Monthly Vow March 14th to April The 12th.

 I did say Dread Filled Month for this one, but I'm not sure that that is going to happen.

Next Saturday I'm off down to Warhammer World, I've got a double sleep on Wednesday and Thursday, and in April to the week off in May, I've not got a lot of time off. So I'm thinking the 3 blood Angels dreads I've had on ice for ages, the Eight Bound possessed and the Legionnaires squad, the Havoc squad also needs finishing off, and there's a tiny Tiberos and the Tiberos The Less Tiny planned. 

Just had a thought about using an Eight Bound as a base for a Tiberos conversion, the size feels like it's right, there's way to much work needed to clean the armour up to be achieved this month. I'll think about it for a future project.

After finishing the legionnaires and 2 of the triplets I worked out where I was and so as to switch to the targets of 80 minis for my pledge card and 100 in total I'm shelving the vast majority of the dreads and this week plan A is a big assembly day. Wednesday I'm heading down to Wigan with the Triplets and some of Björn The Betrayer's war band for pic on the table, with a plan to get a Warp Talons box, bring it home and get them built and the 10 mk2 assault Marines. So by my working out, 77 +15 is 97, I have a World Eaters Contemptor that I'm going to call Kharne, the tiny Tiberos and Ursula Creed to take me to 100. I'm hoping this can be done before the 30, or when the pledge ends in May.

So 10 Legionnaires 

3 Eight Bound 

2 {more😜} Terminators

3 Contemptor dreads. 

I'm never doing a chaos army again. 

I did buy myself some more of the paint pens this month, a gold one and a brass one with the chip pens added as well. Neex to watch an instruction video for those, as well as a plastic putty pen for the bonding studs on Tiberos. 

Review Time. 

The first 5 long fangs for Björn The Betrayer where done. I like how they've come out. I just wish I hadn't lost the damn arms of some of them.

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I got the Eight Bound maniacs started at home but as I had a back to back sleep I took them to work with me to finish them off. I knocked out all that trim in just under 20 minutes a mini with the pen. The layers were finished on separate nights as I only had a couple of hours each night. 

I also tried chat gpt to give me a header image, putting the Eight Bound in Trumpton Town Square, painting the town red.

The Captain arrived and I got everything together for Tiberos, then put this on hold.

The Spearhead series has started, I wasn't interested in this, then saw the Rat Ogers and thought 'I could turn this into Mutilaters...' and grabbed a copy to try that idea. 

I put that thought about vastly different base coats, with Averland Sunset, Ogyrn Camp and Raketh flesh, then gave all 3 the contrast flesh I have. I'd found a brass paint pen and used that on the few areas of these I thought would work. 

I added some tactical rocks to give them height as they looked like they needed it.

I am really pleased how these came out, seeing as they dropped from nowhere. 

The Legionnaires got finished it's a nice looking squad, I got them done at home and work.

I used the gold marker pen to get these done, the reikland flesh wash and highlights done at work.

April is not shaping up to be a good month, time isn't easy. 

At this point I did a count on what I'd done and how far off my target I was for the Million Miniatures Pledge, with this 12 I'd hit 75 out of 80, with the Helbrute and the last of the Triplets I'm at 77. I looked at the Defiler and thought about how much time that's going to take and thought about a shift. 

This is still a nice mini mechanic wise, but it's going on the back burner as my first day off in April is the 22nd, so to reach my target and maybe even reach 100 minis.

So to switch to the targets of 80 minis for my pledge card and 100 in total I'm shelving the vast majority of the dreads and this week plan A is a big assembly day. Wednesday I'm heading down to Wigan with the Triplets and some of Björn The Betrayer's war band for pic on the table, with a plan to get a Warp Talons box, bring it home and get them built and the 10 mk2 assault Marines. So by my working out, 77 +15 is 97, I have a World Eaters Contemptor that I'm going to call Kharne, the tiny Tiberos and Ursula Creed to take me to 100. I'm hoping this can be done before the 30, or when the pledge ends in May.

