Birthday Clause is coming to town!

As few to none of you may know, my birthday is fast approaching, and I got one of my gifts early.  Check it out....

  Took it for a small test drive tonight, it's going to take for me to feel really comfortable with it but already I was able to get a nice even coat of white paint on one of my space marine bikes.  I was going to take picture but with my camera you really can't tell the difference.  

  I'd like to be able to say something about the airbrush set, but since it's my first one, this thing could be utter shit and I wouldn't know.  I can comment on how much the directions suck.  It's a small paragraph of how to assemble it all without any pictures.  Eventually I was able to get it working, but I would say it took a good 15 - 20 mins to get it all working properly. 

  I've done quiet a bit of reading on airbrushing and the first rule of airbrushing is to thin your paints.  I hadn't realized by how much till tonight.  So here's the official Sigmar's Workbench guide to thinning your paints.

1.  Do I think it's thin enough?  If no add water.  If yes, you're wrong add more water.

2.  Now that I've added more water, do I think it's thin enough?  If no add water.  If yes, WRONG AGAIN!  Add water and try again.

3.  Ok now I'm pretty sure I've ruined it with all this water. I'm such a dumbass.  Now it's perfect!

On a non-airbrush related matter, I'm a step or 3 closer to having finished the Close Combat Scout Squad.  I think I've slopped about all the paint on it I can, now it's time to start adding in more detail and making sure to color inside the lines.  

Close Combat Scouts

Got a package from the glorious BitzBarn today.  It was the parts for making my Tomahawk (aka Combat Blades) Scouts.  Assembly is done, but I have to wait for some of the Green Stuff to fully dry. I had to put a little dab on the end of the Tomahawk arms so that they would maktch up with the space marine torsos.

To make his legs look less odd, I made him a base so that it would look like he's sitting on a pile of rocks.

I love any excuse to throw another Power Fist in my army, so that's what I did with this groups Sgt. Nothing says Badass like a shotgun and Powerfist. 

It's like the French Revolution over here.

  Things have sort of slowed to crawl as far as progress goes.  The reason.... headless marines.  Somehow I've managed to misplace my bag of heads.  I've looked high and low and they are nowhere to be found, so I've come to the conclusion that it was sabotage.  We'll start rounding up suspects and doing interrogations... between you and me... I suspect a miniature of Andrew Jackson.

Who... me????

  I've decided to press on as much as possible.  I knew I was going to have to order more heads from PuppetsWar, but it looks like I'll be ordering those sooner than I expected.  I've assembled as much as I can and removed the heads their heads.

All of these are now primed, but did you really need a picture of them in white.

I really like how these guys have turned out.

  I've completed my "Khan"..... I think.  He ended up borrowing bitz from at least 6 different models from both fantasy and 40k.  

  I still have to make a standard for that banner pole, which should be interesting.  I've never actually made on.  Usually I stick with pre-made plastic banners like I have for all my Ogre units.  I want to give props ahead of time to From The Warp for this tutorial.  I think it only fair I thank them now before I make a mockery of the awesome work they did with something I'd produce.  

  I've got more bitz coming in from the good folks at BitzBarn.  I'm doing a unit of close combat scouts and I've managed to snap up some really neat looking throwing axes that will be their combat blades.  The scout leader has a shotgun and a powerfist.  

  Also in that order, I'm getting some multi-meltas to go into the attack bikes and on the Land Speeder Storm as well as the wheel to complete my last bike. 

  Not sure what I'll be playing on Saturday, but now that I've got 1000 points worth of guys assembled and based, we might see them get some time on the field.

Progress!

Did some painting tonight.  Still WIP but it's something right?

I need to fix that moldline, but this is VERY early work.  

I need to fix his facepaint and eyes, but I can't do that till it dries.  Feels good to post some progress. Now just gotta stick with it.

That's it for tonight's post.

WIP Marine Biker Sergeant

  Assembly is done on my powerfist biker sergeant.  I've been saving cloaks and capes for a while now.  I'm going to try to give every biker a cape. I still need to get proper rounded bases for them.