Stuart's Warhammer 40K rediscovery Thread...

[Duke Maddog]

Your first figure looks excellent Stuart! Nice work!

No, I definitely want to do the painting Mark. My son said he bought them for me to build and paint, so I can’t go against that. But I’d love to play a round or two of the game with you once I have them completed.

Fully understood. Maybe someday you an bring the game to Hobby Day to work on the figures and when they are done, we can go at it. I would love to play that game with you.

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[Stuart]

That's really cool and a great bit of painting - thanks for sharing (sorry for taking so long to reply).

Not much more has been done to this, mainly because of RL and being on Holiday for two weeks, but I have however base coat painted a couple of squads of Terminators - when I've progressed them a bit more I'll post some pictures.

I have however now got the full 1st edition game plus all of the expansion packs and extras - all in all I must have 80 figures to paint.

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Thanks for your update, Stuart!

[Dragline]

I love me some Warhammer 40K. Watching.

[Duke Maddog]

80 figures eh? That'll keep you busy for awhile...

Go for it Stuart, looking forward to seeing more.

[Dragline]

It's been a while Stuart. Are you still tackling the Grim Dark of the Future?

I'll post a few of mine to help inspire since I cannot build at the moment. Here's hoping they inject some of the Emperor's will.

The Emperor Protects.

[Stuart]

Sorry Gents, I hadn't picked up that you'd commented on the thread!

Those look awesome Drag - I love the noise Marine!

I'm still dabbling, although I've not got really into it yet - part of the problem I have it that I can never choose what scheme to paint my rather large collection of marines in...

I did clean up and prime a few marines a while back, including drilling out the barrels etc.



And I started playing around with a bit of painting - as I said, I can never choose a scheme...



And I've also been playing around with a Rhino/Razorback...





I think part of the problem with this Warhammer stuff is I picked up a whole load of it at once, and drowned myself in projects - I have a complete set of the first edition Space Hulk + Expansions + Metal terminator figures, A full set of Space Crusade plus extras, a few other Tactical Squads, Dreadnaughts - you name it. I bought a load of Ork stull too but sold it off along side a load of other stuff.

I'd love to get one game fully painted up - problem is choosing which one - and then a scheme/chapter to do!

I really like to get more into it (if the model projects stop taking over). I don't particularly want to become a first class miniature painter, but I'd like to be competent enough to produce some good looking basic figures.

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I know what you mean as far as over extending yourself. I have a 1/2 done Dark Imperium box that just sits there. I know what i want them to be and only started the Plague Marines so far. I'll eventually finish it some day. Meanwhile I do little one offs to keep the fun, well.....fun.

[Stuart]

That's cool - I've not actually got that many 'modern' citadel stuff, most of mine is from the 90's, but the new stuff does look fun to paint - gorgeous detail.

It's funny this threads been picked up again, I've actually been hankering towards doing some more miniature painting for a while now, between model builds - I've even started digging out some of my old stuff for a while back and seeing what I did.

Part of the problem I have painting mini's is the lack of paints(and decent brushes) - most of my stuff is aircraft paint, and while I can use some of it I could do with a decent figure painting set - I thinking Vallejo as Citadel paints are blooming expensive!

So do you actually play - or are you just a painter?