From the Painting Bench

I hope everyone had a good and safe Christmas and that they have come away laden with Loot :)

Has been a quiet few weeks. Have painted up the Bolter element of a devestator squad which I am not going to post as really, they are bog standard blue marines.


I have also done up a new Terminator Sergeant. Special thanks to The Prophet for his quick tutorial on how to do the glaive. Also, just to make my friend Matt (aka greatcrusage08 on the B7C)  happy I have given him the skull in U shoulder pad and even painted it red ;)

Also, a few weeks back I finished off some more Honour Guard for Marneus.

                                     

I recieved an Assault Squad box for Christmas which will be done up at some point. I have plans for them. Oh yes, plans.....

Ultrawing Command Squad

I have decided to take my terminators which I so rarely use and convert them to a "Deathwing" army or in this case an "UltraWing" Army. Have stripped down and repainted most of my termies and have now converted up a command squad, which can be seen below.


I have gone for an Old School look with the hazard stripes and the red bolters. Stripes are a bastard to paint and not as straight as I would like but they will do. I also like that every one in the squad is different which will be helpfull with wound allocation.

Sergeant

Banner Bearer

Apothacary

Assault Cannon

Chain Fist

Lack of Funding

*sigh*

Due to my financial circumstances I am going to have to put my Imperial Guard Army on Indefinite Hiatus. Its not that I cant afford to expand the army, its that currently all my excess funds are earmarked for another project and this will be lasting for the next 20 months or so.

That is not to say that I wont be adding to the army, I will just be doing so very very slowly. Like a squad every 2 months, a Russ every quarter or something like that.

What that does mean though is that I am going to be going back and refurbishing a chunk of my Ultramarines. I have already stripped down and repainted about 70% of my army but now I am really going to focus on it. Specifically on my Terminators. I have enough Termies, dreads and Land Raiders to field a reasonable 1500 point "UltraWing" army. This will allow me to play a different style of army while still being able to use my current minis.

I have so far repainted or fresh painted 13 of the 24 Terminators I own. I have 6 tactical termies to completely redo and 4 Hammernators which all I need to alter is their Crux terminarus colour from silver and gold to white. Also have the Termie Libby to repaint.

At my current speed I should have them all done before Jan 30 which is when I am going up to Cambridge for the B&C Ultramarine sub-forum Ultra Meet No3. Good times for all.