The run into Christmas is looking rather hostile to hobby time, and I say this as my assistant has handed in rotas unto January the 2nd.

I mean I'm looking at Friday being the first chance I have to get to Wigan to pick up the cards I ordered for the Space Marine. I passed the Codex over to my daughters to buy as a Christmas present but there's very little chance I'm going to get a battle in with the Astartes first as I want to Tea Drinking Divisione sorted first and see how badly I can fail with them before I get some cerimite out again.

So over the last few nights I've had the 30 tank riders out for painting.

My aim had been to at least get boots, jackets and pants done on them before Sunday. So that didn't work out.

I got the pink pants done on all 30 minis then yer another late finish yesterday left me organising back into squads and packing paints for tonight. 

I did get some pink on this version of Greaves and a pink layer on the trim of the coat and I'd bought a blue black paint I'm planning to use on the coat tonight to see how that goes. In game terms this is a basic Commissar, so need to check what weapons they can have and root for suitable arms for her. 

I am rather annoyed at myself as I left the pink for the trim and brown for the boots at home, this is now on hold until I can find the bits bag for the arms I need or plunder the command squad sprue and take what's needed to finish this Commissar.

Oh and with the new paints coming out next week I'm hoping to grab the pinks when I'm able to get the tanks finished and probably the Karskin greens for the Dark Angels. Need to check days off and start times for the next 2 weeks. 

People say in Boston even beans do it

 The plan this week is to get the graffiti on the tanks and get at least one squad of Centaur mounted troops, with the pink pants, brown boots and coats, any shirts visible will be in the colours of the Centaur they're mounted in as I have 2 sleeps and 3 late finishes.

This means plan A is small steps, batch paint, browns and pinks and find the recipe for them.

So yesterday, wasn't a day off, I sorted out the tank riders and the part of the Ogryn Squad that those Necromunda Orlock Ogryns will be in when they get released, every trooper got their head glued on and the bases got done.

My bigger Tiberos got dug out and I stuck some green stuff on the leg and used the very tiny ball bearings to add the bonding studs on the leg.

Painting things, I'm looking at a raketh flesh base coat on everything aim to get that done over 2 nights, Friday off and aim to get pinks and browns done, the shirts will match the Centaur they're mounted in.

I'll squidge Bigger Tiberos in as I do the greys and Friday 

Vos, feles, in magno conventu in caelo videbo.

 

I was off work all weekend and got very little done hobby wise.

I'd hoped to get some of the boxes in recycling and managed to get a few sorted. 

After my first use of the Ratling Grime I knew I needed to thin it a bit more for the next one, so I tried it on the dazzle Centaur and I was very happy with how it looked when dry.

I was still struggling to come up with a colour scheme so used abominable intelligence to come up with some suggestions based on red bull racing, Williams F1 and the Australian Rugby kit. 

The bottom image is the pink section, all 3 Dorns, The Leman Russ and 2 Centaurs are all going to pink, but I'm waiting for the new range or Emperor's Children pink to get released to finish them off.

I was at a blank with this squadron and asked my hobby group for ideas and one of them suggested standard Ad mech grey with graffiti, so I asked youngest daughter who's the big Tank Girl fan for some quotes.

The Leman Russ is definitely getting, in plan English, "Feeling a little inadequate?" u mean with that barrel it's begging for it. 

Electric eels, I might add, do it

I'd managed to grab some bits for the Terra Australis Chi Visionem Divisione and had them sent to work as I seem to have been there more than at home. 

I picked up Hells Last Command Squad for The Boogers, and some Tech Support for all those Tanks. 

I'd found the Tech Priest kill team, with one Priest and the Archotech, a second Archotech and the actual Tech Priest Enginseer. There's a mass of servitors to go with them so will put them together at some point and distribute them around the various armies

I also built another Lego kit, this one from Father's Day, of Darth Maul and his mech suit. 

