Dread the Flame

This week I completed 3 AoBR dreads and a librarian. I chose the AoBR dreads since they come with Melta arms. It was easy to cut off the storm bolter and glue on the tip of a tactical marine standard flamer. Turns out a tooth pick is the exact same size as one of the flamer barrels which allowed me to make it look like more of a natural fit. I added my usual scales to taste.



I wanted a base librarian for lower point games plus a certain 40k event at GenCon this year. He is the base fig, plus the usual custom shoulderpad and cloak. I didn't like the hand holding book look, so I gave him a bolter arm from a tactical marine box set.



Total paint time was 8 hours (over three days) to do all of the green armor and highlighting, and one solid 8 hour day (Nice to get July 3rd off) to paint up everything else.

Can't wait to put these guys into some drop pods.

If it Bleeds we can kill it!

After painting another 30 Marines, and assembling my entire army, it was time to paint some predators. Magnets were used to allow for conversion to Rhinos. The scales are once again green stuff.



Yes, we look like mobile tanks, but we are pretty much stationary gun emplacements.



Rhino mode activate!



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Vulcan Complete

This is my converted Vulcan mini from the other day, only now he is painted. Since I hadn't painted any power fists yet I also used the power fist as a test for a possible orange red color for the Sternguard squad helmets when I get to them. While I like the red/orange power fist, I am still not sure about using it for the sterguard heads.

Land Speeder #1 complete

Mike challenged me to a 500 point game on Thursday. Let's just say it gave me the motivation to finish my land speeder.

Oh, and I even got some smaller magnets in and magnetized the gunners and their weapons as well. No more paper clip solutions.

Vulcan is now Green

Vulcan Model WIP

I started working on converting my Vulcan model. After kit bashing a grey knight, and a commander box I added some plastic card flames, Chapterhouse bits, an old 2nd edition power fist, a tactical marine head and sacraficed a flamer to the model.

Next up is adding some green stuff scales. I plan on doing all of the back cape, plus his chest and the front cape as well. My goal was to make him look as close as possible to the 5th edition book drawing.

Speeder Painting Diary - Base Wash 1

Next step is to again use the tank brush to apply a layer of thraka green. This both gives the next layer of paint a lighter prime, but also helps to keep the full color of snot green coming next.

You can see that I liberally applied it, and that it is still a little wet. I will let this dry overnight.

Total time 15 minutes.

Speeder Painting Diary - Base Coat 1

Next is to use a tank brush and liberally apply some watered (with future floor wax) down Citadel Knarloc Green.

Total time about 1 hour.

Speeder Painting Diary - Primed

Trying a step by step for something new. First thing is to prime in black like the rest of my space marine army.

Time 15 mins, plus another 15 for drying time.

Space Marine Land Speeder

I put together my first landspeeder, and also used green stuff for the first time. Not just to fill in gaps but to actually add salamander scale detail to the model. I also magnatized everything, which was another first for me, and cut s salamander head out of plasticard. Did I mention it was my first time assembling a Land Speeder? Anyhow about 8 hours later the first landspeeder will be ready for priming tomorrow. Plan is to ultimately have 3 landspeeders done linke this, and then paint them all together. This will be my most ambitious "conversion", "build", whatever you want to call it to date.

BTW I tried two different methods of green stuff scales. The first was to ball up green stuff and randomly smash it (which ultimately looks really nice and is easy if the green stuff doesn't stick), the other was to roll out some green stuff, let dry over night, cut and remove then cut away to form the scale shapes. While the latter also looks nice, it takes a lot more work and gives a completely different look.

Space Marine Tactical Squad #2

Ok I have painted 10 more tactical marines.

Salamander Space Marines

Started painting some Salamander marines for 40k lately. Here are a few pictures of the 1st tactical squad and the librarian.