Painting shoulder pads...

Anyone who has ever painted space marines has had to deal with painting shoulder pads.  This afternoon I thought I would try something different.  I thought that I would try to make a stencil with blue painters tape. 

Started with base-coated Shoulder Pads

Next I drew a tact squad arrow on the tape

Then I painted the color I wanted the Arrows on the Pads

After cutting out a couple of arrows I then placed them

I then painted over the stencil with the base color

After pulling the stencil off it looked alright

Finally a little touch up paint!

On the model

For being a first attempt at stenciling on the Tactical Squad Symbol, I think it looks pretty good.  questions and comments are welcome!

Space Hulk Project Continued ....

Back in business, on my last day off I went to the local art store and was able to pick up more Hydrocal FGR 95.  I still have not ordered the other two molds.  I have just been putting it off, hopefully I'll get around it is soon!

The casts have been coming out alright some with air bubbles, but nothing that is too bad.  I am counting on it giving the piece a little character when it is all said and done.

 The Cast Count Continues #276 is at 27 Casts

Casting, or how I ran out of Plaster...

Five pounds of Hydrocal FGR-95 is the stuff that I have been using to cast the pieces from the mold.  This week the target was to cast the mold three times a day.  Once before I leave for work once at lunch, and again at night.  This system has been working out very well.  So well in fact that I have run out of the plaster.  This has put things at a stand still.  I am hoping that I can pick up a 50lb box of plaster at a cheap price I hope that will be more than enough to complete the project.

The Cast count as of right now stands at

Mold #276  21 casts

Hirst Arts and Space Hulk

I have started to make my own Space Hulk board using the Hirst Arts molds.  The plan is to use the directions from Hirst Arts web site. SPACE HULK INSTRUCTIONS Right now I have only one of the mold the #276 the idea is to make three of the basic sets.  I am going to try to make three casts a day fro the rest of the month. That should give me enough to make three or so sets.  Later this month I'll be ordering the the other two molds. 

Right now I have cast #276 a total of 7 times

I'll try to keep a running log of progress as the weeks continue.  The plan for the the three sets is to keep one for myself, sell one on E-bay, and for the third set is to take it to the a local game store and see about trading it fro some store credit.  Hopefully the owner likes to wheel and deal as much as I do.

SPACE HULK

Space Hulk is now here. I was not able to get it when it was first released. Lucky for me I was able to get it when GW decided to re-release it so instead of going to e-bay and paying God knows how much I was able to get it for the MSR, and seeing as the state of Alaska does not have sales tax and GW was doing free shipping on anything over $15 I was able to get it for under $100. Wow… Good deal for me.

The next question is what am I going to do with it now? The models are great; the gene-stealers look awesome. I am pretty sure that I will be basing and painting them. I figure that there will be some of the gene-stealers that will only be used for the Space Hulk Game, but most of the others will be easy to put on 25mm bases. As for the Terminators I don’t know how well the 40mm bases will work with the game board. So that will be another problem to deal with another time.

For right now I think I’ll just be enjoying the way it was intended to be used. I have way too much on my painting table as it is. So once I start to get those projects finished I’ll start dealing with Space Hulk. I can’t wait to play my first game.

 

Kill Teams .... What a great Idea...

This Morning I was checking out bell of Lost Souls like I do every morning, and I saw that the Blog Confessions of a 40K Addict. Had a little information about Kill Teams.  So I thought I would take that idea and run with it for right now.  The post suggested that a person could make a Kill Team from any single codex using any combination of single units.

The basic run down is:

o 175 pts
o no 2+ saves
o no str 8 or higher weapons
o between 5-15 models

So for kicks I put together a Space Marine list seeing as it is the only codex I have with me right now.  I don't know how the model total will work with other codex, like Orks, or Tau.

The Team that I cam up with is pretty basic.

o 3 Stern Guard Vets each with storm bolters @ 30 pts each
o 2 Assault Marines                                       @ 18 pts each
o 3 Standard Marines (one with a flamer)       @ 16 pts each
                                                                   total  174

I figure with the Stern Guard Vets the special issue ammo becomes very valuable, the flamer marine is good to have a template that is a str 4 attack.  I figure that each of the team will be made up of 4 Marines, each with one Assault Marine for close combat support.  I like the giving the Storm Bolters to the Stern Guard because it is 2 shots per marine per turn at 24 inches with the special ammo so they would be a very heavy hitting squad.  The other four Marines are cannon fodder and support for the first team of four.

As I continue to play around with the rules and such I'll keep posting.

Terminators

These are 3 of the 6 Terminators that I have finished painting.  I have painted all the armor and the bases at this point, but I have yet to paint the bare head of the Sgt. yet I am waiting for some washes to come in so that I can try them out for all the bare heads that I will end up using for this build.  This Army was the first time that I have used transfers and I think I am getting the hang of it.  As of right now I have 6 terminators that 4 of them are standard, 1 Sgt. and 1 has a heavy flammer.  I figure this will give me a little versatility.

As of right now I don’t have an army list in mind, as I continue to paint and build I hope one will come.  Here is hoping.