Of Epic Proportions (spring clean challenge 26)

Ian Watson one of the original GW authors died the other day. I’m not going to say his writing was poetic and artful, because if I’m completely honest I bearly remember it. What I do vividly remember it’s the atmosphere they created. The stories of inquistors, hive cities, assassins and homoerotic marines was completely different to the storm rocked Hebrides I was reading them in.

Ian Watson one of the original GW authors died the other day. I’m not going to say his writing was poetic and artful, because if I’m completely honest I bearly remember 

Although Games Workshop retconed them to death, the start was there, in my tiny teenage little brain. They started an interest in the 40k and the imperium.

So what has this to do with the project? Sod all really. But I wanted to write about this and this place, this project seemed right. If anything it’s Ians books that started the path I’m on.

So in honour of Ian, I’m going to add a little Jaq Draco to this project. Even though they don’t have rules in this edition, there will be a little inquistor in honour of Ian Watson and the effect he had on my teenage mind.

So why am I rambling on about authors and making more pledges rather than painting? It’s because I have an infected cut on my index finger, which is making painting interesting. But I can do all the prepping so it shouldn’t take now.

So whilst I’m finishing off the Devestators (just the rhino’s now), I thought it was time to assess the second army.

My issue with the guard is the same as the marines that there’s way too much to do mentally assess as a whole. There’s too many random bits, some bits like thud guns and jump packs don’t have rules that fit anymore. So rather than sort through ever, I’m going to start with the bits that are recognisable. Which are the infantry, the Leman Russ’s, Basilisks and the rough riders. Once I have the core down, I can look at the ratlins, the sentials and the super heavies.

I’m going to start with the tank company.

As a way of breaking up some of the Silhouettes of the marines and there tanks I’m going to try and do little conversions on them. Starting with this very simple marine looking out of a rhino.

The scale doesn’t look quite right, but then the scale never looked quite right with rhinos anyway.  I’ll paint it up with the Devestators and see how they look.

I really enjoyed doing these and I’m really happy with how they turned out.

The next is are the Devestators.

Whilst I’m working on the asualt marines, I thought I’d introduce what else is happening on my painting tray.

I can’t just concentrate on one thing so I tend to have multiple distractions on the go. A week or so my mother in law found this in the village co-op, and thought I would like it.

Now I don’t really play Age of Sigmar (nothing against it, more oppounity) but the stormcast looked fantastic, so in honour of the maxim “every model is a necromunda model” I decided to 40k it.

First thing was to build it. Luckily with the modern GW push fit models this was easy. Once it was complete I could remove the silly sword, and replace it with an open hand. Next I need to add a holster or a bolster, but that requires finding marine bits.

If I remember I’ll keep posting about this aside.

I was today years old, that I discovered that they have mold lines.

Now I know it’s there I’m going to have to clean them

Its taken far too long, but I’ve got one detachment done.

 hope to improve with practice, but I’m happy with the results. The rhino’s need to look cleaner, especially at this distance. Also I need to buy a brighter white for the symbols on the top and sides

What I need to remember though is that these are not only playing pieces aren’t supposed to be seen that close.

I’ve realised that due to the size and scale I could paint an entire space marine company, so

4. Paint the whole 3rd Company of the Blood Angels.

But what u really need to do is put paint to brush and get on with this