While I have several other units and models from outside the company itself - the one thing I needed to finish for the core company was the dreads. I've wanted to paint a blood angels dreadnought since they came as 2kg of pewter, with paper banners, goblin green bases, and you were expected to paint bright yellow flames down the side.
On the home stretch on the rather fun, if time consuming process of building drop pods. This is the last round with a few snippets of painting, plus final assembly.
Having put all the files and glue away - the drop pods are moving onto painting. This is one of the more complex sets of sub assemblies I have done with airbrushing, and includes a whole bunch of (hopefully) clever masking.
Most model gamers think of the hobby in a 'build' mode and a 'paint' mode (and 'play/game' mode of course). I also think of there being an 'engineering' stage - this is distinct from just 'building' in that it covers modifying a kit so that it can be magnetised, open/closed, strengthened with pins/sprue or even just recut if grabbing parts from different kits.
I often quite like this part, as it involves thinking about how to solve something that isn't on the instructions. Often building in functionality or swap-ability it wasn't intended for.
Not all models *need* this type of engineering; some don't need any at all. But some need an extensive amount.
The marine drop pod is one of those models.
Home stretch now - putting all the many many pieces together, along with a few bonus extra painting steps to finish them up.
Still plenty of steps to build up the bikers and accompanying bling. This post will cover a good chunk of the process with lots of pictures.
Catching up on a post for a squad finished a few months ago. This is the only bike squad I have done (and probably the last) so I took a bunch of excessive pictures of the process.
A quick look back at 2020 and how much I managed to get built and painted in the year. Turns out it was a reasonable chunk, with around 100 models in that time.
Follow up post finishing off Mephiston - it's really quite a nice model and surprisingly less fiddly to get into details than several other BA characters. Strap in though. I took lots of photos of each detail as I'm not likely to paint another Mephiston until he gets a 3rd model in 25 more years.
Definitely a little late to the party, but getting around to putting paint on my Mephiston model. Really like the pose and style - modern version based on a very classic bit of artwork.
This guy has been kicking around my desk since about March, when I airbrushed 17 terminators and 50 magnetised arms. I left him out when batch painting all the others red, and it's taken me a while to feel like picking up another terminator...
