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Post subject: Firestorm's painting diary: The Big Paint (tm) :D  Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:54 am |
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Nice job ! 
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Post subject: Firestorm's painting diary: The Big Paint (tm) :D Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 9:25 pm |
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Thanks once more for kind comments!  I've been MEGA busy with Uni work (Dissertation & one other assignment due next week, two 3,000 word assignments due within 14 days after that... I feel like I'm developing a migraines just thinking about it  )
Due to this, I've not had a lot of time for making and painting minis :cries: which has been a bit frustrating (well, more than it usually would be!  ) as I've just had my student loan so it's been MINIATURE PURCHASING TIME!!!
I start this round of updates with a riddle for you:
when is a Marauder Bomber not a Marauder bomber?
Answer: when it's a Thunderbolt. The picture below shows why!
I bought two blisters of these as I wanted some Thunderbolts for my Guard army I'm taking to Call to Arms (ordered my Ticket today, yayy!), and I think the GW models are a bit small; whereas the Epic ones are a bit out of scale, and too expensive! So I'll be counting these as Thunderbolts - they look fighter-sized next to the FW Marauders.
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Post subject: Firestorm's painting diary: The Big Paint (tm) :D Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 9:29 pm |
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Next, I've been adding to my infantry, as I originally had a BIG Mechanised Infantry detachment, but I thought it made sense to add some Infantry to split the detachment in to two - a Supreme Commander one and an Infantry Company. To bulk out the few Guardsmen I had I bought a Supreme Commander Blister, and I thought about using the Fire Support platoons to represent the units which have Autocannons. I'd not worked with these minis before, and to be honest I'm a bit disappointed - the Guardsmen next to the gunner look a bit poor in my opinion!
Anyway, pic (cameras set to blurry, Captain!  )
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Post subject: Firestorm's painting diary: The Big Paint (tm) :D Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 9:41 pm |
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Finally, I still haven't finished painting the rest of the Epic Guard minis I got over 2 years ago now - some of which I'm taking to the Call to Arms tourny. From the front to the back, this is the order I'm painting them in:
- Demolishers (which I'm not taking to the Tourny),
- Shadowsword
- Basilisks
- Hydras (of which I'm only taking 2 to the Tourny),
- and Sentinels (which I'm not taking either).
So that's it for now - I'm still wanting to get those 40k Inquisition Storm Troopers finished (especially now I've bought another - and final! - squad of these  ), afterwhich I'm painting some Death Watch Marines and converting some Inducted Guardsmen. Oh yeah, and I got some of those new Vostroyan Guardsmen (two Platoons!), but I can't decide whether I'm going to convert them as Traitors for a Lost & the Damned army, or just use them as Vostroyans.. they're so lovely! But I knew you guys would want to see the Epic stuff before all that...
Of course, I'll have to do this around uni work but I'm done in June - unless something turns up straight away on the work front, I foresee a furious amount of painting! 
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Post subject: Firestorm's painting diary: The Big Paint (tm) :D Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 11:33 pm |
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Good luck with the painting
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Post subject: Firestorm's painting diary: The Big Paint (tm) :D Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 12:27 am |
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Thats all coming along rather nicely Firestorm!
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Post subject: Firestorm's painting diary: The Big Paint (tm) :D Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 12:59 am |
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Keep up the good work!
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Post subject: Firestorm's painting diary: The Big Paint (tm) :D Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 2:03 am |
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Hi!
Its one of the reasons I got turned off the FW aircraft, real big!
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Post subject: Firestorm's painting diary: The Big Paint (tm) :D Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 7:37 pm |
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I always liked this IFV. Look forward to the finished vehicle and the whole army as well.
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Post subject: Firestorm's painting diary: The Big Paint (tm) :D Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 1:00 am |
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Post subject: Firestorm's painting diary: The Big Paint (tm) :D Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 7:47 am |
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Post subject: Firestorm's painting diary: The Big Paint (tm) :D Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:20 pm |
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My word, nearly three whole weeks since my last post here!!!  That's university deadlines for you... thank goodness I've finished!
So, having had a gap of three weeks since even touching a miniature, it was back with a vengeance as I spent ALL DAY painting. And there was much rejoicing.
Firstly, I did some Epic Tanks for my Guard army:
Still quite a bit to go before that army's finished! Another Basilisk, Hydras, Sentinels, Shadowsword, Warhounds, Bikers, infantry...
Then I moved back on to the Storm Troopers for the 40k Inquisition army - 2 plasma dudes and a veteran:
So that's another squad of these done - one more to paint, then I'll paint a Death Watch Kill Team.
Next week I hope to do at least 3 days of Temping work (student debt requires I work, even if it's not my chosen profession!), but around that it'll be more painting of Epic Tanks and 40k Storm Troopers...
Till then, enjoy!
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). So I've not really had anytime for making/painting stuff. Apart from the other night, I put this together:
