A call to WAAAAAAAGH!! (Part 2!)

Hey everyone,

As promised, here's the second instalment of the Ork Kill Team post.

I really liked the new Ork Bomba kit when it was released and used the Kill Team as justification for picking one up. I tend to find that if I buy pieces without a real purpose, they languish in the box and eventually get demoted to the attic or under the bed.

This version is an upgraded version of the Dakkajet, fitted with an extra set of twin-linked shootas, assembled in a slightly different fit than the GW demo piece. The kit is really flexible, allowing multiple possible positions for the wings and rear tail pieces to be attached to the fusilage, as well as a choice of cockpit screens, rear gunner positions/engine covers and a host of other options. This way, no Ork aircraft in your force needs to look like any other, complementing their ramshackle approach to things.

For the pilot, I opted for the Tom-Cruise-esque aviators and headset. The finished version was re-painted, after originally following the painting guide published in White Dwarf. Although green skin itself isn't wholly realistic, the first version looked way too cartoony, so repainted him in the same method used on my Ork/Ripper Swarm marker.

The plane itself was spray-undercoated with Army Painter fur brown. I had originally intended to use Leather Brown, but Maelstrom didn't have any stock and I was typically impatient, so opted for the different shade and it actually worked out better, I think. The first basecoat was Mephiston Red, sprayed on with the airbrush (best seen in the shot above during a test game).

All the metal sections were basecoated Tin Bitz, before the whole model was washed with Ogryn Flesh. This later proved to be a slight oversight as the newer wash range is less opaque, and you can afford to be a bit more liberal on applications like this. Subsequently, I ended up repainting the majority of the armour plates, minus the joins, which was a pain in the can.... but there you go, a lesson for the next project...

The metal areas were drybrushed with Boltgun Metal and the red plates had some quite liberal edge highlights. I'd planned to heavily weather the piece, but wanted the edge details to be strong enough that they would show through in places. 

As nice as they are, I didn't want to cover the Dakkajet in the traditional chequered patterns, so opted for a more minimalistic approach to the decals. I used the normal two-part treatment of Micro-Set and Micro-Sol to get the best adhesion and finish on the transfer, although I first applied some gloss varnish to the area that the decal was going to sit. Once it was all dry, I used Lahmian Medium to seal the image and take off the gloss finish. I'd been a bit sceptical of this extra step, but I reckon it made a difference.

I used a mixture of red and brown weathering powders, very kindly donated by Dan, to weather the jet. I added some darker brown and black to the mix around the engine vents, exhausts and any other areas I figured would get particularly grubby.

I used the same muzzle flashes on a couple of the gun barrels that I'd used on the Ork Boys. I've experimented with painting these on some other figures, but opted for straight Ceramite White, which sems to do the job nicely.

This was one of the less spectacular moments in the Dakkajets short existence. It was piloted straight towards the chaos gun line and immobilised before being smashed apart by the Dreadnought (although there was a little bit of revenge as the resulting blast incapacitated a couple of the marines watching the carnage).

Anyways, that's the Ork Kill Team. Since playing those games, I've also tried out the Deathwatch Kill Team as well as a KT consisting of 14 Genestealers, so, in all honesty, I'm not sure how much more action the Green skins will see, but it was a good project to get wrapped up.

Laters all :D

The All-New Citadel How to Paint Guide

Hey all,

I've been meaning to put together a post about the new Citadel How to Paint guide for a while now, so here it is... before I go too much further I want to stress that all imagery contained in this post was originated by and remains the property of Games Workshop.

The new painting guide was released several months back alongside the new range of paints (logical...) and, to be fair, I was pretty sceptical at first, given the price tag and the fact that it's predecessor was a little uninspiring. Whilst it did have variation in the techniques and approaches demonstrated within, the quality of the figures on the front cover was not replicated within the pages of the book. A bit of a let down. However, the new version is in a different league. Having only read the first couple of pages of the copy I borrowed from Dan over at Hobby Before I Die, I was browsing the net looking for the best price on a copy for myself.

Straight away, you notice that this version has been well-considered. The format and binding, along with the thicker-card expandable backing, means that you can stand the book up at your work space, so you can easily reference the guide as you work, without having to hold it open with your elbow or weigh the pages down with other things.

The feel of the examples is definitely more accessible, and whilst I don't consider myself a complete novice, it's nice to go back to basics and take a different look at things. You'll also note that the style within the book is consistent with the painting guides that are currently appearing in White Dwarf, so great consistency there too.

