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Those of you who used to be on WargamerAU would likely remember my Celestial Lions chapter project. Well, I'm aiming to finish it off properly this year, since I'm pretty close to finishing. I only have a few characters and a bunch of vehicles to do. This is most of the vehicles I need to finish. Not pictured are at least 3 Vindicators and 2 predators (most still in box) This is where the chapter stands atm:

This would be very funny if the forum had a FLAG THIS POST button, but alas.

Some slow motion WIP. More or less finished the Royalist infantry. Seven units in total with flags copied from online sources. Currently got the baggage train on my workbench. Flag designs dragged off the interweb, and printed out. Free of course. Some tweaking with a few of them such as Prince Rupert's Blew regiment (based on known images) and Talbot's Foote which was created from scratch using MS Paint. Nothing overly complex at all in their design.

Posted here a few days ago but it didn't take? Working on my chaos renegade army. Currently painting plague marines but I doubt I'll finish all 7 by tomorrow. I did finish a unit of deamonettes.

One of my ongoing projects is to revisit the model kits from my youth. I have a long list of aircraft kits that I assembled (sometimes poorly) and painted (frequently poorly) when I was young - memories of receiving a 1/144 scale F-15 Eagle and pouring so much glue into the nose that the Harry Potter franchise used it as a guide for the sorting hat. I’m not attempting to recreate the same colour schemes or even the same scale, just the same aircraft. On the contrary, I’m looking for interesting schemes rather than military/camouflage. This endeavour started with an F-4 phantom a couple of years ago and more recently a harrier jump jet (transformer scheme). It continues with a Saab Viggen.

And finally all based, rimmed, and calling this army finished... For now. And a shot of the army all lined up: There are bits I want to get for it still - Black Orcs in particular - and I will probably repurpose the Gloomspite Gitz I bought for AOS into extra Night Goblins, Squigs and Fanatics now that all my mates have decided they no longer care about AOS, but that's a future ~problem~... I mean, project. Right now though: Dwarfs! Quite a bit fiddlier to build than the ol' greenskins.

A mixed lot from me this time. I am currently adding bits and pieces to several different projects. First up are some Greek slingers from Black Tree Design. I have now gone back and fixed the eyes on the figure second from right. Next is a blast from the past. Human swordsmen minions from the GW 'Mighty Warriors' boxed game. These are the last figures I needed to complete the painted game set. The Mighty Warriors game is infamously bad: it was developed just to use up overproduced bits and pieces and the rules appear to have been designed in haste. Having played the game, it turns out the rules just need a few minor tweaks to actually make it a fun game. Here we have some Old West Mexican bandidos from Black Scorpion. Lovely sculpts. They will be used as unit leaders for colonist farmers in a scifi campaign using the Xenos Rampant rules. These bandido figures fit with the Mexican farmers produced by Eureka Miniatures. I don't game the American West so in past years I very nearly put these figures on my wargames club's second hand stall: now I am glad I kept them. I have also been doing plenty of tidying and rebasing 28mm Napoleonics. These figures just need a few touch ups here and there, but it does take up quite a bit of time. Am hoping to have British and French armies to a decent size for playing Lasalle v2 by the end of the year.

I will be working on a squad of Swooping Hawks, yet another Aspect I have never actually painted. I gathered the models from various eBay attempts (as can be seen by the variety of colours poking through my first thin undercoat.

End is in sight for the Swordmaster hoard….

Primed my Dwarfs. But I also made the "mistake" of looking through my Gloomspite Gitz collection for models that could be re-based for The Old World, and it made me realise if I did, i could easily field a 2000pt, all Night Goblin army, rather than souping Orcs and regular Goblins. So I guess we'll see which way the wind is blowing...

I should probably put my "final" (for now :P) Orc and Goblin army in this thread too, as I only put it in the February painting thread.

I committed to getting the next squad (Dire Avengers) done in the month of February and as it seems that I need a deadline to motivate me I did the usual and left it to the last minute. But they are finished. A tiny bit rough around the edges and looking at some of them closely I should touch up a few areas where the green wash got away from me. I went with the reverse scheme compared to the other Dire Avenger squad in that the armour, helmets and sash changed colours. I left the weapon and crest the same for both squads as one I figure that is a "tradition" of my Craftworld regardless of the temple they have purple crests and green shuriken catapults. Secondly, all of my Guardians have purple weapons so I didn't want the 'elites' looking like they had the same guns as the conscripted. Like the previous Dire Avengers the Glaive and Shimmershield of the Exarch was cobbled together from bits. Looks a little low tech, but what are you going to do? So another squad down for this Eldar army, that leaves me with the Shining Spears (the riders are actually painted in a very, very similar way to this squad actually) with only their bikes left to paint a squad of Swooping Hawks, 3 Wave Serpents, Autarch and Avatar to finish the army off. Plan to start the Swooping Hawks in March and work on the Shining Spear Bikes in the background as I really despise jetbikes for some reason and am not looking forward to tackling them, all that white..... Thanks for reading.