The last of the Triplets and the Helbrute are done, just need to get some grass on its base to call it finished. 

I really hope that the Horus Heresy gets a Castaferrum class dread and it's the Helbrute just not Chaosifed. 

An Extra Day.

 I'm running the monthly Vow to the Monday the 13th this month so I can be sure I get both of these finished, got the Vow.

Just the russ grey layer and Fenris edge highlights left on the Helbrute. 

The Evil Sunz scarlet layer and retributer gold highlights are planned for tonight with this one. 

I just wish they'd included shoulders and knee pads in the pack.

Helbrute, Contemptor and Defiler.

 I will add a photo of the Defiler when I get home later.

The Contemptor is a new plastic version, with the Blood Angels torso but nothing no other Blood Angels bits which kind of leaves it looking bare. I got the wazzdakka layer on last night, and planned to get the agrax wash when I get home.

The Helbrute is going to get the reikland flesh wash on the brass areas.

The Defiler will get both washes, and I need to do a bit more brass work on it as I painted panels and then decided the trim around those need to be brass to keep the theme going.

Not a chance I'll get the Defiler finished, but if I leave that and focus on the 2 Dreads I can get most of them sort by the time of go to bed on Sunday.

I'm planning a mooch up to Wigan on Wednesday to drop in and get my card stamped. 75 finished out of 80 pledged. 

I'm going to get the Defiler finished which is taking me to 78, then I'm thinking the ten mk2 assault Marines, pick up 5 Warp Talons, if they have them in, and spend the rest of the day building I have the Creed mini that came with combat patrol so will build that and look at trying greys on her, which I think makes 99 minis. There's a Librarian and a lieutenant Titus new on sprue so I'll toss a coin about which one to build to give me the 100 minis.

I'm Impressed

 I'm impressed by this old guy, the fact that all 6 hip joints have a ball and socket joint that is push fit is great. The claws have 2 hinge pints that are fully articulate is outstanding for a kit this old.

Just a shame it has the looks only Vastor could love. 

Legionnaires Squad

 

I'm doing the same as I did with Wulfen Mutilaters and shipping this to work and back and doing little bits at each. 

With Saturday off I got the Fang base coat on all 10 as well as the crimson wash. Sunday afternoon I packed them up and took them to work. 

The plan being to get the brass trim done with the pens. I managed this and packed them back up to get home and get the reikland flesh wash on the brass. 

One of the last heads fron the Space Wolf Terminators box was pressed into service for the Legionnaires squad, it still needs some green stuff adding so it will sit right in an Astartes body. Will do the napkin rings in silver when I get home tomorrow.

So tonight's plan is to get at least 5 layered with Russ Grey.

2 Contemptors and 10 Legionnaires

 Finished off the legionnaires and the 2 long paused Contemptors.

The pouches, lanyards, holsters, belts and the odd face all got a Zandari dust base coat and a contrast fleshwash.

And got the 2 of the triplets finished at last. The 3rd is still in bits

I did start putting the old Defiler together last night as well as the Helbrute, once these are built I think I'll jump into the Necromunda 8th as I checked my total with these 12 and had hit 75 completed so far, as my target was 80 I'm firmly on track to smash it. Or I would be if I had time off. 

Blood Angels Dreadnoughts

These have been on pause so long I don't remember starting them. 

Okay do I brought the gold paint marker to work with me the other night, and I was happy with how the gold came out 

I took them back home and hit the gold with a reikland fleshwash to darken the gold. 

Tonight I highlighted the gold with a layer of Retributor amour and then liberator gold and was very happy with how that came out. 

 

I then started to give it a layer of evil sunz scarlet, but I don't like it. It's not what I want. I think I'll give it a another agrax earthshade wash tomorrow, then try wazzdakka red first and see how that looks. Then go evil sunz, with Wild Rider red as a faded edge red.