The Scarlet Claws

My five year old daughter Niamh asked me recently if she could have a go a painting a miniature, so I said sure thing and found her plastic marine from in the garage. We sat down to paint and this what she came up, got to admit I'm very impressed its a far better effort than my first attempt at painting a marine. The only help I gave her was tidying up the base.
I asked what she wanted to call it, she said scarlet, so we went with the Scarlet Claws.




Niamh in action,

Shes painting a Night Goblin here, which didnt turn out so well.



She is also pretty good at Space Hulk.
My Mrs will kill me for turning her into a geek.

More Termies

Hey there everything has been very slow going, however I have finished the vast majority of my exams and things have quietened down a little, I have also managed to finish a second terminator squad. I'm not so keen on the paint job I have given these guys compared to what I have painted previously. Its far messier, I think I may have got a little fed up of painting white. I need another motivation injection.
On the plus side I have managed to get most of my World Eaters put together and undercoated. I think I may try the army painter way of dipping to do these, has anyone got any experience of doing this?

Anyway here is Terminator squad Entellus.

Other things I have been doing (Night Lords)

Recently I have been turning to the dark side and decided to start a CSM army, and I have painted up these guys. I think I may go for a themed Bezerker list though, so these guys may get left out in the cold.

Finally, reinforcements

So I have finally found time to post pictures of the stuff I have been painting, cant believe its taken so long to get my ass in gear on this. So anyway I undercoated these guys with army painters skeleton bone spray then highlighted them up with Vallejo's light flesh, with the final highlight of pure white, the red was done in Mecherite red, devlan mud then blood red and blazing orange.

Hope you like these guys.

Tactical Squad Pandarus

OK so I finally got my first squad finished, Its taken me a lot longer than I envisaged but here they are, with regards to the chapter symbol I ordered some 15mm transfers from VVV but they didn't quite fit the shoulder pads so I trimmed the legs of the eagle off each transfer and they fit quite well now. These guys are just black reach marines but I think they have come up fairly well. I'm not much of a photographer yet but I will get there.

Ascanius Longra

Hey so I promised some pictures of the stuff I have been doing, this is my Chapter Master (Legate), I used termie legs, a tactical marine torso, a chaos warrior cloak trimmed right down, a dark elf spear and a Maxi mini head, the chest armour was just thin strips of plasticard cut to shape. I really like this guy, he does however tower over a standard marine, which I'm not sure about yet.

Its Easy to Paint White

Have been finding it very painstaking painting the white on to my marines, layer after layer after layer, strangely I didnt mind when I was at work as it filled out the time off watch and I only had a finite amount of marines with me, now however with being at home and balancing a young family a disaproving partner and a pile of marines it had become a little bit of a burden. Then I was surfing and I found

http://www.thearmypainter.com/product_presentation.php?page=1&ProductgroupId=2is for

I imagine I'am a bit behind the rest of the community when it comes to non GW paint products, but as soon as I saw this I thought this is for me, I scrolled through the different colour primers and found skeleton bone,




This stuff seems after initial test sprays to be pretty good, I think there may be a tendancy for it to cover detail a little but I'am still undecided about that, It takes alot of the work out of painting white and for you Dark Angels players its like Deathwing in a can.

Very little on the hobby front and some help needed (prize for the best suggestion)

I have been very busy recently but unfortunately have done very little on the hobby front, I have finally got home from work and have been spending alot of time with my girls.
I recieved my transfers from VVV however they arent quite the right size for marine shoulder pads which is dissapointing, so I'am still looking for an appropriate chapter symbol for the COA, I feel like I have hit a block on this and could do with some help, any ideas? (pack of five Maxi mini heads for the winning suggestion)
I have done some work on my Chapter Master and the conversion work is nearly done, there is just some final detailing work to be done, pictures to follow.

Loads to crack on with.

Sergeants Pandarus and Dar'es

Same for these two guys, I really like them but I feel something is missing, any thoughts?

First Tribune Silvius Alba

I have nearly finsished this guy I need to get some more detail on him but I dont want to over do it, I'am quite pleased how he has turned out but cant help but feel he needs something more.







The heads and shields are from maxmini.eu and the bases are from dragonforge.

The First Exodite

Have finally got my ass in gear and started putting these guys together. I received the tribe of the black lotus heads and shields from Maxmini.eu, and these bits are amazing. They fit perfectly for SM head swaps and will only need a little bit of green stuffing to fill in the open face portion of the helms.










I wanted to reposition the legs, so i chopped them up at the joints and drilled through each section before threading fuse wire through and gluing them in place. I am reasonably happy with the pose although the right foot needs a little work. I intend to model some greaves out of plasticard which will cover some of the roughness up, and I will green stuff the links between the armour. Like I said the helm will need a little work, but I'm very pleased with the scale of it. I got the brass rod spears of ebay very cheaply not sure if I'm going to use it on the finished model, I'm going to try some Dark Elf ones first.

As always let me know what you think

Chapter Symbol

Have been looking for a chapter symbol and an easy way of representing it on my models and have found this great historical wargaming website www.3vwargames.co.uk who do lots of historical transfers. I am musing over a few design, but this one I like.


I have asked if they will do it in a dark blue.

Concept sketch COA Tribune

Have just put together a quick concept sketch of a COA Tribune/Captain, first time I have ever done a concept sketch, and I am extreamly pleased how its turned out.

Just found these helmets and shields, I'Cs and sergeants,





There from MAXMINI

Lots of cool stuff here.