WIP Since July 25th

So with the, franking, amazing weather we've been enjoying in my little corner of England the last few weeks (I have a better tan now than when I got back from Spain) and a very good friend of mine dragging me out to put some more miles in on my push bike, I've not really been in much to get any hobby work done also I've been waiting on a shipment of magnets from Hong Kong and it's a 5 week month so money is being budgeted carefully and with Space Marine coming at the end of this month as well and a birthday and my work place pension kicking I'm not in a great place to be buying schtuff right now and my mind is on other things.

So this is the first squad of the 72nd Shadow Highlanders in full, clean colours, of note is the comms guy with a blue helmet, not to sure if I'm doing this to show scavved gear or just a specialist trooper.

This is the same unit with the nuln oil wash applied and one of my Deathwing Knights in the background for scale.

So when the magnets arrived I put them to use by magnetising the weapons on the Land Speeders, I'd been talking to someone on Facebook and they'd mentioned that the Maori soldiers used to scaving German machine guns as they perfered the noise that they made when fired over the British guns and I thought well why is the Assault cannon always chin mounted? Surely the Tech Marines would have worked out how to swop the weapons around if the pilot and gunner wanted them like that. Luckly I had the Assault Cannon from my Bjorn Conversion that I gave to a mate so I added a magnet to the gunners side and another under the chin of the Speeder and on to the top of the Heavy Bolter before I started on the Typhoon.

The Typhoon Missile pods are mounted in an underslung position as I think that they look better down there. have yet to get them painted and sitting right as I need to do some more green stuffing on the pods and struts to get it right

And lastly we have the Deathwing Knights project up to 97.5% completion, come on payday so I can order those bloody Forge World Deathwing Paldrons. I've magnetised all the arms( oooh they rotate was one comment last night when I played with them for the first time) and green stuffed the joints to hide the magnets, when I start to paint these sections I think they'll just be in black. So by mid September I should have this unit finished as well as the Land Speeders and my 2nd squad of Guard as well as the new Marine Codex.

Future projects are a squad swop with the Missile Launchers as the The Glorious 1000 has the Space Crusade Missile Launchers and The Lions Blades have the current Missile Launchers, after that I'm hanging fire on anything till after the Marine Codex comes out, I might just be buying the AA tank but so far nothing else is stnading out to me from the leaks