Three Musketeers

So I have been in a bit of a three Musketeers mood lately.

What has this got to do with things? Well it got me to make some lego models of the characters. This was quite an eye opening experience. The amount of stores out there selling custom parts for lego figures, even the stores that sell individual components themselves was amazing.

So here we go. The main musketeer bodies are from the series 4 musketeer figure. So are the hats and the swords. The faces, hair and other parts are from different ebay sellers. And the capes are also from a place that does nothing but capes for lego figures. Sadly they had none with a fleur de lys on them, but so many lions, eagles and Star Wars symbols it was quit overwhelming to look through them all.

I also made up a set of Cardinals guard and a Cardinal figure. He is a little plain, and not sure what else I can add to him. I am thinking that if I get one of the actors from series 8 of the minifigure sets I might give him the ruff.

So now my mighty musketeers can face off against the cardinals guards. Maybe at a later stage I will have a go at making some sets for these. Escape from the castle. Duel in the ruins. The ship to England. So many cool swashbuckling scenes from the books.

Well, I shall leave it at that for tonight. I am off to Games Day this weekend and I hope to have some photos to share in my Monday update.

(And before you ask, yes, not a great deal of painting has happened so far this week...)

Cheers. Ian.

First unit down

16 Termagants finished.

Yes. The weekend was quite good for me with painting. And not only for my force of the Howl of the Wendigo. The Chaos force is also almost completely assembled as well. The only thing missing are the wings of the Daemon Prince.

So how did that happen? I mostly just got down to it.

So my total force now sits at:

16 Termagants - painted
2 Hormagaunts - Painted
9 Hormagaunts - assembled / 4 undercoated

Remaining:
5 Hormagaunts to assemble
8 Genestealers to assemble
4 Warriors to assemble (1 to be a Prime).

So all in all, 40% of the army is completed, and 60% is assembled.

Hopefully I can ride this momentum until the weekend once more.

And in other news, my copy of Dark Vengeance arrived today. I had a look through and the miniatures look really nice. Although some of them are going to be a pain to clean as the mold lines are across wavy and ridgy detail. But some careful work should see this done. But not for a while - I have Tyranids to paint.

Cheers.

Much distraction

Or maybe just lack of motivation?

With only 3 termagants left to go in the unit I find myself stuck for motivation. And doing lots of things to avoid painting. Looking at movies - Avengers was good, browsing the internet for random things - Sean Bean has died in over a quarter of his roles, reading books - Would you like to buy a goat? (Bonus points if you can name that reference) and even catching up on my ironing.

Although this weekend coming I have much miniature stuffs planned, so I am hopeful that it will kick me back into my painting schedule.

I have pre-ordered the new 40k starter set and am trading the chaos in my set for the Dark Angels in my friends set. Even though I play Chaos, and the miniatures look quite pretty, they just don't feel Tzeentch to me. So looks like I get Chaos miniatures by another name in the Dark Angels.

I did see the promo for the live action Rurouni Kenshin movie and thought that it looked pretty cool. Hopefully we will get a local release for it, or otherwise it might be fan-sub ahoy!

Doing well on kickstarter - only 4 things still remaining, which is good.

And Games Day is on in a couple of weekends and that should be enjoyable. Wonder if that will also help to boot me back into a painting mood once again?

Yikes, much rambling there.

Hopefully an update with pics of miniatures on Friday.

Cheers.

A new week, starting new

Well, I had another successful time with my painting over the weekend.

Another 4 Termagants were finished. 13 done now.

The last termagants are now ready to be started. I have not even undercoated these ones yet, that will be tonight's task as I head towards a hopeful end of the week and with the termagants being all finished. But with the last 3 termagants come the first of the batch hormagaunts, the first to enter the line after the test gaunt.

No photos currently, as Blogspot seems to be playing up a little for me. I will rectify that later with the next WIP shot, although it is not terribly exciting as it is just the plastic assembled miniatures.

What will the week hold in store for me? Hopefully some painting and maybe even some distractions.

Cheers.

Almost 1 minimum size unit done

Which means that I have 51 points fully painted now.

So only another 448 to go.

I also made a small amount of progress on the next 4 termagants and assembled the first of the Hormagaunts other than the test model.

As an army I think they are starting to pull together well. The colour scheme and the fairly neutral basing make the models stand out a little. I have not set them up on a tabletop yet to see how they look, but it should be Ok. That should be another advantage with the neutral basing scheme - should not stand out too much on most generally coloured gaming boards.

Back to it I guess if I want to have these ones done by the end of the weekend.

Cheers.

More from the vault

Well, it is Wednesday once more.

So here are a couple of older miniatures, continuing with my Howling Griffins.

First up, Captain Von Bek of the fourth company.

I did reasonably well with this model. He passed the local level of the Golden Daemon contest and through varying degrees of miraculous occurrences made an appearance at the finals. Didn't place or get in the highly commended but I was stoked that it made it that far.

Then onto the first assault squad.

These don't have the chapter symbol on their shoulders. I managed to make a mess of the print your own transfers and never got around to going back and trying again.

I should also say that when I say they are the first assault squad, the other is languishing on sprue with the remainder of the battle company.

And a quick update on the current project - I should tonight finish the next 4 termagants for my Tyranid force. So then I can start on the next 4. Which means that I am going to have to return to the joys of assembly once more. This time with the Hormagaunts. Hopefully they are a little easier for me.

Cheers.

31 Points

All painted!

Excellent. So that is 5 Termagants and 1 Hormagaunt done.

Only a short update post today.

Progress over the weekend was good. I finished the Termagants that I was working on, and got the next lot with all of the white done.

So now it is onwards to their carapace and finishing these four as well.

I hope to have these ones done by Friday. And on Friday I will post a picture of the painted parts of the army as it stands on that day. I am hoping for around 51 points completed.

My painting rack arrived as well today in the post, so I now have somewhere to store my paints other than the box that they were all in. This should help with visibility and hopefully also cut down on my occasional duplicate colour buying as I misplace a paint in the box.

Cheers.