Lego Building

I'd bought a few of the Lego magazines and had them knocking around for a few months, I took them to work the other night and put them together 

 

If you've been here a while, or just want to check the Telvig tag, you'll remember /see the Wraith Lords I did a few years ago.

Now with 1 of the 2027 projects being Exodites I thought I'd revisit that idea only this time using Wraith Guard.

As a sort of proof of concept I bought 1 Wraith Guard and a box of Kurnoth Hunters and 5 of the bows and other arms.

First lesson, those shoulder pads need to go for this to work.

I'll add some more tree bits to the Wraith Guard and maybe use 2 of the Hunters for "leaders" of the 2 squads.

The Dutch in old Amsterdam do it

 Plans plans plans.

So new paints are announced and the pink tanks are on hold until the new paints have released or Emperor's Children pink get a reissue.

I went down to Wigan store on Friday to pick up the store anniversary goodies and asked for some hints on weather and we chatted about what might be in the reveal show later that day, The Manager was everything crossed for new paints, she had been issuesd instructions to get lots of minis ready to paint. The Manager did recommend a thinned coat of Ratling Grime to use as an oily/grimy look. I did try it and I think I need to thin it a bit more.

The new paints.

So I'm thinking any new Dark Angels will be painted  using the new paints to see how those will work, which is the Ravenwing stuff next year, and the 1 Redrmptor dread for the DA.

Codex Astartes

 This turned into a plans for 2027 post, it was supposed to be a whinge about the new Astartes codex. 

Well it's not a drill, 19th of September is the preorder release for Codex Astartes and it's just the book and the cards that I'm putting an order in for.

Some of it is wanting to get the Tea Making Devision finished before I start another project, which includes the Boogers and the Power and Water, part of that is I think I'm Astartes out, I've got everything I want and it is just waiting for the assault terminators to drop again. I very much have what I want, I'm just waiting for the Dark Angels Suppliment to arrive, with the rumours around a Ravenwing box set and updates to Samuel and his Jet bike, that I'm fingers crossed for. 

There's no point me buying the Captain on a bike if my Dark Angels can't use it, maybe they should have done a LT on a bike.

As to the Outriders, again I'm good, I've got 3 squads of 6 bikers with 3 go carts, well 2 ATVs and a Ridge Runner, and 3 of the new Land Speeders in a box ready to be built and make use of any Ravenwing upgrade bits that are released around this time, if that happens of course. Which is all 2027. 

And then there's the Exodites, plans are still a mix of pen and pencils here, 

What's In Pen;

I did buy a box of Warp Spiders the other week to go with the Phoenix Lord, another firm plan is 3 full squads of Dire Avengers and I need some support weapon platforms for the Guardian squads, for some reason I have 60, I don't remember which edition of the Codex had a 20 strong Guardian Defender Squad. The Wraith Lords I'm happy with, so currently no plans to buy more. 

I'm still using Incubi for my Striking Scorpions and will be adding Khahandras when he gets a glo up. 

There's about 10 Death Jester's I was using as Shadow Spectors but might switch them to Dark Reapers, I've already got a Mugan Ra already. 

What's in Pencil;

I'm thinking of using Sylvaneth as Wraith Guard, I could do with a side by side to help me decide or I go expensive, now I've paid the mortgage off, buy the Wraith Guard and some of the tree elves and repeat what I did with the Lords. 

Dragon Riders. 

At least 3 boxes, 2 built as Dragon Knights and one as the 3 characters it can make. 

I was using Wood Elf way watchers as Rangers, a choice I was happy with, even if they are a little on the short side now, I do have a few Rangers in the Eldar project box from different eras so could repurpose those for this. 

Aspect Warriors. 

Fire Dragons - don't know yet. 

Swooping Hawks - probably, just 10

Howling Banshees - 1 full squad, I mean Cru Ella De Vile does need a squad. 

Jet Bikes. - probably the ranger bikes.