The First Wolf Pack Terminators

 Squad 1 is nearly finished, I'm just looking at grass on the base tomorrow, oh and finding both arms I've managed to loose.

There was a photo to go here but it was too blurry and I deleted it, so I'll get that when I get back home before I mix the glue for the bases. 

The only things left to do are find the 2 Arms that I've misplaced and buy some more PVA glue for flocking for the bases 

Plan A for Saturday

 glue the assault and Satanine terminators and to the bases,

 Wigan for the pledge, buy more glue and a base brush or 2

Bulid Havocs, Legionairs, dark apostle, Berzerkers, helbrute, check the red butcher's for repairs. Turns out the red butchers are magnetised so 1 less worry, I just need to to get a left handed combi bolter and arm to work on for 1 of them. 

Kharen is in there for this photo but as she's not a GW mini, she doesn't actually count to my total. 

There are 3 more Terminators to go with the red butchers to make another squad of 8, a Ragnar Blackmane and a Wolf Priest coming  from ebay. Beyond that I'm possible going to get the head takers to use as 8 bound 

I might get the 30k wolf headed squad and run them as veterans in the chaos side of this army. 

I am also thinking of using one of the power armour squads to build another legionary squad. 

So I removed her for this picture that I'm sending to Wigan. 

Here's the Satanine, close assault terminators and the 2 Harlequins I'm doing. 

On the table right now as it was getting towards midnight when I went to bed are the Havocs, the other squad of terminators, the Chaplin and the Captain built and the Berzerker squad which I'm building when I've got up and gone and bought some milk as I'm running low, so build those, photo here, send the above images to Wigan, find another sword for the Solitaire, start the Satanine Terminators, Chaplin and Captain as they're all going to be black. 

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

 Monthly Vow time, how did I do? 

The core goals were reached! With a little extra added on as well... 

What about April?

Well the Deathwing Terminators need painting and the Enforcers need building and painting, which I think is a safe target for now. Any extras will get added to the post as always. 

Review Time 

I got the bits stripped and cleaned for the metal Land Speeder 

As it didn't come with any pilots I had to cut the pilot and gunner out off the crushed one, there was a leg day to make them fit in the seats with green stuff used. 

The inside shoulder pads had to be left off so that they would fit side by side, which shows scale creep has been going on for years. 

I put the head on the gunner before it went in the box.

I'd bought the Storm Speeder off a mate, the one who is building the Legion of the Damned, but his plan changed and I got this off h9m for my Ravenwing army. 

I'd been holding off buying one of these as I was put off by the grav plates after the I'd built Repulsor, and not hearing any chatter about them in the Dark Angels group. 

Putting the skimmer together was very nice, everything is a pleasure, and I'd be happy to build a second, although I think I'd be buying the up armoured upgrade kits. 

I've got the link saved on my home so I can get that armoured skimmer. 

The Chronomancer dropped with the Imperium series a couple of weeks before I got to this one. I dug the Mechanicus box that has the guys with the swords and got 4 arms, my original plan had been to use 4 of the same swords, I'd cut 4 swords off and put them in a safe place. A very safe place, so safe I forgot where they were, so I ended up using 4 more swords, and used different ones this time. There was some green stuff used on the shoulders as well as a bit of filing to get 2 shoulders into a socket designed for 1 arm, and a different arm at that. 

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Each sword has an edge highlight of a different colour, red, yellow, blue and green.

And Pakal The Great was finished, of course with Pakal looking like a certain Cyborg general from a certain franchise I had to add an upgrade to the action Ezikael I and so I raided the coin jar and bought a box of the Sequotors with a specific head that just so happens to look like a certain Jedi Master.. 

I also need to get a better angle on this. 

Before I got the clash photos set up I made a start on the Gravis Beliel, using bits from the Heavy Intercessor Captain and the fine cast Beliel.

I really can't chose between the storm bolter arm and the master crafted Bolt Rifle so I painted both.

Once this was done I got the clash together with some scenery from the Mortal Realms Series. 

I'd also gone half's on a box of Deathwing Terminators and made the plan to paint them at the same time as I painted the new Muegan Ra. 

That didn't work out. 

I got this assembled and lost the short arm under the sofa for a couple of days. 

I used contrast Black templar on the robe with corvus black with eshin grey and Adeptus grey as a high light. 

The top knot was given a base of screamer pink, Crimson wash, a layer of wazdakka red and a highlight of troll Slayer orange. 

Lastly, and not that you can see it I dabbed some wazdakka red in the eyes, with a small highlight of evil sun's scarlett. I had to add a touch of screaming skull to the bridge of the nasal cavity. 

Last thing yesterday I dug out the Telvig box was get the old metal Muegan Ra out and get them out for a side by side shot.

