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.

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. 

The Early Plan

 The early plan.

Again this is a long month, as I'm going from the point I start painting to the 12th of February, I've glued a couple of bits on the grey Contemptors.

The most annoying thing is I found the fracking bag with the resin knee pads and torso guns for the resin Leviathan dread... Insert Samuel L Jackson quote here. 

I had a route around on my table and eventually found the sword and shoulder pad for Marbas which will be project 1 for 2026, I mean it is just the angle on the pad, trim and sword, so I should have that finished for 5th of January.

Then it's the 10 close assault Terminators for The Lion's Blades and then the 8 Terminators for Björn the Betrayer's Wolf Pack. 

The 3 Blood Angels Contemptors are planned to be done before I build the Björn Brutalis, the Defiler and the Helbrute, there's also the World Eaters Contemptor that I'm thinking of doing as well.

The Terminator Captain, Chaplin and Ancient will be done in February around the Wolf Pack. 

Monthly Vow 12th Of October To The 12th Of November

I'll admit, I got rather hooked on Assassin's Creed Odyssey this month and got carried away. Really carried away added to the wait for the codex lull that left me feeling like there wasn't much need to get a wiggle on with anything.

Orders have been picked up codex has been started to be read, with the necessarity to wait for the Blood Angels codex to see what options that gives me, I can currently take 3 basic dreads, 3 Redemptor Fat Albert Dreads, 3 Balistus and 3 Brutalis dreads, for current HQ I'm taking Astorth The Grim and a Tech marine, putting an order in for the Blood Angels and Dark Angels indexes to give me an idea of what to do next with both Armies. Then plans can be firmed up. Still massively narked that Contemptor dreads got bumped from the main codex.

Target for next month get the Terminator squad and and Chaplain done, start the Redemptor Brutalis dreads and fingers crossed start the Contemptor dreads as well. 

Review Time 

Lord Bin Face

A comedy political character, the mini was bought because it was most of the money raised is going to charity. 

Thanos was a Father's Day present from my kids. I got to build this one while I was spending the day working from hospital. 

Lastly The Brutalis Dreadnought 

It's not entirely finished as chapter markings aren't done yet, I'm hoping there are transfers in the box to spare. 

Brutalis Dreadnought

 

Getting back into the swing of painting of painting with the new head set.

I gave the red bits a coat of evil sunz scarlet, and trim got done with gold, I had to check what colours the 8th Assault Company was and found it was green and the 2 drops. So I'm planning on getting this finished tonight.