Furthermore, you also get a DVD bundled with the book and again, although I don't see myself as a total beginner, it's good to see the examples in the book actually being demonstrated. Some of the content is really basic, but it's great that newbies to the hobby are being catered for. I found that starting out collecting and painting at the tail-end of the '90s (jeees I feel old...) was a bit of a struggle and asking for advice in GW stores always came with a knowing look of "duh, don't you know!"

For illustration purposes, I've taken a few a screen grabs...

Evidently, Duncan (the demo guy) doesn't have to contend with the challenges of painting on the home dining table, including the insurgent cats and inquisitive minors (love 'em!)...

Liking the demo on the Marauder, although I'm not sure I'd apply the lightest layer (Kislev Flesh)... that being said, I've picked up a pot to try it out. The base colour is Bugmans Glow and working up through Cadian Fleshtone. 

I've also picked up some of the demo colours that are used on the robes in the Dark Angels example as I'm anticipating painting some of the DA models I recovered from the attic a couple of months back.

Anyways, to summarise; well worth a look. The recent development with paints (foundations and washes, through to the latest releases) have really helped improve my painting, but I'm inspired to try a new approach to some subjects after reading the new painting guide. I'd definitely recommend it to hobby newcomers or those who are uncertain about their painting techniques.

Laters all

Warp Factor Five

OK OK OK; so I'm a little late to the party here. But, anyone else who's also fashionably late, needs to haul on over to From the Warp. This guy is turning out some absolutely cracking pieces and is super-modest about it all too.

The quality of the painting is some of the best I've seen and makes the pieces on the IJ site look positivley pedestrian. But that's OK. There's some really inspirational stuff on the FTW site and loads of new ideas I'm hoping to try out at some time in the near future.

So, if you're not out enjoying the couple of days of summer we're actually getting here in the UK, head on over to From the Warp.

Laters everyone....

Character Assassination

Hey everyone,

Quick post today with a shot of a model I revisited a month or two back. My bro picked this up when we first got into the hobby, but it's languished in a box in the attic for most of the time since. When I went about my mass reclaim of metal figures a while ago, I cleaned this one up to repaint it.

This was another super quick paint job as the figure is pretty simple, with three main block coloured areas; the suit, the skull and the metalwork. The stealth suit was my usual 'realistic black' method of Charadon Granite, washed with Badab Black and highlighted back up to the base colour. The skull was Dheneb Stone/Ogryn Flesh/Dheneb Stone. Tin Bitz was used to base coat the metal areas, before washing it with Badab Black and Ogryn Flesh. These areas were then drybrushed Boltgun Metal and washed again with Leviathan Purple, which gives the metal a nice aged antique appearance. One last highlight was lightly drybrushed on with Boltgun Metal again. 

The base was the normal treatment and I purposely went for the bushiest 'tuft' in the pack so the Assassin looks like he's jumping out of cover.

Well, 'til next time folks

Enter the Dragon

'Sup everyone, thought I'd round out the week with a quick pic of a figure I painted super-quick a few weeks back...

I've not found an application for him yet, only maybe as a generic adventurer in an RPG, with a heavy lean towards the fighting arts. I picked him up from the good people over at Hasslefree Miniatures a couple of months back for two or three beans. As ever with their pieces, the figure is a nice clean sculpt that required very little prep work prior to painting.

I based him on a 40mm scenic resin base, mainly down to the stance, but this also gave a bit of scope for the extra scenics, creating a mini diorama. It was also an excuse to try the new pot of Mephiston Red I had in stock.

In all, there was less than an hours painting involved, having airbrushed the red basecoat over a black undercoat. The skin areas were painted Khemri Brown before washing the model with Ogryn Flesh. The cloth areas and skin tones were layered back up to the original colours and the hair was painted black with progressive highlights, adding Adeptus Battlegrey to the mix each time.

The base had the standard treatment before adding some clump foliage and highland tufts from the Army Painter range.

Simples

Works in Progress

Hey all, thought I'd follow up yesterday's post in quick succession as there's been a bit of a hobby drought these last couple of weeks.

I've thrown together a few shots of a couple of projects that are currently works in progress.

The game board sections are coming along nicely. They were basecoated in Army Painter leather brown primer; two cans just stretched far enough to cover all six pieces. Just. Using the airbrush I applied some shading around the base of the hilly areas and add low-lights to some of the other features on the sections. Although the contrast looks quite stark in the photos, it's not so noticeable in the flesh, er, plastic.

