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Looks like this past challenge for a giant monster will be my month to ask for a pass. Work has been breakneck and I've been on the road the past several weeks. Booooooooooooooooooooooooo. Also! Wow. I just realized I posted my Monster vow start in my own thread but not over here. Derp. 

 

My mistake.

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In my quest to be efficient, i.e. lazy, I stumbled upon ceiling tiles as textured flat things for an army board.

 

 

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Update time: two layers of watered down PVA glue, crackle paste to fill the joins and assorted areas, plastic tyranid bits added.

 

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Each tile is 12" x 12" and has "Sand Pebble" texture.

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++ Month 5 Vow Complete ++

 

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Cheap, easy, and fast. I have no plans to use this other than for Armies on Parade. If I were making a board with more staying power or really cared about presentation here's what I'd change in the future:

 

1) Suck it up and spend the money for fresh thing of crackle paste to cover the whole board so it all matches the army bases.

2) The ceiling tiles are light and took the PVA and crackle paste very well. I'd add a thin plywood backing attached with something like liquid nails and then simultaneously lock it in and cover the edges of the board with wooden picture framing.

 

I may paint up another 5 scouts before the change over occurs, but it depends on if I get hooked into Stranger Things season two.

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Company commander is finally done, just a few finishing touches and he's done. Someone on reddit pointed out that the chest pieces is very Vader-esque, I now can't unsee it.

 

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well...finally got some pics to upload to the gallery...didnt take em all and ive run through several other mobile options.

Excited to post some shots of some accomplished painting's over the last 2 months.

Dude from 1 of 2 vet tac squads

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dude from unit of tyrant termis

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heres one of my HQ dudes

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shot of just about everything

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dread 1

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dread 2

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TrawlingCleaner, I don’t think it is boxy enough o be Vader, though there is a resemblance, nice commander conversion regardless.

Lionofjudah, Iron Within, Iron Without!

Iron Bars, nice robots, especially the computer screen display on the heads. Also what weapon is underslung on the fits?

My Vow for this month is complete, a little ahead of schedule, which his nice.

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The middle one is a little mad, so I gave him a second grenade gauntlet and built the brute shield into it. As that gives a 4++ I saw no reason to glad him in the normal bullgryn armour (which would have also interfered with the converted gauntlet placement).

Side shots of the mad one.

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This is probably the fastest I've ever completed this many models in this amount of time

I finished the last 2 dudes and the weapon team to finish this squad and this month's vow. C&C welcome as always.

 

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Looking good again guys, glad there’s still a few of us mad men still going strong.

 

On a related note i finished my vow this week end, just in time for armies on parade!

 

Behold 3rd tactical squad led by sergeant Caradot

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And the land raider crusader “Excalibur”

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So. Any ideas for the theme next month?

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I had a blast at Armies on Parade today. Nothing to bring home, but I expected that going into it, there were some amazing armies and boards. Definitely good motivation to just keep up painting and getting a bit better one mini at a time. Unfortunately, there were no Scouts in the store so I won't be doing a second vow for the month (not in the mood at the moment to do a lot of power armor and a guard unit would take too long).

 

Here's the themes so far:

 

Get It Done - Finish a unit you were working on

Rearm and Replace - Update a pre-existing unit

Headquarters - Paint an HQ choice

Monster (Vehicle) Mash - Paint a model with 15+ wounds

Troops - Paint a Troop choice

 

Ideas for Themes moving forward:

 

It Came From Behind - Paint a unit with Flanking or something like it

Death From Above - Paint a unit with the Fly descriptor

Elites - Paint an Elites choice

Heavy Support - Paint a Heavy Support choice

Walk Softly - Paint a unit with Infiltrate or something like it

Carry a Big Gun - Paint a unit with weapons that do 3 or more damage

 

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Support squad done. Here they are with the volkite calivers. I need to get 5 more each of the flamer/plasma/melta options.

 

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So with this my final vow will be 5x tactical and 5x assault to finish out a couple half squads and then my total vow is complete yay. After that, I will do some touch up on previous character models to bring them more in line with my newer work and add some vehicles.

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Trokair: they are some kind of gun attachments I found on shapeways when I was looking for something else, I'll use them for the bolters castellax have in 30k when I have the chance to play again.

 

Quick vow to end the month:

 

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8 vanguard of the Sepuloran guard. They are almost finished, but I couldn't post them because of internet problems. Should be done by tomorrow 

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