Well, I'm glad to see that I'm not alone in my hatred of mouldlines! I often get concerned (but loving) looks from my GF after I've spent several hours hunched over the tiddlers with a file and a sharp scalpel.
As far as complaining about those sorts of casts or misaligned sprues, I usually do TBH. But then again, I seem to get a much higher rate of miscasts than my friends do, and I find myself calling Grandma Wendy every third order recently (well "recently" as I've ordered pretty infrequently from them in the last ten years or so).
Anyway, I will be snapping some pix tonight, so I'll stop by the worktable and grab a few WIPs to show here.
Also, I have had a super suggestion on this board for a source of Squat-suitable axes (i.e. Ork Kommandos), so I may be revisiting some of the assembled infantry. The plan is to have a little more than two full SM2-size Brotherhoods, with one of them having some conversions and modifications on every stand so that I can give them the Veteran upgrade when I use them in E40k (if I want to, anyway). The other Brotherhood will remain plain and will be assembled just like the SM2 stuff was.
This is good because I'll need the troops anyway, and I can differentiate the companies quite easily even if they are painted in the same scheme (which also neatly solves my issue of how to paint and identify duplicate units on the tabletop).
The only downside is having to clean six more stands of Thunderers and make more bases... Ah well!
I've also made a start on the artillery company this week. The Thudd Guns won't be the old plastic ones, and will feature some conversion too. Each TG will have a crew of two (already converted). The ten Mole Mortars will be on smaller bases and have a single crew member each - these will be the old classics with no conversions.
The Goliaths have been cleaned, filed and plasticarded, and are awaiting putty and basing (but bases are already made from last month). These venerable models have some pretty horrific mouldlining on the carriages that I simply cannot remove, so puttying over them is going to be interesting*!
* Of course, by "interesting", I really mean "a bloody pain in the arse"!