So, what have I done this week since I last posted anything? Well I've been painting and spent quite a lot of time with my family, but mostly I've been stripping models. Then restripping them and after that discovered yet another method to clean them up. Now they are all nice and clean however, so from here on it's all painting and modelling.
I have learned quite a lot about "speedpainting" I might say. I started out doing three models at a time and it worked quite nice but looking at the mountain of models I have to finish it really seemed like a fart in the universe. Nothing.
I then decided to "up" the numbers a bit. If I can do three, I thought, then I should be able to do...ten!
That I can say is quite the worst idea I've had in a long time. And I get bad ideas quite regularly. Ten models is a nightmare. Now I know that. Yippi.
I have not really finishedfinished those ten, there are still some minor details that needs to be fixed like the googles and faces/skin. But I've anyway managed a fair bit of painting.
This is one squad worth of models, not the setup they'll have inthe game though but I thought it looked better to have the first pic of what looks like a unit. Like I said there are still details to be added and finished, but you get the picture. The Plasma guy on the left is part of one of my JO-squads and has nothing to with those guys, there will be pics on them later.
I've started on two Missile launcher teams too. Here you can see them, again with skin and such missing.
What have I done more then? Well it's really hard to keep from the more interesting parts of the army. I'm talking officers here. I have one squad quite finished - the plasmacrazy JO, I have another started but I still have not decided which way he should go. I have some very nice Death Corps legs that really screams Close Combat and the Lt with his powersword seems to be just the officer to accept that as a mision in life.
My first pic will be of the Plasma guy(s)
They need one more, but I'm a bit uncertain on wheteher it should be a medic, a voxcaster or just another Plasmaperson. I think the Plasma looks hot, but then I'll need another Mordian. Hmmm....desicions.
The next JO out is the CC-one. Here he gets to pose with my WH-priest and some random guys. The Priest is probably the weediest imperial preacher since Bob Marley, he and his bunch turned up in turn FIVE the last game I played. Hereby they wrecked any chance I might have had to pull of at least a draw, or a not so humiliating loss.
I like his paint though
BUt none of these battleworn evil Diehards are the one in charge, oh no. My "General" is of another nature, he'll be hiding with his mortar and mastervox far from anything that even seems remotely dangerous. When my army grows he will be having a complete staff around him but untill then his two trusted servitors will have to fill out as guardsmen, and the mortar+ mastervox are only in a very sketchy state.
I have played one game with only those my painted models, and that could have been very interesting, but there were a few distractions and my opponent weren't going for the best sportsman award I tell you.
She turned up to the game with a possessed Plasmacannon armed Dread, a unit of Rubric terminators, one Flamer of Tzeentch, two units of Chaos Hounds and a unit of screamers.
We were fighting about the right to live in the "painted house", but before her first turn had ended her mother said we needed to clear the table in order to have lunch
Just as good I reckon, I would never have been allowed inside the doors of the "painted House" if the game had lasted for six turns. In fact I lost three men in my own shooting phase, she luaghed at me. Saying things like "That's what happends when you play the crappy ones".
But I'll teach her one day...revenge will be mine.