A Break From Power Armour

One of the Facebook groups I'm in has a monthly painting challenge 

And this month the challenge is to paint something at sea .

I dug out the old one shot box of Dread Fleet from Game's Workshop so I didn't have to buy anything.

I got the 2 Dwarf ships done, one chaos dwarf and one a traditional dwarf hold but at sea .

Before I started my entry, I made the cliffs on the castle more white and the castle more grey,

Before going over the hull with w coats of Riekland flesh wash 

The sails got a base coat of Thousand Sons blue before I put on my experienced painter face and went a blending, mixing temple guard blue with thousand sons blue to get the graduation on the sails,before adding a tiny bit of white for a highlight.

 I gave the masts and deck a layer of wraith bone and the both dragons got the same blue process as the sails.

I'll let you know how I do in the contest after Easter.

Thunder Hammers And Asmodai

 I finished the hammer and shield Terminators on Monday and got the photos on Tuesday with the Spartan transport and the Screaming Killer.

 

Asmodai is just waiting for the base to be finished, then he and Azreal can go in the Terminators box. 

Had a day off yesterday and got a little bit done on these guys. An ushabati bone base coat and a nuln oil wash on the Terminators and a Serpihim sepia wash on Asmodai.

The split shield had a couple of washes of Greenshade and a watered down templar black coat and a later wash with nuln oil. 

The robe on the captain will get 3 layers of Greenshade tomorrow and the armour will get an ushabati bone screaming skull dry brush. 

Asmodai robes will get the same treatment, the armour is planned to be black with green highlights. 

3 More Terminators

 My work rota has changed drastically, with now an hour long commute at least. Serious thought is being given to switching jobs again.

I've managed to get all 3 of the Terminators built this week but not had the time to even paint a base coat. I'm off tomorrow so hopefully I can get some paint on these. 

It's An Older Mini Sir, But It Checks Out

 The captain arrived in the post and I made a start on it when I got home yesterday, cutting the slotta tab off the feet and trying to fit it to a 40mm base. I ended up adding some green stuff to the feet so it stood upright. 

The Thunder Hammer arm had arrived a couple of days before and was green stuffed on to the body. 

The storm shield is from the Deathwing Knights sprue as you get 6 in the kit. 

I'm planning on getting the plastic Terminator together tonight. 

Stuff Done Yesterday

 I finished the ATV off yesterday, and packed up the 2nd Company and took the box upstairs.

I was out t'shed 

Priming the Inner Circle Companions, both boxes and the Tauros that I'm not sure if I want to try it as an Invader ATV proxy...

I also primed Asmodai and The Light of Eltharion.

I was very impressed with how the Asmodai goes together, it's very well done. 

If you missed the post yesterday I've got these 3 on the way to make the close Assault squad up to 10, which ever head I don't use on Asmodai I'll be using on the plastic mini. 

Monthly Vow 12th Of March To The 12th Of April

 I reached a huge personal goal this month by getting over 100 Terminators painted and on the table. This was never really an acknowledged target as it was just a "one day I'd like to get there", but here we are, doing a proper count tomorrow, reorganising the box and getting those Blade Guard Veterans sorted for a new photo.

Targets for April. 

There are a couple of thunder hammer Terminators on the way and I'm watching ebay for a 3rd to make the lightning claw squad up to 10, the Asmodai is here as are 2 boxes of Inner Circle and the ATV & a long last a Taurus Venitor. I think the Terminators, Asmodai and the ATV are reachable goals for this, with the Inner Circle Companions as a stretch goal.

Review Time 

The Deathwing Knights were finished 

Beliel also had a highlight of Khorne Red then Mephisto red on the robe. 

I got the box out to sort the numbers firmly. There was 5 Tartarus Terminators, 3 lightning claw arms and the 4 heavy weapon arms from the Assault box left to do. 

I had a muck about with this guy, finding some Cataphractii claw arms, he was and bought a Space Wolf shoulder pad for it, and I'm looking for a chaos shoulder pad for the other side. 

I was happy to find the Night Lord Terminator, who took the squad to 7.

These 3 are on their way here so I can finish the squad the full squad photo is planned to have one of the Spartans in the background. 

The 2 Deathwing squads where finished. 

The lightning claw squad all together. 

The 4 Tartarus Terminators needed to complete the 2 squads I had, there is a 5th that I'm thinking of painting as a Strike Master, even though that's gone. 

The last 3 squads finished. 

Terminators Finished, Almost.

 Finished the Terminators off this morning and took some action photos with the land Raider Protius that I haven't packed up yet. The close Assault squad is being expanded to 10 with 3 Thunder Hammers, one of the orginal metal ones, there's an old metal captain along with a hammer arm and the spare shield from Deathwing Knights sprue and the other look for a spare Terminator with hammer. Then it's just waiting for the new Assault Terminators box to drop and watch for the Cataphractii Cenobite squad and characters to come back in stock at Forge World to finish the collection.

Finished these Tartarus Pattern Terminators this morning. 

So this squad will be getting 3 thunder hammers and storm shields taking it to 10 man strong.