I used some low-tack masking tape to mask off the areas around the skull pits before laying down a couple of layers of Bleached Bone as it seemed like a quicker option than painting these areas. In reality though, I was a little over-zealous with the airbrush and dusted BB outside of the masking. This was relatively quickly resolved though with a subsequent drybrush of Dheneb Stone over the whole area to tie the colours together and represent the worn down surfaces around these areas. I also used the airbrush to lay down a few patches of the paler tones to add some further contrast.

Switching tack, I revisited these Genestealers as an impromptu painting project with my lad Jake a few weeks back. He's a budding painter and has got the 'spraying stuff' bug from his Dad, so we found these lurking in a figure case to use as fodder.

They were originally basecoated with Army Painter Skeleton Bone primer, so the Scorpion Green went on pretty well without any hiccups. Once this was dry, the bases were painted Scorched Brown and the 'Stealers themselves were all washed with Thraka Green wash to shade in between the armour plates, ribs and other joints. We're in the process of re-overbrushing the majority of each figure with Scorpion Green. The teeth and claws are Khemri Brown/Dheneb Stone and the tongues have been painted Hawk Turqoise/Ice Blue.

We've had a couple of trial games of Kill Team 40k and these things tear it up! You get 14 standard Genestealers for your 200pts and they're lethal. Assuming there's sufficient cover to bounce between, there's not much that can be done to stop them. Unlike your regular games of 40k, it's pretty much full speed ahead each time, and with limited enemy forces on the table, it's normally all sewn up by the end of turn 3.

Gruesome. But, I might have an answer to the problem...

Laters

Deonne...

Hey all,

Its been a while since the last post, thanks to a brush with Nurgle, but I'm back in the blogging saddle with a pic of a figure i recently picked up from Hasslefree Miniatures.

This is 'Deonne' and shes a kinda freedom fighter/rebel type adventurer. As ever, the sculpt was really crisp and clean and packs bags of character. 

I used a super-simple colour scheme of flesh tones and complementary shades for the skin and hair, Charadon Granite for the clothing/boots, with varying numbers of shading washes on the different layers to create subtley different variations of the colour. I figured she'd probably operate during darker hours, so probably wouldn't be decked out in her technicolour dreamcoat...? The handguns were Boltgun Metal washed with Ogryn Flesh. As ever, the base is Scorched Brown with Dheneb Stone drybrishing on the surface. Job done.

As an aside, I'm gradually getting through the stocks of older paint colours, so I'll be getting some newer stuff up on here soon.

Laters.

The old man of the sea

Hey everyone,

I know it's only been a couple of days since the last post, but really wanted to get this post on.

This one started out as an experimental piece to try out some new colour theories and actually ended up quite nice. I picked the figure up in the recent Black Scorpion metal overstock sale at a real bargain price. It's a cracking figure with bags of character and seemed like a good piece to try this technique out on.

The figure has so much character, you can practically hear the wind howling and see the rain chucking down. The theory was to use a pallette of three main paints (plus a metallic) and use them all to mix the various tones across the model.

The model was based on a resin scenic base before applying a sprayed Chaos Black undercoat. Using the airbrush, the figure was then basecoated Stegadon Scale Green (SSG). The rest of the palette was comprised of Rakarth Flesh (RF), Scorched Brown (SB) and Tin Bitz (TB), which is essentially metallic Scorched Brown. (Although Astronomican Grey is pictured, it wasn't used :D )

This is the model at the basecoat stage. The outer jacket and hat remained neat SSG; the boots, rifle, hair and inner clothing were 50:50 SSG and SB. The sword, telescope and other metallic areas were straight TB. The face, hands and skull were approx 30:70 SSG and RF. The base had the same mix, but was subsequently re-painted SSG.

The figure was then washed with Asurman Blue. As an aside, from time to time there are some hobby products that stink a bit (Citadel Skull White spray, for example). Asurman Blue from the old wash range really chucks up.... the smell is un-godly!

Once the wash was dry, each area was re-layered up. All mix ratios from this point on are really just guidelines (much like the pirate code...) and the mixing process was quite fluid, changing tones as it was applied.

The inner clothing, boots and hair were layered with the initial 50:50 mix of SSG and SB, with straight SB highlighting. A little RF was mixed in for a final highlight. 