A bit late for the February challenge, and this will definitely push into March - Wraithlord. .

That's a great army! I swear GW included the winged not-warrior gribbly in the starter box just to make suckers like me buy a unit of gargoyles

New to this period. First time painting 25mm. Two armies to complete. Started one but been dragging the chain for almost a year now so posting here in the hope it will help with motivation. You know, that old chestnut. Anyway, here is the current state of affairs. First army is New Model (circa 1645), based off units that fought at Naseby. Above are infantry and artillery (minus guns). Second photo show those cavalry units complete. Miscalculated when ordering so need more cavalry mounts so those missing cavalry units are not shown but there are another three or four (not sure). Cheers.

Looking good b20f08. Flags look great and prices to suit us wargamers! Glad to see you are still hanging in there and getting through the backlog The beautiful thing about our hobby is despite all the effort once you finished you got for as long as you like. Once they are done , they are done. Thanks for sharing. cheers

Painted up the LR Terminus Ultra from scratch and a few little things for a predator and razorback for quick wins. Still need to find the tracks for the LR and glue them on though. Did a quick count and I have about 40 vehicles / characters to paint including these three. So 37ish to go.

Ok, finished building all the kits I have for this Dwarf Army, so here's some pics. There are some greebles to attach to the warriors and Thunderers/Quarrellers, but mostly done, and I want to try magnetised the nose-guns for the Gyros just to give me options. I did manage to magnetise the flame cannon, so that it's stable as the flame cannon, but I can also put the cannon or organ gun section onto the base without drama too. Oh - there's also 3 more retro slayers that I didn't line-up.

Thanks - for now it's limited to the Battalion box (2 Gyros, 32 Warriors, 32 Thunderers/Quarrellers), the cannon box (1 cannon, one organ gun), the Lords box (1 with shieldbearers, one on foot) and the Runesmith. It did then expand with the Flame Cannon kitbash - which is still swappable to another organ gun, or cannon. Currently, only the Thunderers/Quarrellers kits are unbuilt. I've also got a few metal slayers, and Queen Helgar that I bought for collection reasons, but they will get painted so could be used too. (One Slayer is the WHQ model, so he'll be based on a round base to match my WHQ collection.) I'm not a tournament/meta player, so it's just so I can throw some dice while drinking beers. I'm sure it will expand over time (likewise my Orc and Goblin army) but I don't really have a path forwards at this stage. (Unlike my O&G army, which I've got more goblins and squigs already.) That said - I *really* want the Battle for Skull Pass set, so if I find that for a reasonable price it'll expand both armies, but that doesn't seem likely. (Ideally GW do a Made-to-order run like they've done with a couple of old 40k starters, but I'm not holding my breath for this either.) In the meantime, I finished kitbashing the flame cannon, and primed it to hide my sins, and I'm pretty happy. The mounting is a bit naff, so I'll have to see if I can install some magnets to make it sturdy, but I'm happy with it.

While looking at the Mantic cannon, I realised that with a few gubbins from the dwarf sprues I've already emptied, I could make a Flame Cannon. So that's what I did: Needs some more greebling, but pretty happy with where this is at.

For comparison the first squad of Dire Avengers vs the new squad:

That army looks great mikewicked

A couple more Shatterpoint minis and three of the company banners for my chapter (the marine and banner was already done, I just painted the lion face)

I think reversing the colours is the way to go. It gives each squad some character but still looks cohesive.

Looking good b20f08! Great outcome for the year. I am usually too scatty to stick to one project for as long as you have (My Kings of War Ogres are about half-way thru with the remaining army units still in boxes in the cupboard for months). It's the inner-magpie as I get distracted with new shiny things that of late I end up selling off on flea-bay or some such as my interest also wanes. Have a few key era's that are my go to like Napoleonic and ACW though. Merry Xmas and look forward to more of your ECW whenever you get around to it.

Done as far as I want to with this New Model Army. Excuse the lack of interest - it wanes always. Anyway, the NMA now awaits the Cavaliers who will show up next years. Cheers. Merry Kirisimasi.