Tank tracks

Painting tank tracks sucks. It's not fun at all. I quickly lose patience with it, and pretty soon I've made a mediocre job of it just to get the blasted things out the way.

FU tank tracks!

Short term goal

Desperately need a box of stormvermin and 3 warpfire throwers. With which I can make a legal 2500pt skaven list. Although I do need a battle standard bearer also, problem with that is that no standard bearers exist for skaven outside the standard troops. Best bet would be to convert a stormvermin I guess, but then I need two boxes of them - well out of my budget. Old clanrat is filling the vacancy at the moment.

Wonder if someone wants to trade a kidney for them.

The plan currenty sits at, alone with a small note on modelling progress
Thanquol and Boneripper - painted
Warlord with gt wpn and warpstone armor - undercoated

Plague Priest on furnace - painted
lvl 2 Warlock Engineer with Doom Rocket - Doesn't have an actual rocket, but painted
Battle Standard Bearer with Storm banner - proxy model painted

2 Units of 25 Clanrats with full command and warpfire thrower - 40% painted, 98% actually exists
40 slaves with musician - 50% painted
39 slaves with musician - not even undercoated
20 Stormvermin, full command, warpfire thrower and banner of eternal flame - don't have

27 Plague Monks, full command, Plague Banner - painted

Doomwheel - painted
Warplightning cannon - just slave crew to paint

Hard to choose between Thanquol and a normal Grey Seer on bell. Thanquol and Bone ripper are painted though, so he wins. And I really like Thanquol.

Rolling Doom

Inspired by a text message received two days ago, I painted this over the past couple of nights -



Funny what contact from people will do. Though this doesn't help with what the message was about. I need about 200 points of core troops from somewhere. Thats pretty much yet another regiment of clanrats, with weapon team.

I'll hope for sunlight tomorrow and take better pictures. It was basically followed from the guide on gw's site. Although my bronze is nowhere near as dark which is fine. And I didn't quite use as many stages as they did on a great many things, The guy inside for one, you can barely see him.

Also photos plainly showing mould lines on periscopes ftl. In my defence, i assembled and painted it in pieces, and the periscope is single piece part that just got forgotten. I even forgot to spray it when undercoating it all. The kit also has big problems where the outside frame on the wheels meet the internal frame, the joins are plainly visible. Even on stock photos, though they never show the back and now you know why. My wheels stick out a little too much (maybe 2mm) which exasperates the problem. But oh well, I may fill the gaps or leave it. The top part isn't too bad, and the second join is right behind the wheels and looks really obvious, but it's right at the back so, myeh. Not glued in yet anyway. Not going to glue the sides on so it can lay flat for storage.

I've painted something

And taken badly lit pictures of it

Behold a crashed Aqulla Lander from Battle from Maccragge.

Two things - dow2 and I need money

Been playing Dawn of War 2 far too much lately, it's just such a suberb rts. Anyway, my fave race from the offerings is Eldar, and now I badly want an Eldar army. With white armour and pink hats!!

This is what I will eventually, someday plan to start with:


In case it's not crystal clear we have from top left
Wraithlord with bright lance and wraithsword, Falcon w/scatter lasser
Guardians with shuriken cannon and Warlock, Howling Banshees w/exarch
Farseer with council, Rangers

Ofc this list has glaring problems, lack of av is one. Comes to around 1000pts I think after buying powers and stuff. But Eldar with pink hats!! MUST HAVE!

Pre Heresy Marines

Forgeworld have put up a selection of the old power armor variants. Have to say a pre heresy colour scheme World Eaters army is looking mighty tempting. That clean white and blue look is funky.

First time it's made me feel sick

I don't think it's any secret that Citadels Foundation paint smells a but funky. I always thought Mechrite Red was potent, but just cracked open gretchin green, and now I feel physcially sick.
The stuff is god awful.

It does seem to be a good base for the pale green robes I want my Clan Moulder skaven to have though, thankfully packmasters are few and far between so exposure to this smell will be minimum.