The jacket and hat were layered first with SSG and then with a little RF mixed into the SSG. The metallics had another coat of TB and a final highlight with a little RF mixed into the TB. The flesh areas were re-layered with 50:50 SSG and RF, with a highlight stage adding more RF to the mix. The skull had a further stage with more Rakarth Flesh added in.

This is the figure at about 90% complete. The telescope lens was SSG with a layer of SSG and RF and a spot highlight of straight Rakarth Flesh. The base (having been re-painted SSG) had a water effect applied by mixing increasing amounts of RF to SSG and highlighting up the rock surfaces to simulate water frothing around the base.

Anyway, hope you like the finished piece. I'm really stoked with the way the final piece turned out.

Laters all

Alice? Who the f*** is Alice?

Hey all,

Quick post again with a few shots of Alice from Hasslefree Miniatures. First up, apologies for the image quality. In my wisdom I thought it would look cool to stand the figures on an ad-hoc plinth (the lid from a spray-can), but the camera had trouble focussing beyond it, hence the slightly blurry pictures...

Hasslefree do some great sculpts, and this is a new take on the tradtional fairytale character, wielding a revolver and a mangled bunny. As I was digging through the bits box, I found some resin bases that my brother sent my way a while back. They seemed like a good fit and the finished piece looks fairly good (no really, it's just poor photography!)

The base colour was Ice Blue, laid down with the airbrush and shaded with a thinned down wash of Shadow Grey, before being layered back up with Ice Blue. The skin tones were then based with Tallarn Flesh, washed with Ogryn Flesh and re-layered. The hair was trusty Dheneb Stone. The rabbit was based with Scorched Brown and layered with Ceramite White. The revolver and other metal areas were Boltgun Metal and washed with Ogryn Flesh. The base was finished with Citadel static grass to create a pathway across it and bring a sense of motion to an otherwise static piece. This also gave a stronger colour than the normal basing material I use, which lent itself to the more traditional day-glo colour palette associated with the story.

Anyways, head on over to the Hasslefree site, they've got some great pieces up at the moment!

Master and Commander (and Helmet Guy)

Hey all,

Quick post today with a couple of shots of Commander Azrael and the little guy who tags along with him.

These figures were given to my brother all those years ago when we first got into the hobby. We got round to assembling and undercoating them but didn't get any further, and they've sat around in a box for the last few years.

When I went about reclaiming old pieces a few weeks back, I cleaned these up and ordered a new backpack and banner for Azrael. They were both reassembled, based and spray undercoated Chaos Black. I then put down a Dark Angels Green basecoat with the airbrush.

The articulated joints in the armour and the sword hilt were painted Charadon Granite, before the armour was washed with Thraka Green and then with Badab Black. The cloth areas, banner, and iconography were basecoated Dheneb Stone and the red areas basecoated Dark Flesh. The sword blade was painted Boltgun Metal. All of these areas were then washed with Ogryn Flesh.

For the highlighting stage, the armour was blended up with a 50:50 mix DAG and Snot Green, with SG on the edges. The extreme highlights were Scorpion Green. The light cloth areas were layered back up with Dheneb Stone. The red areas were layered up with Dark Flesh and Vermin Brown. The bases had the usual treatment of Scorched Brown with the tops drybrushed Dheneb Stone. Army Painter grass scatter and jungle tufts were added for a little extra detail and to compliment the green armour.

Olly, next time I see you chap, you can have your figures back :P

Laters all!

A brush of fresh air...

Hey all, I thought I'd take a slightly different angle with today's post and put up a few words about my recent dabblings with airbrushing.

A few (well, 12, or thereabouts (wow, was it really that long ?!)) years ago, while I was at college, I was given my first airbrush as a birthday gift. I'd not long been into the hobby so hadn't really developed a solid painting style yet, but was convinced airbrushing was the way to start. After talking to the guy in the art store about my intended application, we picked up the recommended kit; a dual action airbrush and compressor. I experimented with it a bit, but was largely unsuccessful so quickly gave up on the idea.

Much more recently I picked up a Citadel Spraygun and managed to source the necessary adaptors to connect it to my compressor, as I figured it would be more economical than buying tins of propellant. Again, after some unsuccessful experimentation and a dozen-or-so pots of citadel colour flowing down the drain, it all got put back in the cupboard, until I found it a new home with a colleague at work.