Meugan Ra, Plastic

 Got the new plastic Meugan Ra finished apart from the base, think I'll go with the Martian Iron Crust on the base to give it some colour.

The eyes are a red as well, not that it's very visible when you look at the mini. 

Only thing left to do is dig out his dad and see how they compare side by side

Building Day

 Oldest child's birthday over the weekend, so the only thing done was cooking, bar a trip to Preston to grab the Eldar Codex, data cards and Muegan Ra, then the afternoon in the kitchen cooking some Chinese Street food. 

Yesterday I made a start on Muegan Ra getting it half built before the left arm was dropped and bounced under the sofa as I dry fitted it, not realising I needed the backpack on it to get the right fit. 

I fumed for an hour or so then dug out the box of Deathwing Terminators I'd gone halves on with a mate, had to order some crux terminartus shoulder pads and raid the bits box for a right handed power fist from the Tartarus box, I used the sword arm from Beliel and had to find a bolt gun arm, I think I'll add the Fine Cast version of Beliel to this squad and in my head this squad is 1 step away from joining the Deathwing Knights and The Inner Circle, which will mean all bone armour, not sure what colour robes to do, think it'll be green, when I get round to painting them tomorrow, hopefully I can get them finished before work on Thursday. 

Monthly Vow 1st Of January To The 12th Of February 2022

 

Not sure how well I've done with targets, need to go and check.

Total different objectives achieved than what I had "originally" intended to do.

So next month as long as get more than 4 days off work like I've had since January the first, a mate dropped off one of the new land speeders, so I'll do that alongside the metal land speeder I have stripped, these will be for the Lion's Blades 2nd Company, I'm also going to use the Necron character that arrived with the Imperium series as the base for the 4 armed cyber warrior, for which I need to dig out the mechanicus warriors for the swords. Based on current outlook those 3 are plenty to aim for.

My game group is starting a Necromunder campaign, I'm getting the Palantine Enforces, this isn't something I'll aim for for March as my plan is to order the base box, book and Aeldari Codex together and there's no date for the Codex yet. Thinking the Corvus black and blues as highlights. And if the Ash waste expansion has vehicles they'll be the same force, depending on what the Enforcers get options on.

Review Time

I started January with a small challenge / test from an online mate of mine.

"You'll notice the maplewood finish I've given the tanks:

Reddy brown? I have a Dreadnought spare, no tanks though. 

 Oiled bronze armor

Brass Scorpion and nuln oil should be close enough

 with spruce capes.

Dark angle green, or 4 or 5 washes with Coelia Greenshade. 

 Goldenrod highlights

Several shades of gold 

. The Eldar 

No spare Eldar... 

 puce 

Pink horror

and seafoam cloaks, 

Green Sea, blue sea or grey sea foam? 

and yellowed ivory for highlights

That one is no problem at all

 Their armor and ships carry forth the theme with a pearlescent cream color."

That one is going to need some researching

"Pine cones, needles, and cranberry cream candles provide an inviting yet intimate field upon which the armies meet."

And pleading infirm eyes to actually make candels and pine cones to scale. 

@Poxy Proxy Predator, paint that!

Just need some Eldar and promised to pack up my paints till new year.

Probably be some repainted first born marines as well"

I bought a Farseer and some metal  Rangers and the Ranger from Blackstone Fortress for this, I also picked up another Primaris Lieutenant to paint as well, and having no tanks spare I used a Dreadnought.

I did all the Aeldari in one batch with the pink horror armour and 2 different bases of grey on the cloaks, the Farseer had both lighter the inner robe and darker on the outer robe, weapons were all ushabati bone, seraphim sepia wash and screaming skull highlights. Belts are all agrax earthshade leather process.

The runes on the Farseer had a final highlight of Pallid Wytch Flesh. 

The shield was pretty much a test piece for the Lieutenant and the Dreadnought with a balor brown base and reikland flesh wash, I got some suggestions for highlights from Preston Warhammer store, but that was more for the dread, the brass had the brass base and a brass layer and a highlight of Cynoptek alloy.

The armour had the same layers as the shield, I forgot it was supposed to be oiled brass and so used the Reikland flesh wash instead of the nuln oil. Not that I'm ever planning on building a Minatour Army but I'd be okay using this.

The dread had a base coat of Belor brown with a reikland flesh wash on, then a Zandar dust layer, then an ushabati bone highlight. Yes that did feel strange to be finishing with ushabati bone.

Any brass sections had the same process as the other brass bits and I used green as a contrast colour. 

Hopefully, even with Witch Queen released for Destiny 2 on the 22nd I can get a bit more painted next month. Yes I know this is 3 days early but I'm on nights till Friday morning and doubt I'll be doing anything requiring fine motor control on Friday as I'll be pretty much a zombie