Forge bases as well.  They seem really well made, and the texture is great.  I won't be able to do another model tomorrow, as it's game night at the store.  I hope to get some sort of battle report up however.  We'll see if I can get it done and not be lazy.

Astromag Issue 6 Released!

Astromag just released the 6th edition of their quarterly 40k eMag.   Complete with the Christmas Templar spread!

Download the PDF here

Thanks to Morgan for all the hard work in putting the issue together!

I decided to take the day off from the Sons of Horus today before I get burned out.  I'll be back at it tomorrow night though.  Also, check out the final warhound update over at BoLS.

Painting Contest: Squad Edition Update #3

Day 3 of painting and I've completed the 4th marine of the squad.  Though I chose randomly, I happened to pick the third plasma pistol marine for today's project.  I've got all of the steps of the scheme down no so it's going pretty quickly.  It's still taking about 4 hours per model though as many of the steps are rather time consuming.

I've also finished the Sergeants head, as I went to the game store during lunch today to pick up the paints I needed.  Though I've made my aversion to painting skin very clear in the past, I wanted to do it this time.  Perhaps it was to challenge myself.  I'm glad to say for the first time, I've painted a helmet-less head that I'm rather happy with.

I think the squad is really starting to look nice and I'm getting more and more excited to finish.  More to come!

Painting Contest: Squad Edition Update #2

Another day gone and two more marines are mostly finished.  I say mostly because before I realized it, I was ready to paint the Sergeants head and remembered that I hadn't gotten all the flesh colors since I had to toss most of my paints.  At this point, the are completely done, save for his poor head.

I intend to complete one marine a day until they are all done.  I'm not sure if I'll be able to stick with that plan, but I plan to try.  This will let me finish by next weekend some time.  Then I can get started on the Rhino, Land Raider, and second Obliterator that go in this version of the army.  I still don't have great lighting for the pictures so I decided to take one using the normal light of the room, and one lit by my desk lamp as usual.  Neither is perfect, but if you can imagine a happy medium, then you can see what the color looks like.

 

 

Here's what is complete so far.  I think when the army is done, it will look very nice all together.

I should be able to stop by the game store tomorrow and get the colors I need for his face.  I'll make another update post with both him and the next marine in line.

Painting Contest: Squad Edition Update

I've spent most of the day working on the first marine for the Sons of Horus squad I'm working on for the contest.  I'm pretty pleased with the results.  The more I work with the Sons of Horus green, the more I'm liking it.  I'm also getting a little better at painting the symbol.  I decided that as the 'Obliterator' was a creation of Adeptus Mechanicus, it should have a symbol.  I didn't want to do the standard gear and skull, mostly because I didn't think I could pull it off on such a small space.  I decided to go for a simple gear, half crimson red half light grey.

I think It's good enough for government work.

I chose a marine with a plasma pistol, taking the opportunity to define the plasma cooling coil coloring early so that I wouldn't have to think about it later.  I thought about different colorings, but decided on the same basic blues I used on the warhound.  I've also decided to use minimal metalics for this army.  I'll be doing NMM throughout.

I discovered a couple touch ups I need to do as I was taking pictures, but he is essentially complete.  I think it's going to be a rather sexy army when it's all done.  I've also found someone who will cast the custom terminator shoulder pads I will be creating.  That will be EXTREMELY helpful as I intend to create a "Horuswing" army of all terminators.

More to come...

Painting Contest: Squad Edition

The local store is holding another painting competition and I've started my entry.  The models are mostly assembled, but remain unprimed.  I wanted to do a test model before doing anything else.  Vallejo Verdigris Glaze is really the perfect Sons of Horus color and I'd decided to use it the moment I'd seen it on the rack.  The main question was primer color and a couple of other things.  I decided to use one of my Epic Reavers, which I intend to use as "Counts as" Obliterators.

 

 

I'm quite happy with the end result and I'm going to start full out tomorrow morning.  I've changed all of the close combat weapons to chain axes and used no aquilas.  They will be "Counts as" Khorne Berserkers most of the time.  I also intend to magnetize the backpacks so that they can be replaced by jump packs.

I think it will take me about 2 weeks from start to finish to complete them.  I'll probably do some sort of small display board for them as well.  They will also be making an appearance at Adepticon.

The Road to Adepticon

Adepticon is a mere 71 or so days away and the preparation has been going strong for a few weeks now.  There's still some wiggle room for Gladiator right now.  We're still waiting on some FAQ changes do out in the near future before we just write one particular glaring problem off.  Tentatively, I'm looking at playing Chaos Demons, but I have a couple other options as well that I will look into before my final decision.

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