Another year on and I'm increasingly frustrated at being limited to certain colour palettes that brush on easily where you have limited time and so after a lot of researching, I bought another Citadel Spraygun and a couple of tins of gas when the good people at Maelstrom Games had a promotional offer on.

This time, the results were much better and I managed to undercoat, basecoat and camo my brother Olly's Dystopian Covenant fleet in very short order.I managed to coordinate my spraying schedule with promotional codes at Maelstrom and pick up a couple of tins of gas each time, to keep me going. The spraygun is a very useful tool, but it is very much an entry level piece of kit and has it's limitations. One thing to bear in mind if you are going to use one is to have at least two usable cans of propellant handy each time you set out to use it. You'll need to switch back and forth as each gets cold and looses pressure, plus you'll need to use a fair amount when you clean down between colours and when you're finished.

I was hooked after a short space of time and the opportunities now afforded were considerable. Red/yellow/pink figures were no longer out of bounds and the possibilities of an Emperor's Children warband were back on the radar. In this time I'd also been doing a lot of research online about the whole airbrushing thing and posted a few findings on here.

In the end I picked up some new kit from the Airbrush Pro website and am really pleased with it.

The airbrush is the BD-133 set shown on the site. It's a dual action (essentially meaning more control of the air speed and paint flow) airbrush and comes with a decent sized paint jar. My original Paasche airbrush from years ago was fairly pricey as I recall and only came with a tiny colour cup, which was fairly user-unfriendly. This one is really cracking and does exactly what I need, plus it retails for under £20, so I'm really stoked with it.

The compressor is AS18(2) and again, I'm really impressed with it's performance. It's sold as low noise and it really is a stark contrast to my previous compressor which required ear defenders if you were using it indoors for any length of time. It's compact, relatively lightweight and is a great price.

All in, the total bundle came to around £80 once you add in an airline and one or two other bits, so is an absolute steal, considering the rediculous price of stuff at the moment. Add in that you don't need to keep buying extra gas and you use paint more economically and it gets even better. Plus, (and this is really cliche), you're also buying time here too, as you can easily basecoat the average squad of figures in 10-15 minutes. If your painting figures like space marines that don't require much more detailing, the deal gets even better.

All of that cheese aside, it's well worth considering if you're painting figures in any quantity.

Laters all

Avast!

Hey all,

Thought I'd put up a quick pic of a one-off piece I finished a while back. I picked this up in the recent Black Scorpion metal overstock sale and ended up letting my lad Jake have 'ownership' in return for having his hair cut, or something like that..... :P

Black Scorpion is one of my favourite 'indie' games companies and produce some cracking pieces. The Privateer is from the non-fantasy-pirate range and packs bags of character. Jake chose the colour palette and it was a relatively quick figure to paint, as the large cloth areas make up the majority of the piece. As usual, once the basecoat was applied, I washed the whole figure with Ogryn Flesh to shade and generally tone down the colours. Highlights were re-applied with the respective colours and the base finished in a sandy beach-type effect with a highland tuft applied for a little extra interest.

Hope you like the results. The intention is to raise a warband to play the Legends of the High Seas game rules, published by Warhammer Historical.... we'll see....

Cheers all

The Deathwatch

Hey folks,

I've finally gotten round to finishing up my Deathwatch Kill Team project, so thought I'd post the results.

This is the Squad Captain and Heavy Weapon guy from the Ultramarine and Crimson Fist chapters respectively. Across the whole squad, I tried to give each figure their own character or role in the squad.

 

Paint-wise, I used a Chaos Black undercoat out of the can, then put down a Charadon Granite (old paints still!) base layer with the airbrush. The metal areas were base coated Tin Bitz before washing each figure in it's entirety with Badab Black wash. I stumbled on this technique for a more realsitic black whilst painting the cowboys (see a previous post) and creates some nice areas of shade in the recesses. I found that using straight black leaves the models looking flat as you can't create darker areas to give the depth.

The fleshtones were achieved with my normal base coat of Tallarn Flesh, washed with Ogryn Flesh and re-highlighted with Tallarn Flesh. I've also used my normal 'realistic red' method on the guns. Red guns always look cool on the pages of White Dwarf, but have never turned out too well. I basecoated the guns with Dark Flesh, washed with Ogryn Flesh and then highlighted with Terracotta.

The chapter iconography was all handpainted, to varying degrees of success. The Red Templars and Imperial Fists were two of the better efforts. I normally try and keep my colour palette limited across a squad in order to add to the feeling of a consistent, cohesive unit, but the Deathwatch is an obvious exception and a good opportunity to try out some of the new Citadel colours. The yellow is the new Averland Sunset base colour, and went on quite well, although I did thin it a little and apply a couple of layers.

The red on the Blood Angel is the new Mephiston Red and again, went on quite well. The lenses on all the models were Ice Blue, highlighted with Skull White. The bases were my usual Scorched Brown with the tops textured with sand and drybrused Dheneb Stone. I used Army Painter flock and Jungle Tufts to add some extra detail and finish them off.

All I need now is a willing guinea pig, I mean opponent, to try them out against :)

Cheers all

New Citadel Paint Review

Hi guys, been a couple of weeks since my last post as it's been a little hectic at the batcave recently. However, I have had a little bit of time to try out some of the new Citadel paint range and thought I'd post a few comments.

Starting with the base paints, I picked up Ceramite White, Averland Sunset and Mephiston Red, primarily for chapter iconography on my Kill Team, that is slowly coming along. The test piece was actually a couple of 1:148 scale military Landrover Ambulance kits. 

Prior to the new paints being released, I painted white by using a Dhened Stone base and working up with several thin layers of Skull White. However, I thought I'd take the plunge and use the Ceramite White straight out of the pot. The first coat ended up quite cloddy, so I had to go over it with four watered down coats. I think going forwards, I'll revert to the normal approach and build up lighter colours in thinner layers. So no groundbreaking results there it seems....

I used Fenrisian Grey to paint several Wings of War aircraft for my Dad. This is a reasonable colour match for the old Space Wolves Grey. I've read a lot on the tubes about the new colour equivalents being noticeably different from their old -range counterparts, but this one isn't too bad. Plus, it flows through the airbrush pretty nice, when watered down approximately 3:2 paint to water.

Not impressed with my first experience of the new dry paints... you can get the same effect by revisiting a pot that hasn't been used for a while and dried out. I was a little sceptical, but thought it was worth the crack in case it was absolutely revolutionary, but I'll probably go back to the regular layer paints. Thing is, because they are SO dry, you only get it on the tips of the bristles unless you dig into the paint. I normally make sure 3/4 of the bristles are loaded with paint, wipe off the excess and then use the drybrush technique in strokes across the workpiece. For me, this just didn't seem very user friendly. Maybe some experimentation needed?

The technical paints seem very good. Liquid Green Stuff is very useful and I've used it a couple of times for some minor gap-filling jobs. It's so much easier than trying to mix minute amounts of putty and is fairly easy to work around with brush. Still worth having some water handy to keep it all moving.

Lahmian Medium is the normal paint base without the pigment, so is thinner than the layer or base paints. Because of this, the pots appear to have shorter measures than the rest of the range, but I'm sure that's not the case... Up until now I've used Vallejo matt varnish for sealing decals; it's better than a lot of the equivalent products out there but can still get a little cloudy if over-used. Lahmian Medium is definitely a good alternative.

I've not yet used any of the glazes or textured paints, but will add some comments as and when I do. Oh, one minor point too, it's good to see the return of the little catches that hold the pot lids open as the recent versions without were a pain in the neck.

That's it for now; I'll try and get my next post on a bit sooner than this one. Laters

White Dwarf 388

Hey folks,

Hadn't realised it had been quite so long since my last post. Been pretty busy lately, but getting in a bit of hobby goodness where I can.

Looking forward to getting my hands on some of the new Citadel paints. I can recommend the April issue of White Dwarf 388 for anyone wanting to find out more about the new paint range. It's one of those issues that may not be totally accessible for newcomers or occasional readers, but for me, this months issue is right on the money. There's some great looking stuff coming out for the Empire, plus official deathworld updates for the Battle Missions book.

Outside of this, I was lucky enough to get some new paint spraying kit and the Imperial Strongpoint Realm of Battle extension tile for my birthday recently. The RoB tile is pretty good; it needs the usual soap and water treatment before I do much else with it as there's quite a bit of dust and mould soap still left on the casting. There are a couple of places where the moulding is a little rough, and some green stuff is needed to fill a gap over the top of the blast doors where the resin was too thin. I'm going to add some extra rubble here and there where details aren't too clear, but it should scrub up well I think.

I've also finished the assembly stage of my Deathwatch Kill Team and am really pleased how they've turned out. More on those to come.

Until next time, laters folks.